Penguin Palace Challenge #4

Hello and welcome back crafty friends!

We LOVED seeing your summery coloured projects over the past month! Thank you to everyone who participated in Challenge #3! We’d like to congratulate our winner, Shari (Our Crafty Bubble), please feel free to grab and display your winner badge which can be found on the righthand column (or at the bottom of the page on mobile)!

Now, onto Challenge #4! This month’s theme is one of my personal favourites: interactive! Don’t forget to link your projects featuring Penguin Palace stamps below for your chance to win a $25 gift card!

I LOVE interactive cards, and Penguin Palace has so many awesome interactive dies that make creating interactive projects even easier! For today’s card I decided to use the Cinematic Shadow Box – Stand-Alone Die. I started by cutting each of the pieces out of kraft cardstock.

To create the pyramids in the background I used the pyramid die from the Desert Landscape Scene Builder – Dies & Stencil Set on the background panel. I used the stencil from this set and some Distress Oxide inks (Antique Linen & Brushed Corduroy) to add some dimension to the pyramids. I also used the hillside die from the same set on another piece of kraft cardstock and glued it to the background panel to add some extra stability. While I had my inks out, I added Antique Linen to the side panels and sentiment strip so they would coordinate with the pyramids.

Next, I stamped out almost all of the images from the Mysterious Egypt stamp set and coloured them in using Copic markers. Once they were colored, I die cut them using the coordinating dies. I also paired up the sentiments from the Mysterious Egypt stamp set which fit perfectly across the sentiment strip.

Finally, I assembled all the pieces from the Cinematic Shadow Box (there’s a great video showing how to assemble it here) and added the stamped images to create a little scene–having 4 levels creates so much dimension!

We always love to see your creations and would love for you to join us in challenge #4! All you have to do to enter is use the challenge theme to create a project that features at least one Penguin Palace product as the focal point. Full challenge rules can be found here.

This month’s challenge runs until August 13^th at 11:59 PDT. We’ll select a winner to receive a $25 CAD gift certificate to ppstamps.com which will be announced on August 15^th at the beginning of our next challenge!

Don’t forget to link up your project below, and if you’re sharing to social media use the hashtag #penguinpalaceprojects! We’d also love for you to share your projects in the challenge album in our Penguin Palace Facebook group!