I am thrilled to be the November Guest Designer at the Penny Black and More Challenge Blog. To celebrate I will be posting Penny Black projects on my blog all week, so come back and visit! I have been in love with Penny Black stamps since I started stamping, 15 years ago! The brush stroke stamp line is my favorite because it is so versatile. I tried to think of all the things I wanted to incorporate into this card and decided that my two favorite topics are handmade paper flowers and stamped background paper. I've combined the two into this shabby/vintage Christmas card.
To create this flower I stamped "Winter Glow" 2808L, my favorite poinsettia stamp of all time, three times in Festive Berries Distress Ink and cut it out in graduating sizes. I used my curling techniques from my DIY Paper Flower Post
HERE. Once it was glued together, I brushed it with a gold pigment ink pad and then used gold embossing powder to make the highlights. Then I took some tiny Prima flowers and scrunched them up and glued them to the center of the flower - viola!
For the background I stamped "Winter Scroll" 3239K in Festive Berries repeatedly onto kraft cardstock, then inked it lightly and distressed the edges. I embossed "Holly Christmas" 2205F in gold to create a little "gift tag" and layered over burlap paper and a gold loopy bow.
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What a wonderful rich and lush card Autumn - llve the red and gold and the touch of burlap and green.
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Maxine
Congratulations on the Guest Designer spot Autumn. It's a beautiful card, love the layered poinsettia.
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I am with you on the Brush Stroke range Autumn, the are indeed so versatile and lend themselves so well to those of us who like a bit of ink.
ReplyDeleteYour Christmas creation is glorious and the Poinsettia has so much dimension with all those layers and splashed of gold.
Hope you have a good Sunday.
B x
Dahhh, totally forgot to actually say thank you for being our Guest Designer at Penny Black and More challenge.
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Another fabulous poinsettia - and I love that krafty background paper. Great card!
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Wau so beautiful card, now i have put an translate on my blog, hugs Pia
ReplyDeleteOh, Autumn, I'm with you about loving Penny Black! I have so many of their stamps and really love this beautiful stamp. I love how you've used it for wrapping paper and for making this beautiful card! I love this beautiful flower (that sure looks like a gilded poinsettia), and I love the added texture of the burlap! Stunning! Hugs!
ReplyDeleteOooo what a stunning card and using all those stamps too and thanks for being our Guest Designer at Penny Black & More this month, Luv Sam x
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card, fabulous stamping.
ReplyDeleteThank you for being our GDT this month at Penny Black and more;-))m
Autumn,
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This is sophisticated and gorgeously elegant with beautiful colours and I so love the flower and also the background.
Autumn, thank you so much for the kindest words you left for me to read on my Blog. I appreciate you taking the time to visit. So kind of you to comment on my photographs.
Wishes
Lynne
beautiful! this card is so festive; i love the red and green, the scroll image and the wonderfully layered poinsettia! the tag and gold loopy bow are such pretty embellishments too. thank you so much for being our guest designer this month at penny black and more.
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A lovely christmas card, Autumn!!! Your stamped bg is beautiful and I love the stunning flower with the gold twine bow!!! The strip of burlap add so much lovely texture to your card and the sentiment on the tag looks great!!! The distressing is perfect!!! So beautiful!!!!
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Fabulous card! Love the rich colours you have used and the texture is perfectly yummy. Congrats on your Guest DT too Karen x
ReplyDeleteWow this is one classy, elegant looking card full of festive wonder I love it
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lorraine x
Such a beautiful card and lovely having you join us over at PB - Thank You x Susan x
ReplyDeleteto me, the distress edges looks very perfect! i use tim hotz distress edge but cant achieve the same result as yours :p
ReplyDeleteI horrible with the Tim Hotz distress thingy. I get better results using a pumice stone. hahaha
DeleteI usually use the edge of my scissors! Ha, so many ways to do the same thing. I'll have to try the pumice stone. :) Thanks Christine!
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