- Dec 24, 2018

Wreath with Deer

Hi everyone, today I would like to show you my second and last guest design project for Crealies for this month and also my last Christmas card of this season. Crealies is a fabulous Dutch die and stamp company (that also ships outside the Netherlands).

Today I’m showing you two versions of the same card design.

Step 1:

I started this project by stamping the wreath image and the holly clusters from the Crealies CLRS09 stamp set onto Copic friendly paper, twice, using Memento “Tuxedo Black“ ink. I let the ink dry well!

Then I coloured the images using my Copic markers. I used the following colours: G12, G40, G16, BG78, R0000, R43, R29, R89, E44 and E59. When the colouring was done I added back in some highlights using a white Gelly Roll Pen.

Step 2:

Next I die cut two deer using the CLSH04 die set and some brown glitter paper. I also fussy cut the wreath image using my Fiskars scissors. For the inner part of the wreath I used a craft knife.

Step 3:

Then I die cut my background panel using one of the dies in the nesting die set with number 24 and some white linen textured card stock. On this panel I stamped the CLBP133 stamp several times using second generation stamping and Distress Ink in the colour “Evergreen Bough“.

Step 4:

Now I can put my cards together: from some matching red card stock I die cut a slightly larger mat using one of the dies in the number 10 nesting die set. Then I adhered the white background panel and the red panel together using liquid glue. On this combination I adhered the wreath, the holly clusters, the deer and also the text that I die cut using a text die by Crealies (CLTD102) and some red glitter paper. The wreath and the deer I adhered using one millimetre thick foam tape and the holly clusters and the text I adhered using liquid glue.