Delicious Leftovers

It turns out there are LOTS of crafters who save up their "Holiday Leftovers" and have some pretty brilliant ways to use them! So if you haven't checked out the Readers' Gallery yet, we highly recommend taking a good scroll through all the entries, so as not to miss any of the fabulous inspiration. Meanwhile, here are three cards that caught our eye:

Tracy aka @crafty_whoistracy on Instagram

...shows that small dies + colorful scraps are an outstanding way to make a unique and beautiful background pattern!

Jacinda of LazzieJ's Crafting Corner

...rescued a vivid black and gold embossed panel from a crafty experiment and gave it a beautiful new life as a festive coffee cup on this clever card and giftcard holder!

Marina of My Perfect Life

...combined unrelated leftovers from her work desk and made a masterpiece of both whimsy and minimalism. Seriously... who could resist that reindeer?!

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Many thanks to all who played along, we loved seeing every single card. We'll be back at midnight with the final prompt of the 2025 Jingle Belles season and we hope you'll stop by and check it out! 

More Leftovers? (Yes, Please!)

We're still rounding up those Crafty Leftovers and using them to make fun and festive holiday cards. Here's what we made this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "I found a couple of A2 sized panels in my "leftovers" box: one white with pierced snowflakes; and one red with embossed dots. I'd trimmed them to 1/3 and 2/3 respectively and started trying to decide which proportion I liked better when it hit me: I like BOTH! Luckily I had plenty of red and white scraps, which I started trimming into little flags and attaching at the dividing point... in the card equivalent of wainscotting, lol. I adhered two red metallic mats to two white A6 cards; found two red and white circular sentiments and diecut one red and one white scalloped circle from sticky back felt et voila!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "One of the things I don't love about leftover creating is that I have no idea the original source of all of these bits, but I did manage to make a second card entirely from pieces in my leftover bin.  I love the silver die cut sentiment (I remember I die cut several using my friend Chris' die set when we were creating together, but have no memory of the maker).  I also love how the die cut stitching looks on that thin piece of wood.  The larger piece is die cut from one of my Gelliarts prints, and I love how you can see the variation from the rolled-on blue paint."

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Need a little more inspiration, check out the beautiful cards already in the Readers' Gallery; then link up your own scraptastic masterpiece(s) on the original Holiday Leftovers post.

Holiday Leftovers

One of the best things about a big holiday meal is the LEFTOVERS, don't you agree?! But in a cardmaking sense, when we Jingle Belles say "Holiday Leftovers" it means we're creating cards using all those leftover offcuts and scraps of patterned paper, alphabet stickers, little snips of ribbon, extra diecuts that didn't get used when cut... you know, all of those tiny things we save because they're too pretty to throw away? Well this is the fortnight let's drag them all out and see how many we can use on holiday cards! (Be sure to tell us in your post what leftovers you've used.)

Here's what we made this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I've never done a great job of saving leftovers, but this year I designated a container and put all of my bits and bobs in it throughout the year.  I challenged myself to make a card with only pieces from my leftover pile, and I was successful.  I only added the sentiment stickers and an enamel dot in the middle of the snowflake to finish."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "For this card, almost all my leftovers are older Wendy Vecchi items. The poinsettia is from her MAKE ART Doodle Christmas Stamp Set (it was embossed but not colored); the small flowers (from Floral Doodles) were stamped and colored on sticky-back canvas tape, I just needed to cut them out. The square panel of sheet music was attached to a 6" card base that for some reason didn't get used; and the MERRY Chippie had been white-embossed with her Perfectly Plaid Background Stamp, but the embossing wasn't very prominent... (likely why it became a "leftover" instead of an element) ...though I discovered I liked it once it had a coat of Leaf Green Archival Ink. The additional sparkly foliage is newly cut, using the Xmas Add-On from Not Your Ordinary Card Collection. The washi tape is from an older roll that I *thought* I'd be finishing up but no, there's still some... wait for it... leftover!"

Link your Leftover Masterpieces right here by 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, November 19th. ♥

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