Holiday Leftovers

One of the best things about a big holiday meal is the LEFTOVERS, don't you agree?! But in a cardmaking sense, when we Jingle Belles say "Holiday Leftovers" it means we're creating cards using all those leftover offcuts and scraps of patterned paper, alphabet stickers, little snips of ribbon, extra diecuts that didn't get used when cut... you know, all of those tiny things we save because they're too pretty to throw away? Well this is the fortnight let's drag them all out and see how many we can use on holiday cards! (Be sure to tell us in your post what leftovers you've used.)

Here's what we made this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I've never done a great job of saving leftovers, but this year I designated a container and put all of my bits and bobs in it throughout the year.  I challenged myself to make a card with only pieces from my leftover pile, and I was successful.  I only added the sentiment stickers and an enamel dot in the middle of the snowflake to finish."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "For this card, almost all my leftovers are older Wendy Vecchi items. The poinsettia is from her MAKE ART Doodle Christmas Stamp Set (it was embossed but not colored); the small flowers (from Floral Doodles) were stamped and colored on sticky-back canvas tape, I just needed to cut them out. The square panel of sheet music was attached to a 6" card base that for some reason didn't get used; and the MERRY Chippie had been white-embossed with her Perfectly Plaid Background Stamp, but the embossing wasn't very prominent... (likely why it became a "leftover" instead of an element) ...though I discovered I liked it once it had a coat of Leaf Green Archival Ink. The additional sparkly foliage is newly cut, using the Xmas Add-On from Not Your Ordinary Card Collection. The washi tape is from an older roll that I *thought* I'd be finishing up but no, there's still some... wait for it... leftover!"

Link your Leftover Masterpieces right here by 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, November 19th. ♥

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Snow Very Lovely!

The cards this fortnight were SNOW wonderful, it was especially difficult to only choose three; so we highly recommend you take a good scroll through all the entries, so as not to miss any of the fabulous inspiration! Meanwhile, here are three cards that caught our eye:

Crystal O. Minkler of Tawny Owl Paperie

...built this charming snowy scene for her adorable penguin pals to frolic in; and of course her amazing coloring skills take the whole thing to the next level!

Pauline C of Passion for Papercrafting

...created an elegant, ethereal winter landscape so magical, it's made us start longing for a bit of cold weather!

Denise of the Crafty Den

...made snowflakes (and frosty bling!) the star of the show on this super-textural CAS card that could not possibly be any cooler!

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Many thanks to all who played along, we loved seeing every single card. We'll be back at midnight with a brand new prompt so we hope you still have some LEFTOVER energy to make more cards! ;)

SNOW Place like Home for the Holidays

We're still creating with SNOW this week at Jingle Belles ... It might be snowmen, snowflakes or just a snowy landscape, but include some snow on your cards.

Here's how we got SNOW-y this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "The other night I had fun ink-blending various shades of blue Ranger Distress Oxides over several panels of white-embossed snowflake backgrounds. But then I couldn't decide which one I liked the best... so I popped a hole into one and layered it over the other... problem solved! The snowman and sentiment are from Simon Hurley's North Pole Sentiments die set by Spellbinders; the Snowflake Brads and Enamel Hearts are from Eyelet Outlet."

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I started with a rainbow GelliArts print and the Lawn Fawn Snowflakes Stencil for the Lawn Fawnatics rainbows! Challenge.  I used silver glitter paste through the stencil and let it dry before diecutting with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle Die Cut.  Next I cut the Lawn Fawn Giant Be Merry from Silver Glitter cardstock & black cardstock for a drop shadow.  I finished by cutting the Candy Cane from the Lawn Fawn Build-a-Drink Mug Add-on (reversing it for the second one) using a scrap of red GelliArts printed paper and white cardstock.  All dies were attached using foam tape for dimension."

Link your fabulous snow-centric masterpieces on the original post (right below this one) by next Wednesday evening, November 5th! ♥

Dashing through the SNOW

For our next Jingle Belles prompt, we are asking you 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.

Here's how we got SNOW-y this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I love the new Kristina Werner Snowflake Season Border Die that I cut from a paper sample of brushed silver.  I used the bits that were left to cut out some of the smaller snowflake dies in the set and scattered them around my distressed GelliArts print made using Paper Artsy Forget Me Not Chalk Acrylic paint.  I die cut the Kristina Werner Calm & Bright dies from vellum and a slightly darker  purple cardstock, but the busyness of the snowflakes through the vellum didn't work, so I tried a silver glitter background that was too much.  I ended-up layering both backgrounds together, which was just right.  I attached it with foam tape and finished with a scattering of AlteNew Mother of Pearl Gem Sparkles.  The entire piece was attached to a metallic silver card base."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I serendipitously discovered this blue and purple gelprint (made ages ago, using an ancient Darice snowy embossing folder to left some of the paint off the plate) and added torn sheet music, purple Core'dinations cardstock and snowy washi; before layering on ALL the flakes from my Tim Holtz/Sizzix Stacked Snowflakes die in sparkly white plus various blues and purples."

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JB2522: Dashing Through the Snow runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, November 5th. Join us by linking your snow-centric cards right here:

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Pink for the Cure!

Congratulations and thank you, Jingle Belles! You guys made sixty-two (62!) gorgeous PINK CHRISTMAS cards, and with a donation of $4 per card ($2 each from Stephanie and Lauren) that means we've raised $248 for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, WOOHOO! ♥♥♥ Not only was the quantity of cards outstanding (we SEE YOU, multiple-card-linkers and we're so grateful!) but so was the quality: each and every card was gorgeous and we could not be more impressed. Traditionally, though, we just choose three for the shout outs, and we're gonna do that now; but we highly recommend your taking time to scroll through the entire readers' gallery, we're sure you'll be as inspired as we are!

Trina of Phamtastic Design

...definitely understood the assignment and rocked every phase of this gorgeous card. From the inky ombre background to the sweet paper-piece snow-woman to the gorgeous musical staff and lyrics, we could not love this more!

Michele of I Card Everyone

...created the most adorable pink bird, in a pink scarf, landing on a pink snowbank, in a field of pink Christmas trees, topped with a pink sentiment tag, sporting a pink bow. Be still our pink-loving hearts!!!!!!

Marianne of Marianne's Cards 'n Stuff

...is a wonderful, long-time supporter of both Jingle Belles and Pink Christmas, whose work we always love seeing; this year she's made ELEVEN pink cards, including this one, plus three more with similar, gorgeously inky artful backgrounds... that were leftover from a previous Pink Christmas card-making extravaganza! (WOW!) 

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Once again, we thank everyone who participated with such enthusiasm; LOTS of you linked multiple cards and rest assured we have counted and appreciated every single one. The Pink Christmas festivities may be over for this year, but of course we'll be back at midnight with a brand new prompt we hopw will prove there's no business like SNOW business!!! ;)

PINK Christmas (Week 2)

It's the second week of Pink Christmas; the annual event where we ask YOU to make and link up as many predominantly PINK holiday cards as you possibly can, because WE (Stephanie and Lauren) are each going to donate $2 per card to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation! So how can you participate? Just make as many new cards as you'd like, each with a winter holiday theme, which feature PINK prominently. Then link them at the original Pink Christmas Post ... directly beneath this one. Easy peasy! 

Here's how we celebrated PINK Christmas this week:

Lauren's Other PINK Card

Lauren says, "This week I'm secretly a bit proud that I haven't actually used ANY official Christmas/holiday product! In fact, all of the papers (except the background) were from my scrap box. The adorable narwhal is an older Doodlebug 3D Doodle-pops Sticker and the little fishes plus the hearts were part of the set. I made the sentiment using some older Lawn Fawn alphabet dies and my trusty Dymo Labelmaker."

Stephanie's Other PINK Card

Stephanie says, "This week I started my Pink card with the On His Way Bella-Pop sticker of Santa in his fun little decked out Pink car and built my card around it.  used a Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders die cut for my snow and attached it to a piece of pink ombre cardstock from Scrapbook.com Ombre Patterned Paper.  I attached the car & the accompanying cloud stickers and finished with a sentiment from Kristina Werner Winter Greenery."

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We'd love for you to join us in celebrating PINK CHRISTMAS and of course it's for a very good cause, so start making and linking those PINK holiday cards today! JB2521: I'm Dreaming of a PINK Christmas runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, October22nd.

I'm Dreaming of a PINK Christmas

It's the first week of October and thus it's time for PINK CHRISTMAS at Jingle Belles; the annual event where we ask YOU to make and link up as many predominantly PINK holiday cards as you possibly can, because WE (Stephanie and Lauren) are each going to donate $2 per card to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation! 

So what qualifies as a PINK CHRISTMAS card? It's pretty simple: the cards should be newly made, with a winter holiday theme, and they should feature PINK prominently. Does your whole card have to be pink? Certainly not. Can you combine other colors with the pink? Of course! 

Should you have more pink than say two or three baubles on your green tree set against a snowy white background? Well, yes... that would be good, lol. But other than that, we'll leave it to you to decide how much pink, what shade, and how to employ it! Can you link up more than one PINK CHRISTMAS card? Yes, indeed, please do!

Here's what we made this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I started by cutting 3/8" strips from my collection of bright pink GelliArts prints and attaching them to a thin piece of white cardstock.  Next I stamped on top of the painted strips with Gina K. Designs Merry Everything and cut out the tree.  I cut two more trees from the strips edging the triangles with pink ink and attached them to a light pink GelliArts print using the October Sketch from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.  I finished with a sentiment from the same stamp set and added a silver star on top of the tree."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I've recently remembered how much I love the technique of adding salt to a wet panel of watercolor; it makes a pattern/texture similar to Jack Frost painting our windows in the winter. This panel looked so pretty that I didn't want to cover it up very much; thus I only added some Wendy Vecchi holly leaves (from last year's Christmas Add-On to her Not Your Ordinary Card Collection) cut from two luscious shades of self-adhesive felt paper; plus a few Eyelet Outlet Snowflake Brads and tiny Pearl Bling. A dark pink mat and a bit of machine stitching complete my A6 card design."

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We'd love for you to join us in celebrating PINK CHRISTMAS and of course it's for a very good cause, so start making and linking those PINK holiday cards today! JB2521: I'm Dreaming of a PINK Christmas runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, October22nd.

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