The new theme at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie is all about Santa. I broke out this adorable Santa die cut from Happy Holidays Doodlebug Designs. I die cut his hat from a scrap of polka dot designer paper. The background is a vintage Cuttlebug Embossing folder and sentiment is from Unity Stamp … Read more
I’m thrilled to be Guest Designing for the Caffeinated Christmas Challenge in December. I chose to make a card using the stamps and dies from Christmas Cocoa Mugs by Super Sponsor Whimsy Stamps. I stamped the mugs and marshmallows and colored them with my Ohuhu Alcohol Ink Markers. I paired them with the sentiment from … Read more
I had to search to see what color the berries are on Mistletoe. In my mind, they were white, but the Gina K. Designs Layered Mistletoe Stencils showed them in red. Turns out both is true, as is a pinkish-white, so that’s sort of what I went with for my card (although one of the … Read more
I sorted out the Christmas Cards I need for work this year, and I realized a have quite a few more that I need to get done to go in the mail. When Lauren & I started Jingle Belles, 48 cards paired with the 12 cards I made with the Ellen Hutson 12 Tags of … Read more
For our final week of Jingle Belles 2025, we’re still making cards inspired by our blog banner (designed by the oh-so-talented Lauren). I focused in on that pine tree on the right side of the banner. I had a piece of leftover designer paper on my studio table from my snowman card (from Stamperia Arctic … Read more
I grew-up in a house filled with with music from albums playing every day, so when I saw the Hero Arts Handmade Holiday Workshop kit, I had to have it. I really love the album die and record player together with the sentiment stamped in the center. I used foam tape for the album arm … Read more
The Stay Crafty with Hero Challenge for November is to use Bits and Pieces (Scraps) on your project. The Seize the Birthday Challenge was to use Christmas Supplies on your card. I decided to combine the two. I went to my designer paper scrap bin and found scraps of three different holiday papers that I … Read more
The final 2025 prompt for Jingle Belles is Banner Holiday – to make a card inspired by our 2025 Jingle Belles Blog Banner. I started with my words made with two different fonts of alphabet stickers. Next, I added lots of die cut glitter stickers framing the words. Then I die cut my panel with … Read more
At Jingle Belles, we’re still creating with holiday leftovers this week. 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 … Read more
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 … Read more