A Quick and Easy Christmas Card with a Die, Patterned Paper and a Sentiment

Hello and welcome!

It's Saturday again and time for new theme at Allsorts challenge! Lorraine is hosting this week and she picked the theme of "Include a Sentiment". We'd love for you to join us  for a chance to win! There will be two winners this week as we have two dies to give away, one from Tonic and one from Tattered Lace. 

Time ran away from me this week and I decided on making a CAS card using a die from Penny Black, a piece of patterned paper from my stash and a sentiment with a clean and simple sketch. I love how this turned out and it was so quick to make too!

The beautiful die I used is called Deer in Tree by Penny Black. I purchased mine from PB stamps but it's now out of stock there. And unfortunately out of stock at scrapbook.com as well, so I linked it to Amazon. 

After die cutting I removed the inner tree parts, there are a few tiny ones so I had to take extra care not to lose them, then inked these all up using Evergreen Bough Distress Oxide ink. 

I glued the white tree outline with the deer inside onto the piece of patterned paper (sorry, I don't know the maker) then carefully glued all the pieces back into place using Tombow Mono Multi glue (my favorite for all kinds of gluing). Then adhered this panel onto a white A2 card base. 

The sentiment from the Penny Black set Season's Gifts was stamped using Evergreen Bough  ink once again and I finished the card by adding a die cut snowflake with a flatback rhinestone in the center. 

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I don't usually use die cuts as the focal point, but loved how quickly this card came together!

I feel like there's an optical illusion going on here...the snowflake is a die cut I adhered to the card, but on the photo above it appears to be cut out of the card base. Or are just my eyes seeing it that way?? On the first photo it appears "normal"  so it must be the camera angle :-)

And here are the prizes you can win this week. The linky to enter can be found on the Allsorts challenge blog .

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