A Herd of Reindeer.

Well this past fortnight has certainly sped past quickly unlike January that seemed to go on for ages. Time again for the girls in the Christmas Card Club to show our next makes. Zoe set the theme of Reindeer and/or friends but I had loads of Reindeer themed card fronts to use up so a Herd of Reindeer it is. Was busy last night herding this lot up so had to wait till this morning to get any half decent photos.

First card was a nice easy one as I simply picked two colours from the card front and layered up and then finally onto a red cardstock base. Gold sentiment sticker from my stash

This next card card front is quite small 3.5 x 3.5 so I made larger by layering onto gold cardstock that had previously been cut out from another card I had made a picture frame for. I found a matching plaid design paper a freebie from Making Cards Magazine Nov 2015 and then adhered the panel to more of the gold cardstock to make the basecard. Attached the reindeer panel and more layers for the gold sentiment  (from my stash) that matched the middle reindeer perfectly. 

I originally had planned on making this next reindeer just into a tag but as I began layering it up to make the tag it suddenly got bigger and I found another previously cut out panel to adhere it to. More red paper and then more of the  beige cardstock to make the base.  Britannia die cut used to make the sentiment from a snippet of the green card.  Bit of a story here as the original card was to The Doc from a former work colleague which I had managed to salvage the Reindeer from so it will be going back to the work colleague as this years card with a note inside saying 'Cutbacks' !! 

Next card front I have made into an easel card . It had side panels folded with the reindeer already pre cut out so that it stood up. I cut those off but salvaged the bottom part of each panel and adhered them to the back part of the easel Layered up using a snow flake design paper from a LOTV paper pad called 'Krafty Christmas and plain red cardstock. The Sentiment is a die cut by Tonic cut from more snippets. 

As I was closing the card up after taking the photo I looked at it and thought how much like a red roof line and house front it looked with santa  flying over in his sleigh. What do you think?

Finally my last card again uses an old christmas card front of a wreath that for some reason in my mind just cried out for a Stags head to be added so I did!

The stag is a freebie die cut and stamp set  called 'Magjestic Moments' that came in a Practical Publishing magazine last year. I gold embossed the stags head and it really stands out a treat. Layered up with various brown /beige cardstock to match the wreath.

Another 5 cards to add to my pile which is still lacking behind for this year.  I'm off to see what the rest of the girls have made.