A Waddle of Penguins

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:

https://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/09/christmas-animals.html

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http://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.com/2022/09/challenge-92-midway-anything-goes.html

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https://pixiessnippetsplayground.blogspot.com/2022/09/challenge-437.html - all  my penguins are snippets

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http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/09/challenge-124-anything-christmas-goes.html

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Christmas Penguins

Good Morning everyone

I was given these lovely pink ink stamped penguins by a crafty friend (thanks Gwen) and used up some more of the old cardstock...i swear it breeds in the dark😁

A5 base card made from a very dark blue pearlised cardstock.  I also found some dotty embossed cardstock which ive used for my background.  I watercoloured the penguins with distress inks and splattered some of the same colours onto the ivory cardstock.  I fussy cut the penguins.

I layered the ivory embossed cardstock onto my base card and tore another strip of it to fit across the bottom of the card to give the effect of a mound of snow, i stamped my greeting onto this piece with blue ink and mounted onto the base card with foam tape.  I then added my penguins with glue gel.

Glitter glue highlights to finish.

Version 2

Version 3

Items Used:

Pink Ink stamps 'we three kings'

Snow sentiment - magazine freebie

Distress Inks - chipped sapphire, pine needles, black soot, dusty concorde, twisted citron, blueprint sketch, picked raspberry, ripe persimmon, squeeshed lemonade, warm honey

Ranger stickles - frosted lace, star dust, diamond

Thank you all for stopping by once again. Hugs Emmax

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Penguin fun

Good Morning everyone.

I hadn't planned another post before Christmas but ive had a little fun today.  In the countryview crafts advent event i bought (among lots of others!) these brilliant penguin stamps by aall&create and i thought they were the ideal size for some of the little snippets of alcohol inked acetate i had left over from cards so as Id cleared my desk I had a little play and made myself some penguin bunting.

Previously id coloured acetate with alcohol inks - this is ideal for using packaging acetate as it hides any little marks.  On the opposite side to the alcohol ink i stamped the penguins with stazon ink - i need to get a refil as some didn't stamp perfectly but a black sharpie marker came to the rescue.  Then I cut them out, leaving a little tab of acetate above their heads which i punched a hole in - i also removed any alcohol ink above the heads with blending solution and cotton wool so that only the penguins were coloured.  If i wasn't using up scraps of pre coloured acetate you could stamp the penguins first and then add alcohol ink to colour them.

I added a jump ring through the punched hole and tied them onto clear jewellery thread. As the acetate is see through it meant it was easy to flip some penguins  to face the opposite way.

Sadly my photos don't show up the true colours as its too long to fit in my light box and its so dark and gloomy today trying to take the photos.  

Just a close up on a few of them.  

Items Used:

Aall&create stamps #603 'frosty' & #604 'penguin'

Tim Holtz alcohol inks

Acetate

Jump Rings

Clear jewellery thread

Id love to enter the following:

https://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.com/2021/12/december-2021-christmas-anything-goes.html

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https://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/12/december-choose-theme-and-stamp-it.html

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http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/12/anything-christmas.html

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http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com/2021/12/pixies-snippets-playground-challenge_0458224053.html  - all my penguins are on snippets of acetate

I had hoped to enter this challenge but after hours of trying the link tool just keeps saying nope😕

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Ive also added photos of the present ive made for my mum for Christmas.  In my stash busting mission this year i wondered what to do with these glass pebbles and this is the outcome

I started with a 20cm foam football and took a slice off the bottom so it can sit flat in the garden.  I then glued on randomly in stages lots of glass pebbles.  Then used bathroom grout - something i won't be doing again, this was definitely a labour of love doing a bit at a time.

A smaller version on a garden stake, i used just blue and clear glass pebbles on this one, a 7cm foam ball that id pushed a metal garden stake into.  I actually made this one first and base painted the bright yellow ball black but the colours didn't stand out so much so the bigger version i base painted white, this also helps seal the ball.

 Just showing both together

Thank you for stopping by. 

I hope you all enjoy the festive period and stay safe. Big hugs Emmaxxx