Wednesday 1 October 2014

Winter Wonderland Reindeer Stamp

Rather than colouring him in I have inked him in. 
Stamp the reindeer onto a post it note and onto your card. I then cut out the reindeer with a knife being careful to keep the outside area intact so any small cuts were on the Image itself. 

To get the light yellowy areas I used watercolour pencil and water brush and whilst it was still wet, clear embossing powder and then my heat gun. 
This means that this area will resist the brown ink which I add next. 

Place your post it mask over the reindeer so that only his body is showing. Sponge the Dovecraft natural pigment ink pad using a make up sponge through the mask. 

Then emboss with clear powder using the heat gun. 

For the scarf I stamped on some of the Winter Wonderland patterned paper. Cut out the scarf. I then added some watercolour pencil to alternate stripes and then embossed with clear powder and heat gun. 

This stamp also has some lanterns and a little holly wreath. I used the bigger of the lanterns, stamped on to frosted shrink plastic, coloured lightly with watercolour pencil and then shrunk. 

Here he is ready to go onto a card 

Technique coming out on the road with me too. Check out Trimcraft website for demo details. 
Caroline x