your "first" card is very pretty. i love butterflies. i make a lot of mistakes when stamping and i am guaranteed to get ink on a place where is didn't intend for ink to go. lol. but to ensure the image comes out perfectly, i stamp on a foam pad. i can't think of the name of it, but it's a blue 12 x 12 pad that evens out the surface (?) and makes the entire image be stamped evenly. HTH