Blog Header Heroes

We loved seeing how you were inspired by Lauren's impeccably designed Jingle Belles Blog Banner. Here's a trio of our favorites:

Mary Marsh of The Charmed Life

incorporated holiday trees, snow flakes, glitter and 

wonderful shades of green into her fabulous card design.

Karen Dunbrook of Snippets

created some Alcohol Ink magic in all shades of green and

perfectly paired it with snowflakes, bling and a die cut frame.

Lorraine of Paper Vernissage

added impressive amounts of both texture and upcycled 

elements in her elegant winter snowscape.

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Many thanks to everyone who played along on the last 2021 OFFICIAL Jingle Belles challenge. 

We'll be back at midnight with a wrap up post and photos of our cardpiles from this fun season!

 

A Blog Header Holiday

We're still making holiday cards inspired by our 2021 blog banner (look upwards ^ to the top of the page for a reminder!) and you're still invited to join the fun. Here's what we made this week: 

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "I used an ancient, beautiful Darice embossing folder to add swirly snow to a piece of dark green Bo Bunny Double Dot paper, then sanded the embossing to make the flakes stand out even more. I cut Hero Arts' Snowflake Cluster from white glitter cardstock and added Eyelet Outlet Pearls in several sizes, scattered all over."

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I started with a dark green piece of designer paper from the Patina Collection of the essential Craft Papers by Craft Consortium that I thought captured the feel and color of the banner.  Next I stamped Impression Obsession Sketched Trees three times starting with the first stamping in Deck the Halls Green at the top and second generation stamping in the middle.  I finished with one more stamping in white craft ink along the bottom.  I die cut the sentiment from Impression Obsession Christmas Stitched Words from Silver Glitter paper and then backed it with a white/ivory glitter paper.  I finished with two snowflakes from Impression Obsession Snowflakes Die Set cut from ivory shimmer paper.  I topped them with Eyelet Outlet Snowflake Bling."

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Scroll down to the original post to see the readers' gallery and link up your own blog-banner-inspired cards by next Wednesday, December 1st!

Banner Holiday

For our last challenge of the 2021 season, we're making holiday cards inspired by this year's blog banner, which looks (as you may already have noticed, lol!) a bit like this:

You can choose any elements that appeal to you: the color palette, the pine trees, the sparkly letters, the snowflakes... just be sure to tell us in your post what inspired you, if it isn't obvious.

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I loved the rich all-over green of this year's Jingle Belles banner, so that is what I tried to emulate with my card design.  I used four different colors of Green Alcohol Ink on Silver Alcohol Ink Cardstock including Couture Creations Glitter Alcohol Ink (so cool).  Next I tried to use Alcohol Ink Removal ink with snowflakes to get the subtle snowflake effect of the banner, but you can just barely see them.  So instead, I added one large Simon Says Stamp Glitter snowflake and three smaller snowflake buttons with green enamel dots in the center. For the texty element of the banner, I die cut Simon Says Stamp Joyful from Vellum and the silver inside of a tissue box to complete my design."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I took a little bit of all the main elements from the banner: a green, slightly grungy background flecked with snow; dark shadowy trees combined with snowy white ones; and pale glitter letters for my sentiment. It's a pretty literal translation, but I like how it turned out!"

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Link your blog-banner-inspired cards here by 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, December 1st. Keyword for galleries and Flickr is JB-21-24. 

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