Wednesday 1 November 2017

Stag Night At The House Of Cards

     
      A new challenge at the House Of Cards begins today, as we're fast approaching Christmas our colour palette is quite seasonal but you don't have to make a Christmas card.
      I'm really enjoying playing around with the media plates and my stamp press so I have used them to make this card.
     Using two shades of green to ink up the plate I then smoothed it out with a brayer and stamped the oval on cream card. I went back around the edges of the oval with the two inks to create a darkened edge, then I stamped the trees in dark green onto the plate and pressed it onto the card.
     Once dry I used a white pen to add snowflakes and a little snow on the trees. The deer is stamped in Versafine black, as he's a silhouette it was tricky to get a good even coverage but that's the beauty of a stamp press, I inked him again and stamped again in exactly the same place making him a perfect solid black silhouette. If you have ever struggled with stamping I would highly recommend one of these tools, with several brands now available the price has come down to a more reasonable rate.
     The greeting was stamped and gold embossed after gently drying off all the inking. To compliment the oval I used a punch on opposite corners to round them off before matting the cream panel on to a dark red layer. To finish off the panel has been stuck to a dark green card blank to compliment the trees and bring the whole colour scheme together.
     You have a month to create your card following our prompt so please come and join us at the House Of Cards, we'd love to see what you make.

November - House Of Cards

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Christmas At Sweet Stampin' - Anything Christmas   (M)
A Snowflakes Promise - Anything Christmas   (M)

3 comments:

  1. Gorgeous card Rocky! Love the beautiful scene that you created! Stunning!

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  2. Ohhh.... that was my first reaction to this card. Hit me right in the soft spot. Just beautiful card. Elegant. So ... OOOhhh again.
    (✿*‿*) Ma
    HOC DT team
    http://majaapia.blogspot.no/

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