ABC Christmas Challenge - A & B are for?

It's the second Wednesday of a new month, so that means it's time for a new ABC Christmas Challenge...and today, we are starting our fifteenth trip through the alphabet! I'm the host, and the themes are:

'A is for Anything Christmas Goes

&

'B is for Berries'

The prize for the lucky winner is this stamp set & paper pad:

On my 'A is for Anything Christmas' card, I used a stamp that I got for Christmas, called 'Starry Reindeers' by Woodware Stamps. I stamped it on to watercolour paper using Versamark Ink, along with a sentiment from the set, then heat embossed them in gold. I coloured the image using watercolour pencils, adding some shimmer to the stars using gold mica pigment mixed with water. I distressed the edges a little, then matted it on to some gold mirror card before adding it to a kraft DL card blank.

For my 'B is for Berries' card, I used another new stamp 'Christmas Bells' by Denami Design, which I stamped itno the centre of a piece of black card using Versamark Ink and then heat embossed it in gold. I then used my stamping platform to repeat stamp my 'Sketchy Sprigs' stamp (by Woodware Stamps) around the edges...again heat embossing it in gold. I watercoloured the image using Cosmic Shimmers mica pigments mixed with a little water. I matted it on to some gold mirror card, then added it to a white card blank. The sentiment stamp is from the 'Scribbly Christmas' set by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous.

I'm also entering these cards into the following challenges:

• Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Something New
• We Love Stamping - Something New (First card only - the stamps are new)

For more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies, please pop over to the ABC Christmas Challenge.