Day 11 - J is for Jingle Bells

It's time for the 12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.

You can read the rules HERE or head over to Beccy's Challenges and enter HERE.

Day 11 - J

Beccy's inspiration is a jolly cute Joy card HERE  

My is J is for Jingle Bells, lots of Jingle Bells,

single Jingle Bells, clusters of Jingle Bells,

patterned paper filled with Jingle Bells,

all from the Jingle Bells digital stamp set.

Just in case you didn't realise yet, the Jingle Bells digital stamp set is my favourite!

HERE is my first pair of Stepped Accordion Fold Cards.

How could I resist making more?

My cards started as a cut file in Silhouette Studio, I love technology, most of the time.  The Stepped Accordion card design has lots of lovely fancy folds, giving me lots of space to decorate.  Of course I had to use my all-time-favourite digital Christmas pattern paper, Paper White from the Jingle Bells digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place.  I added the patterned paper to most of the matting panels, then added some bells to two of the panels using the Single Bell pre-coloured digital stamp from the same delightful stamp set.  After looking at my first cards using this fancy fold design, the end flaps being blank on the inside didn't look "right", so I searched through the other delightful images in the Jingle Bells digital stamp set.  The perfect image for the space was the pre-coloured Bells with Bow and Pine digital stamp, so I sized it, duplicated and mirrored, so that both sides matched.

Before I stared printing and cutting the panels, I sized two sentiments.  The Merry Little Christmas digital sentiment from the, yes, you guessed, the same digital stamp set is perfect for inside the fancy folds and for a sentiment panel for me to write on at the back of the card too.  The Merry Christmas Happy New Year digital sentiment from the now retired Emu Parade digital stamp set, also from Beccy's Place, is perfect for the belly band that holds the fancy folds securely in place.  I printed the matting panels on textured cardstock and cut them manually while my Silhouette Cameo cut all the plain textured cardstock pieces.  I burnished all the fancy folds, adhered the card base panels together then adhered the matting layers in place.  I folded the belly band around the folded cards then adhered the ends together, leaving enough wriggle room so that it slide on and off easily while still holding the folds in place, making them lovely inside and out.

Here is the closed front and back view.

Here is the front, flat, open view,

so that you can see the fancy folds and pretty panels.

What do you think, better with the original blank panels

or better with the fancy Bells with Bow and Pine clusters?

Here is the back, flat, open view,

there is plenty of room for me to write a Christmas message.

Here are all my cards together.

Of course I couldn't stop taking photos of these

Fabulous Fancy Folds,

so here are two more just for fun.

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INGREDIENTS
digital pattern paper + digital stamp + digital sentiment

ALL from the Jingle Bells digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place

Paper White digital patterned paper

Single Bell pre-coloured digital stamp

Merry Little Christmas digital sentiment

Bells with Bow and Pine pre-coloured digital stamp

Merry Christmas Happy New Year digital sentiment from the Emu Parade digital stamp set (now retired from the Beccy’s Place Store)
Stepped Accordion Fold Card - cut file – Silhouette Design Store ID #64593

textured cardstock 

Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to adhere the layers
Helmar Professional Acid Free Glue - to adhere belly band join

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I have entered my card in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges