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An Elegant White Pondering Deer

 
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While the entire Christmas release is beautiful, I really love the layered look of the elegant Pondering Layered Deer die. There are so many lovely details and I knew an all-white deer would look just great. I cut all the deer parts from 110lb heavy white cardstock. I colored a black circle on the base layer of the deer head, so the eye would appear black through the top layer. I adhered all the parts together to finish the deer.
 
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My card base is a dark kraft cardstock. I brought in a plaid background piece from the new Memory Box Christmas Jolly 6x6 paper pack. Next I cut a frame from thin, gold metallic paper using the largest die from the Double Scalloped Stitched Frame.
 
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I very much wanted to use a stamped sentiment from the Gilded Christmas Wishes stamp set, but I needed it to be all in one line, not stacked and inside of a frame like it was made. I turned to my craft knife. I carefully cut the words out of the plastic stamp and then arranged them on my acrylic block. I stamped with Versamark embossing ink and used an ultra fine gold embossing powder to heat emboss the sentiment on black cardstock. It worked perfectly. I was able to replace the word stamps into the frame portion of the stamp, so I can use it again as designed.

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I cut the black cardstock just a little smaller than my gold frame so the plaid would show up all around the frame. Next, I splattered some gold mica spray onto the black sentiment to add interest and a sense of snowfall. I adhered my reindeer to the black cardstock with foam adhesive below the sentiment and then adhered all the other parts into place.
 
I was very happy with the results of both my stamp "surgery" and the card. Are you crafting a lot this holiday season?
 
Janet Floral Signature copy
 

 

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Comments

Hi Janet, I adore this card, you have created an atmospheric evening feeling with the background and the deer has come into the moonlight, I love it. I especially love this plaid patterned paper too.
Lots of love from Patricia xx

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