There's still lots of snow on the ground, so it seemed appropriate to do a snowy Christmas card today. I've been planning to participate with the ladies at Peace on Earth Christmas because they have a new inspiration board up. The stag in the top left quadrant with his antlers completely decorated gave me a chuckle, so that's where I went!
Here's what went through my head as I worked on this card: "Norman loved decorating for Christmas so much that his forest friends just didn't have the heart to tell him that he was over-dressed for the annual winter party."
I started with my favorite deer die (from My Favorite Things), and I die cut him and his antlers from two different colors of kraft card stock. I mooshed some brown ink on him and touched him up with white gel and black ink pens. I die cut part of the metal plate from PTI's "Birthday Bash" and attached it to a side-folded card base. I wanted some sparkle in the sky, so I cut a small portion of the same die out of my very last scrap of white sparkle card stock, popped out some of the circles and stars, and glued them into the openings in the top panel. I stamped the sentiment (Unity "More Sparkle, Less Stress"), heat embossed it with Red Tinsel embossing powder, and die cut the top with a stitched wave, and mounted it over the lower front of the card. I attached my little deer to the card and then had loads of fun searching out sparkly red and green card stock scraps for the foliage and cardinal he wanted in his antlers - plus an additional bough to chew on! After decorating his antlers, I added a couple of gemstones for some additional shine in the sky.
The sparkle of the sentiment doesn't show up very well - here's a closer look. And to see the green and red glitter card stock of his antler decorations, here's another close-up.
Here's the link to the challenge. (I always do a bit of a double-take when I see this referred to as the POE challenge - Poe was my maiden name!)
Peace On Earth Christmas : February 2025 Peace On Earth Challenge #81
I love this and poor Norman, I don't think he is overdressed at all LOL!
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