Icy Polar Bears and Cosy Winter

ABC Christmas Challenge is "Y for Your Favourite Colours and / or Z is for Zoo Animals".  My favourite colours are blue and white, and I love them for snowy winter Christmas cards.  And polar bears are sometimes found in zoos.

 

 

I used a few shades of blue Distress inks, tapped them on my craft mat, added a bit of white shimmer paint and a bit of iridescent medium, spritzed all with water, and smooshed and dragged my watercolour paper in it. I die cut the polar bears twice out of white cs and glued them together before adding them to the smooshed panel. I die cut the sentiment, leaving the letters inside their outer section (much easier than gluing on each individual letter!).

 

Can You Handle the Pressure? wants an embossing folder and the theme of winter.

Stamped, watercoloured, popped up on fun foam on a background run through a snowflake embossing folder.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Ink - various blue Distress inks
Paper - watercolour paper, white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Tsukineko Frost White liquid paint, Windsor & Newton Iridescent Medium, polar bear die, sentiment die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Stamplorations
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs, mixed media cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder, fun foam