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PB Simplicity: Let Your Heart Soar

Today, I’m sharing a CAS card created with Penny Black stamps and dies.

To begin, I masked off a vertical strip and applied Distress Inks in Squeezed Lemonade, Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean with foam applicators. I then stamped the sentiment from 30-345 Soar. To embellish, I added butterflies cut with the 51-132 Flights of Fancy and 51-198 Flourish & Butterflies sets, as well as flourishes cut from vellum using Flourish & Butterflies (these are adhered to the panel under the butterflies). This would be an easy card to change up by simply using a different Distress Ink combination.

Recently, I created a card using the same sentiment and a rainbow assortment of die-cut butterflies. You can see that card on this post at the Penny Black Simplicity site.

Penny Black Simplicity Thank You

Today, I’m sharing two CAS floral Thank You cards created with Penny Black stamps and dies.

For the first card, I stamped the #40-374 Effulgence flowers in a yellow-green ink onto the white cardstock panel. I stamped the #40-459 Standing Ovation flowers in deep pink ink. I finished the card with a sentiment in the #30-350 Sentiment Collection set and butterflies cut with one of the dies in the #51-132 Flights of Fancy set.

For the second card, I stamped the #40-459 Standing Ovation flowers by coloring the stamp with Distress Ink and Memento markers. I finished the card with a sentiment in the #30-338 Special Thoughts set and two butterflies cut with dies in the #51-198 Flourish & Butterflies set.

It’s easy to change this design by simply changing the colors of the flowers and butterflies. I tried a number of combinations!

Penny Black Woodland Friends

Today, I’m sharing a CAS spring-themed card combining an image from Penny Black’s #30-278 Woodland Friends stamp set with a die-cut fox, created with #51-193 Woodland Friends II.

I positioned the Woodland Friends stamp on my MISTI and masked off the fox. I colored the stamped image with watercolor pencils. (On my first try I colored the background blue, but I decided I preferred a more CAS look.) I separately cut the fox with the Woodland Friends II set from cardstock, which I had colored with Distress Inks. I added enamel dots for the nose and eye. I attached the fox to the scene with foam adhesive.

I masked a sentiment from #30-160 Friendship and cut it with one of the word balloons in the #51-003 Chat Bubbles set. To finish off the card, I added a dry-embossed strip along the bottom.

Penny Black Simplicity: Background Shadow Stamping

Today, I’m sharing a shadow stamp card created with Penny Black stamps and dies. I created a “sister” version of this card (same design with a few tweaks) which is being shown today over on the Penny Black Simplicity site. I hope you’ll head over there and take a look.

With my MISTI, I stamped 40-442 Butterfly Charmer in both VersaMark and white pigment ink. I die cut the sentiment 51-104 Hello from white cardstock twice and adhered the pieces (trimming the tail of the “o”). I stamped a sentiment from 30-283 Snippets onto vellum and positioned the “hello” over it (adhering the vellum to the background panel with liquid adhesive under the “hello” letters).

Penny Black Simplicity: Die-Cut Bouquet

Today, I’m sharing a die-cut encouragement card created with Penny Black stamps and dies. I also created a “sister” version of this card (same design with a few tweaks) which is being shown today over on the Penny Black Simplicity site. I hope you’ll head over there and take a look.

To create this bouquet, I started by die-cutting the floral pieces from green cardstock with the 51-199 Flower Bunch die set. With the same die, I cut the pieces from cardstock in red and two shades of pink. Then I adhered trimmed flowers to the green cardstock pieces.

I die cut 51-142 Mason Jar twice from light blue paper. With detail scissors, I trimmed the top of one of the Mason jars to create a faux opening. I sponged light blue ink on the Mason jar to give the appearance of water.

I arranged the floral pieces on the bottom Mason jar and adhered them with Scotch tape. I adhered the top Mason jar to the assembly with foam adhesive. I die-cut white cardstock with a die in the 51-053 A Pocket Full set (the spiral notebook paper) and created a oval cast shadow with gray ink.

The card base was dry-embossed, and I added color (and pattern) with a strip of paper from the 80-009 Painted Blooms paper pad. I heat-embossed a sentiment from 30-288 Pretty Petals on gray cardstock and added that to the panel with foam adhesive.

After I created this card, I thought about how to change it by coloring the floral pieces with Distress Inks (rather than cutting them from colored cardstock). That was the starting point for the other version of this card on the Penny Black Simplicity site.