A Tag with Poinsettias and a Green, Brown, and Blue Christmas Card

My first card is for three challenges - AAA Card Challenges "Add a Tag", ABC Christmas Challenge "T is for Three of a Kind", and the Snippets Playground Challenge (to use up little scraps).

I used the Tim Holtz tag die that has raised ridges that you can rub over with ink (red, in my case) and then when you die cut it, the colour transfers to the cs and makes the coloured border on the tag.

I die cut three poinsettias from snippets of white and red shimmer cs, and some holly sprigs from a leftover bit of cs that I'd smooshed with various green Distress inks.  Put it all together on the tag, added gold pearls to the centres of the poinsettias, and tied a bit of red and green twine through the hold.  I left the card base completely plain as the AAA Card Challenge is a clean and simple challenge.

My second card today is for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Green, Brown, and Blue".  Perfect colours for an outdoor winter scene.

The background is blue Magicals sprinkled on a stencil, spritzed with water, and monoprinted on mixed media cs.  I die cut the evergreen tree from green cs, the deciduous tree from dark brown cs, and the two deer from lighter brown cs.  I also die cut two snow banks with a slopes die.  Then assembled my scene.  I stamped the sentiment in blue but smudged it so restamped it on a scrap and die cut it to layer over the smudged one.

    

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black sentiment
Ink - various green Distress inks, Distress Fired Brick
Paper - white cs, red shimmer and white shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Tim Holtz tag die, Dee's Distinctively poinsettia dies, red and green twine, gold adhesive pearls

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Make an Impression sentiment
Ink - Encore Metallic Blue
Paper - white, green, dark brown, medium brown cs; mixed media cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Memory Box Twiggy Tree die, Impression Obsession evergreen tree die, Memory Box deer dies, SSS slopes dies, Spellbinders tag die, snowflake stencil, blue Magicals