The accent choice for my Christmas Card Challenge for November is Chipboard. It could be Die cuts, Letters, Ornaments, Snowflakes, Trees, and much more.
I chose the deer chipboard leftovers from
this card in Christmas Stack Class in June.
I chose a warm chocolate brown card stock and found a piece of polka dot DSP to match in the Naughty or Nice Pad from Michaels. I painted my chipboard deer with a foam brush and acrylic paint that I mixed up to match the card. I set those aside to dry. I chose a medium green card stock that coordinated well for the background behind my deer. I die cut it with the SU Deco Labels framelits. I stamped the die cut with the All Night Media leaf pattern stamp in a darker shade of green ink. Once my deer were dry, they looked a little plain so I tried sprucing them up a bit. I tried stamping them with ink but because of the acrylic paint, the ink just wiped off. I expect Staz On ink would have worked but did not have it in the right color. I decided to add a bit of texture to them, but you cannot run them through the Big Shot with a folder. So this is what I did. I laid my embossing folder on the table, laid the deer paint side down and hit them with a small hammer. Worked pretty well. On second thought, I may have been able to put together a sandwich that would have worked in the Big Shot. Will try that next time. I punched a Stampin Up! Modern Label and printed a Word Window punchie with my greeting. This was mounted with 3D foam tape.
I started with the snowflake vellum sticker. Both cards are black. I cut the labels with the Stampin Up Deco Labels Collection Framelits Dies. On the card on the left, the largest is designer paper is Love Letters by Little Yellow Bicycle. The next layer is a gray card stock and then the smallest is Ruby Red. I added the vellum snowflake sticker to it. I cut the vellum to background to 4.00" x 5.25" then embossed it with the Cuttlebug Joy & Cheer embossing folder. The vellum background is tacked to the card where the label will later cover. The labels are layered with the snowflake being on top, placed on the background, a push pin is used to create a hole in the center. I placed the tiny black brad through the hole, turned the card over and press the prongs apart. The card on the right hand side has K&Company Smitten Marbled Flat paper with turquoise and hot pink layers. 
The card on the left is a red card with a black greeting printed on the left side. The top note is adhered to the right hand side. The poinsettia is real red with old olive card stock with a moss green velvet ribbon.
The accents of the ornament (navy) and tree (green) were created with white acrylic paint, card stock and a splatter tool. The navy ornament is cut with the Stampin Up! ornament punch. I wrapped a piece of white string around the hanger and knotted it to the front. I taped a piece of string at the split to behind the ornament, then glued the ornament to the card front.
Here's a couple more samples made in class tonight.
From this sample I've learned to avoid striped paper. I punched large daisies in ivory and green with a green .5 inch circle.
Here's the box I put together for a silent auction later this month. I thought it looked quite professional.
