Wild Reindeer and Pets Posting a Letter

52 Christmas Card Throwdown is asking for "Wild Animals" - I've gone with a reindeer.

I grabbed a background from my box of unused backgrounds - not sure how I made it - possibly just some smooshed ink on glossy cs, with some mixed media stamps added in pale grey.  I stamped various trees on in black ink,  and trimmed it down.  I topped it with a torn strip of white cs for the snowy ground, a black die cut reindeer (also cut from white cs and glued together to add substance), and a sentiment on a stitched banner die.

Today's second card is for The Paper Players whose theme is "Postman Bring Me a Letter".  It's also for the NBUS Challenge as I'd never used the stamp before.

I used an Anita Jeram stamp of the sweetest animals posting their letters.  It's watercoloured, trimmed with a wonky-stitched square die, and mounted on a contrasting card base.  I finished off by adding glitter to the snow on top of the mailbox.

Supplies for card:
Stamps - Penny Black sentiment, various tree stamps, various mixed media stamps
Ink - blue Distress inks, Archival Jet Black
Paper - coated cs, white and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - reindeer die, stitched banner die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Anita Jeram
Ink - Versafine Onyx Clair
Paper - watercolour paper, blue cs
Size - 5" square
Accessories - watercolour paints, glitter