Berry Branch – Spring & Summer
Posted: January 22, 2012 Filed under: Berry Branch, Penny Black 12 CommentsI have been busy on another project lately which I will share in the future but today I have a little set of cards I finished a while ago. I made them for a friend’s birthday; there are four – one for each season- all made with the same stamp. Here are the spring and summer cards. Winter and autumn to follow another day.
Supplies:
Stamps: Berry Branch (Penny Black),Teeny Tiny Wishes(SU)
Inks: Regal Rose, Bashful Blue, Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Flourishes classic white
To create both cards I inked the stamp with the lighter colour and added darker highlights with marker. I also masked and sponged but you know that; it is what I do!
Supplies:
Stamps: Berry Branch (Penny Black),Hugs & Wishes(SU)
Inks: Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Flourishes classic white
Mix and match
Posted: June 30, 2011 Filed under: Berry Branch, Collage cards 23 Comments
I’m not sure what to call this style of card but I have been trying to successfully create one for a while. I like the mix of image with text and a little texture. I have seen several superb examples where different textures and images are mixed very cohesively, sometimes with several layers, other times with one.
I started by working on one layer but decided a mat and an extension of the stamping would work best. I stamped the branch first after inking it with regal rose, using marker to add choc chip twigs and branch colour. I find this stamp quite frustrating although I love the design, as I always want it in two colours but it is very hard to ink it successfully with markers. What I ended up doing here was drawing with choc chip marker over a lot of the twigs after I had stamped them.
I don’t own a large text stamp so I stamped a sentiment stamp repeatedly to give the impression of a page of text. I also inked my large canvas background stamp but stamped it off first so I would only get a faint impression. Finally I sponged the parts of the panel and flicked some water droplets around. The panel is popped up ever so slightly.
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Supplies:
Stamps: Berry Branch (Penny Black), Canvas (SU), Ageless Adornment (SU)
Inks: Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, Choc Chip, Pretty in Pink
Cardstock: SU Whisper White, Mellow Moss
Less is More ‘Off Centre’
Posted: April 23, 2011 Filed under: Berry Branch, CAS 39 Comments
It has been a few weeks since I managed to play along with the Less is More challenge so it is nice to be involved again. Whether you play along or not the blog is an excellent source of inspiration with hundreds of entries every week. This week the challenge is to create an off centre layout. I really like assymmetrcial layouts so this asymmetrical branch stamp from Penny Black was the perfect choice for the challenge.
I inked the stamp with cherry cobbler and then inked the branches on the stamp with early espresso. By stamping once and then stamping again twice more without re-inking I created a shadowy effect. I added a little fold of riboon too as it needed something extra but not much more.
Supplies:
Stamps: Berry Branch (Penny Black), Taglines (Flourishes)
Inks: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso
Cardstock: SU Confetti White, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip
Also: Chocolate grosgrain ribbon
OLW 49: Green, Pink and Never Seen Ink
Posted: April 18, 2011 Filed under: Berry Branch 9 Comments
I haven’t had a chance to play along in any challenges lately as we have been very busy with violin related activities. Both my girls competed in the local Kiwanis Music Festival last week. On Saturday most of their ensemble came to our place to make truffles for a fundraiser. We rolled 2000 truffles in 2 hours and then they all left to play at a concert Saturday night. When Sunday afternoon arrived I took a little time to play with a new stamp from Penny Black. It was the perfect stamp to use with Pink and Green as Jennifer challenged in the One Layer Wednesday challenge this week.
I inked the whole stamp with Pretty in Pink then added Old Olive to the branches and twigs with a marker. I used a mask and sponging to create the bottom left corner. It shouldn’t be too long before I see blossoms like this on some of my trees.
Supplies:
Stamps: Berry Branch (Penny Black), Eastern Influences (SU)
Inks: Old Olive, Pretty in Pink
Cardstock: SU Confetti White
Penny Black Snow Dust
Posted: December 14, 2010 Filed under: CAS, Penny Black, Snow dust, Stamped Landscapes, Wondrous Gift 7 Comments
It is not quite as snowy as this card just yet, but it won’t be long. When I bought the Penny Black wreath stamp, I also bought this PB stamp called Snow Dust. I did my masking with post-it notes as I usually do, both to frame the scene and to create the snowy hills. I stamped the trees in versmark with a base of black and then embossed in clear before sponging in the sky and the hills. Once all the sponging was done I realised that my tree bases were too black compared to the white branches so I used a super fine black marker to draw a line under several branches so that they appeared to be snow laden not made out of snow.
I noticed that the technique lovers challenge at Splitcoast this week is to use sponging, so I will be participating with at least this card, but probably more.
Supplies:
Stamps: Snow Dust(Penny Black),
Inks: Versamark, Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, Brocade Blue, Going Gray
Cardstock: Flourishes classic white
Also: Clear e.p.
Penny Black wreath
Posted: November 24, 2010 Filed under: Adornment, CAS, Penny Black 5 Comments
If you have been visiting here for a while you would know that 99% of my stamps have always been Stampin’ Up. Not much has changed there; I still love the range and images at Stampin’ Up, but I have discovered a whole world of beautiful stamps from other companies. A year or so ago some gorgeous images from Flourishes started appearing once in a while on the blog because they were simply too hard to resist. I was browsing Sharon Johnson’s lovely blog the other day and saw a couple of beautiful stamps by Penny Black. After a little research I discovered I could buy those stamps not far from here. That’s right, no shipping, no waiting. So what I have to show you today are my first two cards made with the Penny Black stamp “Adornment”.
What I do not have to show you is my first attempt. I did think about photographing it and showing you what not to do, but camera issues continue around here so I didn’t bother. I will tell you that it looked considerably like a tumbleweed blowing across the prairie!
In the card above I inked the stamp with three different green markers and then spritzed it with water before stamping. I think those little circles almost look glittery – but, in fact no bling was applied to this card. On the card below I was a little more intentional with my markers, applying red on the bow and dots before creating some blur with the spritzer.
Supplies:
Stamps: Adornment (Penny Black), All Year Cheer, Best Yet
Inks: Wild Wasabi, Handsome Hunter, Garden Green & Real Red Markers
Cardstock: Flourishes classic white, Wild Wasabi
Heather Telford 