Reindeer Greetings

A handmade winter holiday card featuring a layered paper craft design. The card shows a watercolor winter scene with a golden deer silhouette standing in snow, surrounded by white pine trees against a blue starry sky. The text 'Seasons Greetings' appears at the top in gold lettering. The card is decorated with blue and gold sequins scattered across the surface. It's standing up facing right. In front of it are reindeer die cuts, a tree die, blue sequins and gold rhinestones. A circular logo in the bottom left identifies this as work by Kat Scrappiness designer Cecilia Huster, featuring a cartoon avatar of a woman with brown hair.
A handmade winter holiday card featuring a layered paper craft design. The card shows a watercolor winter scene with a golden deer silhouette standing in snow, surrounded by white pine trees against a blue starry sky. The text 'Seasons Greetings' appears at the top in gold lettering. The card is decorated with blue and gold sequins scattered across the surface. On the left side are reindeer dies with blue sequins and gold rhinestones. The bottom right shows die-cut deer and tree silhouettes dies. A circular logo in the bottom left identifies this as work by Kat Scrappiness designer Cecilia Huster, featuring a cartoon avatar of a woman with brown hair. The card is photographed against a white wood grain background.
A handmade winter holiday card featuring a layered paper craft design. The card shows a watercolor winter scene with a golden deer silhouette standing in snow, surrounded by white pine trees against a blue starry sky. The text 'Seasons Greetings' appears at the top in gold lettering. The card is decorated with blue and gold sequins scattered across the surface. It's lying on a dark wooden surface and has been photographed from the bottom left corner. A circular logo in the bottom left identifies this as work by Kat Scrappiness designer Cecilia Huster, featuring a cartoon avatar of a woman with brown hair.

↓ Visual product list

Background

I started by watercoloring the sky. For this I used my artist grade watercolors and Kat Scrappiness Dark Blue Pearl Powder. I laid down a couple of transparent washes and dried the watercolor paper in between. Then I splattered it with dark blue and white acrylic paint.

Die Cutting

Next I die cut the two hills and the stand of conifers from Kat Scrappiness Crafters Essentials Winter Edition from watercolor paper. I also cut the large deer from the Kat Scrappiness Reindeer Duo Die Set from watercolor paper.

Watercoloring the Die Cuts

I figured out how I wanted to place the hills and added some grey washes of watercolor to help separate them. The conifers I watercolored with more Kat Scrappiness Dark Blue Pearl Powder and grey watercolor paints.

The reindeer is the star of the card, so I colored it with Kat Scrappiness Gold Pearl Powder emphasizing the antlers and top of the animal. I also added a little bit of grey to the legs and hooves.

A handmade winter holiday card featuring a layered paper craft design. The card shows a watercolor winter scene with a golden deer silhouette standing in snow, surrounded by white pine trees against a blue starry sky. The text 'Seasons Greetings' appears at the top in gold lettering. The card is decorated with blue and gold sequins scattered across the surface. It's lying on a dark wooden surface and has been photographed from the bottom right corner. A circular logo in the bottom left identifies this as work by Kat Scrappiness designer Cecilia Huster, featuring a cartoon avatar of a woman with brown hair.
A handmade winter holiday card featuring a layered paper craft design. The card shows a watercolor winter scene with a golden deer silhouette standing in snow, surrounded by white pine trees against a blue starry sky. The text 'Seasons Greetings' appears at the top in gold lettering. The card is decorated with blue and gold sequins scattered across the surface. This is a close-up showing only parts of the deer and trees and the whole sentiment. A circular logo in the bottom right identifies this as work by Kat Scrappiness designer Cecilia Huster, featuring a cartoon avatar of a woman with brown hair.
A handmade winter holiday card featuring a layered paper craft design. The card shows a watercolor winter scene with a golden deer silhouette standing in snow, surrounded by white pine trees against a blue starry sky. The text 'Seasons Greetings' appears at the top in gold lettering. The card is decorated with blue and gold sequins scattered across the surface. It's standing up facing left. In front of it are reindeer die cuts, deer dies, blue sequins and gold rhinestones. A circular logo in the bottom left identifies this as work by Kat Scrappiness designer Cecilia Huster, featuring a cartoon avatar of a woman with brown hair.

More Die Cutting

Once all the parts were watercolored, I used some washi tape to hold the sky and hills together. Then I die cut them with Kat Scrappiness Cross Stitched Rectangle Die Set.

Next I die cut more of all parts of the card for stacking.

Sentiment

The sentiment is from the Kat Scrappiness Christmas Add-On for the Holiday Lantern Stamp Set. I stamped it in Versamark embossing ink on watercolor paper and heat embossed it with Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder in Gold. Then I cut it out with the coordinating die. I love a stamp set that comes with sentiments and coordinating dies for them!

Assembly

I started by doubling up the background and the two hills. Then I glued them all together and adhered the panel to my card base.

Next I doubled up the trees. I had to add some more die cuts behind the tops of the trees so they’d be level on the card. Then I was able to glue the trees to the card front.

I started out by tripled the reindeer. Doing that allowed the rear legs to stick out from the trees without bending. I had to add some more die cuts to the front though. For the head and antlers I used foam tape.

Finally I tripled the sentiment and popped it up on some foam tape. That was necessary to bring it to the same level as the deer.

I finished up with some Kat Scrappiness gold rhinestones and blue sequins.

Posted

in

Tags: , , , ,

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *