The Most Crave-able Leftovers Ever!

Holy Wow, ♥JINGLE BELLES♥! We thought it would be quite the challenge using scraps and offcuts to make amazing Holiday Leftovers cards, but clearly it was no problem at all for you everyone! Some of the best cards of the year were inspired by little bits and bobs that you Belles found laying about. Here are a few cards we found especially awesome this week!

Meg of Bits and Pieces

Based her "scrappy" card around a beautifully stamped and colored Christmas Mouse!

Kathe D of Kathe's Adventures

Raided her "Shoebox of Stuff That Will Be Useful Someday" to retrieve nearly all of the pre-assembled parts of this lovely card ... she only had to stamp a sentiment!

Lisa H of Recklinghausen Musings
Made not one but two simple cards ... that are each simply perfection!

Many thanks to *ALL* of you lovely cardmakers who came along and had a go! The gallery this week is even more than usually ♥FABULOUS♥ ... which you'll realize is really saying something in these parts! A brand new, super-fun prompt goes live at midnight, we hope you'll come back and check it out!

Holiday Leftovers!

One of my favorite things about the holiday meal is the leftovers ... I always enjoy adding a little stuffing and cranberry sauce to my ham sandwich.

So this week at Jingle Belles, we're celebrating Holiday Leftovers. We're asking you to create a card using all of those little leftover pieces of paper, alphabet letters, stickers, ribbon ... you know, those things you save because they're just too cute to throw away.

Here's what we created with our leftovers:

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "i'm always inspired by the cool techniques quilters use to make amazing art from scraps, and i often lift & interpret sewing ideas on my cards. this time i went completely literally and made a small paper version of a string pieced quilt, using nothing but tiny strips of paper from my scrap box. there's a little step-by-step illustration... and a second card made with this method... on my blog!"

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I used my paper scraps from Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses papers to create a card using the Paper Bargello Technique (my tutorial here). I remember the first time I saw this technique on the Carol Duval show many years ago and was completely fascinated by the effect. Once I finished my card front, all I needed was a chipboard sticker with some ribbon to finish the design.

So go forth and find those neglected leftovers and turn them into a holiday masterpiece ... we can't wait to see what you create. InLinkz will be open until 6pm EST next Wednesday, July 13th. keyword for galleries or the jingle belles flickr group is JB28.