I always feel bad when it comes round to 25 of the month and I realise that I haven't posted any cards since the previous Rudolph Day. The trouble is that, with the current postal delays, I am making my birthday cards to post about a month ahead of the date, in the hope that they will arrive on time, (some do and some don't. So I can't write about them on here until the birthdays have passed, and by then I have almost forgotten about them. But at least this challenge is always completed on time and can be shared right away.
There is no 'batch bake' this time, just a single card but I do have two more cut out ready to be coloured and assembled.
The stamps used are Pink Ink and I do like her quirky designs. There are three separate penguin stamps, so I had to do some stamping and masking to make this trio.
I coloured them with copic markers and cut them out.
Using my Misti stamping platform to keep the placing right I stamped my group six times - three for the background and three for the toppers.
I dusted the background with Memento inks in Summer sky and Lulu lavender, and did an extra few scraps to print the sentiment on.
Then I made a very basic error which I am sure you can all see - I ran it through my Bigshot in my snowfall embossing folder the wrong way round so my snow is debossed instead of embossed. I decided to run with it anyway.
I carefully lined up my cut image with the printed one, and glued it in place, so the extra 'swirls' that were too fine to cut out, would show. And mounted the whole thing onto a white base card.
A little glitter glue and a few peel-off snowflakes completed it.
Now I must get on with finishing the other two, but first I will pop over to Scraps of Life with Scrappy Mo, to link up with the June Rudolph day Challenge.
Lots of Christmas stamps and dies are appearing online this week (well we are exactly halfway to next Christmas!), so if you have been tempted by any of them, do join us and show off what you have made.
