Hey everyone, it’s Tina here and I’m back with a set of cute cards that can be used for either birthday or Christmas and I absolutely love that these stamps can be used for both!
I’m using the Smile and Wave stamps and dies along with the Smile die.
![Alex-Syberia-Designs-stamps-penguins-smile-dies](https://alexsyberia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Alex-Syberia-Designs-stamps-penguins-smile-1024x1024.jpg)
The cards were made in the same way. I lightly spritzed a bit of water on both sides of my cardstock, to prevent too much warping. I then carefully added my color burst powders, for the pink card I used Lindy’s magical shaker Magnolia magenta gold. I really love the wimsical look and thought these backgrounds were perfect for these cute penguins riding their snowboards.
![Alex-Syberia-Designs-stamps-penguins-smile-card-snowboarding](https://alexsyberia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Alex-Syberia-Designs-stamps-penguins-smile-card-1024x1024.jpg)
Sigh! Just look at those “golden” spots, much more shimmery in real life. And I really love the pink and blue speks in there. These penguins are having snow much fun, pun intended.
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I Copic colored the darling penguins and die cut them with the coordinating dies. Markers used: 100, C9, C7, C5, C3, C00 / YR09, YR04, YR21. The pink combo is RV69, RV09, RV06 and the green combo is G29, G17, G14.
![Alex-Syberia-Designs-stamps-penguin-smile-green-copic-coloring](https://alexsyberia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Alex-Syberia-Designs-stamps-penguin-smile-green-1024x1024.jpg)
For the green card I used a Nuvo shimmer powder, in the color Green parade. I’m usually not a big fan of green, but man the blues and yellows and black creating those deep green hues… Just gorgeous, don’t you think?
![Alex-Syberia-Designs-stamps-penguin-smile-green-nuvo-shimmer](https://alexsyberia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Alex-Syberia-Designs-stamps-penguin-smile-cards-1024x1024.jpg)
For both cards I cut the Smile shadow from black cardstock and the word from a coordinating glitter cardstock. I also added sub sentiments, white heat embossed on black and die cut them with the coordinating dies.
![Alex-Syberia-Designs-stamps-penguin-smile-green-nuvo-paste](https://alexsyberia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Alex-Syberia-Designs-stamps-penguin-smile-glitter-1024x1024.jpg)
Thanks so much for stopping by, I really hope you like my inspiration. As crafters we tend to want to control our results and that’s hard with these color burst powders, so you have to let go a little. I have so much fun playing with them though.
I think I let go a little too rarely, lol. Let me know in the comments if you like working with color burst powders.
Tina