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Using Essentials by Ellen Dinomite Christmas and Dinomite Halloween for Christmas Cards

When I saw the super adorable Essentials by Ellen Dinomite Christmas stamps and Essentials by Ellen Dinomite Halloween stamps by the amazingly talented Brandi Kinkaid I knew exactly what I wanted to do...a dinosaur Christmas tree!!!  I know a little boy who will looove these cards! (...and a big boy too; DJ keeps trying to claim cards. LOL! I keep telling him we need to share them!)
And I love how it turned out! A little Moonstone Nuvo Glimmer Paste was the finishing touch.
I hope you enjoy my short video on how I made this and 2 extra cards with the "leftovers"!
Tips:
1. Stamp and color 2 of each of the dinosaurs and some of the accent images in copic friendly ink and die cut them using the Essentials by Ellen Dinomite Christmas dies and Essentials by Ellen Dinomite Halloween dies.  This gives enough images to make the Christmas tree, with a few left over.
2. When coloring use dull copic YGs, like YG93, in the shadow area if you want to decrease the vibrancy of the bright YG copic colors.
3. Arrange the images in the form of a tree or whatever shape you would like. 
4. Save a spot where you want to stamp your sentiment. 
5. Put a smattering of your accent color, which is red in my card, throughout various parts of the tree, using all the little accent shapes. This gets your eye moving throughout the card and gives some balance to everything.
6. Make your background panel using a subtle accent, nothing to overpowering, because these little dinosaurs are definitely the stars of the show.  I used the glimmer paste.
7. Glue your images down starting with the dinosaur at the top of the Christmas tree, working your way down and then stamp your sentiment.
8. Bend parts of the images away from the card, such as the boney plates (I just learned what these were called when I googled it.), spikes and heads, for added dimension, or layer them up with foam tape.
9. For those of you who have seen me use the eco-friendly Essentials by Ellen Craft Assistant and Essentials by Ellen Art Magnetic Masking Material in a previous video, in this video I show how I use these when adding my Nuvo paste to my card without taping my cardstock or stencil to a surface. Link below and at the end of the video another video for other uses of the Craft Assistant.

I love when "leftovers" look like this!
Essentials by Ellen Wonky Backdrops by Julie Ebersole makes a quick easy background.

The video shows off that Moonstone Nuvo Glimmer Paste so much better than this photo.

Happy little trio of dinosaur cards:)
 
Thank you for spending time with me (and DJ via the video)!
I hope you can add fun to your day by going a making a card!
Betty
 
P.S. If you missed our video on Eco-friendly Reusable Masking and want to check it out, here it is:
 
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