Hi, crafty friends. I have a blue Christmas card with a penguin to share today. Normally, I’d say that’s pretty common for me, but there’s something about the layout of this card and the remaining colors that are not typical things I do with my cards.

This penguin is from the Christmas Cupcake Toppers stamp set from Streamside Studios. I colored his beanie blue, which is my go to Christmas color, but the piping bag he’s holding in his hand makes him a bit different, so I decided to also color up the gingerbread house from the Sweet Family set, which I fussy cut and added to a piece of Blue Breeze cardstock from My Favorite Things, before adding a layer of 40 lb vellum on top to soften it a little.

I adhered the light blue panel to a top fold card base I created from Cornflower cardstock from My Favorite Things, and die cut a scallop border using the Stitched Rectangle Scallop Edge Frames die set from My Favorite Things. I cut the frame apart and added one strip to the top and one to the bottom of my light blue panel. I used the Merry Script die from Mama Elephant to die cut three layers from white cardstock and one layer from X-Press It blending card that I colored pink with Copics. I stamped the word everything from the Holiday Messages stamp set from Mama Elephant onto white cardstock using Cornflower ink from My Favorite Things, added a few layers of cardstock behind it for dimension and embellished with a few pink sequins from the She’s So Lovely mix from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards. The penguin was easy to add with a little bit of foam tape.

I didn’t use too many colors for the penguin itself, but the gingerbread house required quite a few markers.