The Buck Stops Here Again

 Happy Hanukkah, everyone! As I was putting up the deer die I used on my last card, its stag head mate was tempting me as I do love those antlers, so I decided to "buck up" and make one more card with the leftover plaid paper.

I looked in my metallics paper scraps stash drawer and found the red foil card stock. I moved on to my Christmas stashes and saw that I had saved the card stock backing to my Darice Deer Heads embossing folder, so hey, that's *designer paper*, right? Heehee. 

  

I used Split Coast Stampers sketch SC561 for my layout, resized to 4.75 X 6.50". I have a small number of red and green envelopes that fit this size card, so I thought I'd use one up. I used some black Bazzill card stock from my black paper drawer as the base mat and some red metallic over that, then my  *designer paper* on top.

The Stamplorations deer head die was cut once in white card stock and again in the red metallic. Same with the Stamplorations sentiment. I trimmed up the plaid scrap and then took my Fiber Friend ruler that has little holes that simulate the holes a sewing machine makes aka stitch holes, and I lightly punched holes around the plaid strip with an awl. I used a black medium roller ball gel pen (The Fude) to accent each hole and then draw faux stitches. A red sequin with red Stickles inside dots the eye is "Christmas".

The back is where I used my bigger plaid scrap (The Paper Studio), layered onto the black Bazzill and the IO siggie stamp circle-punched.
 

Some shots to show the shine...

   

...and the die cuts.

And a final view. Thanks for visiting me and I hope you have some fun weekend plans in the making. To quote my beloved Marvin Zindler (the late great Houston TV consumer reporter and exposer of the famous Chicken House Brothel aka Best Little Whorehouse in Texas): "Have a good weekend - good golf, good tennis, or whatever makes you happy." Please allow me to share a bit about him in case you've never heard of him...

Someone even got a tattoo of Marvin and his weekly on-air sign-off!

Marvin in the early 70's when he first came on the TV news scene after years of newspaper reportage and photojournalism and then establishing a Consumer Affairs division at the county sheriff's office. (And yes, ZZ Top's famous song was written about this very "shack outside LaGrange...have mercy" {grins}

This is how I remember him - always fighting for the little people of Houston as one of the first Consumer Affairs reporters in the nation. He helped so many people over the years. One of Houston's biggest icons and heroes. And he was never boring!

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.   Split Coast Stampers sketch SC561

2.   Outlawz Festive Fridays 12/11-12/24: Christmas theme

3.   Stamplorations Never-Ending Anything Goes Challenge -- Stamplorations Dies from Two Reindeer and Christmas Sentiments are featured.  

4.   The Male Room #145: Tartan & Plaid -- Red and black plaid on front and back  

5.   12 Months Christmas Link Up #72: ACG  #2/10

6.   Sisterhood of Crafters: AG Christmas or Winter  #1/3

7.   ABC Christmas Challenge: Y is for Your Favorite Things -- deer antlers and red foil

8.   Take a Word: Tis the Season

9.   Try It On Tuesday: Christmas Sparkle

10. Die Cut Divas: Dec. AG -- Dies used are from Stamplorations Two Reindeer and Christmas Sentiments  #2/4

11.  A Bit More Time to Craft #129: AG  

12.  A Bit More Time Extra December: AAG  

13. Cardz 4 Guyz #259: Part 2 Traditional Christmas

14.  Scrapping4Fun #181: Christmas  

15. Classic Design Challenge #12: AAG

16. 2 Crafty Critter Crazies #45: AG with a Critter -- Deer/Buck/Stag  #1/5

17. Crafty Animals #45: AG with a Critter -- Deer/Buck/Stag 

18. Country View Dec. Challenge: Anything Christmas

19. Use Your Stuff #411: Mood Board -- I was inspired by red, shiny traffic lights, reindeer and plaid.