Silver Trees, Gold Reindeer

Another year of CAS Christmas challenges starts today.  Julia is our host this month and she's asking for Silver and Gold.

I started by stamping and heat embossing the row of trees in silver.  I then die cut the reindeer out of gold patterned cs - it makes me think of that fabric called "moire" the way it's done in two tones with one tone more matte and the other more gloss.  I thought it would add more interest and texture to the reindeer.  I die cut them twice more out of scraps of cs and glued them together for more dimension.

I then laid them out and sketched some lines around them to ground them, removed them, and went over the sketched lines with a Versamarker pen and heat embossed the lines in silver.  Then figured out the placement of my sentiment and stamped and heat embossed it in silver.  Then glued the reindeer in place.

It was really hard to get a good photo.  The one above shows some of the silver of the trees, but here's another that really shows the silver and the gold but is not a very good photo:

Here's the photo I like the best but the silver looks black in it:

It's certainly best seen in real life!

Get a head start on your Christmas cards and join us at CAS Christmas.  There's lots more inspiration from this month's fabulous Guest Designer, Lisa (of My Paper Tales) and the rest of the Design Team.

 

I'm also linking it up with Christmas Craft Creations "Make a Scene".

Supplies:
Stamps - SU Lovely as a Tree, Simon Says Stamp sentiment
Ink - ColorBox silver, Versamarker
Paper - white cs, gold textured "moire" cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Ranger silver embossing powder, fun foam