Little Shapes, Big Style!

Yet another fortnight has flown past, probably because we were so busy LOVING all of the beautiful inchie, twinchie, and everywhere-in-between cards you guys linked up! It is *never* easy to feature only three, but this time it was particularly hard, for which we thank you! ♥

Mimi of She's Crafty

...proved that inchies needn't be square or round, in fact, they should probably ALWAYS be hexagons!

Cyndie of Reis's Pieces of Paper

...combined her inchies with a bigger square and a rectangle, to make an even more dynamic grid that we're sort of totally obsessed with!

Bobbi of Bobbi's Treasure 

...made her inchies into a pair of fabulous, quilt-like designs we can't wait to try!

Many thanks to everyone who played along, we loved seeing every one of your beautiful, clever cards! We'll be back at midnight with a brand new prompt we hope you'll love the sound of! :)

Creative Coloring of Christmas

We loved seeing all of the color mediums in the gallery ... and here are a few that particularly caught our eyes.

Lindsey

of

Bashful Blogging

created fun graphic holiday trees by combining die cuts with Distress Ink *coloring* 

... such a great way to add wonderful pops of color.

Alison C

of

Cranberry and Eggplant

found the perfect use for a previously discarded water-colored background 

and combined it with perfect coloring with Brushos and Pro Markers ... 

that Polar Bear is such a cutie.

Helen

of

Helen's Craft Haven

shared beautiful coloring with watercolor pencils ... 

but we particularly loved her doodled frames.

Join us at midnight tomorrow for a fun *LITTLE* prompt to keep our Christmas card making juices flowing.

Metal Marvels

We loved seeing all of the variations on our metal theme in the gallery.

Here are a few that particularly caught our eye.

Marcia K of 

Marcia K Designs

created an entire collection of marvelous metal designs by using the same die cut but layers different combinations of metallic papers (click through to see more) ... absolutely bling-tastic.

Marty F of

Merry Marty Cards

combined gold watercolor, gold embossing, gold flourishes, and even *golded* her silver charms to create her magnificent vintage gold masterpiece.

Stephanie L of

My Ink-Well

used a new-to-us Inked Stencil Dry Embossing Technique to create a lovely letterpress-like design using metallic ink.  Her big bold metallic sentiment is also the star of the show.

We'll be back tomorrow with our annual round-up post.  We hope that we helped you take back your December one holiday card at a time ... we'll look forward to seeing you in 2018.

Thank You for the Thank Yous!

It seems especially appropriate to be rounding up the glorious holiday thank you cards on the Thursday we Americans celebrate Thanksgiving! Of course one of the things we're most thankful for creatively, is the fact that we get to hang out with (and be inspired by!) our amazing fellow papercrafters all year round AND avoid the dreaded holiday card-making stress in December! Be sure to tune in tomorrow when we announce the last official theme of our 2017 ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ season. Meanwhile, here are a few thank you cards that made us especially grateful:

Mary Marsh of The Charmed Life

...created an amazingly lovely, perfectly seasonal thank you that is also a master class in diecutting technique!

Donna Ellis of Creative Smiles 

...employed the ever-adorable House Mouse and his friend, to teach us all a thing or two about friendship; not to mention stamping and coloring!

Kathe D of Kathe's Adventures

...despite being one of the most positive people we know, turns out to be an expert in negative space, as this beautifully graphic CAS card proves!

Many thanks to everyone who played along, we loved seeing every single card! C'mon back at midnight when we'll reveal the last official prompt of 2017; you won't want to miss this one, it's solid gold, we tell ya! ;)

Creative Creatures

Wowza ... the gallery is filled with fun and fabulous creatures.  It was hard to narrow it down, but here are a few of our favorites.

Tip Top of

Tip Top Toppers Things

shared a fabulous Christmas Unicorn ... see the bit of holly on his tail, the present in his pack, and his adorable Santa Hat ... love the beautiful pinks too.

Carol S of

Inky Fingers

created this adorable layered holiday tag that features die cuts & stencils ... 

love his scarf & hat.

Maria Rodriguez of

SwimBikeRunandStamp

shared her adorable cat duo in glittery paper-pieced hats

singing Christmas Carols loud & proud ... that expression is priceless.

Mission Emboss-ible

Wow ... the gallery for this week's prompt is amazing ... so many awesome embossing techniques.

It was definitely hard to choose, but here are a few of our favorites.

Barb Housner

of

Paper Therapy Ponderings

rocked the emboss resist technique with gorgeous non-traditional holiday hues ... and that seam binding is fantastic.

Julie

of

Stamping with Julie Gearinger

beautifully combined texture embossing with heat embossing to create this gorgeous night time holiday scene.

Hansi

of

Quilting with Paper

also combined heat embossing with texture embossing to make this snow-filled winter wonderland design ... love how the penguin looks like he's trying to hide off the side of the circle to avoid being pelted by a snowball.

Come back at midnight for one of our favorite prompts of the year.

Tip Top Tic-Tac-Toe

It is always a joy to click through and see each and every link in our ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ galleries, but this fortnight's Tic-Tac-Toe cards were especially creative and wonderful, so we highly recommend scrolling down to the original post for a look-see. Meanwhile, here are a few entries we found especially delightful:

Chris of And Here's One I Made Earlier...

...rocked the middle column of the board (snow/cardstock/blue) in a big big way with an adorable trio of polar bears!

Jan R of Huh... So This Is a Blog

...coincidentally used exactly the same ingredients, to equally wonderful effect, but in a COMPLETELY different way!

  (For the record, that's our very favorite thing about a game like Tic-Tac-Toe!)

Veana R

...chose the first column (red/glitter/santa) and used each of those to perfection!

Many thanks to everyone who played along and shared their creations! We'll be back at midnight with a brand new prompt that we hope will inspire you... like a boss... :)

Musical Masterpieces

So much musical loveliness in the gallery for this prompt ... here are a few we thought were particularly molodic.

Julene by Design

created a gorgeous collage on a sheet music base in beautiful holiday tones.

Cornelia of

Stempel Spass

created a beautiful snow globe scene because

"Santa Claus is Coming to Town".

Jane Willis of

Onions and Paper

used a perfectly stamped musical background (gotta love that MISTI) 

to frame her modern silhouette Christmas tree.

Thanks so much for going a' caroling with the Jingle Belles ... come back at midnight for a little fun & games.

Old-Fashioned Goodness

It's truly inspiring to see so many different ways to create a "Vintage" look for our holiday cards; we always love to see what our Jingle Belles will come up with, and you never disappoint! Here are three cards that made our holiday hearts especially happy:

Celeste of Crafting Junky

...had the perfect stamp for this theme and then made it even better with a clever two-layer stamping technique!

Plony of Plony's Blog

...added layers of paper, lace, flowers, diecuts, pearls and... well, let's just say we could stare at this beautiful vintage-style creation for a good long time!

Bobbi of Bobbi's Treasure

...proves that the vintage look can still be quite pared down and lovely; you just need the perfect retro-style image and just the right papers to finish off a perfectly sweet card!

♥♥♥

And now it's time to see who's won that fun Christmas ephemera pack from Lauren's Etsy Shop, Just Enough Stuff! The fine folks at Random.org chose number *10* which means that

♥ BARBARA G ♥

is our lucky winner!

Please email Lauren at llaurenb (at) hotmail.com so she can get that prize in the mail!

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Many thanks to everyone who linked up with us, we loved seeing every single card! We'll be back at Midnight with a brand new prompt we hope will put a song in your Christmas card-making heart! 

PEACEful Abundance

Thanks so much for sharing your gorgeous Peaceful Creations with us ... here are a few that caught our eyes.

Kathy K of

Create 365

colored this gorgeous Peaceful image ... 

and included peaceful sentiments both on the front & inside her card.

Keti of

Keti's Projects

shared her gorgeous angel with her golden peace sentiment.

Darlene Pavlick of

Dar's Crafty Creations

shared a glittery masterpiece in traditional Christmas hues ...

can you ever have too much shimmer & sparkle?

Make sure you join us at midnight for our next holiday card prompt ... as we continue to take back December, one holiday card at a time.

Stars and/or Stripes... Forever!

You guys surely do know how to wave the Christmas card-making flag! We were delighted by every single card that got linked up this fortnight, but here are a few that take a starring role:

Susan B of Cardmaker's Garret

...made a bold statement with one single, perfect, dimensional, elegant, graphic red star!

Marina of My Perfect Life

...chose the "stripes" option and kind of blew our minds by making an incredible warm and charming holiday card using only black and white!

Brenda of Brenda's Scrappy Blog

...rocked the stars AND stripes, in the most beautifully fresh palette we've seen in quite some time!

We'll be back at midnight with some picture perfect inspiration we hope will have you running for your card-making supplies!♥

Layers of Love

We loved seeing how you rocked the layers for our All Bundled-Up prompt ... so much holiday fun.

Here are a few layered creations we loved.

Paper Pleasure

rocked the art of vintage layering with perfect distressing, inking and floral elements to complete her layered masterpiece.

Cártaí

repeated the nutcracker theme with her fantastic layered design ... and she rocked the metallic sentiment and big bold mustache.

Diane Louise

used the decoupage technique to add her layers (and add fantastic dimension to her sweet winter scene) ... love that paw print frame.

So come back at midnight and see what the wild & wacky Jingle Belles have in store for next week.

Azure All Stars

We loved seeing all of the gorgeous shades of blue in the gallery ... there are a few of our azure all stars:

CreaMaria of

Made by CreaMaria

rocked the deep navy hues ... the white Christmas tree and embossing 

produce such a fabulous winter feel.

Brenda of

Brenda's Scrappy Blog

featured all sorts of tealy sky blue with the glittery sentiment
among the sparkling snowflakes being the fabulous focal point.

LeAnne Pugliese of

WeeInklings

framed her gorgeous navy vintage image with a 

navy-on-navy stamped pine cone frame and

the silver ribbon & stars are the perfect accents.

Remember, join us at midnight for another fabulous holiday card prompt.

REUSE ... RECYCLE ... AND JINGLE!

We loved seeing all of the creative recycling in the gallery this week ... nothing better than making the EARTH a bit better by making art.

Here are a few that caught our eyes this week.

Barbara of The Knackered Grouse

...not only made four cards cleverly using re-cycled Christmas cards and other bits; three actually have the EARTH on them! (Which definitely wasn't a requirement, but we confess to getting a kick out of it!)

Kathe D of Kathe's Adventures

...used part of an empty tissue box to diecut this beautiful wreath; bonus points for the fact that this favorite annual challenge was suggested by Kathe in Jingle Belles' very first year for which we thank her!

Cornelia of Stampel Spass (Fun Stamper)

re-used and re-cycled rejected pieces from other creative ventures to make this adorable little holiday scene. (Plus... we love her gnome Santa Claus!)

CLEAR-ly Fabulous

We loved seeing all of your CLEAR-ly fabulous creations ... here are a few that caught our eyes:

Lisa J

of

Snowy Moose Creations

shopped her stash and found this gorgeous clear acetate and velvet flourished paper and turned into and absolutely elegant holiday card design ... love the pierced die cut and scalloped frame too.

Sybrina

of

Chapter 3

used acetate and a sketch challenge to create this fantastic shaker card design ... love the Santa Belt and fun twine frame.

Wendi R

of

Cártaí

rocked the Staz-on ink with a torn strip of vellum to create a fantastic holiday card design ... the snowflake embellished with holly leaves is so fun.

We'll look forward to seeing you at midnight tonight for another fun prompt to inspire you.

STUCK on You!

What fun sticker-fabulous creations we had in the gallery for this prompt.  Here are a few of our favorites:

Marianne from

Marianne's Cards 'n Stuff

turned ink and vellum into a magical background for her gorgeous snowflake sentiment ...

CAS at its finest.

Celeste of Crafting Junky

stole our heart with this row of fun little snowman stickers ... we love the dimension

and how her bold sentiment pops against the pretty striped sky.

Bobbi of Bobbi's Treasure

took a simple sentiment sticker and made it into the star of the show

with fantastic designer paper and wonderful ribbon.

Winter Wonderland

Thanks so very much for joining us at Jingle Belles.  We hope you have quite a few holiday cards ready to address and send across the miles.  We've had a blast creating with you all year.

Here are a few of our favorites from the final prompt of 2016:

Lorraine

of

Paper Vernissage

Her snowy owl decorated glitter tree was just too stinkin' cute 

(click through to see more views)

and you know we're suckers for glittery sparkle.

June

of

Simply Elegant Paper Crafts

used such a clever design to find a home for all of those stray

embellishments you have in your stash ...

white-on-white-wonderful.

Linda

of

Snail's Space

cleverly incorporated so many lovely elements from

the inspiration photo into her peaceful

and elegant design.

We'll be back tomorrow with our annual round-up post.  We hope that we helped you take back your December one holiday card at a time ... we'll look forward to seeing you in 2017.