Flowery Thanks and Father Christmas

I needed a change from all the Christmas cards I've been making lately.  For the Flower Challenge and for My Time to Craft - both challenges are looking for thank you cards.

 A friend gave me some very wide washi tape. I wasn't sure what to do with it so stuck some on a piece of cs, went over it with a light gesso wash so that I could stamp on it, then stamped some very pale script and a darker flower. Then I went over the flower with gouache paints to give them some colour. Added two gemstones to the panel and one to the flower, and bordered it with black cs and added a vertical Thank You stamp.

My second card has to be a Christmas one as it's coming up on us very quickly!  Inkspirational wants to see Santa.  I dug out one of my older stamps, SU's Father Christmas - I love this old-fashioned looking Santa.

I stamped the Santa in the centre of an A2 panel of Bristol cs and coloured with coloured pencils.  Then embossed it with the Snowflake Frame embossing folder - it fits perfectly!  I added the panel to a chalk white card base.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Hero Arts sentiment, Lime Citron script stamp, Magenta flowers
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, Memento London Fog
Paper - white and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - wide washi tape, gesso, gouache paints, gemstones

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - SU Father Christmas, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - bristol cs, chalk white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Ultimate Crafts Snowflake Frame embossing folder