Sunday Snippets 'Build-A-Reindeer'

Xcut do come up with some great die sets - and this 'Build-A-Reindeer' one is no exception: 

Leftover snippets!

I used: 

- 7" x 5" white card blank, side opening

- piece of snowflake patterned paper from a LOTV paper pad, trimmed to 7" x 5" and glued onto the card front

- a snippet of green corrugated paper trimmed to 5.5" x 4" - given to me by a friend some time ago

- a whole bunch of plain and mirror card snippets from my 'snippets easy to grab basket' plus some Papermill Direct snippets from their swatches

- spent a happy time die cutting all the component parts for the reindeer using the Xcut 'Build-A-Reindeer' set of dies and gluing them onto the green corrugated background - I added the shiny baubles using teeny pieces of thin sticky pad

- backed the green panel using a piece of Tonic mirror card, 'Firestone Red', cut to just an eighth of an inch larger all round than the green layer

- then used narow strips of foam tape to raise the whole panel a bit before adhering it to the card front

- no sentiment needed really so I called it a wrap!

There was one part that did flummox me a bit - the set comes with just one each of the antler inner and outer parts, rather than a pair - and of course they weren't going to look right, both facing the same way. After some thought I recalled Jennifer McGuire showing how to make mirror image die cuts but couldn't remember just how, so I Googled 'Mirror image die cuts' on You Tube and there was the answer. Filmed by another crafter and it's so simple I could have kicked myself! Just die cut the pieces as usual, BUT, then run them back through your die cutting machine without the dies, sandwiched between scrap card. I used two layers of card, both above and below the four die cut pieces and it worked like a dream to flatten them!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

- Christmas Kickstart Challenge #104 HERE - 'Just Add Antlers'

- Allsorts Challenge #837 HERE - under 'Anything Goes'

- Darnell's NBUS Challenge #80 HERE - my NBUS item is the Xcut Build-A-Reindeer set of dies

Remember, I've just kicked off a new challenge over in the Snippets Playground HERE. 

Dudley Pupdate: The little monkey was quietly watching Len in the front garden the other afternoon and along came Tilly with our friend Kim, on the way home after a walk. Without a 'by your leave' Dudley decided to jump ship and follow Tilly home! Luckily, Len realised in time and he was brought back home, sharpish! Kim lives at the end of our back garden down a long driveway so at least there were no roads to be crossed! He certainly is a trier for sure. 😓

To be honest, I'm quite astonished he would relish being seen in public as he'd just had Part One of a serious trim and looked rather like he'd had a run in with a lawn mower. He can only take an hour and a quarter-long trimming session at a time, and Len's much the same to be honest. It's back-breaking work, even using a proper grooming table. He's now had Part Two with one more to go. He always ends up looking beautiful, just takes time and patience to get there. And of course, already he looks tiny - there's a little dog, with big ambitions, hiding under all that silky hair!! 

Love as always, Dudley Dog and me