Penny Black kitty

Good morning everyone!! Wow, did we have some storms here last night!!! Cracks of thunder & lightning, & some very loud rain made for a sleepless night for me! With all the flooding last month around here, I'm sure all that rain was the last thing some folks needed!!!

I did get to finish my card last night. Nothing special, just another adorable image from Penny Black. I actually picked this one up at a rummage sale at my LSS earlier this year. I love *all* Penny Black critters, & I'm usually lucky enough to find one or two at this rummage sale that they have twice a year. I used LAST weeks sketch from the Friday Sketchers blog, of course now they have a new one posted today. I'm usually a week late :) Click here to see *this* week's sketch. I love sketches ~ the hardest part of making a card for me is coming up with layouts, so I appreciate the people who take the time to post sketches on their blogs, the people who create sketch blogs like Friday Sketchers, & of course SCS, which has a sketch challenge each Wednesday.


Since I'm still trying to figure out how to make my pictures larger when they are clicked (I did try uploading them a different way today), I included a close up of the embossing I did. I used Colorbox black pigment ink to stamp the image onto watercolor paper, then embossed it with Ranger clear Embossing Powder. I generally will emboss the image if I plan on watercoloring it. And watercoloring for me means using my SU markers & blender pen. I canNOT color with ink refills, nor can I use that darn Aquapainter. I always get too much water! I even tried stuffing the end with a small piece of sponge like some recommended, but I still get wayyyy too much water. If I want to use water I will use a regular old paintbrush dipped in water. But I like my blender pen, I'm able to control it a lot better.

After coloring it I punched out a bunch of flowers with different punches using Bazzill Bling paper, one of my very favorite papers. Put them all together, added some Dew Drops in the lower left corner & added some Stickles to the flowers. All done!!!

And lookie what I woke up to ~~ an email from Inky Antics announcing the July special. Does the card of the week look familiar??????

Ok, I'd better get started on my day. I am getting my older son's room ready to paint & we have to take everything out. He's been busy for the last few weeks putting all his junk.......I mean, precious belongings.......into bins. Today we have to fill about 2 more bins, take stuff off the walls & start taking furniture out. He will bunk with my younger son for the next week or so.......I'm envisioning a few giggly, sleepless nights in the near future!!!!