Sledging Penguin

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Another penguin for you today - this is Frosty Fun, an old rubber stamp from Lili of the Valley.

He's coloured in with Promarkers:

Scarf: Tea Green, Soft Green, Crimson, Burgundy 

Penguin Body: Cool Grey 1-5, Black 

Feet: Apricot, Amber, Burnt Orange 

Sledge: Sandstone, Caramel, Umber 

Present Penguin

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well. 

Just popping in to share another Christmas card.

Ingredients:

6x6" card blank

Christmas Promise 12x12" Paper Pad (First Edition)

Gift Card dies (Tim Holtz)

Cosy Christmas & Snappy Christmas stamp sets (Becky Seddon)

white supersmooth 200gsm card (Limetree Crafts)

Promarkers

Merry Christmas wreath die (can't find the packet, I think a magazine freebie?)

Everyday sentiment tag stamp (Lili of the Valley)

button & white twine

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

As You Like It Challenge Favourite snowman or penguin - penguins of course, they are so cute and I love their little waddle when they walk.

Cutie Pie Challenge #153 add a button(s)

I love Promarkers #424 Anything Goes opt Christmas

Pammies Inky Pinkies 2048 animals

Christmas with the Cuties #44 feature a creature

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe

Katrina x

Skating penguin

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Today's make is inspired by this fab card by Inge Groot 

which I found on Pinterest absolutely ages ago. The expression on his face is brilliant and I love the layout.

Tis the season

Hello lovely peeps

 Just popping in to show you the card I made for a Winter/Christmas theme card swap this week. The penguin image is called 'Snow Flurries' from Lili of the Valley, which I have stamped onto watercolour card and coloured in with diluted Brushos (Crimson, Black, Seagreen)

It's layered up with papers from my stash, snowflake die-cuts and clear sparkly sequins.
The dies were a complete bargain on ebay, made in China

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

 Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas #312 cute or anything goes
Cute Card Thursday 456 Snowflakes
My Time to Craft #336 christmas non-traditional colours
 Addicted to Stamps #138 Snowflakes 

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge #86 Create a Christmas Card

 Creative Inspirations #264 White Christmas 

In The Pink #109 Christmas

Stempelsonnen Challenge - #180 Always Anything Goes 

Daisy Chain #3 Happy Christmas 

As You Like It Challenge Favourite Christmas Carol/song and why - Deck the Halls never fails to get me in the mood for Christmas - it's such a cheerful tune and I love the line 'tis the season to be jolly' and all the fa la la la la la la la la-ing :o)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Design Collective - Frosty Fun

Hello lovely peeps.

Here's my second August card for the Lili of the Valley Design Collective.

The stamp is called Frosty Fun and the papers are from the Simple Joys 8x8 paper pad.

First I stamped Frosty Fun onto white card, cut it out with a circle die and then coloured him in with Promarkers and Graph'Its. I sprinkled Shabby White frantage powder around the edges of the circle and then heated from underneath.
 

 

 To make the slider mechanism I first cut a slot into a piece of card (diagonal because he's going downhill). It's about 1.25cm wide. I also cut a quarter circle out of the corner of my card.

I cut a piece of matching card 2.5cm by 21cm and folded it in half. This is the 'pull' bit of the mechanism.

Draw lines on the back of the card where this will sit and attach strips of 3D foam either side - this will keep the slider from straying out of position.

Slide the 'pull' strip in place and then turn the card over. The end should poke out from the corner so you can pull it. Put some 3D foam on the other end of the 'pull' strip. This stops the pull strip going too far back in/coming too far out, and is also where you attach your topper.

I added some die cut trees to my card before I attached my topper - I used two different sized Bigz dies. The tree edges were distressed with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink and more frantage powder.

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

Papertake Weekly - To die for

Crafting by designs -  Get ready for Christmas

 Moving along with times - Snow in Summertime

Graph It Colour Challenge - Palette/Anything goes

Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra  - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes with a stamp and a die

Sweet Stampin Christmas - Penguins and/or Polar Bears

Dies R Us Challenge Blog - THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Little Claire's - Christmas in August

Not Just Cards - Anything Goes

ABC Christmas - Q is for Quantum Leap (C - Colourful, D - Die Cuts, O - Off the Edge)

That's all for now folks, but I'll be back in a couple of days.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x