It’s about 100 days until Christmas; not too early to start planning for your special handcrafted cards this year!
Luxurious materials, colors and textures are perfect for holiday cards, so I’m happy to share this reindeer card with you:
Dashing Deer and Detailed Deer Thinlits Dies on page 9 of the Holiday Catalog.
First of all, I have to tell you how excited I am about the new Tin Tile Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (HC pg. 43) that I used for the background of this card! The Dynamic embossing folders make deeper, dramatic impressions, and as recommended, I sprayed a little water with a Stampin’ Spritzer on the Rich Razzleberry cardstock first, before rolling it through the Big Shot. Impressive!
I used a scalloped circle of Vellum cardstock to make a moon background for the leaping copper reindeer. Here’s a tip for working with vellum: attach the copper pieces to the vellum circle with Mini Glue Dots, and then add more Mini Glue Dots on the back of the vellum, underneath the die cut images. This will enable you to attach the vellum to the card without any adhesive showing through.
A new feature on the Detailed Deer Thinlits set is simple but genius: there are seven flower/snowflake dies that are all the same (four open style and three solid) so when making multiples of the same image, as I did here, you can get them all made during one turn of the Big Shot. This saves a lot of time!
Here are the colors that I used on this card; click on any picture to see all of the products that Stampin’ Up! offers in that color:
And here are all of the supplies that I used to make this card (note: the stamps and the thinlits can be purchased as a bundle, or separately.) Click on any picture for more information or to order online.
This is the first card I’ve made with the Dashing Deer Bundle, and now my imagination is off and running! What colors, textures and materials can you dream up to make some beautiful holiday cards with them?