Cozy Winter and Santa Horses

Time Out's new challenge is "Cozy" and Shopping our Stash's challenge is "Time for a Hot Drink".

I love that sentiment - as much as I love summer and my garden, I also love being curled up with a blanket, a book, and, in my case, a cup of tea.

Stamped and coloured with coloured pencils, trimmed, popped up on fun foam on a wintery dp background.

And a second card, this one for Color Hues "Red and Black".

The horses are stamped in black and left uncoloured except for using a red Tombow marker to colour their Santa hats.  It's trimmed with a stitched rectangle die and bordered in red cs.  I added Fun Flock to the brims and pompom of the hats, and a thin line of glitter on the snowy top of the fence.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Stamplorations
Ink - Versafine Onyx Clair Nocturne
Paper - white cs, unknown dp
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Impression Obsession Santa horses, Penny Black                                                     Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - red Tombow marker, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die, Fun Flock, clear glitter

A Swag with Pine Cones and Christmas Cups

For Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Christmas Flowers or Foliage" and for My Time to Craft Christmas "Pine Cones":

The image is coloured with coloured pencils, it's trimmed with quite a bit of white border around it, then thinly matted with green, and added to a red card base.  I put the sentiment strip on a diagonal so that it stayed within the green mat.

My second card is for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Christmas Cup" and Sweet Stampin' "Tartan or Plaid".

When I was tidying my craft room recently, I came across some stamped, heat embossed, and die cut Christmas cups from an old SU set.  So when I saw the 52CCT challenge, I had the perfect opportunity to use them.  To fulfill the tartan or plaid challenge for Sweet Stampin', I pulled out some tartan ribbon and ran it across my focal panel to represent a Christmas table cloth for my cups to sit on.

  

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Serendipity Pine Swag, Mama Elephant sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white, red, and green cs
Size - 6x4.25"
Accessories - coloured pencils

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Paper Smooches sentiment, SU cups and steam
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, red and green pigment inks
Paper - white cs
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - tartan ribbon, clear embossing powder, Lil Inkers stitched square die, foam dots