At Jingle Belles, we're still creating using the colors from this fabulous plate of holiday cookies - Grey/Silver, Pink and Ivory/White.
I started with some pink designer paper and added a strip of silver metallic cardstock.
I looked-up a picture of a Narwhal, and saw that they are actually grey spotted, so I used my markers to try to get the same look.
I paired her with the coordinating sentiment from Avery Elle Joyeaux Noel Set and some pink gems.
This week at Jingle Belles we're making cards inspired by the color palette found in this plate of cookies from Sweet Sugarbelle at The Cake Blog – Pink, Grey (or Silver) and Ivory (or White).
I started with a grey and white Pinkfresh Studio Just a Little Lovely floral designer paper, for the Flower Challenge at the Caffeinated Christmas Challenge.
I used this week's Try Stampin' on Tuesday Sketch for my layout with a wooden Coffee Cup sticker and a clear snow globe sticker.
I added a strip of designer paper down the center, some silver sequins and a grey twine bow. The sentiment is from Impression Obsession Christmas Words.
We're still creating cards featuring all of the ways you can have Fun in the Winter at Jingle Belles.
This time I went searching through my vintage Ideals magazine collection and found this Sepia illustration of all sorts of Winter Fun from skating to drinking hot cocoa (I do love my cocoa with lots of marshmallows).
I added lots of Tim Holtz Sticker Sentiments, which to me made it feel sort of like a page out of a Richard Scarry book. Those were my absolutely favorite as a kid ... learning new things, appreciating all of the art, and reading all of the text.
Do you remember dressing-up in layers until you looked like the Michelin Man to play outside for hours? So much fun.
This week at Jingle Belles we're making cards that feature ways to have FUN during the winter time.
You might enjoy skiing, ice skating or sledding … or you might be more about sitting inside watching the snowfall from your favorite chair while drinking hot cocoa and reading a book. Whatever says winter fun for you, include it on your card & tell us why you (or the recipient) enjoy it.
While I have never snowboarded, I have several people on my Christmas card list who love the sport. This 1997 Stampington & Company Snowboarder is one of the oldest stamps I have in my stash, and I still think he looks just as great today.
I inked-him using four ink colors to create a rainbow with the overlap for the Caffeinated Christmas Challenge theme of Rainbow. To bring in the Coffee, I stamped a tiny coffee cup from Hero Arts Kelly's Coffee & Donuts and placed it on the end of the snowboard.
My layout is the sketch from the Retro Rubber Stamp Challenge.
I used Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders for my snowy slopes and finished with a sentiment from Memory Box Dashing with Reindeer inked in reverse rainbow order.
We're still celebrating Earth Day at Jingle Belles by creating cards with re-cycled/up-cycled items.
After making a recycled packaging card last week, I fully intended to take a different approach this week ... at least until I opened my PinkFresh Studio drawer and saw a pile of some of the prettiest packaging in the industry.
I combined two pieces of packaging with a piece from a tissue box for my layers. I finished it with some Pinkfresh Studio papers, chipboard frame & epoxy dots.
I love the retro-modern feel of the design.
If you've played along with us at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ over the last few years, you already know there are two prompts that never change: at the beginning of October we honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month with "Pink Christmas"; and in April we celebrate Earth Day by making holiday cards that feature re-cycled, re-used or up-cycled elements.
I have a box where I save all sorts of trash for possible up-cycling for cardmaking ... there is lots of craft packaging, some envelopes and a few tissue boxes in this pile.
I ended-up combining four different pieces from this pile for this week's Jingle Belles card.
I added Stitch Stickers from Pretty Little Studio to tie the packaging together. I finished with Pretty Little Studio vintage holiday die cuts and sentiment stickers and a row of red bling.
It's another week of playing with PLAID at Jingle Belles. I went with another page from the Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid.
Stamps are Lawn Fawn Yeti or Not (and a bit from Lawn Fawn Offset Sayings Christmas) stamped on a white designer paper that sort of has a subtle snowflake-like pattern in the white-on-white design. I used a blue alcohol ink marker to color their faces.
I used the plaid paper for the background, scarf, Santa Hat and even the Christmas tree. I die cut the star from the same set form gold glitter paper and finished with a Love from Lizi Gold Peel Off along the bottom of the banner.
The layout is this week's Saturday Sketch.
This week at Jingle Belles we're celebrating all things Plaid. There are lots of great patterned papers in that category, not to mention stamps and stencils for creating one's own. You might use a tartan ribbon, a buffalo plaid background or argyle accents, just find a plaid you like and incorporate it into your card.
Lawn Fawn has the best plaid paper pads, so I decided to incorporate this lovely design from Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid. I also decided to incorporate the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge to create a card inspired by a Book, Movie or Song.
For my inspiration, I chose the classic children's Christmas Carol - Don't Eat a Poinsettia.
I die cut the Lawn Fawn Stitched Poinsettia Dies from coordinating solid cardstocks. I used small glue dots to assemble the poinsettia layers and attached them to the plaid paper using 3-D glue dots for dimension.
I added coordinating bling to the center of the blooms and finished with a sentiment from Lawn Fawn Simply Winter Sentiments.
And since I had bits left on my studio table, I decided to turn them into a bonus plaid card using a coordinating light blue card base.
We hope you'll pull out your plaids and come join us at Jingle Belles.
We're still creating musical cards at Jingle Belles this week.
I started with a strip of vintage sheet music and then layered on a mix of stickers after wrapping with twine.
This week's Jingle Belles prompt is Holiday Melody - to include something musical on your card. It might be sheet music, a musical instrument, or even a tweeting bird ... just make sure it's clear how it conveys a holiday melody.
I started with a vintage doily (which is almost completely covered) on a kraft card base. Next I pulled out lots of vintage sheet music from my stash and started building my collage.
I added vintage trading stamps, other vintage papers, some Tim Holtz sentiment stickers and vintage-like elements to complete the collage. I love how S&H Green Stamps are green & red ... perfect for the holidays (and they always remind me of filling the books with my Grandma ... and her letting me use them to buy my first iron to take to college).
I hope you'll join our sing-a-long and create with your favorite musical elements.
