Creature Congratulations

We absolutely loved seeing all of the creative creature cards for this prompt ... so much fun.

Here are a few that caught our creature feature fancy:

Mary Alice Bellis

of

Marvelous Possibilities

created a card featuring a whimsical owl decked out in holiday hues who is hanging-up his stocking ... so very cute.

Kristina (happycrafter)

of

Reflections of a HappyCrafter

featured a holiday reindeer as her creature in her amazingly detailed window scene ... the inky bricks look so real and she even added a lacy curtain.

Rose
of
My Happy Place

rocked the polka dot monsta ... perfectly decked out for the holidays ... what a super-fun holiday card.

Thanks to everyone who joined our fun Creature Feature ... check back at midnight for a super-special lovely guest star and another fun holiday card prompt.

a very ♥MERRY MONDAY♥ to you, jingle belles!

lauren here, just popping in to mention that i'm pretty excited to be a guest designer today at my favorite holiday card sketch, site merry monday! many thanks to lesley croghan and her very talented gang, who chose my monsta xmas card and invited me along; now i'd like to invite YOU along, as well, why not combine our creature feature prompt with their gorgeous sketch?!

here's my card:

there's plenty of time for you to get in on BOTH of these fun challenges:  

holiday creature feature runs through 6pm (EST) on halloween (that's this wednesday evening); and merry monday sketch #39 goes until sunday, november 4th at noon, PST! ♥

Creature Christmas Continues

We're still celebrating all living Creatures at Jingle Belles this week ... Lauren and I seldom discuss what cards we're going to make, so when I went to draft the post, I had to laugh that we were both still on a bit of pink kick (can you ever really have too much pink) ...

Here's what we made:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "ok, so for anyone who thought "monsta xmas" was a little tooooooo silly, i'm sure flamingo christmas is even worse! but i love flamingos, i love pink, i love BRIGHT tropical colors on holiday cards, and i love to do something unexpected. pretty sure i've succeeded in all of those goals this time, lol! the bottom line for me, when this stops being FUN, i will stop doing it. luckily, there's no sign of that yet!" :) :) :)

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I'm a pretty chaotic crafter & sometimes my best inspiration comes from the piles of remains that are left on my craft table.  As I was trying to figure out how I could incorporate the rest of these fun little dimensional penguin stickers ... I saw the Holiday Bingo Card among the paper scraps ... and voila ... Jolly Penguin Bingo was born (using this week's iSpy Sketch) ... love these fun little guys."

So keep those cards featuring all living creatures coming our way ... link them up by Wednesday, October 31st at 6pm (EST) using keyword JB12-22 for galleries & our  Jingle Belles Flickr Group ... who knows, maybe we'll even throw in a little holiday surprise for one lucky participant.

Holiday Creature Feature

The next Jingle Belles prompt is a Creature Feature  ... we're asking you to create a card with a living creature on it: reindeer, penguins, polar bears, moose, people, angels, elves... or, of course the most obvious Christmas Card presence ... Monstas.

Here's our take on this fun idea:

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "ok, yeah, it's probably only *ME* who uses monstas in this context, and if you're looking for the explanation by which that phenomenon makes sense, i'm sorry but there really ISN'T one. it's just that a few years ago i found this adorable paperchase giftwrap, and almost immediately, decided it would make great christmas cards! an admittedly weird decision which i stand by, because they still crack me up! :) but do feel free to take a more traditional route, there are LOTS of great creatures on THIS planet too, lol!"

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I used a several creatures including a tiny little holiday owl, a penguin and a reindeer (all from Hero Arts Merry Christams Ink 'N Stamp) on my Retro Sketch layout ... and I threw in a snowman for good measure.  I stamped each image & then punched them out with a medium star punch, using some foam tape for dimension and pretty aqua twine."

So break out your favorite holiday creature and see what fun cards you can create (or add a santa hat to your favorite non-holiday creature to get them in the holiday spirit).

Upload your cards by 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, October 31st using keyword JB12-22 for galleries & our Jingle Belles Flickr Group ... who knows, maybe we'll even throw in a little holiday surprise for one lucky participant.