Festive Floral by Penny Black

Sometimes plain and simple is the way to go!  I enjoy the classic look and colors of Christmas as well as non-traditional.

Festive Florals 40-352; 51-058 Joyous Wishes
 

I stamped the berry branch on egg shell linen paper and colored with Copics.  I love how Penny Black's sentiment dies add so much!  Could someone just push down on that "m" for me? 

Well, it's Saturday morning again ... and I am running with scissors on the Penny Black blog.  Hope you'll check out what I've done this time!  Hint:  it's pretty intricate!!

Click here to find out what I've been up to.  Thanks for your visit today!

Winter Play by Penny Black

It's Saturday morning!  Every time I say that I think of the Ali McGraw movie "Love Story".  For me, that was the perfect movie; love, heartbreak, terminal illness.  It's a classic!

Anyway, just having fun with a Penny Black transparent set, Winter Play.  Sometimes a girl just needs to color.  There's lots of shimmer that doesn't show up in the photo.  The blue matt paper shimmers, and there is Wink of Stella wherever I could paint it.

30-265  Winter Play

In my life, Saturday morning often finds me on the Penny Black blog where they let me run with my scissors.  Today you can read about Cooper's grill friend (and that's not a typo) as well as see some Fall themed cards.

 

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We are still adjusting to the change in time.  Cooper especially is still on "tummy" time for meals.  Hope you are having a great weekend.  Thanks for your visit. 

Clean and Simple Penny Black

This past week the Penny Black blog has featured Halloween cards made by Jean Manis in her signature Clean and Simple style.  I love CAS cards, but don't always manage to keep things clean and simple!

51-067 World of Wishes; 30-251 Nature's Gift; 30-261 Nature's Friends; 40-335 Fall Flutters

I made the background using Distress inks applied thickly with the distressing tool.  I created the "shooting star" effect by first drying the background well with my heat gun.  I then used a baby wipe to make spots of the "sky" a bit damp.  I sprinkled a tiny amount of white embossing powder on the damp spots and used the heat gun to emboss.  Several of the transparent sets in the recent Winter Wonderland release can be used to easily create really interesting "scenes", such as this one.

Even though the wintry scene has a lot going on, I think all the white space makes this card eligible for the CAS title!

See more of my CAS cards on the Penny Black blog today where I am running with my scissors.

Watercolor Backgrounds with Penny Black

It's been all about watercolored backgrounds on the Penny Black blog this week.  I love the freedom that working with water colors allows.  I used my set of Peerless watercolors and an unusual color mix to create the background for the Penny Black slapstick Woodland Wonder.  Honestly, after painting the background I wasn't very happy with it, but once I stamped and embossed the Woodland Wonder image and added the diecut birds from In a Row, I was pleased!

40-356 Woodland Wonder; 51-001 In a Row

And today is a Run with Scissors day at the Penny Black blog.  Hope to see you there .. it's all about three little words!!

It's Saturday Morning!!

And I am running with my scissors on the Penny Black blog today!! 

But before I go, here's an easy peasy Halloween card I made using only Penny Black dies and a bit of patterned paper!  What did we do before we had so many wonderful dies??

I've used three different die sets:  Haunted Hollow 51-073; Eek 51-077; Boo Crew 51-075.

As you read this, I am traveling from Huntsville to Cincinnati, Ohio for a stamping retreat with just a few of my close stamping friends!   Five days spent with forty fun, funny, creative and caring women! 

It's been a crazy couple of weeks at our house, culminating with a car accident last Saturday which totaled our one remaining car!  Again, a distracted driver "didn't see" Larry in his red SUV and crunched right into him!  No serious injuries, just a lot of inconvenience and worry. 

We are enjoying some cooler temperatures.  I think Fall is making its arrival!!   See you next week!!

Mimi's Heart

Different things give me ideas.  Today it was this red snowflake paper lying on my desk.  I knew I wanted to work with red.  This Mimi can be used for more than Valentine's day.  Let's call it a winter friendship card.


4118H  Mimi's Heart
 

I'm taking the Online Card Class Copic Coloring for Cardmakers, but as you can see, I haven't practiced enough!!  I was coloring the heart to indicate the light was coming from the upper left, which means that shadow at Mimi's feet should be going in the opposite direction!!  Oh, well!  Two weeks ago I would not have noticed!  It's an awesome class and a great value for the price.

Hope to see you at the Penny Black blog today.  I am running with my scissors!

Page Maps

Recently the design team from Penny Black was invited to participate in Page Maps.  I was delighted to be invited, also.  We were each given a sketch to follow and this is my sketch and the card I made.

Check out the other page maps and cards here:

30-200 build-a-snowman

Ahhh .. love is in the air!!  I used Penny Black's Build a Snowman transparent set.  No reason there can't be a lady snow person!!

Too hot for snowpeople here in Alabama.  The air conditioner is still running.  Winter will come soon enough, I suppose.  We are in the midst of planning Christmas travel ... how can this be??

Thanks for stopping by!