For months now, I've been watching videos by Jill Foster for Penny Black. Although I had a few products from Penny Black purchased years ago, I've added a few more over that last few months. I've used some of the frames before, but pulled out two new images for a bit of watercoloring. Jill uses re-inkers for Distress Inks as her watercolors. I have just a few of those, but I have many different watercolor sets to choose from. For these I used both Altenew's 36 pan watercolors as well as a few of the Zig Clean Color brush markers. It had been quite awhile since I had done any watercoloring, and it took a few tries before I got a handle on it again.
This card uses one of two images in the Penny Black stamp set, Perch. The title of that set doesn't make much sense for this image, but the second image features a darling bird perched on a flower pot. The beautiful frame is one from the Classy Frames set which I borrowed from a friend. I lightly ink blended the interior die cut before stamping the sentiment from Pinkfresh Studio: You Are My Rainbow.
The second card uses a set (stamps and die) from Penny Black's new Flower of the Month series. The minute I saw it, I knew I wanted both the hydrangea and the watering can. We have multiple hydrangeas in both our front yard and around our patio. They are among my most favorite flowers. They are beautiful outdoors and last a long time when I bring them in for a flower arrangement.
This card design is one of Jill Foster's many designs with both embossing folders and images. This uses Penny Black's Texture embossing folder. I added a thin strip of light gray paper as a border. The sentiment is from Pinkfresh Studio's Extra Special Sentiments.
I'm sending the first card off to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge: Anything Goes, and the second card is off to The Flower Challenge that wants dry or wet embossing. Both will show up on Darnell's NBUS blog since it's the first run for both images, and for the embossing folder as well.
