Warm Penguin Wishes

ETA: This card was featured on Little Red Wagon! Woohoo!
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Today I have a card that I made for a bunch of challenges, and also because I really wanted to use my Penguin Love set from There She Goes. I got the idea to make a sort of quilt looking card and here's what I came up with:


All the squares are 1.5" and the papers are old Basic Grey. For the little scene squares, I was inspired by this card and other similar cards all by Jessica Knutsen. I couldn't do tone on tone because you'd never see white on white, so I stamped the backgrounds in a light blue ink, and then added the penguins popped up on foam boosters. Each one has some paper pieced clothing all stamped on the same scrap of striped PP.

After I distressed and sponged the edges of all the squares, I sewed them to a piece of Kraft cardstock with a combination of straight and zigzag stitches. Next I diecut a piece of chipboard and some glitter cardstock with a Sizzix snowflake die and glued them together. I poked 2 holes in the snowflake and then sewed it with a button to the quilt with crochet thread. I also sewed on all the other buttons with crochet thread. Lastly I sponged the edges of the white base and glued the quilt to it.

Challenges:

• There She Goes - use chipboard
• A Spoon Full of Sugar - create a scene
• Crafty Creations - snow
• Quixotic - stitching
• Little Red Wagon - use last year's Christmas scraps
• 3 Clovers - Birds or Bugs
• Cute Card Thursday - glitter
• Flourishes - inspired by "My Favorite Things" lyrics (I have warm woolen mittens and the kraft quilt base is like a brown paper package, then the button in the center is tied up with strings!)

I hope you like it and TFL!