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Monday, 7 January 2019

Rudolph and Recycling

Does anyone else look at Christmas cards as they arrive and decide what they want to make with them?  As soon as I received this card I knew I wanted to add Rudolph amongst the gold glitter trees - perfect for the Christmas Kickstart Challenge 'Rudolph and Friends'.  I'm also entering the Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge 'Reindeer, Fab 'n' Funky 'Recycle your Christmas Cards' challenge and Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 'Upcycle or Use Something Old' (I've upcycled my Christmas card).


 6" x 4" cream matt card blank
Upcycled Christmas card
Creative Dies 'Elegant Reindeer' die
Bronze and red mirri card
Small red gem

 I cut the 'Winter Wishes' from the bottom of the Christmas card, trimmed the card to size and attached it to the front of the card blank.  The sentiment was layered onto bronze mirri and attached to the top of the card.  I die cut the reindeer twice from bronze mirri and layered the two dies together to give more depth before attaching it to the card front with dots of Tacky Glue.  I die cut the reindeer again from red mirri and inlaid the red swirl and attached the bow.  To finish I added a small red gem to Rudolph's nose.

Kath x
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14 comments:

  1. meg7 January 2019 at 15:15

    love your base card, adding the reindeer was inspired he's perfect there in the trees

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  2. Pat7 January 2019 at 16:53

    This is very pretty Kath and a great bit of upcycling just adding that beautiful reindeer and layering it makes it stand out really well. x

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  3. Sue7 January 2019 at 16:58

    Hi Kath, I have my Christmas cards in a plastic container, waiting for me to go through them to see what I can use.

    Your card is fab. Sue

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  4. Dr Sonia S V7 January 2019 at 17:43

    That deer looks absolutely delightful!!!
    Cheers
    Dr Sonia

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  5. Marianne's Craftroom7 January 2019 at 17:45

    Great recycling

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  6. Dotty Jo7 January 2019 at 17:59

    This is lovely, Kath! How funny to see it here as I nearly kicked off the new challenge with a recycling theme. Thanks for playing at Christmas Kickstart, Jo x

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  7. Carol S.7 January 2019 at 20:30

    I had this card too!! Love what you have done with it. Hugs, Carol S.xx

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  8. Wendy7 January 2019 at 22:47

    Gorgeous card...Thanks for playing along with us at Fab’n’funky:)
    Wendy (DT) xx

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  9. cotnob8 January 2019 at 19:46

    A fabulous Christmas card Kath, your recycled card makes a super background.
    Pauline - Crafting with Cotnob
    x

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  10. Judith8 January 2019 at 22:21

    Aw this is a great recycle - it looks very similar to the card I used - as you say just crying out for a rudolph (or stag in my case!), thank you for playing along at Fab'n'Funky challenges this week hugs judith x

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  11. Valerija9 January 2019 at 05:12

    A beautiful card.
    Valerija xx

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  12. Cathy9 January 2019 at 05:53

    Great job on upcycling this sparkly card Kath, the reindeer looks right at home on it, Cathy x

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  13. Jules10 January 2019 at 23:14

    Hi Kath

    Great up-cycling!

    We turn our old Christmas cards into gift tags. I gave Dave the job of cutting a load just before this Christmas and he seems to have caught the bug because one card dropped through our letterbox and he was inspecting it quite closely and then said "that's a good one .. .. I will get three tags out of that one next year! LOL!!

    Hope you have had a good day.

    Love Jules xx

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  14. sweet art designs28 January 2019 at 20:35

    Wow, very lovely
    Thank you for joining us at Crafty Hazel Nut's Christmas Card Weekly Challenge - Myrna DT

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