Peaceful Wings and Favourite Things

The Double D challenge wants "Wings".  My best friend always asks me to make some Christmas cards for her with doves on them so thought this was a great opportunity to use a dove die with its wings wide open.

I sponged a blue background, then stamped the branches and sentiment in black.  The dove is die cut twice out of white cs and glued together for more dimension.

Next up is a card for the Word Power challenge where the sentiment has to be the focus of the card.  It is going to a good friend whose favourite things in the world are dogs, books, and coffee so when I found this sentiment stamp, I had to get it just to make a card for her.

I created a background with grey ink through a stencil, stamped the sentiment in Barn Door red ink, and heat embossed it with Fired Brick embossing glaze. Then trimmed it with a rectangle die. It needed more interest so I cut a thin frame out of the rectangle, and then cut another one out of red cs and inserted it into the gap. I popped the panel up on fun foam for more dimension.

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - A Muse sentiment, Penny Black branches
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, various blue Distress inks
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Penny Black dove die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Technique Junkies sentiment
Ink - Distress Barn Door, light grey ink
Paper - white and red cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Distress Fired Brick embossing glaze, Spellbinders rectangle dies, SSS thin frame die, grid stencil, fun foam