Aqua Snowflakes and Tiny Wise Men

Sparkles Christmas Challenge wants to see snowflakes.  Double D's theme is winter and it has a lovely wintery mood board that inspired this card:

Here's the Double D mood board - you can see the colours and snowflakes in the top left and bottom right images.

I placed my snowflake stencil over white cs and sprayed with a Mr. Huey's spray. Trimmed the panel, bordered it with blue glitter cs, die cut three snowflakes from the same glitter cs, and added a sentiment on a stitched banner die.

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge wants "wise men three".  The only stamp I could find in my collection has three very small wise men!

Stamped and heat embossed in gold, bordered with gold cs, and a simple sentiment die cut added on top.

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Distress Broken China
Paper - white cs, blue glitter cs
Size - A2
Accessories - PaperArtsy snowflake stencil, various snowflake dies, Mr. Huey's spray, stitched banner die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black sentiment, unknown wise men / Bethlehem stamp
Ink - ColorBox Gold
Paper - white and gold cs
Size - 6x3.25"
Accessories - gold embossing powder, small rectangle die

Heat Embossed Cardinal

Squeaking in under the wire for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Heat Embossing" challenge!

I used an older Inkadinkado stamp that works really well for solid heat embossing.

I stamped with Versamark and then heat embossed with a mix of copper and sparkly gold embossing powders.  I fussy cut the image.

I had a piece of copper sprayed cs in my UFO box so stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on it and trimmed it down into a square for the background.

I taped the fussy cut image onto it, and added a border of copper glitter cs.

Now it's finished I'm wondering if it is too monotone.  What do you think?

Supplies:

Stamps - Inkadinkado bird / ornament, PTI sentiment

Ink - Versamark

Paper - white cs, copper glitter cs

Size - 4.75" square

Accessories - copper spray, a mix of copper and sparkly gold embossing powder