Category: Penny Black

Penny Black Guest Week: Day One

I’m over at the Penny Black blog this week showcasing stamps from the Penny Black Halloween release.

Head on over to find out what’s flying over the haunted mansion from Haunted Halloween!

I love the change of seasons in the fall, and Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. While crafting this card, I thought about my favorite scary and Halloween-themed movies. Here’s what’s on my list: “Psycho,” “The Birds,” “Vertigo,” and  “Bell, Book and Candle.” Hmmmm….that’s a lot of Hitchcock! What’s your favorite scary or Halloween-themed movie?

Penny Black: Fall Cupcake Toppers

Fall is definitely upon us here in the Pacific Northwest with cooler temperatures and rain. I’m celebrating the change of seasons with some Pumpkin Spice cupcakes adorned with toppers, which I crafted using one of the adorable stamps from the Penny Black Halloween release — Halloween Critters set (#30-185).

Penny Black Halloween Cupcake Toppers

I think these toppers could work equally well for a fall birthday or Halloween party. The image was stamped with Versafine ink and clear embossed. I colored the owls with Copics in seasonal colors. The owl images were then cut with a circle die and adhered to scallop circle die-cuts. I taped a bamboo stick to one of the scallops and adhered it to the other scallop with a thin dimensional square.

Penny Black Collage

Today I’m sharing I card crafted with a variety of Penny Black dies and stamps, which I’m calling a “collage.”

Penny Black Collage

The butterflies were stamped with the Letter Background (1999L) and then die cut with Flutters (51-006). The two background tags were first stamped with Indian Wheel (40-202) and die cut with Tagged (51-007). The sentiment was heat embossed using a stamp from the Friendship (30-160) set. Finally, I created a mask cut with the Dots (51-009) die and sponged selected circles with white pigment ink.

I finished off the card with silk ribbon, dyed with Distress Ink to match the cardstock and twine.

Penny Black Birthday Cupcakes

Hope your week is off to a great start! Today, I’m sharing a birthday card created with Penny Black’s Cupcakes stamp set (30-171). I really like the versatility of this set – it’s got some great sentiments and can be used for both masculine and feminine birthday cards.

Penny Black Birthday Cupcakes

I colored the cupcakes and cake slice with Copic markers and then fussy cut them. I added Glossy Accents to the strawberry, the heart, and the flowers on the cake. I adhered the cut images to a cardstock panel with dimensional adhesive. With circle dies, I created a two sets of mats/frames for the cut images. I heat embossed the sentiment on the card base, and finished the card off with some baker’s twine. Voilà!