Vintage Oval Window Card

Inspiration: Little Red Wagon #572 (Things That Begin with B - Buttons!) 

I was going through past Christmas paper collection and decided I wanted to revisit an old favorite, Home for Christmas. I thought I could do a bold sentiment in the oval window, fussy-cut a little deer from the pattern paper and maybe create a rosette with foliage at the top of the card. My first rosette was way too big (but I'll probably reuse it somewhere else), so I made sure the second one was very narrow to fit at the top. I topped it with a corduroy button and added a circle of music paper underneath. I didn't like the empty holes from the button, so I added a piece of gold ribbon over it.

For the sentiment, I picked something from the Carols of Christmas stamp set. I stamped the sentiment in Mossy Meadow and started wondering if I would be able to fussy cut the letters stamped in other colors and layer them over the shadow. Answer is yes, but it was challenging. Since everything I was using had a retro feel, I decided to add mica flakes around the oval opening. Initially, I was planning to use dimensional adhesive for the frame, but with the rosette already pretty bulky, I thought I would glue it flat instead. I added foliage from the Pretty Pines die set, die-cut in both Mossy Meadow and Old Olive to create dimension, and I added Wonderful Gems in red to create berries. Tne sentiment still looked a little bare so I added gold metallic pearls on each letter.

I tried the card in a regular envelope, but it was too tight of a fit, so I made an oversized envelope using the Envelope Punch Board. I added a vanilla oval and another fussy-cut deer. Inside the card, I added the same patterned paper, layered a deckled rectangle inked with Antique Linen Distress ink and one more fussy-cut deer.

 

 

 

 

Supplies
Stamps: Cantiques de Noël (Carols of Christmas - Stampin' Up!)
Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow (Stampin' Up!)
Designer Series Paper: Home for Christmas (Stampin' Up!)
Dies: Pretty Pines (Stampin' Up!); Stitched Oval Stackables (Lawn Fawn);
Wonky Stitch Rectangle Stax Die-namics (My Favorite Things);
Stacked Deckle Rectangles (Sizzix)
Ink: Baja Breeze, Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow Classic Ink (Stampin' Up!);
Antique Linen Distress Ink (Ranger)
Accessories: Envelope Punch Board, Stampin' Dimensionals, 1½" Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch,
Wonderful Gems, Metallic Pearls, Baja Breeze Corduroy Button (Stampin' Up!);
Distress Mica Flakes (Ranger); Gold Ribbon (Unknown)

 

Comments

[Imke]

This is awesome ! The deer sitting in front of lovely paper desing. Great take also with the Button - "B" Word for our Challenge this week. Thanks for joining us and i hope to see you back again soon.

Imke ~ MY CRAFTY PLACE