Christmas cards with Verve sketches

Last Saturday (on World Cardmaking Day) Verve celebrated with not one, but 5 sketch challenges.
I finally got time to play yesterday and here is what I created:
Sketch 1:
For the first card I used the Tired Santa image from Elizabeth O Dulemba. It's colored with Prismacolor pencils, papers are from DCWV (glitter stack and metalic stack)I'm entering this card into Digital Tuesday Challenge - use ribbon, buttons, bling +digi (no buttons, but all the other elements are there) and to Fab 'n' Funky challenge (use a digi)

Sketch 2:
For the second card I pulled out a card kit I had since last year - so I have no idea about manufacturers. Love the non-traditional colors though :) It's again colored with Prismacolor pencils, just inked the edges with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink.
Sketch 3:
The third card is again a Christmas one - this time I used SU stamps (Touch of nature, Snow Swirled) - colored the birdie with markers and embossed with clear EP. Then I stamped the snowflakes and brayered the sky. Not your usual Christmas color combo again, but I quite like how it turned out.I'm entering this card into Anything Goes Challenge (Christmas)
The other 2 sketches are great too, but I just didn't have more time to create - maybe next time ;)

Bookmarks

Good Morning! Can you believe it's already the last week of July?
I've seen this kind of ribbon bookmarks on some other people's blogs so I decided to try one too. Just to clarify for those who didn't see this kind before - only the ribbon is inside the book, the embelished parts are out - so no worries about damaging your book. The ribbon is approx 9 inches long, so it should fit most books.I used an image from Ching-Chou Kiuks Sheet #14, colored it with Copics and cut it out with Spellbinders Label die. The sentiment on the other side is from Artful Inkables Think Big set.
Sorry about the darkish picture, I didn't have the best light - maybe I'll try it again later.
I'm entering it into Stamp Something Challenge - something flowery.

and one more bookmark - yes, I was really inspired by the Back to school challenge theme we have this week on Paper Sundaes. This one a simpler one - featuring the Reading Fairy from Elizabeth O. Dulemba. It's for my DD and I made it 9 inches long for practical reason - small things tend to get lost in our house :)
The image is colored with Prisma pencils, the DP is from Creative Imaginations pack and the CS is from SU.