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Our next prompt at Jingle Belles is to make a card inspired by our lovely new banner for 2012.
Our blog banner was made in PSE9 by the talented Lauren using paper, brushes and elements from an utterly gorgeous kit called artplay palette: retro holiday, by one of our favorite digital designers, anna aspnes, purchased at o'scraps; the fonts are deftone stylus, bohemian typewriter and impact--all free from dafont.com; and the divine sparkliness of the lettering is thanks to flergs' over the rainbow glitter layer style from scrapbook graphics, which Lauren learned how to use via this great tutorial (and I still need to learn how to use)!
For my first inspired card, I went with a slightly darker version of the color palette and some glittery jingle bells.
Papers are Basic Grey Jovial together with gold glitter Memory Box Jingle Bells. I added some EAD Designs Sweet Sweet Holiday Stickerz, a couple of punched flourishes & a gold brad to complete the design. The Sketch is this week's CardPatterns.
Kudos to you for coming up with such a great idea for a prompt! And to Lauren, of course, for creating such a fabulous banner... Your card is perfect (as usual) - those Jovial papers are gorgeous and the glittery bells are "just enough" - love it!
Posted by: Sue | January 27, 2012 at 05:31 AM
What a cute card!! Quite nontraditional but still very Christmas-y!! Cute jingle bells!!
Posted by: Debbie | January 28, 2012 at 12:00 PM
I LOVE the bolder colors and that sweet delicate strand of jingle bells is the PERFECT accent, Stef! :)
Posted by: Noelle McAdams | January 29, 2012 at 11:18 AM
This is just great, I love everything about it, it's got great style and ties in perfectly. Thanks for the inspiration.
K x
Posted by: Karen K | January 29, 2012 at 02:21 PM
Awesome card-I think these bells are wonderful!
Posted by: Electra | February 01, 2012 at 07:06 PM
I love those bells! What a great card with such rich colors.
Posted by: Lisa V. | February 08, 2012 at 12:56 PM