Pretty Pink Posh - Penguin Friends Shadow Box

Hi there,

I'm super happy to be back with this lovely Shadow Box featuring the super cute Penguin Friends from the Pretty Pink Posh November 2025 release, as well as dies and stencils from that same release. Love those adorable penguins, and it was fun to make them all match with blue accessories.

I started off by stamping my Penguin Friends on 110lb Neenah solar white cardstock using Memento tuxedo black ink. I cut them all using the matching dies, colored everything with my Ohuhu markers, and when the coloring was done, I added highlights and details to the images using a white gel pen.

For the background of my Shadow Box, I die cut three Winter Trees out of dark grey, light grey and white cardstock, as well as silver glitter cardstock. I added copic opaque white ink splatters and liquid stardust splatters to the cardstock elements, and once dry, attached a cardstock tree to a silver glitter tree using liquid glue, shifting the trees a little bit to get glittery borders under the branches.

Next I worked on my Shadow Box and cut two panels out of white woodgrain cardstock. I kept one of those panels, and cut an opening out of it using the rectangle die from the set, and then created a super cute penguin pattern on both of them using the Layered Penguins stencils along with black soot, pumice stone, hickory smoke, rusty hinge, tumbled glass and broken china oxide inks. I mixed copic opaque white ink with water and used a slim brush to add splatters on both panels, I did the same with liquid stardust and then the same again with uncharted mariner oxide ink to remind the blue accessories on the Penguin Friends.

For the background, I cut a 4 x 3 inches panel out of Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock, covered it with tumbled glass oxide ink, blended a little bit of broken china oxide on the edges, and then added snowflakes all over the panel using the Cascading Snowflakes stencil along with broken china oxide ink. And next I added the same textures as the ones I added to the Shadow Box panels.

I cut three basic insert pieces out of white cardstock using a Shadow Box die, used the wavy border die from the set to turn my three basic inserts into snowy inserts, and added liquid stardust splatters to each insert.

Next I used the scalloped rectangle die and the rectangle die from the Shadow Box die set to cut a frame out of navy blue cardstock, again to match with the blue accessories on the Penguin Friends. I assembled my Shadow Box, attached the wavy inserts and the snowflake panel using liquid glue, stuck the navy blue frame using liquid glue again, and then stuck all the images and trees on the inside and front of the box using 1mm and 2mm foam squares.

I white heat embossed "Snow" from Let It Snow on black cardstock, cut it using the matching die and attached at the top of my box using an acetate strip. I also white heat embossed "Glad we're friends" on black cardstock, cut it into a wavy banner using a Banner Greeting 1 die, and finally attached that banner at the bottom of my Shadow Box using 2mm foam squares.

PRETTY PINK POSH SUPPLIES

- Penguin friends stamp set

- Let it snow stamp set

- Banner greetings 1 die set

- Shadow box die set

- Winter trees die set

- Layered penguins stencils

- Cascading snowflakes stencil

OTHER SUPPLIES

- Ohuhu markers

- Oxide inks: black soot, pumice stone, hickory smoke, rusty hinge, tumbled glass, broken china, uncharted mariner

- Copic opaque white ink

- Liquid stardust by Lawn Fawn

- Copic opaque white ink

- Memento tuxedo black ink (images)

- Clear embossing ink by Lawn Fawn

- Fine white embossing powder by Hero Arts

- Colored cardstock by Lawn Fawn

- White woodgrain cardstock by Simon Says Stamp

- Silver glitter cardstock by Concord & 9th

- 110lb Neenah solar white cardstock (images)

- Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock (background)