Sketch-tacular

First, a big THANK YOU to our lovely sketch designer & sponsor for this jingle belles prompt ~ Kirsty Vittetoe & Pixie Dust Paperie.  So many fabulous variations on Kirsty's wonderful sketch ... we love seeing all of the different interpretations.

Here are a few that particularly caught our eye:

Rose of My Happy Place

combined this adorable felt Rudolph 

with the perfect combination of patterned papers, stitching & pearls.

Linda of SUch is Life

combined such beautiful colors and lots of rubber stamping

to create great visual interest ... in a very mail-friendly design ...

oh yeah, and did I mention she made six of them ... Woot Woot!

Deena of A Deena Card

used her scraps (can you believe it) to make this peaceful holiday card ...
the variation of color on that textured canvas is stunning &
how do you not love that beautiful row of roses.

And ... drumroll ....

The winner of the fantastic prize from

a $15 Gift Certificate to the Pixie Dust Paperie Store

#35 - Zora

E-mail us, so we can get your goodies on the way.

And if you haven't already, stop by and check out all of the awesome sketch card designs & leave a little jingle belle love ... and check back at midnight for a new prompt to inspire you.

More Snowy Sketching

A reminder of our lovely sketch by Kirsty Vittetoe:

You have until Wednesday, January 25th at 6pm EST to get linked-up

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "the starting point for this one was the fabulous santa illustration--which is actually a very reduced scan of a vintage book my friend gina gave me. (i collect copies of "the night before christmas!) then, once again i only needed to follow kirsty's awesome "road map" in choosing and placing my embellishments, so this came together quickly and easily!"

Stephanie's Other Card
Stephanie says, "I continued with my shaker stickers ... It was fun to make two cards that were similar, yet different.  For this one I pulled out the black in Santa's belt with some black twine, black elements in my designer paper & a black rub-on sentiment from EAD Designs."

And remember, the very generous Kirsty is offering a FIFTEEN DOLLAR GIFT CERTIFICATE to the Pixie Dust Paperie Shop to one lucky randomly selected card maker who links up with us this time. You may enter as many times as you'd like, but each card must be a newly made holiday card and use the sketch!

We can't wait to see what you create.

Sketching Through the Snow

We are overjoyed to have the talented Kirsty Vittetoe joining us again at jingle belles with one of her fabulous sketches to inspire us.

Many of you know Kirsty as the creator & lead DT of the awesome City Crafter Challenge Blog ... as well as the owner & Pixie-in-Chief of Pixie Dust Paperie, for which she puts together a wonderful collection of the latest & greatest papercrafting goodies each and every month, and now there's a Pixie Dust Paperie Etsy Shop, too. You can also see all of her amazing creations on her blog... Handmade Little Things.


Kirsty's offering a special deal just for us: There are only a few of these super-fun "Snow Shoe" kits left in the Pixie Shop, but during this prompt (or until they're gone!) jingle belles can scoop them up at half price! Just use this code at checkout: JB-2012-SS

Now here's Kirsty's fabulous sketch to inspire your holiday cards this week:

And here's what we did:

Kirsty's Card

Kirsty says, "I am glad to be able to come up with a sketch for Jingle Belles once again! I have a little sketch book, where I jot down anything that came up to my mind, I look through them when I need one, make changes if I have to, the rest is pretty much ready.  It is really exciting to see every one's interpretation of my sketch!"

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I treated myself to a few new holiday goodies in the after-xmas sales, including a pack of vintage-inspired october afternoon "holiday style miscellany" and these fabulous dimensional poinsettias from irene's garden; and of course when you have *NEW* stuff it's the first thing you want to use, right?!  since kirsty's sketch gave me the perfect "road map" to know where each element should go, this was a super-fast card to make!" 

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I found this cute little snowman shaker sticker in the after-Christmas-bargain-bin & thought it was a perfect element for this week's sketch.  I used colors from the sticker to inspire my card (this is a great sketch for scraps) & added an EAD Designs rub-on sentiment and wrap of red baker's twine to complete the design."

We hope that we've inspired you to get sketchy with it this week, but if you're still "on the fence" we should mention that the very generous Kirsty is offering a FIFTEEN DOLLAR GIFT CERTIFICATE to the Pixie Dust Paperie Shop to one lucky randomly selected card maker who links up with us this time. You may enter as many times as you'd like, but each card must be newly made and use the sketch!

Remember, you have almost two weeks ... until Wednesday, January 25th at 6pm EST ... to upload your sketch cards ... and use keyword JB12:02 if you upload to our Jingle Belles Flickr Gallery (or any other gallery).