So special

Good afternoon folks.

How's your Sunday going. I hope the stormy winds have not caused too much damage in your area. At least it has stopped raining here now.

The challenge at Allsorts this week is new and cute and you can't get much cuter than a Penny Black Hedgie. Also he is a new stamp which covers the new part. This is the card I have made for the challenge - 

Apologies for the photo quality, blame the horrible, dull January weather

I began by embossing a piece of white centura pearl with Penny Black's Dotlets stencil and inking through the stencil with tumbled glass distress ink. I then matted it onto a piece of pastel blue centura pearl and wrapped a piece of blue ribbon (from The Hobby House) around the centre. I attached the whole thing to a 6 inch scalloped card blank.

The image is Penny Black's In a nutshell which I stamped onto watercolour card and then coloured with the following Spectrum Noir pencils - 

• shell - 089, 091 and 095
• flower - 056, 058, 047, 015, 020, 022, 065 and 068
• Hedgie - 003, 005, 004, 009, 099, 096 and 104
• sky - 066 and 112

I cut the image out with a Spellbinder's oval nestie, inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink and then matted onto a Spellbinder's lacey oval cut from pastel blue centura pearl. I attached it to the card with foam pads.

I attached a piece of blue baker's twine (from the Ribbon Girl) to the top of the card, cut 2 Penny Black pennants from pastel blue centura pearl and then snipped them into singles. I then attached them to the baker's twine and added blue gems (from the Ribbon Girl) to the joins.

I stamped a sentiment from LOTV's sentiment tags onto watercolour card, cut it out and then arranged it at the bottom corner of the card with flowers from the Ribbon Girl.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges - 

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - week 293 - new and cute

http://pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.co.uk - January challenge -stencils, masks and embossing folders (stencil)

http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk - January - New (stencil, die and stamp)

Spectrum Noir Facebook challenge - January - anything goes

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley