Reindeer Circle Window Merry Christmas Card - #RRCB97

I checked out the latest challenge over at Retro Rubber and found it was this fun Tic Tac Toe challenge.  The reindeer image comes from an Inkadinkado Christmas stamp set that I've had since 2009.  I love that the Retro Rubber challenge encourages us to use those oldies but goodies in our stash!

I chose to work with the bottom horizontal line - animals, window and circles.  I did sneak the neutrals option in too as I chose Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla as my colour combo.  I made an A6 sized card base and stamped a tone on tone background over the top using a bubble wrap background stamp which ties in with the circles Tic Tac Toe option.  I also included the ribbon option although my ribbon is faux as I used a Grosgrain Ribbon die to cut my strip of Very Vanilla 'ribbon'.  I used circle punches for the sentiment and I popped that up on Dimensionals.  

For inside the card I cut a panel of Very Vanilla CS, stamped the lovely reindeer image in Soft Suede ink and trimmed the panel to size so that the large reindeer showed nicely through the circle window.  I stamped a sentiment onto a piece of Crumb Cake CS, cut it out with a stitched rectangle die, trimmed it down and glued it in place.

I stamped the reindeer image again and cut out just a portion using a circle punch and matted that circle onto a larger punched circle.

This will make a perfect Christmas card for a male - a rare addition to my Christmas card box!

Supplies:
Stamps: Inkadinkado 'Holiday Sentiments' set, Creative Expressions 'Bubble Wrap', Stampendous 'Merry Christmas', SU! 'Best Yet' set
CS: SU! Crumb Cake, Early Espresso & Very Vanilla
Ink: SU! Crumb Cake, Soft Suede & Early Espresso
Tools: Circle Nestabilities dies, SU! circle punches, Memory Box 'Grosgrain Ribbons' die set, M&C Boutique stitched rectangles die set
Embellishments & accessories: SU! Dimensionals
Ruth