Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Happy 1st Birthday

This week's Penny Black challenge is in celebration of the blog's 1st birthday! I love celebrating occasions; just celebrating an event in someone's life is so wonderful!

I have lots of family and friends who did either celebrate a birthday, graduation or a milestone recenlty Luckily for this week's challenge, I have a couple of cards that I made recently that I can use. :) So I decided to use this card that was for a friend of mine for her birthday that I posted recently. A very simple card:

Outside and inside of card:

I used the Penny Black stamp"...your birthday" (love the critter) and the sentiments collection for the happy birthday phrasing and the dotted circles (colored by Colorbox colors orange and red).For the colors of the critter, I used Copic Markers E33 (Sand), E35 (chamois), RV13 (tender pink) and the colorless blender. The present and the icing of the cake was in R37 (carmine), which is starting to become my favorite red color. RV13 was used again for the first layer of icing on the cake. I used Y17 (golden yellow) for the cake color and lighting of the candle with a little bit of the orange "at you spica" pen. :)

Happy Birthday to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge Blog. Thanks for letting me be part of the group and for sharing your creative ideas!

Thanks for stopping by!

Random Cards

Many events came up the last week that I was busy making cards from birthday to sympathy.

Happy Birthday

I used the Penny Black stamp"...your birthday" (love the critter) and the sentiments collection for the happy birthday phrasing and the dotted circles (colored by Colorbox colors orange and red).

For the colors of the critter, I used Copic Markers E33 (Sand), E35 (chamois), RV13 (tender pink) and the colorless blender. The present and the icing of the cake was in R37 (carmine), which is starting to become my favorite red color. RV13 was used again for the first layer of icing on the cake. I used Y17 (golden yellow) for the cake color and lighting of the candle with a little bit of the orange "at you spica" pen. :)

Sympathy

The flower on the front of the card is from the Kodomo Inc Spring Flower collection. The flower is called "Sweet Flag." What a great name for the flower. I colored the flower and the stem using the Marvy Uchida markers pale violet and olive green. I haven't used the Uchida markers in a long time. I should pull them out once in a while. They are great for coloring and adding detail.