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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.

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!

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!

Penny Black: Poppies and Chalkboard

Today I’m sharing a CASE of Jill Foster’s lovely card featuring Penny Black Poppy Pattern [#40-290] paired with a sentiment from Truly Great [#40-309].

Jill used paint on her background whereas I used a combination of Memento inks. I applied the inks to the stamp, misted the stamp, and then pressed watercolor paper onto the stamp, using a brayer to really soak up the ink. The sentiment is heat embossed on an ATC-size Art Square. I really like the dimension that the Art Square adds.

Using the same design, I created a monochromatic background by stamping with orange ink on orange paper.

For this version, I stamped the sentiment onto black cardstock and attached it to the poppy background with dimensional adhesive. I trimmed the background so that the card would have a white border.

Seeing Jill’s card using paints, I can’t wait to give that technique a try as well!

Penny Black First Dance

Today I’m sharing a card created with the Penny Black First Dance [#4383K] stamp from the Happy Everything release.

I dabbed a selection of Distress Paints directly onto the stamp and stamped onto a white cardstock panel. I tried a number of color combinations and settled on one with golds and reds. Once the paint was dry, I distressed the edges of the panel with Antique Linen Distress Ink. I then inked up the Penny Black Fleur De Lys background [#40-204] with the same ink, wiping away some of the ink before stamping. I found this technique on Jill Foster’s blog and really like how it adds a subtle pattern to the background of the panel. I adhered the panel to a cardstock base over a dry-embossed rectangle with dimensional adhesive. To finish, I added a sentiment from Fashion Tweet [#30-233].