Penny Black Saturday Challenge Mid-Month Inspiration

It's time for more inspiration to get our creative juices flowing for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.  

Stamps:  Penny Black 'Aspire' 3381K, Happy birthday from the 'critter party' 30-013 clear set, 'Corner Piece 2859H', 'Deco Border' 2653F. 
Other:  Tim Holtz distress ink, Spellbinder's Labels Twenty Five dies, pp, Ranger white embossing powder.

I sponged distress ink onto the die cut panel, and used my Misti to stamp and color the image.  Added the scrolls and other bits to the background.  Distressed pp pieces and layered.  The torn right edge and curled corner add to the distressed look.

I hope you have had a chance to play along with the February challenge.   The theme is 'Anything Goes' with optional 'Use Some Scraps.'  We all have those little bits of pp, ribbons, string, card stock bits and pieces.  Now's your chance to give them some love and maybe even win a prize for your efforts. 

The challenge is sponsored by 1,2,3 Stitch, who is generously giving a $20 voucher to the challenge winner!   We look forward to seeing your creations!  If you would like to be considered for a guest designer spot for a future challenge, please add 'GTD' after your name on the link-up.  Be sure to stop back to see if you have been chosen.

Thanks for visiting my blog.  I love reading your comments, and really appreciate you taking the time to read my posts.  Stay well, and be blessed!

Portion Control

Hello again, lovely peeps.  I am on a roll today!  I think this will be my last post for today. 

Stamps:  Power Poppy digital stamps:
                Winter Pick-Me-Up Digital stamp set
                Acorn Ornaments Digital (verse)

I created the background strip by running an acrylic brayer through a Kaleidacolor Riviera stamp pad, and rolling it onto a piece of matte-coated card stock.  I repeated the rolling several times to achieve the intensity I wanted.  I dropped some gold Perfect Pearls mixed with water onto it, and rolled again to achieve the gold highlights.  I stamped a script stamp (unmounted from my stash - unknown) over it when it was dry.  

Close-up of detail on background strip

For the flowers, I chose cool colors for a winter palette.  I colored with Polychromos colored pencils.  For the soft haze around the bouquet, I used Faber Castel pastels with a cotton swab.  

I used my light box to trace one of the flowers under the verse, and colored that.  Cut both circles with the double stitched circles from Our Daily Bread Designs.

I added a bow I made with my Bow-Easy.  I added some sparkling crystals from Studio Katia to finish off the card.

I am adding my card to these challenges:

Power Poppy Challenge - Portion control (use a portion of the stamp, having it go off the edge)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes

The Paper Players - Sketch challenge

I'm so glad you stopped in for a visit today.  I am always happy to see you here.  I love your comments, as well.

 

His Love Is A Gift Christmas Card

I love the combination of gray, red, and white for Christmas.  It is a little variance from the typical green and red.

 

I have had this stamp set for a while, and had been stumped as to what I would do with it.  So I took a different approach.  Instead of planning the card out in my head first, I decided to choose a color scheme, thinking that might prompt some ideas.  With the red and gray, I immediately thought of white embossing, so went ahead and embossed the largest star onto a piece of the dark gray card stock.  Then I embossed the other two onto a lighter gray panel, slightly smaller than an A2 card.  So far, I liked it.

I chose the verse, and then it hit me.  I would make the card look like a wrapped package with ribbon wrapped around it!  Hence, the red ribbon.  I sponged the edges with distress ink, and mounted it onto a red A2 card.  A little craft foam to elevate the largest star, and some punched silver foil stars finish off the card.  

The stamps are a cling set from Our Daily Bread Designs, His Birth G600 , and the die is Sparkling Stars CSBD79, also from ODBD.

I am adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Star light, star bright

Make My Monday Challenge - Happy holidays

Splitcoaster Stampers - Inspiration challenge

I'm just getting over a severe sinus infection, so just starting to get back into my studio to play.  I've missed it.  

Tomorrow morning is my first post as a new design team member of Technique Junkies.  I would love for you to hop on over to check out the TJ blog.  Lots of fun stuff going on there.  Please leave me a comment there if you stop so I know you were there. 

AND...if you like some of the Technique Junkies stamps, you can use my code on my blog post to get 10% off your order!

So....off to bed I go now.  Gotta get my rest, so I can get better.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings and joy,

lynda

 

Stamping On Kraft Card Stock With White Ink

Greetings!  Welcome to September, the gateway to fall!  I'm sure I will get some 'boo's' here, but I have to say, I am looking forward to the fall season.

Today I decided to do some stamping on kraft card stock.  Cas-ual Fridays has a challenge to stamp on kraft, and use white ink.  So, here I go.

I used Cas-ual Fridays stamps from the Casual Comfort clear set for the image and verse, on kraft card stock.  

I stamped the branch with white Color-Box pigment ink onto some kraft card stock, dried it with a heat tool.  I stamped the image slightly off over the same white image, using Tim Holtz distress oxide ink in vintage photo.  Then used a Lawn Fawn die (stitched scalloped borders) to cut out the border, then also cut it from white card stock, and layered it underneath the kraft panel.

I cut another panel from kraft card stock, and stamped the verse in white and vintage photo.  I added the image panel over the verse panel using foam tape for dimension.  Some spatters, layering, and a dragonfly charm that I dyed with a Copic marker finish off the card.

I am adding my card to these challenges:

Cas-ual Fridays Challenge  - Use kraft and white

Casology Challenge - Square

Less Is More Challenge - Use something real (charm)

I am also putting it in the The Daily Marker 30 Day Color Challenge.  
 
 Thanks so much for stopping by.  Enjoy your day.

Blessings,

lynda