Jingle Belles Pink Christmas

Jingle Belles

I have to admit that this is one of my favorite Jingle Belles Challenges.  Not just because of the generosity of Lauren and Stephanie who have pledged to donate $4 per card to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, but also because we have to use pink in our Christmas card(s).  And not just a little pink, but as much as we want to.

For my first card I went through my box (ha ha! that would be many boxes) of Christmas ribbon and pulled out those that had pink in them.  I snipped some short lengths of each of them and then played with laying them side-by-side until I found a combination that I liked.  Then, using red line tape, I taped them to some Whisper White CS and used my SU tree punch to punch out my tree.  Punching through ribbon is a little more difficult than just punching cardstock and with the added red line tape, it's even a little harder so you'll have to stand up to use your punch.  Giving your butt a break by standing now and then while crafting is a good thing.   

I found the Recollections Pink Paisley paper at Michael's and used it against a card base of Basic Gray.  I added a doily to the side of the front panel to provide a little "quiet" space for the tree.  The sentiment "Joy" is from the Essentials by Ellen Zipper Panel Die collection and actually the die says "enjoy" but I just use JOY.  That was created with Melon Mambo and layered onto the same in Brushed Silver.  I punched the stars (I hope you can see a little of the ones that I scattered all over the panel) out of silver glitter paper using my new SU star border punch.

(See above post for my second card.)