*Penguin Windows*

While I was in Ontario visiting my sister, we took a trip to Stamp Art... it's so much easier since Heather moved since it's now a 15 minute drive instead of 90 minutes!  The ladies at this store are awesome... so knowledgeable about the products they sell and also very excited about what's in the store.  It's a small store, packed full of fun things!  My favourite area is the room of Christmas products... These adorable penguins came from that shopping trip... 

The penguins are a set of three window dies by Frantic Stamper that I left joined together to create my front panel.  I cut them a few times to get the different colours to inlay on my card.  I layered it over some snowflake pattern paper and then on to a panel that I had embossed with a snowflake embossing folder; 

It was a lot of work getting them all pieced together, but I think it was worth it!

*Wreath with Joy*

 I am on the hunt for a new Joy die...  I want one that is more of a script font but one where I don't have to worry about the dot over the j.  I have found a few I like but they weren't in stock in the stores I was in.  I will keep looking... I'm sure one will be perfect.

I played with some different shades of green ink and some Catherine Pooler stamps for this card... then added the gold JOY die cut to finish it off.  I'm not sure that the greens all work together... once again, I think that this card looked better in my plans than it does on paper.