Made for Merry Monday Christmas theme challenge #243, which was to use a moose in your card design.
I only have two moose in my stamp collection, so it wasn't hard to start thinking of what I wanted my design to be. I chose the solid moose outline stamp from Stampin' Up!'s 2003 Definitely Decorative Pines set as my starting point. I stamped it onto Whisper White using SU Wild Wasabi ink. Then cut the moose out with paper snips. I wanted some definition to the solid stamp, so used SU Smokey Gray ink and the wooded forest deer stamp to stamp some pattern on it.
I used the same wooded forest deer stamp with Smokey Slate and stamped the entire stamp onto a piece of 3-3/4"x5" Whisper White cardstock so there was a wide white border around the image. I then glued the green moose on top of this wooded background so that his fee fell below the stamped image to give a sense of depth, and so his head covered the obvious deer antlers to make it look like there was a herd of moose standing at a distance behind him.
The sentiment was from the same stamp set. It was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink to give a nice dark impression without filling in the openings in the letters. Then mounted with very small matting edges onto SU Cherry Cobbler cardstock. Three small Real Red Candy Dots were added at the bottom right to balance the Cherry Cobbler sentiment matting.
Finally, the main panel was matted with a 4"x5-1/4" Wild Wasabi piece of cardstock. The matted piece was then glued with Tombow Multi Liquid Glue onto the SU Basic Gray card base.
Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 GMT Views: 1326
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