Hello and welcome to
Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - December challenge taking place right
here on my blog! I'm so glad you stopped by today and hope you'll join in the
fun too! There were lots of wonderful entries last month, many thanks to
everyone who joined! My top picks with a twist are at the end of this post.
{Also, as a reminder, if you were thinking about taking part in this year's
Papercrafters' Year in Review hop (on December 29th), only a few more days
remain to sign up. All that info can be found in
this post.}
I'm sure most of you know by now, the theme is now always............
Anything Goes
and instead of a challenge theme there will be a top pick twist, meaning the
top picks will each have something in common. But nobody knows what the twist
will be (not even me) and will be inspired by YOUR creations. So do link up
all your new or recently created crafty makes (any type of craft) for your
chance to have your project featured next month! The linky tool is at the end
of the post.
Here is what I made:
I recently got the new Lavinia
Large Snowflake set in the mail and so I
used one snowflake as the focal point.
I started out by using Lavinia's
Feather Leaf stencil with a circle mask
in place to ink up the background with
Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink. Inside the circle I
stamped Lavinia's
Winter Magic
sentiment using a regular die ink in a coordinating color (second generation
stamping). Then I used the the same Distress Oxide ink to stamp the new
Lavinia snowflake in the center, which I sprinkled with
ultra fine clear embossing powder
and heat embossed.
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The sentiment is an oldie from Stampin Up, love this simple font! It has also
been heat embossed using the same Oxide ink. I wanted to add something with
stripes to the card so I used my
Classy Stripes stencil on a white paper
scrap once again with the same ink. I added a
crystal glimmer enamel dot from Honeybee Stamps in the center of the snowflake and, hard to see, but used a clear Sakura Stardust glitter gel pen on the dots which are part of the Lavinia sentiment.
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Linking up the purple snowflake card with these challenges:
November Top Picks with a Twist:
Many thanks to everyone who joined in last month. There were so many
fabulous entries and as always it's not easy to select a theme but I do
enjoy that part of the challenge and the Top Pick twist from the November
entries is....Three of Something.
And here are my Top Picks with a Twist each one featuring "Three of
Something" posted in the order of entry:
3 Turkeys
3 Stars
3 Christmas Trees and 3 Reindeer
Congratulations everyone! Well deserved recongnition! Your top pick logo is
below, you may place it on your own blogs if you like to :)
I will continue to pin the top picks to the dedicated
Pinterest board, but will also include photo and link back to the original blogs/sites
here. These will be removed at the start of the new challenge to stay in
compliance with GDPR.
To join in this month's challenge please use the linky tool below. You
have until Sunday December 31st to play along!
A few things to remember:
- You may combine with any other challenges.
- You may use any brand of stamps/digis/products (no company restriction).
- Please try to limit your linked up cards to 3 entries per month - it's ok if you end up with more than 3.
- Please do include a link back here to my blog in your blog post.
- Backlinking to a recent post IS allowed.
- Digital products are allowed and very welcome but the final piece has to be a physical handmade creation, not just digital
