Winter Penguin Card

Hello friends! I hope you had a good weekend! We did a lot of things this weekend: went to two Christmas markets, decorated for Christmas and got a tree, took photos for the Christmas cards (a little late since we had been waiting for snow, but we had to do it without snow this year), and also took a really nice walk. 

We have a photo inspired challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Blog this week, and our theme is Icy Photo Inspiration. I was inspired by all the snow on the photos to create a winter scene card.

It is the first Monday of a new month, and as always on that day, the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge team showcases products from a specific company or designer. This time it is Paper Artsy, which has a wide range of stamps and fun coloring products. If you have any of their products, it is fun if yo use them, but you don't need to in order to join the challenge.

Don't miss the gorgeous project by our December guest designer Valarie-Jael, with her blog Bastelmania. 

Have you seen all the new DieCember dies released by SSS just before the weekend? There are so many stunning dies, and here I used one of them, the Picture Book Hugging Penguin. Is she not adorable? I love the effects you can get with Paper Arty's Infusions Coloured Stains, and I used them to create my the icy background for this card.

I started out with a sheet of watercolor paper. On the half to the left, I misted the paper with water first and then sprinkled in the Infusions - A Bit Jaded and In The Navy. On the half to the right, I sprinkled the Infusions first and then misted with water. You only need a tiny amount of powder. I added more water to the side on the left too, and dabbed some of the color away. I like both the more fluid and smooth effect, and the more speckled and textured effect to the right.

I cut a piece that was 11 x 22 cm and folded that into a square card. I like the look of the color continuing onto the back of the card. When it was dry, I stamped it with a small flower stamps from the Paper Artsy Eclectica3 Lin Brown 22 set, which works just as well as a snowflake.

The penguin was die cut from watercolor paper and watercolored with Distress Inks. Yesterday, I posted another card with this penguin die, for the SSS DieCember blog hop, and then the penguin was die cut with wool felt.

Snowy layers were created by tearing vellum and embossing it in the Tiny Dots folder. I also used a fun sentiment from Tim Holtz Christmas Clippings stickers.

I also glued a whole bunch of sequins to the background, from the SSS Frosted pack. Here you can see the cool effect of the Infusions and all the different shades of blue, turquoise and brown.

The stamped flowers look even more like snowflakes with a sequin in the center.

I hope you will join us this week in our Icy Photo Inspiration challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by my blog today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies: 

Paper Artsy ECLECTICA3 LIN BROWN 22 [ SSS ] Paper Artsy IN THE NAVY Infusions Colored Stain [ SSS ] Paper Artsy A BIT JADED Infusions Colored Stain [ SSS ] Simon Says Stamp PICTURE BOOK HUGGING PENGUIN [ SSS ] Simon Says Stamp FROSTED Sequins [ SSS ] Simon Says Stamp VELLUM [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Sizzix TINY DOTS [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHRISTMAS Clippings [ SSS ] Canson MONTVAL WATERCOLOR 9x12 Pad [ SSS ] Tim Holtz 8.5 X 11 DISTRESS WATERCOLOR CARDSTOCK [ SSS ] Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival FORGET-ME-NOT [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad SPICED MARMALADE [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad BLACK SOOT [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad HICKORY SMOKE [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE [ SSS ] Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE [ SSS ] Sizzix MULTIPURPOSE PLATFORM STANDARD FOR WAFER THIN DIES [ SSS ] Sizzix PURPLE WITH SILVER GLITTER [ SSS ] Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology TINY ATTACHER [ SSS ] Hero Arts Rubber Stamp SMALL BLOCK TRIO CLEAR ACRYLIC [ SSS ]

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