Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - June Challenge

Hello and welcome to another "Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday". It was lots of fun visiting all your wonderful blog entries following last month's theme. Be sure to scroll down to the end of this post to see if you were the lucky winner or one of my top picks....

Last month it was all about ladies, but let's not forget about all the great men and boys in our lives, so this month I selected the theme of 

Make it Masculine.

To play along simply link up your masculine creation - linky tool is at the end of this post.

Sweet You // Curved Stitch Die // Rays Stencil // Copic Markers // Stormy Sky Ink // Tumbled Glass Ink // Xpress It Blending Card // Neenah Linen Card Stock

I stamped the image on Xpress It Blending Card using Memento Tuxedo ink, then colored with my copic markers. The image has been fussy cut using Cutterbee Scissors. The sky was done using Tim Holtz's Rays Stencil and tumbled glass distress ink. Stamped Dr. Seuss quote is from a retired set by Whimsy Stamps and the black sentiment is from Tim Holtz's Quotations Sticker set.



A little close up below...

Waves were done using a newer Penny Black die - Curved Stitch Die. 

I simply used white Neenah card stock to cut out the waves, then sponged them with Stormy Sky distress ink. I cut them apart and arranged them around the image until I liked how the waves looked.

The prize for  this month's challenge is this cute Whimsy Stamps rubber stamp from my prize box:

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I am also entering these challenges:
Hand Stamped Sentiments - Photo Inspiration

Always Fun Challenges - Summer Fun
Cards in Envy - Let's Hear it for the Boys
Crafty Cardmakers - For a Boy/Man 
Paper Minutes - In and Around the Pond
Stinkin' Inkers -The Guys Have It (Boats)
Unicorn Challenge - Masculine
Catch The Bug  - ATGoes this week
Crazy 4 Challenges - Include something barefoot (kitty paws)
Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Masculine 
Just Us Girls  - Word Prompt: Outside
heARTful Stamping Challenge - Anything Goes + a Stamp
Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

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And now it's time announce last month's winner ....

The winning number as selected by Random.Org is...

That would be Nana Connie!

Congratulations, you won a $5 gift certificate to Mo Manning's shop. Please contact me by June 15th at ellibelle_blog at yahoo dot com to claim your prize.

And here are the top picks from last month's entries in no particular order:

Lovely Linda

Nancy

Scrappy Horses

Congratulations ladies! Feel free to place your top pick badge to your side bar if you like to :)

To play along in this month's challenge, simply follow these simple rules:

• You must follow the theme
• Enter up to 3 projects per challenge
• You may combine with any other challenges
• Please be sure to include a link back here in your blog post

Please note: by joining this challenge you grant the blog owner permission to post your first name, blog link and artwork you linked up here on this blog, should you be the selected winner/top pick of a challenge. Do not enter the linky tool if you do not agree to these terms. 

Also remember: this is a public blog, meaning any papercraft you link up or any comments left on this blog will be visible and clickable by third parties. The blog owner is not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without permission. 

ETA: In order to comply with the new GDPR regulations, I have decided that all winners and top picks will be selected from non-EU entrants. It is my believe that if I post someone else's creation on my blog as a top pick, it should receive proper credit by linking to the top pick's blog, but because I do not want to break any regulations, I am no longer able to link to individual blogs from the EU. Thank you for understanding. 

Happy crafting :)