Embrace Happiness
Hi bloggers! Happy Saturday to you! We’re pleased to bring you TWO lovely cards featuring Penny Black stamps from Lin Brandyberry who happens to also be a Design Team member on our Wednesday challenge blog! Be sure to check out her fabulous work every week!
When I hear September, I go into instant autumn mode, thinking of the beautiful fall colors that I see at this time of year! So when I was asked to make something for Simon’s STAMPtember® event, it was an easy choice, and I made 2 cards for you! For my first card, I chose my favorite Penny Black flower stamp set, Petal Party, and did it up in fall colors. I stamped the beautiful flower twice, coloring them with markers, and then carefully cut them out. I love the look of text on a card, so I used this delicate script as my background for them, framing it with some paper lace. I chose my sentiment from the So Blessed cling stamp set; don’t you love the beautiful mixed font? I mounted it with some foam squares to raise it a bit, as I did the gold flower head. And to finish I added a twine bow and colored pearls.A hint I’d like to share for both coloring and fussy-cutting is to heat emboss the image after stamping it. First, the embossing helps you to stay in the lines when coloring small areas, and secondly, when cutting out the image, the embossed line gives you a little hard edge to cut beside.
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I went in a whole different direction with my 2nd card, using a very simple design. I chose a favorite cling called Floral Thread as my main focus, and stamped and heat embossed it on white cardstock, then used distress inks to sponge in the background with more autumn shades. These colors makes me think of looking up through the branches of a maple tree and seeing some patches of that clear blue sky we get in the fall. I trimmed this into a panel, framed it with a solid paper, and then added it to my white card base along with a sentiment from the Friendship clear set and some enamel dots to mimic the colors in my panel.
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Thanks for reading today & thanks to Lin for the gorgeous inspiration!
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Like how the heat embossing card has a lace look to it.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Love that Lacey look
I am digging the bright colorful card.
These are both so beautiful! I’m going to try the heat embossing tip.
Gorgeous cards!
Lin’s cards are always so beautiful – love that lacy background stamp on the second card!
Lovely cards. My favorite is the first one. I love the look go florals over script.
Wow, thank you for these lovely, lovely cards…..a real inspiration!!!!
I always LOVE Lin’s work! So fun to see her here today! Gorgeous cards!!! :)
Love the colors. The flowers look so realistic. The blend of colors on the second card really makes it pop. thanks for sharing.
Love the laciness and the colors of both beautiful cards.
Absolutely stunning! The fall colours are ravishing!!
c
Amazing, my favorite card is the second one.
I love all of the details on the first card the floral image is wonderful.
The second card is beautiful too. I love it’s simplicity.
Gorgeous cards! I love the color combination of the second card! :) xo
Beautiful cards to highlight beautiful stamps.
The cards are wonderful. Looks like lace and love the autumn colors.
Beautiful cards and I love the Autumn colors!
Lin’s card designs are simply beautiful and both these cards are fabulous!!
Lin…..beautiful work. Thank you for the heat embossing tip. These cards are so colorful and fun!
Ginny Crawford
I have to try out both of these card techniques. Just fantastic!
These are both great…I do not heat emboss and color enough…it makes for such a beautiful finished product. Great work!
LOVE that Embrace Happiness card. The emboss resist technique is unbelievably gorgeous!!
<3 J
Very beautifully! Especially liked the delicate flowers!)
both awesome cards, great helpful hints.
Beautiful cards, Lin! You’ve captured the essence of Autumn!
Wow! Love the Floral Thread card- stunning!
WOUW both these cards are gorgeous, but the first one is simply stunning. I really really love that one a little more than the other one, even they´re both really beautiful made, but this one really speaks to me somehow.
Never purchased penny black products! Hmmmm I am thinking to myself Why?? Very cute!!
Lin’s cards are beautiful. Flowers and lace stamps are among my favorite images to use on cards. She showed us 2 new ways to use them. Thanks.
Absolutely gorgeous cards!
Your cards are absolutely stunning! I love both, couldn’t pick a favorite. Thanks for sharing your talent.
Beautiful cards!
Beautiful cards!! I love the flowers and lace on the second card. Thanks for sharing!
That background stamp works very nice as a focal point!
Beautiful cards :)
Wonderful cards,Thanks for sharing!!
Love the distress inking colors on the second card!! Thanks for sharing :)
Love how you brought a background stamp forward and made it a centrepiece! Hooray for Penny Black stamps! :) Tfs.
Fabulous cards! I love the floral thead!
Beautiful cards!
Beautiful cards, love the lace effect! x
Beautiful cards, love, love the second one.
Beautiful cards, the second one is absolutely stunning!!
Beautiful cards! Especially love the emboss resist!
Two fabulous cards Lin! So happy to see you featured on the SSS blog!
Lin, both of these cards are breath-taking. WOW
Lin these cards are GORGEOUS!!
Wow Lin both your cards are stunning, congrats on the feature!!
Thats cool how you describe the colors you used on your cards. yepper autumn time is coming up and very beautiful colors ahead. Your cards are gorgeous especially the flowers love it