Belles Are Ringing!

The bells and the Belles are ringing out with Christmas cheer as we survey the beautiful Readers' Gallery this fortnight. If you're looking for inspiration, be sure to have a scroll through all of the cards, we assure you it's worth the trip. In the meantime, here are three that especially caught our eye this time:

Carol of Inky Fingers

...added beautiful dimension and shading to her colorful red jingle bells, then added a coordinating sentiment and just enough stenciled background foliage to give them context.

Meghan Kennihan of Made by Meghan K

...made not one, not two, but THREE gorgeous cards using the same ingredients... but with unique sketches and colorways for each; what a beautiful bounty of bells!

Deb Horst of Sendable Sentiments

...added touches of red and green to her elegant neutral color palette and topped the whole thing off with textural twine and REAL jingle bells!

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And now to award that little Bell-centric prize:

The Random Number Generator has selected Lucky #2 which means that

LeAnne Pugliese is our Lucky Winner!

LeAnne, please send your snail mail info to llaurenb (at) hotmail (dot) com

and we'll get that prize in to you ASAP!

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We'll be back at midnight with a brand new prompt we hope will inspire you to cleverly corral some cute and Christmassy critters!

Ring the Bells for the Belles

We're still creating holiday cards featuring Bells this week, and we'd love for you to join us.

Here's how the Belles rang the Bells:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "This holiday bell sticker was the last in a pack from... ok, I confess it's so old I don't know WHERE it came from, but it was perfect to pair with this bell-themed Simple Stories journal card plus papers from Basic Grey and Authentique. There are some Eyelet Outlet Poinsettia and Holly Brads to add texture and interest; plus those golden mats are a bit shimmery in real life!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "This week I went with a little Jingle Belles snark using Unity Stamp Company Bells & Holly with a sentiment from Tim Holtz Snarky Cat Christmas." 

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Remember, you have until 6pm EST on Wednesday to link-up and join the fun. Everyone who does will have a shot at this sweet little Bell-centric prize! 

Christmas Bells those Christmas Bells

This fortnight we're asking you to break out your Bells for the Belles and create a card that includes some sort of bell.

Here's how the Belles used Bells this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I die cut lots of Impression Obsession Jingle Bells from silver metallic cardstock and used some foam tape under some to create dimension on my purple glitter paper card base.  I used a sentiment from Kristina Werner's Merry Trees stamp set to finish the design."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I got out my Impression Obsession Retro Ornaments die set (because one of the ornaments is bell-shaped) as well as my tan/gold/neutral scraps folder and had a lot of fun putting together a set of sparkly ornaments, dangling from pearl bling. And what could be a better background for a bell-themed card than a re-sized color copy of the sheet music for "Jingle Bells"?!

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And now, how about an appropriately Bell-related prize that one lucky cardmaker is going to score, just for linking up with us this fortnight? It's Honey Bee's Layering Holiday Bells die set; Memory Box's 6x6 Madras Plaid paper pad and Spellbinders' Winter Wonderland Sentiment diecuts.

Link your Bell-centric creations right here. JB2510: Christmas Bells, Those Christmas Bells runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, May 21st.

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