Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Masculine

 

Good morning Penny Black lovers, and welcome to June's Penny Black Saturday Challenge!

 

Thanks as always to everyone who entered last month's Anything Goes challenge - it was great to see all your fabulous entries ... but we couldn't help but notice there were several that were sadly ineligible for our fab prizes as they didn't use a Penny Black image. Don't forget - our only rule is that you need to follow the theme using a Penny Black image stamp, large sentiment or stickeroo as the main focus of your project.

 

Anyhoo, on to this month's challenge .. and with Father's Day just around the corner what better theme than

 

Masculine

 

As always we have a fab range of prizes from our regular sponsors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

$20 online voucher

 

The rest of the DT have worked their Penny Black magic - here is what I did.

 

 

This is my dad's Father's Day card. I have to admit that I did struggle as I don't really have any overtly masculine PB stamps ... but when I delved into my box I thought that this cute pair of adult and child hedgies was quite suitable for the occasion.

 

This card also gave me opportunity to use my new Heart Banner die which I have had lurking in my stash for a couple of weeks, but there hasn't really been much crafting going on for me to use it ... and last but not least my yummy new LotV "Country Gent" papers which arrived Friday afternoon!!

 

 

Stamps: Penny Black "hugs" transparent set; LotV "Everyday Grungy Sentiments";

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers;

Papers: LotV "Country Gent" and "Country Lady";

Tools: classic circles and labels three nestabilities; Magnolia Doohickey "Lovely Fence" die; La La Land "Heart Banner" die; Stephanie Weightman "Tattered Lace" die "Aphabet Retro" (from Hobbycraft).

 

Challenges:

CRAFT #209 - Father's Day / Male

Papercrafting Journey - Masculine Cards

Creative Craft #11 - For The Fellas

Cupcake #244 - Boys

Crafty Catz #185 - Inspired By A Storybook Or Nursery Rhyme

(Hodge the Hedgehog)

I ♥ Promarkers #170 - Use Dies But No Punches

Creative Card Crew #37 - Punches &/or Dies

Simon Says - Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts #169 - Anything Goes

Party Time Tuesdays #122 - Anything Goes

 

That's all from me for today - I hope you can join us this month. Have a great weekend.

 

Hugs,

Deckchair Dreaming

Yesterday I managed to get my dad's Father's Day card made, so for once I won't be on the last minute to get it posted ! :-)

I decided to go with a theme of relaxing and chilling out, based primarily on this darling LotV stamp "Deckchair Dreaming" which I have had since last year ... and is another one which has never seen ink!! The concept of the deckchair put me in the mood for some co-ordinating paper, so I downloaded me some nice fresh stripy paper from Pink Petticoat which I am sure I will use many times in the future.  Here's the result of my efforts.

I have to say that I did struggle a bit with this stamp ... I have quite a lot of LotV stamps and most give really good impressions, but I do have a couple that don't stamp a very good image and unfortunately this is one of them. It took quite a few attempts but I got there in the end!

Stamps: LotV "Deckchair Dreaming"; Fizzy Moon "Special Dad";

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers;

Papers: Pink Petticoat "Stripes" printed in "quartz";

Supplies: Papermania star gems; raffia lace from Hobbycraft.

Challenges:

Secret Crafter #189 - Father's Day

OSCC #186 - Father's Day

Penny's Paper Crafty #81 - I Love You Dad

Lili's Little Fairies  - One For The Boys

Dream Valley #34 - For That Special Guy

Sentimental Sundays #106 - For A Special Guy

Creative Inspirations #166 - Card For A Male

Totally Gorjuss #135 - Sunshine

Crafty Catz #136 - Summer Time

Sketch Saturday #211 - Sketch

Let's hope we will soon be having some weather so that we can sit out like that cute bear!

Penny Black Saturday #106 - Travel / holidays

Good morning everyone and welcome to another Penny Black Saturday Challenge. As you know I didn't manage to take part last week, and sorry to say I haven't been visiting to see what wonderful cards everyone made for the sketch challenge... but I'm confident they will all have been as brilliant as usual - so hope you will pop over to the challenge blog and see if you have won last week's prize.

On then to this week's challenge, and we have a theme for you of

Travel / holidays

As always you can interpret this however you like so long as you use a Penny Black image stamp, large sentiment or stickeroo as the main focus of your creation.

Again we have a brilliant prize for you from one of our new regular sponsors - Butterfly Kisses

who are offering the following gorgeous stamp to one randomly drawn winner.

Here is my card for this week. Unfortunately I've still got some ongoing family circumstances that have meant I haven't felt like doing much craft-wise, and as I really needed to prioritise making a Father's Day card for my dear old dad, I did my best to combine it with this week's theme.

I really do adore this hedgie - he looks so happy and peaceful sitting under the shade of the daisy - so I hope you'll be kind and agree that he certainly looks like he could be on holiday :-) This is the first time I have coloured a PB hedgie with Promarkers (though there is v little grey on this one!!) but I'm reasonably pleased with the shading on the daisy petals.

Recipe:
Main image: Penny Black "lazy Days" (3782J), coloured with Promarkers;
Sentiment: Penny Black transparent set "Bubbly";
Papers: blue - Craft Creations; green - free with "Making Cards" magazine years ago!!);
Supplies: card candy from my stash coloured with Promarkers;
Tools: large classic circle and large classic scalloped circle nestabilities; Cuttlebug "Hippie Chick" alphabet dies.
As I have spent so little time cardmaking it is quite fortunate that this card fits with so many other challenges .....

Double Dutch #45 - Dad's Treat (Father's Day)
Stamptacular #63 - A Tribute to all Fathers
Crafty Cardmakers #23 - Cards for Men
Creative Craft Challenge - For the Man in your Life
Raise the Bar #23 - What a Special Guy!
Incy Wincy #45 - One for the Guys
Cupcake #95 - One for the Boys
Creative Inspirations #65 - One for the Boys
One Stop Craft Challenge #85 - One for the Boys
My Time To Craft #95 - Special person / occasion
Crafts & Me #6 - Friends & Family
Spoon Full of Sugar #108 - Enjoying the Sunshine
ABC - W is for Weather (sitting in the sun :-) )
Stamp Something - Something Summer!
Fun with Shapes & more #58 - Flowery
Simon Says on PCP #6 - Oh Boy!

Before I go I must give a little toot for my new digital signature and watermark which I bought from Whimsy Stamps - they have a fab range and only $5 for both combined. I feel really professional now lol!!

Have a great weekend .... looking forward to all your creations !