GOING PINK FOR THE JINGLE BELLES -- OCTOBER 19, 2021

Hello friends!  Welcome back to my blog!  It's that time of the year again where those fun ladies over at the Jingle Belles blog, Stef and Lauren, host a very special challenge!  Of course, I mean the PINK challenge to raise money for breast cancer research!  For every card made for this challenge, each of these wonderful ladies will donate $2 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.  Isn't that wonderful?  I wanted to make more cards for the challenge, but I ran out of time.  I did manage to make 3 though:

The first 2 are mini slimlines made with the Jolly Christmas Tree die from Lawn Fawn.  The first one was cut from pastel pink glitter cardstock, and I inlaid the ornament shapes into it from the holographic card stock I used for the tree in card #2.  I thought it would be cute to add the tree topper as well, so I glued that on top of the pink layer.  The Tim Holtz sentiment was also cut from the pink glitter cardstock, as well as 3 layers of 110lb white cardstock that are underneath the pink.  The tree itself I popped up on foam tape.  The blue ink blended card front was done using Prize Ribbon oxide ink.  

Card #2 has a background blended with Kitsch Flamingo oxide ink, and some Picked Raspberry at the bottom for a deeper pink.  The tree and the sentiment are all done the same; 2 layers of 110lb white underneath the holographic cardstock.

For card #3, I decided to go a completely different route, and pulled out the Poinsettia stencil from Honey Bee Stamps.  I used Spun Sugar and Kitsch Flamingo oxides for my "petals", and the "leaves" were blended with Twisted Citron and either Lucky Clover or Evergreen Bough...I don't remember which one now!  I just lightly went over the circle centers so I could see to cover them with gold Stickles.  All my layers were die cut using Spellbinders card creator dies.  I created the sentiment with Lawn Fawn's Oliver's Stitched ABCs, and the same shiny gold cardstock as the layer beneath the main panel.  I added 4 layers of 110lb white cardstock underneath the letters for lots of dimension!  All of these cards look so much better IRL than in these photos! 😕

--CHALLENGES--

Sparkles Christmas:  Flora/ Fauna (third card)

ABC Christmas:  U for under the tree/ V for vocabulary (I'm doing V w/card #3)

CCAYR:  Something beginning with S or T (T for trees)

12 Months of Christmas Link Up #82:  ATG 

Merry Little Christmas #39:  ATG Christmas (2/5)

Love to Craft #63:  ATG (3/5)

Mix it Up #54:  ATG (3/5)

613 Avenue Create #11:  ATG (2/5)

Crafts Galore Encore #92:  ATG (3/3)

Classic Design #10:  ATG

The Paper Funday #34:  ATG (2/4)

A Perfect Time to Craft:  ATG

The Creative Crafters #45:  ATG (2/3)

Let's Craft and Create #176:  ATG

The Corrosive Challenge #10:  ATG (2/4)

Dragonfly Dreams:  In the PINK

Cute Card Thursday #693:  ATG 

Word Art Wednesday #513 - #514:  ATG (2/5)

The Holly and Ivy #103:  ATG (2/3)

C.R.A.F.T Challenge #615:  Non-Traditional Christmas colors (PINK!)

Polkadoodles #42:  ATG (2/2)

Digi Choosday #42:  ATG (1/2)

CHNC #564:  ATG Christmas

The Outlawz Festive Friday:  Christmas

I am a bit late getting these linked up to the challenge, as tomorrow is the last day!  If you hurry, you could probably get one done...the challenge is open until 6pm EST.  That's all for me today...thanks for stopping by, and until next time...

Stay Healthy, Take Care, and God Bless!

~ Marie