The Four Seasons November Challenge

Hello everyone, today is the start of a new Four Seasons challenge and it's our last Fall challenge of the year. Time flies too fast!!! As always, we have a fun moodboard to inspire you, totally optional to use as Anything Fall Goes. 

And here is what I made using stamps by Tracy Evans.

The pumpkin is from the set Myriad of Designs (I masked off the very top of the pumpkin) and I used Crackling Campfire, Carved Pumpkin and Mustard Seed Distress inks/oxides. Next I stamped the flowers from the set Flower Power also by Tracy Evans with a mask over the pumpkin. I stamped the large flower again on scrap paper and fussy cut. Coloring was done with Stormy Sky and Faded Jeans Distress inks. 

 The text at the bottom is an old favorite stamp from Whimsy Stamps from a set called background basics (no longer available). The dove comes from Tracy Evans set Good Things Take Time along with the sentiment I used. A few flicks of a black Posca pen and staples finish off the card. 

If you're in the US then you can find Tracy Evan's stamps at Simon Says Stamp and overseas of course directly from Tracys Boutique. I'm not affiliated with either, Tracys stamps just happen to be one of my favorites to work with. Tracy also shares some wonderful videos on her youtube channel, this video was my inspiration, although I used different stamps and colors besides the pumpkin. 

This is our optional mood board for the month. My inspiration came from the bottom left image.

Another view of the card below..

I plan to link up with these challenges:

• A Perfect Time To Craft - AG
• Ally's Angels - AG
• Beautiful Blossoms - AG with Flowers
• Cardz 4 Galz - Autumn Florals
• Crafting Happiness Challenge - AG
• Crafts Galore Encore - AG
• DL.Art Linky Challenge - AG
• FarmQuest General Store Challenge - Anything Farm or Country
• Girlz Rebel Challenge - AG
• Krafty Chicks - AG
• Love to Craft - AG
• Make My Monday - Use Orange
• Papercraft Challenges - Cozy Autumn
• Simon Says Stamp - AG
• The Paper Funday - AG
• We Love 2 Create - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Type 
• Word Art Wednesday - AG

Lots of challenges and I want to say Thank You to each challenge host and DT member of challenge blogs. It takes such a time commitement (not always easy!) and it's wonderful that we have this community of crafters willing to create places for us all to share!

Something Feminine at Allsorts Challenge

Hello everyone, today it's the start of a new theme at Allsorts challenge and Lynn is hosting. For her optional theme she chose Feminine and as always we have the Anything Goes option too. There are  two prizes to be won from AALL and Create this time. 

I had some fun with Lavinia stamps for today's card and made a feminine, not too spooky Halloween themed card. The witch is Lavinia's Faba stamp and one of the cats from the set Hocus & Pocus. For the background I used Lavinia's Feather Leaf stencil and a circle die cut was used for a moon mask. Sentiment is Witching Hour also from Lavinia and I had the die cut spider web (done with an old Whimsy Stamps die) out on my desk and thought it would work well in the corner. A Sakura stardust glitter pen was  used around the moon, lantern and her hair but it's hard to see the sparkle.

I'm sharing this card with these challenges:

• Cardz 4 Galz - Add an Animal
• C.R.A.F.T. - Halloween
• Craft Rocket Challenges - Autumn or Halloween
• Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! - Stencils
• Dream Factory - Halloween
• If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - Halloween cookie inspiration
• Just Us Girls - Stencils
• Simon Says Stamp - Halloween
• Sweet Stampin - Halloween or Halloween Colors
• The Crafting Challenge - Autumn or Halloween
• The Paper Funday - AG
• Try It On Tuesday - Halloween
• Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge - Halloween

Thanks so much for visiting and hope you're having a wonderful autumn weekend. We are being spoiled with nice late summer/ early autumn weather (around 25 degrees celsius) and I am fully enjoying that! 

I received a nice surprise from my sweet kitty's memorial rose shrub with one more beautiful blossom.

I Spy With My Little Eye......... Autumn in the Woods (Challenge No. 42)

Hello everyone and welcome to 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'll join in the fun. We had some wonderful entries for the last challenge so be sure to scroll down to see who made the Top 2, both invited to join us in the next challenge.

This time it was my turn (Ellie) to select a theme and I chose:

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

Autumn in the Woods.

As always, the linky tool is at the end of this post. We'd love to see all your woodland inspired autumn creations. 

Here is what we came up with this time:

My Card (Ellie)

(All details are right below the card)

For my card I used some older stamp sets from Tracy Evans. The cute foxes come from the set Up Up and Away, Mushrooms from the set On the Wild Side and the tree is from the set Woodland. The foxes were stamped on inked cardstock (using distress inks) then fussy cut. Trees and mushrooms were stamped with Versafine Clair Portobello ink. I used Peeled Paint and Rusty Hinge Distress inks for the hill and Antique Linen, Carved Pumpkin and Chipped Sapphire ink on the background. The autumn sentiment is from a retired Hero Arts stamp kit, bottom sentiment from Tracy Evans On the Wild Side set.

Challenges I am linking to:

• Cardz 4 Gal - Add an Animal 
• Crafty Calendar - Autumn 
• Creative Knockouts - Fall 
• Make My Monday - Fall
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Four Legged Friends

Pauline's Card

Such a beautiful autumn creation by Pauline. Please visit her blog to find out how she made this card.

 

We're so happy to have Lia from Lia's Design joining us for this challenge. Lia was a top pick a few challenges ago and today she is here as a guest designer. Thank you for joining us Lia!

Lia's Card

A gorgeous autumn scene featuring an adorable deer! Please visit her blog to find out how she made this card.

 

Top Picks from Challenges No. 41

We had some wonderful entries for last month's "Added Text" 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 Helen (Ellie's Pick) 

 

No.  25 Jolanda  (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. 43 starting Wednesday November 18th. 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 totally optional as we all are busy in one way or another and it might just not work out for you but we thought it would be something fun to offer our top picks :)

 

 

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.
• It is the creator's responsibility to follow copyright laws.
• Please include a link back to this blog.
• Back-linking to a recent project is allowed.
• Linkup closes on Sunday, November 16th at 11:59pm CST

More Than One Fold at Allsorts Challenge

It's time for a new theme to start at Allsorts challenge and this time Liz is hosting. Her optional theme is "More than one Fold" or you can go with the "Anything Goes" option. Prizes are a bundle of craft essentials from Stix2 and an A4 stamp set from the Allsorts prize box.

For my card I decided to make a simple "gate fold" card. 

For the card front I used Penny Black's Poppy Edger die and a "Brusho" background I made some time ago. On the right side of the card I used My Favorite Things Birthday Background stamp. It didn't stamp properly along the edge, so that is when I decided to add the black strip of paper to the card and I really love how that turned out. To bring in some black on the left side I used my Posca pen for a little splatter. 

Inside I used Penny Black's Hypnotic stencil and Distress ink, then stamped the sentiment from the Penny Black set Sprinkles and Smiles onto a scalloped die cut which is part of Penny Black's die set Pinwheel. 

It's probably one of the easiest "more than one fold" cards to make. All you need for the base is a 8.5" x 5.5" piece of cardstock, scored at 2 ⅛ " on both sides, fold and decorate as you wish for an A2 sized card.

I plan to link up with these challenges:

• A Cut Above - Die Cut Challenge Blog - AG
• Craft Rocket Challenges - dies
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - PB stamps/products
• The Paper Funday - AG
• Triple B - Blooms, Birds or Butterflies
• Word Art Wednesday - AG

The challenge at Allsorts runs for 2 weeks and hope you are able to join us. 

Have a wonderful weekend!