Handmade Card with Penny Black Botanical Notes and Inktense Pencils

Hello and welcome!

I am back again with a new card to share as today is the start of a new challenge at Stamping Sensations! Our theme for the month of September is "Stamp of the Moment", so whatever you'd consider a favorite right now. 

Hope you'll join us and share with us what your stamp of the moment is. You could be our lucky winner who will receive a Mixed Media Clock Making Kit and Rice Papers from Crafting.co.uk.

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For my card I selected this beautiful stamp Botanical Notes because I absolutely love collage style of this stamp and it's a joy to color! I used Versafine Onyx ink for stamping. I always have a hard time choosing "favorite stamps"because most of my stamps are favorites but this one is definitely one that caught my eye at the moment and I do reach for it often when prompted to use a favorite stamp.

Some years ago I purchase a small package of Derwent Inktense pencils  but would you believe that I have never given these pencils a chance!! Of course the hoarder I am kept them all these years and somehow I came across them again recently and decided to give them a try. 

These pencils are water soluble, so I used my Zig Detailer waterbrush. The water dissolves the color into a liquid ink. But once this is dry it will be waterproof and you can't go over with the waterbrush a second time. But it is possible to add another color after the first one is dry like I did here with the blue and purple on the flowers. I found them to be a really fun medium and now I want to get a set of skin colors to use on my hedgehog stamps. 

As you can see I kept the card very CAS. After coloring I simply die cut the image panel using Avery Elle's Wonky Stitches Die set (also available at Scrapbook.com) and also used the banner from the same set for the sentiment. The sentiment is one from Penny Black's Blooming Sentiments. It's a straight sentiment, but since it's made of clear photopolymer it can be bend easily and stamped that way.

The card front and banner were both inked with Wilted Violet Distress ink before adhering to the card. I've also added some glitter to make it sparkle a bit. 

There isn't nearly as much glitter as there appears to be on the photo below. 

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Be sure to stop by the challenge blog to see what the rest of the team created and to see the wonderful prize up for grabs this week!

Thanks so much for visiting!

You May Also Like:

• Blooming Beautiful
• Botanical Notes
• Botanical Notes Two Ways

I'm linking up here:

Crafty Calendar - AG // Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Use PB stamps // Cute Card Thursday - AG // Krafty Chicks - Stamp Act // Simon Says Stamp - Stamp It // Get Creative Challenges - AG // Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges - CAS // Path of Positivity - Enjoy Nature // Use Your Stuff - AG

 Always Anything Goes & Link Parties

Taylor Made Cards 4 U // Crafter's Castle // 613 Avenue Create opt. twist watercolor // Crafty Creations // Creative Moments // Lemon Shortbread // Through The Craft Room Door // The Corrosive Challenges // A Bit More Time to Craft // A Perfect Time To Craft // Classic Design  Challenge * // Crafts Galore Encore // DL.Art Linky Challenge // Love to Craft // QKR Stampede // The Creative Crafters // World Wide Open Design Team Challenge // 

Dare to Share //   Inspire Me Monday //  Link Up Potpourri  // Hello Monday // Random-osity Good, Random, Fun // You're The Star Blog Hop Link Party @Stonecottage Adventures // Anything Goes with Your Hosts @ My Random Musings // Jenerally Informed The Happy Now // Shelbee on the Edge Spread the Kindness //  Effortlessly Sophisticated // Wonderful Wednesday // Classy Flamingos // Thursday Favorite Things // Little Things Thursday // Encouraging Heart and Home @ Slices of Life

Monochromatic Card with Silhouette Stamping using an old CTMH set

Hello and welcome!

It's time for a new theme at Allsorts challenge! Wendy is hosting this week and she picked the theme of "For the Love of your Life" with an option of "Anything Goes", so feel free to link up all your new crafty makes for a chance to win! This week we have a pretty Bee Crafty floral stamp as well as 3 digi stamps from our sponsor Ruth Hamilton Designs. 

Before I get to my card, I wanted to mention a special challenge we have planned on September 11th (next Saturday) in memory of our dear design team member Kath who sadly passed away a few weeks ago. September 11th would have been her challenge theme .We are still having that theme but with a slight amendment to celebrate her style of crafting with some special prizes. We hope you will join us then for "A Challenge for Kath". I have never met Kath in person, but have really enjoyed getting to know her a bit over the years of blogging and do miss seeing her around blogland so much!

 

I recently stumbled onto some old CTMH (Close to My Heart) catalogs at a thrift store and having never had one of those catalogs, I decided to purchase them. They were only 10 cents a piece so of course I had to get them!

So this is how I discovered this beautiful stamp set called Childhood Portraits. As it's from an old catalog this stamp set is no longer available directly from CTMH but I quickly found one on eBay and made my purchase. I just love these cute silhouette images so much! PS: There are a few more listings of this set on eBay!

I inked a simple monochromatic background using Chipped Saphire Distress ink with a die cut circle mask in place for a moon. 

My stamp platform was used to stamp the silhouettes with Versafine Onyx ink. All stamps besides the sentiment are part of this set and it even includes some more silhouette kids. 

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The sentiment is from the Penny Black set So Very Much. 

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Thanks so much for visiting!

I'm linking up here:

Cute Card Thursday - AG // Krafty Chicks - Stamp Act // Simon Says Stamp - Stamp It  

 Always Anything Goes & Link Parties

Taylor Made Cards 4 U // Crafter's Castle // 613 Avenue Create opt. twist watercolor // Crafty Creations // Creative Moments // Lemon Shortbread // Through The Craft Room Door // The Corrosive Challenges // A Bit More Time to Craft // A Perfect Time To Craft // Classic Design  Challenge * // Crafts Galore Encore // DL.Art Linky Challenge // Love to Craft // QKR Stampede // The Creative Crafters // World Wide Open Design Team Challenge // 

Dare to Share //   Inspire Me Monday //  Link Up Potpourri  // Hello Monday // Random-osity Good, Random, Fun // You're The Star Blog Hop Link Party @Stonecottage Adventures // Anything Goes with Your Hosts @ My Random Musings // Jenerally Informed The Happy Now // Shelbee on the Edge Spread the Kindness //  Effortlessly Sophisticated // Wonderful Wednesday // Welcome Wednesdays // Classy Flamingos // Thursday Favorite Things // Little Things Thursday // Encouraging Heart and Home @ Slices of Life

Center Step Card for Double Trouble Challenge

Hello and welcome!

Double Trouble challenge has a new Crazy Cousin! Me! I was invited to join the challenge as a guest designer (a.k.a Crazy Cousin) for the month of September. And today I'm showing you my first card. I will be back with a second card later this month for the second September theme at Double Trouble!

For those of you new to the Double Trouble challenge, here's how it works: 

• Thing one (Trouble Maker) will give you the  main (required) theme which this time is "Make a Fun Fold Card". 
• Thing Three (Twisted Sister) will give you a twist, which is optional. This time it's "Stamped Image and a Playdoh Color from the Playdoh Mascot above." (purple, red, green, blue, orange, and/or yellow)
• Thing 2 (Double Dare) where you may link up your card with Creative Creases challenge if you made a fun fold card with a stamped image (optional). 

Hope you'll join in the fun and don't forget to link up with Thing 2 (Creative Creases Challenge) too if you've made a fun fold card!

I made a Center Step card for my fun fold card. It's been a while since I've done one of these, but they are actually easy to make! I've included a link to this tutorial further down in the post.

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The cute image is one of my newer Penny Black stamps, called Flying By. Stamped with Memento Tuxedo ink and colored with Copic markers. Thing 3 wants to see at least one Playdoh color on the image, I chose yellow and green.

The cloud die cuts were done with an old Memory Box die set. This set is probably long retired but there are plenty of cloud dies available.

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I decorated my folded card with papers from my stash. These are all by Stampin'  Up, but I'm thinking at least 10 years old.   

I stamped just the flower from the image two more times, colored and fussy cut to add to the card. The "hills" on the bottom of the card were done with an old die set from Whimsy stamps. This die set is similar. And if you look closely you can see some sparkles on the flowers. I once again used Hero Arts iridescent ink that came in the October 2018 My Monthly Hero kit. (No longer available).  

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You can find the detailed instruction on how to make a Center Step card fold HERE. 

If you want more ideas for some other Fun Fold cards, check out these links:

10-15 Minute Tutorials for Easy Fun Fold Cards

How to score paper 5 different ways
The Easiest Fun Fold Card - Jackie Bolhuis 
A Fancy Fold Card in 5 Minutes - Connie Stewart 
A Fun Flap Card in minutes - Connie Stewart
A Double Flap Fun Fold - Connie Stewart 

Checkout this Fun Fold with Belly Band - Connie Stewart 
Side Fun Fold Card - Mary Deatherage 

Crossover Pointy Card or Diamond Point 

Thanks so much for visiting!

I'm linking my card up here:

Make My Monday - Fun Folds // Crafty Gals Corner - Summer Fun // Double D Challenges - Anything with a Tail // Little Red Wagon - For Kids // Simon Says Stamp - Stamp It // The Paper Funday - AG // Crafty Sentiment Designs - AG // Ike's World - AG // 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Critters // 2 Sisters On The Blog - Children's Cards // Clever Dexter Challenge - Glitter // Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Patterned Papers // Let's Craft & Create Challenge - Dots and/or Stripes // Get Creative Challenges - AG // Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Glimmer and Sparkle // Use Your Stuff - AG // A Gem of a Challenge - AG // Penny Black Saturday Challenge - PB Stamps

 Always Anything Goes & Link Parties

Taylor Made Cards 4 U // Crafter's Castle // 613 Avenue Create opt. twist watercolor // Crafty Creations // Creative Moments // Lemon Shortbread // Through The Craft Room Door // The Corrosive Challenges // A Bit More Time to Craft // A Perfect Time To Craft // Classic Design  Challenge * // Crafts Galore Encore // DL.Art Linky Challenge // Love to Craft // QKR Stampede // The Creative Crafters // World Wide Open Design Team Challenge // 

Dare to Share //   Inspire Me Monday //  Link Up Potpourri  // Hello Monday // Random-osity Good, Random, Fun // You're The Star Blog Hop Link Party @Stonecottage Adventures // Anything Goes with Your Hosts @ My Random Musings // Jenerally Informed The Happy Now // Shelbee on the Edge Spread the Kindness //  Effortlessly Sophisticated // Wonderful Wednesday // Welcome Wednesdays // Classy Flamingos // Thursday Favorite Things // Little Things Thursday // Encouraging Heart and Home @ Slices of Life

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday: September Challenge - Flora and/or Fauna

Hello and welcome to Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - September challenge taking place right here on my blog! I'm so glad you decided to stop by to check out the new theme and hope you'll play along too! There were some wonderful entries last month, be sure to scroll down to see if your entry made my top 3!

This Month's Challenge

For the month of September I selected the theme of................

Flora and/or Fauna.

Remember, the theme is optional for your inspiration and you may link up any crafty makes. I can't wait to see what you'll share this month! 

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And here is what I made:

For my sample I used some Penny Black stamps I've had for a while. 

The cute fox from the Penny Black set Smile All Day (also available at Scrapbook.com) has been stamped using Versafine Onyx ink and colored with Zig Clean Color markers and a Zig Detailer water brush on Bristol Vellum paper. 

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The flowers are Penny Black's Brushstroke stamp Dancing Daisies, inked with Distress inks and markers then very lightly spritzed with water before stamping. 

Before adhering to the card base, I stamped the script border stamp (retired from Whimsy Stamps - alternative option but completely different text) on the left side using Versafine Onyx ink.

The sentiment is from Penny Black's set Friendship.

Some of today's products used:

Linking up Here:

Simon Says Stamp - Stamp It // Double D Challenges - Anything with a Tail // Penny Black Saturday Challenge - PB Stamps // The Paper Funday  - AG opt. Autumn // Cardz 4 Guyz - Things with Tails (I know there are flowers on this card but the men in my life would love receiving this card!) // Ike's World - Animals // 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Critters // Creative Craft Cottage Challenges - No Patterned Papers // A Place To Start - Favorite Crafting Style (mixing cute with floral on card) // Path of Positivity - Nature // Dare 2B Artzy Challenges  - AG // 

 Always Anything Goes & Link Parties

Taylor Made Cards 4 U // Crafter's Castle // 613 Avenue Create opt. twist watercolor // Crafty Creations // Creative Moments // Lemon Shortbread // Through The Craft Room Door // The Corrosive Challenges // A Bit More Time to Craft // A Perfect Time To Craft // Classic Design  Challenge * // Crafts Galore Encore // DL.Art Linky Challenge // Love to Craft // QKR Stampede // The Creative Crafters // World Wide Open Design Team Challenge // 

Dare to Share //   Inspire Me Monday // Hello Monday // Random-osity Good, Random, Fun // You're The Star Blog Hop Link Party @Stonecottage Adventures // Anything Goes with Your Hosts @ My Random Musings // Jenerally Informed The Happy Now // Shelbee on the Edge Spread the Kindness // Linkup Potpourrie // Effortlessly Sophisticated // Wonderful Wednesday // Welcome Wednesdays // Classy Flamingos // Thursday Favorite Things // Little Things Thursday // Encouraging Heart and Home @ Slices of Life

Last Month Top Picks

I will continue to add my favorites to the dedicated Pinterest board, but going forward I will once again showcase the top pick's creations with links to their individual blogs, which will be removed at the start of each new month's challenge to remain in compliance with GDPR.

Selecting just three is never easy but something that needs to be done and here they are from last month's theme of For Boys or Men or Anything Goes. They are listed in the order of entry.

No. 3 Steph

No. 23 Elizabeth H.

No. 28 Tammy A.

Congratulations ladies! Well deserved recognition! Your top pick logo is below, feel free to post it to your own blogs if you like to!

To play along this month simply use the linky tool below.

A few things to remember:

• You may follow the theme or anything crafty goes.

• Backlinking is allowed.

• You may combine with any other challenges.
• You may use any brand of stamps/digis/products (no company restriction).
• No more than 3 entries per person please - no worries if you end up with more.
• Please do include a link back here to my blog in your blog post.