Christmas Labels, Reindeer Days, Christmas Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a Christmas card to share with you. Please read on to see how it was made.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left.

I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Garden Green card stock and on top of that is a 3-3/4" x 5" piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Reindeer Days" 12" x 12" package. I could have gotten by with a 2" x 5" piece but I had no idea where I was going with this card. The tree background was pretty busy and I needed to break it up. 

A 5" x 2-1/4" piece of Granny Apple Green card stock was cut for the layer. On top of it was 2" x 1-1/2" piece of DSP from the same package. It's actually the backside of the tree piece. I taped those three rectangles to the Granny Apple Green piece. It's easier if you cut a 2" x 4-1/2" strip and cut the 1-1/2" pieces off of it. Once they squares were cut and taped in place I taped the Granny Apple Piece to the front of the card.

Still not knowing where I was going I took one of the deer from another sheet that I had fussy cut a few days ago (could have been a week or even a month ago but it feels like a few days. You know that feeling!) and I wanted to work it onto the card. I thought if it were on top of or next to some wording it would work. So I stamped the words from the "Christmas Labels" bundle using Real Red ink on a piece of Basic White card stock.  I cut them out using the matching dies from the same bundle. Dimensionals were added to the back and the piece was set in place about 7/8" up from the bottom and 1/2" from the right edge. 

The reindeer had both Dimensionals and glue. I added Dimensionals were the body parts would touch the card and glue where it would touch the wording.

I colored a few crystal rhinestones using my dark Cherry Cobbler Blends pen and I set them in place on the front of the card. And the card was done.

This was actually a pretty quick and easy card to make and now that I have all the measurements I can see myself using this layout again in the future.

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's Christmas card,
Wanda