Ho! Ho! Ho!

Jingle Belles' is currently celebrating the jolly man himself!

It's a little difficult to get into the Christmas spirit and think about Santa Claus when it's hotter than the surface of the sun outside!  Living in Florida it feels like that right about now......mid June!  With that being said.....

My cards may seem a bit simple, but are effective!  Using some scraps and pieces from multiple Christmas pads, up-cycled cards and some twine, I've added two more cards to the stash for year end!

This one features a Santa gnome from Imaginisce Cottage Christmas Collection.  Papers are from My Minds Eye and Tim Holtz, Sentiment from Unity Stamp Co. and twine from Bella Creationz.  Sketch from My Favorite Things.

This one features the up-cycled front of an old Christmas card.  Papers are from an unknown source (they are pieces from the scrap box), twine from Michael's and dots from Gina Marie designs.  Sketch from Paper Play Sketches.

Text-y Christmas

The creation request at Jingle Belles is for a "text-y Christmas!" 

These are what I've come up with.  Both use upcycled Christmas cards (my friends/families send the best cards)!!

I'm at 29 cards so far!

Vintage Christmas!

The current challenge at Jingle Belles is for a vintage feel!  I don't know about you, but when I think of vintage Christmas cards *GLITTER* comes to mind!  Lots and lots of glittery shimmery goodness!

I have nothing that could be thought of as "vintage" in my stash so off to Pinterest I went!  I found so many images that I may be making vintage cards well into the future!!  Here are a couple that I loved! 

I used star dust stickles for both and many different scraps and sentiments laying around!  Both sentiments are from Unity Stamp Co.  Flowers are from my stash.  Here are more pictures of the sparkle!!

These two make a total of 27 so far for this year!!!

Sketchy!

The latest post from Jingle Belles is based on a sketch!  Use the sketch to create some Christmas card masterpieces!

Lauren, I loved your first card and used it as a basis for my woodland critter card!  Both cards used recycled cards from previous years!

Happy Earth Day!

In celebration of Earth Day, Jingle Belles asks us to create cards using recycled elements.  These cards were created with all recycled or previously owned material.....nothing new!  

 Pictures were recycled Christmas cards from previous years, all papers used were pulled from the "scrap box" (including the gold and silver paper too) at my feet!  

Three Kings

Day late, but hopefully not a dollar short!!  Missed the Jingle Belles challenge by "this much!"  At least they are done!

Cannibalized a few cards from previous years for these two!  The theme was "three kings"....meaning three of something!  Three snowflakes and three reindeer!

Black/White POP! of color

Unity Stamp Co. Mini Challenge is to create a card using Unity Stamps, black and white with a POP! of color.

Here's my take on it......

I used Tulip Wishes and a sentiment from Sweet Elle.  Patterned paper is Echo Park Fashionista.  Sequins are Bella Creationz.  For the sentiment, I used washi tape to mask the bottom half which said "make a wish" and only used the top part.  Embossed with WOW! Neutral
Ultra Shimmer Embossing Glitter.  Used an old MFT Sketch from 2014.