Today I stum­bled upon one of my old cards, this one is actu­ally the first card I made to sub­mit for a pub­li­ca­tion (it did not make the cut, and got rejected). The call was for cards with a spring theme, and I really wanted to try my hand at mak­ing cards. I really did not know much, and I remem­ber tak­ing ages to research about what size card to make and what sen­ti­ments to use. Here is the result,

To get the look I was after, I stamped my bird image onto tis­sue paper with pur­ple ink and then out­lined it with a light pen. Per­fect for the Tis­sue Paper Magic Chal­lenge going on cur­rently in the Moxie Fab World.

Now why was I think­ing of my first card today? Because it was a happy mail day for me ! Don’t you just love it when you open your mail­box to find awe­some­ness in it ?

Today I received my copy of Card Cre­ations Vol­ume 9 and the book Cre­ate: Embell­ish. Both of these are super spe­cial issues to me. My very first card to be pub­lished ever (I did not give up after my first rejec­tion, but tried again and again and finally a card got accepted! For this par­tic­u­lar call I sub­mit­ted 20 cards, and one of them was cho­sen) appears in the Cards Cre­ation Vol­ume 9 (its on page 20). And my very first paper lay­out to be pub­lished ever appears in the Cre­ate: Embell­ish book (on page 103). It feels so awe­some to hold these issues in my hand and see my name in them

I will be shar­ing more about these lay­outs in the next week, so stay tuned!