jingle belles: No Time Like the Presents

Thursday, January 1, 2026

No Time Like the Presents

Woohoo ... the Jingle Belles (Lauren and Stephanie) are back for our 16th year of holiday mayhem, and we're absolutely thrilled you are along for the ride. We love that we get to use our large selection of holiday products all year long.

How it works is that every other Friday at 12am EST (except for today, since we always love starting on January 1st) we'll post a new prompt to inspire your next holiday card ... you can join us for one ... you can join us for all. Then the following Friday, we'll post a second card inspired by the same prompt.

And voila ... at the end of November, we'll each have 48 holiday cards ready to give to our friends, family and co-workers.

The first prompt of the year is No Time Like the Presents ... so before you put away your gift wrapping supplies, pull out some of your favorites (or some of that paper from a gift you unwrapped that was just too pretty to recycle) and make a card featuring wrapping paper or holiday gift tags.

Here's how the Belles were inspired this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "The snowflake colors were actually inspired by a different piece of holiday wrapping paper that I ultimately didn't end-up using (the design was too busy for all of those layers), so I did a pivot and pulled out some Birch Bark Wrapping Paper that I love so much. I used four different snowflake die cuts and two vintage Martha Stewart punches and topped it with Clear Bumpy Jewel bling from Eyelet Outlet. I positioned it on a vellum circle that I then framed by die cutting two circles to help it pop against the birch bark. I finished with a banner and sentiment from Concord & 9th Festive Blooms."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "My friend Gina wrapped her gifts in paper with these adorable holiday character mugs all over it, so OF COURSE I had to unwrap verrrrrrrrrry carefully to save as many as possible. I like to back giftwrap and other thin materials with cardstock, which is what I did here, and then I could fussycut and pop them on foam tape for a little dimension. The sentiment came from a page of Lawn Fawn gift tags; I had intended to use the whole thing, but it was just too big; thus I trimmed it to fit on my 5.5" square card."

And for a bonus, one lucky (randomly chosen) participant will receive Christmas Baubles #2 Layering Dies from STAMPlorations. Shery just started her storefront up full swing again, so we love supporting her.