Hello, friends! I have 3 winter card ideas to share featuring adorable penguins! We’re not making Holidays cards, although these penguins are perfect for that, instead I wanted to show you how you can use your penguin stamps beyond the Holiday season and incorporate them into a Winter Birthday and Winter Greetings cards. Be sure to watch my video tutorial to see all 3 projects.
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.
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CARD DETAILS
The stamp set I’m using today is Penguin Palls from Pretty Pink Posh. I’m a huge fan of Pretty Pink Posh stamps, the characters are just adorable, the size of the images is great for scene building, they mix and match well together and overall it’s just a treat to pull out my PPP stamps and play.
I started by stamping two penguin images that are ice skating and also some hats and a little gift. I stamped 5 hats in total as I was actually needing 5 for this card – 2 for the penguins and 3 more for the Happy Birthday Balloons.
I used the following Copic marker colors to color my images (same colors across all 3 projects):
- Reds: R20, R22, R24, R27 and R39;
- Orange: YR14;
- Grays: C10, C9, C7, C5, C1.
To create a scene for this card I did creative masking (detailed in this video HERE) and stamped Happy Birthday balloons and banner in Copic Marker friendly ink on light blue cardstock. I colored it with Copics and foam mounted my die cut penguins on top.
I used a sheet of diagonal stripe patterned paper from my stash, this pattern is easy to make using a marker and a ruler (you can see a how-to in this video HERE). Lastly, I stamped “Wishing You A” above my cluster along with 2 horizontal lines (I love the special touch it adds) and pine branches along with a snowflake below my scene.
Here’s a sneak peek of the other two cards I made using this stamp set:
Be sure to watch my video tutorial above for one more card idea featuring this stamp set!
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
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SAVE ME/PIN ME TO PINTEREST
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Those penguins! I’m really wanting this set! Your cards are soooo cute!
I love your sweet cards! This penguin stamp set is really cute.
I love the penguins – and I always love red!
Such amazing cards! I love the Christmas birthday card!! Those snowflake angel penguins are the BEST!!
Love your adorable Penguins
cards! All are too cute with
the Santa hats.
Carla from Utah
Love your penguins!
Oh I just love everything about these cards! The adorable penguins, the color palette, the striped paper – fantastic!
Love the adorable penguins. Great cards.
Awesome card ideas, Yana! There all so cute, I can’t even pick a favorite. I love the Santa caps on the balloons, the sparkly snow for the snow angels, and the stacked penguins. So adorable!
AWWWWWWW cute cards! I really love all the layering! And the glitter! I also love the choice of colors! the light blue and red with white very pretty together!
Your card are so cute! Love that you made a winter birthday card!
Love love love these!!
A super cute and fun idea Yana.
I adore penquins, beautiful card. Nice to see how it can be used for other occasion. Thank you for sharing.
Really cute cards! Love those penguins!!
Love this. Just subscribed to your channel!!
Love the snow angels idea
Penguin Pals look festive and fun on your beautiful cards!
These cards are everything I like,the penguins, and the colors.
Love the penguins and how you colored them! ❤️ It’s always refreshing to see birthday cards being made with what we typically think of as holiday stamp sets.
I love the penguins and the way you colored them! ❤️ It’s always refreshing to see a birthday card featuring stamps we typically think of as holiday sets.
These penguins are so cute and I love the great poses!
These cards are adorable! Such cute images and I love that they can be used for more than Christmas.
What a great idea for a winter birthday! I love that candy cane striped background.
Love your cards and your creativity.
Love those adorable penguins & your great design! They are way too cute to just be used at Christmas!
Love these adorable penguins!
Lovely and festive! Love this release!
Oh super cute penguin cards, I love your designs!
So cute with the penguins, balloons and hats.
Simply delightful!
Amazing.
Love your penguin birthday card!
Yana these are darling!
Your cards are adorable, and I love that they show ways to use the stamps beyond Christmas. I love being able to stretch the use of my stamps beyond a single season!
Super cute cards! So cute and sweet.
So so adorable! I am loving those little penguins! They look like they’re having so much fun! I really love that you used these fellas to make a Birthday card! Great idea and it turned out fabulous!
Sammibug aka Sammi aka Samantha Houp
I have a mid-December birthday, and I would love to receive a card like this! Would I have thought of making a birthday card? Probably not! You give me great inspiration and always make me smile. I also like how you used that little design element, one of those things that often goes unused, but it grounds your scene perfectly. WTG!
OMG. The PPP Penguin Pals stamp set is so darn cute. I love your card. Yams you are so talented and inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
Such cute cards! Thanks for the inspiration!
These are so adorable Yana!!!!
what great ideas!! i always love how you think outside the box – of COURSE you want to use those amazing penguins for more than just Christmas!!
love love love these penguin cards
I have a niece whose birthday is mid-December, so this is exactly what I needed to give me some inspiration for her birthday card! Thanks so much for sharing this great idea. I love the limited color palette that still feels so festive. You are my CAS star this holiday season. Thanks so much for sharing!
Awe, these are adorable.
Such beautiful cards Yana! I am in love with these adorable penguin.
Oh, my!!! These are all soooo adorable!! I’m not even sure I could pick a favorite; they’re all fabulous!
These are ADORABLE! Your cards are fabulous!