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Whimscial Fairy Themed Card by Eileen!

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Hi friends! Eileen is back today to share a magical card with us featuring the adorable Garden Fairy digital stamp set!

The great thing about high resolution digital stamps is that you can scale the images however you wish! For this card, Eileen scaled her image to almost completely filling up an A2 size card.

To set the scene, she die-cut an arch window to showcase this whimsical image!

I love the gold paint splatter for the added magical touch! She also added some sparkly gems and the sentiment “Leave a little sparkle wherever you go” to complete the card.

If you’re wondering how to work with digital stamps, I made a video sometime ago showing my unboxing of the new Cricut Joy Extra. It includes the setting-up of the machine, calibration, and my first hand experience using the print then cut function with digital stamps! There’s also MUST-SEE TIPS, and MISTAKES that I made as a complete newbie to a Cricut machine! Click below or HERE to watch!

Thank you so much for your adorable inspiration Eileen!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

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A Dragon Dance Themed Card With Samantha!

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Hi Friends! We’re thrilled to have Samantha Pfrimmer Guest Designing for us today!

Her card features the Year of the Dragon Clear Stamps  and the Year of the Dragon Penguin Perfect Cuts.

She stamped her images onto Copic Xpress-it cardstock in black ink before coloring them with Copic markers.  I love the gold, red and green color combo, very festive!

She ink-blended a dark sky using the Black Soot, leaving a small area where she blended Squeezed Lemonade with the Black Soot to create a soft glow where the pagoda image would be placed. 

I love the brick path she stenciled onto the background which flows nicely with the placement of the image of the dragon & the boys.

I also love how she added origami paper to tie everything together! It really gives an oriental touch to the card!

Thank you so much Samantha for Guest Designing for us today, your card is super adorable!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

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Geometrical Inspired Card Duo by Eileen!

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Geometrical shapes can be one of the best ideas for gender-neutral greeting cards! Today Eileen’s duo of cards feature our latest Geometric Arts clear stamp and dies, and the coordinating Hexagon Geo Cover die.

I am loving this two for one design! Eileen ink blended a panel in rainbow hue and die cut it using the Hexagon Geo Cover die. She used the die-cut frame for the card on the left, and stamped out some hexagon images from Geometric Arts clear stamp directly into the white spaces.

I love how she die cut the fun sentiment from Everyday Sentiments and blended it using the same rainbow tone to match!

For the second card, she directly stamped out in black, the hexagon patterns from Geometric Arts clear stamp onto the die-cut hexagons, and arranged them into the same geometry as per her first card, while leaving a white negative frame.

The bold sentiment on this card is also from Everyday Sentiments.

As you can see, geometric designs can be super versatile and very easy to make. So why not try it out for yourself?

Thank you Eileen for your wonderful inspirations! Thanks for stopping by!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

Damask Stencils 360°™ Penguin Palace stamps

How to Create Unique Designs from One Simple Stencil

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Hello friends! Hope you’re having a great day so far!

Even as the creator of Stencils 360°™, it still amazes me every single time, how a simple stencil can create so many different patterns with just a few turns. Today I have a short ASMR video featuring the Damask Stencils 360°™. I will show you how I used this simple stencil and turn it into a colorful piece of art!

I first centered a 3 3/4” white panel with the Stencils 360° Friends Ed., then I coupled the 4” stencil from the Damask Stencils 360°™ set to the 4” Guide Ring™.

For my first round of inking, instead of inking all of the elements on the stencil, I chose only to ink the two bigger petals. I spun it at 22.5 degrees turning interval (referencing to Hearts) and inked with alternating colors. Then using one of the smaller petal element, I simply ink right in between the big petals while rotating my stencil, without referencing to any of the scales on The Base™.

To create an even fuller look, I moved and taped my stencil outside of the Guide Ring™, and ink through the small petal again but this time, right in between the array of the small petals that I inked. This is one of the fun parts of the tool, thinking outside the box! You are not limited to putting the stencil in the Guide Ring™ to create your designs!

Watch this short clip to see how I made this card! And don’t forget to check out our new 0.6” and 1” blending brushes which are the perfect- size brushes for working with the Stencils 360°™ collection!

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great weekend ahead!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

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Wishing You Easy Mornings with a cute card by Mimi!

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Hello fellow crafters! Who doesn’t love waking up with a perfect hair day or a set of beautiful lashes! Mimi joins us today to share a super cute card with Perfect Lashes stamps & dies and stand-alone dies!

She made this slimline card using the Perfect Lashes Stand-Alone die frame and lightly ink blended a bokeh background with Lost Shadow Distress Oxide with Majestic Bokeh Stencils 360°™.

To make the large sleeping mask, Mimi used a basket handle die for its shape and ink blended it with Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide. She die cut the sparkly pair of lashes and stars from Perfect Lashes Stand-Alone dies using black and silver glitter cardstocks.

She then trimmed strips of black glitter cardstock for the mask’s elastic bands, so clever!

To make the smaller masks, she drew and fussy cut the mask shapes then ink blended them using Salvaged Patina and Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxides. The smaller lashes and sentiments are from Perfect Lashes stamps.

Lastly, she added a few more extra black sparkly stars and heart to finish her card.

I love this adorable creation. Thank you so much for sharing this with us Mimi!

Thank you so much for stopping by, have a Fabulash day!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

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