ABC Christmas Challenge - W & X are for?

It's the second Wednesday of a new month, so that means it's time for a new ABC Christmas Challenge...Fabiola is the host, and the themes are:

'W is for White'

&

'X is for X-Ray'

(something see-through)

The prize for the lucky winner is:

A surprise from Switzerland!

For my 'W is for White' card, I picked a snowmen stamp from the 'Melting Snowmen' set by Woodware. I stamped it directly onto a white card blank, along with one of the sentiments from the set, then added minimal colour using watercolour pencils.

For my 'X is for X-Ray' card, I used vellum as my 'see-through' item. I started by stamping my 'Mod Trees' background stamp (from Simon Says Stamp) onto a piece of kraft card using white pigment ink, before heat embossing it using white embossing powder. I stamped a sentiment, using stamps from the 'Christmas' Letter It set from Ranger, onto the centre of a piece of vellum, using Versamark ink, then heat-embossed it using 'Gold Sparkle' embossing glitter from WOW. I wrapped the vellum around the tree-embossed background, then matted it onto a piece of gold glitter card before adding it to a white card blank.

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

• Allsorts - Anything Goes (first card only)
• Aud Sentiments - Stencils and/or Christmas + a Sentiment (second card only)
• Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes (first card only)
• Crafty Catz - Anything Goes (first card only)
• Creative Knockouts - Time to be Merry (second card only)
• Love to Scrap - Anything Goes (first card only)
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Bling It On (second card only)

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