Die cutting out of the box: clever "reinstrich"

Hello everyone, 
Neil's turn today with a very clever project we all loved. I would never have thought of this, and can't wait to read your comments. 

Sometimes you buy a die which is wonderful but it's designed really for Christmas; so for 11 months of the year it never sees the light of day. Like Reindeer flight and the small movers and shapers reindeer die.
Well, how about using them for this?

 Or perhaps you are feeling arty? So how about this?

So, let's begin by cutting out some reindeer (the large standing one from reindeer flight and one small one from the movers and shapers die.

You can see by this picture what to do next. In the middle I've shaded in black the areas you need to cut away from the original shape on the left to leave you with the shape on the right. Easy peasy isn't it? (Tip, once you've cut the one out; use it as a template to quickly cut more when you want to, saves time having to draw the shape of the body.)
For the first tag I kept it more realistic by using natural colours and a feather before mounting it onto a tag which I'd stamped onto with Katzelkraft stamps and then mounting that onto a second tag cut out of corrugated card.

For the second, smaller one I had much more fun, using brighter colours and playing around with pens I created my "zebritch" which worked together nicely with the sentiment for a fun and quirky tag which I popped into my journal because I liked it so much!

He (or She ) is standing on a shape cut from the Artful dwellings die and the tag has been inked and stamped with distress inks and a bit of masking onto the shape too. 

Materials list.

Top tag

Reindeer flight die

Distress inks - antique linen, walnut stain, fired brick, wild honey (for the beak) and black soot

Ranger enamel accents for the eye

Glue dots and feathers

Brads

Tag 2

Good thoughts

Artful dwellings die

Movers and shapers mini reindeer die

Distress inks  - fired brick, stormy sky and shabby shutters

White and black pens

hope you enjoyed this

See you tomorrow