Lawn Fawn Winter Penguin in 2 Different Scenes

Penguins are one of my favourite critters to pit on a card. Here, I stamped and coloured Lawn Fawn's Winter Penguin stamp image. I didn't want to colour them the usual colour, black, so I chose dark blue and purple.

I created two scenes. One is of the penguin skating in New York City with the city'so skyline in the background. I love it that this Christmas card is not in the traditional colours but in one of my favourite colours - pink!

The other one is of the penguin skating through a park. I enjoyed watercolouring the trees. I've leaened to take it very easy while colouring as it doesn't really matter if the end result is not as what has been expected. It's more important to chill and enjoy the colouring process as it's very relaxing.

Here's another look of the scene. I think I like the park scene better as it's more serene. It's so peaceful and that's how it should be like during Christmas as Christ is the Prince of Peace.

I'm entering both cards in the Lawnscaping Challenge No. 118: In With The Old.

Products I used to create both penguin cards:
Lawn Fawn Stamps Winter Penguin
Lawn Fawn Stamps Toboggan Together
Mama Elephant Stamps Jolly and Merry
Simon Says Stamp Stamps Nativity
Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables
My Favorite Things Die-namics New York Skyline
Taylored Expressions Dies Build a Scene - Central Park
Taylored Expressions Dies Build a Scene - Winter Trees
Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads
Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils

Trying out Inlaid Die Cutting

Hi, I've made 2 Christmas cards with the inlaid diecutting technique. I've seen some wonderful results on Instagram and decided to give it a go. It was rather fun!

I die cut the sentiments first on both cardstock. Then I stamped the grumplings images with Versa Fine ink and coloured them with my Faber Castell watercolour pencils. I don't use any water or blender liquids at all. I prefer it this way. Next, I watercoloured the words with distress inks. I used 4 recent colours and did not exactly planned where to put the colours. It was random and fun! After all colouring was completed, I adhered everything together on the card bases.

Here are the cards.

I'm entering both cards in the Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #12 and also Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Christmas. 

Products I used for creating both the clean and simple cards are:

Taylored Expressions Stamps Holiday Grumplings

My Favorite Things Die-namics Christmas Greetings

My Favorite Things Stitched Rounded Rectangle STAX

Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads

Tsukineko Versa Fine Onyx Black Ink Pad

Zig Wing of Stella Clear