Birthday card with deer

Here is another birthday card that I made for my other nephew. He will also turn 17 in early November, but I made the card earlier so that I could give it to him in person. One of his favourite animals is deer this is why I chose the Prancing Deer (660033) by Tim Holtz.

The background

I already had the background, I made it for something else, but I didn't use it. For this, I used the starry background stamp from the Christmas Nostalgia (CMS207) stamp set. I stamped them twice next to each other because I wanted a bigger background.

Then I started to ink with blue and brown Distress inks (Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans, Ground Espresso). The lighter colours to the middle and the darker around the edges.

The cut-outs

I cut out the deer from brown paper with textured surface. You can find the balloon in the Celebrate Colorize set (666285). I coloured with red Distress inks. For the numbers I chose the Alphanumeric Label (664177).

The text

The text is an MFT stamp, it's called Bitty Birthday Wishes.

With my card, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Add Some Text

Tag with Cool Yule deer

Hello everyone, I would like to show you my latest make, a Christmas tag. For this tag, I put together not just the deer but the plaid background paper too.

For the blue plaid paper, I used the Layered Plaid die set, two different shades of blue paper and a black paper. I cut out the three layers then I glued them together one after another. 

Then I cut out a tag from this plaid panel with a middle size tag die.

Unfortunately I lost the original scarf die of the deer, so I had to make one using two different dies. One of the pieces was the white trim part of Santa's hat and the other piece was part of Mr. Frost but I cut it shorter.

I also added glittery stars, using glitter paper and the star die of the Cool Yule set.

The text was in the Christmas 2023 Sticker Book.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Layered Plaid (666068)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Cool Yule (663099)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Mr. Frost (665581)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Framed Tags (666065)

Idea-Ology, Christmas 2023 Sticker Book

silver glitter paper

etc.

With this tag, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Make it Sparkle

Deer with white and blue Nordic knit background

Last year at the Country View Challenges we had a theme called Red-Green-Rust. And for this challenge, I made a card with a red and green holiday knit background and a rusty deer.

Well, if you clicked on the link, you can see that I used nearly the same design for making this card.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Holiday Knit by Tim Holtz (660981)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Labels by Tim Holtz (660060)

Sizzix Bigz die, Prancing Deer by Tim Holtz (660033)

Stampers Anonymous, Holiday Drawings by Tim Holtz (CMS284)

Die-Namics, Stitched Fishtail Flags - for the strips

Die-Namics, A2 Stitched Rectangles 

Ranger Distress ink pads (Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs)

silver glitter paper

etc.

With my card, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Make your own background

I hope you like it!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!

Winter wonderland card with deer

If I count well, this will be my 7th make of the 12 tags of Christmas challenge of the Funkie Junkie blog. Now this one is the interpretation of Linda's first tag. You can find Linda's beautiful tag here, and there you can also find the rules as well.

What I used:

Sizzix Framelits Die and Stamp Set, Holiday Joy by Tim Holtz (659376)

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Winter Wonderland by Tim Holtz (662426)

Stampers Anonymous, Mini Handwritten Holidays by Tim Holtz (CMS211)

Ranger Distress embossing ink

Ranger embossing powder, white

white acrylic paint

Ranger Archival ink, Potting Soil

Ranger Distress ink, Frayed Burlap

kraft paper

With my card, I would also like to join the challenge of A Vintage Journey: Winter Wonderland

Winter canvas with sleigh and deer by Tim Holtz

Yesterday was a wonderful day, I received a lovely comment and I was informed that I won $50 voucher on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge with my wintry canvas with sleigh and deer by Brenda Walton. Woo hoo!!!

It was a great inspiration to leave my daughter's room where I was nearly lost in the past few days with sorting out her legos :-)

Well, I returned to my craft room and the blogland.

Parallel with the Brenda Walton canvas I started to make another one with exactly the same techniques but with Tim Holtz dies, stamps and stencils. Here it is:

And another pic:

With my canvas I would like to join:

- Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Christmas/Winter Holidays

- A Vintage Journey: Winter Wonderland

MentésMentés

Red and green card with rusty deer

Hello Everybody, for the December challenge of the Country View Challenges blog, I created a Christmas greeting card with rusty deer and Holiday Knit background by Tim Holtz. 

For this card, I have found the inspiration in the picture of the die. In the picture that was attached to the die you can see this:

And here is my tutorial:

I cut out a rectangle (5,4x3,7 in) with a Sizzix Framelits Die, Rectangle (658610) from white cardstock.

Then I cut out four stitched flags with MFT die. This die had the perfect size to cover my white rectangle. 

After I placed the Holiday Knit die in the middle of the flag stripe and cut out the pattern.

Then I adhered them to the white cardstock one after another.

I inked the edges of the card.

The deer was cut out from chipboard, painted brown, then I put a thick layer of rusty paste on the surface. 

For the text, I used Vintage Photo embossing powder which looks like rust after heating.

I hope you like it!

If you have any Christmas project, please don't hesitate to join our December challenge where you can win a £20 voucher!

P.S. This is a massage for Daria who asked me about the rusty paste I used. I'm sorry for the late answering but the cause of this was the Christmas. And otherwise, I'm not really sure that my aswer will be helpful because the rusty paste I used was a German one. The name is: Heike Schafer Rost Effekt and I added some extra cinnamon to this paste. I bought it in a Craft Market - Creative Expo in Luxembourg :-)

Tag with deer and pine tree

This tag was made for the 12 tags of Christmas (2017) at the Funkie Junkie blog. This one is the interpretation of Linda's 9th tag.

You can find Linda's tag here.

If you hopped on the Funkie Junkie blog you could see that Linda used a large Jumbo manila tag (8x4") but I used a 6x3" tag. So I had less space to create :-)

And since I don't have yet Tim's Winter Wonderland Thinlits die set, I used the Prancing Deer instead.

For the pine tree, I used the Woodlands Thinlits die set.

And of course, there are other differences but you couldn't deny the similarities to the original tag :-)

I covered all my cut-outs with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

Christmas card with deer and sleigh

Today is December 5th, tonight Saint Nicholas (Mikulás) will visit the Hungarian kids to put some tiny presents and candies to their shiny boots. Usually the kids put their cleaned and waxed boots on the windowsill to find the Mikulás treats on the following morning.

Mikulás comes in a sleigh pulled by deers (not reindeers). So for the second inspirational piece of our December challenge over at Country View Challenges I have brought you a card with Sizzix - Tim Holtz Prancing Deer (660033) and Sleigh.

I used a heavy duty craft sheet as a basic. Then I covered with a light blue winter patterned paper but before I stencilled snowflakes with pearl shine modelling paste/texture paste. 

I cut out the sleigh and the deer from chipboard and painted with acrylic paints. After drying I smeared some shine on the surfaces.

For the text I used Tim's Thinlits Script Die, Holiday Words (660058).

I hope you like it! And if you have a project in Christmas theme (I bet you have), please don't forget to link it to our December challenge at Country View Challenges where you can win a £20 voucher!

Mixed media canvas with Tim Holtz sleigh, packages and deer

Canvas mixed media avec le traîneau, les boîtes et le renne par Tim Holtz

This is a small (24x18 cm) canvas I have made for the approaching Christmas. 

First I have made a winter night background... What is interesting about the background that I used black acrylic paint instead of ink for the tree stamps. I put the black paint onto the stamp with a sponge.

For the sleigh and the deer, I glued together two chipboards to give them dimensions.

For the packages, I used book pages what I coloured with Ranger Distress inks and glued on white cardstocks. At the end, I put a little Perle modelling paste.

What I used:

Sizzix Bigz Die, Sleigh Ride by Tim Holtz (660038)

Sizzix Bigz Die, Retro Packages by Tim Holtz (660037)

Sizzix Bigz Die, Prancing Deer by Tim Holtz (660033)

Sizzix Framelits Die&Stamp Set, Holiday Joy by Tim Holtz (659376)

akrylic paints

Ranger Distress ink pads and markers

cardstock, chipboard, book pages

Schmincke Acrylic Fluid Medium