Hello once again. I was intrigued by the current colour inspiration for a Christmas card at 52 CCT to use brown, red, and green, and came up with this card:

I wanted to use this new deer die set from Spellbinders, which I thought would cover the brown part of the colours, and as you can see – I fully embraced the brown…..

I started by die cutting and assembling the deer, and then used several tones of green and a red to cut the foliage and flowers from another Spellbinders die set, as well as red for the buds. I also die cut some white flowers. I did die cut quite a few of all the elements, as I didn’t know how many I was going to use on the project.

I used a 5×7 inch card base and added a piece of brown card stock which had been run through with a Spellbinders embossing folder – I also swiped some white pigment ink over the top to catch the raised areas – almost like adding a touch of frost.

To further enable the deer to stand out a little more, I added a white circle behind him, and then arranged all the foliage and flowers around the edge of that. I just kept adding to create fullness, and am quite pleased with the outcome.

I did want to add some gold, but that isn’t included in the neutrals you can use, so I stayed with the three colours and white.

The sentiment is from a Spellbinders/Simon Hurley die set.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

52CCT – Christmas with red, brown, green

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Christmas Bingo – column B – free/Christmas/red

CYHTP – embossing folder, option of ‘tie it up’ not taken

Critter Crazy – anything goes with a critter