Penny Black - Right as Rain

Penny Black – You Brighten My Day

Hello! Today I am sharing a CAS friendship card created with Penny Black supplies. I’m in the final stages of packing up my supplies for my move, so this post is brief. What I still have around (but will be packed up in a few minutes) – Distress Oxide inks, white cardstock, and a few stamps and dies (listed at the bottom of the post).

I inked up cardstock with some of my favorite colors: yellow, teal, and a coral/orange. I cut the cardstock with two different butterfly dies, which I added to a panel on which I had stamped the sentiment. I added the butterflies with foam adhesive.

Sentiment: Special Thoughts
Butterfly with holes: Flourish and Butterflies
Other Butterfly: Flights of Fancy

Penny Black – Let Your Heart Soar

Hello! Today I am sharing a CAS encouragement card created with Penny Black supplies – the Soar stamp set and Butterfly Circles die.

I die-cut the Butterfly Circles from black cardstock.
I stamped the Soar sentiment on to a white cardstock panel.
I cut a circle, sized to the size behind the Butterfly Circles, from vellum.
Using the Butterfly Circles die-cut as my guide for placement, I sponged Distress Oxide ink through the circle stencil four times.
I adhered the die-cut over the sponged ink circles.
I adhered the panel to a card base in a pale blue (Bazzill Icy Mint).

Hope your day is terrific!

Supplies:

Get Cozy – A CAS Holiday Card

Hello! Today, I am sharing a CAS holiday card that combines many of my favorite things – die-cuts, texture, twine, and a stamp set that is both a background and a sentiment!

I cut the mug from Candy Apple cardstock (FSJ) with the Penny Black What’s In Your Cup? die set and added a snowflake cut with the Lawn Fawn Mini Snowflakes set. I cut the steam for the mug with the same Penny Black set from vellum to which I had adhered double-sided adhesive. For the background, I stamped the Neat and Tangled Hello Winter stamp in Rich Cocoa ink. (There are similar Neat and Tangled stamp sets for Spring, Summer, and Fall.) I dry-embossed the card base with a Sizzix embossing folder (now retired) and finished it with Lawn Fawn twine.

CAS Halloween Die-cut Owl

Hello! Today, I am sharing a CAS Halloween card featuring a gold foil die-cut owl.

I used Stampin’ Up cardstock for the card base and purple circle (a color combination that isn’t my usual one for Halloween) and gold foil for the owl. The sentiment is from a Stampin’ Up set (now retired). I added gold stars from the Avery Elle Finished Frames set (now retired) to fill in the background. An additional way to “step it up” would have been to dry-embossed the purple circle.

What’s your favorite Halloween color combo?

Supplies: Avery Elle Finished Frames set (stars), Spellbinders (circle die), Stampin’ Up (cardstock and sentiment)

Penny Black Watercolored Wintertime Cheer

Hello! Happy Boxing Day. Today, I am sharing a watercolored card featuring Penny Black supplies. I had some time recently to watercolor and my husband chose this image from the Wintertime Cheer set. My husband has a tractor and really liked this cute image.

I heat-embossed the Wintertime Cheer image on Canson Montval paper and watercolored it with the Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors. I used Tumbled Glass ink for the sky and Hickory Smoke for the ground using one of the brushes in the Claritystamp set. I stamped the sentiment with an image in the Joy Filled set. I adhered the panel to a red card base.