No Blues, Just Bliss

Who knew that a fortnight without *BLUE* could inspire you guys to such heights of awesome creativity? We found it especially hard to only choose a few cards to feature, but here are a couple that made our hearts go pitter pat:

Larissa of Car-D-elicious

...made us totally forget about reindeer, elves and snowmen; from now on this adorable Christmas Elephant (who's been made into such a lovely card!) is our FAVORITE holiday mascot!

Cornelia of Stempel Spass

...has taken the elements of an inspiration challenge and made them completely her own, adding in exemplary masking and stamping skills!

Yogi of Art With Yogi

...has combined a number of dies, stamps and artful techniques to produce this very sophisticated easel card design!

As always, we thank everyone who participated, it is always a treat to see every single card! We'll be back at midnight with a ♥COOL♥ new prompt we hope will inspire you once more!

The Blues Remain Banished...

...and you still have nearly an entire week to join our Blues-free fun! Just make a holiday card (or two... or three?!) and link them up at the post right beneath this one! Meanwhile, here's what we made this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "I've used a lot of neutral tones, much like last week's card, but that's just sort of a coincidence, they weren't made at the same time or anything. This time I based my colors around that beautiful vintage illustration from Pion Design-- their holiday paper lines all have a 12x12" sheet with smaller images and sentiments that can be cut apart and used on cards, which I think is a BRILLIANT idea! This week's Sketch Saturday sketch (#413) was also very helpful in terms of where I placed each element!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I found a some holiday gift tags in my stash, and decided to build a card around this velvet Santa.  This simple design mats it on a piece of Puffs with Lotion & Vicks tissue box (the inside is a fabulous shiny silver) and adds a Hero Arts sentiment ... fun and mailable."

Stephanie says, "lalala"

Remember, you have until Wednesday to Link-up and join our fun.

Banish the Holiday Blues

This week we're kicking the Holiday Blues to the curb, which means we're making holiday cards that feature NO BLUE.  Maybe red & green is your preferred holiday palette... or neutral tones on kraft... or perhaps, like some of us, you're pretty fond of "Pink Christmas"? Use whatever color combination works for you, as long as there are no blues.

Here's what we made this week.

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "Whenever I get to a scrapbooking store, I always look for the 12x12 scrapbook papers that contain journaling cards ... they make perfect centerpieces for card creations.  I used this Santa card as the focal point for this week's Retro Sketch using striped washi tape on green polka dot designer paper.  I stuck with the traditional color palette of Red & Green (with some silver sequin sparkle) for my design."

Lauren's Hilariously Similar Card

Lauren says, "Ok, yes indeedy, I realize this is one of those times that makes it almost impossible to believe that Stephanie and I *never* confer about our cards before posting them, but truly, it's 100% coincidence that we've both used this week's awesome Retro Sketch (#215) as inspiration, both chosen a pre-made centerpiece + washi tape, and both picked a traditional palette with a few neutrals thrown in. On the other hand, there's a pretty good reason we've been crafty BFF's for nearly a decade, lol!"

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Now it's your turn to use any technique, theme, images and ingredients to make as many glorious holiday cards as you'd like, just remember to banish the blues! Link up here before 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, June 1st. Keyword for galleries and Flickr is JB:16:11.

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