
Here's a Christmas card that takes lots of time and inky fingers to make. (I'm pretty sure that the deer and the tree are not in the "right" spots vis a vis each other -- the deer should be smaller and lower, but I had fun making this, so I decided to keep and share this card as I really love the result.)
1. Die cut white paper twice. Tear bottom of one die cut, and Distress with Shabby Shutters ink and adhere as shown. Stamp deer on top and color with pencils, blend with a clear Copic.

2. Mask deer.

3. Stamped tree behind the masked deer. Stamped the bottom of the tree a second time, cut and layered over the green background. Colored tree with pencils (and a Red Copic).

4. Mask everything and rub Ranger Weathered Wood Distress Ink over the entire thing. Stamped snowflakes with the Weathered Wood ink over the background and added white dots with a gel pen to the centers of the flakes. The white helps unify the image.

5. Trimmed striped paper and rubbed with Shabby Shutters Distress ink.

6. Took a Sakura Black Multiliner pen and went over all the black lines. This helped make them pop against all that distress ink.

7. Added a lot of Ranger Clear Glossy Accents -- on the ears, nose, all the red highlights, star and the antler tips. Stamped sentiment on bottom.

8. Took some kraft cardstock and stamped with an Impression Obsession swirl background, using Ranger Picket Fence stain (white). Die cut and rubber Ranger Walnut Stain over the whole thing.
MOOD WHEN DONE = Jolly