North Pole Medal Winners

We loved seeing all of the characters from the North Pole ... here are a few of our favorites.

Candy Blake

transformed a fabulous vintage Santa image
(you can download on her blog)

into this wonderful card design ... we love how she used

Liquid Pearls and Stickles to highlight the holly berries.

Bobbie Trost

rocked the monochromatic color palette with this adorable reindeer.

Check out her blog post for tips on filling in spaces on

solid images & to see the fabulous

gift card holder pocket she created on the

inside of her card.

Shanna the Banana Stamper

combined multiple Santa images

with lots of fabulous stamping details.

The post marks remind us of all of those

letters to Santa mailed each year.

Come back at midnight tonight for another fun Jingle Belles prompt ... as we keep taking back Christmas one holiday card at a time.

Inhabitants of the North Pole

We're back at the North Pole this week with our Santa Baby prompt ... creating cards featuring Santa, Mrs. Claus, Elves, Reindeer ... anyone you might find at Santa's North Pole home.

Here are our cards for this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "i think by now everyone pretty much knows that i ♥LOVE♥ vintage papercrafting ingredients, whether they be "the real thing" like this santa i clipped from an old christmas card, or new product that's designed with a retro vibe like these jenni bowlin papers. something else i love is a really great sketch--this card was inspired by unscripted sketch #169 and it could not possibly have been easier or more fun to put together!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I went with a whimsical design this week ... 

with a vibrant pink paper-pieced reindeer with touches of silver glitter.  

I added a *magical* EAD Designs rub-on to complete the layout

with Echo Park Holly Jolly Christmas papers."

Remember, you have until 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, August 8th to link-up your Santa Baby creation.

Santa Baby

This week at Jingle Belles we're celebrating Santa Baby ... we're asking you to create a card featuring Santa, Mrs. Claus, Elves, Reindeer ... any denizen you might find at Santa's North Pole abode.

Here's what we created this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I went with an elegant reindeer prancing in the snowflakes.  After the more traditional holiday colors of last week, I chose a coral-brown-tan color combination from this week's CR84FN with a sketch from The Paper Players.  The button is from Paper Trey Ink with a little chocolate twine."


Lauren's Card


Lauren says, "believe it or not, stef and i don't confer before we make and post our cards, we just somehow usually manage to go in completely different directions, it's one of the things i love most about our blogging partnership! i guess i was missing the idea of red AND green together, so i made up for it this week; plus, i just ALWAYS love me some pink, especially in holiday cards! :) this month at merry mondays one can choose ANY past sketch, so i went with challenge #6 from back in february" 

Whether you feature Santa himself, or one of his North Pole buddies... whether your colors are traditional or unique... whether your style is elegant simplicity or funky-n-festive... we do hope you'll link up your own "Santa Baby" card between now and 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, August 8th. Keyword for galleries and our flickr group is JB:12:16.