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A Heartwarming Friendship Card by Mimi!

Hi and welcome back! Today we have another inspiration by Mimi to share with you!

I just love the idea of this floral decorated chalk board like frame to set the stage for the heartwarming sentiment!

She stamped out the floral image from the So Blessed stamp set 4 times, colored with Copic markers and die cut them using the Coordinating Penguin Perfect Cuts.

The frame was die cut using woodgrain type paper and ink blended with Gathered Twig Distress Oxide, splattered with Distress ink Walnut Stain.

Her sentiment was white heat embossed with a little splatter of white ink for the extra detail!

Thank you so much Mimi for sharing this stunning friendship card with us!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

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A Beautiful Mandala Design by Candice!

Hope you all are having a wonderful week!

Candice created a fun mandala background using the Mandalas Bundle Stencils 360° and colors inspired by our Challenge #16 summer color palette!

I love how she mixed and match the stencils in the set to create these gorgeous overlays!

She cut the panel down into a square and adhered it to a pink card base. Next, she stamped and die-cut a sentiment from the Inseparable stamp set and adhered it to the center of the mandala.

She also added a few colorful jewel embellishments to finish off the card.

We love seeing your creations and would love for you to join us in this month’s challenge! All you have to do to enter is create a summer color palette inspired project that features at least one Penguin Palace product as the focal point. Full challenge rules can be found here.

This month’s challenge runs until August 30th at 11:59 PDT, and you still have one week to enter! We’ll select a winner to receive a $25CAD Gift Certificate to ppstamps.com from Challenge #15 and #16 which will be announced on September 1st at the beginning of challenge #17!

Don’t forget to share your project onto social media use the hashtag #penguinpalaceprojects! We’d also love to see all of your projects in our Penguin Palace Facebook group!

Thank you so much Candice for your amazing inspiration!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

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An Interactive Cinematic Shadow Box – A Busy Street Scene!

Hi! I hope all of you are having a great week! Today I am sharing one of the biggest shadow scene I’ve ever made! This card is themed around a busy street with lots of fun elements!

I used the Cinematic Shadow Box stand alone die cut to create the backbone of my card. You can have up to 4 tabs in this shadow box which gives great dimension and lots of room to fit ample stamped images!

I combined images from a bunch of different stamp sets including The Sweetest Truck, Rabbit Cafe, Happy Track and Field (Chapter 2), Fun Adventure, and Sweet Ride.

I thought why not take it to the next level and combine this shadow box with an interactive element! I used the Dotted Borders Slimline Pull Tab – Stand-Alone Die to make the Ice Cream truck move down this busy street!

Check out this card in action below!

I used the Sidewalk Scene Builder – Stand-Alone Die to die cut the two sidewalks on The Sandstone Series – Smokey Eyes – Heavyweight Premium Cardstock and then added splashes of paints. For the background wall, I blended Distress Oxide Inks on the Mega Blocks stencil and die cut it using the large dotted border die from the Cinematic Shadow Box.

I just love making these mini scenes on this shadow box! Acetate played a big part in the assembly of this card.

I used acetate for a couple of the tabs in the box so that the road background could show through. I added acetate to mimic the Ice Cream Truck’s windows. I also used it for placing the music notes that are coming from the ice-cream truck!

To keep everything in perspective, I laid out the images so that larger characters go near the front and smaller ones go at the back.

I stamped out a sentiment from The Sweetest Truck on the front tab of the box which I had trimmed down to show more of the sidewalk at the bottom.

I hope you enjoyed this inspiration and thank you so much for stopping by!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

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A Colorful Mini Slimline Card With Guest Designer Michelle!

Hi everyone, thanks for stopping by! Our Guest Designer Michelle Short is sharing a delightful rainbow hue mini slimline card over at her blog today!

Her card features the We Are Right For Each Other stamp set and its coordinating Penguin Perfect Cuts.

She stamped out some adorable images from this set and Copic Colored them before die cutting them out with the coordinating dies.

She also picked out some words to form this lovely sentiment. I love how these words stamp to fit perfectly onto the puzzle pieces!

For the background, She blended Distress Inks in rainbow hues on to a panel of white cardstock and spritzed water on top for the extra texture.

Once dried, it was adhered to the mini slimline card base with foam tape and then the images added on top with more foam tape.

I love the wide contrasting black border which I think really brings out the rainbow colors!

Thank you so much Michelle, your card is super adorable! We are thrilled to have you Guest Design for us for the past few weeks!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

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