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Sunday, December 4, 2011

I May Have Lost My Mind, Day 3

The 3rd day of Christmas challenge at Bugaboo Stamps is to use an animal. I know penguins aren't technically an animal, but the design team used them on their example cards and this was another past freebie so I'm pretty sure these guys will work. Most of the work for this one came in arranging the image itself. I imported it into my Silhouette program then replicated it twice more (and then there were 3). I used the eraser tool to erase some of the snow between the 2 penguins before putting them next to each other. The 3rd one I flipped horizontally, made a little smaller, and set on top. I printed everything onto my background paper. I printed another copy on white cardstock and colored the hats, feet and noses. Then I cut out the pieces, this time by hand, and glued them onto the background paper. Added some DecoArt Snow Writer for the snow at their feet and we have 3 cutey penguins for the 3rd day of Christmas.
My lessons learned: that my markers, even the red, will not color over polka dotty paper. That's the reason for the paper piecing.
I would like to share my card at:
Creative Craft Challenges free for all, closes Dec. 6th,
Simon Says anything goes, closes Dec. 7th,
Charisma Cardz spots, closes Dec. 7th, 
Card Makin' Mamas sentiments, closes Dec. 8th,
Sweet Stampin' Challenge snow, closes Dec. 9th.

8 comments:

helloholley said...

too cute, love those little guys!!! Great job!!!! Thanks for playing along with SSCB!!!! ;)

Anonymous said...

Awww such a cute card and love the spottiness too!

Thanks for joining us at Charisma Cardz this week,best of luck!

Unknown said...

Hi Barb, what sweet penguins and a great card. Thanks for joining in with us this week at Sweet Stampin. Sarah

Shell said...

Very very cute, thanks for joining us at Charisma Cardz this week.
Shell xx

Rachel said...

Ahhh! Super cute card! Thanks for sharing at Sweet Stampin this week, Wedgie xxx

Rae Anne said...

Or three flight fowl. . .;) Your polar penguin pyramid is positively perfect! Thanks so much for participating in Catch the Bug's Twelve Days of Christmas Day 3 challenge with Bugaboo Stamps! :D MWAH!

Christine said...

Love those Bugaboo stamps!! The sentiment is so cute too. Just a wonderful, fun card!!
Thank you for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog.
xoxo, Christine

Min said...

Way too cute!! Losing your Mind at Christmas is expected - mine's been gone for weeks!! =) We're so happy you joined us for theCatch The Bug "12 Days of Christmas" Challenge with Bugaboo Stamps!
Hugs & Happy Days!
~Min
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