I decided to put the Flight of the Butterflies away for a bit and work on something else. For Christmas I got the Hunkydory set called Perfect Planet - a gorgeous deco kit! Here are the cards I made using the Penguin Paradise set. The Adorable Scoreable card stock (AS) that accompanied this set was SOOOO gorgeous! I couldn't bear to cut the picture apart. So I figured out a way to make it into a latch card using one of the die cuts as the latch.
Card #1: (see above) The sentiment was printed on my computer, then die cut and inked using a die from Spellbinders' Labels Twenty.
Open:
Inside I added 3 little die cuts of penguins - two on ice floes and one in the water.
Card #2:
This card was made using a sketch challenge. The patterned papers are from my stash. I inked the lighter one at the bottom so the penguins had something to "sit on". The rest of the materials are from the kit except for the snowflakes which are confetti pieces from my stash.
Inside:
I used misc left over pieces for a border & corners on the inside - then sprinkled a few more of the confetti pieces.
Card #3:
This card started with a solid blue card stock for the background. I cut a piece of patterned paper from my stash to fit on the right side, leaving a narrow blue border. I then took the die cut piece and trimmed the right side - adding it to the left side so that the large penguins were in the right corner. I added a gold border & the sentiment (from the kit). I finished the front by adding 3 punched gold circles to the bottom left.
Inside:
This little penguin was designed to layer & therefore was missing his foot - I just trimmed near the bottom and added him to scraps of the patterned paper & blue card stock.
Card #4:
It took me awhile, but I started thinking that it would be nice for it to be snowing for these penguins! As I looked through my Christmas papers to find something that would work, I realized that several of these more generic cards would work as Christmas cards! The paper I found in my stash was a sheet of Hunkydory printed paper. As you can see, I cut a piece that I matted on gold poster board. I liked the look of having the large penguins on the far right, so I chopped this circle - put the rest on the left as you can see. I added a border that I cobbled together from gold poster board, white card stock, a border piece from the set, a fabric sticker, and the HD Essential book of Christmas Greetings.
Inside:
More of the same to finish the inside of the card.
Card #5:
This card used scraps of water-like patterned paper and mini hearts paper with blue glimmer paper. For the focal, I matted just the ice floe with the blue glimmer. The sentiment had gold edges that I trimmed off since they really didn't go with the card - instead I matted it with more of the glimmer paper.
Inside:
Card #6:
This card is a two-piece center step card. Scraps of water paper backs the focal. The borders are made using white paper with 3 colors of Inktense pencils & water - then matted with gold.
Inside:
More of the same - the little penguins were cut off one of the layer pieces.
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