Silver Wedding

2 special friends of mine are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary next week, so I just had to make them a special card to celebrate. I wouldn't normally post such an occasion card before the actual date, but I asked permission from my friend so I could enter it into a couple of current online challenges which offer lovely prizes, and she said she was fine with it and promised not to peek!!

So here it is...

I veered away from my usual cute style, and decided to go for something simple and understated but (hopefully) stylish. It is an 8" * 8" card so plenty of room for my impact dies which I don't use very often. 

The whole thing consists of die cuts using mirri card mounted on white sparkly background paper, with the only hint of colour being a little chalking on the embossed butterfly wings.  In reality this card is very white and silver and very sparkly, but for some reason it was really difficult to capture this in photos - even when Ii tweaked the brightness etc. 

Dies: Memory Box "Bella Bouquet" ; Provo Craft Cut & Emboss "Butterflies"; Spellbinders Nestabilities "Decorative Labels Eight"; Tattered Lace "Alphabet Retro" (sentiment); Provo Craft "Hippie Chick" (numbers);

Paper, gems and ribbon from my stash.

Challenges I would like to enter:

A Gem of a Challenge #17 - Anything Goes

Allsorts #637/638 - Add Some Sparkle

Crafty Creations #424 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Penny's Challenge #503 - Anything Goes With Paper (2nd entry)

Simon Says (Monday) - Dry Emboss

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Add A Sentiment (2nd entry)

Sparkles #143 - Monochromatic

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Time for dinner now, but I'll be back before too long with another card I made yesterday ... I'll just say it will involve another cute dragon!  Hope you are enjoying your weekend whatever you're doing.

Hugs,

Penny Black Saturday #208 - Hot Metal

Good morning everyone, and welcome to another Penny Black Saturday Challenge.  Hope you've all had a good week ... I managed (for once) to get off work very early yesterday, so I had a bit of a cardmaking sesh yesterday afternoon and evening, and caught up with myself a little! 

Before I get on to this week's challenge, we have lots of news for you this week.

Firstly, our former teamie, the very talented Jacqui is rejoining us after a spell away pursuing her other fabby projects ... woo hoo and welcome back hun!!

Secondly, we are welcoming a brand new regular sponsor this week - the brilliant J&C Creations - who are offering one lucky randomly drawn winner a £10 voucher for their online store :-)

Last and by no means least .... from next week we are changing the format of the challenge and relaunching it as a MONTHLY challenge on the first Saturday of every month ... and we will be kicking off with a blog hop featuring lots of inspiration and prizes!!

But back to this week - and our challenge for you this time is

Hot Metal

As always you can interpret this however you like, but to be eligible for our prize you should submit a new piece of work that features a Penny Black image stamp, large sentiment or stickeroo as its main focus.

The rest of the DT have made some amazing samples so I do hope you will check them out - here is what I did.

I cut a square of embossed sparkly paper, and punched around the page to form a snowflake border. I then embossed a snowflake pattern onto a larger square of silver holographic card (which looks very colourful when photographed - it is much more silver in real life!!), cut an aperture in my white paper, and matted it onto the silver card. I cut a smaller piece of card using the same set of nestie labels, and embossed a greeting in silver. I then mounted the greeting panel raised on foam tape with some silver thread ricrac ribbon behind, and finished off with some silver metal snowflake brads and teeny gemstones.

Stamp: Penny Black "a wish..." (2502F)

Paper: Best Creations Inc.

Supplies: Dovecraft snowflake brads; Papermania ric rac ribbon; gems from The Hobby House;

Tools: Martha Stewart "Snow Flurry" PATP set; Create Too "Snowflakes" embossing folder.

Challenges:

Crafty Catz #139 - Show Us Your Metal

Winter Wonderland - Monochromatic

The Stamp Man - Bling it On!

Little Red Wagon #139 - Sentimental You

Crimbo Crackers #18 - Anything Goes

Scrapbook Sisters #90 - Anything Goes

Charisma #25 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations #169 - Anything Goes

Party Time Tuesdays #74 - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy - Anything Goes

Hope you are enjoying your weekend, and that you can join us this week. I'll be back later with another card which I made yesterday, but which I could not post as it was too dark to take a photograph. Until then ...

Penny Black Saturday #176 - A Christmas Theme

Hi there, and welcome to aother Penny Black Saturday Challenge. Thanks to everyone who entered last week's challenge - brilliant interpretations of Nat's sketch :-)

This week we are starting the countdown to Christmas, with the first of a month of Christmas-themed challenges. So no excuse not to press ahead with your Chrimbo cards ... and this week we are kicking off with

Silver + Snowflakes

As always you can interpret this however you choose, so long as you use a Penny Black image, large sentiment or stickeroo as the main focus of our project if you would like to be entered for this week's prize.

And we have not one but THREE prizes this week for lucky randomly drawn winners.

Firstly - from

One cute stamp each for two winners:

and

and from

this yummy Snowflake ribbon kit



So what are you waiting for? The other ladies on the team have made some beautiful samples this week .. here is my effort.

Stamps: Penny Black "joy hope" (3898F); Snowflake swirl edging by Inkadinkado;

Media: stamps embossed with silver embossing powder;

Papers: Craft Creations;

Supplies: gems, silver ribbon and large sparkly brad from my stash;

Tools: Spellbinders "Make a Flake 2" Shapeabilities; Martha Stewart "eyelet lace" PATP.

Challenges:

Winter Wonderland - Make Your Card Sparkle
Corrosive #136 - With A Flourish

Stamptacular #136 - Borders & Frames

Craft Your Passion #82 - Bingo!

(Punch / Sentiment / Bling)

Stamp With Stampavie #155 - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + bling (2nd entry)

Pollycraft Monday #117 - Anything Goes

Dream Valley #19 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz #107 - Anything Goes

Crimbo Crackers #1 - Anything Goes
Hope you can join us this week - have a great weekend.

Rather late .... PBSC #129

Just a very quick post from me today, as I am shockingly late with my DT card for this week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge. I was really thrilled to see everyone's entries last week using my first ever sketch, and thanks to veryone who said they liked it :-) Don't forget to check out the main challenge blog to see if you have won last week's prize, and for inspiration from the other DT members and prize details for this week's challenge.

This week we have a theme for you ...

Monochrome Christmas
This means shades of one colour - doesn't necessarily have to be black and white. The only "black and white" rule is that we want to see a Penny Black image, large sentiment or stickeroo as the focus of your project in order to be eligible for this week's prize.

I decided to go for shades of silver and grey this week ... there is actually quite a lot of silver embossing on this card (tree and sentiment), but it all looks rather grey in this dull winter light!!

Recipe;
Main image: Penny Black "Fantasy" (3880K) heat embossed in silver, and decorated with silver gemstones;
Sentiment: LotV circle sentiments;
Papers: Craft Creations;
Supplies: silver gemstones and white /silver ribbon from my stash;
Tools: large and small classic circles and lacy cirlces nestabilities; Martha Stewart "eyelet lace" PATP.

Challenges:
Totally Gorjuss #58 - Oh Christmas Tree!
Allsorts #80 - Monochrome
Totally Papercrafts - Untraditional Christmas
Creative Cottage #28 - Untraditional Christmas
Crafty Catz #60 - Christmas
Crafty Sentiments #45 - Christmas

Crafty Creations #95 - Christmas is Coming
Penny Black at Allsorts (November) - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Papertake Weekly - Cut It Out
Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club #45 - Use A Die Cut
Paper Play #47 - Stars (gem and tiny stars on paper)Spoon Full of Sugar #131 - Anything Goes
Christmas Stampin' All year Long #72 - Anything Goes

Gotta go .... need to try to make a bit of a "batch" of Chrimbo cards whilst I ahve got all my stuff out on the table! Hope you can join in with the Penny Black Saturday Challenge this week, and stay warm!