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Aug 1, 2010

Penny Black Challenge - a recipe

Hi everyone!

Here's a card I made last night after the kids went to bed. Well, I colored the image while they were playing outside and finished the card at night. I really wanted to use this Penny Black stamp so I decided to check out this week's Penny Black challenge. It's a recipe, use 1 circle, 2 designer papers and 3 flowers.

Image was stamped on couture 80lb cards stock, I colored it using derwent coloursoft pencils and blended with baby oil. The hedgies face was colored using copic E00. I sponged the edges using soft sky ink.

Papers are from my stash, I used basic gray (stampin up) as my card base. The 3 flowers and border were done using Martha Stewart punches, Ribbon is from stampin up (retired wild wasabi), added some glitter to the flowers and rhinestones to the flower centers. My sentiment is from a old retired stampin up set (cute converse).

My sketch was inspired by this week's "sweet stop sketch". I did end up adding the sentiment to the other side to fit my image better, and adhered my main image at an angle. Everything else is pretty much the same though.

My challenge also fits a few other challenges:
Hope you liked today's card. I'll be back again on tuesday with my digital tuesday design team card.
Have a great day.

20 comments:

Jackie said...

Very cute card, love that stripey paper :o)
Jackie xx

Lynne said...

Lovely card, cute image. Thanks for joining us at AG

Anneke said...

Hi Ellie,
what a beautiful card!
Love this penny black stamp :)
Hugs Anneke

Kathy and Lucky said...

Love this little hedgehog, what a sweet little card. TFS

Lora said...

This is so cute Ellie. I love the PB hedgehogs they are so sweet.
Thanks for joining us at BTC&G.
Lora x

Nancy said...

Gorgeous Card!~!!!
Thanks for playing with us at The Sweet Stop.

NGCARDS said...

This is lovely hun, Thanks for joining in this week at Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge Blog! xxx

Joni Parker said...

ohh...this is cute! Love that hedgehog & love how you explained how you colored it (I'm a beginning stamper...so I really enjoyed that)

Thanks for sharing this week at Alphabet Challenge!!

Amy Johnson said...

This is such a pretty card! I love Penny Black images, I wish I had time to use them more. I keep buying them, but never use them. Love how you used the sketch and did the flowers too. Great job.

Nancy said...

Love the card... so beautifully coloured!

dstandard said...

Adorable image - great coloring!Thanks for playing at The Sweet Stop!

Kathy said...

Such a cute card!! Love the colors and adorable image!
Thanks so much for playing along in the Sweet Stop with us!
:)kathy

Dana White said...

This is fantastic - what a sweet image! Thanks for playing along with the Sweet Stop

debby4000 said...

Oh this is gorgeous and so cute.
luv
Debby

Lesley said...

Gorgeous card, I love the image! Thanks for taking part in the Alphabet Challenge xx

made by fifi said...

sweet card - cute image - thanks for joining in alphabet challenge x

Kath Stewart said...

gorgeous card ellie and thanks for joining in the fun this week over at Penny Black Saturday...hugs kath xxx

nnalorac said...

So cute love the image you have used. Thanks for joining us over on BTC&G. nnalorac.x

Carolina said...

Very beautiful card and cute.
Thank you for joining the alphabet challenge

Kate said...

Sweet card, lovely colours.

** Kate **