Christmas Twofer - Reindeer and Snow

I made a couple of cards today for challenges that are about to close.  First up, the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown's Tic Tac Toe challenge.  I chose the row that says "glitter, pattern paper, reindeer".

I used some patterned paper for the snowy background, die cut a reindeer out of grey cs, trimmed the panel with stitched circle and rectangle dies, added a grey sentiment, and bordered with dark silver glitter cs.

My second card is for the Winter Wonderland challenge "Let It Snow".

I made the snowflake panel by mixing blue Perfect Pearls with gum arabic (the gum arabic works as a fixative and makes the Perfect Pearls powder wet) and patting it through the snowflake stencil onto black mixed media cs.  I happened to have a piece of blue shimmer cs that matched the Perfect Pearls so bordered with that.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on vellum and wrapped it around the black panel.  I embellished with stick-on pearls in the centres of the snowflakes.

52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Tic Tac Toe"

   

Winter Wonderland Challenge "Let It Snow"

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - Archival Hickory Smoke
Paper - white and grey cs, Paper Studio dark silver glitter cs, Echo Park dp
Size - A2
Accessories - Dee's Distinctively reindeer die, Lil Inkers stitched circle and rectangle dies

Supplies:
Stamps - Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - ColorBox white
Paper - black mixed media cs, blue shimmer cs, vellum
Size - A2
Accessories - Paper Rose snowflake stencil, blue Perfect Pearls, gum arabic, stick-on pearls, white embossing powder