Little Nicholas & Rodney Reindeer

 Happy late Friday night to all our HH fans!

Phew what a week!  So many things to do & not a lot of crafty me time.  I actually was able to finish up this card earlier today but ran out of time to get it up earlier.  Meet Little Nicholas with Rodney Reindeer & the Fun Merry Christmas sentiment all from High Hopes of course lol.

Last night over on the High Hopes Facebook page I posted my WIP of the images.  I wasn't 100% sure what I was going to do with them at that point but after fussy cutting the images out the light bulb went off.

I chose Photo Play's Christmas Cheer pad for these images.  I am in love with all the colors in this pad, great for masculine cards....can't wait to make more cards with these fab papers.  I picked out 3 different papers before I started to color just to give me some guidance while choosing my Copic colors.

 

I matched the brown cardstock base to the brown in the plaid paper & went with a Vanilla for the matting.  I picked up the cream with gold twine on clearance at a Winners store a couple of years ago in their after Christmas sale.  I knew one day I would use it.  I cut out the Fun Merry Christmas sentiment with a die & added some self adhesive dots.  I also used some Nuvo Snowflake Glitter on the pom pom & the fur on Nicholas's hat...just a bit of bling.

Copic Colors for Little Nicholas

Skin - E000, E00, E11, E21, E04

Hat - R89, R59, R56

Pants & Patches on Jacket - E44, E43, E42

Jacket & Patches on Pants - E19, E17, E15

Boots, Mitts & Belt - W8, W6, W4, W2, W0

Beard & Hat Trim - C1, C00

Hair - E25, E23

Copic Colors for Rodney Reindeer

Body - E27, E25, E23

Antlers - E25, E23, E21

Nose - E25, E23, E21, R21

Hooves - W8, W6, W4

Harness - R89, R59, R56, W6, W4, E27, E25

Thanks so much for popping by & hope to see you again soon!

Crafty hugs,

 

 

 

Rodney Reindeer

 Howdy - MichelleO here today - Now isn't this just the sweetest little Christmas Reindeer? This is Rodney Reindeer from High Hopes Stamps - 

I really wanted Rodney to pop on the card... so I went with white card stock base, and then two pattern papers from Paper Studio a red dot paper and a Christmas Pine tree... Simple but still adds a lot of color. I colored the Reindeer with my Copics (colors below) and then sewed all the layers down.  A pretty but simple High Hopes Sentiment "Sm. Christmas Script" and three Enamel Dots in the corner for fun! 

Copic colors used - 

Love how cute this little Reindeer is .. perfect for a great Christmas card! 

Thanks so much - 

Believe!

As I child I always wondered what it would be like to be able to fly like one of Santa's reindeer. We went to Santa's Village in Bracebridge and I was fascinated by this place - it was all things Christmas year round. 

It even had live reindeer and I always wondered if one of them worked for Santa! Our friend Rodney Reindeer is dreaming of the day he is big enough to help pull Santa's sleigh......but first he has to grow a little.....and then he has to Believe in the Magic......<wink>

I started my A2 size card by stamping Rodney Reindeer, colouring him with alchohol markers and fussy cutting him with cuticle scissors. I added him to patterned paper from an older Bo Bunny collection. The sentiment was stamped and cut out using a fish tail banner die and I stamped a santa and sleigh from another stamp set above Rodney's head. It's hard to see on the photo but the rings on his harness are coloured with a Sterling Silver Sparkle Pen. A matching holly die, ribbon and gumdrops finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Rodney Reindeer - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Believe - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: White Out - Bo Bunny

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, brown marker, Sterling silver Spectrum Sparkle pen,  3D foam pop dots - Forever In Time, Cotton Candy Blue gumdrops - YNS, fishtail banner die - YNS, Christmas Branch Die - Whimsy Stamps

Spectrum Noir Markers: BG5 BG7 BG10 TN1 EB1 EB2 IG2 IG3 IG5 TN4 TN6 TN7 

                                            

                                      

 I hope you will ink up your favourite High Hopes stamp and come play along in our Christmas/Winter Fun challenge! 

We can't wait to see what you create! Click here for more details and to come play along!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!