Hello, 2019!

It's nearly time for another season of fun, friendship and inspiration at Jingle Belles and what better way to celebrate than with a brand new header for 2019!

2019 Jingle Belles banner created by Lauren Bergold using Photoshop Elements 9 and the following digital products: reindeer and snowflake: Winter Woodland kit, Celeste Knight, Design House Digital; star and snowflake scatterz: Christmas Shimmer element set, Studio Flergs; frame: Decorative White Frames No. 1, Katie Pertiet, Designer Digitals; background paper: Frosted Winter paper set, Katie Pertiet, Designer Digitals; lace and gingham ribbon: Vintage Christmas kit, Katie Pertiet, Designer Digitals; pearls: Pearl Swirls, Pattie Knox, Designer Digitals; 

And while we're at it, how about a new blog badge as well?

We'll be back at midnight to kick off the New Year, hope to see you then! ♥

Taking Back our ~EIGHTH~ December

It's hard to believe that we've wrapped up yet another ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ season, but here it is November 30th (already?!) and we've been working towards this all year long, so we've got a pretty nice stash of cards built up. We're looking forward to spending December doing all the fun holiday stuff with our friends and family, and we hope you are, as well!

Thanks very much for turning our Holiday card-making into something enjoyable and fun all year long. We'll be back again on January 1, 2019 to start this whole shindig over again, and hope to see you then. Meanwhile we wish you the loveliest of Decembers and the happiest of holidays! Remember, if you have prompt ideas, we'd love for you to join us as a Lovely Guest Star ... just send us an email jinglebellesrock@hotmail.com  ...we really do love making this a group event.

Stephanie's Christmas Card Stash for 2018

Lauren's Holiday Card Stash for 2018

Of course, we don't rule out making another card or two in the next few weeks, and just in case you need to make a few more, as well, we'll leave this linky open until Christmas Eve so you can upload your cards, get a little inspiration and spur each other on to the finish line! ♥

An InLinkz Link-up

Delicious Leftovers

Thanks for sharing your holiday treats with the Jingle Belles ... it was so fun seeing all the different ideas.

Here are a few of our favorite eats & drinks:

Elisabeth of Paper Anthology

die cut and decorated a whole plate of holiday cookies ... 

the addition of the doily and striped twine were both perfect finishing touches.

Jane Willis of Onions and Paper

shared Rudolph the *very* red-nosed reindeer and his bottle of Christmas spirits ... 

we loved how his Santa hat is even a bit askew ... so much holiday spirit!

Amy T of Tsuruta Designs

cleverly combined stamps & dies to produce three different

mugs of holiday cheer ... Oh What Fun!

And now I know we're all waiting do find out who wins that fun prize, right?

The completely random selection is:  ***Lorraine Mastalski of Paper Vernissage***! please email smilynstef@aol.com so Santa can get that on its way! ♥  and for an extra, here's her adorable card.

It's hard to believe this is our LAST official challenge of 2018, isn't it? We've had so much fun this year and we hope you have, as well. Many thanks to everyone who followed along, linked up, left comments and just generally made the first eleven months of our year fly by so quickly! We'll post one last link-up tomorrow, for those who aren't quite finished their cards yet... and of course we'll be back on January 1, 2019 to start this whole thing all over again! Happy happy holidays to everyone! 

XOXOXOX

Stephanie and Lauren

Christmas Feast

We're still celebrating the food & drink of the Holidays this week at Jingle Belles (and remember, we've got a little prize for one lucky participant).

Here's what we're dining on this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "Prima Marketing's "Santa Baby" collection recently arrived at my LSS, Paper Anthology, in Kenvil, NJ, and I'm completely obsessed already. I suppose it's a good thing it wasn't released earlier in the year, or most of my holiday cards would bear an eerie similarity to each other lol. I've mixed also in some of Prima's "Havana" collection from this summer as well as some older, more neutral, papers to ground the design a little more. My layout was inspired by the current sketch saturday (#540)."

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I couldn't resist going straight for the Christmas candy (pretty much like I do at any Christmas gathering) ... that's me, Sweet but a bit Twisted (where's the dark chocolate)."

And the Jingle Belles are already looking forward to inspiring your with a year of holiday cardmaking in 2019 ... as we continue taking back December one Holiday Card at a time.

Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding

Description:Of course by “bring us” we mean metaphorically, in card form.

It need not be figgy pudding as such … ANY type of holiday food (or beverage) will do … as long as it's festive food (or drink) stuffs.

And for one lucky participant in our final prompt of 2018, we've got a little Holiday Prize ... a Taylored Expressions Cross Stitch Embossing Folder and Magenta Floral Holiday Trio Stamp.

Here are our delicious creations: