Singing Your Praises

Nothing could have put a happier song in our heart this fortnight than all of the beautiful cards in the Fa-La-La-La-La gallery featuring... or inspired by... holiday music! Here are a few that especially caught our eye (and ear!):

Rose of My Happy Place

...combined uber-cute birds and a cool collagey musical background for a sweet/tweet card that's also a brilliant take on this week's Sketch Saturday! 

Sharon B of Sea View Scrapping

...took the lyrics from "Deck the Halls" as her sentiment, perfectly colored the most adorable of critters, and added lots of bright and beautiful embellies!

Brenda of Brenda's Scraps of Life

...says she's never quite known how to use this beautiful sheet music stamp, but we'd say she got it EXACTLY right on this elegant monochromatic card!

Many thanks to all who joined us, we hope you are keeping well and staying crafty! We'll be back at midnight with a brand new prompt we think will inspire some good, old-fashioned, holiday fun! ♥

A Caroling We Will Go

We are still creating with MUSIC this week ... that means we are asking you to create by incorporating music, musical instrument, holiday song title or lyrics.


Here's what we are singing this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "I've had this "Fa-la-la-la-la" chipboard from My Mind's Eye "Sugar Plum" collection for ages, because honestly, it's a little big for cardmaking. But as the anchor for my A7 card, I think it works, and it really didn't need much else. I fussy cut a few elements from the coordinating patterned paper, added a Lawn Fawn music paper accent and threw in a scatter of Eyelet Outlet sequins just for fun!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I'm this week's Growing in Unity Gal (click on over an comment on my blog post for a chance to win one of two grab bags of Unity Stamps), so I had fun using three different Unity Stamp Sets for my card this week.  I sprayed watercolor paper with Mermaid Lagoon and Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide Ink.  After it had dried, I used my MISTI to stamp the Unity Stamp Company Burst of Flakes Border Background using Blue Belle Versafine Clair Ink.  Next I added the reindeer from the awesome October 2016 Unity Sentiment Kit ... a joyous season  (does he look guilty)?  The Song Title Sentiment is from Unity Stamp Company Naughty is the New Nice stamped in the same Blue Belle ink on White Cardstock and attached with foam tape.  I finished with a few cardstock layers and several sizes of light blue epoxy dots."

Scroll down to the original post to see the Reader's Gallery and link up your own musical masterpiece!

Fa-La-La-La-La

This week we're celebrating one of our favorite things at Jingle Belles ... Christmas Music.

We're asking you to create a card (or gift card holder, or whatever else you'll be needing for the holidays) that incorporates music, a musical instrument, or a holiday song title or lyrics.

Here is how we were inspired:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "My first stop when I stumble across an estate sale is to search for vintage paper (books, post cards, music).  My card base is cut from a falling apart music book (I love the torn edge and the wonderful natural aged color of the paper).  I added several Alexandra-Renke items (book mark, washi tape & die cut) together with a Lawn Fawn wooden snowflake and some sticker sentiments.  The layout is my take on the Sunday Stamps Sketch.  This is an amalgam of all the wonderful Christmas songs about Peace and Snow."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says,  "I tend to obsessively hoard vintage sheet music, so this was pretty much a no-brainer for me, lol. I chose some medium-patina paper without lyrics as my base and a fabulous Authentique vintage-style journal card with bells and birds and little swirls of notes as my focal point. Plus an appropriate sentiment from my Idea-Ology holiday sticker book. Nearly everything on this card came from my LSS Paper Anthology, though I am honestly not sure if the Authentique was from a 2018 or 2019 collection"

Link your musical masterpieces here by 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, March 25th. Keyword for galleries and Flickr is JB:20:6.

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