Both my ladies' features sported ink that ran: my brunettes brown tears coming down and hijab wearing friend, whose lips also dripped rosy ink. I believe I had too much ink on my stamp, and thus when I pressed it, it squished out of the prescribed lines.
The mistake on my brunette in the bottom left photo is for other card makers that are messy like me. I constantly smudge paint and ink. I've always been a little messy gal, and I still struggle with that; and here I smudged her hair.
The last image on the lower right is a common mistake. If you do not have something like the stamp wheel 2.0 or other stamping alignment aids, you will notice that the lines on the left side of my brunette did not stamp completely. It is almost impossible to line up a stamp to land exactly where the first stamp landed unless you use a tool that's meant to help you with alignment. I bought the stamp wheel 2.0 and used that; but I was still getting the hang of it. No doubt, in the future, this will be a thing in the past for me.
I hope it helps you to see some common mistakes for beginners. Another mistake I had was with the textured background. I had painted my first embossed card front by hand with watercolor. Unfortunately, I had not waited for my first wash of color to dry thoroughly before I tried to add small accents. And they bled all over the page; again I am a messy gal!
So don't feel bad. Any skill takes a while to get the hang of. Just know that you'll have lots of scrap paper when you start making cards.
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