Penny Black Challenge - Something Sweet

This weeks challenge really got me thinking, but looking through my stash I found this PB Caterpillar image I recieved in a swap. The cupcakes count as something 'sweeet' and teamed with the very colourful Lime Rickey papers by BG, he makes a very cheerful card. I intend to send this to Robyn H from Post Pals, who's favourite colour is yellow. Please take a moment to pop over to the Post Pals site and see how you could brighten a sick childs day by sending them a card.I used a sketch from a couple of weeks ago as I think it works well with the papers, and I have diamond glazed the cakes and his body.tfl

Penny Black Challenge 84

This weeks challenge over on PBS is a colour combo of Blue, Cream & Gold. Blue does not feature in my life much - I dont have any blue clothes other than jeans, and I thought I'd struggle to find blue papers. But then I found the lovely Marakesh paper pad by Basic Grey and problem solved.tfl

Penny Black Saturday - week 83

This week over on PBS the challenge is a sketch set by DT member Nat. The hedgie image I have used is from a sticker sheet, and the papers are Basic Grey - Urban Prairie. tfl.

Penny Black Challenge - One for the Girls

No blogging this week as its been a difficult time with DHs health issues. However, the theme at PB this week fits in great with some stamped images I had from a workshop I did recently. You can't really tell but the fur trim has been glittered with glamour dust, and the background paper is glittery too. tfl

Penny Black Challenge no 75

This week it's called 'One for the guys' - tricky or what. I remembered I had a jumper template from CraftyTemplates, and I used my Craftwork Cards papers and punched out some holly. I tried all sorts of things for the focal point on jumper, but in the end I settled for a sparkly peel off! Not sure about this - but I had to do something or I'd still be dithering by next christmas. The text stamp is by PB so it does qualify for the challenge. Last week I was lucky enough to win the prize - a £10 voucher to spend in the current Stampin Up catalogue, pop over and have a go.

Girls Just Wanna have fuuuun

Over on Penny Black Saturday this week, the challenge is to create something based on a song title. I had a look through my (sadly meagre) supply of PB stamps and immediately thought of this song. (and now I cant get it out of my head). I get a lot of use out of this stamp - its great for teen girl cards. For a change I stamped the clothes onto some patterned papers and stuck them onto the image. As usual, I forgot to choose my background paper first, and spent ages working my way through my (not meagre) paper collection.

2 Challenges

I managed to get a couple of challenges done this week. Over on SDC this month its 'postcards' and the theme is 'faces'. I remembered I still had this stamped image sent to me by a freind, and I just added some glitter & a few embellishments to jazz it up.















Secondly, this card is for the PBS challenge which is 'red, white & blue' in honour of the American Flag.

Penny Black Saturday

This week I've not had much time to craft as we've been busy over Easter. Anyway, I made this last night for the PB Challenge. We had to create a gift - bag/box/candle/tin, as long as it included at least 1 PB image. I decided to make some notelets in a folder using the flower stamp again. Very simple really - I used a peice of 12 x 12 double sided card folded, stamped and glittered the image onto the cards and added some ribbon.

Finally - I went to see Marley & Me. Such a lovely film but if you are thinking of going, remember the kleenex.

Penny Black Saturday

The topic this week on PBS is 'Doodling'. I've used 'ginger' as the main image and watercoloured her with Marveys. The background paper is by the aptly named Doodlebug and I've doodled around the edge of the card, in pink around the image and also in white on on the cut out flowers.

Penny Black Saturday

This week, the challeng on PBS is a recipe 1,2,3 - 1 flower, 2 ribbons and 3 brads. I have used a PB stickeroo and the papers are Salsa by Junkitz. It also fits in with Sarns challenge on the forum to make a card using PB animals. OK - sunglasses on!

Challenges

This weekend I have managed to make 2 Challenge cards. The first is for Tag Your'e It and the theme this week is 'Diamonds are a girls best friend'. Straight away I thought of my Diamonds paper, and the sentiment stamp which I've used so often. The diamond flower brad is by Dovecraft, the paper flower is Prima, plus a little bit of glitter and voila!
Next up is a new challenge site for me - Penny Black Saturday
I only have a few of these lubberly stamps but this one is an image sent to me by Bex from the stamped image swap. The theme this week is 'Something to eat' and the DT have created a really varied selection. Here's my lil entry. I coloured the image with my Marvey pens with a little bit of watercolouring and the background paper is by K&co