Rockin' the Retro!

There are so many ways to interpret a Vintage or Retro vibe and we loved seeing ALL of them this fortnight! Here are a few that especially caught our eye: 

Helene aka Mummylade Made in Sweden

...created her mindblowingly lovely scene on just ONE layer by stenciling a white leaf on grocer's kraft, stamping and coloring a tiny perfect winter cabin, and scattering sequins. 

(WOW!) 

Aimslee of Paper Paisleys Art Adventures

...found the cutest ever retro reindeer, added stamping, diecuts and embellies and finished the whole thing off with beautiful, classic Basic Grey holiday papers. 

(PS: the back of her card is equally pretty!)

Majda of Majdinustvarjalninemir

...made two incredibly lovely versions of the same fun sketch, with classic holiday images and EXACTLY the right amount of inking and distressing!

(We LOVE two-fers!!!)

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And now we need to find out who'll be snapping up the fun little vintage Christmas assortment and $15 giftcard from Lauren's Etsy Shop, Just Enough Stuff!

The random number generator has selected #6 which means that...

Pam Sebring of Crafty Hair Lady

is our lucky winner!

Congrats, Pam!

Please email Lauren at llaurenb @ hotmail.com

to claim your prize!

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Many thanks to everyone who played along, we enjoyed seeing every single card! We'll be back at Midnight with a brand new prompt that we hope will make a good impression!

An Old-Fashioned Holiday

We're still celebrating cards made with vintage or vintage-style products, or even just themes that have a strong retro vibe. Here's what we made this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "This week I've dipped into my stash of actual old stuff: I made a collage of torn sheet music, vintage book pages and Green Stamps; added Simple Stories washi, and framed part of an Authentique journal card with an ancient Tim Holtz Idea-ology Christmas Vignette Boxtop and sticker. I inked and machine-stitched around the edges, then mounted the whole thing on some Authentique brick-patterned paper and an A7 kraft card."

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I found this monochromatic winter/Christmas scene in a vintage Christmas issue of Ideals Magazine.  I sprayed it with clear sparkle spray (that is absolutely gorgeous but seriously refused to show-up in any angle of photograph).  With the sparkle, the Taylored Expression Simple Strips - Christmas sentiment was all I added to the serene scene."

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There's a sweet little prize this fortnight, which comes from Lauren's Etsy Shop, Just Enough Stuff, so if you've been wishing you had some older goodies to play with, you should definitely link up on the original post!

Since it's a week that happened to contain a fifth Monday, you can automatically link up your Jingle Belles card with the Double Trouble Challenge's SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing event, since we're on their list of Past Partners!

Walking in a VINTAGE Wonderland

This week we're asking you to create a card that features retro or vintage products, a vintage style, or you can go for extra points and do both.

Here are our Vintage creations for this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "Most of the items in my Vintage mailable collage are Tim Holtz vintage-reproduced items (except for the truly vintage S&H Green Stamps & the Simon Says Stamp sentiments).  I love layering all of those items together for a completely mailable holiday card."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I've used a fun retro 1950's style journal card from Authentique (one of my fave manufacturers for a vintage vibe; Graphic 45 and Carta Bella are good too!) with coordinating distressed gingham background; plus an ancient paper poinsettia, 7 Gypsies velvet leaves and an MME brad that might have been purchased during the last century. The fun and snarky sentiment are snipped from another journal card; and the ribbon, which is new, from Paper Anthology, was impossible to resist because how often do you get to put red AND green gingham on the same card?!"

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One randomly-selected cardmaker who links up with us this time will win a 

Deluxe Christmas Ephemera Assortment 

and a $15 gift card to choose anything else they'd like 

from Lauren's Etsy Shop, Just Enough Stuff

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Link your vintage or retro-inspired card(s) right here by 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, September 7th. Keyword for galleries and Flickr is JB-22-18.

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