Hello Friends, This week on the Penny Black Blog we have been sharing elegant cards with Penny Black’s new & exciting Christmas release. Today is my turn on the blog so I have two tags to share.
This flower called “Christmas Pride” is one of my favorites of the entire release. I love the overall size and the way you can dress it up or down. I started with a black tag, this beautiful foil vellum and watercolor paper . I stamped the flower two times on the watercolor paper using gold embossing ink. I added the distress inks (see supply list) with a dauber so I could control the color. (I wanted to add shading that was coming from a light source.) Then I sprayed heavily with perfect pearls and waited patiently for it to do it’s magic. When dry cut & curl up the petals.
(I took one of Jennifer McGuire’s classes and learned this technique from her. Thanks sweet Jennifer 🙂
You can see the foil vellum in the background of the tag. Love this stuff. I stamped another flower on green paper with black ink for the bottom layer and embossed the paisley outline stamp on top of it. The sentiment was stamped with gold metallic ink. I just have to share this project with you I made last year with the gold foil vellum. It’s distresses so beautifully because of the gold foil.
This tag isn’t necessarily for Christmas. I used the PB script background on the flower and the background. For this tag I started with Copic X-Press It paper and colored with Copic markers. I really paid attention to my light source and where the light was coming from. ( I hope to have a tutorial in the future on this) For the background I used distress inks and outlined the flowers with a blue Copic (B00)
It’s really hard to see all of the glittery goodness on this tag. The texture was added by applying dots on the petals with red stickles. To avoid sprays of embossing dust I like to use this powder before I use my embossing power. I hope all of you are safe from this hurricane. Hugs to all, Kathy
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Wow Kathy!Love the gold and red of the 3D flower! So lovely!Thanks for the inspiration!
hugs
Doreen
These tags are fab. You did a great job! Hugs!
Wow these are fabulous great 3D image really stands out well:) Sandra H
Hi there, Beautiful work, love the shading on the leaves, gorgeous effect, Gay xx
My jaw hurts from hitting the ground from looking at these beauties, Stunning my friend…WOWSERS!!
You never cease to amaze me Kathy with your incredible projects. These are both so stunning!!!!
Wow, Kathy, your tags look great! And yeah – I recently ordered this poinsettia stamp!!
Thanks for your inspiration!
Hugs Edith
Oh WOW Kathy this is beautiful, love the dimension. Joey x
this is fantastic, Kathy!
Absolutely divine Kathy! Very rich and elegant!!
Absolutely Stunning!!! My favorite is the first tag. Thanks for the inspiration.
Love your tags.
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Your tags are gorgeous, Kathy! I love the beautiful layers and the gold.
Hiya! what a lovely card! so inspirational! hugs carlyann xxx
WOW…..Gorgeous!!!!!! LOVE these my friend you are sooooooooo talented!!!
This is so pretty!! Beyond pretty actually! I can’t wait to see the tutorial you’re talking about 🙂
This is so so pretty Kathy. Looks transparent…love the effect. Would love a tutorial on this technique:)
The artwork you do is beyond amazing, look at those leaves, transluscent and all!!
gorgeous–both of them!!
PLEASE do a tutorial, Kathy! These are FABULOUS – the petals look so delicate and beautiful! You NEVER cease to amaze me…seriously!
I literally gasped out loud when I saw that first tag! I cannot stop staring at it! Kathy, you continue to amaze us all! Your work is second to none! Just gorgeous, girl!!!
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go stare a little longer. . . . 🙂
Just stunning Kathy, you’re such an inspiration!!!
Your use of ribbon colours on each tag is just brilliant & I love how the flower comes off the edges on each tag. the layering suits this stamp so well & the contrasting green “leaves” on the first is so realistic. I’d not have thought of using pink for the background matting but is really ‘pops’ with the contrasting blacks & greens. I’m very interested in your light source tutorial & look forward to that. You continue to teach me much in the way of the small details – that’s what makes your work so interesting & quite distinctive.
Paula (PEP)
WOW.. Your tag so stunning, and every detail of your tag is magnificent.. Love it… what technique was it?
Kathy, this is absolutely gorgeous!! Luv the gold on vellum and luv the BLACK in the back! Gorgeous!! 🙂
Whoa! That’s a fancy poinsettia! Awesome! 🙂
Wow these are just drop-dead gorgeous!
Wonderful Kathy, totally wonderful!
Love these tags!
Wow for an instant I thought it was a real flower. Amazing!
Blessings Bernie
These are beautiful Kathy. I love the dimension and embossing.
Clare x
Very interesting points. Thanks!
I’m baaaaacccckkkkk!!!! Hope your trip went well. We had an AMAZING time.
Must do up a post with some photos. Still working my way through the laundry!
Love what you have been creating. Just took a spin through your posts… AMAZING…. as always! Hugs to you, Dee
Sista, these are just amazing, that flower is stunning…got to get that one!
Absolutely breathtaking!! The flowers are so stunning!! Thanks for sharing!
Fabulous flower! The tags are very beautiful!
These are gorgeous tags!!! I love this stamp set and the techniques you used are awesome.
Hugs,
Anniebee
Your 3-D tags are just amazing! I love the raised poinsettias! It’s so evident you have put a lot of care and time you have put into colouring and creating these beauties.
Thank you for sharing! 🙂