Funkie Junkie's 2nd tag of Christmas with a Jane's Journal twist

I'm back with the 2nd of my Christmas themed cards inspired by the tags made by Linda of the Funkie Junkie Blog  sponsored by The Funkie Junkie on line store  Do pop on over to join in the fun. If you click on the blog  link you can see her great inspiration tag for week 2. It features a golden reindeer and I decided to use this as the inspiration for my Christmas card. I also liked the vintage looking stamp on her tag and the colours she used.
 Here is my finished piece.

It was really hard to get a good photo as the gold reflected so much!

My reindeer is a Memory Box die and the trees are Marianne. I cut them out from a Felix cat food box as I wanted them to be a little thicker than my normal card. I embossed them twice with gold embossing power for a thicker layer and whist still hot I pressed in a script stamp. This left behind the detail.

I used Pumice stone and antique linen TH distress ink and blended the backing card.

 When dry I stamped my Stampendous Snowy Postcard stamp using Vintage photo Distress ink as I wanted a subtle suggestion of the cottage in the background. I wanted to give the impression of a little hamlet in the snow getting ready to trim their trees.

Here is a close up

I added some Shabby White Frantage for a snowy effect and the snowflakes are Cheery Lynn.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Funkie Junkie's 12 tags of Christmas Tag #2
Bearly Mine anything goes
Holly Jolly Inspired by a Christmas carol my Carol has to be "In the Bleak Midwinter"
Crafts to Challenge you Christmas festivities, twist 2 what Christmas means to me I just love buying the tree at Christmas. We always have a real pine one.  This little scene makes me think of years gone by when it has snowed and we have had to drag it home. When I was small we did not have a car so everything was bought locally. I can almost smell the memories of pine and crisp white snow. I really so love Christmas..only 68 days to go.
Christmas cards all year round getting ready for Christmas
Whimsy stamps Shabby/vintage
Christmas at Sweet Stamping Men's cards
Polkadoodles Christmas is coming
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Square cards

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. Today there are only 3 weeks left until our grandbaby is due...**squeal** not long now. Thanks as always for visiting me and your kind comments.


Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x