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Baby Cards (Clean and Simple)

Over on AAA Cards, they had a unique challenge that I've not really seen from a clean and simple challenge. Let's take a look:
So I went in knowing I had to cover two quarters of the card. It could be any quarters, but I wanted to use an emboss folder for one of the quarters. That's no small feat as those folders often are meant to take up a large portion of space. But with a little careful spacing, I managed. 

I used these Hampton Art stamps. I couldn't tell if it was because I just re-inked my pads or if it was the stamps themselves, but I really struggled to get a clean stamp from these. I had to go over them with Copic black markers to fully color in the image. I often find that's the case with stamps that go with full black over letting you color them.

Here's the card I'm submitting to the challenge:
But I also made two others:
I can't say that the cards have super wow factor, but they look clean and simple, which is really all I was going for here. Not every card needs a ton of intricacy--sometimes less is more.

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