Thank You, Santa!

It seems like all of us ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ must've been especially good last year, because we all got such awesome goodies from Santa! If creativity counts towards making the nice list (and we really believe it should!) it looks like you guys are off to a pretty good start for 2018, as well! Here are a few cards that especially brightened up our chilly January mornings:

Trina from My Crafting Closet

...used her brand new, super-cute penguin, tree and sled stamps to create a card that is so utterly adorable, we almost can't stand it... but you know, in a GOOD way!

(Not to mention that it's pretty much a master-class in stamping and masking!)

Deena from A Deena Card

...not only used her awesome new dinosaur stamp in a super-clever way that totally blows our minds, but she's rockin' a new skill, as well-- just look at that watercolor background!

(PLUS... she found heart-shaped googley eyes which we really really NEED now!)

Beverly Sizemore from Bev's Creative Path

...has very cool Santa-like daughters who brought her an electronic diecutter for Christmas, and she is already making amazing cards with it!

(We especially love the way she's combined "real life" stamps and supplies with machine cuts!)

♥♥♥

And now I know we're all dying to find out who has won that fun little prize package, right? According to the fine folks at Random.org we need to congratulate...

Lucky Number 31

which means that 

Christine Dring

is our winner!

♥

Congratulations, Chris!

Please send your snail mail info to us at

jinglebellesrock @ hotmail (dot) com 

so we can get your prize on it's way to you!

Many thanks to everyone who played along with our first prompt of 2018! It's great to see so many old friends again, and also to meet some new folks, as well! We'll be back at midnight with a brand new theme we hope will inspire an idea... or three... ;) 

Santa Was Really *Good* to Us

We're still creating with the goodies that Santa brought us this year ... Be sure to tell us in your post what fun new items you are using, so we can all be suitably envious.

Here's what we created with our gifts this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "Here's a shocking true confession: apparently when I put away this awesome Cut-plorations "Jingle All the Way" die after receiving it for Xmas 2016 (!) from Santa Stephanie, it had slid down to the bottom of the flip-thru storage box i use for my holiday dies. And since i couldn't see it, it just ceased to exist. So this is the very first time I'm using it, but definitely NOT the last, in fact I should probably apologize in advance for how many times you'll be seeing this thing in the near future, lol. In addition, I'm showing off are more gorgeous 6x6" papers from a set called, "Quilted Christmas" which also came from Stephanie, my favorite Stampin' Up demonstrator!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I realized as I was looking through my yet-to-be-used new stash, that I had yet to ink one of my Christmas gifts that I got from Santa last Christmas (I know ... embarrassing), so that is the set I used for this card -- Neat & Tangled Scandinavian Prints Christmas Die Cuts for the adhesive glittery felt trees and for the sentiment too.  I filled the sky with snowflakes from Essentials by Ellen Bear Ware 2."

Scroll down to the original post to link up your own creations AND read about the fun prize one lucky cardmaker will receive! ♥

Look What Santa Brought Me

To start 2018 off right, we're celebrating all things new by using new things to create our first holiday card of the year.

Specifically, we're asking you to gather-up the new crafting goodies you received for the holidays and put them to crafty use!  Just in case all you got from Santa was a bag of coal, break-out something from your crafting arsenal that you haven't created with yet. OR... perhaps you'd like to hit those fabulous "After Xmas" sales and treat yourself to a bargain or two?!

Meanwhile, here's what Santa brought us:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I've had this Simon Says Stamp Ring Wreath on my wish list for quite some time ... for its first use, I filled the black cardstock die cut with two colors of teal glitter cardstock (if you enlarge, you can see the subtle difference in color) and silver glitter cardstock.  I finished with a Joy sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Big Words-Encouraging Words and a punched black cardstock bow ... this card just screams mid-century modern to me, which is a design period I love."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "My blogging partner and crafty BFF Stephanie (who is also a Stampin' Up representative) gave me a gorgeous double-sided SU collection called, "Quilted Christmas" which I just couldn't wait to use! I'm not sure how both the green stitchy pattern and the glorious red gingham wound up as mats, but I love how they look. Meanwhile, those handsome reindeer and the fun holiday trees are from an American Crafts sticker sheet that came in a big bundle of xmas stickers I bought from one of my favorite daily deal sites... just a little too late to use in the 2017 JB season. I've added in some ancient Love, Elsie music paper and Hambly snowflake stickers to round off this fun winter scene."

And to get your new year off to a great start, we Jingle Belles will be sharing a prize with one lucky (randomly selected) participant of our first prompt of 2018.

You know you want that cute little holiday trio, fun Christmas papers and that tiny holiday tree ... so come join the fun. Link up here by 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, January 10th. Keyword for galleries and Flickr is JB:18:01. 

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