Holiday Card Project 2012

Yaay! I've finally finished my cards for this Holiday Card Project It's my first time paticipating in a project like this xD I didn't want to have to post so many deviations about the project so I put 2 photos in one deviation

First Holiday Card
On the left is my first card. I made it with a technique called dry embossing (lol I just learnt that today by Googling it). Ages ago, I went to an art and craft fair and I came across a stall that did dry embossing, so I was interested and bought the utensils for dry embossing and I've been using it for birthday cards for my friends! Unfortunately, the snowflake stencil is the only stencil I have that's 'Christmas related' (I have a star one but it's too small). I used glitter beads (idk what they're called) on top of the snowflakes and it was just annoying how it sometimes spilled over on the table so I had to sweep it off Oh yeah and cutting the border for the card was a pain (I used about 3 sheets of A5 paper to get it right)

Second Holiday Card
Made this card in a night. I just thought that sending one card wasn't enough so I decided to make another I used a pencil to draw the outline and then coloured it in using coloured pencils. After that, I went over it with fineliner. I'm not too good at traditional drawing (actually drawing in general ) so it was difficult getting the reindeer's proportions right, and it probably isn't right still I was gonna make it so the reindeer was sitting down, but I didn't know where to draw its hind legs so I made it stand up instead

I hope that my envelope gets to the dA HQ cos if it doesn't, that'd be pretty bad.. <.< But overall, it was heaps of fun being able to create the holiday cards Hopefully the project will be there again for 2013!

If you're interested in participating in the Holiday Card Project 2012, you can read it here!: [link]

Enjoy!
P.S. Sorry for the HUGE inactivity on deviantART, I've just been really lazy so I haven't even got around to my requests nor cleared out my message box But when I can really bother, I'll get around to it (I should make more art too when school ends [woah that's in a week!!])