cardmaking - Right as Rain

Penny Black: Live for Today

It’s a beautiful day in the Pacific Northwest, and I’m sharing a spring-themed card created with Penny Black supplies.

Penny Black: Live for Today

To begin, I cut a watercolor paper panel and applied Distress Inks to it and then sprayed it with water. After drying it, I added some more ink from my craft sheet. It took several applications of ink and water, followed by drying, to get the panel to my liking. After the panel was dry, I stamped it with the Penny Black Star Ivy [#40-310] background stamp from the brand-new Bloom release and heat-embossed it with white powder.

I stamped and heat embossed one of the sentiments from Penny Black’s Life’s Messages [#40-237] set. I’m particularly fond of the messages on this image.

I cut the bird and branch out of watercolor paper with the Perched [#51-031] die cut. In the same manner as I did for the panel, I applied Distress Inks, sprayed it with water and dried it. I finished everything off with a piece of May Arts twine.

In Detail: Product Reviews & News – More Misting

I’m over in the Ellen Hutson CLASSroom today with a review on make-your-own mists and the Distress Marker Spritzer. I’d love to have you visit.

Penny Black Happy Birthday

The Penny Black Birthday Party [#30-232] stamp set includes adorable images, suitable for birthday card recipients of any age! I watercolored one of the images with watercolor pencils for a special someone’s birthday card.

I adhered the watercolored panel, with I cut with a rectangle die, to a card base stamped and heat embossed with the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Sentimental [#30-176] set.

And off into the mail it goes!

Watercolored Die Cuts

I was inspired by Jennifer McGuire’ss post on watercolor die cuts and decided to give the techniques she showed a try.

For the first card, I watercolored the Marianne Design Bird on Branch, cut from watercolor paper, with traditional watercolors. I placed the bird over a background of watercolor paper colored with an application of Tumbled Glass Distress stain sprayed with a Mini Mister.

For my second card, I decided to use the same die cut in an inlaid design.

For this background, of watercolor paper, I applied Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers and sprayed with water. I dried the background with a heat gun and decided it needed more color,so I sprayed it with Tumbled Glass Distress Stain in a Mini Mister. Still wanting more color, I smooshed the Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers ink pads onto my craft sheet, spritzed the sheet with water, and put the watercolor paper into the pool. The bird and branch die cut were colored with Distress Ink markers following Jennifer’s technique and then sprayed with water. I liked how the water evened out the application of the markers. I finished the card with a heat embossed sentiment.

Supplies: sentiment for top card from Penny Black

Marianne Design Dies, Bird on Branch	Hero Arts Wood Block Stamp, What’s Up, Set of 4	My Favorite Things Die-namics, Blueprints 13	Sizzix Tim Holtz, Texture Fades Embossing Folders, Bricked and Wooden
Watercolor Paper, 10 pk	Distress Marker Set of 37 w/ Tube	Distress Ink Pad, Peacock Feathers	Distress Ink Pad, Salty Ocean
Distress Stain, Tumbled Glass	Mini Mister Set	Hero Arts Shadow Ink, Mid-Tone: Cup O’ Joe	Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock, 25 pack
A3 Cardstock, Neenah Environment Desert Storm, 25 pk

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In Bloom!

Seemingly overnight, the Pacific Northwest is in bloom! I’m celebrating with a card created with two new stamp sets from Penny Black’s Bloom Release.

I stamped the floral images and leaves from Petal Power [#30-225] in pigment inks and added a sentiment, stamped with Versafine, from the Friendship Flowers [#30-223] set. The Petal Power set includes multiple floral solid stamps with outline stamp companions – lots of possibilities with this set!