It's Penguining to Look a lot Like Christmas!

 Hello crafty people! This is Rachel from rwkrafts.com and today I'm sharing a sweet winter card featuring an adorable penguin friend. It's definitely down to the wire in getting this holiday cards finished... I have about 20 more to go (eek!)

The penguin is from the stamp set "It's Penguinning" by Crafter's Companion. The large image is very easy to color and fussy cut! I colored this penguin with my copic markers.

For the background, I inked up the stencil from Paper Artsy called Snowflakes. First I inked it with a light blue ink, and then I turned the stencil and went over it with a gloss gel medium. I then added glitter over the top. It makes a great snowy and icy look for the penguin to hang out :)

Thanks for stopping in! Good luck finishing your holiday creations!

TOPFLIGHT STAMPS SUPPLIES USED:

Crafter's Companion - It's Penguinning

Paper Artsy stencil - Snowflakes

AALL & Create Tracy Evans Penguin Mixed Media Tag & Card

 

Happy winter friends!  It's Autumn Clark from SewPaperPaint with you today to share some fun mixed media projects featuring the fun new penguin stamp set by Tracy Evans for AALL & Create (#604).  I couldn't wait to have a play with these stamps!  I ended up making a tag/card combo because I just couldn't stop with one project. 

I used texture paste through the Mosaic stencil (#54) onto watercolor paper and while the paste was wet sprinkled the top with Sleight Blue Infusions powder by PaperArtsy.  I sprayed and sprayed with water to let the color run through the texture pattern and then let it dry completely.  In the end I liked the darker portion at the bottom, so I cut up the 6x6 panel and mounted it onto a tag, making a mini tag from the cast off, on which I stamped the tiny text in the set, so cute! 

I used a very old Sizzix die to cut the snowflake from thin chipboard, then covered the entire piece with more texture paste for a snowy effect.  I added some silk ribbon and a mounted sentiment sticker to finish it off. 

Next, I played around with the paper I used to mop up the inks from the Infusions drips.  

I used the Brrr stamp to add subtle contrast in the background (Iced Spruce DOX) then used the extra paper to tear snowy hills.  I scraped texture paste on the tops and sprinkled with holographic embossing powder and heat set to add some shimmer.  I gave everything a splash of Bronze Glimmer Mist and added another sentiment.  This time I added a little watercolor detail to the penguins for a color pop.  I'd like thank my teammate Kathi for sharing this fabulous textured paper with me, which made the perfect mat for this colorway.  :)

I hope these projects have inspired you on this winter's day!  xx, Autumn

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Polkadoodle Snowball Kisses

 

Happy New Year to all of you and I hope your 2022 is going well. Ericka with Strangely Creative here and today I'm playing with a cute Polkadoodle Snowball Kisses set and PaperArtsy Infusions on photo paper.

For the New Year, I was cleaning up my craft room when I came across some photo paper. I wanted to play with some different background methods and so I decided to use PaperArtsy Infusions with my the photo paper.  The fun thing about the photo paper is once water is added to the powder it "freezes" on the surface and you can get a bunch of fun textures.

After playing around with a couple of backgrounds and colors (check out our Instagram), I decided to see if I could stamp the Polkadoodle Snowball Kisses directly on the photo paper and color it up using Prism Brush markers. I then individually added the Infusions in Lemoncello, Sunset Beach, and In the Navy. After each color, I let the paper dry before I added a new color.

I added the sentiment and some snowflakes around the background to finish my card. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend and a chance to create.

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