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PEACE on Earth

This week at Jingle Belles we're all about PEACE ... we're creating cards that feature the Peace Symbol, the word Peace, or a scene that evokes peace for you.

I started with a peace symbol stencil was in a book of protest stencils that I recently purchased at the National Czech and Slovak Museum Exhibit of the Velvet Revolution. 

 

I used three colors of Distress Oxide Ink and my magical stenciling brushes.  I added some punched branches and a peace flower before stamping my Wordsworth Square Peace wood block stamp.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at the Holiday Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.

 

And it's All About Occasions at the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.

12 Days of Christmas - Part 2

We're still creating with Numbers or the 12 Days of Christmas at Jingle Belles ... this week I went for December 25th.  I started with the December Calendar cut from piece of Crate Designer Paper and built my design around it.

 

It matched a Pink Paint Sample I had in my stash, so that came next ... then some Doodlebug Snow Much Fun Sprinkles ... then some more Crate Paper elements ... and some glittery stars ... and finally some sticker sentiments.

I'm also joining the ABC Christmas Card Challenge where T is for Texture and S is for Sparkle ... got a little of both going on with this card.

Love how this fun collage came together.

12 Days of Christmas

This week at Jingle Belles we're celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas ... you can include a number on your card (like 25th) or feature one of the elements from the song the 12 Days of Christmas (break out the Maids a Milking and Turtle Doves).

I found this vintage illustration in a discarded Christmas Ideals book that my sister rescued for me.  I scanned it and resized it for the front of my teal card base.

 

I added a wrap of ribbon and a sticker sentiment and just let those illustrations shine.

And it's All About Occasions at the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.

Can't wait to see what you create.

Make Merry

This week at Jingle Belles we're creating free-standing holiday tags ... or using tags on cards.  I don't wrap any gifts, so I don't need any free-standing tags ... however I do hit all of the after-Christmas sales to buy up as many of the glittery fun tags I can find to use on next year's holiday cards.

My card features a big glittery wreath tag using the sketch from Try Stampin' (or Not) on Tuesday.

 

I added a few sequins and since the theme is Anything Goes at the Retro Rubber Challenge, I inked-up this little Savvy Stamps sentiment that is at least 12 years old, because here's a card I made using it from 2007.

 

 

It's also All About Occasions at the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.

 

 

And the winner of last week's Big Box of Goodness Giveaway is (drum roll please) ...

Allisa said:

2500 mile road trip with my son to deliver a rescue dog to his forever home! Thanks so much for the chance to win.

 

Send an e-mail with your mailing address to SmilynStef at aol dot com and I'll get the goodies sent your way.

Up to SNOW Good & GIVEAWAY

We're still creating with shades of BLUE at Jingle Belles. The DCWV Arctic Wishes Matstack is filled with beautiful blue papers including this one feature a trio of adorable snow people. 

I used this week's Fab Friday Sketch with a cute little Doodle Pops Snow Buddies Sticker and a sentiment and snowflakes from Essentials by Ellen Snow Buds.  

 

 

And it's All About Holidays at Addicted to Stamps & More.

 

I've got a Medium Flat Rate USPS Box Jam-Packed full of stamps & supplies ready to go to one lucky blog reader (my studio needed some serious purging to make room for new supplies) ... the box contains products from: Unity Stamp Company, Ink Blot Shop, Technique Junkies, Eyelet Outlet, Create and Craft, Sizzix, Artistic Outpost, Sweet Stamp Shop, Create a Smile, Waffle Flower, Lawn Fawn, Ranger Letter It, Your Next Stamp, Love from Lizi, Simon Says Stamp, Neat & Tangled, Mama Elephant, Birch Press Designs, Echo Park, Carta Bella, Darice, Taylored Expressions & Memory Box, Stampendous and Imaginisce.

All you have to do is leave a comment telling me your favorite Summer Memory so far for 2019, and I'll draw a winner & post in next Friday's Jingle Belles post.

I'll Have a Blue Christmas ...

My Mom is a huge Elvis fan, so I can never say today's Jingle Belles prompt without singing it in my best Elvis voice ... we're creating a BLUE Christmas ... cards that feature mostly blue.

The first thing I discovered was that I had four different vintage trading stamps in blue, so that's where I started together with this week's Sunday Stamps Sketch.

 

Next I cut out some postage stamps from a piece of designer paper from BoBunny's Whiteout Collection ... I used two other papers from that collection for my card base and backing for my stamps.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things Trio of Trees.

 

Can't wait to see what you do with BLUE.

Rustic Glam Christmas

We're still creating cards at Jingle Belles inspired by this gorgeous Rustic Glam Fireside Scene.

 

This time I started with a piece of vintage texty designer paper and then added a torn piece from a vintage receipt book on top of a blue flourish.  I pulled in the blue inspired by the Blue Spruce on the mantle top.

 

I just kept stacking on ephemera until I was happy and then I finished with some bronze glitter dots to pull in some of the sparkle from the inspiration photo.

We hope you'll join us.

Vintage Rustic Glam

This week at Jingle Belles we're taking our inspiration from this gorgeous Rustic Glam Fireside Holiday Scene.

 

My eyes were initially drawn to the texture of that gorgeous Sisal Rug, so that's where I started with a layer of DCWV Burlap Paper.  Then I used the sketch only from the Fusion Card Challenge to build the rest of my design.

 

For the horizontal element I used a piece of vintage sheet music of The Little Drummer Boy.  Next I used Gina K. Designs Decorative Tag die from a piece of Aspen Bark packaging from some Basic Grey embellishments (because the tag shape reminded me of the shape of the mirror on the mantle).

 

I layered on some vintage ephemera that contained pictures of Christmas Trees and then added a Cork Sticker sentiment to ground them.  I finished with a wrap of gold ribbon to bring in the sparkle from the picture and an Alexandra Renke Clip Die that was leftover from this card.

It's also the 400th challenge and Christmas in July at Shopping Our Stash.

Can't wait to see what inspires your card design ... come join us.

Tic-Tac-SNOWman

We're still playing Tic-Tac-Toe at Jingle Belles this week.

 

At Junkiefest, I was lucky to win the Prize Package from Paper Smooches (thank you Kim) ... and even luckier that I didn't already own any of the contents.  I wanted to use this fun Snowman Card Die. 

 

I die cut him from white glitter paper to use the Horizontal Row across the top (Snowman, Glitter, Stamping).  The scarf and sentiment piece were a leftover piece of watercolor paper sprayed with Technique Junkies Vivid Volt Shimmering Bliss.  Sentiment is from Paper Smooches Swanky Snowdudes and the landscape was cut with Paper Smooches Borders 1.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at the Anything Goes Challenge at Paper Smooches.

 

And with my Glittery Snowman, I'm also linking-up at the Anything Goes + Sparkle Challenge at Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge.

Holiday Tic-Tac-Toe ... Ho Ho Ho

We're playing games at Jingle Belles this week ... Tic-Tac-Toe to be exact ... just create a card featuring three elements in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally.

 

I went vertically straight down the middle.  After Christmas, I go on the hunt for fun holiday tags, so I can use them for card embellishments the following year ... love this Red Glittery Santa (all three in a single embellishment).

 

Some coordinating holiday papers and this quick, mailable card is complete.

Hope you'll come join our fun.