Happy Tuesday! I have a card over on the Simplicity blog today. I’ve added another card to my Christmas card using Penny Black dies and stamps. Here is a sneak peek for you. Head to the Simplicity blog for the full reveal.
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Hello! I hope you are having a beautiful day in your neck of the woods. We are finally experiencing some warmer weather where I live which makes me so happy on the inside. I love spring!
Anyway, I have been having a lot of fun with the Penny Black Christmas in the Round rubber stamp. This was released last Christmas and I have been meaning to play with it all year. I have also discovered Ranger’s Liquid Platinum embossing powder and I am in love with this stuff! It is a beautiful muted gold colour – perfect for Christmas in my opinion.
I have made three cards the same, just used different colours, and then I finished off each border a little differently. I started with a white piece of card stock in each case, and coloured it with completely (and very heavily) with Distress Ink (Chipped Sapphire, Festive Berried and Peacock Feathers). I could have used coloured card stock, but realised that I didn’t have any navy card stock left, so I made my own!
Once the card stock was completely dry – I left them overnight to make sure – I then used Versmark ink and stamped the Round For Christmas stamp the embossed it with the Platinum Gold embossing powder and heat set it.
I used the matching Distress Marker colour and coloured in various elements of the ornament. I also covered these areas with a layer of shimmer using a clear Wink of Stella glitter brush pen.
The scoring around the edge was done on a scoring board with a stylus. I changed it up on all three cards for a little bit of variety.
Penny Black products used:
Penny Black 40-487 Christmas in the Round
Stamps: Penny Black Christmas in the Round rubber stamp
Card: Xpress-It card stock
Ink: Versamark ink, Distress Inks – Chipped Sapphire, Festive Berries, Peacock Feathers, Distress Ink Markers – Chipped Sapphire, Festive Berries, Peacock Feathers
Other Supplies: Wink of Stella glitter brush pen – Clear, Ranger Embossing Powder – Liquid Platinum, Heat tool, Anti-static Pillow, Fun Foam, Martha Stewart score board and stylus
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Happy Tuesday! I have a card over on the Simplicity blog today. Another Christmas card using some awesome Penny Black dies. Here is a sneak peek for you. Head to the Simplicity blog for the full reveal.
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I’m back with a card that I made for my husband for his birthday that was earlier this week. I’m not too good at producing masculine cards, so I went down the cutesy card path instead. Anyway, he liked his card, so that is all that matters right?
I stamped the cat and balloon from the Time to Celebrate stamp set onto a white panel and coloured it with a mixture of Copic Markers and Prismacolor pencils. I then masked off the cat and created my own cloud mask and sponged on some clouds using Salty Ocean and Faded Jeans Distress ink. The sentiment is from the Kind Words stamp set (I did a little bit of stamp surgery here). To finish off the card I covered the balloons in Glossy Accents to make them shine.
Penny Black products used:
Penny Black 30-414 Time to Celebrate stamp set
Penny Black 30-226 Kind Words stamp set
Stamps: Penny Black Time to Celebrate and Kind Words stamp sets
Card: Xpress-It card stock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black ink, VersFine Onyx black ink, Distress Inks – Salty Ocean and Faded Jeans
Other Supplies: Copic Markers, Prismacolor pencils, Inkadinkadoo masking paper, Fun Foam, Ink blending tool, Glossy Accents
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This past week I had the pleasure of being featured on the main Penny Black blog, using new products from their latest catalogues Be Merry and Hello Autumn. I had a lot of fun making these clean and simple cards.
Day 1’s card used the wonderful Layered Poinsettia die and the sentiment came from the Gather Around stamp set. I added score lines to the petals and leaves with a scoring stylus and coloured them with Distress Inks. I custom made the grey panel by scoring lines on a score board.
Day 2’s card used the Hello Autumn stamp set and was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol.
Day 3’s card used the Hills and Trees Creative die. I love the unusual colour combo which I created effortlessly with Oxide Distress Inks. The sentiment is from the Banner Sentiments set.
And my final Day 4 card is probably my favourite of them all. Aren’t these mice adorable? They are from the Gather Around stamp set.
I coloured them with Copic markers, and then added in all the details (such as the fur on the mice) with Prismacolor pencils.
For a full list of supplies and instructions, click on the link for each Day’s card and it will take you to the original blog post.
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I’m over on the Simplicity at its Best blog today where I’ve created a clean and simple vintage floral card. Something a little different for me, but great to get out my Distress markers again. Head here for the full reveal.
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