Penny Black: Every which way - I will love you always, all ways

 

Hello blogging friends!  My desk has been a little hive of activity since I started playing with my new Penny Black: 'Every which way' stamp set that the postie brought me the other day.  I love this little set - such cute images.  I have long been admiring other people's cards made with Kraft Cardstock and thought I would try my hand at using it.  This was a very quick and simple card to make - perfect for your last-minute Valentines Day cards.

The Kraft cardstock was embossed with my Cuttlebug and Kimmy-Luvs embossing folder.  The dog was stamped onto white cardstock and coloured with OMS, Derwent Coloursoft and Prismacolor pencils.  I stamped the balloon part of the image again onto the back of my Best Creation red glitter cardstock, then cut the balloon out and glued it to the image.  I love how sparkly it looks.  The dog is popped up on 2mm mounts.  It's a good idea to use LOTS of them when you are popping an image onto embossed cardstock so that your image doesn't come unstuck and fall off (ie: less surface area for them to stick to).  I had that happen recently when a sentiment panel came unstuck after a few days when I was very frugal with my foam pads.

Here is closeup pic of the balloon - don't you just love the "sparkle"?!!

By the way, the little hairs and marks on the close-up are part of the cardstock - kinda looks like my card or my camera lens got all dusty!

For the sentiment panels:  as this sentiment is just one stamp and I wanted 2 separate lines, I masked the bottom line of the words off and stamped, then masked the top line off and stamped.  Here is a pic of the stamp set if I am not making sense:

Stamp Set Copyright Penny Black Stamps

I diecut the sentiments using one of the dies from my Spellbinders Tags Trio and popped them up on 1mm mounts.

To finish off, I tied some red and white Twine and punched a heart from the same red glitter cardstock and glued it to the centre.  I did add some Fray Stop to the ends of the twine to stop it from unravelling.  I think you could use this card for a Wedding Anniversary as well as for Valentines Day - and I think it could be used for either a lady or a man.

Challenges:

I am popping this card into the Splitcoaststampers Ways to use it Challenge WT308 of "i HEART you" where you have to use a heart anywhere on your project, as well as the monthly Sir Stampalot February Challenge of "All creatures great and small".

Thanks for stopping by!  I have a couple of other Valentines/Love cards on the go - watch this space!

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Penny Black - Every which way 30-008 clear set

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo black

Designer paper:  Best Creation red glitter 12" x 12" cardstock

Accessories:  Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Kimmy-Luvs embossing folder, Spellbinder Tags Trio S3-147, red and white twine, Fray Stop, Odourless Mineral Spirits (OMS), Prismacolor + Derwent Coloursoft pencils, paper stumps, Cardstock:  American Crafts Kraft, KW Doggett Knight white

Punches:  Carl CP-8 Heart duo, Stampin' Up corner

Penny Black: Just next to you - Happy 21st Wedding Anniversary!

Hello and thanks for visiting my Blog!

It's DH's and my 21st Wedding Anniversary today!  Yep, 21 years!!  We married in 1989!  It doesn't really seem that long ago and it's amazing how the time has flown and how the world has changed since then.  We are having a little celebratory dinner at home with our 6 yo DD.  She is very excited about it and can't wait to celebrate her own wedding anniversary seeing as a little boy in her class wants to marry her - yep, he's proposed (several times actually)!   It just cracks me up when I see how excited he is to see her when we arrive at school and wants to hold her hand straight away.  Sheesh - he's only 6 but he's sooooo smitten.  Anyway, I am digressing.....

I made this card (obviously) for DH and coloured the image a few weeks ago, but was stumped at what to do with it.  It sat on my desk until I saw the Challenge over the ABC Challenge Blog of  "R is for Red".  "Perfect" I thought and when the Postie brought me my long-desired Cuttlebug Love Language embossing folder and die set (courtesy of EBay), I put them together and this is what I came up with.   Simple and unfussy.  Sorry it's not a great photo - my camera doesn't photograph reds very well and adjusting the image with my photo imaging software doesn't help much - there doesn't seem to be anything between underexposing and overexposing the photo.  The dogs are actually darker IRL but look a bit washed out in the photo.   I'll have to try and get some advice on how to photograph red cards from somewhere.

I'm also popping this card into the Allsorts Challenge #46 which is no DP's!  I love making cards with no dp's - clean and simple with just a bit of embossing for texture.  Right up my alley.

I coloured the image with Gamsol and Prismacolor pencils and lightly chalked around the image with my Kaisercolour chalks, then ran my Warm Red ink pad around the edges of the oval.  I added to some glue to the hearts on the image, add poured on some very fine red glitter.   I punched a heart from red cardstock, and glittered this as well.  I stamped the sentiment with Stazon jet black ink as it seems to give better coverage on clear stamps than the Memento ink.   I did the ribbon in 2 separate elements so the writing wouldn't be upside down and so I could get the writing even on both sides of the knot.

Thanks for stopping by to have a peek at my card.

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Penny Black 'Just next to you!' 1921F, Sentiment from Elzybells 'Spring Cubes' 20-015-CC clear stamp set

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stazon Jet Black, Colorbox Chalk Warm Red

Accessories:  Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Love Language ef, Spellbinder Oval Nestabilities, .008 fine red glitter, corner punch, Carl CP-2 Heart punch, Gamsol, Prismacolor pencils, paper stumps, Kaisercolour chalks, Ribbon 1/2" - 13mm wide, Cardstock: white, red