More Christmas cards

The Shabby Tea Room's current challenge is

Week #194 'Christmas is coming'

The inspirational photo shows 

a cup of cocoa and festive treats.

I thought 'warm winter wishes'  from the Bugaboo MSChristmas tags!

The card must contain red white and brown.

Red and white - I thought gingham!

Here's my card:

A simple easel card using the red card and gingham to decorate and make the 'stopper'.

I coloured the tag with only brown and a little red for the robin.

I added a few reindeer, Candy Bonbon and gems.

As well as the

Shabby Tea Room challenge

I am also submitting this to

CHNC Challenge extra for November

So...back to trees (this years general theme for my Christmas cards!)

And this time I decided on a folded tree.

There is a tutorial for one on Splitcoaststampers

Basically you take a semicircle and fold it to make a tree.

I don't have any huge circular nesting dies so I drew around a tea plate!

I had a preshaped crad base to start - I cut and matted a matching shape out of some

 Papermania 12 days of Christmas.

I punched two holes to tie the ribbon through.

I found some golden cardstock with which to make the trees and back the sentiment.

I embossed some gold paper stars and cut them out roughly -

 these were added to the top of the trees.

The shape of the folds were defined with rhinestones.

I am submitting this to 

Scribble and Scrap 'Anything goes' Challenge #6

This card didn't really meet my criteria of being light and easy to post...

so these were my next versions...

 This time I used double sided paper which added another dimension!

I then went on to a white on white (or ivory) version:

I used an edge embossing die to first emboss my card blank.

I tried it with the mistletoe pointing both up and down - but I prefer this way.

I added rhinestones, a small star and NOEL in sparkly foam letters.

I am going to submit this to 

Always Playing with Paper - Merry Monday #85 - all white and ivory

Happy Crafting!