Hi, crafty friends. Excuse the amount of Christmas cards I’m sharing these days, but there’s something about the warm weather that gets me in the mood to create holiday cards. I’m definitely not ready for the cold weather, I prefer the warmth!

This time I’m focusing on Penguin Presents from Lili of the Valley. I love a good penguin image, and at Lili of the Valley, there are sooo many to choose from. Since my last Christmas card was in the dreaded red and green combo, I went back to my trusty blues for this card. Blue’s the best!

I colored the image with Copics, then used the largest die in the Blueprints 27 die set from My Favorite Things to turn it into a rectangle with faux stitching and a scalloped edge, just for something different from my usual faux stitch rectangles. I die cut another piece from white cardstock to put on the inside of the card.

Before adhering my panel, I sprinkled on Chunky White embossing enamel from Stampendous, and melted the granules from the back of the panel. I also used a black glaze pen from Sakura to create a tiny bit of dimension and shine to the penguin’s eyes. I adhered the panel directly to a top fold card base I created from After Midnight cardstock from My Favorite Things, which is a nice dark blue color.

From the same color cardstock, I die cut God jul four times using a die from Papirdesign. I stacked the layers and adhered it to the left of the image, before finishing off the card with a few hearts from the Festivities mix from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.

This is a fairly flat card for me. Other than the sentiment and the white hearts, there’s nothing that adds a lot of dimension. I considered mounting the panel on foam tape, but in the end decided against it. The sentiment and the hearts still pop and add interest, as does the snow, which has a bit of texture to it.

I used mostly blue Copics for this card. Not really a surprise, huh?