Diamonds are Forever.....

....and also a girls best friend! Here is a card for the Friday Sketchers and Penny Black Saturday Challenges. The Penny Black Diamonds are forever image was stamped in Versafine Black Onyx and coloured with prismacolor pencils and Sansodor, then matted on red Bazzil and white card and fixed with dimension tape over the panel of red, background of Pebbles Dog prints paper and gingham ribbon for the second panel on the sketch I followed. The sentiment panel is a Pebbles rub on, I added dots of stickles here and also on the cat's collar. The collar is studded with gems and three more larger ones are added to the red panel in line with the sketch. TFL.
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Chris

Butterfly Bunny

This card is for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge. The challenge is to make a card using images of things you would find on a farm. I've used this lovely Butterfly Bunny stamped image which was sent to me by my friend Clair as there are always bunnies on farms and the cabbage will fit in too. The image is coloured with Ranger distress inks and matted on sage green bazzil card and Basic Grey Sultry paper. I added a panel of white card embossed with the CB swiss dots folder, a thank you sentiment from the Inkadinkado garden set stamped in Ancient Page grey ink and some gems. TFL.

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Chris

Snowy and Hedgy

My card today is for Penny Black Saturday Challenge. The challenge is to make a Christmas Card which has to have snow. I had to dig out my one and only Penny Black Christmas stamp and I stamped Snowy and Hedgy in versafine black ink and coloured with prismacolor pencils and sansodor. To make the iris folded frame I folded three twelve inch by one inch strips of christmas design paper, folded in half and then placed cut pieces of the strips around the under side of the frame cut out with nestabilities. The folded pieces were built up in layers until I'd gone all the way around with the three different papers. I covered the frame with versamark, embossed with crystal ep and cut to fit the back of the frame. The card blank has been embossed in the cuttlebug with a bubbles eb folder. I stamped Happy Christmas in grey Ancient Page ink and added, ribbon and stickles to finish. TFL

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Chris

A two card day

Evening everyone, I'm late posting, it's been busy and I've managed to make two cards and do a bit of drawing too. Making the most of my day off as I won't have any more time until the weekend for craft or blogging.

I found a new challenge site today Penny Black Saturday Challenge which will be great for those of us who love Penny Black. I think I'll enter the card I made yesterday.

A goodies parcel came today which is always very exciting for me LOL! I now have the complete set of Tim Holtz distress inks which I've been collecting little by little over the last three months. I love them, they're so versatile. A new set of stamps too which are from Inkadinkadoo. I think I'll be using these quite a bit as there is a lovely wisteria type vine with entwined flowers, a couple of butterflies, a bird, three sentiments, a scroll and another flower stamp, all in all, good value for money.

Both the cards I made today were done for an SU colour challenge of white, wasabi (green) and teal, none of which I possess! I got as close as I could with green bazzil card, Tim Holtz distress inks and a Teal Marvy marker!


The first card caused problems as it was the first time I'd used white embossing powder and it gets everywhere! I think my images are a bit smudgy because of this but I like the effect of the white embossing on a dark background. The green background layer was stamped with Inkadinkadoo Garden stamps and versamark ink to give a tone on tone effect. I angled the stamp over several areas top and bottom for a border. The sentiment panel was cut with nestabilities, stamped with the same floral stamp, a sentiment from the same set and embossed with the white ep. I tied ribbon around the background panel, added a diamante ribbon slide and mounted the sentiment panel over it on dimension tape.



I found a lovely Sugar Nellie Splashing Maggie stamp in my received gifts box and thought she'd look gorgeous in green for the second challenge card! I used a houndstooth CB folder on the card blank, cut out the image with a rectangle nestability and also a scalloped rectangle. The image was water coloured with a teal Marvy marker and Tim Holtz distress inks in Peeled Paint, Antique Linen, Scattered Straw and Tattered Rose. The image panel was lifted on dimension tape over more of the teal ribbon, the sentiment from the same Garden set was stamped using the teal marker. I added a bit of stickles to the puddle and a little gem flower to finish.

Thanks for having a look,

Chris