Category: Penny Black

Penny Black: Floral Applique

Today, I’m sharing two cards created with the same color scheme and the Penny Black stamp sets: Floral Applique (40-238) and Sentimental (30-176).

For my first card, I heat embossed one of the sentiments from Sentimental then stamped a combination of images from the Floral Applique set with white pigment ink.

Penny Black: Floral Applique

This card didn’t come together on my first try! I learned after several tries that I needed to stamp the images around the sentiment first. I worked clockwise starting on the right hand side, to leave room around the sentiment.

As I stamped the first card, I had a thought (midway through the process) – What if I only stamped the lower half? I decided to give that a try on a second card in which I used navy dye ink on white cardstock.

Penny Black: Floral Applique

I really like the combination of navy, white and silver for a casual, but elegant feel. I tried gold embossing the sentiment but it was too formal and heavy. I also tried some other dye colors for the white notecard, including a citrus green and purple. I’d like to make another card with the sentiment in black ink and the flowers in one of those colors. So many card ideas, so little time! 🙂

Supplies: Penny Black Floral Applique (40-238) and Sentimental (30-176); Stampin’ Up cardstock (navy); Neenah cardstock (white); ColorBox white pigment ink; Archival cobalt dye ink; Hero Arts silver embossed powder

Sail Away

I’m back today sharing another stamped and watercolored image from the Penny Black Sunny Days set. I loosely followed the sketch for the Summer Card Camp 2 Pre-Class Challenge for this card, and you’ll notice that I’ve used the same clouds for this card as I did for my first Pre-Class Challenge sketch card. 🙂

Penny Black Sail Away

I follow the lovely blog Home is Where the Boat is and thought that title was the perfect sentiment for the cat at sea in a sailboat, which I created on my computer. Wouldn’t it be fun to live on a boat? 

I used a combination of Derwent Inktense and Prismacolor watercolor pencils for the Sunny Days image. Have a fantastic weekend – we’re hoping for some warmer, sunny weather here in the Pacific Northwest.

Sunny Days Cat

The moment I saw the Sunny Days stamp set, I knew I wanted it! And when Elizabeth Allan posted this incredible card, I knew which image I wanted to start with! I just love this cat.

Sunny Days

This card, which is just over 3″ around, took me several tries using watercolor pencils. I learned something important about Inktense pencils, which are the watercolor pencils I’ve been using – the colors are permanent once you go over them with water. In other words, when you add water, Inktense produces ink not watercolor paint. So, I used Prismacolor pencils for the fur, because I wanted to be able to work the color more than once. The fins, sunglasses and beach towel, however, are colored with the Inktense pencils. I stamped the inside of the card with the “A Sunny Hello” sentiment from the set.

Wishing you a “Sunny Day.”

Mimi at Play

This past weekend, I took time off from cardmaking to watercolor some of the images from the Penny Black Mimi at Play set with Distress ink pads and markers. I find that I need to color the images several times before I’m happy with my results!

Penny Black Mimi at Play

I paired Mimi with a sentiment from the Friendship set and a die-cut window. To cut out that area between her toy horse and the rocker, I cut off the rocker, cut out the paper, and then reattached the rocker with dimensional tape. 🙂

Sweet Wishes

I took a short break from coloring to create a paper-pieced card using one of the images from Penny Black’s Blooming Garden stamp set paired with a sentiment from the Friendship set.

Penny Black Blooming Garden

Once I had created the flowers, I referred to the handouts from Summer Card Camp 2011 to find a color palette that would work with the yellow and orange. I’m not quite ready for fall, but I definitely do like fall colors. I stamped the blue cardstock with the Letter Background stamp in Versamark ink to add a little texture.