Category: Penny Black

Penny Black Homemade

Cute mice in the kitchen!? What? The one time I did have mice in the kitchen, in a Victorian home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there was nothing cute about it. But with the Penny Black Homemade (30-119) stamp set, which is part of the Margaret Sherry Collection, there’s nothing but fun!

Penny Black Homemade

I watercolored the mice, stamped with Versafine ink and heat embossed with clear powder, with both Prismacolor and Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils. The patterned paper is from the Echo Park Sweet Girl collection.

Penny Black Summer Fun

Tropical colors, relaxing at the beach, flip flops, an iced tea with lemon….it’s summer! I used the Penny Black Summer Fun 30-107 stamp set to create a summer-themed card.

Penny Black Summer Fun

To add variety, I cut the circles with three different sized dies. I adhered the card panel to a black card base for some punch.

Wishing you a sunny day!

Penny Black In a Row – One More Card

I couldn’t resist crafting a Halloween-themed card with the new Penny Black In a Row die cut (51-001).

Penny Black In a Row - One More Card

I used the same card design as the one I shared in yesterday’s post, stamping the sentiment from the Penny Black Hoot of a Time (40-152) stamp set on a slightly larger die-cut circle. The purple panel has been stamped with the Penny Black Indian Wheel (40-202) background stamp in dye ink.

Penny Black In a Row Creative Die

There are so many possibilities for creating with the new Penny Black In a Row die cut (51-001)!

Penny Black In a Row

I added the die-cut birds to the top of a panel stamped with the Penny Black Indian Wheel (40-202) background stamp in dye ink. The card base is stamped in Versafine ink with the Penny Black Moment of Joy (4303F) sentiment stamp. I added a die cut circle for both design and color balance.

Penny Black Sunny Days

I absolutely adore the stamp images in the Penny Black Sunny Days set. I’m sharing a card in which I have paired the soccer-playing dog with a sentiment from the Friendship set.

Penny Black Sunny Days

After stamping with Versafine ink and heat embossing, I colored the dog and soccer ball with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils (there’s just a bit of white pencil on the soccer ball). With advice from Elizabeth Allan, I used Ink Potion No. 9, rather than water, to blend the watercolor pencil. I stamped the image on cardstock, rather than watercolor paper, as I didn’t want my cardstock to pill. I’m happy to report that the Ink Potion did the trick. I also tried a version with my Prismacolor pencils, but I preferred the vividness that I achieved with the Inktense pencils.

I finished the card off with some clouds cut with Memory Box dies and adhered the blue panel to a woodgrain-cardstock card base.