hybrid hijinks

what could be more digitally delightful than saving time and money by making lovely hybrid holiday cards? well, seeing the ones made by our amazing ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ of course! here are a few which rocked our pixel-based world this week:

Kirsty Vittetoe of Handmade Little Things

printed this adorable reindeer digi onto brown paper and added lots of luscious red glitter to make him literally "shine" as the star of this bold and graphic holiday greeting!

Ros Crawford of Mikey's Mom

layered a digital stamp onto a digital paper, printed and colored the result, and then combined it with gorgeous textural elements for even more interest and appeal!

Meg of Bits and Pieces

made *TWO* completely different, but equally lovely cards, so we were spoilt for choice since both used adorable digi-stamps AND the perfect combination of "real world" supplies!

and now i'm sure we're all pretty excited to find out which lucky BELLE will be choosing *FIVE* fabulous digital stamps from our lovely sponsor Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More, so without further ado let's consult the fine folks at random.org:

:

LUCKY NUMBER #24

which means that

♥Marie Bingaman♥

is our winner!

marie, please email us at

jinglebellesrock @ hotmail [dot] com

and we'll tell you how to claim that awesome prize!!!

once again we'd ask you to join us in thanking our wonderful friends at Robyn's Fetish for providing that cool prize and the images stef and i used in our cards. and of course if you've not yet seen your fellow BELLES' take on hybrid holiday, do scroll downwards for a peek at the gallery! we'll be back at midnight with a brand new prompt and a lovely guest star who's bound to delight you! ♥

Digital Re-Dux

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More has so many lovely holiday items, there's NO WAY we could choose only one, so here's some additional inspiration for your hybrid card-making pleasure!

Stephanie's Second Card

Stef says, "I did more digital paper piecing, this time with with the cute little

Rudolph Came to Town.  Once my paper piecing was done, I was able

to print out multiple cards & change them up with a different 

EAD Designs rub-on sentiment."

Lauren's Second Card(s)

Lauren says, "My favorite thing about digital stamps is that after you've settled on a design you can effortlessly make as many cards as you'd like! I used the Christmas Ornaments set to create a template for a set of adorable 4" round ornament-shaped cards that will go to my nieces and nephews this December. I used a coordinating paper pad to mix-n-match patterns in order to make cards that were very similar... but each unique! The "real" hanging wires and bead details make them just a little bit more special."

Speaking of inspiration, have you *SEEN* the reader gallery this week?? If not, we recommend making it your next stop. Of course, the stop after that should be your own computer's files... where you choose what stamp or image you'll use to get in on the action, to have a shot at the lovely prize being offered by Robyn's Fetish! (See the main post below for details!)

Happy Hybrid Holiday, 2012!

Hello, ♥JINGLE BELLES♥! If you played along with us last year, you'll remember that we were lucky enough to be sponsored by Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More to make holiday cards which incorporated a digital stamp or element in our design. We called it "Happy Hybrid Holidays" and it was so much fun that one of the first things we did this year was ask to do it again... and of course we're thrilled that Robyn's Fetish said, "YES!" Here's a little more info for you about that fine company:

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge. 

 Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion. 

 Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to award the winner her choice of 5 digital stamps.

Yes, that's right, one lucky random cardmaker who links their newly made, hybrid (or completely digital) holiday card with us this time will get to *CHOOSE* five stamps from the Robyn's Fetish shop! But what if you don't *have* a digital image to use on your card, you ask?! Not to worry, Robyn's Fetish have got you covered--they're providing A Bell for Christmas absolutely free to any ♥JINGLE BELLE♥ who'd like to use it! Just email lovely design team coordinator Susan Paulson at susan_paulson@verizon.net and request your free Jingle Belles Digital Image. We're thrilled they're offering another opportunity for everyone to try a digital stamp, so please join us in heartily thanking them!

And now I'm sure you're itching to get going on your own cards, but first, let's have a quick look at what we did:

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "One of my favorite looks for digital stamps is to old-school paper piece them... but with a techie twist: I print several duplicates of my image--in this case the very elegant Christmas Lamp Post from Robyn's Fetish--on clear ink-jet labels from the office supply store, and then stick them to the papers i'd like to use for each bit of my image. In this way I can use quite teeny scraps of lots of different patterned papers in my design! For this card, I also used the March sketch from The Craft's Meow as a road map, and I love how it came out!"

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I had fun using digital paper piecing with 

Robyn's Fetish Prissy Poinsettia. 
I used two shades of red together with green & gold grungy papers from my digital stash. 
I added a wrap of gold ribbon and an 

EAD Designs rub-on sentiment to complete my card."

So now it's time to see what you will do to make your very own Happy Hybrid Holiday, 2012! Email Susan P. for that lovely "Jingle Bell" image... or pull something out of your own digi-stash and get creative! You've got until 6pm (EST) on Wednesday April 4th to link up below for a shot at that great prize! Keyword for galleries or our flickr group is JB12-07. Have fun!!! ♥

Dazzling Digital Designs

It was so fun to see all of the different dazzling digital designs this week ... lots of fabulous holiday cards. A huge THANK YOU to our sponsor Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More! for the awesome free digital image & this week's prize package.

Here are a few digital masterpieces we we are digging this week:

Wicked Witch of Wicked Designs

created a unified design by using a digital image for her background & then a larger version for her focal point.

Lisa V of Mimi G. Gallery

used a digital image for the FIRST time ... and rocked it. She added wood grain texture and three layers of color ... what fun.

Fliss of Stampers Chef

used digital stamps, embellishments, papers ... and lots of fabulous detail cutting ... for this winter masterpiece.

And one extra ... this cute & clever card by Electra using this week's Free Digital Image from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More!:

And the winner of this week's prize from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More! ... 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 paper pack.

#25 ~ Frances R of Be Creative, Be You

Frances, please e-mail us, so we can get you information on how to claim your goodies.

Make sure you check back at midnight for another fun prompt with another fantastic lovely guest star.

Happy Hybrid Holidays

This week at Jingle Belles we're going digital. We'd like you to create a card incorporating at least one digital stamp or element in your card design.

To that end, we've got a fabulous sponsor for this week's prompt, Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More! Here are a few words from those lovely ladies:

"Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

At the end of this challenge, Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More will be happy to award one randomly selected Jingle Belles card-maker her choice of either 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 paper pack."

That's right--there's a prize! It doesn't get much better than that, right? Well, actually, it does: in addition, Robyn's Fetish is very generously offering all Jingle Belles who'd like it, a free digital stamp of... what else? ...a Christmas Bell (aka Jingle Bell) ...to use on your card this week. All you have to do is e-mail susan_paulson@verizon.net and request your free Jingle Belles Digital Image. We're thrilled they're offering this opportunity for everyone to try a digital stamp.

And we're also thrilled that the very talented Susan Paulson, (aka The Stampin' Kat) coordinator of the Robyn's Fetish Design Team, is guest designing with Jingle Belles this week.

Susan's Card featuring

Chester da Snowman

Robyn's Fetish Digital also graciously provided Lauren & I with digital stamps that we used for our cards this week.

Stef's card featuring

Corner Holly &

Home for the Holidays

Stef says, "My favorite technique to use with digital images is digital paper piecing (here's a link to my prior tutorial, which also links to Kristina's video tutorial ... and here's a link to another tutorial from Allison). I have quite a collection of digital papers, so I just paper-pieced my image together on the computer and printed out the finished colored project that is ready to go on a card. I just added an EAD Designs Stickerz sentiment to finish ... and the great thing about it is that once I've taken the time to do it, I can print out as many copies as I want."

Lauren's card featuring

Christmas Twee &

Christmas Presents

Lauren says, "i paper-pieced too, but i went old school--with a new twist: i filled an 8.5 x 11" clear inkjet label from the office supply store with as many copies of my digi stamps as would fit... (about 3 trees & 5 or 6 of each present) ...then cut the images apart roughly and stuck them to the individual patterned papers i wanted to use, before cutting out neatly around each outline. this let me raid my "scraps" file and use up some teeeeeeeeny leftovers, while giving lots of variety of color and pattern to my design! admittedly it's more fussy-cutting involved than i'd be willing to do EVERY week, but i love how this card came out!"

So now it's your turn to go Hybrid ... or all-out-Digital if you're brave. We hope you'll take advantage of the free stamp in your design ... and take some time to browse through the other wonderful Digital Stamps at Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps... afterall, you'll need to be ready to choose your prize if you're the lucky winner! While you're exploring, you might like to also check out their blog, The Robyn's Nest where their rockin' design team shows off new designs, and hosts a weekly challenge of their own... often with "freebies" for the participants! This week's theme is "Anything Goes" so if you use the "Christmas Bell" stamp above and submit your card by tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon, you can link up in both places!

Inlinkz will be open until next Wednesday, September 21st at 6pm (EST). Keyword for galleries or our flickr group is JB38.