First up, Darnell's Twofer Challenge - one that truly is a challenge for me!
I could only think of two stamps I have with a balloon and one of them only works for Christmas, so had to go with the other. Here's the Twofer:
For the second card, I stamped the bear, then used just the balloon part of the Banksy image, stamping it multiple times in different colours, having all the strings converge at the bear's hand. I coloured the bear with coloured pencils and trimmed the image with a stitched circle and used a contrasting colour for the card base.
For both cards, I popped up the focal panels on fun foam and went over the balloons with Glossy Accents.
Next up is this card:
Right back to my comfort zone of blue and white, and Christmas cards!!
I smooshed a piece of mixed media cs with a couple of blue Distress inks, and then laid a snowflake stencil over it and removed some of the colour with a baby wipe - the "ghosting" technique. I added a reindeer die cut from white glitter cs and a sentiment using a Tim Holtz rub-on. I popped the panel up on fun foam and added a few small die cut white glitter snowflakes around the card base.
It's going over to the following challenges: