Friday, August 30, 2019

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!

5 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! Loving all the yummy layers.

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  2. Fabulous prompt and an equally fabulous card. love how you used all those bits of paper and the leaves look really nice.

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  3. I'd just found a Project Life card in the back of the cupboard and then discovered Jingle Belles - it was meant to be! Your card is a brilliant way to use a journalling card and I love the idea of putting snippets of designer paper into frames too. Thanks for the inspiration :) So glad I found your challenge and am cracking on with those Christmas cards now!

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  4. love all your little details :) how is your eyesight after all the tiny bits of paper?? ;)

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