Guest Designer | Penny Black Blog

Today I am the guest designer over on the Penny Black Blog. I absolutely adore Penny Black stamps so this was a real treat for me to create some cards using these fun stamps!

I have three cards to share with you.

This first one features this darling little girl resting her elbows on a tabletop with a teapot and teacup. I have been drawn to teacups ever since I was a little girl. My grandmother collects them and has a whole glass cabinet dedicated to her collection. This stamp tugged on my heartstrings and reminded me of my grandma. 

I first stamped the image on Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored her in with the following Copic markers. 

Then I stamped the image again and only colored in the teacup and teapot. 

I cut all the pieces out using my Tim Holtz scissors.

I paper pieced the background with October Afternoon and MME patterned papers. I added a bit of lace and ribbon to the card where the two patterns met.

I adhered the cut out teacup and teapot to the full stamped design using pop dots. Then I added pop dots to the back of the entire stamped and cut out piece and adhered her to the card right above the ribbon.

To finish my card I stamped a Penny Black greeting on some PTI Fine Linen cardstock and punched it out with a label punch. I adhered this piece with pop dots as well.

The second card I created features Penny Black signature Hedgehog. No one does Hedgehogs like Penny Black! I adore these little guys. So cute and fun!

I created the cloud background by first stamping the hedgehog in the airplane, masking the image and applying punched cloud masks over the background and airbrushing. I kept layering the cloud masks until the entire surface was airbrushed.

I stamped the greeting over the cloud background.

I finished the card with patterned paper strips, ricrac trim and buttons.

Copic colors used for the hedgehog plane card:

For my third card I went with bright, primary colors. 

I used Momento markers to color in the greeting for a multi-color effect. So easy with stunning results.

I stamped the bear design right next to the title, slightly overlapping the designs and colored in the sweet bear with balloon with copics.

Once the coloring was finished, I used my paper trimmer to cut the white strip, being careful to avoid the balloon. Then I took my scissors and cut around the balloon. Then I machine stitched along each side (again avoiding the balloon).

I punched a bunch of rainbow colored scallop borders and adhered them to the card base, finishing with the stamped strip.

A few punched hearts with gems completed the card.

Close up of stamping/coloring.

SUPPLIES

Scoring Board	Stamp-a-ma-jig	Stamping Mark Paper	Copic Markers
Memento Tuxedo Black	Tim Holtz Scissors	Stamp Press	Cloud Large Squeeze Punch
Cloud Extra Large Squeeze Punch	Tiny Attacher	Retro Label Punch	Circles Foam Tabs
Premium Cut Line Paper Trimmer	Corner Chomper	Snow Notecards	Neenah Solar White Cardstock
Memento Camp Fire Marker Set	Girls Night Out Marker Set	Greenhouse Marker Set	Ocean Marker Set
Non Stick Craft Sheet	Airbrush Compressor	Airbrush Kit ABS-3	Heart to Heart Punch
Buddies Buttons Stella Rose	Mabel Stella Rose Collection 6x6	Scallop Sentiment Border Punch	Good Catch
Hedgehopper	Thinking of You	Gertie Stella Rose 6x6 Paper Pad	Thrift Shop 8x8 Paper Pad

OTHER SUPPLIES

• 3629E ...special treasures Stamp by Penny Black
• 3436H bold thank... Stamp by Penny Black
• 3409E to say hi Stamp by Penny Black

Be sure to check out the Penny Black Blog daily for loads of inspiration and fabulous projects. 

By the way, I got to see THIS stunning card in person at a recent stamping/scrapping retreat I was at. One word: STUNNING. Truly a work of art. 

Have a super weekend!