Black Card Challenge-Fa La La La La

Here is the card I made for the black card challenge on the Michael Strong Facebook group.

I am seeing these dear penguins shop till they drop before the black Friday sales end! 

Why not make up your card, submit it to the Facebook group and hope for a chance to win a Michael Strong stamp!

I copied the details of the challenge here:

One day challenge: share your black card with us and you have a chance to win a Michael Strong stamp. Of course you can add a little color, but a lot of black and MUST have a MS stamp of course. You have until Cyber Monday - Dec 2 - to add your card!

The penguins are from Michael's Cloisonne Penguin Pals stamp set.

Sheet music from  Cuttlebug Allegro embossing folder, fussy cut and sponged with distress black soot ink. The snow is cardstock, fussy cut and then put through a Fiskars corrugator tool.

Sentiment hand written and fussy cut.

Happy stamping! I'd rather stamp than fight the crowds!

Friday Card of the Day

Today's card of the day features a penguin from Michael Strong's Cloisonne Penguin Pals stamp set. 

This cute penguin was residing in my stash, already stamped and embossed! All I had to do was fussy cut him...or is it a her? I love the gym shoes she is wearing!

She is standing near icy cold water...maybe on a snow packed seashore on a sunny day.

Not sure if it actually looks that way???

For the background "scene" I used watercolor pencils and a water brush.  I used an acrylic block for my workspace, wetting the tip of the watercolor pencil by squeezing the water brush. The color lifted/transferred to the water brush and then I could paint the colors onto my watercolor paper. I took a photo of what I am trying to describe, however I did not use any red on this project.

These are the watercolor pencils I used from my collection:

Crayola yellow

Staedtler Karat "blue" 3

Staedtler Karat "blue" 30

Derwent "spectrum blue" 32

Using a Nestabilities Labels 8 oval die, I cut the paper and hand wrote the sentiment with a Faber Castell PITT pen XS. The edges were sponged in distress salty ocean. Then the layer was dry embossed with a Swiss dots embossing folder.

Thank you for visiting! I am thankful to be part of the Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps group.io

Peace and all good!