Final Christmas Card Post for 2025!

I can't believe it's the end of 2025 already!  That was one fast year!

To finish off with a couple of Christmas cards.  The first is for Inkspirational "Cold" and Addicted to CAS "Christmas".

I've been making some backgrounds lately using the cling wrap technique (see this SCS tutorial). For this one I used Magical Powders (shimmery powdered dye based pigments) sprinkled and spritzed with water on black mixed media cs with cling wrap scrunched up on it to create my background. Love the sparkle and the texture I got.

I topped it with a die cut village and a sentiment and added the panel to a slimline card base.  That sky looks very cold and icy to me, and having the houses and landscape all in white makes them look like they are covered in snow!

For 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Use a Previous 2025 Technique", I chose the one from May "Use Die Cuts or Punches" and got out my old Martha Stewart pine branch punch and some square dies.  It's also going to the Snippets challenge as it used up lots of bits of green cs and dp for the wreath, a scrap of dp for the background, and scraps of green and red cs for the bordering layers. 

I made a thin circle out of scrap green cs using two circle dies, then punched many little pine branches out of scraps of dp (mostly pieces that had images of grass or leaves on them).  I glued them onto the die cut circle, added it to the background square of dp, and bordered with squares of red and green cs.  Finished with a small stamped sentiment and red gemstones for berries.  It's not the quickest card to make but I love the results.

     

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white and black cs
Size - 7x3.75"
Accessories - aqua Magicals, village die cut

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - SSS sentiment
Ink - Memento Rhubarb Stalk
Paper - scraps of various dp; chalk, red, and green cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Martha Stewart pine branch punch, Spellbinders circle and square dies, red gems