Christmas Decorations, a Tiny Snowman, and Sympathy

Christmas Craft Creations wants to see Christmas Decorations on our cards.  Here's mine:

To create the background for the ornament, I followed the instructions for the first technique in this video - it's basically a smooshing technique with alcohol inks.  Once dry, I die cut the inner part of this bauble and the sentiment. I die cut the snowflake border out of white shimmer cs, put the ornament together, and added it to a mint blue card base with a bit of gold cord to hang it from the top of the card.

Next up, for the Inspired By "Snowman" challenge, I went with a very tiny snowman and the lovely shade of blue of the snowman's coat in the image.

I trimmed a leftover scrap from a gelli print with a deckle rectangle die, added it to my card base, stamped a sentiment, and topped it with a die cut that includes a very tiny snowman.

For a totally different theme, My Time to Craft wants to see sympathy cards.

I masked an oval on my focal panel and shaded with a lighter grey (Memento London Fog) and a darker grey (Vivid Cobblestone). I stamped the image and sentiment in the darker grey, bordered with grey cs, and popped up with fun foam on the card base.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Paper - coated cs, white shimmer cs, mint blue cs
Size - A2
Accessories - green and turquoise alchol inks, gold mixative, Memory Box snowflake ornament die, TH joy die, gold cord

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - various Distress blues for the gelli print, Distress Broken China
Paper - scrap from a gelli print
Size - A2
Accessories - Spellbinders deckle rectangle die, unknown tiny snow scene die   

Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - SU World of Dreams, unknown sentiment
Ink - Memento London Fog, Vivid Cobblestone
Paper - white and grey cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Spellbinders oval die, masking paper, fun foam