Penny Black and More - March Challenge

It's the first Sunday of the month and it is time for our March theme at Penny Black and More challenge! Our fun theme this month is "Going Round in Circles". Hope you can join us! You do have all month long to play along and remember you may enter up to 3 projects for more chances to win! 

Can you spot my circles?? I hope so, maybe I should have inked them up a bit. I wanted to do the spotlight technique for this card, and chose the stamp set "Sunny Wishes" by Penny Black along with a sentiment from the Penny Black set " Snippets". 

I stamped the image twice, the second time I used a couple of small circle dies to cut out parts of the image where I would add color. I didn't want to leave the rest of the image completely uncolored so decided to add some brown tones. I wish it was more of a lighter brown (or light sepia tone), but as I am teaching myself color combinations with my Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils, it turned out too dark. But I thought it was still nice, and it takes a long time to color, so there was no way I was going to throw away the card. 

I used Versafine Clair Nocturn ink to stamp both the image and sentiment. The strip paper strip is from my scraps and the brown card base is by Stampin Up. I embellished with natural jute twine by May Arts and a sticky pearl. Some Wink of Stella clear glitter was brushed over the spotlighted blossoms and butterflies.

Penny Black Sunny Wishes // Penny Black Snippets // Versafine Clair Nocturn Ink // Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils // Tonic Stamp Platform // May Arts Natural Jute Twine //
Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush

I am also joining these challenges:

Paper Minutes - Spring 

Mod Squad Challenge- Stripes

Simon Says Wednesday - Anything Goes

TIME OUT Challenges - Unique (I hope my card qualifies for this theme as it's not a technique I use often)

Alphabet Challenge - Y for Yarn, String or Twine (week1)

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes with Penny Black

Inkspirational  - Use Your Stash
A Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes
Catch The Bug - Anything Goes
Crafter's Castle - Anything Goes w/option of glitter
AAA - sentiment plus 3 from wheel below (I picked stamped image, colored pencils and circle die cuts).

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope to see your entry over at the challenge blog. This month we have prizes by Penny Black from their New Release and also a prize by Lost Coast Design, so plenty of reasons to play along!





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