Valentines Day Card

 A cute Penny Black stamp which is on one of those springs so you can make it wiggle! The design with the heart off the top edge is an idea from Gina K. Paper is Stampin Up. Just wanted to share it! 

Christmas Card - Snowy Shadow Box

Had to use the Snowy stamp and die again. The shadow box is so quick to make!

Get Well Cards

I volunteered to make cards to sell at my neighborhood annual craft fair.  All proceeds go to charity.  They have raised $250,000 over the years!  I made about 30 cards and one of my card making friends made 25 which was very nice!  Seems people need a lot of get well and sympathy cards lately.  First card is a Penny Black stamp, second card is stamps and dies by Stampin' Up! and third card is "that paper".  

Christmas Cards continued

Snowy!  I plan to make a bunch of card with this beloved Penny Black Stamp.  I masked snowy then stamped the branches.  Watercolored the rest.  The second card is a case of a card from a gal on one of my Facebook card groups who has used the background paper on so many beautiful cards we all went out and bought "that paper"  Its from Hobby Lobby and is 12x12 and only 25 cents!  Its paper not card stock but that doesn't matter for this type of use.  I used my Stamp Simply Poinsettia dies and die cut Merry Christmas by The Stamps of Life.  There is a pretty snowflake embossing folder in the background from Cuttlebug, must be 15 years old.  Glad to use old stuff!

 

Watercolor Flower Card

Always love doing this technique. I used watercolor markers on the stamp, spritzed with water and stamped onto water color paper. I then used ink and a watercolor brush to paint on the blue background. Fairly quick card with stunning results! Penny Black stamp.

Some Pretty Flower Cards and a Fox

Here's that Penny Black stamp again, this card came out so pretty. A case of course!

The next three are all the same stamp by Gina K in colaberation with Hero Arts

Cute Fox! I have to make a bunch of cards from this set as there are a bunch of cute animals

And then this card! Loving this style, I made 5 total - 4 for my friends thank you and one for a sample for myself to make more.

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Then there were more cards!

So I will explain these between images.

This one is a die set from Altenew, one of my absolute favorites! Love layering dies.

New Poppy Moments die set and paper from Stampin' Up!

Yes, that card style again - I like more complicated cards and they look cool. This is a Penny Black stamp that I colored with markers then spritzed with water to make a water color look

Multifold Card

Ok This one I have no idea what its called! A gal on one of the card making groups posted the dimensions and score lines for everyone. This is not a CASE, I designed it myself. I used Heartfelt Creations dies and stamps and sentiment by Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. The butterfly is Stampin Up. The paper is Penny Black. This is so stunning in person! I put chunky glitter on the butterfly and the dimension in the flowers looks so good.

Hidden Letter Card

I am not sure what the technique is called but it looks like hidden letters to me so that is what I am calling it.  The letters are on pop dots.  The stamp is by Penny Black, called effulgent.  The dies are by My Favorite Things.

More Valentine's Cards

More of Penny Black's Mimi's Love stamp set cards!  Just having fun, trying to get better coloring.  The top one is watercolors and the bottom one is Prismacolor pencils.  In both cards I used wink of Stella on the tiny hearts.  The designer paper is by doodlebug.

Sketch Challenge

MFTWSC367 Sketch Challenge.  Penny Black Mimi's Love stamp, this set is so adorable!

New Penny Black Stamp Set

Oh my goodness!  This is my 600th Post!  Celebration time, if you are reading this and leave a comment for me I will pick one random comment and send a nice card making goodie!

This is another CASE and I used the new stamp set called Mimi's Love. Just a precious little deer!

CAS

This is my first card in the CAS series. I fail at leaving things alone! I made the card and felt it needed something so I added the butterflies you see in the second image. I dont know, just hard cards for me to love :) I do however like the shaped card, it is the new SU die set - love the shape and so nice of SU to come out with it. I know a lot of demos are happy about that with all the competition from Spellbinders. One thing I learned after making my first two cards like this, I need heavier card stock. After I use the water colors on the image the card curls and no amount of flattening will stop it. The third one you will see I used Gina K's heavy card stock, I am going to order more of that unless someone knows of another brand that's less expensive and as thick. I don't like the Neenah white stuff and don't need it since I don't use Copics. It held up very well :) This image is a Hedgie by, you guessed it, Penny Black. I will use other stamps for the next few cards! I have a Stampavie and a Magnolia coming up.

More Pretty Paper

Here is another card I made with paper I wanted to use. It is SU also. The image is from Penny Black, yeah got a theme going here lol! My attempt at using markers didn't go as well as planned but I like it anyway. Funny thing is this was a birthday card that I sent about 6 months early! I don't know how I read it but I got an email notice saying it was her birthday and after she got it she told me it was a little early :) Oh well it's the thought that counts, right? My next few cards are a series in CAS. Very clean and simple as in one layer even for a couple of them! I wonder if CAS is defined by no designer paper also? Hmmm. Until then, have a great day!

Blue Bird

Just a pretty card I enjoyed making, wanted to use this SU designer paper and this stamp and this is what I came up with! I am pretty sure the stamp is Penny Black, if you want to get it let me know and I will look it up :) I used some adhesive blue faux pearls, SU ribbon and some miscellaneous ribbon I had around. The main image is die cut with a Spellbinder's die and the sentiment is a SU punch. The card stock is soft suede, it's a nice neutral kind of like Kraft to me (oh it's called crumb cake now...) but darker, I need more of this so I can use it a lot more often. Not much more to tell ya!

Brushstrokes by Penny Black

So here we go, back to mixing up my stamps and papers etc. When most people think of Penny Black stamps they think of Mimi and the Hedgies (hedgehogs) and all of the cute character stamps. I first found PB from the brushstroke flowers! I saw a beautiful calendar made with them and had to make it (btw never did though, tried but mine wasn't quite good enough). I ordered the stamps and then realized I had a cute little clear stamp set from the same company when I saw the logo! Anyway this is one of those stamps and I saw a card made with it that is clean and simple and gave it a go (ie. this is a case). The background is Hero Arts Envelope pattern bg stamp. I like it, might make another one actually! Hope you like it too :)

Penny Black Stamp - Good Friends Card

These pictures were taken with my iPhone. I am still experimenting with getting the lighting right for my cards. These are actually as good as my regular camera and one is actually white for the white card stock background! Which is better the warmer picture or the one with the whiter background? Anyway this is one of my favorite stamps although I haven't used it yet! One card making blogger asked what our new years "craft" resolution was and I decided to ink up and make cards out of every stamp I haven't used yet. I don't have that many but I do have some and I just don't feel right about having not used them yet. Interestingly enough most people said organize their stuff. I do that about every week! It gets into chaos real quick with me :)

I used water color to color the image. It's my favorite method, cant you tell?! I used markers on the Penny Black stamp a few posts ago but its just to heavy and dark to me when I use them. I know lots of people love their Copics but well hey I love my watercolors. I used Spellbinders dies and a Stampin Up edge punch. Those cute bigger brads are Stampin Up too, aren't they perfect for this?! I used Stickles (my second favorite thing to use) on all of the hearts. It just makes it so pretty! The paper is Twitterpated by SU, love this set as you can tell. Here is a close-up to see the sparkle.

Penny Black and Flower Soft Challenge

Penny Black Stamps and Flower Soft are having a blog hop and challenge that I had to join! So my other thank you cards and owl calendar will have to wait for my next post :) I used Love Antennae and Make a Wish stamps by Penny Black and Sweet Pea by Flower Soft. The paper and ribbon are by Stampin Up and Basic Grey. There are fruit punch Stickles on her cute heart antennae and a Spellbinders Die set for the shape. I used Spica glitter pen on her stockings and on the flowers in the other image but the sparkle just didnt show on any of the picture I took of the cards. The second picture of the Make a Wish card is to show the cute little mouse is cut out and placed up on a pop dot, hard to tell in the first image. Thanks for looking, keep your fingers crossed I would love to guest design for them!