Sunday Snippets - Penguin line-up

This month's Challenge over at Christmas Kickstart is 'Brimming with Style', ie. add a hat - and here's my offering, as well as my Sunday Snippets card for this week:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank - side opening

- trimmed a snippet of Creative Expressions 'Deep Blue' card very slightly down to 5.25" x 4" and glued it onto the card blank front

- trimmed a snippet of white card down to 5" x 3.75" and embossed it using a NBUS Altenew 3D 'Ribbon Waves' folder

- glued the embossed panel on top of the blue one - I deliberately used the 'wrong' side of the panel as it seemed to resemble drifting snow more than the 'right side' does. Either way up, it's a gorgeous folder!

- the baby penguins, hats and sentiment were stamped onto snippets of white card, using a stamp set by Clearly Besotted' called 'Penguin Parade'

- coloured the penguins and hats using Polychromos pencils before fussy cutting them

- also trimmed the sentiment to size

- added the hats to the penguins

- finally, glued the penguins onto the card front and the sentiment was glued to the top lefthand corner

Whilst everything was out on my desk I made a second card exactly the same.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

- Christmas Kickstart #109 HERE - 'Brimming with Style'

- Allsorts Challenge #847 HERE - under 'Anything Goes'

- Darnell's NBUS Challenge #85 HERE - the Altenew 'Ribbon Waves' embossing folder is NBUS

Remember, I've just kicked off a new challenge over in the Snippets Playground HERE. It was lovely to see entry numbers climbing back up again in Sarn's recent challenge! Yay!

Dudley Pupdate: Wednesday was Dudley's annual booster vaccination(s) and also a full check-up. Apart from the usual operatic arias whilst in the car going there, he behaved perfectly. Not a single woof, despite several other dogs being in the waiting area at the same time. And, he behaved beautifully for Emily the vet. He also got a clean bill of health with everything getting full marks. Happy dance indeed.

However, he was unusually quiet in the car on the journey back home and wasn't even very interested in his tea later on - both of which are not normal! After that he just flopped on our bed, with his sad eyes peeping over his front paws, looking so sorry for himself, as well as somewhat bewildered.  It's that 'every three years vaccine, distemper, parvo and a couple of others' that hits him every time he has it. Heartbreaking that we can't explain it to him. However, the following morning he was back to being much the same as usual with no sign of any after effects. 

And, this morning he was ready to create a total riot whilst we were having a cuppa in bed - leaping up and down like a Spring lamb all over the bed with his 'come and play' posture that dogs display.  Eyes sparkling with mischief and ready to take on the world! What a difference a couple of days makes.

Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,