Dashing Deer for Freshly Made Sketches

Remember "Dasher", one of Stampin' Up!'s favourite Christmas images over the years?

I think this is the kind of look they were going for again when they designed the images in the stamp set Dashing Deer and the coordinated and bundled thinlits, Detailed Deer Thinlits:

Anyway, it is one of my favourite bundles in the new Holiday Catalogue for just that reason, with the added benefits of more than one image and matching dies to cut them out. I've been dying to ink them up, so when the lovely blank challenge sketch came up this week over at Freshly Made Sketches, it was the perfect time to do it.

I didn't want to do a square card, but I did make a regular sized card with a square panel on the front.

I'm also entering, for the first time, a colour challenge from Colour Inkspirations, Challenge #40 with this inspiration photo: 

I decided to add the metallic Gold to the rich colour palette in this photo!

 Here's how it looks:

• I used the Pinewood Planks Dynamic embossing folder on the Old Olive panel because of all the woodwork in the inspiration photo, even though it would have been more appropriate on the Early Espresso. It wouldn't have shown up as well on the really dark cardstock and I wanted the green, purple and gold together anyway.
• I did use the Corrugated Dynamic embossing folder on the Early Espresso band because it's such a rich texture and shows up well on the dark cardstock.
• The deer is stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with Gold Stampin' Emboss powder. The designs on the stamped image end up giving it such an antique gold effect. Then I was able to die cut the deer with the matching thinlit.
• The Gorgeous Grape flourishes are thinlets from the Detailed Deer thinlet set and they echo the ornate curves of the antlers.
• Finally the sentiment is from the same stamp set, but I die cut it with a framelit from the Merry Christmas Thinlit dies and embossed around the edges with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder to give it some definition.

Stay tuned on Wednesday for my Top Ten products from the new Holiday Catalogue, if you want a little guidance in refining your wish list! 'Til then, Toodles!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Dashing Deer Wood-Mount Stamp Set [147731] $41.00	Dashing Deer Clear-Mount Stamp Set [147728] $30.00	Dashing Deer Wood-Mount Bundle [149934] $78.25	Dashing Deer Clear-Mount Bundle [149935] $68.25	Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $5.50
Gorgeous Grape 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146987] $11.50	Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100702] $11.50	Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119686] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25	Versamark Pad [102283] $11.25
Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' Pad [147099] $10.25	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129] $6.75	Old Olive 1/8" Sheer Ribbon [144171] $8.25	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.00	Heat Tool [129053] $40.00
Pinewood Planks Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [143708] $14.00	Corrugated Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [148026] $14.00	Detailed Deer Thinlits Dies [147915] $46.00	Merry Christmas Thinlits Dies [147912] $38.00	Big Shot [143263] $150.00
SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25	Fine-Tip Glue Pen [138309] $9.50	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.50	Glue Dots [103683] $7.00