Penny Black Saturday Challenge

This card is for a Penny Black Saturday Challenge

This week is a sketch challenge. I was humming and hawing about participating then my friend Yvette called all excited that she had done the challenge so that spurred me on.

I used the Penny Black stamp called Bunny Friends. All the layers in the sketch were a bit of a challenge since I usually make simple cards. The cardstock used on the card is by SEI (striped paper) and by Bazzill. I used Versafine ink for stamping and Shimmerz paints for coloring. The large flowers are by Bazzill and the small ones by Prima.

The card is pretty simple if you take away the layers. I stamped the bunnies on a scrap of white and colored them with Shimmerz paints (olive green, coffee, bubble gum and magenta). I cut out each bunny and attached them to my turqoise cardstock. The bottom two bunnies are attached with foam mounting tape. I did my cardstock layering then attached my flowers. The large flowers were white originally but I painted them with my Bubble Gum Shimmerz so they are now pink. The centers of the flowers are white Fun Flock by Stampendous as is the upside down bunny's tail.

Thanks for looking this was a fun challenge!

Smile!

I took a bunch of photos of this card but because it was so sunny I kept getting lots of shadows! I am not complaining about the sun mind you!!

The blog Penny Black Saturday Challenge has a weekly challenge. This week the challenge is to make a circle card. All images are by Penny Black. I stamped the Bunny Friends (1927K) stamp on a piece of watercolor paper with Versafine onyx black. I painted everthing with Shimmerz paints. I then cut all the bunnies out and thought these two looked cute together by themselves. I cut a piece of patterned Imaginesce paper with my scallop circle Nestabilities. I made the card using the same die. I painted the white background of the card with sky blue Shimmerz to liven up the background then attached the scrap of green that I had edged with Versamagic green tea ink. I stamped the Penny Black saying with black ink on the green scrap and attached the bunnies with a punched heart in the middle. I find this type of card tends to splay until it lays flat (not a good quality in a card) so I used my Crop-a-dile Big Bite and punched to holes and threaded ribbon through the holes to help keep the card upright. For more information on how to make this shape with Nestabilities check here.
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Special Thanks

I was asked by a friend to make some thank you cards.
It was kind of fun to have a specific "assignment". Here is my first one. The flower is by Penny Black and the saying is by Hero Arts. Both are available from Crafty Capers.
I colored the flower with Shimmerz paints unfortunately, the shimmer does not show up in the photo. I used Bubble gum, Magenta and Sky blue Shimmerz after I had embossed the saying and flower with black embossing powder. Before matting the card I stamped the diamond border twice over top of the Thanks part of the stamp. The brads are by Creative Impressions "pearl" collection.
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Snow Joy!

I must admit that snow rarely brings me any joy unless it is on a day where I don't have to drive but this guy is very cute!

I started out making this card by using Cathie Allen's Stamp and Smoosh technique whereby you take an inked stamp and put it on your paper and twist. It is an excellent way to apply ink for a background. You kind of get the pattern of the stamp but not really. The stamp I used was by Inkadinkado (a swirly one) with Brillance Pearlescent Ice Blue it makes the background shimmery. I over stamped a Inkadinkado snowflake with Ranger's Weathered Wood distress ink. I also did this technique on the rectangular piece I wrapped my ribbon on.

I stamped the Penny Black hedgehog with Onyx Versafine ink and colored him with Silver Bells and Bubble gum Shimmerz paints. I used Diamond and Waterfall Stickles glitter glue on the snowball. I used my Nestabilities squares (scallop and smooth) for mounting. I wrapped a piece of Offray ribbon from YEARS ago on the extra rectangle piece and mounted it all. Hope you enjoy.

Finally a new post!

It's been a crazy week with at least 1 order arriving every day this week! I did manage to get this card done though it did take a week! I started out by stamping a Stampendous Clear butterfly on vellum using Shimmerz paints (magenta). I did this 3 times. Then I overstamped the image with Grey Memento ink. I cut these butterflies out. I took a piece of DCWV "elegant" cardstock and stencilled "Thank You" using a Dreamweaver stencil with white paste. While the paste was wet I sprinkled Stardust Glitter Ritz on it. I let the paste dry then used my Scor-It to score a border around the cardstock. I cut out the butterflies and attached them to the left side of the patterned cardstock. I used Co-ordinations grey cardstock for the main card and used a Swirl Dreamweaver Stencil to ink swirls around the edges of the card with Brillance Platinum ink.

Thanks for looking!