CTMH Reindeer Crossing SOTM Blog Hop - December 2019

Welcome to the December 2019 SOTM Blog Hop featuring the stamp set Reindeer Crossing. This month there are more than 15 Consultants sharing projects created with the CTMH Stamp Of The Month Reindeer Crossing. Our blog hop is a circle; visiting the next blog (typically via a link near the bottom of their post) will take you back to where you started.

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You should have arrived here from ***Ronda's Paper Creations by Ronda La Duke***. If you get lost along the way, Melinda Everitt keeps a list of participants on her blog at If You Bling It.

I am so in love with this stamp set. I prefer traditional images for Christmas and this stamp set fits the bill. I have so many ideas for this stamp set. Here is one of my ideas:

card created for the Reindeer Crossing (December 2019) SOTM Blog Hop

I stamped the sleigh with Intense Black on the lighter side of Sangria cardstock. I wanted the features to stand out and the card to have some shimmer, but I did not want it to cross over to outlandish, so I used the Embossing Ink Pens and different embossing powders to highlight features on the sleigh. I used the Broad tip Embossing Ink Pen to color in the seat of the sleigh and Clear Embossing Powder to make the seat look like velvet or leather.

The deer were stamped with Espresso Ink on the lighter side of Espresso cardstock. The pine boughs were stamped with Intense Black on Watercolor Paper then watercolored. Everything was fussy cut using a craft knife and glass cutting mat.

After cutting the Watercolor Paper for the background with the Stitched Rectangle Frames Thin Cuts, I used the Watercolor Paints to color. When it was dry I stamped the sentiment with Intense Black then I used the Clear Shimmer Brush to give the entire background some shimmer.

I used a mix of Tape Runner and Thin 3D Foam Tape to attach the fussy cut elements to create dimension.

card created for the Reindeer Crossing (December 2019) SOTM Blog Hop

I stamped the ping bough with second generation Evergreen ink and the sentiment with Sangria.

Before you head to ***Brandi Robinson's crzy4scrapbooking***, the supplies I used to create my project are listed below.

All supplies are from Close To My Heart except where noted:

• My Acrylix™ Stamp Sets: Reindeer Crossing — December Stamp of the Month (S1912)
• Cardstock: Sangria (X6034), Espresso (X5951)
• Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pads: Espresso (Z2829), Evergreen (Z6512), Sangria (Z6516), Intense Black (Z4189)
• White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack (X254)
• Anti-static Pouch (Z4220), Embossing Ink Pens (Z3548), Princess Gold Embossing Powder (Z2066), Silver Super Fine Embossing Powder (Z2067), Clear Super Fine Embossing Powder (Z2088), Heat Tool (Z4252)
• Watercolor Paper Pad (Z4243), Watercolor Paints (Z3132), I used the retired Paintbrush Set (Z3188) but the Medium Flat Waterbrush (Z3226) and Small Round Waterbrush (Z3224) would work well
• embellishments: Shimmer Brush—Clear (Z3293)
• tools: Stitched Rectangle Frames Thin Cuts (Z4260), Die-cutting & Embossing Machine (HB1080) - available to Hostesses; see Party with Us!
• Supplies not from Close To My Heart: Tim Holtz Stamp Platform, craft knife, glass cutting mat

If you are not already working with a CTMH Independent Consultant, you may purchase all of the supplies I used at my Consultant website.
It is nice to read what people think of the papercrafts I share. If you have a little time, please leave a comment letting me know what you think of my card. I hope you are finding many ideas for create with Reindeer Crossing — the December Stamp of the Month. Thank you for hopping with us!

So you do not have to scroll back up, the next stop on the hop is ***Brandi Robinson's crzy4scrapbooking***.