Reindeer Games Cards with Alma and Marie

Hello, my dears. This is Alma and today I want to show you a greeting card with an integrated advent calendar.

First of all, I cut out a rectangular card. Then I cut 25 squares from the Joyful Holiday Paper, 2 by 2 inches. Afterwards I punched out the glove from the Warm & Cozy Dies 25 times and the numbers 1-25 from the Chloe Number Dies. Now I wiped a white card with the Distress Oxides colours Stormy Sky, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Saphire and Black Soot and wiped clouds with white ink. I used the clouds from the Slimline Nature Border Dies set as a stencil.

Now I stamped and coloured the reindeer from the Reindeer Games Stamps set and the Santa from the Santa Claus Lane Stamps set and punched them out with the corresponding Santa Claus Lane Dies and Reindeer Game Dies. Now I punched the Cityscape Border Dies in black and glued it to the cloud background. To attach the advent calendar, I punched all the individual elements with the Bind it and tied them to the card. Finally I glued all the images on it and the Christmas countdown was done!

What a great interactive card!

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Hello Crafty Friends, Marie here. I am very happy to be back on the blog to share a new Holiday inspiration card with you featuring the recently released Reindeer Games stamps. Reindeers are some of my favorite images to color and create with during the holidays so I was very excited to make a card with this adorable stamp set! 

The first thing I do before anything when cardmaking is to prepare my base and my background panels. I cut out my A2 sized base panel from 110 lb Sturdy Neenah solar white cardstock paper so that I never have a problem with my cards warping. Using a slightly smaller die from a nesting A2 die set, I cut out my background panel using bristol smooth white cardstock for easy ink blending.

I then prepared my background panel using the Forest Trees stencils. This layering stencil set creates such a beautiful background of lush pine trees that look like they fade out with the distance depending on how light or dark you go with your inking. I also love that these stencils are numbered so you know the order in which to use them when inking. For my tree stencils, I used Distress Inks. For layer number 1, I used a very light hand with the color Evergreen Bough, for the 2nd layer of trees, I used the same ink color and applied it with a bit more pressure to get a darker shade. For my 3rd layer, I used a combination of Evergreen Bough, Rustic Wilderness, and Uncharted Mariner Distress Inks for the darkest shade of all the layers. 

After my trees were finished, I inked around my entire card background with Evergreen Bough and then for the top of my card, I inked a darker shade of Uncharted Mariner and Chipped Sapphire to create a night sky. I then used some water splatters and watered down acrylic paint to create a snowy backdrop. 

I stamped the reindeer images using antique Linen on watercolor paper, and used water color pencils to color my images. I did some white detailing using a white gel pen. I then cut my images using the Reindeer Games corresponding dies. I positioned my reindeers and adhered them all down using double sided tape adhesive. Flying Rudolph was adhered using double sided foam strips for dimension. I also gave Rudolph a bright shiny blinged out nose using the Red Zircon Jewels. I find adding the one single red gem embellishment so charming, perfect for Santa's favorite reindeer. 

I didn't want to leave the inside of my card blank so I added a reindeer wishing everyone a Happy Holidays with the sentiments from the stamp set placed in a word bubble stamped in Candied Apple Distress Ink. 

I am so so happy with how my card turned out! Thank you so much for stopping by the blog and I hope it gives you some ideas for all your upcoming Christmas Cardmaking and crafting! Until next week, Have an Awesome Day or Night! and as always, Happy Crafting!!! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Chloe Number Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Warm & Cozy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cityscape Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Forest Trees Stencils Shop at: Sunny Studio	Reindeer Games Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Reindeer Games Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio