Red & Kraft Christmas cards

Hiya! I hope you've had a good week! This is another long post warning. I think a lot of future ones might be as now my crafty time is scarce I'm trying to make more than one card with the supplies I have out rather than tidying everything away and starting from scratch the next time. Just realised my rambling is making this post even longer so I'll cut to the chase - 2 more Christmas cards :-)

This first one is for Day 2 of my challenge to case Kristina Werners Holiday Card Series cards. I used the idea for a Kraft base and a reindeer peeping through a circle cut out this time. It's also using this weeks Freshly Made Sketch as well as this fortnights Festive Friday challenge photo and the Simon Says Stamp challenge of Anything Goes. All the red presents made me think of this paper pad.

My second card is also using the Festive Friday photo and the Simon Says challenge but I've combined it with this weeks Retro Sketches sketch. I made a subtle shaker card with some vellum and large sequins. I die cut and stacked up 4 or 5 cardstock rings to make the holder for the shaky bits, much neater than a load of foam pads ;-) Thanks for looking, have a great weekend!

Supplies;
1st card -
Papers - Papermania 'Home for Christmas'
Stamp - Hero Arts 'Holiday Cheer'
Dies - Nestabilities 'Circles' & Hero Arts 'Holiday Cheer'
Sentiment - Paula Pascual 'Essential Christmas' 
Ink - Stampin' Up 'Real Red' & Memento 'Rich Cocoa'
Other - Copics & a white gel pen
2nd -
Papers - Papermania 'Home for Christmas'
Sentiment - Mama Elephant 'Peace on Earth'
Ink - Stampin' Up 'Cherry Cobbler'
Embossing powder - Wow! 'Neutral Shimmer'
Dies - Nestabilities 'Circles'
Other - white gel pen & assorted sequins