Like most of my cards, I carved the stamp right away. I knew that I wanted to use Distress Inks/Oxides. I rubbed the inks/oxides on my mat, sprayed with water, tapped/rubbed the card stock thru the ink, dried the paper, and put it in the ink again. I was quite happy with how they turned out.
Then came cutting a million circles. A few years ago my mom got me this scrapbook thing that makes cutting circles easy. My mom is a big scrapbooker and I asked if she had an easy way to make circles for round logbooks. She had one of these and let me borrow it. After I borrowed it a few times she got me one for Christmas.My coins are called, "Owl With Attitude." The coin has 3 layers, I made 20 coins, for a grand total of 60 circles! I glued all the layers together with a glue stick.
My original idea for the card was to stamp the owl on white card stock and color it in with Distress Markers. But I liked the background so much that I didn't want to cover it with the owls. It was supposed to be brown circle, distress circle, and colored owl on top. When I switched to Plan B, I couldn't decide what background color to use. The coins with a lot of blue got orange circles and the ones with a lot of orange got blue circles. I really like how they turned out :)