Tis The Season To Be Jolly

Hi!

It's Anja here with my last holiday card this season. This time I used sweet caroling penguins and made this joyful card. 

 For this card I used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Caroling Penguin Flute, Caroling Penguin Drum, Caroling Penguin Trumpet),

- Distress Inks and Oxides,

- white card base (10x21 cm),

- white card stock for die cuts and background (9x20 cm),

- silver pigment ink,

- gold pigment ink,

- white pen,

- black pen,

- white embossing powder,

- embossing ink,

 - heat gun,

- brush,

- water spritzer,

- sentiment stamp,

- acrylic block,

- paper glue. 

First I cut and colored all three penguins.

Next I trimmed the paper for the background and embossed the sentiment on it using white embossing powder.

Then I colored all over the paper with Distress Oxides. I used a makeup brush to blend all three colors. When I was satisfied with the colors I sprinkled water drop over it and dried the paper with the heat gun.

When the background was ready I glued it on the card base and added the penguins on both sides of the sentiment. And my card was done.

Before I go I want to invite you to the store to check on After Christmas sale. To get all the missing dies to craft with. 

Have a nice Sunday and see you again tomorrow for my short Monday post.

Anja Z. 

Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card:

Merry Christmas

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing a Christmas card featuring several dies from one of the new Christmas die releases.  When I saw these adorable penguin die sets, I was immediately inspired to create this slimline card.  This card is 4x9 so there is plenty of room on it to add all of the die cut elements.

I cut out the Flute, Trumpet and Drum Caroling Penguins using colored card stock.  The last penguin is from the Christmas Pals Peekers.  The snowflakes are trimmed from the Merry Christmas Ornament and the letters are from the Stitched Alphabet.

I ink blended the background of my card using 3 different colors and splattered it with some water.  I hand cut out a couple of hills for my card base from white card stock.  A sentiment from the APB - This is December #2 stamp set was heat embossed on some black card stock.

The snowy hills were adhered to the bottom of my card base with the little penguin peeking out.  I added the sentiments directly above the penguin.

Next, I added 2 of the penguins on the left side of my card. They contrast so nicely against the bold blue background.

The final penguin was affixed on the opposite end of my card.  He's absolutely adorable with his trumpet.

The tiny snowflakes were scattered amongst the penguins.  I randomly filled in the empty spaces with them.

The remaining snowflakes were adhered along the top edge of my card completing the adorable scene.

Here are the die sets used on my card, available in the store:

Caroling Penguin Band

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a Christmas card featuring dies from the new Christmas Part 2 release.  It's hard for me to believe that it's time to start making Christmas cards!  Some crafters make them throughout the year and I try to do that, but the holidays always seem to sneak up on me.  However I know that if I start now in September, I'll have the cards I need to mail out by the beginning of December.  This release comes at the perfect time and is on sale right now!

This card features the Caroling Penguins dies.  These little guys are too cute and can be used as a group or individually.  As I was making them I realized they would also be adorable for New Years by changing their top hats, the vest and bow tie to either black or silver in order to dress them in "formal wear"!

I cut all the pieces from black, white, red, green and yellow cardstock.  I used a metallic gold for the trumpet and a metallic silver for the flute and drum.  I also placed all the pieces for each penguin in an individual cup so I wouldn't get them mixed up when assembling.  (I have also used a muffin tin to do this in the past.)

I made a slimline card by folding a piece of 7 x 8 1/2 inch card stock in half and cut a panel for the front from mixed media paper for a watercolor wash background.  So I would know where to make the wash, I loosely arranged the penguins on the front of card base along with the sentiment as a guide.

The word "Joy" uses the Joy Ornament die from the Christmas Part 1 release.  After die cutting from the gold metallic paper, I used small scissors to trim away the ornament.

I then made my wash from a medium and a dark blue ink concentrating the dark blue at the bottom.  I wanted the gold to stand out against the background.

After adhering the word "Joy", I placed the panel in my stamping platform and stamped the rest of the sentiment using a black archival ink.

I placed a piece of washi tape with music notes and a 1/4 inch strip of red cardtsock down the right side of the card base.  After trimming my panel to 3 1/8 inches I glued it to the card base.  Because watercoloring often warps the paper, I placed heavy books on top after gluing to flattened the card before adding my penguins.

The top and bottom penguins are glued to the panel and the flute player is popped up using foam dots.  I added some self adhesive crystal gems to simulate ice and snowfall.

Dies used:

Be sure to visit the online store where both Christmas releases and the new Halloween release are on sale for a limited time!

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a fun and creative weekend!