Tuesday with Tara {take 274} Darling Deer
Happy Tuesday! Today I’m sharing a pair of simple Christmas cards that fit today’s daily challenge theme: wildlife. I challenged myself to make two cards using the positive and negative die cuts from Tim Holtz’s Darling Deer dies together with a snowflake stencil by Paper Rose.
The first card uses the negative space of the deer. I arranged them on an ivory panel and held them in place with washi tape before running them through my Big Shot. I then inked up some of the white space with Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink through the snowflake stencil, fading the ink as it came near to the deer. I selected a gel print background I had created a while back and inked over the white space on it with the same Distress Ink to blend them together and adhered it behind the openings. The shades of green and blue give a fun retro vibe to this otherwise outdoorsy card! I finished off the card with a Christmas sentiment from the Festive Overlay stamp set, stamped in Mowed Lawn to coordinate with the green card base I mounted it on.
For this card I added the winter trees stamp by Paper Rose that I used for our Sweater Weather blog hop, this time stamped tone on tone for a more subtle effect. I had some technical difficulties with my stamping and almost tossed this one, but in the end decided it still worked as a background! I added a bit of Ground Espresso Distress Ink to the deer and a sentiment (from the winter trees set) in the same brown. I had a scrap of the gel print paper left from the first card, so I trimmed it in a slight wave and mounted it to the bottom of the card for a bit more color and texture.
Here’s a look at the two cards together. Once you have the design figured out (I find that really is most of the work when you’re creating simple cards) they came together quickly and would be easy & fast to reproduce.
Personally I’m not great at mass producing cards, so I’d love to play with a design like this and do pairs in multiple colors. Using gel prints in the design and selecting colors from there would be a fun way to mix things up, but you could also use patterned paper from your stash.
Thanks for stopping by- I hope you have a great day!
Inky hugs,
Tara
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