Merry Penguin Christmas!

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I mailed my first Christmas card today!  I wanted to send it early because it's accompanying a gift that can be used as a decoration.  With Thanksgiving in just a few days, the Christmas decorations will be coming out soon, if they're not out already.

I stamped the penguins on white cardstock and colored them with Prismacolor pencils.  As if they weren't adorable enough on their own, I glammed them up with some Stickles and added the die-cut snowflakes that were also given the Stickles treatment.  We don't have big Christmases anymore so sending out cards has become one of my main (and favorite) activities for the holiday.  Since I didn't get many cards sent last year, I'm determined to do better this year.

Have a great day!  Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies:
Green cardstock by Bazzill; whisper white cardstock from Stampin' Up; patterned paper by Teresa Collins; penguin stamp by Stampendous; sentiment by My Sentiments Exactly; Ranger Archival black ink; Prismacolor Premier pencils; odorless mineral spirits; Stickles; Glossy Accents; circle, lacy circle, snowflake and banner die-cuts by Spellbinders; corner rounder punch; pumice stone distress ink; pop-dots.

Magpie Christmas Card

And now for something completely different...

Those of you who have followed my blog for a while know that I am not a glitter kind of gal.  I don't do a lot of sparkly cards.  But I have friends who can't resist anything shiny (I call them My Dear Magpies), so I thought I would try making something more to their liking.

I knew that I wanted to use the tree die from Spellbinders.  I die-cut the tree from Bazzill Bling cardstock and embellished it with blue and silver rhinestones.  For added texture, I embossed the silver background paper with snowflakes.

The sentiment from Artistic Outpost was stamped on shimmery white cardstock and heat embossed in silver for even more shine.

I think this is a card that any magpie would want to have in her nest.

Supplies:
Bazzill Bling cardstock; silver stationery paper; shimmery white cardstock from Stampin' Up; snowflakes Cuttlebug embossing folder; Spellbinders holiday tree; blue and clear self-stick rhinestones from Michaels; sentiment from Artistic Outpost; Versamark ink; silver embossing powder; rectangle and scalloped rectangle from Spellbinders; corner rounder punch; pop-dots.