Butterfly Card

Hello! Today I have a pretty Penny Black butterfly card to share. I wanted to create a last card before stepping down from the Simplicity Sisters Design Team. Here is what I made:

I started with a panel of white cardstock and stamped/heat-embossed the butterfly with white embossing powder. Then I applied various pink Distress Inks with an ink blending tool and added tiny droplets of ink from a brush. After it was dried, I cut around the bottom part of the butterfly and adhered this to a berry colored panel of cardstock with foam tape. I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment and adhered everything to the white card base. Finally I added clear droplets and sequins for a bit of sparkle.

Because it perfectly fits, I'll enter my card to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge A Bit of Sparkle.

I hope you like my last Penny Black card! Thanks for everything!

Vanessa

Pretty Flowers {Colored Pencils on Dark Cardstock}

Hi everyone! I wanted to color some pretty Penny Black flowers, so I decided to make a card using colored pencils on dark cardstock. Here is what I came up with:

I can't wait for my peonies in our garden! For my card, I stamped the image from the set 30-340 gentle day! with grey ink onto the grey cardstock. Then I colored the flowers with Faber Castell Polychromos. After I had adhered the panel to the card base, I stamped the sentiment from 30-300 happy notes onto a strip of white cardstock, trimmed it and adhered it with foam tape. Finally, I added clear droplets to the card.

I'll enter this card to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Showers and/or Flowers.

Thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa

Watercolor Flower Meadow

Happy Friday! Today, I played around with my watercolors for Day 10 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge and created this card with my Penny Black stamps:

I am optimistic that some of these pretty flowers will be abloom in my garden soon! Can't wait!

Have a wonderful day and thanks for visiting!

Vanessa

Penny Black Stamps:

30-340 gentle day!

30-300 happy notes

30-298 enamor

Just a (cute) Note

Hi there! I played with my Penny Black stamps and made a cute card with the adorable hedgehogs. They are so much fun :)

First, I applied kraft dye ink onto a panel of white cardstock that I had trimmed a bit smaller than my gold card base. Then I stamped the script background and applied gold ink droplets. After they were dried, I adhered the panel to the card. Now I stamped the hedgehogs onto cardstock, colored them with Copics and fussy-cut them. I adhered them to the card with foam tape. To give them something to stand on, I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment onto a strip of black cardstock, trimmed it and adhered it to the card.

I hope they make you smile like they make me :)
Thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa

PB Supplies used:

30-337 party friends

30-283 snippets

40-470 script

Challenges: SSS Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"

Flowers from Penny Black

Hi everybody! I am fed up with snow and winter and -15°C! I want spring. I want flowers. I want butterflies instead of snowflakes. So I was in the mood to create cards with floral stamps. Like this one from Penny Black:

I stamped the image with Versamark ink onto a panel of watercolor paper and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder. Now I colored the flowers and leaves with Inktense Pencils and water. After everything was dried, I fussy-cut the image and adhered it to a Kraft cardbase. I die-cut the sentiment from gold foiled cardstock and adhered it. Finally, I added gold and pink sequins.

There, flowers are so much better than snow! I hope you are staying warm in your part of the world! Thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa

Penny Black products used:

flower cascade 40-466

celebrations 51-028

Best Nine 2016

Hi everybody! This is a photo-heavy post, because on the last day of the year, I wanted to share my Best Nine 2016 from Instagram with you. These cards had the most likes:

I'll share the full pic again, with the link to the original post.

A fun panda birthday card using Mama Elephant and My Favorite Things from April. Find the post here.

A card made for Sunny Studio in September that can be found here.

I loved playing with watercolors for this MFT card I made in June. This was the original post.

In September, I created this watercolor butterfly for Penny Black.

Another September card features this adorable MFT dragon with a "Embossing with dies" technique.

One of the first cards of 2016, a love themed shaker card using MFT.

In September, I dreamed of fame and made this card for the MFT Card Design Superstar Contest.

In June, I had this card on the Penny Black Simplicity Blog.

And the last one was made in June for a MFT Sketch Challenge.

I enjoyed creating every single one of these using various techniques, playing with colors and telling little stories.

Thank you so much for your love and support this year! I hope you have a fabulous start into a Happy New Year!!!

Vanessa

One last Christmas Card

Hello! I have one last Christmas card to share with you this year. This was made with some cute Penny Black stamps and stencils:

Love that cute fox, it is so fun to color!

I am wishing you and your loved ones a very merry Christmas! Enjoy your holidays everybody and thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa

Penny Black Products used:

snow much fun 30-388

nature's silhouettes 30-380

oscillations 25-014

More Pencils on Dark Cardstock

Hi everybody! I had some more fun with the pencils on dark cardstock technique inspired by Stephanie Klauck. Today I am sharing a card using cute Penny Black stamps:

This little snowman stole my heart, it is just so cute! Everything is colored with Faber Castell Polychromos.

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa

Penny Black supplies used:

snow fairies 30-319

holiday snippets 30-307

deck the halls 30-317

Cute Love Mice

Hi everybody! I am back with a cute Penny Black card! These mice are adorable, I wanted to play with watercolors to create a pretty background for them.

First, I stamped the image onto watercolor paper and masked it with a Molotow Masking Pen. Then I created the background with watercolors. I removed the mask and colored the image with watercolors, too. Now I stamped and heat-embossed the "love" with silver embossing powder and adhered the panel to the card base.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Vanessa

Penny Black Products Used:

30-331 critter love

Watercolor Butterfly - Penny Black

Hi everyone! Today I have a watercolor butterfly card using Penny Black stamps with you to share. I love the butterfly trio set, the images are huge! Here comes what I made with it:

I trimmed a panel from watercolor paper that almost covers my mint card base and stamped the largest butterfly using permanent ink. Then I applied Peerless Watercolors to the image, letting the color "bleed" from the bottom part. Now I flicked droplets of ink to the bottom part with a brush, stamped the sentiment and adhered the panel to the card. Finally, I adhered clear droplets to the card.

A last greeting of summer. Although the temperatures dropped immensely here, there are still a lot of butterflies around. I hope you like my card today! Thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa

Penny Black Supplies:

butterfly trio

snippets

A Wedding Card with Penny Black

Hello everyone! Here I am with a wedding card using Penny Black stamps and dies. I like these little house dies and their accessories!

First, I masked off a circle on a panel of watercolor paper that I had trimmed slightly smaller than my card base and inked the bottom part of the circle with green ink, the top part with blue ink. After it was dried, I stamped the sentiment and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. Then I adhered the panel to my card base. I die-cut the church and the trees from white cardstock and colored the trees with Copics. Now I assembled the church and adhered the elements to the card. Finally, I added clear sequins.

I hope you like my CAS Wedding card! Thank you for stopping by!! I'll be away for two weeks now and I am not sure I'll have much access to the internet. Hope to see you back, soon!

Vanessa

Penny Black products used:

30-285 you + me

51-229 mini community

A Coffee Card Using Penny Black

Hello! Today I have a coffee card on the Penny Black Simplicity Blog! Here is a sneak:

You will find the whole card, products used and instructions here on the Simplicity Blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa

Pretty Penny Black Flowers

Hi everyone! I had some fun creating a card with pretty Penny Black flowers from the set "perfect pairing".

I trimmed a panel of watercolor paper slightly smaller than a gold card base and created a green watercolor wash. After it was dried, I adhered it to the card. Now I die-cut leaves from gold glitter cardstock and arranged them on the card. I stamped, colored and fussy-cut the flowers and adhered them with foam tape. Then I finished the card off with gold sequins.

I hope you like today's card! Thank you so much for stopping by!

Vanessa

Penny Black products used:

30-346 perfect pairing

51-002 leaves

Cute Card on the Simplicity Blog

Hey everybody! I almost forgot to share that I have a cute card on the Penny Black Simplicity Blog. This is a sneak:

Find the whole card and instructions here. Thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa

Cute Animals From Penny Black

Hi everybody! For today's card I used some very cute stamps from Penny Black. I kept it simple to let them shine on their own:

I wish I could dance through my garden like them, enjoying the harvest, but we have been dealing with so much rain in Germany lately, that it is very difficult to enjoy anything. I really hope that it will change soon. All my roses and peonies look so sad. But enough of complaining! For this card, I stamped the image onto a panel of watercolor paper and colored it with Peerless Watercolors. Then I adhered the panel to a kraft card base. Finally, I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment onto a strip of black cardstock and adhered it.

Super cute and super fun to play with :) I'll enter this card to the SSS Wednesday Challenge Animal Magic. Thanks for visiting!

Vanessa

Penny Black stamp used: 30-335 critter fun, 30-283 snippets 

New on the Penny Black Simplicity Blog

Hi everyone! Here comes a sneak of the card that is up on the Penny Black Simplicity Blog:

Find the whole thing with instructions here. Thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa

Ink Blending

Hey everybody! Today I have a new Penny Black card to share. I loved to create this with a die and some ink blending:

I started with a panel of white cardstock that I had trimmed slightly smaller than my card base. First, I die-cut the Medallion from a scrap of cardstock and adhered it to the panel temporarily. Now I applied various blue/aqua dye inks with an ink blending tool and added spritzes of water. After I had removed the "mask", I stamped the sentiment and adhered the panel to the card. Then I finished the card off with sequins and droplets.

A fun way to make more of your dies, don't you think? Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Vanessa

   

   

   

A New Card on the Simplicity Blog

Hey everybody! I have a new card up on the Penny Black Simplicity Blog. Here comes a sneak:

You'll find the whole card and instructions here on the Simplicity Blog. I'd love for you to visit!

Vanessa

Watercolor Flowers

Hey everyone! I so love this time of the year, walking through the garden and watching everything coming to life. It's a very busy time full of work, but I enjoy it a lot. All those beautiful spring flowers inspired me to create a soft and pretty spring card with my Penny Black flower stamps:

I trimmed a panel of watercolor paper slightly smaller than a yellow card base. Then I stamped the flower image and heat-embossed it using white embossing powder. Now I stamped and heat-embossed the "hello" with silver embossing powder. After I had colored the image with watercolors, I adhered it to the card. Then I finished the card off with clear sequins.

So fun to play around with watercolors. I need to practice that a lot more.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Vanessa

 

   

   

New Card on the Simplicity Blog

Hey there! Today I have a new card on the Penny Black Simplicity Blog. This is a sneak of it:

To find the whole card and instructions, please go here. Thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa