jingle belles: CARD SEVEN

this week at JINGLE BELLES we've got another lovely guest star, the uber-talented lisa of papergrace designs, who wrote in* with a most clever suggestion: it's sort of a REVERSE color-palette challenge; instead of telling us which colors we have to use, it tells us that which we may not. uh-huh, you read that right. this week miss lisa gives us,

"no red, she said!"

how cool is that??! ♥♥♥

i decided i wanted to see how far i could "push the envelope" color-wise..but...still use mostly store-bought, purpose-made CHRISTMAS STUFF from my stash. it turned out, i could go prettttttttttttttttty darned far; and except for some ordinary glitter thickers, i used ALL holiday products. (nice!!) here's m'card now:

(transparency: hambly; patterned paper: pink paislee, prima, best creation, ki; stickers: jolees, k&co, martha stewart; letters: american crafts; brad: mme; ink: colorbox; adhesives: tombow monorunner, 3m foam tape)

i fell in love with the combination of the glittery gold snowflake transparency and those fabulous trees i fussy-cut from this paper. after that, i just sort of built up the design: a few layers of punched snowflakes, held on with a brad... sparkly, laser-cut stickers to echo the snow theme; and the aforementioned glittery white letters to form my (minimal) sentiment.

finally, a matted label INSIDE the card to write on ...and... to emphasize the frame shape on the transparency. i wish i had the ability/camera that could capture how much sparkle and how many layers of light this thing gives off. i guess you'll have to trust me when i say that it's MUCH more glittery in real life! :)

and now it's YOUR TURN: how will you interpret, "no red, she said" ?! will you go craaaaaaaaaaaaayzee with a zillion neon brights, or pare all the way down into monochromatic tones? will you go out on a limb thematically as well as in your palette, or stick to something more traditional? anything goes except...well...you know... ick-snay with the ed-ray!!! :)

*she emailed us at jinglebellesrock [@] hotmail [dot] com...and you can too! we'd love to hear your suggestions for a prompt, and if we use your idea, we'll invite you to be our lovely guest star for that week! sound fun??!?! then make with the emailing, (cyber)post haste! ♥