How do you Celebrate!?

Yeah, another Colour Q combo and I needed to create a card to go with it.

 Since CAS-ology is Celebrating their anniversary, I also played along with them.  I did start out with a Tim Holtz stencil and some Distress Stains to create my background on watercolor paper.  

 Next, I stamped the leaf branch from Waltzing Mouse Stamps and cut that out with it's matching die.  That great die cut "celebrate" is from Penny Black.  They have a bunch of great sentiment dies and I love them all!!! I did finish my card off with some silver Liquid Pearls. 

 Here is the Colour Q combo.

Here is the CAS-ology challenge.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Less is More!

Why do I have so much trouble with "simple"!? You know, leaving some white space.  I usually want to keep going but for my card, I added a few elements and then walked away.

 I wanted to play along with the Inkspirational CAS challenge and to also use the retro sketch.  Is that die cut word amazing! I just got it from Penny Black. I added color with some Distress Stain, such a fast and easy way to make it match.

 Do you love these flower stamps from Alternew!? I sat down to play with this super cool stamp set and created I don't know how many different combinations with the different layers. (Altenew has a sheet available on their web site for guidelines on used the layers) The only draw back is I did have to cut them out but that only takes a second. I also used the Lil' Inkers stitched layers die. 

 Here is the Inkspirational challenge.

Here is the retro sketch challenge.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Penny Black and Flower Soft blog hop

PENNY BLACK/FLOWER SOFT BLOG HOP

December 30th 12:01AM through January 1st Midnight, PST

The very first Blog Hop featuring artwork using Penny Black stamps and Flower Soft. Be sure to check out each designers' projects as you hop along their blogs. Join Penny Black for a weekend-long celebration!

PRIZES

3 random comment authors will be chosen to receive brand new 2012 Penny Black Valentine stamps. Just leave a comment on the Penny Black post as well as the Designers Blogs to be in the running.  Flower Soft is also giving away some jars of Flower Soft.

GRAND PRIZE

Use one of the Penny Black Designer’s Blog Hop projects as inspiration and create a new Penny Black stamped project. Upload it into our Gallery by the end of the Hop with the tag “pennyblackbloghop”. Be sure to let us know which project inspired you! A winner will be chosen to GUEST DESIGN at the Penny Black Blog!

WINNERS

Winners will be announced on Wednesday, January 4th at the Penny Black Blog.

You should have come to my blog from Jill Foster's blog

 

I have used Penny Black stamps since forever! I have stamped for years and this is one of those companies that has continued to create adorable stamps.  I picked this little guy in a set of stamps for my card. 

 A hedgehog just NEEDS Flower Soft, it is a perfect fit.  I used two colors of the Ultra Fine, Toffe and Earth.  I most often seem to use the Ultra Fine Flower Soft for my projects.  I also used some of Penny Blacks' Mix and Match papers. I picked a set with my most favorite shades of green but the best part is this paper is white on the reverse side making them perfect for cardmaking and with that white core, I cut my labels with a Spellbinders die and embossed the edges and then sanded the embossed edge to expose that white core.

For the flower, I colored it first with pink Copic markers and then added Ultra Fine Flower Soft in Raspberry Fizz. 
From here hop on over to Kelley Eubanks blog.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)