Merry Christmas!

We hope your December has been as stress-free as possible and that you're enjoying a lovely season full of family, friends and treats galore! 

Meanwhile, we're debuting the official 2015 ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ header and badge. As always, we'd love to hear your wonderful ideas for upcoming prompts, or maybe you'd just like to guest design with us sometime? Let us know by emailing jinglebellesrock @ hotmail (dot) com!

We'll be back next week, at 12:01am on Thursday, January 1st, to kick off the 2015 holiday card-making season! Hope to see ♥YOU♥ then!

xoxoxo

Stephanie and Lauren

digital credits for 2015 header: 

software: photoshop elements 9, adobe; elements from "an icy christmas" full kit by amber shaw and studio flergs, sweet shoppe designs; background paper: "damask tonals xmas paper pack" by katie pertiet, designer digitals; jingle bells from "retro holiday artplay palette" by anna aspnes, oscraps; shell font (free) from dafont.com, with glitter layer style from the sadly now retired "over the rainbow" glitter set by studio flergs. any questions? email lauren at llaurenb @ hotmail (dot) com and i'll do my best to answer!

Jingle Belles Rock

Sometimes, when people first hear that we ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ make one holiday card per week, every week, starting New Year's Day and ending around Thanksgiving, they think it's a pretty crazy idea. And who knows? They may be right, but we've got two excellent reasons for staying crazy:

Reason #1: We get to spend eleven months marveling over the amazingly beautiful and creative ideas our fellow Belles think up... and link up!

and

Reason #2: We get to spend December doing... well... whatever the heck we want; instead of stressfully mass-producing holiday cards!!!

The bottom line is: we know this works for us! If you know it works for you, too, or even if you just think it might... we cordially invite you to meet us back here at 12:01am, January 1st, 2015 when we'll kick off our fifth year (!) of holiday card-making festivities! For now, we'll leave you with our favorite pics of the year, the official card piles which represent the 2014 ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ season:

Stephanie's Card Pile

Lauren's Card Pile

Meanwhile, we thank everyone who came along to hang out with us this year, and wish you all the very happiest and healthiest of holiday seasons!

♥♥♥♥♥

PS: We'd love to see ♥YOUR♥ card pile, so why not link up a photo?! Or, if you're still working on cards, consider this "Anything Goes" and link your gorgeous holiday creations, and leave some love to your favorite card artists!

An InLinkz Link-up

Christmas Delicious

What a delicious Christmas Feast you created for us at Jingle Belles.  Here are a few that we thought were particularly scrumptious.

Pauline

of

Crafting with Cotnob

created a card wtih a merry little Christmas Pudding ... isn't he adorable.

Tanja

of

Little Art Cottage

shows how you can use little stamps to make a big statements ... her rows of perfectly colored presents & gingerbread men are a delight.

KT Fit Kitty

combined glitter, burlap, rick rack & sequins for an adorable holiday design ... and that gingerbread man looks good enough to eat.

A huge thanks to everyone who helped make another year of Jingle Belles a roaring success ... we hope you've enjoyed taking back December ... one holiday card at a time.