Penny Black Holiday How To!
May Flaum here, and I’m excited to be back with another holiday project how-to!
One of my favorite things to do at the holidays is to play with beautiful collage stamps to create unique cards, gift toppers, and tags for the holiday season. Today I’ll be playing with some beautiful Penny Black images.
First I stamped with distress ink and plenty of water to get a nice watercolor effect. Then I tore around the edges of my stamped paper and stitched it to a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2″ card.
Next up, to layer another image I stamped with gold ink and used clear embossing powder to add texture. The gold ink I used works well for embossing because it stays wet long enough for the powder to stick. Love this!
Now to get more texture going, I took three metal flowers and painted them white. Once the white paint base was applied I used red paint and ink to color my flowers. You’ll want to let them dry (in the photo below you can see one is still wet).
One more custom accent – use alcohol ink on pearls! I love this quick trick to color any rhinestone or pearl.
To complete my card and add more depth, I applied black and mahogany distress inks as well as some gold mist splattered onto the card.
What is so fun about combining all of these quick little techniques is that I can use them on a card, tag, mixed media canvas, or any other project that I would like! As a finishing touch on my card here, I used the main stamped image in gold to add some subtle accents around the edges as well.
Those little bits of detail, as well as all the fun details on this card made it a lot of fun to make and I hope you’ve enjoyed my creative process! I encourage you to get out your stamps and find new ways to feature them.
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Love every detail of this stunning project! It’s just beautiful.
Love that Christmas notes background and the lovely metal flowers!
beautiful card. I like all the details in this card.
stamping sue
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Very pretty. I like the torn edges and how you colored the pearls.
Beautiful! Love the tip to color pearls or rhinestones. Stretching my current supples.
This is such a beautiful projects.. Thanks for all the tips and tricks :)
Beautiful, love the flowers and pearls! x
This is stunning. The flowers are pearls put this right over the top.
Thanks for the technique how-tos. ;-)
The gold looks amazing on the red. Almost iridescent. Great tip about colouring the perls with alcohol ink.
Great stamps and Great use of gold
This looked like so much fun to make! What a gorgeous card! TFS!
this is inspiring- need to try these techniques!
Gorgeous card, love the technique!
So creative and fun to make. Thanks for the how to.
What a genius creative mess! Love everything about this!
the card looks shabby but so pretty. Love the flowers.
Very nice card! Need to dust off my alcohol inks!
Oh wow, this is so pretty!
WOWZERS! So pretty!
What a great technique….going to try it someday..
So pretty, love the flowers and touches of gold!
Mmmm- I love all the texture and layers of colors!
Wow! Fabulous layers! Love the colors!!
Sign me up for the alcohol inks…love that tips and your design.
Sweet…
I love the look of the metal flowers.
Pretty card and thanks for the tips :)
Love the gold mist splatter.
I really love the gold accents on this. Very pretty!
Beautiful with lots of tips and techniques. Always love new ideas to help with creativity and card making.
Love this distressed look! The sewing and gold embossing are awesome!
THis is soooooooooo pretty!
lovely!! love the metal flowers..
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Lovely card !!!
What a lovely card. Love the metal flowers and the design.
Very pretty – love all the texture!
This is oh so beautiful!
What a beautiful card!
gorgeous creation!
What a fun technique! I love the stamping and the gold ink. This is a beautiful project. Thanks for sharing :)
Loving everything about this rustic, shabby card!! Great colors and I love all the different techniques you used!! TFS!
Gorgeous project!!!
lovely card… the details are so pretty!
Wonderful card! I love all the texture you added.
great card! Loving that splatter!
Great layers and texture, so pretty
Love that watercolor look, May. Shows how a design can be used for multiple purposes – nothing about the card really says “Christmas” without the greeting.
Everything is awesome!! love love the metal flowers… very pretty :)
Very pretty and
lovely to look at.
Carla from Utah