A Wish for Peace - Penny Black

This month's challenge at Penny Black at Allsorts is "free and easy". I am going to Ireland next month to see my Dad and sister. Since my mum died I started making cards for my Dad to send out at Christmas. Now he likes them every year. So I am trying to make a batch every week so I have his supply ready to take over to him!!

This is a stamp I bought last year from Penny Black called "A Wish for Peace". 

A Wish for Peace

I used Tom Bow brush markers directly on the stamp and spritzed lightly with water. It is such a delicate scene so I kept the background quite muted and soft. 

I know it's only August, but this year I am going to be organized...........!!! I bet you have all heard that before.

Siobhan

A Little Story

Sorry, I haven't had much to post over the last few weeks. Between birthdays, graduations, dogs and work the last few weeks have just flown by. 

However I thought I would share a little story I wrote for my friend Liz. It was her birthday recently and a few of us went on a picnic to a little island in Loch Leven to celebrate it. There is a very old castle there where Mary Queen of Scots was held captive for almost a year by Elizabeth I in the 1500's. It is a lovely place to visit. The boat takes about 10 mins and you can spend a happy time wandering around the ruins of the castle and there are lots of lovely spots for a picnic. We all had a lovely day. 

To cut a long story short, I was able to give Liz the book I had made her at the picnic. She loves Penny Black hedgehogs, mice, rabbits etc. So I made up a story and illustrated it with the stamps I had. They all had names of people she knows or dogs she has or had.

I then used my Bind-it-All machine to finish it off.

  

 

       

I am sure if you are a Penny Black fan you will recognise some of these characters. I haven't  entered any challenges lately so this is going to be entered into this month's Penny Black at Allsorts Challenge .The theme this month is flowers, and lots of the stamps I have used in this book feature flowers. So I think it fits the brief. There are some beautiful Penny Black floral stamps that aren't cute, which reminds me I have a fair few of those too!!

Siobhan

Your my Favourite -Penny Black Challange

This month's challange from Penny Black at Allsorts is to pick your favourite stamp. What can I say - I have so many favourites. I decided to go with the cute one's for a change. I love the Penny Black mice and bunnies in particular. I especially love the Penny Black tryptich style. And this one of the little mice in the walnut shells is just so cute.

I have used this for lot's of occasions including "Happy Retirement"

Then I found another one I love which is the little bunny and bird in the garden. I don't know which is my favourite out of these two. I will let you decide.

I don't do much in the way of cute these days, so I hope you like them!!

Black and White Plus One

When I found the Penny Black Challenge blog I was delighted. I love Penny Black stamps and have accumulated a fair few over the years. But the ones I always go back to are my collection of "Brushstroke" style images. And I love alot of the word stamps. So I thought I would do a quick entry for this challenge

Black and White plus one - I went for blue. All the stamps used are Penny Black, and then I needed something to finish it off hence the blue bird.

Nothing is Worth More than This Day

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