Showing posts with label Penny Black. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Penny Black. Show all posts

Monday, March 4, 2013

Happy Spring, with Penny Black

Mom sent me a bunch of Prima wood embellishments, including this cute little plane, as well as this adorable stamp by Mo Manning (from Penny Black), and putting them together on a card seemed like a great idea. Come on, who could resist this sweet face‽



The image is stamped on Hammermill with Tuxedo Black ink (Memento) and colored with Copics. I added the tiny flowers with a stamp from a Candi Stamps set (Craftwork Cards) and orange pigment ink (VersaColor). I blinged him up by using a silver pen on his front pin, a clear glaze pen on the rubber parts of his shoes, and Glossy Accents on his goggles.

The light blue background paper (Jo-Ann's) was embossed half-way with clouds in my BigShot with an embossing folder (Darice), and then I inked the clouds with SU! Whisper White Craft ink using a finger dauber. 

I stamped the dandelions in a row, plus a few little flyaways (both stamps from Clear Art Stamps' Wildflowers set), and colored them with shiny, yellow and green glaze pens (Sakura). The stems are filled with a green glitter pen (Elmer's).  

I added just a touch of color with a ribbon from my stash. The background piece is edged with deckle scissors, and I backed the whole thing with a glittered, flower-themed DP (Colorbök).

The wood plane was colored just a bit with gray Copics, and then heat-embossed in Translucent Yellow (Stampendous).

I heat-embossed the sentiment (from a Penny Black set) in white after lining up the little plane.

Inspiration/Challenges:
Crafty Ribbons: Anything goes with a Ribbon
Mo's Digital Challenge #174: Bling (it's a little difficult to see, but there's a lot of shine & glimmer on this card)
Penny Black Saturday March Challenge: Spring
Sparkle & Glitter, a Rick St. Dennis Challenge: Spring is in the Air
Stampin With The Dragon: Anything goes
Sweet Stampin: Embossing + stamping



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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Valentine's Graffiti

I had so much fun making my funny Valentine with this week's Dude Time Doodles FREEBIE (join the challenge for your chance to be Guest Designer!), that I wanted to follow my heart and make another, ha ha.


I've been itching to use one of the neato wooden picket fences I got in a swap, so I decided to pair it with this cute Penny Back stamp. I stamped the image with black StazOn and then cut it out with a cut beautiful Spellbinder's die in my Big Shot (LOVE that machine!). I colored the frame & background with watercolor crayons, but I used watercolor pencils for the image itself. Using double-sided tape, I added some flair to the top with pink tulle. I adhered the image to the base with double pop-foam.

I painted the wooden fence with brown acrylic paint, sanded it a bit, and heat-embossed some hearts in red. Before embossing it, I sprayed the piece with matte coating, which has the added effect of repelling the stray embossing powder. I tied a small charm on it before gluing it down.

I was inspired by the following challenges:
Penny Black @ Allsorts January Challenge: Love & Hearts

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Two Grays and some Penny Black

The current challenge at the Penny Black blog is "Simple Stamping," and I decided to try a relatively Clean-and-Simple (CAS) card. I used the lovely if unusual color combo from Color Throwdown, and the intriguing sketch from Sketchy Tuesday.


Inspiration:
Penny Black: Simple Stamping
Color Throwdown #158: Island Indigo, Peach Parfait, Basic Gray, Light Gray
Sketchy Tuesday #92

Stamps: Stampendous!
Paper: Bazzill, DCWV, Core'dinations, stash cardboard
Tools: Fiskars papercutter, stamp block, MS detailing scissors, Crop-O-Dile
Other: ZipDry glue, Memento ink, tulle, stash eyelet, Copic for edging

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

For a Bold and Bright Mother

I've found myself with a little collection of Penny Black stamps (& really wanting more!), so I've started following their blog. This week's challenge is Bold & Bright, so I pulled out a couple of Hedgehogs-with-poppies. I've had California poppies on my mind since Perris, California came out, so I had lots of fun coloring this.Inspiration:
Penny Black Challenge: Bold & Bright

Supplies: Penny Black rubber & cling stamps, Heidi Grace Designs glitter paper, Brazzil cardstocks, Offray ribbon, Memento inks, ZipDry glue, Fiskars papercutter, MS detailing scissors

Copics: Y02, Y000, FYG1, Y08, Y13, Y17, YR09, YR12, FY1, G02, YG03, B0000, B00, FBG2, FB2, RV21, RV23, E17, E35, E33, E11