Daisy Chain for Woodblock Wednesday

It's been a few months since I had a chance to join in at the Woodblock Wednesday challenge but I'm happy that it worked out this time 😊

A friend asked me if I could have her 10 year old daughter make a few cards with me for a summer "crafty thing to do" as she really loved the card I had sent for her birthday. So I thought up a design for this card that I hope she will like. This will be one of the cards she will make. And of course the "star tools" will be wood mounted rubber stamps as I think they are much more fun to use for a beginning stamper than unmounted stamps. Especially when they are as cute as the Penny Black critter stamps! She will also do some stenciling and die cutting, and a little bit of coloring. 

I started out with a homemade circles stencil where I had punched several sizes of circles out from an acetate sheet. I used Tea Dye Distress ink for the circles. Then I stamped Penny Black's Daisy Chain 1690K (retired and unfortunately hard to find) onto the circles using Versafine Onyx ink.  I thought the stenciled circles would be a good alternative to coloring up all the little mice (we're doing another card where more coloring is involved and she can always choose to color her mice more). 

The little bit of coloring here was done with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils and I added Stickles glitter to the flower centers. A pretty strip of patterned paper from The Paper Studio by Hobby Lobby was added at the top along with some jute twine. After this was done I thought it would have been nice to add a punched scallop border under the patterened paper but I had already stamped the sentiment and there wasn't any room. She will have to option to add one to her card as I think paper punches are another fun tool to use. 

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For an extra embellishment I added a die cut butterfly from Penny Black's die set Soaring and glitter was added to the center. I only added one butterfly to my card but she will have the option to add more to the card she will make. I used a corner rounder punch (old by Creative Memories) on both the card front and card base. Sentiment is from the clear Penny Black set Friendship, another oldie that I couldn't find a link to. I used Versafine Onyx ink but wish I had gone with a brown instead of black. I will let her choose a sentiment so she doesn't have to go with this one. And maybe she'll stamp hers in brown. 

Challenges I plan to share this card with:

• A Cut Above - Die Cut Challenge Blog - At least one die cut (butterfly die)
• C.R.A.F.T. - Cute
• Crafting Happiness Challenges - AG
• Crafty Animals - Animals
• Krafty Chicks - CAS
• Critter Crazy Challenges - AG
• Cupcake Inspirations - AG
• DL.Art Linky Challenge - AG
• FarmQuest General Store Challenge - Anything Farm or Country Goes (Country Mice)
• Make My Monday - Use a stencil (homemade circles stencil)
• Pearly Sparkles Challenge - This Makes Me Smile (Cute Penny Black Stamps)
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - PB stamps/ opt. patterned papers
• Send a Smile for Kids - Summer Fun Cards for Kids (I think making daisy chains is a fun summer activity for kids)
• Simply CAS - AG CAS
• Sweet Stampin - Anything But Birthday
• The Paper Funday - AG
• We Love Stamping - Sports and hobbies (I think these mice are enjoying a day crafting with flowers)
• Woodblock Wednesday Challenge - AG with Woodblock Stamps