Paper Penguins for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I hope you managed to catch Leonie's launch show last night, she showed you how the entwining bits of her new collection worked together. There are more fab demos on at 9am, 12, 4 and 7pm.
 
So, onto my favourite sample out of the ones I made

To start, I cut down a small panel of Sheena's stamping card and blended on some tumbled glass, broken china and iced spruce Distress Inks

Flick water at it from your fingertips and dab with kitchen roll after a few seconds to remove the water.

Do three more of these, place them together, and stamp the swirls from 'Swirls and Flakes' over the top using Black Memento ink

Stamp lines of the hearts from the same set along the bottom of the panels.

Colour the hearts in with a white gel pen.

Now stamp one of the 'Christmas Greetings' stamps onto a strip of white card

then cut up the individual words and doodle outlines on with a black fineliner pen

Arrange them on the panels until they're how you like them

Next, cut down some A4 black card to 10cm x 29.5cm and score into four equal sections.
Add a coloured panel to each of the four sections.

Create another couple of panels using the same method as above and add parts of the Entwined Snowflakes Base die-cut with white card.

 Attach a long length of ribbon to the back of these extra panels and glue them onto the back of the first and last sides of our little 'book'.  

Fold the 'book' up and wrap the ribbon round a couple of times before tying the ends into a bow.

And I almost stopped there, but going back to it the next day, I felt that it needed a bit of a focal point.

Enter the penguins....

First I stamped the oval frame from the 'Love and Joy' stamp set onto a heavyweight white paper using Black Archival ink and then cut it out - you need to do this four times.

Cut two of them in half lengthways and cut a bit more off each half to make the inside edges curve a little so they look like flippers.

Cut a strip of yellow card and lay across the middle of Entwined Cross Base die before cutting out. Also cut the tip of the leaf from Leonie's Mixed Media dies.
 

Along with a circle of black card and a black pearl, you can now assemble your penguin.

I had to chop their feet off a little to get them to fit on the panels, but I'm so chuffed at how this turned out.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

Noor! Designs UK #21 Christmas
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #290 AG  
Classic Design Team Challenge #5 AG
Crimbo Crackers 2W #113 Blue Christmas 
Unicorn Challenge #12 Animal Kingdom 
Addicted to Stamps and More #206 AG
Little Miss Muffet Challenges  #144 - Anything Goes
 Fab 'n' Funky #315 Christmas

Before I go,  just a quick reminder that you only have until Sunday evening to enter my 200th post giveaway (click on the picture to see how to enter)

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you will leave me a comment to let me know you've visited,

Katrina x