Word(s) to Your Mama! ♥

We could not be more impressed by the awesome crop of word-centric masterpieces from the "Text Me" prompt. As usual, you guys have made it truly difficult to only feature three!

Wendy R of Cartai

...proves that you don't need many elements to make a stunningly lovely card, provided they are the absolute perfect ones to use! 

(Which these so totally ARE!)

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Jenni (aka Mom2Two) of Wish I Was Scrappin

...combined a fun texty patterned paper with recycled bits from one of last year's holiday cards for a design that's enviromentally friendly AND adorable!

(A girl after our own hearts, here!)

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Charmaine of Tweedcurtain Productions

...cleverly used a *VALENTINES* stamp on her amazingly lovely and elegant Christmas card!

(We looooooove stamps that multi-task!)

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Many thanks to everyone who played along, we are inspired by EVERY SINGLE CARD that gets linked up! We'll be back at midnight with a lovely guest star and a brand new prompt we hope will color your world for the next two weeks! ♥

Snow, Sleet, Rain ...

...and incredibly GORGEOUS holiday cards are the result of the wonderfully inspiring "HO HO H20" prompt, suggested by our lovely guest star, linda of snail's space! we couldn't resist another go at this fun idea!

Linda's Other Card

Linda says, "I love colouring cute images that make me smile; this was coloured with distress inks and the jingle bells were coloured with distress stain and shaped with a stylus."

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "For this week's card, I started by sanding Cord'dinations dotted cardstock and then sprayed it with  several pumps of Whipped Cream Memories Mist, which reminded me of the splatter of snow when a snowball hits its target.  So next, I added glittery City Sidewalks chipboard snowflakes and a Winter SRM sentiment to finish the design, using this week's Retro Sketch." 


Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "we've told you before that stephanie and i never compare notes, and even though she's often done her card before i start mine, i tend to not go and look at it, to keep from being 'influenced' by her awesome ideas... and yet... sometimes things like this happen: two snowy cerise cards based on this week's retro sketch! loooooooooove that!!! :) mine uses a prima 'paintable' 6x6 paper as its base, which i've colored with water-soluble wax crayons before adding martha stewart sparkly snowflake stickers and then finally going crazy with my sewing machine."

you've still got nearly a week to join our fun... if you need a little more inspiration, scroll down and check out our fellow belles' amazing creativity in the reader gallery!   

Ho Ho H2O!

Hello, ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ and welcome to our very favorite title of the year so far! You might be wondering what we mean by "Ho Ho H20" so we'll cut right to the chase: this time we're asking you to create a holiday card which features icicles, snow, frozen ponds, or any water-related image; OR use water-based products on your project, such as watercolor paints, water-based markers or sprays, etc. This fabulous idea comes to us from one of our favorite fellow belles, Linda, of Snail's Pace, who is our lovely guest star* this fortnight! We're quite sure you've seen many of her gorgeous cards on her blog, in our various galleries (and several "shout out" posts!) but let's get to know her a little bit better!

"Hi, my name is Linda and I LOVE to colour with a paintbrush and usually distress inks, but I also use water based markers, watercolour pencils and twinkling H2Os, which is how I came up with the idea for this prompt. Severe rheumatoid arthritis forced me to give up all of my creative activities so I was happy to discover I could stamp and colour. I’m currently a design team member of the Penny Black and More challenge blog and my local stamp store, Papercraft Cafe. Thank you Lauren and Stephanie for inviting me to play along!"

And now, here are our cards this week:

Linda's Card

Linda says, "I try to balance clean and simple with patterned papers and keep the image as the focal point. I coloured this snow woman with both letraset aqua markers and distress inks and added stickles to her hair."

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I started by clear embossing Hero Arts Sparkling Snowflakes & embossing my black sentiment on watercolor paper. Next I used Derwent Inktense Watercolor Pencils, sprays of water, and my fingers to create my water-washed background.  I embellished with a snowflake punched from a scrap of the water-washed paper."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "i had the intention of making something intricate and inky, so i'm not exactly sure how i wound up going soooooooo far in 'another direction', lol! but i adore these funky snowmen and when i stumbled across them in my xmassy stash, they just sort of took over the whole card! this  offbeat style is PERFECT for my friend josh, so i just went with it; since he doesn't celebrate christmas, as such, i kept my design and sentiment more general. by the way, if you don't happen to celebrate christmas, but love to make hanukkah or other "winter holiday" cards, they are always most welcome here at JINGLE BELLES! we ask that you observe whatever the current prompt is, but we do try to make most of our themes as flexible as possible, and we hope that EVERYONE can come along and feel welcome!" 

So how will you "roll" with this one? Will you focus on water-based products, or concentrate on more thematic watery elements, like snow and ice? Or maybe combine the best of both worlds, like Linda did so beautifully? Whatever you choose, we can't wait to see it! Link up between now and 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, February 13th; the keyword for galleries and our Flickr group is JB:13:03! 

*If ♥YOU♥ have a great idea for a prompt, or if you'd just like to come along some week and make a card with us as our "lovely guest star" we'd love to hear from you! Email us at jinglebellesrock @ hotmail [dot] com!