oh little town of bethlehem...

one of the sneaky things challenge blogs sometimes do is make the title of a challenge just a teeeeeeeeeeny bit obscure. we don't do it intentionally to see who will actually read the whole challenge post... well, ok, maybe we do that once in a while, lol. i mention all of this because this week's ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ prompt is called, "oh little town of bethlehem" which you might think means we want to see religious images, but actually, we want to see holiday cards with at least one building on them. which at first seems kind of tough, but when you start looking through your stash, i expect you'll find --like i did-- that you have patterned paper with cozy christmas cottages, and stamps of gingerbread houses, and stickers with santa's magical castle at the north pole; not to mention cityscapes, eskimo igloos, lovely snow-covered churches or yes, even a stable with a manger in it! so there's a lot of ways to go with this. here's my card:

another great source of christmas building images: snowglobes!!! this one and its attendant embellishments and sentiment came from a pack of my mind's eye cardstock elements... some of which are very sparkly, which i love. i grabbed papers from a couple of different manufacturers that just happened to match, and called it a day.

i've used the incredibly lovely sketch saturday week #428 to guide my layout; i'd also like to thank those lovely ladies for the shout out on my pink and grey card from last week.

stephanie has a gorgeous card to inspire you, as well. why not hop over to ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ and check it out, darlings?!