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Happy Header Holiday

We're still creating cards inspired by our Jingle Belles Blog Header at Jingle Belles this week.

 

 

This week's card design is a bit less literal and more organic.  I started with red glitter Jingle Bells cut with a new Bells Die from Alexandra Renke and built the rest of my card using Renke products from my stash that were influenced.

I started with some green eucalyptus paper as a background for my Bells and Grey Polka dot paper for my background.

 

 

I used a white doily to bring in the edges of Doily along the bottom of the header and die cut Alexandra Renke Thyme & Rosemary twice - once from grey cardstock and another with the blue green hue of the Eucalyptus leaves.

I finished with the single red glitter snowflake from the banner.  

I'm also joining the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for joining us ... it's been another fantastic year at Jingle Belles and I'm thrilled to have over 80 cards in my stash ... time to start addressing those envelopes.

A Banner Holiday

For our final prompt for 2020 at Jingle Belles, we're creating cards inspired by our 2020 Jingle Belles Banner that talented Lauren designed.

 

 

I started with the landscape shape of the header and made a horizontal skinny card design.  Next I brought in the holiday greenery with lovely papers from the Tim Holtz 2020 holiday collection ... I added a red border to make the light blue paper pop.

 

 

Rather than a garland of bells, I used a single bell with greenery & a white sentiment ribbon.  I add3ed the calendar as an homage to our tag line - taking back December one holiday card at a time.  I finished with some sticker sentiments and some red bling on the berries ... because it wouldn't be a Lauren-inspired design without some bling.

 

 

I flipped this week's Sketch Saturday for my layout.  I'm also linking-up at the Happy Holidays Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

 

 

It's also time for another Get Cracking on Christmas Challenge with Jenn #getcrackingonChristmas.

 

CLEAR Holiday Cheer Deer

At Jingle Belles we're still celebrating holiday cards that contain clear elements, whether those be in the form of pre-printed transparencies, acrylic embellishments, or just shaker or window cards which utilize a bit of plastic packaging.

When I saw Lauren's Transparent card base last week, I knew I had to try to channel my inner Lauren and make my own.  My 5 1/2" card size was determined by the size of my transparency and where I folded to match the pattern on the front & back.

 

 

 

I also took some inspiration from the "Deer" Santa Challenge at the Inspired by .... challenge.

 

Pretty much, when I channel Lauren, I reach the point that I think I'm done ... and then I add at least two more things.

 

 

 

I started with the deer and added distressed papers (inked with Distress Ink and Gold Metallic Ink), bling swirls, hole-punch-computer paper, vintage postage stamps, die cut flourishes, glittery snowflakes ... and a vintage Penny Black Sentiment ... all on a perfect gold design transparency card base.

 

I'm also joining the Krafty Chicks for their Christmas Challenge.  And the Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog is to pair a Sentiment with a Winter Animal.

How did I do?  We hope you'll pull our your favorite CLEAR elements and join us. 

CLEARly Christmas

This week at Jingle Belles we're asking you to make a holiday card that contains at least one see-through element, whether that be glass, a transparency, some vellum, acetate or "ghost" shapes, clear stickers, lucite buttons, shrink plastic... whatever you like... if you can see through it (& figure out how to attach it!) put it on there and link it up!

For my card I applied Marabu Alcohol Ink in Cherry Red & Cinnamon to a transparency sheet and blew it around with air.  When I was happy with the result, I flipped it over and attached it to my white card base with Vellum Adhesive. 

 

 

I added some Clear Drip Drops and clear Stars to the tops of my holiday trees.  Super-easy and super-fun.

Penguin Joy Trio

We're still enjoying our annual Creature Feature at Jingle Belles ... this week I decided to feature a fun little trio of Penguins from Impression Obsession.  I stamped them in black and then used the wonderful detail nibs of my Graph' It Alcohol Markers to color their winter wear.

 

The sentiment is a simple die cut from Impression Obsession Christmas Simple Stitched Words.  I finished with a scattering of blue & purple sequins.

 

 

I'm also joining the You're a Hoot Challenge at Impression Obsession & the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Challenge.

Run Run Reindeer

This week is our annual Creature Feature at Jingle Belles ... so break out the animals for your holiday cards.  It could be a sweet little sheep, a cuddly puppy, or perhaps a Reindeer … okay, or even a monster or a Yeti if you're in a Halloween mood and want to stretch the theme a bit (which you know we usually do).

I couldn't resist creating a background with an entire sheet of Baby Reindeer Stickers from {a vintage girl} & her daughter (you can use my Discount Code SMILYNSTEF to save 15% on your order). 

 

 

After positioning all the stickers, I decided the little guy on the left in his bright blue scarf was trying to steal the show, so I highlighted him with a red punched circle frame and a tiny little vintage sentiment (Stampin' Up 2008).  I finished by filling in some of the blank space with red foam dot stickers.

Merry & Bright PINK Christmas

I literally dreamed about this card ... do you ever do that? 

 

 

As I was thinking about what I wanted my next Jingle Belles PINK Christmas card to be, I dreamed about a paper-pieced pink background using scraps of all of the pink papers in my stash ... and here it is.

 

I used a leftover die cut circle on my studio table together with a couple of pink stickers from my stash ... I grounded them with a sentiment from Essentials by Ellen Mondo Holly.

Remember, Lauran and I each donate to Breast Cancer Research for every PINK holiday card that links up ... I hope you'll come and join our PINK Christmas fun.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at Jen's Get Cracking on Christmas Challenge.

I'm Dreaming of a PINK Christmas

It's our annual go-PINK-for-Christmas prompt at Jingle Belles, where Lauren & I both donate $2 per card to Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

 

 

I've been saving this gorgeous Stamperia Pink Christmas paper for this week's prompt ... with those beautiful designs, the card almost makes itself.

 

I used two of the paper for the base with this week's Sketch Saturday.  The wonderful Pink Santa image is also from the paper pad.  I finished with snowflake embellishments topped with glittery enamel dots.

 

 

 

I'm also linking-up at the Time Out Challenge where theme is also Breast Cancer Awareness.

 

Got Snow?

We're still creating cards that feature SNOW this week at Jingle Belles.

This week I added some gorgeous new papers from The Funkie Junkie by a Hungarian company Stamperia ... this gorgeous collection is called Arctic Antarctic.  

 

I love the majesty of the white wolf in his snowy landscape home.  I paired one of the background papers from the collection with one of my tags from my Dina Wakley Focus on Gloss Class, that brought out the greens in the Northern Lights Sky. 

I finished with a vintage wood mounted sentiment from A Muse and some blue gems."

Dashing Through the Snow

For our next prompt at Jingle Belles we're asking you to create projects that celebrate the white fluffy flakes of snow … it might be snowmen, snowflakes or just snowfall, but include some snow on your cards.

 

I used my new Mini Swirly Snowflake Stamps and my MISTI to create a snowy background.

 

 

I found a left-over die cut background on my studio table, so I used it for this week's Sketch from Crazy 4 Challenges by adding some Snowflakes punched from glitter paper and topped with Eyelet Outlet Bling.

 

 

 

 

I finished with a tiny Peace on Earth sentiment.