When you think of a bulldozer, dump truck and excavator, do you think handmade Christmas card?  Godby With Us Stamper, Angela Christie, did.   Angela made an adorable Christmas card with the Stampin' Up! I Dig You stamp set.  Have a look.

The dump truck has a big load of Christmas presents.  What a fun haul!  The I Dig You stamp set also includes some coal and animals to put in the dump truck.  Angela's little boy just loves this stamp set.  I'm sure he helped her pick it out of the 2011-2012 Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog.

When making her Christmas cards with the I Dig You stamp set, what Angela thought was a stamping mistake turned out to be a stamping technique.  She wasn't happy with the stamped presents and attempted to stamp directly over it for a deeper color.  She missed.  But, what a lovely miss!  Now it looks like there a lot of presents!  And, the lighter color stamped image gives the illusion of depth, that the presents in the back are further away.   Images in the distance are not as deep or bright as they are closer. 

Do you learn from your stamping mistakes?  When you are trying to achieve a new look, instead of getting frustrated with not getting the look you desired, store the results in the back of your mind for another time.  One day you very well find it to come in handy.    Angela learned how to have a dump truck loaded with presents.  The same technique can be used to create a forest.  My Christmas Lodge Christmas card demonstrates this.

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An inky hug to Angela for sharing her handmade Christmas card with us!