Stampin' Up! Penguin Place Christmas Card Made from Penguin Playmates DSP

Are you ready to start preparing for the holiday season? Believe it or not, I am ready and feeling the spirit come over me, so I started with the Stampin' Up! Penguin Place Stamp Set and the Penguin Playmates Designer Series Paper, both from the upcoming July - December 2021 Mini Catalog and the August - September 2021 catalogs, respectively.

How stinkin' cute are these critters?

Penguin Place Card Tutorial

Ingredients

• Stamp Set: Penguin Place

• Dies: Rectangle Stitched Dies

• Ink Pads: Just Jade

• Cardstock: Basic White, Thick Basic White

• Designer Series Paper: Penguin Playmates DSP

• Embellishments: Sequins for Everything

• Coloring Tools: Wink of Stella

• Adhesives: Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Stampin' Dimensionals

Tools

• Basic Supply Kit: paper trimmer, paper snips/scissors, bone folder, acrylic stamping blocks

• Stampin' Up! Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine (SUCE = sookie)

• Take Your Pick (the putty end makes picking up and adhering gems/sequins super easy!)

Techniques

• Fussy Cutting

Cardstock Measurements (Imperial)

• Card Base: Thick Basic White measuring 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" scored at 4 1/4"

• Layer #1: Penguin Playmates DSP measuring 5 1/2" x 4 1/2"

• Layer #2: Basic White measuring 4" x 4 1/2"

• Die Cutting: Basic White measuring 5 1/2" x 4 1/2"

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Prepare Your Cardstock: cut/trim/score/burnish all cardstock as described above

2. Fussy cut penguins from various sheets of patterned paper in the DSP pack

3. Run the largest and second largest stitched rectangle dies on the Basic White cardstock through the die cutting machine (place both dies on the cardstock at the same time, the smaller nested inside the largest, to create an open frame when cut)

4. Tear Layer #2 Basic white paper to create the look of snowy hills

5. Adhere Layer #1 DSP to the front of the card

6. Adhere the die cut rectangular frame to the front of the card on top of the DSP

7. Adhere Layer #2 to the bottom of the card

8. Adhere the center penguin with Stampin' Dimensionals

9. Adhere the two penguins directly to the card with the adhesive of your choice

10. Color the hats and scarves with the Wink of Stella brush

11. Color the visible parts of the hills with the Wink of Stella brush

12. Adorn the card with pearlescent white sequins from the Sequins for Everything collection

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