Polar Pals

Hello again.

I saw this lovely idea on Pinterest a while ago and wanted to make my own version.

I used the Polar Pals set from Avery Elle for the images.  I combined these with Stitched Mountain dies from Lawn Fawn and stitched border trio from Mama Elephant, to create my scene.

I started by creating the sky using Distress Oxide inks in Black Soot, Blueprint Sketch and Broken China, with added silver shimmer spritz.

Once I had coloured the penguin and die cut all the other elements, it took very little time to put everything together.  

As you can see I made four similar cards using this idea.  I just placed the critters and Hero Arts' sentiment in slightly different places for each card.

TTFN Jude xx

Cool Penguins

Good morning crafty friends, and happy hump day. I hope you are having a good week so far. 

Today's cards were a couple I made after seeing this fabulous card from Kristina Werner on Pinterest. Can you believe that she made this one back in 2014 ?. 

I didn't have the exact same stamps etc. So I adapted the design to what I did have, and mine used the little penguin from Lawn Fawn's Snow Cool set, and the ice float from Avery Elle's Polar Pals set.

I stamped my little penguin first, and then masked him while I stamped the ice float. Then I masked them both to blend the background.

I used Distress Oxide inks in, Tumbled Glass, Broken China, and Blueprint Sketch, and I taped a strip of masking tape across the center to work from, to give me the line.

I coloured my images with Copic markers, and then used a Tim Holtz  Handwritten Holidays greeting, for my sentiment. I stamped one in Versamark and used white embossing powder, and the other with Red Versafine ink, and used clear embossing powder.

Then I added lots of snow dots with a white gel pen, and a few gems and snowflakes from Studio Katia to finish.

Hope you like them, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

PPPPPP - Pick up a Penguin

Good morning folks, I hope you have had a good weekend. I managed to spend some time in the craft room yesterday, so today's card is one of the ones I managed to finish.

I love doing ink blended backgrounds, and using the Distress Oxide inks from Tim Holtz makes them so easy, this one used, Faded Denim, Broken China, Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean.

Once I had all of my colours down on watercolour card, I spritzed it with water and then laid a plain piece of paper straight on top to soak up any excess. Then when it was dry it gave this lovely mottled effect.

I used a white Wink of Stella shimmer pen to add the drops, I just squeezed a few drops out onto my desk and then used the brush nib to splatter all over the background.

While that was drying I cut the penguins and fish using a magazine freebie set we got recently and then stamped a couple of ice floats from the Avery Elle Polar Pals set.

I cut the ice out with their matching die and then inked around the edges with more distress ink to help blend them with the background.

I placed all of the images on my background and added that to a pale blue card blank. Then to finish off I stamped a simple sentiment, added some snowflake sequins and a few drops of Nuvo White Blizzard Glitter Drops. 

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Arctic Birthday

Good morning all, today's card is one I made using the Avery Elle Polar Pals set. 

I started with a piece of blue card and inked over it with a white ink. Going a bit heavier in the centre and lighter towards the edges.

Then I used a white shimmer ink spray over the top to give it a snowy/wintry effect. 

I stamped and cut the animals with their matching dies, and then coloured them with Copic markers.

Then I used the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio dies to create the snowbanks. 

I used one of the sentiment stamps that came with the set and then used a Lawn Fawn Scripty Sayings stamp for the main sentiment. 

Then I added a small plastic football embellishment to finish it off. 

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Polar Pals

Good morning folks, well it's back to the Christmas cards today. This one is made using the Avery Elle Polar Pals stamp and die sets.

I started by inking a background piece of blue card with a paler blue ink. Then I cut a snow bank with the Avery Elle Snow Caps die. 

I used a piece of patterned paper for the water and then added the polar bears and the ice float.

I coloured the bears with Copic markers and then stamped a greeting using Tuxedo Black Memento ink and a Tim Holtz Christmas stamp.

Then I added white gel pen all over the sky to give a twinkly/snowy effect and finished it off with a few sequins. 

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Let it Snow

Hi there, hope you are having a good week. Today's card was made using the new Polar Pals set from Avery Elle.

I used a background paper from a Graffix paper pad called Frozen for the background. Then I used the Avery Elle Snow Caps dies for the mountains and landscape.

The same set was used for the little tree and the cable car, I love this set lol. Then I used the Polar Pals set for the penguins and cut them out with their matching dies. 

I coloured the penguins with Copic markers and then used a load of Wink of Stella to make all of the mountains and snow sparkle. It's a pity it doesn't pick up very well on photo's. 

I finished the card off with a sentiment from a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous set, stamped with Jet Black Archival ink. 

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you Friday.

xxx