Hi, crafty friends. Very last minute, but early this afternoon, I finally came up with an idea for this year’s Superstar contest over at My Favorite Things. It’s been in the back of my mind for weeks, but I no clue as to what kind of card I’d make or even IF an idea would come to me. I made a penguin card (no surprise there, huh?).

This is for the Clean and Simple Genius category. I wanted a colored penguin, but also to keep the rest of the card super simple. White space is our friend! I stamped the background landscape in the Polar Opposites stamp set using Icy Water ink from Altenew, and I actually stamped it twice to make it span across the card. I then stamped and colored one of the penguins from the same stamp set, before fussy cutting him. I don’t have the coordinating dies for this stamp set, but this guy was easy enough to fussy cut.

Using the Precious Polaroids die set, I die cut four polaroid frames and stacked them for a bit of dimension, stamping a sentiment on the top layer using Winter Lake ink from Altenew. I added the stacked frame to the card at an angle, adhered my penguin and finished off the card with a few Snowdrift sprinkles from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards. To me, this is about as CAS as it gets. Whether it’s genius remains to be seen 🙂

Typical penguin color palette for me, this one.

My Favorite Things products used:

Polar Opposites stamp set

Precious Polaroids die set