My Sweet EMBOSS-able You is our newest theme at Jingle Belles. We're creating using texture embossing or heat embossing (or both if you're an over-achiever). I embossed white cardstock with the Spellbinders Forevergreen Holiday embossing folder. Next I applied ink using Catherine Pooler Deck the Halls Green ink. Finally, I sprayed the panel with Crafter's … Read more
The newest challenge at Shopping our Stash is Button, Button, Who's Got the Button – creating a card with at least one button. I die cut a rectangle of cardstock, and then covered it with white buttons attached with glue dots. I added a Spellbinders butterfly sticker on top of the buttons. … Read more
My friend Beverly & I have been enjoying our Spellbinders Advent Calendars. These were the two little stamps that were included behind door #2. I stamped them in Black Amalgam ink and colored with Alcohol Markers. I looked and there aren't many grey flowers in real gardens, but the white seemed a bit stark, so … Read more
Hard to believe we're already at our final prompt of 2023 at Jingle Belles. This week we're asking you to create cards inspired by our fabulous Lauren-designed blog banner for 2023. I went with a pink color palette, white snowflakes, pink glittery letters and swapped the texty background for a musical one. … Read more
The Can You Handle the Pressure? Challenge optional theme is Trees. I took a wander through my embossing folder collection and found Forevergreen pine tree branches embossing folder by Spellbinders. I embossed Ranger Core'dinations Cardstock and sanded the raised texture for contrast. I die cut some silver vellum with stitched circles die cuts … Read more
Our newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Welcome to the Jungle – create a card featuring any wild animal – can be anything from polar bear, koala, tiger, elephant all the way to iguanas and parrots. I chose to feature a wonderful wild Rhinoceros from Carta Bella Zoo Adventure Journaling Cards. … Read more
It's the time of year for Heart Cards, and that's the Challenge theme at Just Us Girls. I started by playing with some new Japanese Sakura Shimmery Pastels that I found at my local Create/Exchange yesterday to create a scribbled and blended background … absolutely gorgeous color and shimmer. As the packaging noted, they … Read more
Since Lauren & I started Jingle Belles in 2010, I've been recapping my five favorite Christmas cards of the year (you can find 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 here) … I always enjoy revisiting my creations for the year. Here are this year's favorites in no particular order: 1. This card was for our We Wish you … Read more
Day 7 of Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas is – (It Must Have Been Ol') Santa Claus with Heather Meeson) I loved Heather's Ho Ho Ho Shaker Tag, which is also perfect for the Shake It Up Challenge at Stay Crafty with a Blog Named Hero. I used Spellbinders Die-Lites … Read more
I had some left-over Leaves from my Gel Press Prints using the Spellbinders Autumn Leaves Etched Die Cuts on my table, so I built a card around this with inspiration & a sketch from the Inspired by Challenge. The leaf paper and golden map paper are both from Carta Bella Autumn papers by … Read more