Playful Penguins

This penguin is so adorable! I fell in love with him when I first saw him in the July-December mini catalog. I had fun creating with him too. These cards are more every day cards to show that you can use him for more than just Christmas cards.

This one starts with Polished Pink for the card base. I layered on Soft Sea Foam. The Night of Navy is cut into 3 pieces after it was embossed with Bark embossing folder and then the white craft pad dragged across the top.  The circle behind the penguin was stamped with Soft Sea Foam and Night of Navy. I used blending brushes to add more color to it.

Evergreen Elegance

Evergreen Elegance is a beautiful set of evergreen trees with a coordinating punch that is in the main catalog. If you have followed me for any length of time, you know that I am fascinated with God's creation. Trees, birds, flowers, nature has such beauty and I love it! This set has such great evergreens in it.

Shaded Spruce is the color for the base of this card. I stamped the evergreen several times before re-inking each time. This creates the allusion of the trees being closer and farther away. I did make this card as a Facebook Live. You can watch the replay HERE. 

Celebrate Sunflowers

Well, it's Monday again. They keep coming around even though they are unwanted! Ha! I want to bring you a little bit of sunshine today so I am sharing my Celebrate Sunflowers cards that I made a couple of weeks ago. I know that sunflowers are typically a fall thing but when you need some sunshine, sunflowers seem to be the answer for me, at least it was when I was creating these!

This one starts with an Early Espresso card base and I added layers of Mossy Meadow and Crumb Cake. Both were embossed with folders. I stamped, colored and die cut the flowers and leaves. I then die cut the extra leaves and the wheat stalks. I then just played with an arrangement until I liked it, adhering with tape as I went. I put the bundle on the card front with dimensionals when I had it all together and was pleased with it.

Great Tidings

Nativities might be a weakness for me. I may have over 35 different sets and this doesn't not include ornaments on my Christmas tree. When Stampin' Up! shares the June - December mini catalogs, I am always looking to see what religious Christmas stamp set they are including. This past year's set was calling Great Tidings. While this set didn't have the whole nativity, it did have the wisemen and I had great fun creating with it.

This may be my favorite card of this bunch, although I really like the way they all turned out. I started with Night of Navy for the card base. The next layer is Misty Moonlight. Boy, am I going to miss this color! It is schedule to retire in April. I will be stocking up a bit. I stamped the Stacked Stone on the Misty Moonlight. The wiseman was stamped with Memento ink and then colored with Misty Moonlight and Granny Apple Green blends. The circle is a die cut piece of vellum. 

In Symmetry

I am smitten with this paper! The bold patterns are so fantastic! The colors are eye catching. I was so excited to play with it when I got it. I played with it almost right away but then it took me some time to get this post written. Ah, life! Such a wonderful thing!

This paper is called Sweet Symmetry. It can be found in the main catalog. The coordinating set is called In Symmetry. I started this card with a Night of Navy card base. The designer series paper is actually 4 pieces that are cut at 2" x 2-5/8". I folded the inside corners of each piece creating the center opening. The circles are die cut with the Layering Circle dies. I colored the crinkled binding ribbon and the rhinestones with the Night of Navy dark blend.