Joy with Texture and Cardinals, and a CAS Winter

A card for the Double D "Texture" challenge and for Word Power (where words are the focus of the card).

I have a textured background created with a 3D embossing folder, and I cut the JOY twice (with green shimmer cs for the top layer) and glued it together to give it more raised texture.  The image is stamped and watercoloured and trimmed to fit inside the O.

Allsorts Challenge has a very wintery mood board - I was inspired by the snowy white trees in the bottom right image.

The background is a bit of leftover background background created by sponging two colours of blue Distress ink on mixed media cs, spritzing generously with water, then sprinkling on coarse sea salt.  I let it dry naturally.  This piece of has less of the distinct cells that salt usually makes. I topped it with a die cut of evergreen trees in a stitched circle, trimmed the panel with a square die, popped it up on fun foam, and die cut the sentiment out of a scrap of the salted background.

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Serendipity cardinals
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - green shimmer cs, watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Penny Black JOY die, SSS embossing folder

Supplies for card:
Ink - Distress Broken China, Faded Jeans
Paper - mixed media cs, white cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - coarse sea salt, Memory Box Stitched Circle Trees die, Tattered Lace sentiment die, Spellbinders square die, fun foam