This week at Jingle Belles we're asking you to make a card that contains at least one see-through element. It can be a glass embellishment, an acrylic transparency, some vellum, acetate or "ghost" shapes, clear stickers, Lucite buttons, shrink plastic… whatever you like. If you can see through it (AND figure out how to attach it to … Read more
Oh Christmas Tree is the next prompt at Jingle Belles. We're asking you to create a card featuring a Christmas Tree or Pine Branches. I decided to revisit a Christmas Tree design I first made in 2008. I cut four rectangles from green pieces of designer paper in the BasicGrey Evergreen Collection to create my … Read more
We're doing Stars &/or Stripes for Christmas at Jingle Belles this week. I chose to go with both (of course). My card started with the epitome of stripes for the holiday … that cute heart made of Candy Canes in the journaling card from the Merry and Bright Collection by Mintay Papers. The … Read more
This week's Jingle Belles Prompt is All Bundled Up where we're asking you to use lots of layers on your card design. I grabbed the remaining papers in my stash from the long-discontinued BasicGrey Evergreen Collection and layered six of the paper designs to create my card, including the sentiment cut from one of the … Read more
When I made these Birthday cards on Saturday, I realized just how many paper scraps I had … so I decided to do another paper scrap card for Makeover Monday. I took my inspiration from this holiday card from September 2011. I used the same Top Note Die with scraps focusing on my blues … Read more
The current Memory Box Challenge is all about Friendship. I started by die cutting my Memory Box Hugs Loving Heart Die 3 times (twice from raspberry cardstock and once from light pink). I layered it a variety of ways before deciding on the final off-set outcome. I attached it to a piece of vintage … Read more
So much to love in the May Release from Technique Junkies … and remember all new stamps are 15% off through the 8th of May and you can stack another 10% off with my discount code of TJ10Stephanie. I really love the new Graduation Greetings Set of 11 images … so perfect for … Read more
I created a quick design for the Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Challenge … making some Thank You Cards. The stamps & coordinating die cut are from Reverse Confetti Kindness Cards & Kindness Cards Confetti Cuts (I miss BasicGrey papers so much).
The theme at Jingle Belles this week is Mele Kalikimaka, a tropical Hawaiian holiday greeting, so to celebrate the tropics, we're making cards featuring flowers … could be a tropical hibiscus … or a traditional poinsettia … or anything in between. I loved the various floral designs in an unopened package of Pebbles Cardstock Shapes … Read more
We're still creating PEACE-ful cards at Jingle Belles this week. I started my card with this PEACE Bingo card. Next I went searching through my doilies … because clearly a Bingo card needs a doily. Next I found the scrap of texty packaging (it makes me feel peaceful when I recycle) and an already trimmed … Read more