There’s a Christmas challenge over at the Stamping and Sharing blog this month and the lovely husband has bought me some Clearly Besotted stamps, so it would be rude not to play along:

I used the Basic Stripes stamps and Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Faded Jeans and Chipped Sapphire.  The sentiment is from Signature Christmas and the snowflake was cut from my Silhouette and embossed with silver embossing powder.

My second card uses the Pretty Poinsttia stamp set.

I was struggling to get the matt to match the stamping so I used Versamark along the edges and embossed it with the same powder.  This is a very simple card but the beautiful stamps do all of the hard work for me.