Cold penguins

   My elder brother's birthday is next week and as the weather is a little chilly at the moment especially coming after a warm October I thought this image from Pollyanna Pickering's snow and ice collection was appropriate.
   I attached triangles of textured paper to the corners of a piece of square white card to form a central square. In this square I glued a mixture of polar white flower soft and glitter. I added peel off to the outside edges of each triangle and card candi together with a peel off sentiment to the body of these shapes. I matted the topper onto black card cut out using a Spellbinders scalloped oval die and attached this to the flower soft centre using glue gel.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Bunny Zoe's Crafts - animals
   Suzy Bee's Blooming - anything goes with the twist make it male
   Creative Moments - anything goes/celebration
   Party Time Tuesdays - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - creative corners
   Pile It On - feeling cool
   Animal Friends - it's cold
   The Paper Shelter - for the man in your life

Kingfishers

   I love kingfishers and really like this particular image.
   I matted and layered the paper printed from Pollyanna Pickerings British Wildlife DVD ROM from Creative Crafter's World onto dark turquoise mirri card and white card having first wrapped black ribbon around the lower half of the paper. I then attached a bow and some gems to the ribbon.
   The main image was printed from the same DVD ROM and I matted this onto the mirri card which had been cut out using a Spellbinders heart circle die. I stamped the flying kingfisher using a stamp from Joanna Sheen's Jayne Netley Mayhew collection and coloured it using Promarkers. I then glittered the wings.
   The sentiment was created by using another one of the heart circle dies, a circle die, peel offs and a glittery button.

   I would like to enter this into the follow challenges:
   Paper Pretties - ribbon!
   Incy Wincy Designs - birthdays
   Crafty Cardmakers and More - come fly with me
   Kaboodle Doodles - use ribbon
   Crafty Ribbons - anything goes
   Digi Designs - tic tac toe (gems, die cuts, ribbon)
   Nutcrafters - ribbon and bling
   The Squirrel and the Fox - something spooled
   Cute Card Thursday - buttons and bows
   Sweet Stamps - anything goes
   Stamping Sensations - wings, fantasy and fiction
   Love to Create - anything goes