Reindeer

Can you believe it's December already? With  Christmas around the corner, we're having a festive challenge theme over at the Alphabet challenge. Matching the season, we'd like to see reindeer on your creations. Easy peasy, right? 

For my DT inspiration, I picked a lovely digi from my stash. I received this cutie a couple of years ago for a challenge win over at the Kreativtanten. It was designed by Peppercus designs, and even though I believe the shop doesn't exist anymore, the little reinder is still adorable. I coloured it with coloured pencils, and decided to frame it with a dark brown background paper. I used a punch to round up the corners of both papers. To cover the card base, I opted for a design paper with bold, colourful snowflakes. To enhance the image a bit, I added a Christmas greeting under the reindeer motif. Unfortunately, it's not very visible on the colourful snowflake background, and its dark green paper looks brighter in reality. 

For a bit of bling, I then added a couple of yellow shimmering gemstones. I thought about shading the background of the image with blue colour pencils, but in the end, I decided against it as I wanted to keep those warm shades on my card. I'm not sure whether this was the right decision as it seems to me like the reindeer is stuck in a white void. What do you think?

To wrap up my post for today, I'll give you a glimpse of Christmas feeling with this wonderful life size reindeer from the local Christmas market. 

challenges:

- krafty chicks: ATG

- 613 avenue create: ATG
- a place to start: ATG with optional twist "for a child"

- gem of a challenge: ATG

- as you like it: favourite person to craft for at Christmas (I don't really make Christmas cards for my immediate family as we see each other anyway, my favourite person to gift would be my friend. We don't keep in touch as much as we used to as she's working full time now, but I like to send her a surprise every now and then. With two little children in the house, I think this cute little reindeer is the perfect messenger to deliver Christmas greetings.)

- C.R.A.F.T.: Christmas

- cardz4guyz: festive creatures

- CAS on Friday: Christmas

- classicdesignchallenge: ATG DT 

- crafty catz: ATG with optional twist "make them smile"

- creative inspirations: ATG with optional twist "contemporary Christmas colours"
- creative moments: ATG with optional twist "winter"

- critter crazy: ATG animals

- cutie pie challengeblog: digis & die cuts

- friendship challenge: Christmas time

- lil patch of crafty friends: ATG handmade

- love to craft: ATG 

- love to scrap: ATG

- moving along with the times: winter animals

- path of positivity: ATG

- pennys papertake: ATG paper
- scrapping4fun: non-traditional Christmas colours

- sparklesmonthlychallenges: winter animals

- timeout challenges: winter holiday

- traumfabrik: Elliot the littlest reindeer 

- wortartwednesday: ATG
- worldwide crafters and colorists challenge: ATG