I'm Dreaming of a PINK Christmas

It's the first week of October and thus it's time for PINK CHRISTMAS at Jingle Belles; the annual event where we ask YOU to make and link up as many predominantly PINK holiday cards as you possibly can, because WE (Stephanie and Lauren) are each going to donate $2 per card to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation! 

So what qualifies as a PINK CHRISTMAS card? It's pretty simple: the cards should be newly made, with a winter holiday theme, and they should feature PINK prominently. Does your whole card have to be pink? Certainly not. Can you combine other colors with the pink? Of course! 

Should you have more pink than say two or three baubles on your green tree set against a snowy white background? Well, yes... that would be good, lol. But other than that, we'll leave it to you to decide how much pink, what shade, and how to employ it! Can you link up more than one PINK CHRISTMAS card? Yes, indeed, please do!

Here's what we made this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I started by cutting 3/8" strips from my collection of bright pink GelliArts prints and attaching them to a thin piece of white cardstock.  Next I stamped on top of the painted strips with Gina K. Designs Merry Everything and cut out the tree.  I cut two more trees from the strips edging the triangles with pink ink and attached them to a light pink GelliArts print using the October Sketch from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.  I finished with a sentiment from the same stamp set and added a silver star on top of the tree."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I've recently remembered how much I love the technique of adding salt to a wet panel of watercolor; it makes a pattern/texture similar to Jack Frost painting our windows in the winter. This panel looked so pretty that I didn't want to cover it up very much; thus I only added some Wendy Vecchi holly leaves (from last year's Christmas Add-On to her Not Your Ordinary Card Collection) cut from two luscious shades of self-adhesive felt paper; plus a few Eyelet Outlet Snowflake Brads and tiny Pearl Bling. A dark pink mat and a bit of machine stitching complete my A6 card design."

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We'd love for you to join us in celebrating PINK CHRISTMAS and of course it's for a very good cause, so start making and linking those PINK holiday cards today! JB2521: I'm Dreaming of a PINK Christmas runs until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, October22nd.

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There's No Place Like Home

Home IS where the heart is, especially at holiday time. Thus it was hard to only choose three cards, and we recommend an inspiring scroll through all the entries, so as not to miss any of the fabulous ideas from this fortnight's crop of cards! Meanwhile, here are three that especially caught our eye:

Julene of Julene by Design

...chose woodgrain paper, an amazingly intricate snowflake, and a washi tape sentiment for a card that beautifully sums up the whole winter holiday season!

Tracey of Copics, Stamps and Inky Fingers

...cleverly combined several different sets of dies, cut from the perfect shades of cardstock, to "make a scene" in the best possible way! 

Jolanda Johnstone of The Inque Spot Studio

...brilliantly added this tiny cabin to a holiday wreath, and tied everything together with consistent ink colors and pierced circle dies for a card that says, "WOW" in all caps!

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Many thanks to all who played along, we loved seeing every single card. We'll be back at midnight with a brand new prompt we hope will find you tickled pink! ;)