Anything but a Square.... at Sweet Stampin' Challenge

 Time for my team to share our inspiration for the latest challenge at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.   Our challenge this time is "Anything but a Square"

I could have done a rectangle card but decided to try out making a Rocker Card. 

I cut a 6" circle from white card using my Scan'N'Cut and then cut a 5.5" circle from some patterned paper.  Layered them together.  I stamp this cutie from Penny Black Tiny Wishes (discontinued)   It's from 2009 so been in my stash for a long time!  Used some watercolour Aqua Spectrum Noir pens to colour her.  I stamped on some more patterned paper and paper pieced her hat and dress.  I cut her out with a Spellbinders Nestibilities oval and scallop oval dies.  Finished with a pre-printed sentiment. 

Adding this to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes 

Woodblock Wednesday - June 2025

 It's been a wet winter's day today, so after doing the housework I spent some time in my craft room... doing some DT work, and do my July swap card for my NZ swap group.  Carol published the challenge early so we could get spend some time this cold weekend doing crafting... 

I also decided to play along at Woodblock Wednesday challenge.

I used 4 woodblock stamps to make this project.   A Hampton Arts Stamp (dated 2001) called Large Negative Plate - stamped with Catherine Pooler It's a Girl ink,  Hero Arts Old French Writing (dated 2002) randomly stamped in Altenew Gray Denim ink, Penny Black Blush (dated 2006) inked in Onyx Black Versafine ink as was the Stampin' Up sentiment from Ward Wood (dated 2006)  I spritzed and splattered some Distress Spritz in Fossilised Amber and Picked Raspberry.  Die cut the panel and the backing pink panel from Altenew's Mix and Match Frames.  

Penny Black Saturday - Anything Goes - optional Stitching

 Hi - managed to get a bit more crafting done this long weekend.   Including a card for Penny Black Saturday Challenge. - June challenge is Anything Goes - with optional Stitching. 

I have quite a number of older Penny Black stamps and love getting them out again to play.  It's been awhile since I've played at Penny Black Saturday. 

The Penny Black stamp I used was Tiny Wishes (circa 2009) so a bit of an older one!  My stitching is a Stitching Oval from Cottage Cutz and once I had die cut it...I stamped the image.   I used my Altenew Woodless Watercolour pencils to add the colour.  Added some gold glitter pen to the flower and added dots to her dress.  I found the gorgeous patterned paper in a pack from Kate Knight.   Love the pretty flowers and the colours.   I took a second sheet of the paper and fussy cut some of the flowers and the little butterfly to add around oval.  Added some little dark teal dots to the flower centres.  

Back to work tomorrow!  I'm still not 100% - my cough is still bad, rattling around my upper respiratory tract.  I'm soooo over this cold. 

Woodblock Wednesday - March 25

 Finally got all the goodies back into my craft room, changed a few things around, purged some of my endless stash of papers... and had some play time. 

I was ready to make a couple of Easter cards and sitting on top of the box of my woodblock stamps was a delightful Penny Black stamp.  

It's called "Bunny Talk!"  - super cute.  I die cut a panel of Fabriano 160gm paper with a Gina K Master Layout 2 die and then die cut the ribbon scalloped edge die from Master Layout 18 from some gold card.  I cut it down the middle to get the both edges for the panel.  I used a mixture of Inktense Watercolor pencils and Altenew Woodless watercolour pencils to colour the image, together with some ink blending for the sky.  The little sentiment is from a Verve stamp set - Hoppy Easter.   Trimmed some pretty pink dotty paper to fit the card base and added some gold pen around the edge. 

Happy to have been able to get into the craft room to play - and got a bit done.  

Woodblock Wednesday November 2024.

 Time to pull out those woodblock stamps and play along with Amy Tsuruta with her Woodblock Wednesday challenge.  

I chose to use a Penny Black stamp - Brush Rose.  I used Zig Markers to colour the stamp and spritzed with water and stamped.   I used the scripty stamp with some gray ink to randomly add stamping.  Added some gold splatters and some gems.   I die cut a red sentiment (a Paper Rose Happy Birthday Chunky die) backed with some vellum.  

Had a lot of fun making this one.   Got a busy weekend ahead... babysitting on Saturday morning, doing some Christmas shopping in the afternoon, getting the house tidied for my family who arrive next weekend.  Presents to wrap, ironing to be done, names to stitch onto stockings.... never ending!

                  

Woodblock Wednesday.

 Time for Amy's monthly challenge - Woodblock Wednesday.

I had got a few stamps out that needed some love - a few Christmas ones and a couple of others.

I used a scripty stamp from a New Zealand based company - Rubadubadoo and a flower stamp from Penny Black.  I stamped the scripty stamp with Memento Toffee Crunch and did 1st and 2nd generation stamping with the flower.   I cut it with a Gina K Master Layout die and used the Toffee Crunch ink to blend around the edges before stamping the little sentiment from a House Mouse set.  I matted the panel onto a mustard coloured layer before adding to a square base.  

Now to make some more cards using those woodblock stamps I got out.

Craft Roulette #225

 Episode #225 - my 19th submission.   I watched the replay in the weekend and yesterday I made my card.  

An A2 card - with tea party colours - inspired by pretty floral tea cups.  House pet is my little kitty cat and stripes - embossed stripes on the base layer, kitty has grey stripes and the sunshine stripes shining down.  The cat stamp is an older cling from Penny Black - called You are the Bestest.  I stamped with Versafine Onxy Black ink and clear embossed it.  I painted it with Zig Markers.  I added the grass with a Copic marker, and used Distress Oxides to stencil the sunshine stripes.   Finished with a little pre-printed sentiment from Creative Expressions.  

Things with Wings at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.

Check out my earlier post - HERE

 I almost forgot to make my sample card for the Sweet Stampin' Challenge starting today... but was quickly able to make my card. 

My panel is by Penny Black - Masterpieces Aglow.   I added it to white card and then layered onto some metallic card.  I stamped the little sentiment from Waffle Flower  Star Snowflake Stamp set.  Certainly a CAS quick card to build up my Christmas supplies. 

Do come and join us at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.  

Woodblock Wednesday - June edition

 It's that time of the month again... time for Amy Tsuruta's monthly Woodblock Wednesday challenge.

I love pulling out my old woodblock stamps and making a card.  This month I pulled out two Penny Black stamps and one from a NZ company called Rubbadubbadoo (it is no longer in business)

I started with a panel of white card and using some Altenew Permanent Mist Gray ink, stamped the scripty stamp from Rubbadubbadoo.  It is very subtle in the background corners.  Next I stamped the Penny Black stamp (Day Dream circa 2009) with black ink and clear embossed it.  I then used Altenew inks - Pink Crystal, Mauve and Berryliscious and Olive for the leaves.  The sentiment from Penny Black (...your heart circa 2003) was stamped with black ink.  I used the same pink inks to blend around the edges of the panel.  I added it to a pink card that is the same size of my base.  

I had fun making this one.  Thanks for stopping by 

Craft Roulette # 219

 Back again for my 14th submission for the Craft Roulette.  

Interesting parameters.  As soon as I saw Folded Corner, I knew I wanted to do a Corner Flip Fold card. 

Project: Anniversary - who doesn't love getting flowers for an anniversary!

Colours: Salad -green lettuce, red tomato, black olives, blueberries, white dressing and brown croutons.

Element - New - first time this stamp is being used. Got it last week.

Random - Folded corner - my card is a Corner Flip fold card.

My Teddy Bouquet stamp is from Penny Black. I got it last week and have been waiting for the ideal time to use him. I watercoloured the image with scribbled Zig Markers and fussy cut it out. It was layered onto the red panel and some white Nuvo Drops finished it off.

As it was Ted's first outing, I'm adding this to Darnell's NBUS Challenge. And to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge Anything Goes.

Eclipse Background...

 Well I haven't been about for a bit!   Last Friday I had what seemed to be the start of a head cold.   I had a sore throat and a bit snuffly.   Over the weekend it simmered along and on Monday I was feeling really stuffy and coughing so much... had a day off - did a Covid test - negative.   Headed into the office on Tuesday but was feeling so bad, I came home at lunch time - Tested again   AND POSITIVE this time!  Yes I have COVID.   Roll on Friday - and I am still suffering symptoms. - runny nose, cough, sore throat and still testing positive.   My days have been spend sleeping and reading.  Haven't even had the energy to craft.   So today I am sharing a card I made about 10 days ago - for my local little swap group.

Maxine set our challenge - make an eclipse background!   Using a cover-plate.

I have to say, this one caused me a few headaches.  I really struggled.  First to find a cover-plate that would work.   Then trying to glue a few layers together to get a good look.   Anyway, here's the final result.  I used a Gina K stamp and a Penny Black cover-plate.  Added a foiled sentiment from a Spellbinders set. 

I did make a card on Monday afternoon but haven't had the energy to photograph it.  Hopefully tomorrow I'll feel a bit better and get it photographed. 

Friday fun - Two cards - two challenges.

 HI there.   I managed to make two cards today, in my breaks from work and after work.  Perks of working from home -early starting and finishing!   

My first card came about as on my Facebook post of one of my lily cards, I mentioned that I was going to do pink lilies and one of my commentor asked if I had done it.   So I decided to make a card for The Flower Challenge with pink lilies.   Their challenge is to use a square card. 

I cut the square die from Gina K Master Layout 3 and embossed it.  Used Altenew Pink Pearl and Coral Berry for the flowers and Frayed Leaf and Forest Glades for the leaves.  I used a Prismacolor pencil to add the colour for the stamen and to add extra texture lines on the flowers and leaves.   Finished with a little Easter Wishes sentiment from a Verve stamp set.  

My second card is for the Christmas Kickstart Challenge.- Get your Grinch on. Use Green 

I have been hoarding some Penny Black Masterpieces Made Simple printed card panels.  I got two sets of the Aglow ones - there are 4 panels in each pack.  They are so beautiful.   

I glued the panel to some dark green card from Scrapbook.com - Sprinkles pad and then die cut the Waffle Flower Postage die.  I then layered some green card under before adding to my white card base.   The sentiment is from Waffle Flower's Star Snowflake set.   Just love the simple CAS look. 

I'm going to be crafting my heart out tomorrow. Hubby is doing his refresher First Aid course all day.  My plan is to just play and have fun.  And do my Design team cards for when I'm on holiday in April. Just to make sure I'm ahead.  

Woodblock Wednesday - February 2024

 Hi.  Time to pull out my woodblock stamps for Amy's Woodblock Wednesday challenge for February.  

My card uses a Penny Black stamp - called day-dreams (circa 2009)  and I've paired it with a little sentiment stamp from a NZ company called Montarga. 

This is a combination of new and old products.   Last week I got an order from Scrapbook.com.  It included Penny Black Background Basics Stencils and an Altenew ink set... Sea Shore so I taped my stencil onto some watercolour card and then ink blended the Dew Drops, Aqualicious, Teal Cave and Galactic Stream inks.  Splashed with some water and once it was dried, stamped the Penny Black stamp and the Montarga stamp in Altenew Obsidian ink.  I used some Prismacolor Pencils to add the colours to the PB stamp.  A few iridescent confetti from Nuvo Drops finished the card.  I just realised I used the same stamp last month!   Totally forgot that!  

Entering this one into the Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes.  

Amy's Woodblock Wednesday

 It's time for Amy's Woodblock Wednesday Challenge   I love getting out my old woodblock stamps - and yes today's are OLD....

I found a very ancient Stampin' Up set called Fifth Avenue Florals for my sentiment and a 2009 Penny Black stamp called Day Dreams.

I used a Waffle Flower Deckle die to cut out a stencil.  I then taped it to some Hero Arts Vintage Ivory card and used my blender brushes which had Altenew inks on them.   Just used the inks that were left on them to make the soft pastel background.  I stamped the Penny Black stamp over to the left of the card.  I used my Zig Clean Color Brush markers to add a touch of colour.  Stamped the sentiment in the lower riight hand side of the card.  Some little silver gems finished it off.  I matted onto some purple card and added to a white base.

Really pleased with the results.... and believe it or not... this was the first time I've used the sentiment from the Stampin' Up set!  

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge

It's time for our Christmas challenge at Sweet Stamping Challenge.   It runs for the rest of the month 

 I have a cute Snowy the Snowman card to share. 

My background was a practice piece - where I splattered white ink and gold paint.  I die cut it with Waffle Flower Deckled Frame die and added some dots of a white paint pen for my snow bank.   I stamped Snowy onto some white textured card and used some Altenew paints to colour him up.  Added a hot foiled sentiment from Spellbinders.

I'm also entering this into the Christmas Kickstart Challenge. - If it's Christmasy - link it up!  

Come and join us at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.  

Time for a tag at Sweet Stampin' Challenge

 Time for another challenge at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.   Our challenge is Tags...

I've been on roll with my Penny Black Snowy stamp.  And had one left from my watercolouring the other week.  So I decided to use it to make my tag for the challenge.  

The Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder makes the perfect pairing for this stamp.  I had Snowy coloured with Altenew watercolour paint.  Before doing the embossing, I stamped the sentiment onto the tag.  The tag was die cut from a Catherine Pooler set.  The background was lightly smeared with Nuvo Glimmer paste and once Snowy was added, a few Nuvo iridescent flat sequins.  

I am entering this one into the Penny Black Saturday Challenge - for September. 

Do come and join us at Sweet Stampin' Challenge. 

Chillin' with my Snowmies....

 It's time for the latest challenge at Christmas Kickstart Challenge and it's right up my alley... Chillin' with my Snowmies.... 

Perfect timing as I still have a couple of Penny Black Snowy's painted up waiting to be used.   

Today I used the one I had stamped onto some Mixed Media paper and painted with Orange Cream from the Altenew 36 pan watercolour set. 

I decided to use the Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder for my background.  I inked it up with some Catherine Pooler Orange Twist ink and ran it through my machine.   Love how it turned out.  I found some gorgeous burnt orange paper in my stash and used my new Gina K Master Layout 12 set to die cut the fancy circle frame.   It cuts the circle out of the frame but I just laid in it back in.  I pop up Snowy on the frame.   I stamped a sentiment from Rosie's Studio Hearth and Home set with the Orange Twist ink and fussy cut it out.   I am so pleased how this non-traditional coloured card turn out. 

More Snowy cards

 I'm working on making my Snowy images into cards.   So far I've managed to make three cards... so warning - photo heavy post. 

First up is a card that used some paper piecing and a touch of watercolouring 

I had this lovely piece of tartan patterned paper in my stash - some freebie papers from a magazine from a couple of years ago.   It was double sided so I used my Gina K Master Layouts to cut the main panel and then used it to add stitching to the sides of the contrast piece.  I matted them with some dark blue card.  Used the smaller rectangle from the ML and stamped the sentiment from Rosie's Studio Hearth and Home set.  I stamped Snowy onto some Mixed Media paper and onto the plaid paper.  I used the die to cut him out and then fussy cut the hat and scarf and added.  I used some watercolour paint to add a bit of shading and for his nose and cheeks.  Added some Kindyglitz glitter glue to part of his hat. Once it was all dry I used some 3D tape to add Snowy to the card. 

Card 2 

For this one I started with Snowy stamped onto some 145lb/200gsm Bristol paper.  I used some cheap KMart Metallic paint to add colour to him.  Added some blue gems to his front.  For the background of the card I used an old Cuttlebug embossing folder - Snowflakes.  I had some lovely blue iridescent card that I used for a layer panel.  Before gluing in behind the panel I die cut the Spellbinders scallop circle.  Saving the blue card.  I then used a Spellbinders Petite circle. I also die cut the two snowflakes that came with the Snowy die.   The sentiment is from the Rosie's Studio stamp set.  I should have stamped it before embossing so had to fussy cut it.

Card 3

And for this final one I used the textured card with the circle already cut out of it.  I made this a shaker card.   For Snowy I again stamped him on Bristol card.  And then used some very cheap watercolour pencils to add the colour to the scarf and hat.  I used a little distress ink to colour the shadows.  The sentiment is from a Waffleflower set. 

I'm entering the first one in the Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Any Goes with the optional challenge - lots of layers

Thanks for stopping by today.  As you can see I had a great weekend playing with Snowy.   Don't know why it took me so long to get him.  

Postage Collage Card

 This week I managed to get some time to play and today I'm sharing a Postage Collage card that made using Waffleflower's Postage Collage die and stencil set.  This time I used the Everyday stencil.  

I used a variety of inks with the stencil layers to colour the die cut in.   It was fun matching up different colourways.  I haven't added a sentiment to the front so can used it for any occasion. 

And here is some WIP -  did some watercolouring this morning.  

Used a variety of water colour mediums - metallic paints, cheap watercolour pencils, Altenew watercolour paints, some paper piecing as well.    And then this afternoon I got two made into cards.  I'll share them later. 

Tomorrow is Father's Day here in New Zealand.   I've got my son, daughter-in-law and the two granddaughters coming for lunch.   I'm doing a roast of lamb with roast veggies.

Playing along at Woodblock Wednesday challenge.

 Once a month over on Amy Tsurata's blog (Tsurata Designs) Amy runs a challenge - Using Woodblock stamps.    Very timely for me as yesterday my latest purchase - Penny Black's woodblock stamp - Snowy- arrived.   This stamp was originally designed and produced in 2008 and is still available.   After many years of wanting this one... I finally went and bought it!  

So today was a working from home day and I used my breaks to start this card and then after I did my required hours, I finished it off.

I started by adding the sentiment on my card.   It's from the Penny Black stick and shine series.  I added the stick and shine and then used silver foil.  Hard to photograph.  It looks black here.  I then used Broken China Distress Oxide to blend on the background.   I took a Montaga snowflake stencil and added random snowflakes with Nuvo Glimmer Paste.  I used a Lawn Fawn curved die to cut some snow banks.  I stamped snowy and using the stamp as a guide, used some smooshed Distress inks to paint him.  I used Candied Apple for his hat and scarf and Wilted Violet for the white shadows.  

As this was Snowy's first outing as well as using the Stick and Shine sheets... I'm entering this into Darnell's NBUS challenge

I am happy that I bit the bullet and finally got this stamp (and all the other goodies I got when I was ordering it!)   Well worth the 21 day wait for it to make it's way here.

Hope you get to do some weekend crafting.