Watercolour And Embossing Christmas cards

I have made my own Christmas cards for my colleagues for a few years now. I've posted some of my previous ones here, here (I really loved these!!) and even older ones here. I like to keep them at the 10x10cm size (about 4x4 inches) as I can get three cards from one A4 sheet of card. I need to make about 25 of them, so I want them to be easy and not have too many steps.

For this year's design I though I would try two different colourful backgrounds - one using watercolours and one using Brushos. I think I prefer the Brushos over the watercolour, although I think the more even colour of the watercolour background will let the embossed image stand out better. I just randomly applied watercolours / sprinkled the Brushos and heat embossed stamps from the STAMPlorations Joyful set in either gold or gunmetal silver.

 

I'm linking up with the following challenges:

AAA Card Challenges - Christmas
ABC Christmas Challenges - Y is for Yikes (there is less than two weeks left until Christmas...)
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Silver or Grey 
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra - ATG

And here is a look at the whole batch together.

Card: 250 gsm white card
Stamps: STAMPlorations Joyful 
Ink and colouring: Versamark, Gansai Tambi, Brushos
Other: Gold and gunmetal embossing powder