The Penny Black Saturday Challenge wants "Things with Wings" so I got out one of my favourite Penny Black butterfly stamps. It's also going to the Triple B challenge - I chose butterflies out of birds, butterflies, and / or blooms.
| I made a background by inking up a tiny
squares stencil with various Distress inks, spritzing it with water,
and pressing it onto mixed media cs. When dry, I stamped some bits of
text and postmarks on it in grey ink. I stamped and heat embossed the butterfly. Then watercoloured it and fussy cut it. I glued its body to the background and popped its wings up with dimensionals. Then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment. |
My second card is for the ABC Christmas Challenge "Q is for Quartet" (four of something). I have four ornaments in my image. Christmas Cards All Year Round wants anything starting with "Q" so my quartet of ornaments works for them as well. I'm also adding it to the Rudolph Days Challenge.
| The ornaments are stamped in black (though it came out kind of light as the ink pad is old) and then coloured with two green and one red Tombow markers. I coloured the tops of the ornaments with a silver gelli pen. A small vertical sentiment fit well in the space. I used a green/grey cs to border it as black looked too harsh with the pale stamping. |
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Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black butterfly, unknown sentiment, various script and postmark stamps
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black and Morning Mist, various blue and mauve Distess inks
Paper - watercolour paper, mixed media cs, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, watercolour paints, stencil with little squares, dimensionals
Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Great Impressions ornaments, Rosie's Roadshow sentiment
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - white and green/grey cs
Size - 6x3.25"
Accessories - Tombow markers, silver gelli pen
Oh Susan that butterfly is GORGEOUS! Both cards are just awesome! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Triple B challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
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DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Triple B Challenge Co-Owner
What a gorgeous butterfly Susan, and the stencil inking tehnique has worked beautifully, and love the bits of script and postmarks in the background, and your lovely quartet of prettily coloured baubles going down the card look great on the DL shape with the coordinating vertical sentiment. x
ReplyDeleteLOVE that gorgeous butterfly, especially on your stencil monoprint background. It's so beautiful, Susan. And adorable Christmas cards with your sweet ornaments. xx
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