Merry Manly Christmas!

So many magnificent masculine designs, we are always impressed with the way our fellow Jingle Belles rise to every challenge! As always, it was hard to choose only three cards to feature, but here are a few we're especially inspired by:

Lisa of This Sweet Madness

...chose a fab image, a classic holiday color palette and swapped feminine bling for masculine metallics; Brilliant in every sense!

Lynda of Ideas and Paper...

...pretty much had us at adorable beverage-drinking elves, but her amazing coloring skills take this over the top!

Cornelia of Stempel Spass (Fun Stamping)

...made two versions of this minimalist masculine masterpiece, using both the positive and negative sections of her skillfully ink-blended diecuts and so we were doubly impressed!

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And now we're all excited to find out who's won

 that fun little prize of Penny Black stamps!

The Random Number Generator has chosen...

(drumroll please!)

Lucky Number 3!

which means our winner is...

Deb Horst of Sendable Sentiments

CONGRATS!

Deb, please send your snail mail info to

llaurenb (at) hotmail (dot) com

and we'll get that in the mail ASAP!

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Many thanks to everyone who joined in, we loved seeing every single card!

An extra big thank you to the lovely gang at the

  Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge, 

we loved hanging out with you this month!

We'll be back at Midnight with a brand new prompt and we'll be teaming up with another fun card challenge blog for the month of July, so we'd LOVE for you to join us!

Merry Christmas, Man!

Here at Jingle Belles we're still making holiday cards with a masculine vibe, and since we're still teamed up with the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge, if you add some coffee, tea or cocoa to your card you can also link up on their blog as well. Remember, there are (randomly awarded) prizes on both sites:  CCCC's is from their Super Sponsor, Rubbernecker Stamps; while we Jingle Belles have some fun Penny Black goodies that you can see on the Original Post... which is where the Linky Tool is as well! 

Meanwhile, here's what we made this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "I added lots of distressing to my Carta Bella journal card, three mats and two accent strips for extra texture and interest, plus an Eyelet Outlet Pine Tree and Deer Brad, then finished off with a sticker sentiment. It's not the fanciest card I've ever made, but it's flat and mailable (possibly needing an extra ounce, lol!) and it's another addition to my holiday card stash while we're still only in June... so I'm callin' it a win!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "On my recent travels, I picked-up fun Reminisce Cocoa papers that included this big cup of cocoa sticker.  I added some red cardstock, a Pinkfresh Studio Rounded and Braided Rectangle die cut and a chocolate stamped sentiment from Simon Says Stamp The Man, The Myth."

Masculine Christmas (with Coffee)

For our next prompt at Jingle Belles, we're still teaming-up with the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge. This time we Belles are looking for Masculine Christmas cards... and if you add Coffee, Tea or Cocoa you can also link-up at CCCC.

Here are our masculine holiday cards for this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie Says, "I colored the Rubbernecker Stamps Christmas Cheer Gnomes (I love the tiny stamps for the license plate) with Alcohol Ink markers and paired them with a sentiment from STAMPlorations Caffeinated Christmas.  I used the layout from Sketch Saturday with a piece of marbled paper that Lauren and I made on her deck years ago."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I used Rubbernecker's Coffee Bean Background, stamped in a deep rich brown, then added their Coffee Cup Die pieced in black and white, adorned with a strip of festive red and green holiday plaid, and accented with an Eyelet Outlet Santa Brad, a Sleigh with a couple of Gifts and some Coffee Bean Brads. My sentiment is taken from a meme I spotted somewhere on Pinterest, I used my classic Dymo Labeler to create the text."

Caffeinated Christmas has a fabulous prize on offer from their Super Sponsor, Rubbernecker Stamps; so not to be out done, we Jingle Belles have a little prize too, which will be awarded to one lucky crafter who links up here at Jingle Belles this time: it's Penny Black's "Santa's Visit" red rubber stamp AND their "Jolly Snippets" clear sentiment stamp set.

So Remember: if your card is Masculine + Christmas you can link up with us here at Jingle Belles; if it's Coffee + Christmas, you can link up with Caffeinated Christmas; if you incorporate Masculine + Coffee + Christmas you can link up on both blogs for a chance at two different sets of prizes!!! Our Jingle Belles prompt will wrap up at 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, June 28th and the keyword for galleries and Flickr is JB2313.

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