Category: Penny Black

Penny Black Joy to the World

Today I’m sharing a card in which one of the holiday die cuts from Penny Black takes center stage. I really like adding metallic accents to my holiday cards, and in this case, my starting point was the outline of the Xmas Tree die cut in silver.

Penny Black Joy to the World

I die cut the Xmas Tree [51-012] in both white and silver cardstock. I pieced the two together and adhered the completed tree with dimensional adhesive onto a circle cut from cardstock stamped with the Penny Black Crystal Pattern [40-162] background stamp. I adhered the circle to a dry-embossed card base, and then I added a banner on which I heat-embossed a sentiment from Penny Black’s Season’s Wishes set [30-201]. I finished the card off with some sparkly jewels.

 

 

Penny Black Holly-day Card

Today, I’m sharing an easy-to-put-together holiday card using the Penny Black Holly Berries die [51-019].

Penny Black Holly-day Card

I cut two holly sprigs out of a textured green cardstock and positioned them on the card base in a pleasing manner. I cut a few pieces off of the top sprig in order to give room for my heat-embossed sentiment from the Season’s Wishes set [30-201]. Before adhering the holly branches to the card base, I added Christmas Red Stickles for the berries.

While I kept with traditional Christmas colors, it would be fun to try other color combinations!

Penny Black: Rudolph’s Portrait

Often when I make cards, I create a story behind the card, as was the case with this one using the Penny Black Whooo’s Wishing [30-190] stamp set (now discontinued). As the card began to come together, I pictured this as Rudolph’s portrait on the wall at the North Pole.

Penny Black: Rudolph's Portrait

I heat embossed the “Rudolph” stamp with white embossing powder. The sentiment, from the  Whoo’s Wishing set, was heat embossed with red powder. I really like the versatility of the Decadence background stamp [40-254] which I stamped in a dark grey. While it brings a formal component to the card, it’s not so formal that it doesn’t play well with the more casual elements on the card, such as the craft store pom pom and the baker’s twine.

Penny Black Halloween Crow

Today, I’m sharing another Halloween-themed card on which I used the Halloween Visit stamp from the Penny Black Halloween release.

Penny Black Halloween Crow
While I generally would consider coloring an image such as this, I decided to go with a simpler approach. I colored the tag, cut with the large die in the Tagged set, with distress inks and then stamped the image with Archival Black ink. I clear embossed the background after stamping it with the Penny Black Decadence stamp. This background stamp lends a elegant look, and at the same time it’s so versatile! Lots of plans for its use during the upcoming holiday season. The sentiment is from Hoot of a Time.