Krafty Chicks challenge - GDT card week 2

Hello again friends; I hope you're having a great week so far......it's nearly Friday *yay* (although luckily for me every day is Friday now I've retired lol).  I'm back with my second card for the Krafty Chicks challenge and week 2 is always Christmas.  My Christmas card making production is going as well as most years - this is my second card - but even though I have a last minute panic they always get done!  Here is my card:

and a close up of the cute penguin

I recently got my hands on the new cute Christmas stamps from LOTV so it was the perfect excuse to ink one of them up.  I decided on this cute penguin but they are all adorable.  I coloured him with Promarkers and fussy cut him out.  For the background I used a snowflake stencil and went with light grey ink for a subtle look.  To create his 'ice rink' I actually used a balloon stencil and just masked off the end and inked that in light blue.  I die cut the white panel using a rectangle die that punches the holes which is gorgeous and added a red panel behind it so that the red would peek out from the holes.  I stamped a sentiment in black ink below the ice rink.  I then adhered this to my card base with foam tape.  I added some shimmer pen to the ice rink and then added the penguin on top with thin foam squares.  For a finishing touch I added some clear raindrops around my penguin.  

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - any occasion

Allsorts challenge - ATG or use die cuts (I used a frame die)

Craft Rocket challenge - clean and simple

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - wings or scales (penguins can't fly but use their wings to swim)

Moving Along with The Times challenge - Christmas

NBUS - brand new penguin stamp

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - make it cute

Stencil Fun challenge - use stencils - option fall

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - die cuts/ATG (I used a die cut frame)

Use Your Stuff challenge - borders (my die cut frame has a decorative border) 

Please pop over to the Krafty Chicks challenge blog to get all the details of the challenge and to give some love to the Design Team - Leanne, Melanie, Diane and Lori.  I'll be back next Thursday with my card for Week 3 - CAS.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving me such lovely comments; I appreciate you all.  

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

LOTV - penguins and reindeer A5 stamp set

Funky Fossil Designs - snow is falling stencil

Uniko Stamps - balloon bash stencil (for the ice rink)

MFT stamps - my itty bitty holiday stamp set

Gina K Designs - sea glass and soft stone ink pads

Spellbinders - essential rectangles dies

Little Things from Lucy's Cards - clear raindrops

Promarkers

Nuvo - aqua shimmer pen (glitter gloss)

Limetree Crafts - 250 gsm white smooth card

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Sakura - white gelly roll 10 pen 

Versafine onyx black ink (for sentiment)

Memento tuxedo black ink (for stamping image)