Saturday 29 May 2010

Penny Black Challenge #103 - In the Garden

Well, it's not only Saturday again ... but for those of us in the UK it's also a bank holiday weekend so yippee ... and it's time for another Penny Black Saturday Challenge :-)

Thanks as always to everyone who entered last week's challenge - you are truly a really dotty lot .. in the nicest possible way! Don't forget one lucky prize winner will have won the PB stamp I donated last week ... so please do visit the main challenge blog and see if it's you!

Onto this week's challenge, and I guess we're living in hope of some summery weather as our theme is

In the Garden

As always you can interpret this however you choose, so long as you use at least one Penny Black image, sticker or sentiment as the main focus of your project.

As always we have another fab prize - this week it is from our regular sponsor Dick at

and is a 15% lifetime discount voucher for use in his online store - lovely!

Here's my card for this week .... don't forget to check out he other DT members' gorgeous samples.


I used the excellent sketch from Papertake Weekly challenge,


and also made this card specifically to fit with the following challenges:

Simon Says - pink or blue with green & brown
Crafts and Me #5 - Distressed
(I have deckle edged all my papers and matting, and sponged the edges of my image)
Creative Inspirations #62 - Distressed
Flutterby Wednesday's #111 - open theme with butterfly, fairy or angel
Paper Play #21 - Up in the air (things that fly)
>Totally Gorjuss #32 - Wings!
Cooking it Up with Katie #18 - Wing It You Pink Petal!
Stamp With Stampavie #96 - Happy Birthday for a Girl

Recipe:
Main image: Penny Black "Teddy and Company" transparent set, coloured with watercolour pencils;
Sentiment: Penny Black "Salutations" transparent set;
Papers: BasicGrey "Sugared";
Supplies: Prima hydrangeas; pearls, spacers and pearl brads from The Hobby House; ric-rac ribbon from Paula.

Hope you all have a great weekend playing "in the garden" !

22 comments:

ribenaruby said...

Great bear image Pauline, love the deckle edge look and those wonderful papers. Wishing you a happy sunny bank holiday weekend!

Beth said...

Such a pretty card Pauline! These papers are beautiful and you've tied the colours together perfectly! I hope you're enjoying the BH weekend!

Love Beth xx

Joey said...

Hiya Pauline

this is absolutely gorgeous, so delicate and such beautiful colours.

Joey.x

NGCARDS said...

Beautiful card hun, love the colours and papers xxx

Katie said...

Simply gorgeous! I love the image and the soft colors are just so beautiful!
Thanks for Cooking It Up With Katie :)

mckinkle said...

Beautiful beautiful card Pauline! Those papers are very lush indeed but the image is just gorgeous!

Keryn x

Janneke said...

Beautiful card Pauline, love your bear image ;0)
Have a great weekend!

Janneke X

Riet said...

What a gorgeous card Pauline,i love your image and your papers.

Hugs Riet.xx

Little K Smith said...

Beautiful card, such an adorable image. Gorgeous papers and pretty flowers too.
Kelly.x

Crafteezee said...

Pauline, this is so beautiful, I just love the colour combo and choice of image. Thanks for cooking it up with Katie this week. Hugs Tracy x

Anonymous said...

Cute card hunny love the papers and your colouring is beautiful! really lovely job! Samantha :0)

Elizabeth said...

Gorgeous card!! Beautiful coloring, colors and papers.

Hunters Moon said...

The card is gorgeous I adore the bear and the colours you have used for the card.

Sam

gina g said...

Hi Pauline this is so sweet i love the image and your papers are beautiful. Thanks so much for joining us at The Crafts and Me Challenge blog this week. luv gina xx

Kat said...

This is beautiful Pauline. Love that cute PB bear. Thanks for joining us at TG this week.

Kat x

Kimberly S said...

So sweet, such pretty coloring! The little bear and butterfly image is adorable, and I love that DP! Thanks so much for joing us for Flutter By Wednesday! :)

Liz McGuire, said...

Hi, another gorgeous card.

Liz x

Uma said...

so cute, don't know what I'd do with a 15% discount voucher for Dick's store!

debby4000 said...

Oh so adorable Pauline, wonderful image and colours.
Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamps Challenge.
luv
Debby

Kaz said...

Another totally yummy card....with more gorgeous pearls. Love the colours & those papers.
Kaz xx

Pink Blossom Creations said...

Lovely creation, fab colours
Thanks for joining in with PTW
Caroline x

Chrissie said...

This is really pretty I love the delicate colours. Thanks so much for joining us at Cooking it up with Katie!
Chrissie