Christmas in Black & White +1

CHNC this week is to make a Xmas card using black, white & one other colour.

I chose red as my other colour.

I stamped this Penny Black image in black ink onto white card

& coloured the hats using a copic pen

these cute hedgehogs always make me smile! :-)

I  mounted the image onto the backing at a slight angle to give it a sense of movement.

I'd also like to enter this in Simon Says - Christmas in August 

and Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes

3 Squares madness!

The challenge over on Less is More this week is 3 squares

This was my first card

I used a square 'background' stamp that I  inked with distress inks.

The 2 outside squares I used the stamp square on but for the middle square I tilted it making it a diamond shape which fitted the seahorse stamp beautifully.

The left hand square I stamped using the feebie stamp from Craft Stamper mag

and used this Happy Birthday stamp from Penny Black on the right hand square.

This is the second card...

I had stamped out a practice before stamping straight onto the card for the last card

and not wanting to waste .....

cut out the practice stamping  & stamped just using the images this time.

note that I popped one of the images 'upside down' for added interest.

I mounted them onto a piece of silver 'netting'

and to finish stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment

straight onto the card.

My 3rd card in the 3 squares madness series

is this one for hubby's Aunties birthday ............

The first square is a beautiful yellow mulberry paper which was a present from a friend over in Japan

it's so fresh & spring like

The image is a Penny Black stamp, coloured with my copics

The border was done with a copic  0.8 outline pen.

So there you have it .............. my 3 squares madness!! :-)

Feature a Creature

Over on Hazel's Xmas challenge blog the theme this week is 

'feature a creature'

I chose these cute mice carol singing :-) from my Penny Black set

which I coloured using my copics

matted onto plain & coloured card

snowflakes at the top (cut with my sizzix die on my Big Shot)

and at the bottom too

both lots coloured with platinum coloured ink

added the Merry Christmas sentiment this time stamped onto the patterned paper & matted onto the plain.

I'd like to enter this into the

Penny Black Saturday challenge - pretty in pink

as well as

CHNC challenge 7 - feature a creature