Jumping for Joy

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Let’s get Started:

Card Base: 5.5 x 8.5, scored and folded at 4.25

Red Border Layer: 5.5 x 4.25 **

Card Face: 5.5 x 4

Additional Red Cardstock for Reindeer

Vellum 8 x 1.5

**See Cheating on Lyaers and Borders under Stretch Your Pennies in the header.

Card Face:

• After laying the card face on the grip mat I positioned the stencil and brushed on dark blue ink across the entire surface.

Other:

• I die cut the reindeer.

• I stamped and die cut the sentiment.

Assembly

• I wrapped the vellum around the card face on the left-hand side , securing it with scotch tape.

• I used microdot adhesive to secure the reindeer to the card face (I didn’t want to use liquid adhesive on the vellum and risk warping it.) I added a tiny red gem to act as the reindeer’s eye.

• I glued the red border layer to the card base, and glued the card face on top of this, centering vertically.

• I glued on the sentiment.

• I added 3 tiny red gems as shown.

Final Thoughts

This is one of those “ now what?” cards - where I got it to a certain stage, and then couldn’t decide how I wanted to finish it off. It was so simple in the end, and it’s an awesome masculine card.

Supplies: (and links where possible)

I have listed which products I have used, and where they may be purchased. It's a huge marketplace and in most instances, there are multiple sources and many alternatives to choose from.

Stencil: Nordic Christmas, A Colorful Life Designs

Waffle Flower Grip Mat, 8.5 x 6.5, Scrapbook.com

Versamark Embossing Ink: Simon Says Stamp

Dies: Dashing Deer, Stampin’ Up! (retired)

Ink: Stampin’ Up!

Blending Brushes: Stampin’ Up!

Adhesive: Tombow Aqua, Michaels

Microdot Adhesive: Therm o Web Sticky Dots, Amazon

Vellum: Tonic, Simon Says Stamp

Card Base & Card Face: Accent 100 lb., Amazon

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