Dena's Designs: September 2022

Hi Everyone!!!

Well, it's been such a long time since I last blogged. We seem to have had so much going on but hoping to get on top of things again.

I made this card for someone who loves penguins for her 60th Birthday. The stamp I've used here is supposed to be a Christmas stamp but No one said penguins can't be used for birthday's right?

So I decided to make this a super tall card. Take a piece of A4 card and fold it in half length ways.

Cut a piece of card to fit on your folded card blank, measuring approx - 29x10cm.

Randomly apply oxide inks in various areas with a blending brush.

Darken the edges with Uncharted Mariner.

Stamp the Indigo Blu bubbles stamp twice along the centre of the card.

Now randomly stamp the rays of light around the edges.

Drag the Versa Mark ink pad along the edge of the card and emboss with cosmic shimmer dark age mixed media embossing powder. This embossing powder is gorgeous - Its black with gold and silver specs in.

I prefer doing this method rather than using a piece of black card as it makes an interesting border and saves on card.

Stamp the Crafty Individuals penguin in black ink. As you can see I didn't ink the antlers as this is going to be a birthday card.

Working fairly quickly, use a rubber tip tool to fill in the areas around the antlers and headband with black ink to disguise the lines a little. Emboss with clear embossing powder.

I noticed I might be able to fit another penguin the card so I repeated the process again.

Cut all three penguins out.

Carefully snip the boots off 2 of the penguins along with the blades and laces. (As the penguins are going to be stood on each other they defiantly do not need to be wearing skating boots - it would be a little dangerous)

Colour the penguins with spectrum noir tri blend pens.

Use a blender pen to blend out any harsh yellow lines on the penguins tummy.

Stamp and emboss some balloons and a party hat from the Tim Holtz Crazy things set.

Cut them out.

Mount your background onto your pre-folded card blank. Stick the balloons and penguins in place. The boots can be positioned at different angles to make it look like they're balancing, this is the reason for snipping them off.

Using a black fine liner pen draw some balloon strings in.