No Time Like the Presents

Woohoo... the Jingle Belles (Stephanie and myself) are back for our sixteenth (16th!) year of holiday mayhem, and we'd be absolutely thrilled if you were along for the ride. We love that we get to use our large selection of holiday papercrafting products all year long.

Here's how it works: every other Friday at 12am EST (except for today, since we always love starting on January 1st) we'll post a new prompt to inspire your next holiday card; you can join us for one OR you can join us for all. Then the following Friday, we'll post a second card inspired by the same prompt, in case you need a little more inspiration. 

And VOILA! At the end of November, we'll each have 48 holiday cards ready to give to our friends, family and co-workers.

The first prompt of the year is "No Time Like the Presents" so before you put away your gift wrapping supplies, pull out some of your favorites (or that paper from a gift you unwrapped that was just too pretty to recycle) and make a card featuring wrapping paper or holiday gift tags.

Here's what I made this week:

My friend Gina wrapped her gifts in paper with these adorable holiday character mugs all over it, so OF COURSE I had to unwrap verrrrrrrrrry carefully to save as many as possible. I like to back giftwrap and other thin materials with cardstock, which is what I did here, and then I could fussycut and pop them on foam tape for a little dimension. The sentiment came from a page of Lawn Fawn gift tags; I had intended to use the whole thing, but it was just too big; thus I trimmed it to fit on my 5.5" square card.

Hop over to Jingle Belles to see Stephanie's beautiful giftwrap-centric card and check out the fun little prize that one lucky (random) cardmaker will score; then start planning what you'll link up with us this fortnight. JB2601: No Time Like the Presents will run until 6pm (Eastern) on Wednesday, January14th.