Friday, February 11, 2011

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! ♥

22 comments:

  1. WOW!! WOW!! WOW!!! Wooooooooo!!! Holy cow, mamacita!! This sooo totally ROCKS!! Love the gold & the transparancies and all that shimmery yumminess!!

    Absolutely freakin' LOVE this card!! Just stunningly gorgeous! :) I'd say it has no red!! ;)

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  2. Way to go Lisa ! Great Challenge

    and Laura, This is a fantastic card. I'll send you my snail mail addy and you don't even have to wait til December to mail it to me....

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  3. oh and I know your name is Lauren....just seeing if you were paying attention

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  4. Oh card is AAAAAAMMMMAAAAAAAZIIIIING!!!!!!!!!!
    Lovely and delicate!!!!
    XOXO

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  5. This is amazingly stunningly beautiful!!! Great challenge too!

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  6. Such a FUN challenge...love your elegant card...I'm actually surprised that your card isn't an explosion of pink?! Haha....happy friday!

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  7. Your card is GORGEOUS!! WOW! TFS!

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  8. What an amazing card! Just be-u-ti-ful! Now that's some inspiration!

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  9. OH wow, I am loving every bit of this, isn't that the BEST christmas card ever?

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  10. This IS the best Christmas card ever! So magical and sparkly!

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  11. What a beauty this is! Great challenge.

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  12. good grief girl this is so CLASSY!!!!! LOVE it :)

    and it was a FUN challenge :)

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  13. i just popped over here to tell you how much i LOVE-LOVE-LOVE this card, i've been thinking about it ever since you posted it at JBR. i can't believe i've not been here before; how did that happen? so now i have to go think of dragon names...

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  14. This card is so elegant and amazingly pretty. NO red??? EEP!! I'm totally drawing a blank. Its going to take me forever this week to figure out something. I hope I can get it together quickly!! I need to be getting myself some clear cards to use. Where do you get yours? Do you just make yours out of acetate paper or something or buy clear cards or what?

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  15. I'm a moron, I just looked you used a hambly transperency? Interesting..

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  16. i saw your card on the jingle belles page and i love love love it, lauren!!! it is absolutely fabulous and beautiful! love the layered snowflake, it's so pretty. thanks for sharing! *hugs* steph :)

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  17. OOOOOOOOHHHH. I love this. It's so very elegant. There is something about gold and cream that makes my little heart just thump a little harder. GORGEOUS.

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  18. I love this card. It's beautiful darling.

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  19. This is totally stunning - I think I need to keep this so that I can lift it sometime! gorgeous

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  20. I love this card - it so cool looking!

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  21. Having had that problem with the camera/ability I can absolutely imagine just how *stunning* this card is in person! THIS is what I think of when I think of Lauren style! (except there's no pink - but I get that it would be seriously skirting the rules) Gorgeous for sure, gonna be jealous of whomever you send this to!

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  22. i so <3 LOVE <3 your transparency cards and this is no exception. Those trees is so gorgeous and with the snowflakes on, well just perfect.
    Hugs

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