A Few Christmas Cards

Well a couple of weeks ago I decided to make a start on a few Christmas Cards. I saw a card on the docrafts forum using the christmas pudding stamp and I thought I've got that stamp! so I went into my craft room and had a rummage and I found it and thought I'd have a go seeing as I've never used it before! I stamped the image and coloured with my watercolour pencils and then used embossing powder to add a bit of sparkle. They are each mounted onto foam pads and layered onto white card which has been embossed with the cuttlebug snowflakes folder. Using the same image as I've used on a candle rencently, I made this card for a lady to give to her Mum. I've used my whispers pens to colour it in and again I've used some embossing powder to give it a bit of sparkle. I cut the centre out and have embossed some lines round the edge and have then emobssed with the snowflakes folder. The sentiment was printed directly onto the card before any cutting/embossing! It took a few goes to get it in the right place though!
This is my first card using one of the Pink Petticoat christmas images. I've been looking forward to making one since I bought the kit back in the summer. I've coloured her in to match the paper in two tones of green and red. I've decoupaged the tree for a bit of extra dimension and added some embossing powder too. The paper is Jolly Doodles by Doodlebug. I can't get enough of Doodlebug when it comes to Christmas! I love it! I have the Snowy Doodles set too which I used a lot last year. All the red card is Doodlebug Crisscross too so they co-ordinate perfectly.
This is another Pink Petticoat image, and again I've decoupaged the shopping bags for a bit of extra dimension. The holly paper is by Doodlebug. I printed the sentiment directly onto the card. And for this one, I've recoloured the paper in paint shop pro as I have it in the blues but everywhere was out of stock already in the red and green! It took me a while but I got there in the end! This is a layout I used last year too.
And finally, I decided to have a go at this card after seeing a preview of Kath's card on her blog recently. I haven't got a holly punch so I just drew a leaf and made a template of my own. I cut out the leaves from doodlebug card and scored a line down the centre. I then glittered the edges and stuck down with foam pads. The berries are punched from a sheet of adhesive glitter card. The Holly paper is again from Doodlebug!