More of the Penguins

I love making penguin cards, so yet another penguin christmas card catch-up post! This set is a new one I bought for my 2019 Xmas cards, it's Little Penguin Agenda from Mama Elephant. They are beyond cute! 

And I made this layout for a batch of my christmas cards and commissions. 

As well as the penguin agenda set I used a set from Cardio called "Branching out" to make the winter foliage behind the penguins. I used Distress Oxides to stamp and Nuvo jewel drops for the berries. Penguins are coloured in copics and fonts are Dacquoise and Deliquente Alt I.

Etiquette Unknown

Another commissioned card for a 12 year old who loves to dance. I decided to google search for a funky dancer digistamp and this one appeared with no watermarking but was perfect! I decided a while ago to just go and buy a digi from their online shop if I found one posted without watermarks. Took me a long time to find her but she is from Mayzy Art which seems to have closed down and I have no idea what the etiquette is now for using her. So... I am telling you where she is from and I don't own this image and I'm sorry I couldn't buy her. I wish I had found the shop before it closed because the artwork is awesome and I would have really enjoyed using her stamps but now I feel kinda guilty about it, but.... I still love it! If you are reading this and have an alternative way to deal with this kind of situation, tell me! Or if you know these images are still for sale somewhere tell me that too please. But for now, here she is - 

Image coloured with Copics, added stickles and white posca pen. Blobs are Nuvo Jewel Drops. Papers from Making Cards Magazine. Font is All Hooked Up. Photo corners and paperclip numbers from the stash.

Kate's Camera Card

Another commissioned card, and very specific too! Michelangelo's David, holding a Canon Camera with a Sorento theme! I much prefer orders like this, I know what I'm aiming for!

So I photoshopped "David" to be holding a camera over his accoutrements as you can never be sure how much nudity is appropriate, lol! I popped online to find some images of vintage Sorento postcards to include kinda as "snaps".

For the background and camera embellis I used Inkadinkado Stamp Set called "Cameras", really pleased to finally use it, it's been in the "unused stash" along time!

This is the background I made for the card, using one of the large cameras from the Inkadinkado set and blended distress inks and oxides, followed by some water flicking, and using a round lid to make a bleaching effect on the camera lenses. I also cut out a few Joy Clouds from the scraps to include on the card, edged with Nuvo Jewel Drops.

Under the weather!

Card thoroughly inspired by Simonne Clay using her Sugar Pea design's "Whatever the weather"set, which unfortunately I don't have, so we made do! :)

Love the idea of all the weather elements being combined in one image! My version is not as nice as hers but there are some bits I like!

Sun is a freebie stamp from Craft Stamper Magazine, coloured with copics and yellow stickles.
Clouds are from Joy dies.
Rainbow is a die from Daisysjewelsandcrafts.co.uk
Stitched rectangle is from Cottage Cutz. I used distress inks and water flicking to colour it up.
Raindrops are a combo of Nuvo Juwel drops in blue and gems from The Range.

Dragon Part 3.

Final two dragon cards using the Greyboard dragons from Inkylicious. Dragon's painted in acrylics and then Nuvo Jewel Drops used for scales. I've used some stickles on the red dragon and gilding flakes on the yellow dragon.

Both backgrounds are made using distress inks.
Dies are Grass Border from Lawn Fawn and aMemory Box landscape die.
Font on the left is Cleric, Font on the right is Blackadder.

Dragons Part 2.

Another couple of cards from the set of Dragon cards I made. Once again the Greyboard Dragons from Inkylicious are painted with acrylic paint and have scales made from Nuvo Jewel Drops. I also added some stickles to the wings on the red dragon.

On the green dragon's wings I also used some Gilding Flakes. Backgrounds are all in distress inks.

Font on the right is: Bleeding Cowboys.
Font on the left is: Bernadette Rough.

Diecuts are Joy Xmas tree and house border and Lawn Fawn Grass Border.

Dragons part 1.

I bought some fab Greyboard Dragons from Inkylicious at the last "Craft Shopping Event" we went to and got completely distracted making a set of inky dragon cards for fun! Here are the first two.

     
Backgrounds are distress inks and water. Dragons are painted with acrylics and then Nuvo jewel drops added for scales. Diecut trees from Joy (Xmas tree and house border). Font is Bernadette Rough.