Dashing Deer on Gold Spritz background

For this card I made a spritz using alcohol and the gold shimmer paint and used this spritz to create a background for the Dashing Deer.

 I don't have a recipe, just adding gold shimmer paint to alcohol in a spritzer until I was happen with the color when I spritzed it on a piece of Whisper white card stock.

This gold spritz was sprayed on a 3 3/4 by 5" piece of Watercolor paper.  I was impatient, so rather than waiting for the spritzed paper to dry I used my heat tool.  This was much faster.

The deer and corner pieces were die cut in gold foil and adhered to the watercolor background piece using the sizzix adhesive sheets.  Because the foil is so reflective it is hard to get a good picture.

The watercolor paper was matted with gold foil and this was added to a Whisper White base.

The sentiment was embossed with  gold embossing powder on Whisper White card stock, matted with gold foil and added to the lower card using dimensionals.

The sentiment on the inside was also gold embossed.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Dashing Deer

Inks:  Versa Mark

Papers:  Whisper White, Gold Foil, Watercolor Paper

Accessories:  Gold Shimmer Paint, Alcohol, Detailed Deer Thinlets, Gold embossing powder

Flying Deer Shadow Box - Open House Door Prize

This 7 by 10 front opening shadow box is a dollar store find, and although the frame is made of unpainted wood the window is plastic.

Using the Dashing Deer framelits, and Hearts Come Home framelits die cuts, I added a string of mini lights to create this 3D Lighted Window Box, which will be the main door prize at my Open House on Oct. 13.

The sky was made using an emboss resist technique using the Star of Light stamp set and white embossing powder,  The moon was masked off using a 1 1/4" circle punchie.  Color was applied using a brayer.

The houses were die cut and layered with the lights in between. The extra lights were adhered behind the stars in the sky.

Because the deer were die cut in copper foil I painted only the outside lid with copper shimmer paint.  I added them using a strip of card stock accordion folded that gave them the ability of movement.

Supplies Used:

Stamp: Star of Light

Inks:  Versa Mark, Petal Pink, Lovely Lipstick, Blueberry Bushel, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry

Papers:  Shimmer White card stock, Copper foil

Accessories:  Detailed Deer Thinlets, Hometown Greetings Edgelits, 1 1/4" circle punch, dimensionals, mini lights (battery), white embossing powder, wood shadow box, copper shimmer paint

Happiest Christmas Wishes

A number of my customers have asked me "what do you do with the stamp with the Birch trees on them?" from the Winter Woods stamp set?
So I made a card showing one way to use this stamp.

I started with a card base of Night of Navy card stock, layering it with Silver Foil card stock and then the art piece upon the scene is built.

On a piece of 2 by 3 1/2" piece of Night of Navy card stock, I stamped the image of the birch trees twice with Versa Mark and embossed them with White embossing powder.

Then I die cut two leafless trees with Whisper White card stock and adhered them in front of the birch trees.

Before adding the glitter texture paste I stamped the small deer from "Dashing Deer"in Night of Navy ink, embossed it with clear embossing powder, and then die cut it using the coordinating framelit. Using Smoky Slate ink I stamped the "shadow" and then adhered the die cut deer on the card front above the shadow.

Glitter texture paste, to mimic snow, was then added to the base of the birch trees extending to the ground underneath the deer and to the other end of the card.

The sentiment, from "Versatile Christmas" was stamped with Versa Mark and Night of Navy inks on Whisper White card stock, and embossed with Clear embossing powder.  This piece was matted with Night of Navy card stock and added to the card front above the deer.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Winter Woods, Dashing Deer, Versatile Christmas

Inks:  Night of Navy, Versa Mark

Papers:  Night of Navy, Silver Foil, Whisper White, Night of Navy

Accessories:  In the Woods Framelits, Detailed Deer Thinlets, Clear Embossing Powder, White Embossing Powder, Glitter Texture Paste