Deer Friend and Family

Let me start off with a quick personal note today. I got home from work yesterday and found a strange package waiting at my front door. I checked out the label and realized it was my long-awaited diploma! So, it's now really official--my masters degree program is complete, diploma and all.

Now, on to some crafty stuff. Here’s my card for Lauren’s latest Time to Create Challenge. I modified the sketch a little, but I think it still works!

I used the deer image from the DoodleFactory Great Outdoors set from Starving Artistamps for my main image. I colored Fern, the deer, with Copic markers and added some white flock on its tail. I trimmed around the deer and added it to a grassy field, courtesy of some Shamrock Green Flower Soft.

The panel behind the deer is made from two scraps of patterned paper from the Friendly Forest paper pack I picked up on clearance at Michaels. I embellished the panel with a pair of sparkly green Bella dots. My bigger image panel left no room for a sentiment as intended in the sketch, so I stamped it on a piece of twill and layered it over the long panel that stretches across most of the card instead. I embellished it with a wooden button in keeping with the earthy feel of the card.

Materials Used:
DoodleFactory Great Outdoors and Outdoor Sentiments sets, Shamrock Green Flower Soft, Flower Soft glue (Starving Artistamps); white Pure Luxury cardstock (Gina K Designs); Tuxedo Black ink (Memento); markers (Copic); Baja Breeze and Pacific Point cardstock, dimensionals (Stampin’ Up!); Dark Chocolate Palette ink, wooden button, twine (Papertrey Ink); patterned paper (Colorbok-Friendly Forest); white Fun Flock (Stampendous); twill tape (Martha Stewart); green dots (Stamping Bella)

And, with Father's Day coming up soon, I couldn't resist pairing Belvedere and Bink from the same set using a similar color scheme in this card. I stamped the figures in black ink, then colored them with Copic markers and filled in the grass and sky with a sponge and a stipple brush.

I used an argyle patterned embossing folder to create a Chocolate Chip strip for across the card base. It has kind of a masculine look and feel to it. I highlighted the embossed panel with a quick row of paper piercing underneath it. I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to arrange the "chip off the old block" sentiment to fit a 1 3/8" circle, then layered the sentiment on a Pacific Point circle.

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Materials Used:

DoodleFactory Great Outdoors and Outdoor Sentiments sets (Starving Artistamps); white Pure Luxury cardstock (Gina K Designs); Tuxedo Black ink (Memento); markers (Copic); Pacific Point Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, and Kiwi Kiss Classic inks, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, and Chocolate Chip cardstock, Chocolate Chip polytwill, 1 3/8" circle punch, mat pack and paper piercing tool, sponge, stipple brush, dimensionals (Stampin’ Up!); Argyle embossing folder (Sizzix); 1 1/2" circle punch (EK Success)