Saturday, 15 August 2026

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #113 - Reminder


I'm so happy to have Lauren and Stephanie as our guests over at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge! Together, this dynamic duo are The Jingle Belles and run one of my most fave Christmas challenges. 



Our Theme this month is FRIENDSHIP!

We'd love to see your cards for a friend and/or celebrating friendship, please.

As regular visitors to my blog will know, I like to create an 'Inspired by' piece for my Reminder card. I like to do this as a little homage to my guest's work, but also to stretch and challenge myself a little. With two cards for inspiration I wondered how I could do this, but actually everything came together really well for my card.



I love how Stephanie's card has a photographic motif, and so thought of using photos of friends 'goofing around' in the snow. I picked girl and boy images to mirror the friends in Lauren's card, and used her colour palette for their clothing. The images of the children are from Concord & 9th set Bundled Up. Sadly, this set appears to be retired now, which is a pity. 

Rudolph is playing with penguins for this month's Random Raffle Draw.




Stephanie, Lauren and I hope you'll come and join the fun!

7 comments:

Angelnorth said...

Excellent “inspired by” card Jo, you homed in on great elements of Lauren’s and Stef’s makes for this fun and cheerful card.

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

What a lovely, bright, happy card, I love it. x

Dawn T said...

So cute Jo. Lovely card

I Card Everyone said...

Jo, I'm with you in thinking it's a pity that they've retired these adorable kids! Your card is just darling, and I love how you've colored those sweet kids! x

Loll said...

Wonderful creation to honour both Stef and Lauren. Perfect fun-loving design, Jo!! xx

Catnip and Kitty Whiskers said...

What a cute friendship card!!!

Keep It Sweet and Simple said...

Ah yes, I can definitely see the inspiration from both cards. This is so fun, and super cute xxx