There's NOTHING Sketchy...

...about the awesome cards that were linked up this fortnight based on Stephanie's beautiful sketch. In fact the only "problem" we had was only picking three to feature! (For the record, that is by far our favorite problem, lol!)

Darnell of DJ Kard Kreations

...saw the sketch's tag shape as a house and the swirls as smoke from the chimbley on a beautiful card that's making us say, "WHY didn't we think of that?!"

Valerjia of Moja Veselje

...bravely dug into her stash of treasured patterned paper to make this pair of elegant cards in a beautifully soft pastel color palette!

Cyndie Reis of Reis's Pieces of Paper

...proves that neutrals are anything but boring and a bunch of "random scraps" can add up to sooooo much more than the sum of its parts!

And now of course we'd all like to know who will be playing with that fun foliage die set in a few days, right? The fine folks at Random.org have selected #19 which means that...

ELIZABETH STEWART

is our lucky winner!

CONGRATS!

please send your snail mail address to lauren at llaurenb @ hotmail.com 

so we can get that in the mail to you!

Many thanks to everyone who joined our Sketch-centric fun, we truly love seeing every single creation! We'll be back at Midnight with a brand new prompt we think might just ring a bell (or a belle?!) with some of you!

We Wish You a Merry Sketchmas

At Jingle Belles, we're still making cards based on Stephanie's beautiful sketch, and you're still invited to join the fun, which we hope you will!

A reminder that you can swap the shapes, play with the proportions, flip or rotate the sketch, just make sure we can see "the bones" of it! Now here's what we made this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "I've had the pack of Pebbles diecuts from which this sweet snowman-in-a-jar came, for more years than I'd like to admit, lol! I think it's the perfect thing for this sketch, though, so I swapped him for the tag shape. I used suitably winter-ish layers of patterned paper, skinny tape and grosgrain ribbon for the horizontal band and added an Eyelet Outlet Pearl Bling Swirl that I cut apart and rebuilt in a shape that fit better on my card. "

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I love collecting Christmas tags like this gorgeous glittery 3-D one from after Christmas Sales ... and then making them the perfect focal point of my holiday cards.  I paired it with a piece of stunning holiday paper from Dress My Craft Christmas Bells Collection .  I added a Lawn Fawn Die Cut Lacy Border and just like that, this card was done."

Remember, one lucky Sketch-a-licious participant will receive these awesome versatile Laurels dies from Paper Smooches (can't you see how fun it would be die cutting a bunch to make a Christmas Wreath or Tree).

Scroll down to the original post (directly under this one) to see the fantabulous readers' gallery and link up your own sketch-centric creation!

Oh Christmas Sketch, Oh Christmas Sketch

Yep... it's SKETCH-mas time at Jingle Belles, and once again we are lucky enough to have Stephanie doing the honors!

Stay true to the general feel of the sketch, but for example the tag shape can be another shape or embellishment you like; you can rotate, flip or stretch it. Just make sure we can see the "bones" of the sketch!

Here's what we created:

Stephanie Card

Stephanie says, "I fell in love with this Grinch Stamp set from Gina Marie Designs.  I stamped his hand on the green tag and then paper pieced the ornament and sleeve.  I used a metallic pen for the ornament cap.  I added some Eyelet Outlet Clear Swirl Bling flourishes and finished with some EO Holiday Bling in the tag corner."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I flipped the sketch horizontally, and chose a mug rather than a tag, but I think I've done a fairly faithful adaptation. Most of my ingredients are Prima, from the Santa Baby collection; plus a bit of non-holiday paper from Pretty Pale. I used tape for the sketch's horizontal band and a Tim Holtz/Sizzix die for those pink flourishy things, which I thought looked a bit like steam rising off the delightful mug of cocoa."

And one lucky participant will get the awesome Laurels Dies from Paper Smooches.

Link your sketch-inspired creations right here by 6pm (EST) Wednesday, May 6th. Keyword for galleries and Flickr is JB:20:09

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