Colourful Penguin Christmas

Happy Friday before Christmas! DT Annalisa here today sharing a sweet and colourful penguin scene I created using the It's Penguin-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas stamp set from Time For Tea Designs.

To make the background panel, I used watercolour paper and Distress Watercolour Pencils in Cracked Pistachio, Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers, Shaded Lilac, Picked Raspberry, and Spun Sugar. I followed a technique from one of Jenn Shurkus’s Get Cracking on Christmas tutorials on YouTube. She has so many fantastic tutorials, a wonderful blog, and terrific classes. I highly recommend checking her out if you want to learn more about using Distress Watercolour Pencils.

Once the A2 panel was dry, I used a palette knife to spread White Embossing Paste by Wendy Vecchi over a snow stencil from my stash. After letting it dry for about an hour, I attached the panel to a card base using double-sided tape.

For the card images, I stamped elements from several sets: Skating By Penguins (ice), Merry Cheesemas (round Christmas ornament), and It's Penguin-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas (penguins and igloo). I coloured everything with Copic markers and cut the pieces out using the coordinating dies. I added white gel-pen accents with a Gelly Roll Pen and added a touch of sparkle to some images using a Quickie Glue Pen and Lawn Fawn Prisma Glitter.

I adhered the images to the card base using either liquid glue or foam tape for added dimension.

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