Hooray for Gray

...and also HOORAY for pink, cream, white and silver... the colors of our fantastic photo inspiration! With an additional HOORAY for our fellow cardmakers who were inspired by this beautiful palette. It was especially hard to only choose three cards to feature, because honestly they were all terrific! But here are a few that especially caught our eye:

Tina Z. Treebug

...beautifully colored her sweet House Mice enjoying a holiday beverage and paired them with gray and pink patterns and lots of white to tie the whole thing together!

Prudence N. aka Penguin Parade on Instagram

...combined a beautiful grey tag with pink and silver snowflakes and several styles of washi tape (one of which "saved the day!) in her fantastic CAS design!

Deborah Frings of Deborah's Gems

...inked a "Turnabout" stamp in exactly the right colors to make her fabulously festive background, then used it to create two different takes on this beautiful sketch!

And now the winner of the super-cute Gina K Designs' 

Christmas Magic Stamp Set & Coordinating Die Cuts...

CONGRATULATIONS

to our lucky winner:

 #11 Eliz Stewart of Paper Sweetness!

Elizabeth, please send your snail mail address to

 llaurenb@hotmail.com so we can get your prize to you ASAP!

♥♥♥

Many thanks to everyone who played along, we hope you had as much fun with this lovely palette as we did! We'll be back at midnight with a brand new prompt, we hope you'll MAN-age to join the fun!

We Wish You a Colorful Christmas

This week we're still creating cards using the colors from the tray of cookies by Sweet Sugarbelle at The Cake Blog - grey/silver, pink and ivory/white.  You may also be inspired by the images, but make sure you incorporate the three colors in your card.

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Here's how we were inspired this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "This week, I went through my holiday stash by color, to see how many pink, grey, silver and white items I could find. I started with the puffy Santa and tree stickers, leftover from Prima Marketing's Santa Baby collection of several years back. I added a journal card from the Havana collection, layered some sparkly Tim Holtz snowflake diecuts, Echo Park grey and white snowflake paper and a jeweled snowflake of uncertain origin. It's a little bit lumpy, what with all the gems and multiple layers of foam tape, but I kinda looooove how this funky combination of elements came out."

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I used greys and pinks to color my Avery Elle Joyeux Narwhal and paired it with silver shimmer cardstock and pink designer paper."

Winter Grays

This time at Jingle Belles, we're asking you to make cards inspired by the color palette of this plate of cookies from Sweet Sugarbelle at The Cake Blog – Pink, Grey (or Silver) and Ivory (or White). 

You can also take inspiration from the cookies too, but please make sure you stick with the color palette. 

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Here's how we were inspired to use those colors in our cards this week.

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I used this week's Try Stampin' on Tuesday Sketch together with a grey & white floral designer paper from PinkFresh Studio for the Caffeinated Christmas Challenge.  I added a strip of coffee cup paper and a wooden coffee cup sticker together with a clear snow globe sticker.  I finished with silver sequins and a grey and white twine bow.  The sentiment is from Impression Obsession Christmas Words."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "When I saw the inspiration photo, the first thing I noticed --and wanted to mimic-- was the way some of the cookies were rectangles framing up design elements like the stylized tree. I made some cookie-sized rectangles and use the inset diecutting technique to get a similar effect.The (ancient) snowflake die is from Spellbinders, the tree is Echo Park and the foliage is Sunny Studio. I've changed the proportions of the colors (obviously I love dark pink more than the baker does, lol!) but otherwise stuck faithfully to the palette. A mix of plain and shimmer cardstock, glitter paper, and metallics make the design more interesting and textural, and Eyelet Outlet Pink Pearls look similar to the candy dots used to decorate the cookies."

And how about a little giveaway fun ... one lucky participant will receive Gina K. Designs Christmas Magic Stamp set AND the Coordinating Die Cuts.

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