CASE-ing Christmas

Since September 7th was Labor Day here in the US, we've decided to celebrate by giving you a bit of a head start with this fortnight's card designs. We're asking you to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) any of the cards that Stephanie or Lauren have made for any of the previous Jingle Belles prompts. Which means you've got 16.5 years worth (times two!) of ideas from which to choose! You don't need to make an exact duplicate of the card (the acronym does say "Selectively Edit" afterall); just be sure to tell us which card inspired yours!

Here's how we've CASE-d Christmas this week:

Stephanie's Inspiration:

Lauren's Peace on Earth Card from September 2019

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I loved the grungy wintry beauty of Lauren's card.  I die cut the large snowflake and punched medium sized snowflakes to layer on top.  I finished with an Eyelet Outlet snowflake brad. I too created my background from a GelliArts print, however, I realized I didn't include any snowflake elements, so I stamped the Tim Holtz Swirly Snowflake on top.  Since my snowflake was larger, my card wasn't large enough for three words, so I used Pinkfresh Studio stickers to add two holiday words."

Lauren's Inspiration:

Stephanie's Unicorn Color Palette Card from July 2026

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I chose quite a recent card of Stephanie's because I love it, of course; but also because I realized I had almost all the right "ingredients" so it seemed like too good an opportunity to waste, lol! In retrospect, I wish I had made my card a bit smaller but... (shrugs) ...hindsight is 20/20, right? I used the same adorable Lawn Fawn Yeti as Stephanie; I diecut circles from four similar shades of cardstock and debossed them, albeit with a slightly different snowflake folder. I swapped in an Eyelet Outlet Santa Hat and Candy Cane Brad in place of the stamped versions; then I added red and black mats and a similar Lawn Fawn sentiment. Et voila!"

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Link your cards right here. JB2619: CASE-ing Christmas runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, September 23rd.  

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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!

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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!

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