Crafty Christmas Collab

I'm so excited and honored to be Jess's Crafty Christmas Collaboration Guest over at her blog, All The Sparkle. Such a fun thing to do, we exchanged some Christmas crafty goods with each other to get a head start on our Christmas Cards for this year.  Jess has a challenge and giveaway going on as well, you can check out all the details on her blog!

Here are the goodies I was sent, the package included adorable Santas and Reindeer, a sentiment panel and word bubbles, patterned paper and sequins! Below are the following cards I made with them.

For this first card, I created an interactive reindeer that flies through the starry sky. I loosely colored the reindeer with Copics, and added a Nuvo Drop for the nose. I cut apart the sentiment and added a die cut word to finish the card off.

For this next card, I grabbed a reindeer and Santa, colored them with zigs and gave them a nice coating of sparkle. I mounted them onto the dark cardstock panel, added a word bubble and some sequins and then mounted this onto a piece of the patterned paper, which was affixed to a card base.

Here's the goodies that I had sent Jess:

And here's the card I made with the same goodies:

I decided to keep the die cut in one piece, and covered the panel with some Pearl Nuvo Mouse. I also colored and fussy cut the polar bear, and he too, was covered with the mouse. I added a stamped sentiment strip. Simple, but effective I think?

This was such a fun collaboration, and I already have some Christmas cards for my stash in May! Have you ever collaborated and exchanged products with a fellow stamper? Too much fun. It can really get you out of your comfort zone as well, and work with products you normally wouldn't reach for. Thanks, Jess, for having me!