Monday, July 24, 2017

Jingle Bells

Ho, ho, ho - Merry Monday! Back with a Christmas card for Merry Monday's Summer Link-up. It's week 4 of the Merry Makers' summer holiday and plenty of card makers have added wonderful cards to the gallery.

Merry Monday

Today I made a card harking back to Challenge 240 to use bells. Here's my card:

Merry and Bright Bells
Supplies: Paper - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White and DCWV green A2 card
Stamps - Your Next Stamp Holiday Postage and Mini Star Ink Splatter
Dies - My Favorite Things Die-Namics Blueprints 21
Ink - Distress Inks Lucky Clover and Twisted Citron, Memento Tuxedo Black
Other - Crayola colored pencils, Wink of Stella, Michael's gems, Copic black pen

My friend Lin recently posted a card using some darling mini-splatter stamps from Your Next Stamp. I love hearts so I headed over to their online store to order them. Of course, many more items found their way into my cart, including various splatter stamps and the set I used for this card. I was delighted with the quick service I got from YNS - the package came from Canada in less than a week! I'm still waiting on an order placed the same day from an American company - hmmmm.

I outlined the words "Merry" & "Bright" with a black Copic pen. You can see from the "and" what they would've looked like with just the Lucky Clover stamping. They just didn't seem to stand out enough after I stamped the bells in black. Let me know what you think! I was going to do a one-layer but I started by practicing on a piece of white card. I liked it enough to go ahead and use it. Might still try a one-layer...

Thanks for stopping and I hope you have a crafty week!!
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10 comments:

  1. !nekeJuly 24, 2017 at 10:58 AM

    Beautiful card!

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  2. CinnamonSallyJuly 24, 2017 at 1:25 PM

    Hi Linda love your card and those splatters are gorgeous. I also saw Lin had used the hearts splatters they are so cute. Thanks for the tip ,I have added my card to Merry Mondays Summer Link up.

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  3. BettyJuly 24, 2017 at 3:41 PM

    love that star splatter - just bought it and haven't even taken it out of pkg. - very cute card!

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  4. RosemaryJuly 24, 2017 at 4:58 PM

    super cute card, linda!! love that splatter background you created!!

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  5. CherylJuly 24, 2017 at 8:45 PM

    Great card! Love the splatter and the colors you used :)

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  6. Dawn TJuly 25, 2017 at 4:17 AM

    Beautiful card Linda. Those splatter stamps are really awesome. I might have to get some myself. Perfect on this card

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  7. Your Next StampJuly 25, 2017 at 9:00 AM

    Love how you combined the different stamp sets! Fabulous and fun holiday card! TFS!

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  8. JeanJuly 25, 2017 at 6:00 PM

    Very fun! Your splatters are a great accent!

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  9. GretaJuly 25, 2017 at 11:55 PM

    Fun, festive card, Linda! I like how you outlined the letters & those splatters are really neat!

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  10. BonnieAugust 3, 2017 at 6:50 PM

    Sweet jingle bells! Love the heart splats!

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