Christmas Unicorn – Stamped Smiles

Well can you believe the first week in December is almost already done?! Yikes! Christmas is coming very quickly, so I’m happy to be making up some more Christmas cards as I post along here! 🙂

Today starts another new challenge over at Cute Card Thursday and this week it is an easy “Anything Goes“! So play, create and have fun to your heart’s content and share it with us in the gallery over there! We look forward to seeing what you’re working on!

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Now I don’t know about you, but I think a unicorn for Christmas would be a “yes please”! I have used the new December image by Crissy Armstrong called A Christmas Unicorn. I thought there was lots of opportunity to really bling up this fun image!

First, I have colored up this image with the following Copic markers:

Unicorn mane/tail/hooves: W9, W7, W5, W3, W1, W0
Unicorn body: C3, C1, C0, R00 (nostril/ear)
Unicorn horn: YR24, Y23, Y21
Candy Cane/Ornaments: R39, R37, R35, C1 (white areas)
Tree: YG67, YG63, YG61
Star/Bell: YR24, Y17, Y15, Y13
Ground/Around entire image: B00, B000

Then I thought one of the sentiments from the Whimsy Stamps Penguins Christmas Sentiments 1 digital set fit perfect with this image. I fussy cut it out by hand as to capture the curve in the design and then I used a sponge dauber to apply a bit of ink around the edges of it and glued it right underneath the image. (I think it makes it look sort of like a little ‘snow drift’ in front of the unicorn.)

For the card front base, I’ve picked out some papers to use from the Whimsy Stamps Christmas Red, Gold & Green digital collection and then added a silver glitter strip as well as a red cardstock strip that I ran through an embossing folder and then rubbed some white ink over the raised areas. I glued these pieces to the green paper and then cut it out with a stitched rectangle die. I mounted this piece over a piece of red cardstock that I attached to an A2 sized top folding white card base.

Now for the details of my image, I’ve used a Spectrum Noir clear glitter brush pen to go over the unicorn horn and bell around his chest. I then covered the candy cane with some glossy accents.

For the garland around the tree, I took a Nuvo Precision Glue Pen and sprinkled on some Sassy Silver Glitter. For the star, I used Diamond Dust Glitter, and then, for on top of the sentiment as well as along the edges of the image panel, I ran some Nuvo Liquid Glue over it and then sprinkled on some Waterscape Glitter. (You can see the difference in the glitters next to each other. The Waterscape is finer than the one I used on the star.)

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I’ve then mounted the image panel onto a piece of red cardstock and attached it to the front of the card front. I took some silver sparkle cardstock and die cut three snowflakes and attached them to the left side of the image panel and added a red star rhinestone to the center of each one.

Really had fun with the festive colors and details on this one! Hope you’ve enjoyed my card today!

Here are some challenges I’d like to enter my card for: