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Created this little chappie this morning, I don't know what it

is about these crisp frosty mornings??? but I am in my craft

room by 7.30 ready with fresh ideas??? can't be bad!!.. I'd

better make the most of it while it lasts. Well I thought I'd do

a little demo, bit by bit so you can watch him come to life

right before your eyes......OK..........

You can see the punches I have used from the picture (click on

photo's for close-up) The antlers have been cut out freehand,

they don't have to be exactly the same shape, it makes them

more interesting! (idea for these came from my Christmas Pud

icing!!) The oval is used one way for the head and

the other way for part of his face. I also drew his mouth (with

a white gel pen) using bottom half of the oval shape. His little

nose is the small heart punch in black card (also added two

white dots with gel pen), his ears are the long heart shape cut

in half!

As you can see I have used a slightly darker metallic brown

card for the oval on his nose, this gives an illusion of depth!

Once you are happy with his features (he seems happy with

his looks!!!) fix down with double sided tape. The larger

circle for his nose I have used one layer of foam pads.

For the tag, I used the same circle punch (this punch has

definately got to be one of my most used!) although I have

two shades here I opted for the darker one and red in the

end. Stamped with encore metallic gold! Merry Christmas

Stamp is from Hero Arts.

Lovely clean image, I then added a gold eyelet before cutting

out with deckled scissors.

Red circle is stamped with a star cluster stamp from Rubber

Stampede, again with gold metallic embossing ink. Used a

gold wired cord, piece of white lace (which I soaked with

some old tea bags to stain!!!) a piece of red gingham

ribbon, then to finish off added two gold bells! You can also

see in this picture the holly punch which I used with the

same coloured card as his antlers.

Oooh love this effect!!!


Placed the punched holly randomly over the card.... Hey

presto a Star is born . TFL xxx