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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Beautiful cards…love the colors!
LOVE these. Yummy!
Absolutely gorgeous! I really love the Floral Thread background stamp.
lovely cards today thanks for sharing them with us
great cards today thanks for sharing them with us
beautiful cards today thank you !!
Ah, Lin….these are spectacular! It makes me really want to embrace fall. Wonderful colors and killer designs. You are so special; thanks for sharing.
Wow….these are awesome! The flowers are so gorgeous!!!
Ok, this is unbelievably beautiful!
Beautiful cards! Thanks for the tip about embossing before fussy cutting.
Love both of these cards but especially the top one….the fall colors are lovely!
What a beautiful creation.
What pretty cards. I love the second one!
Pretty card, I love the coloring !!!
What beautiful cards. Love your colors.
Gorgeous cards!!! I LOVE the penny black stamps!!!
Gorgeous cards and I really don’t like fall but love these cards!
Awesome to see your work featured, Lin!! Gorgeous card!!
These are absolutely GORGEOUS!
Stunning cards!!!! And great tip too!
Love the cards – especially the second one – I will be trying this
Both cards are beautiful! So tasteful and delicate. Thanks for sharing!k
wow these cards are amazing.. love those flowers..
Love your cards today. Tanks for sharing.
Beautiful cards, I especially love the colouring and design of your second one :)
Love these cards, the first is such a happy card and the colours on the second is wonderful.
oh my I love both of these cards. Thank you for the inspiration.
Two beautiful cards….looks Iike I’ll be casing these!
What gorgeous cards by Lin – just love the fall colored flowers of card 1 and the beautiful resist on card 2!
Beautiful Cards Lin! Love the rich fall colors in your flowers and the resist of the lace is stunning!
Love all the new releases!!!!! thanks for all your inspiration!
Wow, just gorgeous!
Gorgeous cards!! :)
Lovely cards. Thanks
for sharing them.
Carla from Utah
Two very lovely cards– as warm and colorful as autumn itself!
Both absolutely beautiful cards!
Lin’s cards are phenomenal, that’s all there is to it!! WOW!
Already follow the blog; great cards!
Echoing all the other comments-beautiful, beautiful, beautiful….
Thanks.
Wow Lin! Great cards! I love how all the colors worked together in your second card :) great job :)
Beautiful work! Great colors too – the blue on the second card is so unexpected but really works!
Really pretty cards. Love the lacy background stamp
What a beautiful flower cards. The background stamp is my favorite :)
stunningly beautiful Lin. Gorgeous cards
The lace is an awesome look! Thanks for sharing.
These are some BEAUTIFUL fall cards! I love “embrace happiness” sentiment!
Great cards. I really love the colors in the second card. Thanks for sharing.
beautiful card!! so lovely!! =)
Wow Linn! Awesome cards, I love the second,TFS
Both cards are beautiful. I think the second is absolutely stunning.