Caffeinated Reindeer - Therm-O-Web Collab

Hello my crafty friends! It's Amanda from Pear Blossom Press and today, I'm sharing this fun Christmas card featuring products from The Rabbit Hole Designs and Therm-O-Web. I really love how this card came together and it was easy enough to mass produce. Look at all of the dimension and shine on it...

To create this card, I taped off a narrow border around the edges of a white A2 top folding card. I sprayed Pixie Spray to the back of my Candy Twist Stencil and stuck it to the front of the card. I used a makeup brush to stencil on Festive Berries, Aged Mahogany, and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Inks to create a vignette. With the stencil still in place, I applied a coat of Gina K White Glitz Glitter Gel on top. I removed the stencil and tape right away and set the card aside to dry.



Here is a quick tip for working with stencils from MaryAnn (one of the owners of The Rabbit Hole Designs). She suggested I stick dirty stencils into a large Ziploc bag with a squirt of Totally Awesome Spray, or Windex, to help keep the glitter gel from setting and to make clean up easy. It totally works! You only need a little of the cleaning solution to cover the stencil in the bag and you could stack a few up while you are working, to save time and clean them all up at the end. Thank you MaryAnn, great idea! (Side note: Totally Awesome spray is also totally stinky; use in a well ventilated area.)



Back to my card... While the card was drying, I stamped, embossed, and Copic Colored the Caffeinated Reindeer. Isn't he fun? He even has little reindeer slippers! I used the Coordinating Die to cut him out. I also used the same die to cut out a piece of White Foam Adhesive. This is a layer of foam with adhesive on both sides; it die cuts perfectly. I peeled back the top piece of release paper and adhered the colored reindeer to the foam piece. I die cut a fishtail banner and embossed part of my sentiment in white. I die cut three layers of the word NOEL from red cardstock and stacked them together. I glued the word to the banner, then glued the banner to my dry card. Then, I peeled the release paper from the back of the reindeer and placed him on my card. To finish the card, I wanted to add a little shimmer to the reindeer, so he wouldn't be unbalanced, compared to the background. I used a gold gel pen to add dots to his mug, Aqua Shimmer Pen to his eyelid, and Diamond Glaze to his eyeball and mug.



I hope I've inspired you to get a jump on some of your holiday cards. Head on over to my blog for links to the specific products I used for my card. Before you go, check out another fun collaboration project from Shanna. Then hop on over to Therm-O-Web for even more inspiration and all of the details on how to enter to win a gift card! I'll be back at the end of the week with another sparkly card that will have you drooling...