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Reindeer Games
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Reindeer Games

At that point the only dark green color on the card was the present that the bottom reindeer is holding. So I added smaller elements with some dark green to other parts of the card to spread it around a bit more.

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Bountiful Quokkas
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Bountiful Quokkas

These two little critters are the Kat Scrappiness Dress-Up Quokkas. The markers I’m using for them are Ohuhu BR3, BR2 and BR1. Check out the marker codes I used for each item in the table below.

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Paradise Birthday
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Paradise Birthday

I’m stamping a pattern on vellum with the hexagonal stamps in the set. Stamping with white pigment ink and heat embossing in white gives a wonderfully crisp and fresh result.

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Have a Norse Yule
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Have a Norse Yule

I stamped YULE and the Norse greeting with Versamark and used Lumberjack Plaid Embossing Powder to heat emboss them. Then I cut out the license plate with the die. I used a heat embossing pen around the edges of the license plate and heat embossed them with Ranger Verdigris Embossing Powder.

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Birthday Bears
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Birthday Bears

The mama bear and her cub are from a Sizzix die set by Lisa Jones. It’s called Nature Friends and also includes a bunny, a hedgehog and a badger.

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Coloring Koalas with Alcohol Markers
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Coloring Koalas with Alcohol Markers

The main feature of these two cards are from the Spellbinders Playful Koalas stamp and die set. I stamped the koalas, birds and greenery in Memento Rich Cocoa. This is a solvent-based dye ink that enables you to color stamped images with alcohol markers.

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Vellum Cards with Envelopes
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Vellum Cards with Envelopes

Vellum is tricky, because glue will show through it. There are a couple of different strategies for getting around this.

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