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Winter Release Inspiration Week & Giveaway – Day 1!

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Hello and welcome to Sunbird Spark’s Winter Release Inspiration Week! Big thanks to those who played along in our Re-Branding Giveaway in our last blog post. Before we get to announcing the lucky winner, let’s take a closer look at some of the new products from our latest release! We have some beautiful samples from our Creative Team and we cannot wait to show you!

Make sure to make it all of the way to the bottom to find out who’s lucky winner from last week, AND for a chance to win a Stencils 360°™ Friends Ed. stenciling tool! Now first let’s take a look at some awesome projects!

These have got to be some of my favorite products since we launched our first collection! The 80s Pixel Party stamp set & coordinating Crisp Cuts, along with the coordinating 6″x6″ stencil! Featuring the most iconic and beloved characters from a hit 80s video game, these stamps will take your crafting to a whole new level!



These are perfect for encouragement cards, “just because” cards, or for any children, grandchildren, or loved ones who are into video games!

I love the dark background that Mimi created for this card and how she heat embossed the dots with white embossing powder! I particularly love how she brushed the white embossed sentiments over with Mustard Seed Distressed Oxide Ink which gives a glowy effect that captures the essence of video game vibes!

I also created a card with this set. I used the coordinating 6″x6″ stencil and blended the dots in Honeysuckle from the Velvety Dye Ink Spring Palette on white cardstock. I then stamped out the my images in playful colors and freely arrange them on the panel, and finished it off with a white heat embossed sentiment on Grand Piano – Heavyweight Premium Cardstock. This card was so fun and easy to make!

Next, we have the Build A Santa Stand-Alone dies. This Santa is just too adorable! With this set, you can create your own jolly Santa in no time, perfect for all your holiday crafting projects. It’s super easy to assemble, and even kids will love it. My son and I had so much fun playing with these dies the other day!

I absolutely adore this non-traditional Santa that Candice created! The silver glittery costume is just too cute, and the contrast with the cobalt blue background is stunning! For an extra touch of flair, she stamped “JOY” in a watermark pattern using the Dots In Harmony sentiments. The sentiment itself is from the Magical Christmas Sentiments set. Such a beautiful, creative design!

Here’s a more traditional take on Santa, also crafted by Candice! She created the elegant gold background using the rectangular stencil from the Spatial Concept Trio Stencils 360°™. The bright red costume and snowy white beard are just perfect, and I love how she added texture to the white areas for that perfect finishing touch! The sentiment is also from the Magical Christmas Sentiments set. Such a charming design!

Not it’s time to reveal the lucky winner from last week’s Blog Giveaway. The winner is:

Congratulations Mary-Anne V, you’ve won a $40CAD Gift Card! Please send an email to info@sunbirdspark.com to claim your prize!

Read on to see how you can join in on this week’s GIVEAWAY!  In this Winter Release Inspiration Week, we are hosting 2 SEPARATE GIVEAWAYS, one on this BLOG and the other on our INSTAGRAM page!

BLOG Giveaway (Here):

  1. Leave a comment below (today is Day 1 of our Inspiration Week)!
  2. Be sure to follow our blog over the next few days. Starting from Day 2 through Day 5 of Inspiration Week, leave a comment (up to three comments per person) on EACH of our blog posts. We can’t wait to hear from you!

INSTAGRAM Giveaway:

Hop over to our Instagram page (@sunbird_spark) and look for the Winter Release Inspiration Week Giveaway Post, follow the instructions there for a chance to win!

We will randomly pick out two lucky winners, one from this BLOG and one from our Instagram page. Each winner will receive a Stencils 360°™ Friends Ed. stenciling tool!

You have until December 8, 9:00pm PST to enter. We really hope you will play along with us! Two winners will be announced on our Blog and on Instagram on Inspiration Week Wrap Up day – December 9!

I truly hope you’ve enjoyed today’s showcases of the 80s Pixel Party stamp set & coordinating Crisp Cuts, the coordinating 6″x6″ stencil, and the Build A Santa Stand-Alone dies!

We will continue to have lots of wonderful products and projects to showcase this week so don’t forget to visit us again tomorrow! Thank you so much for stopping by. Have a lovely day!

Sharon for Sunbird Spark

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Only Two More Days Until the Spring Release Is Officially Here! Are You Ready?

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Penguin Palace blog giveaway Spring 2024 release

Hello and welcome back! Let’s continue on with our Countdown! There’re only 2 Days left until our New Release and we cannot wait to show you more goodies!

Giveaway

There’s still time to participate! During this Reveal Week we will be giving away, on this blog, a total of $125 worth of Gift Cards to our shop (one $25 Gift Card on EACH DAY of countdown)! We will also be giving away prizes over on Instagram, more details below. But first, here’s how you enter our blog giveaway:

• Leave a comment on EACH of our 5 Countdown Blog Posts (note: maximum 3 comments per person per blog post)

• One winner will be randomly selected from EACH Countdown Blog Post to receive a $25 Gift Card. All 5 winners will be announced on our blog on Monday Mar 11.

So be sure to come back each day to participate for a chance to win! Comments close on Sunday Mar 10 @ 9PM PST/ 11:59PM EST) (comments posted after this time will NOT be entered into the draw).

Glowing Beams Stencils 360°™

Effortlessly create stunning designs with the Glowing Beams Stencils 360°™! This set contains two 6″ circular stencils.  In just a few turns, Barrel A gives an energetic sunburst pattern.  Overlay Barrel B on top for an even more dynamic look or use them separately.  Perfect for any project type!  

Perfect Lashes Stand-Alone Dies

These fun die cuts are the secret to perfect lashes every time!  Great for all your friendship cards and just because cards. Get ready for perfect lashes!

This set also coordinates with the Perfect Lashes stamps and coordinating dies.

We hope you enjoyed today’s showcases and inspirations. Leave a comment below before you go and let us know what you think! Want more chances to win? Head over to our Instagram account and look for our Giveaway Post where you’ll have a chance to win one of two fabulous prizes!

Grab 5% OFF your entire order when you Pre-Order NOW, just enter code SPRINGTAKE5 during checkout. Offer ends Mar 10 @ 8:30p.m PST/11:30p.m EST!!

Be sure to come back tomorrow for the last day of release countdown!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

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Reveal & Inspiration Chapter Spring 2021 Day 4

Spring 2021 New Release – Reveal & Inspirational Chapter – Day 4

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Spring 2021 New Release Schedule

Hello and welcome back to Day 4 of our Reveal & Inspirational Chapter. Our new Spring Release can now be Pre-Ordered at www.ppstamps.com! YAYYY!!!!! Grab the FREE GIFT with purchase of 80CAD+/65USD+! This key chain is super adorable and features one of our favourite characters from the Rabbit Café stamp set! So take advantage of this awesome deal while supplies last!

Please continue to visit our blog for the rest of the week for some fun and awesome projects from our talented Creative Team and myself. Today we have 2 more stand-alone die to showcase so let’s get to it! If you missed our Day 1 Intro + Giveaway, click HERE so you don’t miss out!

Today’s first showcase is the Cinematic Shadow Box stand-alone dies. Unlike other smaller shadow boxes you’ve seen, this die set allows you to create a much wider box to house even more adorable characters for the perfect scene!  With the background panel plus 4 nos. of insert tabs, you can have as many as 5 layers in your shadow box with the 2″ depth! How awesome is that?!

Check out this amazing scene Ashley created with this Cinematic Shadow Box! Her background was ink blended beautifully using Distress Oxide inks in Crackling Campfire, Wild Honey and Fossilized Amber with a touch of gold splatter. She placed her adorable images from the Beautiful Africa stamp set on the four insert tabs. She stamped out a sweet sentiment from the set onto the front decorative panel. This card is super fun and vibrant!

Stephanie designed this card with the idea of a Luau in mind. I love how she added the wavy slopes (die cut from the Desert Landscape Scene Builder dies) to the insert tabs. She also used the Mountain Landscape Scene Builder die to add the mountains silhouette on her back panel! The cute images from Aloha Hawaii stamp set were arranged on the different levels of the Cinematic Shadow Box. What an awesome scene!

Candice used images from the Beautiful Africa stamp set for her shadow box. I love how she ink blended her two side panels and all of the 5 insert tabs with Distress Oxide Ink in Cracked Pistachio to achieve the green forest look! The blue sky was also beautifully blended. The punny sentiment “You Are Ele-Phantastic” finished off the card perfectly!

I made my shadow box using stamps from Bond With Nature Canada. The best thing about this card is that the completed shadow box folds flat to fit a slimline #9 or #10 envelope! Do you see the stitched rocky mountains at the back of the card? These were created using the Mountain Landscape Scene Builder Dies + Stencil set! This new 2 in 1 set gives the perfect way for creating beautiful landscapes.

As promised, please click HERE to watch the step by step video on our YouTube Channel!

The next product we’d like to showcase today is the Dotted Borders Slimline Pull Tab stand-alone dies! This set has four different lengths of slit die cuts you can choose from to cut out tracks to form the moving mechanism. This set also includes two slimline rectangle stackables with neat and simple dotted borders that is ideal for all different types of greeting cards!

Allison made an incredible scene using the images from Beautiful Africa. She colored all images with Copics. I love how she altered the images of the jeep and the little girl, combined them with the pull tab mechanism to make it look like she was cruising in the jeep – how clever! I also like how she layered the trees for the added dimension. To finish off she added a super sweet sentiment “I love you, no lion”!

Gladys’s card is super adorable. I love how she arranged her pull tab to make the lion (from Beautiful Africa) appear from behind the bush! It sure will put a smile on the recipient’s face! I also adore the soft-tone she adopted, which adds a special warm vibe to this safari scene!

If you’ve been following since our Sneak Peeks, you would have seen my card above. I created a desert scene with images from Beautiful Africa. The three dimensional sand dunes were created using the Desert Landscape Scene Builder Dies & Stencil Set. This new set gives you the tools for making beautiful and unique landscapes, especially on slimline cards. I adhered the camel to my pull tab to make it stroll along the desert! If you haven’t yet watch my step by step tutorial on this Pull Tab die set, please click HERE to watch it over on our YouTube Channel!

That concludes our inspirations for today! If you haven’t done so, please head over to our Day 1 Post for a chance to win our GIVEAWAYS! You only have until tomorrow 26 Mar 11:59pm PST to enter! We really hope you will play along with us! Winners will be announced on our Blog and on Instagram on 27 Mar!

I truly hope you’ve enjoyed today’s showcase of Cinematic Shadow Box and Dotted Borders Slimline Pull Tab stand-alone dies.

We still have two more days of full reveal so don’t forget to visit us again tomorrow for our next post! Thank you so much for stopping by. Have a lovely day!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

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Reveal & Insiprational Chapter Day 3

Spring 2021 New Release – Reveal & Inspirational Chapter – Day 3

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Spring 2021 New Release Schedule

Hello and welcome back to Day 3 of our Reveal & Inspirational Chapter. Our new Spring Release can now be Pre-Ordered at www.ppstamps.com! YAYYY!!!!! Grab the FREE GIFT with purchase of 80CAD+/65USD+! This key chain is super adorable and features one of our favourite characters from the Rabbit Café stamp set! So take advantage of this awesome deal while supplies last!

Please continue to visit our blog this week for some fun and awesome projects from our talented Creative Team and myself. Today we have 3 more new stand-alone dies to showcase! If you missed our Day 1 Intro + GIVEAWAY, make sure you click HERE for chances to win!

First we have the Twist-N-Pop Surprise stand-alone die! This set is super versatile and is perfect for creating greeting cards for various occasions.   This set comes with a polaroid frame and a backing panel of the same size. The width of these match perfectly to the centre tab on the die-cut base. The frame pop-ups as you twist on one side of the base.  

Gladys made a colorful card using this Twist-N-Pop Surprise stand-alone die. I love how she created these beach scenes! She decorated both sides of her pop-up piece using two polaroid frames and same adorable images from the Aloha Hawaii stamps set! How fun are these punny sentiments! She then cut out some bright patterned paper with the decorative panel die cut. The base of the card was cut with our new Vintage Beetle cardstock.

The best thing about this card is that it folds flat for mailing and it fits into a 6 x 6″ square envelope! The recipient will open up the card by flipping it on one side as centre piece pops up!

Another great thing about this die set is that this pop-up mechanism will work with any centre piece that you want to add to the card. You can therefore interchange the polaroid frame with another element, such as the I Made You A Cake stand-alone die to create a one of a kind birthday surprise! That’s what I did the example below.

II used Fashion Week to cut out my card base. I made two exact same 2-tier birthday cakes and adhere them on each side of the centre tab of the base. I then stamped out two sentiment from the It’s Your Day stamp set onto the sentiment tab die-cut pieces.

For my second card, I used the polaroid frames and created two different scenes using Aloha Hawaii stamps set & coordinating dies. I used Apple Green cardstock for my decorative panels. Watch my step-by-step tutorial over on our YouTube Channel!

The last product we want to showcase today is called the Gingerbread Man Gift Display! I really adore this die cut as it gives you so many options! This set includes not only the dies you need to create the most adorable gingerbread man, it also has all the accessory die cuts necessary to further turn it into earrings or necklace holder display, or an EOS lip balm holder.  It even includes a mini pocket die cut!

In my first example, I turned the cute gingerebread man into an EOS lip balm holder. The circular die in the set easily makes it a perfect fit!

For my second gingerbread man, I used the slit die cut to create a display holder for a necklace. I also glued the mini pocket onto the back of the gingerbread man to help store the necklace.

In my last example, I used the customized double U-shaped die cut and turned my gingerbread man into a pair of earrings display card! This set is super fun and will turn a simple gift into something handmade-special while bringing a smile to the recipient’s face!

That concludes our inspirations for today! I truly hope you’ve enjoyed today’s showcase of stand-alone dies, Twist-N-Pop, I Made You A Cake and Gingerbread Man Gift Display! If you haven’t done so, head over to our Day 1 Post and participate in our GIVEAWAYS!  You have until 26 Mar 11:59pm PST to enter.  We really hope you will play along with us! Winners will be announced on our Blog and on Instagram on 27 Mar!

We will continue to have lots of wonderful products and projects to showcase this week so don’t forget to visit us again tomorrow for our next post! Thank you so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Sharon for Penguin Palace

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A Colorful Interactive Friendship Card by Ashley!

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Hello crafty friends! Ashley is back today to share a beautiful friendship card featuring the My BFF stamps set and coordinating Penguin Perfect Cuts! Check out her full video tutorial HERE!

I love the pinkish inked background that Ashley had created. She used Distress Oxide inks in Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar, with a cloudy stencil. For the hillside grassy fields, she used Distress Oxide inks in Lucky Clover and Twisted Citron, together with a grassy stencil. She also used the largest die from the Dots Meets Dashes Large Rectangle Overlays stand-alone die for the boarder detail.

All of the images are from the My BFF stamp set, and were colored with Copic markers. See how some of the images from the set can be used as clouds as well as leaf clusters? I can’t get enough of these cute smiley faces!

I love that she added a wavy slider channel for the kitty in the trolley to glide across the hillside!

She stamped out the sentiment “Thank you for being a great friend” from the set in Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Finally she splattered some sequins to add some extra sparkle to this dreamy scene!

Thank you so much Ashley! This scene is just full of fun and happiness!

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