More Holiday Leftovers

This week we're still having fun creating with Holiday Leftovers ... all of those bits and bobs you saved because they didn't work at the time ... but they had so much future potential that you kept them.

Here are our "plates" filled with Holiday Leftovers this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "When Ranger's new Make-It Holiday Stamps and Stencils came out, I made a bunch of different backgrounds with the Peppermints Stencil before choosing one for a tutorial. Of course I saved the "variations" including this one, in which all the peppermints are pink and red. In the meantime, I really liked this pink embossed mat that turned out to be the wrong color for the Paper Anthology Ice Ice Baby Holiday jumpstart Kit; and I stumbled upon a blue gel print from probably three years ago, which I'm a little embarrassed that I saved... but in my defense it's perfect for matting these layers. I thought I might be able to use up my open pack of (now sold out) Eyelet Outlet Peppermint Candy Brads; and also the last four or five stickers on the ancient Echo Park sticker sheet this sentiment came from, but neither of those quite happened, so in fact, I now have leftovers from my leftovers card, lol!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "This week I tied together all of my leftovers based on a silver and white color palette.  I started with a failed snowflake embossed background panel (the parts that didn't emboss as well are covered by the elements in the center).  The silver strip of embossed snowflakes is truly a leftover using the silver that is on the inside of a Vick's Tissue box.  I pulled in two more silver rectangles ... one from glitter and another from designer paper.  I die cut and punched three snowflakes from silver and white glitter papers and topped them with an Eyelet Outlet clear gem.  I added in a piece of silver vellum that was the leftover from die cutting a circle frame.  I finished with a silver sticker sentiment and a few white pearls.  I absolutely love how elegant this card turned out."

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JB2623: Holiday Leftovers runs until next Wednesday evening, November 18th. Link your cards on the original post ...directly below this one!

Holiday Leftovers

One of our favorite things about a big Thanksgiving dinner ... are the leftovers (turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce sandwich anyone?) ... so this fortnight we're celebrating

Holiday Leftovers at Jingle Belles.

We're asking you to make a card using paper scraps, offcuts, an image you colored or diecut or fussy-cut but never used, a small piece of ribbon too pretty to toss away, the last sticker in the packet or... whatever "leftover" bits and bobs you have laying around. Of course you can mix in new stuff too. Oh and be sure to tell us what your leftovers are so we can marvel at your cleverness!

Here are how we're serving our leftover this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "My leftovers include the dry embossed and sanded lavender Core'dinations cardstock panel, a strip of iridescent foiled snowflakes and a lavender glitter circle.  I paired them with a Yeti and his lavender nose topped with a Santa Hat sticker and an Eyelet Outlet Candy Cane Brad.  Sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp Yeti For Christmas."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I had some random skate pieces and pale grey embroidery floss leftover from making and photographing the Paper Anthology Ice Ice Baby Holiday Jumpstart kit last week; and since the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Ice Skates die is one of my favorites, anyway, of course I knew I wanted to use them up. In addition, I found this already-cut-to-size piece of 49 and Market holiday paper AND a bunch of glittery dimensional flowers I must've made several years ago and which I just unearthed again. Actually, I think only the red mat and the white 5.5" cardbase are new; this is a small but satisfying triumph of leftover usage!

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JB2623: Holiday Leftovers runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, November 18th. Link your cards featuring Holiday Leftovers riiiiiight heeeeere:

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

ALL the Creatures are Stunning!

Christmas critters and creatures are some of our favorites here at Jingle Belles and it seems we're not the only ones who love making this type of card. ALL the entires are fabulous, of course, so if you haven't taken time yet to scroll through we highly recommend the trip. In the meantime, here are three cards we especially loved this time:

Denise Bryant who posts on SCS

...made this utterly adorable penguin-shaped card and it's hard to imagine anything more charming!

Ellen of Ellen's Kaarten

...colored, cut and arranged an entire choir of tiny, singing mice in a super-cute forest, This is exactly the kind of Xmas energy we need!

Leslie M of L Rose Creates

...embossed and gilded evergreens on a dark background, then added the most elegant owl we've ever seen; not to mention a sentiment that sums it up perfectly!

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Of course there was a little prize this time, too, that fun Sizzix Reindeer Die, let's find out where that will be heading off to!

The Random Number Generator has chosen 

Lucky Number 19

which means that Pat G is our Lucky Winner, Congrats!

Pat, please send your snail mail info to llaurenb (at) hotmail (dot) com 

and we'll get that out to you ASAP!

(Because luckily Christmas Reindeer can FLY!!!)

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Many thanks to all who participated, we loved seeing ALL of your beautiful cards. We'll be back at midnight with a brand new prompt we hope you've saved room for! 

Not a Creature Was Stirring

We're still creating with animals (or a yeti or monster) this week at Jingle Belles.

Here's our creature feature:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "I've gone fairly traditionally again this week, starting off with Memory Box's Serene Bird and Branch die set. I've cut the bird from a really soft silver-grey metallic cardstock, then added it (and quite a lot of small foliage!) to the center of MFT's Happy Holidays Circle Frame; then added Dare 2B Artzy's Slim-Mini Snowflake panel behind the whole thing and set it atop some ancient Basic Grey Wisteria paper. In the photo, the lavender and purple both look slightly "off" but I assure you, IRL, it's quite a nice card."

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "My friend picked me up a copy of the newest issue of Creative Stamping Magazine, which includes an adorable Snoopy Christmas stamp set.  I stamped this image and colored it with my Ohuhu markers.  I spattered some snow using Catherine Pooler Pebble ink combined with white pigment ink and water.  I went in with a silver sharpie to add a few smaller flakes.  I finished with a sentiment from the set and attached the panel with foam tape to a red card base."

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Just in case the theme isn't inspiring enough, here's a very fancy reindeer die (Elegant Reindeer from Sizzix) who'd LOVE to come and live at the home of one lucky, randomly-selected cardmaker who links up with us this fortnight:

Link your critter- or creature-centric cards on the original While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks post (directly below this one) for a chance to win! This challenge ends next Wednesday evening, November 4th.

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

For our next Jingle Belles prompt, we're asking you to break out the animals … it could be a sweet little sheep, a naughty kitty, or perhaps a Reindeer … okay, or even a monster or a Yeti if you're in a Halloween mood and want to stretch the theme.

Here are our animals for this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I built my card around the adorable Christmas kitty from Spellbinders Oh What Fun! Rub-ons (from their event).  I paired it with papers from Carta Bella Merry Christmas collection, each framed in gold mirror cardstock and a Sketch from Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers {BYSHC}  I finished with a Savvy Stamps Woodblock Make Merry sentiment."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I went semi-traditionally; or at least, I've chosen animals that actually exist, lol, namely the moose, narwhal and walrus from Lawn Fawn's Critters in the Arctic. I really like paper-piecing these guys, so that's what I did here. I built a little winter landscape for them to inhabit; then all I needed was a diecut sentiment and a few snowflakes, et voila!

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Just in case the theme isn't inspiring enough, here's a very fancy reindeer die (Elegant Reindeer from Sizzix) who'd LOVE to come and live at the home of one lucky, randomly-selected cardmaker that links up with us this fortnight:

JB2622: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks runs until 6pm (Eastern) the evening of Wednesday, November 4th. Link up your own critter-centric masterpiece(s) right here!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Think Pink!

It's always an exciting moment to announce the total for our annual donation to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, so before we show some of our faves from Pink Christmas, let us proudly announce that we had 21 cards in total, and since our donation is $2 each for every card, we'll be sending $84 to BCRF this year! Many thanks to all who linked up and helped us reach this total!

Literally EVERY Pink Christmas card is a great one, so if you haven't yet taken time to scroll through all the entries, we highly recommend the trip. But meanwhile, here are three cards that especially caught our eye:

Lesley G of Lesley's Craft Room

...created a seemingly *simple* card; but every element is perfectly judged. From the embossed text in the background; to the perfect shades of pink for hat, mats and gems; and of course that sheer pink ribbon as a finishing touch. This card really has it all!

Becca Yahrling who posts on Flickr

...made three gorgeous cards, but this one-- with the floral diagonal stripes, adorable skate (with dimensional furry topper!) and fancy diecut sentiment --is especially charming!

Suzanne H who posts on Flickr

...created this showstopper of a background by heat embossing the oversized stamp in white, then stenciling the colors on top; it's an incredible effect, therefore all she needed on top was that beautifully framed sentiment!

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Shifting gears q little be before we go: what with all the fun of Pink Christmas AND our (Lauren and Stephanie's) NYC vacation, one of us (LAUREN!) totally forgot to award the prize from the last challenge, JB2620: The Stockings Were Hung, so let's do that right now:

The Random Number Generator has selected 

Lucky Number 6 

which means that

Denise Bryant

is our Lucky Winner!

Denise, please send your snail mail info to 

llaurenb (at) hotmail (dot) com and we'll get that winging its way to you ASAP!

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Many thanks to all who played along, we loved seeing every card and we're grateful to you for helping us raise a little bit of cash for a worthy cause. We'll be back at Midnight with a brand new prompt that we hope won't leave you feeling sheepish... ;)

♥ Pink Christmas... for the Cure! ♥

We're still creating Pink cards for the Cure ... This is the fortnight where Stephanie and Lauren each donate $2 per linked-up card to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, so if you're only going to join us here at Jingle Belles for ONE challenge, let it be this one!

Here is how we went PINK this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "Frank Garcia's Candy Cane Lane collection for Prima Marketing might be my all-time favorite Pink Christmas set; it came out in 2022 and I've used the heck out of it ever since/ Luckily, I still had a few goodies left, like the adorable Santa journal card, and that pretty pink floral background with metallic accents. I paired those items with some pink washi; oversized Pink Stippled Jewel Brads from Eyelet Outlet attaching ancient velvetty flowers; and a mat I ran through Dina Wakley's Stars and Fronds 3D Embossing Folder. IRL, this card has more texture and more sparkle than you can see in the photo, but I guess you'll have to take my word for that!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "This week I shopped my stash for pink holiday paper and found this lovely Mackenzie Christmas from LDRS Creative.  I used two different papers to pull this one together ... with that little tear drop trailer, I know exactly who this card will be going to."

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JB2621: PINK Christmas runs until 6pm (Eastern) next Wednesday, October 21st. If you'd like to help us raise some extra cash for BCRF, Link as many newly made, predominantly PINK holiday cards as you possibly can on the original Pink Christmas post (directly beneath this one) before then!