Merry Monday Reindeer

It's Merry Monday.

Did  you know there's only 5 more Mondays before Christmas?

This week's challenge is brought to us by Debbie.

I bought this reindeer die online late last year.

I didn't realize it was so BIG!

The fact that it was a BIGZ die should have given me a clue!

But it was fun to work with.

I used the die to cut out the reindeer then

stamped over the body with the Sanded background stamp

and Soft Suede ink.  Using an Aqua Painter, I moved the ink around

to give him a washed look.

I used the So Saffron ink pad and Aqua Painter 

to color his antlers.

A little dabbing with some Brown Sugar ink

picked up with the Aqua Painter

gave his antlers the look of texture.

I hunted for some tiny jingle bells but couldn't find them.

So I punched some little circles from snippets of Red Glimmer paper.

They won't jingle, but they will go through the postal service better.

Since I have texture on this, I'm going to take it over to

Virginia's View

I have dry embossing and glitter paper.

and

I told you I'd become addicted to tags!

This has the debossed snowflakes. (I put the adhesive on the wrong side).  Oops!

It still works for texture.  And there's stamping, watercolor, die cuts, a bell and ribbon.

Loll's Twelve Days of Christmas Tags

is open until the 22nd.

There's still plenty of time to join in.

I hope you'll go over to Merry Monday and check out 

all the fantastic inspiration the Design Team, and our Guest Designer, Rocky, 

have for  you.

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sanded Background (retired SU)

Ink:  Soft Suede, So Saffron, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green

Paper:  Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White (SU), Watercolor (140 lb. cold press Strathmore)

Other:  Prancing Deer (Tim Holtz/Sizzix), Aqua Painter, Snowflake EF (Darice), Pinpoint Main Street Tag Die (Poppystamps), Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine (SU), Paper Punch (Wal-mart)