The Shape of Things to Come

Who knew there were so many awesome shapes for Christmas cards to be? Well, clearly, you did, ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ and you showered us with inspiration this fortnight! Here are a few shapely beauties that especially caught our eye this time:

Rachelle of I'm Black Martha

...wowed us with this astonishingly detailed and layered diecut NOEL card, not to mention a whole new theory of what Mrs. Claus looks like!!! :)

Kathe D. of Kathe's Adventures

...combined a bunch of current challenges to produce this show-stopping round card with stunning ornaments made from an upcycled beverage can!

Kjersti G. of Kjersti's Hobbyblogg
...blew us away with this amazing 3-D house, set in its own perfect snowy landscape. Can we get a "WOW"?!

Many thanks to *EVERYONE* who played along, as always, we cannot get enough of your creativity and cleverness! Drop back around at midnight, when we'll have a brand new prompt that we hope will find you in the PINK!

Shaping-Up

We're loving your creative shaped card designs!  Here's what we made for our second round of designs.

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "While I was deliberating over a few different ideas for this card, I saw that Mojo Monday was having one of their awesome "round or square" weeks, so I bowed in the face of such serendipity and used their awesome sketch. I did have to flip it, horizontally, when it turned out that my Crate Paper ornaments didn't quiiiiiiiiiiite fit above the elongated "Ch" of the My Mind's Eye chipboard word, but I think the resultant switch works pretty well."

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I gave my circle die cuts a workout this week.  The cute little medallions are from the Barkley Christmas Papercrafting CD-ROM.  I then used the next two larger die cuts for my mat and card base.  I finished with perfectly sized tiny sentiments from the Jingle Bells Sentimentals set.  The finished card are about 4", so they will be perfect to attach to wrapped gifts or tuck into gift bags.  You can click through to my blog to see close-up pictures of each one."

Remember, you have until 6pm EST on Wednesday October 9th to link-up your shaped card designs.

Shape-Up for the Holidays

This time at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ we're making cards which are not square or rectangular, so fire up your silhouette, break out the die cuts or, for those of us who are "old school", dust off those templates!  Think round, triangular, heart-shaped, tree-shaped, stocking-shaped, gingerbread house, candy cane, Santa's sleigh... or, well... your imagination and your scissor-skills are the only limits!

Here's what we made:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, " I chose my favorite Labels 20 Die Cut for my card base shape.  I adhered four 3-inch squares of designer paper to a cardstock scrap before centering my die cut and rolling through my Cuttlebug. Papers & chipboard Santa are from Basic Grey's 25th & Pine Collection and sentiment is an EAD Designs sticker.  The Sketch is from the Weekly Christmas Card Challenge."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "My go-to strategy for shaped cards is to choose simple forms and paper-piece them. These pretty packages are based on some from a retired digital elements kit by Mindy Terasawa, called "Jolly Lil' Friends". I printed one of each present onto cardstock at my desired size (approx. 5x6") and then used them as templates to cut the gifts and bows from scraps of patterned paper. The result is a unique--but similar--card for each of my nieces and nephews; kind of like kissin' cousins!"

Link up before 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, October 9, 2013. Keyword for galleries and the flickr group is JB:13:20.