Instead of Ironing Blogspot: Penny Black: 'For you' - Doggone

Friday, May 14, 2010

Penny Black: 'For you' - Doggone - it's another birthday card!

Hello and thanks for stopping by my little Blog :-)

Over at Splitcoaststampers, about 2 weeks ago Roxie posted a fabulous sketch: Sketch Challenge #278 and thought it would be perfect for my nephew's birthday card. This is one sketch I will definitely use again - I really love it!

The image was stamped with Vintage Sepia ink and then I heat-set it with my heat-gun to make sure the Odorless Mineral Spirits wouldn't bleed the outlines. I coloured it with Prismacolor pencils + Gamsol and lightly chalked around the image for the sky and ground. I stamped the image again and cut out just the present and added fine blue glitter plus I coloured in the bow with a gold gel pen then popped it up on 1mm mounts (dimensionals).

The paw pad is a button which I cut the shank off and attached with a 1mm mount.

The gorgeous designer paper is from a digital set by NitWit Collections called FQB (which stands for Fat Quarter Bundle) - Me-Wow Collection. Isn't it adorable?!

Challenges:

I am entering this card in the Crazy 4 Challenges C4C36 where the Challenge is to use this children's nursery rhyme to create your card -

What are little boys made of?
Frogs and snails
And puppy-dogs' tails,
That's what little boys are made of.

So you can make a boy card, or something with frogs and/or snails, puppy dogs etc. What a fun challenge!

Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with one of my Fat Cat's Card Corner Design Team card.. It has been drizzly and grey all week - not great photographying weather, but the sun should be shining tomorrow according to the Weather Bureau. See you again soon! And thanks again for visiting!

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Penny Black 'for you!' 3446E, Sentiment - from Crafter's Companion 'Popcorn the Bear' Bunches of Love set

Ink: Versafine Vintage Sepia

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Sizzix Textured Impressions Dots embossing folder (from Dot & Flowers set), Spellbinder Square Nestabilities & Scalloped Square Nestabilities, heat gun, Kaisercolour chalks, 1mm mounts (dimensionals), gold gel pen, fine .008 blue glitter, Gamsol, Prismacolor pencils, Buttons Galore 'paw print'

4 comments:

Christine Henderson said...: I love this card...so cute and the little pawprint button is the perfect embellishment. I've never entered a challenge...but maybe I should give it a go. Isn't it nice to finally see the sun breaking through the clouds? Enjoy your weekend!; Saturday, 15 May, 2010
Unknown said...: aaawww cute card

Paula x x x; Sunday, 16 May, 2010
Yaneri said...: Jocelyn! Awesome creation!! Happy to see you played along with us at The Treehouse. Hope to see you again next Thursday for another fun Treehouse Challenge!

Yaneri -DT Member; Monday, 17 May, 2010
PepPop said...: Great card. Love the stamp and isn't that sketch brilliant. I've used it too. Jaqui x; Friday, 21 May, 2010

Post a Comment

Welcome to my Blog

Hi - I'm Jocelyn from Victoria, Australia. Thanks for having a peek at my Blog. Hope you enjoy your stay and please don't be afraid to leave a comment - I LOVE reading them and then I can come and visit you too. All content on this blog is copyright to me. Since February 2012 I have been caring full-time for a family member diagnosed with a life-threatening illness so my posting isn't as regular as I would like it to be.

None of my cards are for sale and I am unable take part in image swaps nor stamp images to share - nor do I do Commissions. My enjoyment is solely to make cards to give to friends and family: I just LOVE making cards :-)

I do hope that my cards give you inspiration to make your own but please don't take my original artwork and copy it exactly the same for publication in a magazine, contest submission, challenge blogs or for personal monetary gain eg: E-Bay, Etsy etc.

You are NOT permitted to use any of my cards as samples to help sell any of the products that I use on my cards or projects on any website eg: EBay, Etsy, Online Store etc. as this will infringe my Copyright as I am the intellectual owner of said artwork. Use of my cards without my permission will be reported to the website in question for Copyright Infringement so that they can take the appropriate action required by law. If you do not understand the implications of breaching Copyright Law, you would do well to verse yourself of this information to protect your reputation as a Seller/Store Owner/Website owner.

Feel free to CASE (Copy And Share with Everyone) one of my cards for personal use ie: not for competitions, publication or where you would gain financially - but please make a couple of simple changes to make the card reflect your own input and personality eg: brads instead of buttons, different papers or border punch etc. and please include a link back here to my original card as a matter of kindness and courtesy. I have a watermark/web address on my cards to help you remember where it came from.

Feel free to share my cardmaking projects on Pinterest. If you hover over my photos with your mouse, a Pin It Button will appear and you can pin my project which will include the direct link.

All of my photographs are copyright to me and may not be copied, shared or reproduced in any form without consent. Please play fair and don't harvest any of my images. Thank you for your understanding.