Good Morning everyone
Back to Christmas cards today and this batch is using up scraps of inky backgrounds and the fab aall&create penguin stamps.
Ive already put these away but I think the size was 5x8". I took a piece of card smaller than the cardbase and stencilled a light pattern with distress inks shaded lilac, cracked pistachio & evergreen bough and added some splashes of the same inks. Then i used a very old texture paste which has a gold shimmer when the light hits it and put through a snowflake stencil and put to one side to dry.
I stamped and cut out the penguins. I matted my background onto black card and then the base & stamped my sentiment onto a strip of card, matted onto black and added across the bottom of the card with foam tape. I then arranged my penguins and adhered with pinflair glue gel.
You can see the soft stencilling in the background here
The texture paste has a lovely gold shimmer when the light hits it
Version 2
Version 3
and version 4 - in all i made 20 variations
Showing them all stamped up onto left over offcuts of backgrounds made using various inks, brushos, oxide inks, pixie powders
and them all cut out - for me i find cutting out more relaxing than colouring in. Usually when cutting out, I cut upto the line but in this case i found they stood out more against the background by leaving a small border of the colour around them.
Items Used:
aall&create stamps 'penguin #604' & 'frosty #603'
Stampin up sentiment 'curly cute'
Funky fossil stencil - snowflakes
Woodware mini stencil - swirl
Creative expressions texture paste
Distress Inks shaded lilac, cracked pistachio, evergreen bough
CraftUK ltd smooth white cardstock
Thank you all for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. Hugs Emmaxx
Id love to enter the following:
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https://pixiessnippetsplayground.blogspot.com/2022/09/challenge-437.html - all my penguins are snippets
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A fantastic selection today Ginny
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I just love penguins - and these are the coolest ever!!! Love the background too. Outstanding card!
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These penguin Christmas cards look wonderful. I love the variety of colours. Thanks for sharing a picture of your snippets. Wow you have a lot of patience to cut all those penguins out - but if you find it relaxing, that's GREAT!
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Great stencilled background and love all the fabulouscoloured penguins
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Your background reminds me of the aurora borealis and I love these gorgeous penguins
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Oh these colourful penguins are just fabulous, perfect for festive cards and I love the b/ground with the textured snowflakes, I applaud your batch making skills too! Steph x
ReplyDeleteWonderful batch of colourful penguin cards Emma! Like you - I enjoy fussy cutting more than colouring as well! Lovely to see you playing along with us.
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Di xx
What a great collection of cards, Emma, the penguins are gorgeous! Thanks for joining in at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge..
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Great cards and what a huge heap of penguins you prepared - dedicated fussy cutting I'd say. A brilliant idea all round
ReplyDeleteWell done on being a pick in the playground. Love that you fussy cut so many penguins, the cards look wonderful. Wondering now what stamp I can use for this technique.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant batch of Christmas cards Emma and look at all that cutting out, must take you hours!! I struggle with cutting out, end up with chunks missing usually, you must have the patients of a Saint. Big hugs Kirsty. x
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