Catherine Pooler ~ Oh Deer! It's Almost Here!

Ally here!  It's time for a few sneak peeks of the newest Catherine Pooler Designs mini release... Wintery Mix!

The collection heads into the shop tomorrow at 9am EST but if you are a StampNation member, you can shop NOW!

Today I'm going to share two cards that I have made featuring the new "Peaceful Deer" stamp set and coordinating die set.

I started off the card below by masking off the top of my white card base.  Then I blended some It's a Girl and Do-si-do inks towards the middle of the card.  I took the Do-si-do ink and stamped on all the tiny snowflakes included in the stamp set, along with the cute berry sprig and dot image.

Next I used some of our new metallic Copper ink and stamped out 2 of the deer silhouettes.   Each silhouette has beautiful greenery details on it.  I die cut out each deer.  Since the metallic inks stay wet a little longer than our normal inks, I threw on some Fine Detailed Clear Embossing Powder and heat set the metallic stamped images.

I added a sentiment from the same "Peaceful Deer" stamp set in Do-si-do ink and adhered the deer on foam to the card base.

The new metallic inks are so fun to work with!

Now... on to my second card...

This card of course, features the same products except I decided to feature some new metallic Bronze ink.

I stamped all 3 of the deer silhouette images from the "Peaceful Deer" stamp set, set them with Clear Embossing Powder and then die cut them out.  I also stamped a bunch of the 3 snowflake images with the Bronze ink and die cut them out too!

Next I die cut 3 flowers from the stamp set using Rouge ink and glued them on the necks of each deer.

I pulled out some gorgeous Mardi Gras and Uptown inks and started created my background. I began at the top and masked off a slanted line.  Then I blended my 2 ink colors from light to dark towards the masked off line.  Once complete, I removed the mask and lowered it down the card panel to the next slanted line.  I continued on down the panel.

Once the panel was done, I splattered on some water to activate the inks and also splattered on some white acrylic paint for some snow.

I die cut a long tag from the "Tickets and Tape Dies" set and stamped a sentiment and adhered it on.

Voila!  A fun, bold holiday card!

Stay tuned tomorrow for another card creation featuring the Wintery Mix collection and HOP where you can WIN!!  See you tomorrow!

~ Ally ~