So much in this card to be inspired by! Having no yetis, I looked to: the deer in the trees; the use of patterned paper; the varied colours of the evergreens; the gold cord; and the overall clean design. Emily's little jar scenes are very similar to a stamp I have, so that was my starting point. Here's my finished card:
I think it's easy to see why I pulled out this particular stamp! I really wanted to duplicate the shades of green that Emily used for her trees, but having all of them on one stamp made it a little trickier. After inking the whole stamp with Versamark (both to make sure my inks stayed juicy as I played, and so I could heat emboss), I used sponge daubers to ink the trees in three different greens and the deer in brown. I was able to curve a cling stamp enough to echo the line of trees. And of course I messed up trying to put the sentiment right on the panel! I kind of like the curved panel I had to use to cover up my mistake. It barely shows in the photo above, but you can see it here a little better:
I brushed a little Wink of Stella along the curved edge, as well. Rather than try to match the brown of the deer in cardstock, I just sponged the edges of a white panel with the same ink.
It's great to start building up a small stash of Christmas cards so early in the year! Maybe you'll be inspired by Emily's card to play along, too.
Supplies: white cardstock, Echo Park Dots & Stripes Metropolitan patterned paper, Memory Box Deer in the Field & Stampin' Up Winter Memories stamps, Versamark & iced spruce, peeled paint, evergreen bough & ground espresso distress inks, clear & pirate's gold embossing powders, My Favorite Things blueprints 24 & Paper Smooches borders 1 dies, Wink of Stella clear glitter brush pen, May Arts white & gold twine
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11 comments:
Your Christmas projects are so beautiful....love the trees and stunning deer
Tfs Annie x
Great card, love the sweet scene you've created, Jo x
Lovely scene you have built, gorgeous card, nice to get a jump start for holiday season!!
This is gorgeous, Lindsey! Love the variation in the greens on the trees and your 'extra' hill - I would call that a 'design opportunity' that worked out perfectly! So glad you joined us at MCV this week!
What an adorable scene you have created. Very pretty card.
Such a pretty scene you created! Love it! Happy Easter to you, Lindsey and I just made you have 100 followers, woot woot!
Love how you have managed to curve your sentiment to the shape of your hills! beautiful x
Lindsey such a gorgeous card. I love that you took it from a cute and funny card to classy and very elegant!
Lovely, serene scene!
Love the clean simplicity of your card. Beautiful and peaceful.
LOL about being obliged to play! :P I love your clean and classic approach to my hilarious and over-whelming design. Hahaha. BTW, I love your new blog banner! Thanks so much for playing along with Muse Christmas Visions!
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