Hmmm – this week’s challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown had me a little stumped. It wasn’t for lack of ideas, just lack of stamps (can you believe it?!) The theme challenge this week is Rudolph and to make this the focus of your card. Of all the current Christmas stamp sets I own from Stampin’ Up, none have a reindeer image – sigh. So instead, I turned to my (rather large) library of Stampin’ Up stamp sets, old and new, to find this cute little reindeer silhouette and oval frame, from a set I’m ashamed to say I had not even inked up before today! It was still sitting in the box, brand new and waiting to be put together! How did that happen?! Retired before its time, me thinks …
I started by punching a 2” piece of very vanilla cardstock with the tag topper punch, and corner rounding the bottom corners. Next, I used my stamp-a-majig to stamp the oval frame in the centre of the tag, which was to be a perfect place for my little reindeer …
I inked up this little guy in chocolate chip ink and then used a blender pen to remove the ink from his nose, before adding real red ink to it with a marker pen, huffing on the stamp and plotting it dead centre of the frame. I could not have achieved this without my handy-dandy stamp-a-majig – would be totally lost without this fantastic tool!
Next came the layering, and I just had fun – furtling in my scraps box to find a piece of tartan-looking dsp. I die cut this using the top note die, trimmed off around the stitching line and adhered it to the base card made from two pieces of naturals white cardstock cut with the same die. Next came a doily die cut from old olive cardstock – it took a bit of poking out, all those little die cut pieces, but worth it in the end – green confetti anyone? …
Finally, I adhered all the layers together and added a hand-tied organza bow, and a tiny rhinestone for a little Christmas bling.
I hope you like my card this week, and if you’ve been inspired, please pop along to 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown and join in the challenge – we would love to see what you make.
cardstock: naturals white, chocolate chip, old olive, very vanilla;
stamp sets: joyous celebrations;
inks: chocolate chip, real red;
punches & dies: tag topper, corner rounder, 1” circle, doily, top note;
accessories: dsp, stampin’ dimensionals, whisper white organza ribbon, mini glue dots, stamp-a-majig.
All supplies from Stampin’ Up.
I will be linking my card to these challenges:
Christmas Stampin’ All Year Long
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