Oh Deer.

It's been one of those days today. I managed to get a food shop delivery and it has put me all at sixes and sevens with what I had planned.  It's time again for the girls in the Christmas Card Club to show out next makes. Gwen chose the theme of Deer.  I had intended to make more than one card but this one took me ages so one it will have to be or I will never get this posted. 

I have managed to kill two birds with one stone though and enter this into a challenge that requires you to use your long forgotten embossing folders. I am very guilty of that and was surprised to find just how many christmas themed folders I do in fact have!

This embossing folder is by Crafter's Companion and is called Reindeer Parade.  I embossed a sheet of craft card with it and trimmed slightly down as it is  6"x6" .Using a dauber and distress ink I coloured the raised parts and gently some of the background too and all the way round the edges.  The sentiment is a Britannia die which I die cut 5 times. The top one I laid over my clear embossing pad and pressed down slightly and then dipped into gold embossing powder and heat set.  The deer stamp which comes with the matching die cut  came as a freebie from a Practical Publishing magazine. I gave the Deer the same treatment by stamping with my clear embossing pad and then embossing with the gold.  I mounted him onto a plaque made from an oval die cut and raised everything  up using strips of oddments of cardstock layered up to give some height. That is the part that took all the time up cutting and adhering together but the pile of strips on my desk has gone down . Yay!

Entering into the following challenges:

Let's Squash It #2 Use a Christmas Embossing folder and a stamp. 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #42 Use a Christmas embossing folder and a stamp.

Pixies Crafty Workshop #391 Use up your snippets. (Brown cardstock for sentiment and deer plus strips that  you can't see raising embellishments up. )

Stay Safe and Well

Hugs