We're still celebrating cards inspired by Christmas Movies or Books at Jingle Belles this week.
I went with the classic - A Christmas Story (am I the only one who says Fra-gee-lee) every time I get something marked Fragile in the mail.
Stamps are from Leg Lamp by The Ink Road.
Also joining the Heart 2 Heart Challenge where the theme is Christmas in July.
This week at Jingle Belles we're asking you to create a card inspired by the many holiday books or movies that we all adored in childhood (and likely still adore them today).
So whether you love “A Christmas Carol”, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” or “It's a Wonderful Life” we're asking you to create a card inspired by your favorite holiday book or movie.
I started with a holiday movie classic - Christmas Vacation - and a classic line from Chevy Chase (the less appropriate following line is on the inside of the card).
The stamp from The Ink Road Are You Serious Clark? is in Catherine Pooler Deck the Halls ink on a kraft card base and added a glittery Peel-off from Love from Lizi.
I'm also joining the Christmas in July Challenge at Less is More.
And its all about occasions at the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.
And it's another Get Cracking on Christmas with Jenn Shurkus.
We're still creating with Stars and/or Stripes for the Holiday at Jingle Belles.
When I searched through my collection for ideas, I realized that I had a wonderful assortment of stars in my Uniko, Ltd. collection including the perfect Striped Stars on the Stars Background Block.
I paired it with the Uniko Background Builders: Seeing Stars strip and a sentiment from Uniko Simply Said Blocks Christmas.
I'm also joining Christmas in July at Shopping our Stash.
It's also Christmas in July at The Male Room.
We're doing Stars &/or Stripes for Christmas at Jingle Belles this week.
I chose to go with both (of course).
My card started with the epitome of stripes for the holiday ... that cute heart made of Candy Canes in the journaling card from the Merry and Bright Collection by Mintay Papers.
The star paper on the background and wonderful burlap paper are both from the same collection.
I added some vintage BasicGrey Evergreen papers together with a striped border from Authentique and then finished with some holly bling and a tiny sentiment from Flora & Fauna Bottlebrush Snow Globe Set using the layout from this week's Sketch Saturday.
At Jingle Belles prompt Neutral Noel we are still creating holiday cards which embrace only the neutral color palette – white, cream, ivory, ecru, black, gray, charcoal, obsidian, brown, tan, kraft, camel, oatmeal, sienna (you get the picture).
There's also burlap, jute, paper bags, cork, chalkboards, sandpaper or lace ... Use them all together or chose one hue and rock the monochromatic design … as long as it's NEUTRAL it's in.
I grabbed my scrap paper basket and created a college of neutral tons featuring those papers, some vintage sheet music, and a transparency that I attached with tiny attacher staples.
I finished with a wrap of gold thread, vintage picture from Tim Holtz ChristmasTime Ephemera, and some Idea-ology Christmas sentiment stickers.
For this week's card prompt at Jingle Belles is Neutral Noel where we're asking you to create holiday cards which embrace only the neutral color palette – white, cream, ivory, ecru, black, gray, charcoal, obsidian, brown, tan, kraft, camel, oatmeal, sienna (you get the picture).
There's also burlap, jute, paper bags, cork, chalkboards, sandpaper or lace ... Use them all together or chose one hue and rock the monochromatic design … as long as it's NEUTRAL it's in.
My card was inspired by Ardyth's Layered Tag Card Tutorial that she recently shared on SplitcostStampers. I used two Manila and one Kraft tag and tied them together using lots of non-holiday neutral items including three coordinated journaling cards, neutral hexagon tags and papers from Ciao Bella Blue Note Collection.
I finished with three sizes of snowflake buttons, SRM Clear Stickers and Tim Holtz Holiday sentiment stickers.
Here's the look when they are all aligned. I knotted the ribbon loosely at the top, so the tags are easy to move around.
Here's the front card with a gift card in the pocket. I used an old Spellbinders Die to trim the left edge of the journaling card & then attached it with thin foam tape on three sides to create a side-opening gift card pocket.
The middle card features a lovely vintage typewriter with a torn piece of paper leaving part of the kraft tag base visible. I used Studio Calico Hexagon Stickers with music notes to tie into the musical themed background papers.
The back tag (that I left full-sized) features the darker journaling card. I love how this design combines all of the neutral tones rather than being monochromatic.
I hope you're inspired to use some of your non-holiday papers for lovely holiday designs.
We're still getting all bundled-up at Jingle Belles - making cards with lots of layers.
This week I went with Tim Holtz Products for my bundled-up design.
My paper layers are from the Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mini Christmas Paper Stash Pad. The strips were cut from one of the plaid designs and there's an extra layer of black cardstock to frame the sentiment from Stampers Anonymous Bold Things Number Three.
I used the layout from the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown swapping the smaller square for some vintage candy cane ephemera.
This week's Jingle Belles Prompt is All Bundled Up where we're asking you to use lots of layers on your card design.
I grabbed the remaining papers in my stash from the long-discontinued BasicGrey Evergreen Collection and layered six of the paper designs to create my card, including the sentiment cut from one of the pages.
I added another layer of bling and a tiny sticker sentiment to complete the card.
We hope you'll break out your layers and join us.
Today's Jingle Belles BLING card is brought to you by Prima Say It in Pearls Spring Flower Branch (remember, embellishments don't have to be holiday to use on a holiday card).
I adhered the branch on top of a piece of Vintage Sheet music from my stash and a kraft doily on an ivory card base.
All it took to finish the design was a vintage Santa Face and a sticker sentiment. I love the classic simplicity of the neutral color palette with the pop of Red from the Santa Hat. The pearl leaves look similar to the Holly Leaves on Santa.
With my Sheet Music Inspiration, I'm also linking-up at the Inspiration Station Challenge.
We're getting all blingy with it at Jingle Belles. That means we're making cards that incorporate jewels, gem, beads, pearls, glitter, stickles or anything sparkly. Add a little or a lot, but do come and show us how your holidays can be bling-a-licious.
For this week's card, I started with this adorable Santa image and then mounted him on a card base covered with holly designer paper.
My bling is the wonderful Holiday Bling from Eyelet Outlet ... I just love those blingy leaves & berries.
We hope you'll break out the BLING and join us.
