A Warm & Cozy Scrappy Vintage Christmas

Hello there! Long time no see, eh? Ugh, I have been down with my Arthurs last few days. Just unplugged and went AWOL until I felt better today. So, Happy November!

Gosh, I sure love this "deer" little card, now that it's done. It's my attempt at a monochrome brown CAS design in a vintage style. And except for the Kraft card base and the brown base mat layers front and back, all other papers used came out of my scrap drawers!

  

SUPPLIES:
Papers: Kraft, SU & DCWV card stocks, Neenah index stock, Junkitz, Urban Lily & DCWV patterned paper snippet scraps
Stamps: Artistic Outpost, Lawn Fawn, Flourishes, Leave Memories
Inks: ProMarkers, Brilliance, VersaFine Clair, VersaMark
Dies: Avery Elle Dotted Elle-ments, Stamplorations Two Reindeer, Clear Dollar Labels
Other / Stash: Darice Deer A2 Embossing Folder, wax colored pencils, photo corners, Wink of Stellas, Sakura metallic gel pens, Signo Uni white gel pen, white Posca pen, embossing powders

I used the current Atlantic Hearts sketch, resizing to 5x7 A7 in PSE and printing out. I just love that little cabin in the snow stamp from Artistic Outpost's Midwinter set. I've had it for years and this is the first ink-up. After stamping it on a Kraft snippet with VersaFine Clair and heat-embossing, I colored the snowy parts with white wax pencil and a touch of yellow Wink of Stella for the inside cabin lighting. For the sky, I stamped and white-heat-embossed a few stars and then used white Wink of Stella, white Brilliance ink and a finger dauber, along with all my pens listed in the Supplies to paint the night sky.  I just used one colorant after another, like wonder what this would look like, etc. I used my grey ProMarkers to add shadows and dark accents. Simple and low-tech, but oh how I like an opaque white on Kraft!

 You can see the white card layer peeking out here and there. It's been embossed with a deer head folder to echo the focal point one. There's also a little deer in the stamped scene, which is stamped on a snippet scrap of the Kraft.

 I kept everything clean (no edge or ink distressing) and simple (minimal layers, no bling and uncluttered space to rest the eye around the focal). Looking at it is calming to me.

 Inside, I got a little reddish-brown with some Urban Lily paper scraps. The stars and deer on the left are part of the paper pattern, as are the white flourishes.

 For the back, I embossed more deer heads on another scrap of white and paired it with more snippets from my brown scraps drawer.

A final look. I hope I did that snowy cabin scene justice with this card. I love the deer head silhouette die and really should use it more since that design motif is still popular.

CHALLENGES:
1.   Atlantic Hearts Sketch #341 -- sketch is shown above
2.   A Place to Start Nov. Challenge: Caffeinated Tones 

3.   CAS Christmas Nov. Challenge: Warm & Cozy

4.   Happy Little Stampers CAS Nov. Challenge: Tis the Season

5.   Stamplorations CAS Nov. Challenge: AG + Opt. Any Shade of Brown -- I have played the option.

6.   The Sisterhood of Crafters: Make It Clean and Simple CAS
7.   Artsystamper Digital Challenge #3: Monochromatic -- I created my card in Browns.
8.   Outlawz Color Tuesdays Nov. 5-18: Photo Inspiration

9.   Christmas at Sweet Stampin Oct. Challenge: AG + Opt. Stars - I have played the option.
10.  Pixie's Snippet Playground #364: AG with a Snippet -- This card is made with almost all snippets this time, and yes please and thank you to the draw! xoxo
11.  Merry Little Christmas Challenge #16: ACG
12.  613 Avenue Create Challenge #227: AG + Opt. Scrap Your Stash -- I've played the option and details are in my post. 
13.  Colour Crazy Week 42: AG with Colouring -- I've used wax colored pencils on my focal image.
14.  2 Crafty Critter Crazies Nov. Challenge: AG with a Critter -- DEER
15.  Joy Of Sets Tic Tac Toe Challenge JOSTTT011 --  Top Row Across: CAS / Winter / Heat Emboss

16.  Use Your Stuff Challenge #381: Use Scraps -- Details are in above post.
17.  Country View Nov. Challenge: Hand Stamped Focal -- Details in post.
18.  Love to Scrap Challenge #127: AG
19.  Aud Sentiments Challenge #239: AG + Sentiment
20.  Paper Girls Challenge #187: Mixed Up Manufacturers -- See SUPPLIES above for all different ones used
21.  Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge #152: AG
22.  Jingle Belles Challenge JB:19:22: Rudolf and Friends -- linked to there from my Flickr after having Blogger uploading problems earlier today.

Well, that is it for me this time but I'll be back again tomorrow with another Christmas card. Behave and stay safe! xoxo