Jul 1, 2026

Oh Happy Days - Four Seasons July Challenge

Hello everyone, happy July! A new month meant it's time for a new challenge to start at the Four Seasons challenge blog where it's  All About Summer! We would love for you to join in the fun and share all your summer themed creations with us.  As usual, we have a new mood board to inspire you but it's optional as anything summer goes. 

Here is my summer themed creation inspired by the bottom right of our moodboard which you can see towards the end of the post.

The beautiful paper used as the focal point is from another pack by Stamperia. A few month ago I went on an online shopping frenzy and bought several 8x8 paper packs by Stamperia. This pack is called Blue Dream, released in 2023 so it's not very easy to find.

As always, I had the hardest time cutting into these beautiful papers so I used part of a sheet for my focal point/card front and added a couple strips of paper to the sentiment part. Sentiment is an oldie from Whimsy Stamps (Summer Letter Seals - no longer available). I distressed the edges and used my sewing machine for a special touch.  I added some jute twine to the lemon bundle to finish it off. 

Another view below..


And a peek at our wonderful moodboard... Which one of these inspires you? The challenge is open until July 25th (evening US time). Hope to see you there :) 



I plan to share my card with these challenges:



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Jun 24, 2026

Daisy Chain for Woodblock Wednesday

It's been a few months since I had a chance to join in at the Woodblock Wednesday challenge but I'm happy that it worked out this time 😊

A friend asked me if I could have her 10 year old daughter make a few cards with me for a summer "crafty thing to do" as she really loved the card I had sent for her birthday. So I thought up a design for this card that I hope she will like. This will be one of the cards she will make. And of course the "star tools" will be wood mounted rubber stamps as I think they are much more fun to use for a beginning stamper than unmounted stamps. Especially when they are as cute as the Penny Black critter stamps! She will also do some stenciling and die cutting, and a little bit of coloring. 

I started out with a homemade circles stencil where I had punched several sizes of circles out from an acetate sheet. I used Tea Dye Distress ink for the circles. Then I stamped Penny Black's Daisy Chain 1690K (retired and unfortunately hard to find) onto the circles using Versafine Onyx ink.  I thought the stenciled circles would be a good alternative to coloring up all the little mice (we're doing another card where more coloring is involved and she can always choose to color her mice more). 

The little bit of coloring here was done with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils and I added Stickles glitter to the flower centers. A pretty strip of patterned paper from The Paper Studio by Hobby Lobby was added at the top along with some jute twine. After this was done I thought it would have been nice to add a punched scallop border under the patterened paper but I had already stamped the sentiment and there wasn't any room. She will have to option to add one to her card as I think paper punches are another fun tool to use. 

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For an extra embellishment I added a die cut butterfly from Penny Black's die set Soaring and glitter was added to the center. I only added one butterfly to my card but she will have the option to add more to the card she will make. I used a corner rounder punch (old by Creative Memories) on both the card front and card base. Sentiment is from the clear Penny Black set Friendship, another oldie that I couldn't find a link to. I used Versafine Onyx ink but wish I had gone with a brown instead of black. I will let her choose a sentiment so she doesn't have to go with this one. And maybe she'll stamp hers in brown. 

Challenges I plan to share this card with:


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Jun 20, 2026

With Brave Wings She Flies

Hello everyone, it's time for the new Allsorts challenge where I am hosting this time. For my optional theme I chose "Bees, Blooms and Birds". Any or all, and then there is always the Anything Goes option if that works better for you. 

It's a bee themed card from me, always love them but somehow I rarely make them. Maybe I need more bee themed stamps!!

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The focal point is a large bee stamp from the Visible Image set Bee Happy. I stamped with Versafine Onyx ink, colored with my Faber Castell Polychromos pencils, then fussy cut. For the "honeycomb" background I used my Chickenwire stencils (old by TCW) with Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honey Distress inks. I used a circle die to cut out the honeycomb, inked around the edge with Wild Honey Distress ink then glued onto the Posted die cut by Penny Black. I used foam tape to add the bee to the posted die. Those of you in the UK can find the Posted die set at Buddly Crafts along with many other goodies!

The patterned paper on the background is from my stash and I don't know what brand it is. I think it was included in a package of patterned papers I found at a thrift store some time ago. Sentiment is a sticker quote from Tim Holtz's Small Talk sticker booklet. I used a glue pen to add loose glitter to the bee's wings. It's very shimmery in real life unfortunately my camera didn't capture that very well.

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Jun 17, 2026

I Spy With My Little Eye..... Something by the Sea (Challenge No. 38)

Hello everyone and welcome! It's time already for a new I spy with my little eye challenge taking place right here on my blog. Pauline and I are back with a new theme and we hope you will come join in the fun! And don't forget to scroll down to see who we selected as our top two, both invited as guest designers in the next challenge.

This time it's my turn (Ellie) to host and I chose...

I spy with my little eye...........

Something by the Sea!

We can't wait to see what you'll share with us. Remember, this can be any type of craft, as long as we can spy something by the sea you are invited to link up with us. As always, the linky tool is at the end of this post.

And here is what we made for this challenge:

Ellie
(All info is right below the card.)
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Some time ago I mentioned that I purchased several packs of Stamperia papers and for today's card I cut into the beautiful Silent Sea paper pack. I have the 8x8 inch pack but it also comes in a larger 12x12 size. As usual with these beautiful papers I have a really hard time cutting into them, so I am using a simple sketch. I added a die cut anchor (old die by Whimsy Stamps) and layered that onto a piece of craft gauze. I also decided to add some stitches around the edges and tied jute twine around the card and onto the anchor. The sentiment is one from Tim Holtz's Small Talk sticker quotations booklet.

I plan to share the above card here:

Alphabet Challenge - D for Double (2 boats)  // Crafty Calendar -for Boys or Men // DL.Art Linky Challenge - AG // Dragonfly Dreams - Masculine // Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge - Pretty Papers // Paper Rock Scissors - Papers and scissors (all layers are paper and I used scissors for distressing and cutting twine/gauze) // Shopping Our Stash - Summertime (my old stash is the anchor die, twine and gauze)



Such an amazing scene by Pauline. Please visit her blog to find out how she made this card.


We are so excited to have a guest designer joining us this month and that is Silke of Silke's Kartenkram. So happy you joined us for this month! 

Totally adorable! Please visit her blog to find out how she made this card.



Top Picks from Challenges 37


We had some wonderful entries for last month's monochrome challenge, thank you all so much for sharing your creativity with us! Selecting Top Picks is never easy but we finally managed and here they are in the order of entry:


No.10 Alice K. (Ellie's Pick)

No. 12 Maria (Pauline's Pick)

Congratulations to both of you on your well deserved recognition! Your Top Pick logo is below.

Remember, you are both invited to join us as guest designers for challenge no. 39 starting Wednesday July 15th. If you would like to be a guest designer please message me (Ellie) at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com so I can give you all the details. Of course, this is not a requirement but would love to have you joining us if you like to :)



To play along in the new challenge please use the linky tool below.

A few things to remember:

(Complete list of guidelines and copyright info can be found here.)

  • You may share up to 5 different projects 
  • You may combine with as many other challenges as you like to.
  • A short mention of products used whenever possible is expected, especially the focal point.
  • New: While you are free to link up your creations using pre-colored digital art (AI generated, digital pre-colored toppers/images, digital papers etc.), they will be excluded from top picks. 
  • Please include a link back to this blog.
  • Back-linking to a recent project is allowed.
  • Linkup closes on Sunday, July 12th at 11:59pm CST



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