Take a Bow!

Once again you amazing ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ have proven you know how to rock the ribbon in a big, big way! Here are a few cards we especially loved this week:

Marie Bingaman of ANOTHER Card Making Blog?!

...paired skinny ribbon with two shades of twine to dangle the perfect accent for her adorable snowman!

Scrappymo of Scraps of Life by Scrappymo

...used the "traditional" red and green in her beautifully unique card that features ribbon (and fibers!) quite brilliantly!

Cyndie R. of Reis's Pieces of Paper

...combined several different ribbons with lace and twine and sheet music in her collagey masterpiece! 

Many thanks to everyone who played along. If you have not had a chance to check out the gallery, we highly recommend giving yourself that treat! We'll be back at midnight with a new prompt that's anything but sketchy! ;)

Ribbon Rendezvous

We're still celebrating Ribbon this week, won't you join us?

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I started with this amazing vintage holiday card from my stash that I trimmed down slightly ... I thought a simple wrap of ribbon was the perfect accent to bring out the vibrant pink in the top bell ... sometimes for me, simple is best."

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "As in all things, I concur with Stephanie: sometimes-- for all of us-- simple really *IS* best; thus this week I decided to do a Christmassy CASE of a birthday card I made last year for a ribbon challenge at Shopping Our Stash. This simple design let me use FOUR of my favorite holiday ribbons... two of which were scraps! Hard to beat that for convenience, right?! A few embellishments later, and I was one card closer to my third stress-free December!"

Remember ... you have until 6pm EST on June 5th to join our Ribbon Rendezvous.

Tie a Holiday Ribbon Around the Christmas Tree

The next Jingle Belles prompt is to create a holiday card using ... Ribbon.  If you're like us, you've got more spools of ribbon than you'll likely use in a lifetime of creating, so now is the time to let it shine ... tie it in a bow, tie it in knots, create a background ... just get creative with ribbon.

Here's what we created this week:

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "This week I fell in love with the Unscripted Sketch, and immediately knew I wanted to rotate it ninety degrees in order to use these great ARTchix holiday inchies at the top. I found a piece of very old Prima paper with little 1.25" frames to hold them... how perfect is that?! After I loaded up the lower section with lace, polka dotted grossgrain, thin satin snowflake ribbon, and my all-time favorite May Arts leafy ribbon, I called it a day. Ribbon mission accomplished!" 

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "For this week's card I started by stamping Love Joy Peace on a art craft tag.  Next I wrapped two kinds of holiday ribbon (attached with double-stick tape on the back) to create my borders.  I tied another piece of silver ribbon through the top of the tag, and then attached my creation with foam tape (a great way to hide any lumpy pieces on the back.  The vintage background paper is from Echo Park Seasons Greetings."

So pull out those spools of ribbon and let your creativity soar ... and remember to link your holiday card between now & June 5th at 6pm (EST) ... and use keyword JB:13:11 for galleries & our Flickr Group.