Belle Papier {pretty paper}

Prancer…I’ve named him Prancer. Isn’t he darling?! I just love this Flourishes reindeer with his beautiful antlers…he just looks like he is prancing along bringing some Christmas spirit. This stamp is from the newly released Flourished Christmas set…a gorgeous set that also includes a flourished Christmas Tree and some beautiful sentiment. I paired up Prancer with a fun color combo. Actually this color combo may be a little out of the box for Christmas but it is one of my faves right now and I just had to give it a Christmas spin. Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky and Old Olive…yummmmm.

Noel with Prancer

For my main image panel, I stamped my reindeer onto Whisper White cardstock in Stewart Superior Black Hybrid Palette Ink. I’ve been wanting to give my new Copic airbrush system a whirl. I can’t believe I’ve had it for a couple weeks and haven’t had time to play with it! What is up with that? Oh…well, lots of deadlines, and lots of kids and oh yes…that HUGE renovation that is SO much fun. I decided to spray a little soft blue for an icy looking background behind my reindeer. Taking a chance, I knew I wanted it to be very light, I didn’t even mask him off! Just sprayed lightly and randomly around him. Yehaw! I could get very addicted to this! So quick and fun! And I’ve ALWAYS wanted to try airbrushing since I was a kid. I know…I’m a little strange! LOL I used to take art lessons from a retired artist and graphic designer when I young. Oh the goodies she had. I love goodies! LOL Of course you didn’t know that!

Luckily my reindeer was really easy to color with the Copic markers and I used three shades of light browns and built up the color by using the lightest first. Using my lightest grey, I added a quick little shadow behind him and he was done. I’m actually amazed at how quick it is to color with these markers.

Another clean design here… I thought the color combo was fresh as well as the coloring and wanted to keep my design to match. The patterned paper is from the Dasher collection by Basic Grey and the little snowflake brad is from Karen Foster Design. I love these new little rhinestone stickers from Me and My Big Ideas! So glitzy! I added a little row of them near the top left and one right on top of the brad.I actually got sent this May Arts ribbon by mistake. LOL Ordered the wrong thing but am I ever glad I did! It is gorgeous!

Have a great evening and weekend!

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