Same, same but different Christmas cards

 Hi there.  Today I'm sharing a set of Christmas cards that are the same design, but with different colours and colouring mediums.

Card 1

For this one I used dark green for the base and layering.  I stamped the Pohutukawa (a Montarga stamp) with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and used Copic markers to colour it up. The top of the flowers is gold Kindyglitz glitter glue. The sentiment is "Merry Christmas" in Māori (by Craft Creations)

Card 2

Same design this time in red.   This time stamped with Memento Bamboo Leaves and coloured with lighter colours - Altenew's Woodless Watercolour pencils.  The gold on the tips is a gold Sharpie. 

Card 3

This time inked with Memento Grey Flannel.  I chose darker colours of the Woodless Watercolour pencils.  I used a silver Sharpie to make the layer.  And the base in a lovely royal blue colour.  

A great design suitable for multiple stamping.   I'm sure I'll be doing more of this one. 

Christmas Tag a la Oz.

Christmas Tag a la Oz.

This weeks challenge at Hero Arts is Holiday Tags. At quite a number of the blogs I like to visit, talented ladies make amazing tags... Jacqueline and Suzanne but to name a couple. I have been amazed by what they do, so thought I'd give tags a go. I went to the office supply store near where I work thinking I might be able to pick up some tags.... but sadly unless I wanted to buy a box of 1,000 for $60 I was out of luck... ( just trying to imagine how many years they would last was mind boggling!!) So stopped into the stamp store on the way home... yes I could get 8 tags for $1.50 - now that made more sense.....
For this tag I decided to try out Linda aka Oz's 4 stamp background technique. Visit her blog here to see the video she did... it's like being in the room with her doing it....I used my new pine bough stamp from HA's together with the sentiment from a Sparkle clear set from last Christmas. As I was trying for a bit of a vintage look ( don't think I quite got it) I dyed some white lace dark brown by putting Rich Cocoa Memento ink over it. I added a fawn flower with a dark green snowflake and a brown pearl to finish it. I am reasonably happy with the result.

Last week I bought the Spellbinders Tags die so over the weekend made a tag or two to put on my presents this year.  I ended up getting an order to do 10 of the little white and blue tags.  I used a snowflake stamp from the HA set Joyful Greetings I got last year.  For the red tags ( made 1/2 a dozen of these) I simply used the HA's digi kit - Snowman stamp resized and printed out.  I cut them out and placed on the tag.
Tonight I made another tag - This one is called my Kiwi Christmas as I used the Pohutukawa as my inspiration for it.  The Potutukawa tree is known as the New Zealand Christmas tree and has the most amazing red flowers that come out around this time of the year. The pine bough stamp reminded me of the flower. 

Well this has been a bit of a long post...thanks for taking the time to read it.