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 the card and all the details! Thanks for the inspiration!
Wonderful card! I really like the base with the stamped watercolor effect background.
Very pretty card, I love the golden touch.
love the stamp you used
Such a pretty card! xx
So pretty
Wow, this card is stunning! I love the colors and details.
How fun! I love the amazing things you can do with distress inks! Thanks for the tutorials!
NEVER thought of using the Alcohol Ink. I have used the Sharpies to color pearls, but never this. Thanks.
Beautiful Layers!! THANKS for sharing and have a Fabulous Week!! =)
Awesome design!
Must try the alcohol ink on pearls. Thanks for the tip. Hugz
Love the card, especially the flowers!!
Very pretty–thanks for the great tutorial!
Love all the fun techniques!
This is beautiful! Love all the rich colors and textures!
Lovely project. I follow the blog by email.
Beautiful and artsy! Loved the tip about colouring the pearls.
Your card is amazing – I love it. Thanks for explaining all the steps – it’s beautiful!
Beautiful project! Always inky fun with May!
I love the gold and green along with the details
Ooh, that gold! I use Sharpies to color pearls, too. :o) TFS!
Amazing details on this card!
Gorgeous!
I love this artsy Christmas card. This is the style that I like to use on a lot of my projects.
Beautiful card. I forgot alcohol ink can be used to color pearls. Thanks for the reminder.
What a lovely card. I love the gold accents!
Beautiful work on this card!
That is really cool!
Love this card, and your style! Great ideas. Thanks for reminding me to get those metal Tim Holtz elements out. Thanks for sharing.
Katie B.
Absolutely gorgeous card!
I love seeing your creative process, love the embellishments to. TFS
Beautiful in a artsy way. Could easily be a framed piece, not just a card….
Wow! Now that is some Penny Black stamping! Loving the details and how it came out! Beautiful!
Very beautiful card. Happy FALL, TFS .
Looks good! A little bit vintage in a modern way!
BEAUTIFUL card May!!!
THANK YOU for sharing all these fabulous techniques, I look forward to giving them a go :)
I love the little group of flowers at the card base.
Wow… this is stunning. Thank you for the tips.
I love the rich colors in this card! So very pretty!
Pretty!
WOW…this is gorgeous!!
Your card is lovely. I love the,sprinkles of gold and the metal flowers.
gorgeous card and colors.
love it. learn so much!
How pretty! I never thought of using alcohol ink on pearls! Now I have something new to try! Thanks!
Beautiful card! Thank you for showing us how to do it.
Thanks for the tip about embossing with Delicata Ink. I thought your card was very pretty.
May, this is a gorgeous creation. Thanks for the tip on coloring the pearls.
Love this card with all of the different ideas!!! Distress markers and inks are on my wishlist as I would love to try water colouring with them after seeing this!! TYFS!!!