Blowing Snow and Candy Canes

I'm playing along with the current Tic Tac Toe challenge.  I chose the top horizontal row that says ink blending, snow, and tree.  A good chance to use one of my favourite stamps of snow blowing off a tree.

I stamped and heat embossed the tree in white, then tore a strip of scrap cs to create a mask for the snowy ground, then blended various blue Distress inks over it.  The heat embossed tree resisted the ink.  When done, I wiped the ink off the trees to make sure they really stood out.   I trimmed it into a square, bordered with kraft cs, added a reindeer die cut from the same kraft cs and with a bit of brown Distress ink blended on the edges, and added a sentiment die cut with a banner die.

My second card for today is for Jingle Belles challenge "Christmas Feast" - any kind of holiday sweets or treats.  I went with one of my favourites - candy canes.

The image is stamped and watercoloured, trimmed with the stitched die, mounted on fun foam on a dark green card base. I went over the ornaments with Glossy Accents, and over the ribbon with Wink of Stella.

   
 

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black Snow Dust, unknown sentiment
Ink - ColorBox white, various blue and brown Distress inks
Paper - white and kraft cs 
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - white embossing powder, reindeer die, banner die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Impression Obsession image, Stampendous sentiment
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - watercolour paper, dark green cs
Size - A2
Accessories -