Summer and Winter

Second post for today. Thanks for your good wishes to get better soon. I'm still feeling poorly but did manage to make a couple of cards this afternoon. I had a lovely surprise too as I was chosen as a Pollycraft favourite for the third time in the last few weeks.

The first card is another of those cute new LOTV images. Papers are Papermania Winter's Tale. I used my MS snowflake border punch and mounted the strips onto white card so the snowflakes show up better. The fab sketch was from the Lili of the valley challenge. I rotated the sketch to fit the image. Apart from the sentiment I used snowflakes made from gold and glitter card using Sizzix die and MS punch instead of the circles on the sketch. I really like the way one side is busy and the other side has no embellies. I used a Sakura goldstar pen on the coat trimmings and added glitter to her hat and scarf and drew faux stitching around the image.
Other challenges:
Colour create Red, gold and white
Fussy and fancy Christmas colours
Christmas stampin' all year longBorder punch
Totally papercrafts In stitches
Sweet Stampin' Stitching

The second card has a more Summery feel, just like the weather here as it has changed again. No wonder I have a cold, you don't know where you are at the moment with the weather in the UK. The image is Princess Ava from the Greeting Farm, papers are Clare Curd. Rather than use a third paper I added some embossed card. Flowers are Prima with punched fern leaves and pearls.
Challenges:
Quixotic How does your garden grow? (Mine has flowers and a frog)
Passion for Promarkers Photo inspiration
I love Promarkers Sketch
Oh Alice Crowns or mythical creatures
The Crafty Pad Embossing