Birthday Dog

Today's card features one of my oldest (and still most favourite) Penny Black stamps...'Birthday Dog'. I stamped him on to a snippet of watercolour paper, coloured him using watercolour pencils, then carefully cut him out. I added a 'shadow' to a white card blank using watercolour pencils, and a sentiment using a stamp from the 'Signature Greetings' set by Memory Box, then popped Birthday Dog on top using 3D foam pads.

Challenges for this card:#

• AAA Birthday - Favourite Image
• Alphabet Challenge - P is for Party
• As You Like It - Favourite Critter (Dogs - my family had golden retrievers as I was growing up...and I have a fairly substantial collection of dog stamps...Birthday Dog was one of my first - I blame him for my Penny Black addiction!)
• CAS on Friday - Birthday
• Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

Tree Huggers

I have another Christmas card to share today...featuring a stamp that my Mum found recently in a charity shop. It's a large woodmounted stamp by Northwoods Rubber Stamps...I did some searching, and although I found similar snowmen designs by the same artist on their website, I coudn't find the name of this design. I stamped it on to watercolour paper, then coloured it using watercolour pencils. For the background I used snippets of very old BasicGrey paper (from the 'Figgy Pudding' collection. I distressed all of the edges, then added some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a black gel pen.

Challenges for this card:

• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Krafty Chicks - Stamps
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
• Love Those Pretty Papers - Anything Goes
• Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes
• Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

It's Penguinning

Today's card features a Crafter's Companion stamp set that I picked up in a charity shop last week. If I'm honest, it was the 'punny' sentiment that attracted me (I have a good selection of penguin stamps I could use it with), but the Penguin image in the set is cute too! I stamped them on to a kraft card blank, then coloured the image using watercolour pencils.

Challenges for this card:

• AAA Cards - Anything CAS
• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Creative Inspirations - Christmas Animals
• My Time to Craft Christmas - Winter Animals
• We Love Stamping - Anything Goes (Optional 'Christmas')

Fishing Ted

Today's card featuresa cute Funstamps stamp called 'Fishing Ted' that I picked up last week in a charity shop. I stamped him on to watercolour paper, then coloured him using watercolour pencils. I paired him with papers from the 'Fresh Florals' pad by Craft Sensations...distressing the edges, and adding some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a blac gel pen. The sentiment stammps are from the 'Birthday Buddies' set by Paper Smooches.

Challenges for this card:

• Allsorts - Anything Goes
• Inspirational - Layer It (Layers of papers)
• Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
• Seize the Birthday - Anything Birthday
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes

PBSC November - Anything Goes (Optional 'Make a Scene ')

It's the first Saturday of the month, so that means it's time for a new Penny Black Saturday Challenge...where the theme is:

'Anything Goes'

or

'Make a Scene'

As usual, we are sponsored by the awesome 1-2-3 Stitch:

Prize - a $20 voucher!

I used a stamps from a couple of different clear stamp sets to create a snowy Christmas scene. The snowman and hedgie stamp is from the 'Snow Much Fun!' set and the robin is from the 'Wintertime Cheer' set. I stamped them on to watercolour paper, coloured them using watercolour pencils, then carefully cut them out. For the background, I started with a piece of snowy sky paper from the 'Christmas' pad by Craft Sensations, then added a couple of die cut trees (cut from snippets of white card using Happy Little Stampers dies), a snippet of white card (with a torn edge) for the snowy ground, and a gold star (left over from making these tags). I matted it all on to some kraft card, added the critters on top using 3D foam pads, then added it to a white card blank. The sentiment stamp is from the 'Scribbly Christmas' set by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Merry Little Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes

For more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies, please pop over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.