Category: Penny Black

Painted Penny Black Flowers

Today I’m sharing card made with some Penny Black wood mounted rubber stamps – Blush and Iris.

These “brush stroke” stamp designs work beautifully with the distress paints. For the card I made with the Blush stamp, which is a coneflower, I paired bright colors with a neutral background and a sentiment from the Friendship stamp. I stamped the olive green panel with the Penny Black Letter Background stamp using Versamark ink for a hint of texture.

Painted Penny Black Flowers

I created a similarly designed card with the Iris stamp. I love irises of all colors, and they’re certainly in bloom around here right now! The dark blue ones have always been my favorite. For this image, I paired Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire distress paints for the flower’s petals. The Salty Ocean lifted the darker sapphire color just a bit. I dry embossed olive cardstock for the card base.

Painted Penny Black Flowers

Have you checked out the new collection being featured this week on the Penny Black blog? The “elegant and cute” new release stamps are available for purchase Friday, May 31.

Supplies: Penny Black Iris, Blush and Letter Background stamps; Stampin’ Up cardstock

Penny Black Indian Wheel Background Stamp

I recently got my hands on the Penny Black Indian Wheel background stamp and wanted to create some simple cards pairing the stunning background with sentiments from the Friendship set.

For the first card, I stayed with a neutral color palette.

Penny Black Indian Wheel Background Stamp

I tried several different inks on the kraft paper before choosing Toffee Crunch. I dyed the ribbon with a Distress Ink pad. I have most of the ink pads but not all of the stains. While I love this color, and the ability to custom match ribbon color, I’m not sure I recommend using the pads, as the ribbon took a long time to dry. Going forward, I’ll purchase stains for the colors I most want to create. (More on this later as I’m investigating the differences in the formulations of the stains vs. the pads.)

For the second card I used one of my favorite color combinations – red, white, and blue – and heat embossed the sentiment. I’d like to try this card with a rope “ribbon” or white ribbon for even more of a nautical look, maybe even a little anchor charm :-)!

Penny Black Indian Wheel Background Stamp

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Penny Black Hedgie

The hedgehog is one of the first images I came to associate with Penny Black stamps. And there just happens to be a hedgehog in the Garden Critters set!

Penny Black Hedgie

I colored the hedgehog and flowers with watercolor pencils and combined them with a sentiment from the Friendship set.

I purchased some more Penny Blacks sets that I plan to ink up tomorrow, including some images suitable for Father’s Day cards.

Another Garden Critter

I got the opportunity over the weekend to continue playing with the watercolor pencils and the Penny Black Garden Critters stamp set.

Penny Black Garden Critters

I watched Jill Foster’s PB & J video several more times, and learned a bit more about how to use the pencils. I also switched watercolor papers to a heavier paper that is preferred by Jennifer McGuire. Additionally, I used my water brush pen as a brush dipping it into the water. Filled with water, the brush was putting too much water on my image. I don’t have any Penny Black sentiments, yet, so I added one of my most used sentiments from the Hero Arts Essential Messages set to finish off the card.

Happy Monday!

A Rabbit “Hello”

I bought some Derwent Inktense watercolors pencils on Sunday (my Mother’s Day gift to me, ha ha) and spent most of Sunday afternoon and into the week coloring the critters from the Penny Black Garden Critters stamp set.

I’ve watched Jill Foster’s PB & J video several times, and I am in total awe of her skills! If you’re interested in trying out watercolor pencils, her video would be an excellent place to begin.

A Rabbit "Hello"