the twelve days of christmas...

...are our theme this fortnight at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ and we have a couple of options. you can make a card with numerals on it OR you can make a card which features one or more of the things enumerated in the holiday song. here's the complete list, just to remind us of what all of those were:

Twelve drummers drumming
Eleven pipers piping
Ten lords a leaping
Nine ladies dancing
Eight maids a milking
Seven swans a swimming
Six geese a laying
Five gold rings
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree

as it turns out, i actually went with the first option of numerals, which i've incorporated via a fun december calendar journaling card:

ancient chipboard circle frames: gin-x (see i told you they were OLD, lol); december calendar, cheer circle and red dotted paper: simple stories; vintage lady, striped paper and diagonal plaid: authentique; green plaid: american crafts; dimensional holly leaf: prima; scallop border punch: recollections; ink for edges: ranger; adhesives: elmers brand glue tape, 3m foam tape, gluedots

the little calendar wound up being more covered up than i had imagined; but i got very involved in framing up pretty bits of patterned paper with these ancient chipboard circle frames i found buried deeeeeeeeeeeeep in my holiday stash! i really love them, though, so i guess i'm ok with the limited view of the calendar. i'm absolutely smitten with these new dimensional- and very realistic looking!- holly leaves from prima's "christmas in the country" collection. trust me you will definitely be seeing these again (and again... and again...)

hop on over to ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ to see stephanie's card and start planning your own numerical awesomeness for the twelve days of christmas!