Stickers Galore!

I guess we're not the only ones who are "Stuck on Stickers" because everyone did such an amazing job making gorgeous cards featuring them this fortnight! If you haven't checked out the Readers' Gallery, we highly recommend a little scroll through all of the super-sticker inspiration. In the meantime, here are three cards that especially caught our eye:

Julene of Julene by Design

...found these three super-sweet dimensional felt gingerbread girl stickers in her stash, and built this bold and beautiful CAS card to hold them!

LeAnne of Wee Inklings

...only used one sticker on her card, but look at how amazingly elegant it is, and it's perfectly framed by the "fracture" technique which we now long to try!!!

Brenda of Brenda's Scraps of Life

...built her incredibly elegant card around these pretty Santa and sentiment stickers; then found paper and dies to make them even more appealing!

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Many thanks to all who participated. Just in CASE you're wondering, we'll be back at Midnight with a brand new prompt we hope you'll find as much fun as we did!

Stuck on STICKERS!

It's the second week of our Stuck on You prompt, so we're still making holiday cards with one of our favorite holiday card embellishments: STICKERS! Here's how we got sticker-centric this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "I love the big 12x12 sticker sheets that coordinate with various holiday patterned paper collections. Shocking true confession: I don't always feel like I need the papers themselves; sometimes I just buy the sticker sheet. Case in point: Simple Stories' Snow Pine Lodge provided all of these cute stickers (that camper, tho!); the papers, which I chose by color, are all just older scraps from my stash!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I covered my teal card base with these clear gold metallic stickers (no idea who makes them or where they came from).  I added a few Spellbinders Gold Smooth Discs.  I finished by adding a Doodlebug Design Santa using foam tape and a very vintage SRM Sticker sentiment."

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JB2618: Stuck on You runs until next Wednesday evening, September 9th. Link your sticker-centric cards on the original post, directly below this one!

Stuck on You

We're celebrating STICKERS this fortnight, one of the first types of embellishments we started collecting early in our cardmaking days; and a crafty must-have that we both still absolutely adore. We're guessing that, like us, you have a little stash of holiday stickers you could raid for this challenge; whether they are fun little 3-D images, or sentiment strips, or even your favorite holiday washi tape will work. Whatever your sticker/ stick-on choice, break them out and use them on your holiday cards!

Here's how we stuck to it this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I recently picked-up Simple Stories Snow Pine Lodge paper collection that included a sheet of lovely stickers.  I adorned the top of my journaling card with a flower cluster sticker and added a sentiment sticker framed by holly leaves stickers.  I added more tumbling leaves and branches and finished with a candy cane.  I just love this unexpected color combination."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "Probably my most hoarded stickers are the Basic Grey alphabet sheets that came with all of their holiday collection packs back in the day. It's not that I didn't use them at the time, or in the meantime; but nevertheless I've amassed a bit of a collection... though admittedly not all of them still have any vowels left. So this week I decided to mix and match several colorways to make a fun texty background for my card. Then I added some nice big ornament stickers from BG's Figgy collection, a mat of red, and some machine stitching around the edges et voila!"

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JB2618: Stuck on You runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, September 9th. We cannot wait to see what you'll make with STICKERS!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Magnificent Masculine Merriment

Some People (like Lauren!) struggle with masculine card designs, but the past fortnight proves that quite a few crafters totally have this whole genre covered, and they've linked holiday "guy cards" which prove this point quite conclusively. So if you haven't checked out the Readers' Gallery yet, we highly recommend a little scroll through all of the fine inspiration. In the meantime, here are three cards that especially caught our eye:

Jolanda Johnstone of The Inque Spot Studio

...combined the perfect patterned paper with lots of texture and a truly outstanding sketch layout to make a masculine card that rocks on SO MANY levels!

Leslie M of L Rose Creates

...assembled a penguin Dream Team who are very definitely ready to help you celebrate RIGHT NOW! The Penguin Leader is paper-pieced, then popped up on a wobbler for even greater joy!

Lorraine A of Lorraine's Loft

...chose the handsomest of House Mice, colored him beautifully, and then added matted panels of several different patterned papers which coordinate perfectly AND help tell the story that sweet stamp started.

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And now it's time to find out whose home that sweet Doodlebug "Winter Wonderland" stamp set will be heading off to. The Random Number Generator has selected... Lucky Number 6! Which means that Michele F of I Card Everyone is our Lucky Winner! Congrats, Michele, please send your snamil m,il info to llaurenb (at) hotmail (dot) com and we'll get those sweet Yetis on their way ASAP!

Many thanks to all who participated. We'll be back at Midnight with a brand new prompt and we hope you'll STICK with us for that! ;)

More Masculine Merriment

We're in our second week of making "Guy Cards" here at Jingle Belles, by which we mean holiday cards with a masculine vibe.

Here are our contributions to Masculine Merriment this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "This card is 99% composed of gorgeous vintage-themed elements from Tim Holtz's Idea-ology Christmas Emporium Layers, a curated collection of elements that I snagged on the Ranger website. I've added in a few paper scraps, some twine, and woodgrain background. I distressed the edges of literally every single piece, which  which might arguably be considered "too much" but it was quite relaxing and soothing to do, so there's that."

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "When I thought about potential masculine themes, I thought it would be fun to incorporate a card ... and thankfully, right on top of my yet-to-be-used pile was this adorable Snowman Reindeer Car from Cottage Cutz.  I had fun piecing it all together on top of a hexagon die cut from one of my Gelliarts prints on top of foiled All That Sparkles paper by Lawn Fawn.  I added a sentiment from Waffle Flower Classic Holiday Sentiments."

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JB2617: Masculine Merriment runs until the evening of next Wednesday, August 26th. Link your newly made, holiday "guy cards" on the original Masculine Merriment post; directly below this one.

Masculine Merriment

The next prompt for you at Jingle Belles is Masculine Merriment. We're asking you to create a holiday card for the men in your life … might be your Dad, Brother, Boyfriend, Husband, Uncle, Co-Worker, Mail Carrier or any other man in your life who deserves a special holiday card.

Here are our masculine creations for this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I decided holly is the perfect masculine holiday greenery, so I built my card around it using the Wrapped in Ribbons papers from American Crafts by Vicki Boutin.  I framed the focal element in black cardstock ... it features several masculine elements including an ink rings, spatters and a graphic holiday tree made of strips.  I stamped the Savvy Happy Holidays Block sentiment in black and positioned it over one of the black strips in the tree using foam tape."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I've had Doodlebug's Winter Wonderland stamps for several years, and I really don't use them enough... and just LOOK how cute that yeti is! I found two inky embossed backgrounds in my "leftovers" box and they seemed perfect for this card. The paper with the trees is Pebbles I think (and ancient!); and the tiny 1/16" Round Brads are from Eyelet Outlet. Historically, I've found the masculine card genre very challenging, but I think I did ok with this one!"

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If you love YETIS as much as we do, here's a fun little prize that one lucky, randomly-selected cardmaker who links up with us this fortnight will score:

Yep, it's a brand-new, unopened copy of Doodlebug's Winter Wonderland stamp set, and it's YETI to Party!

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  JB2617: Masculine Merriment runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, August 26th, and you can link as many newly-made MASCULINE cards as you'd like to before that time!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Tic-Tac-Toe Triumph

Possibly the only thing more fun than playing Treeskirt Tic-Tac-Toe is seeing the amazingly creative ways our fellow Belles have used the Tic-Tac-Toe Board to inspire their beautiful cards. Every single one is worth a closer look, so we highly suggest a scroll through the Readers' Gallery, but in the meantime, here are three that especially caught our eye: 

Jenn Borjeson of StampinAngelJenn

...didn't just rock the Tic-Tac-Toe board in ONE direction, she's got two complete rows (die cut/red or green, heat embossing on the diagonal; and heat embossing, ribbon + stamping going down) as well as a boatload of  adorability and style!

Trina of Phamtastic Design

...also pulled off an impressive double play... on a CAS card (top row - snowman, glitter/bling, dry/heat embossing & bottom row - die cut/punch, santa, stamping) and made our jaws drop by virtue of her fabulous stamping, masking and coloring skills!

Crystal O. Minkler of Tawny Owl Paperie

...took the board straight down the middle with Glitter + Red or Green + Santa; then gave us the best and most elegant version of all three!

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Special Note:

If you LOVE holiday card challenges as much as we do, please be sure to check out our friend Jo Avery's fun, fresh and fab Christmas Kickstart Challenge where the current theme is FRIENDSHIP and we (Lauren and Stephanie) are honored to be the Guest Elves!

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Many thanks to all who played along, truly every card linked up was an emphatic winner of this fun Tic-Tac-Toe game! We'll be back at Midnight with a brand new challenge we hope will prove to be a manly splendored thing! ;)