Sunday, November 25, 2018

JOY - Snow Play

Snowflakes and reindeer and everything Christmas! I started working on my Christmas cards -- and I was inspired by the Simon Says Monday Challenge -- Let It Snow! My background was inspired by one of my favorite card and craft bloggers, Kath Stewart.

My card combines dies from my stash and some of the new Tim Holtz Christmas papers and Festive Funkie dies. I've always loved this prancing deer and was so glad to have an excuse to use him playing in the snow!


I started off inking a panel with Distress Oxides in Faded Jeans and Black Soot then lightly spritzing with water. Then stamped snowflakes in Faded Jeans and white embossed a few snowflakes.



Since this is one of what I hope will be many Christmas cards, I die cut a bunch of festive greens for about an hour!  Then die cut prancer here, covered him in white acrylic paint and dusted with fine white glitter.


I die cut the word JOY three times and stacked them to give the word some extra depth and die cut the small poinsettia and edged with some fine white glitter.




Then layered the blue panel atop a panel of red stripes and fixed the whole thing to a dusty blue card and voila! My first Christmas card for 2018!


I'm entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge:  Let It Snow  



2 comments:

  1. What a delightful holiday card, Michelle! Love the snowflake background, and all the touches around the deer. The red frame is wonderful.Thanks for sharing with us at SImon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Hugs, Maura

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  2. Beautiful card! The design looks so elegant 😀. Thanks so much for joining in the fun at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! J 😊 x

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