Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - April Challenge

Hello and Welcome to the April theme at Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenge taking place right here on my blog - Ellibelle's Corner! Before I let you know more about this month's theme I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone that joined in last month. I had lots of fun visiting your blogs or galleries and a winner and top picks have been selected. They are listed at the end of this post.

This Month's Themes

I think everyone is enjoying choosing from multiple themes, and since each challenge runs for a whole month, it makes sense to let you choose from more than one theme. This month they are:

Wings, Tails or Spring Blossoms

Choose one theme or the other, or you may combine as you wish! I can't wait to see what you will share this month!

For my creation above I used a mix of Lavinia stamps on an inked background. I started out by masking the edges of my 7x7 inches Bristol Vellum paper using  painters tape, then used Distress Oxide inks for the background, applied with an ink blending tool.  I used the colors Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet and Blueprint Sketch. A little water was spritzed on the background for a fun reaction before stamping the plants, fairies and words. All stamping besides words were done using  Hickory Smoke distress oxide ink, then I used  Cracked Pistachio ink for some of the words.



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 Lavinia stamps //  Bristol Vellum //  Painters Tape // Distress Oxides: Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch, Hickory Smoke // Ink Blending Tool // 

I am also entering my card here:
Creative Craft Cottage Challenges - Spring Fever (it does appear that these fairies have long been awaiting the arrival of spring!) // Daisy Chain Challenges - Spring // Addicted to Stamps - Spring // 
Anyhing Goes:
Crafty Sentiment Designs // Lemon Shortbread // Through The Craft Room Door // Path of Positivity // Creatalicious Challenges // Happy Craft Challenge // The Creative Crafters // A Gem of a Challenge // Creative Fingers // QKR Stampede  // 

Before I continue, I wanted to mention that the Hero Arts April "My Monthly Hero Kit"  has just been release and is now shipping. If you love to work with dies and die cuts, and like creating scenes, then this kit might interest you. 

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This month's prize:

A randomly selected winner will receive this fun Whimsy Stamps rubber stamp (retired) from my prize box. 

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Last Month's Winner and Top Picks

The winner of the $6 Gift Certificate to Tiddly Inks or Bugaboo Stamps digi shop is .................

No. 22 Lynne 

from Lynne's Craft Haven

Congratulations Lynne. Please email me at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com by Wednesday April 17th to claim your prize. Be sure to let me know in your email which shop you choose for your prize. (Please note: Tiddly Inks or Bugaboo are not sponsors, the Gift Certificate is sponsored by me.)


And now onto the top picks, which is never easy to choose, but I did manage and they are listed in the order of entry as follows:

No. 31 Craftduckydood

No. 52 Inky Fingers

No. 54 Carole J.

Well done!  Below is your Top Pick logo, feel free to post it to your own sidebar if you like to.
Unfortunately I am unable to post links back to the creations (to be in compliance with GDPR), but you can see these beautiful top picks by clicking on the entry numbers in last month's linky tool HERE.

To join in this month's challenge simply use the linky tool below. As always feel free to combine with any other challenges and you may share up to 3 creations during the month. Please don't forget to leave a link back here to my blog!  I can't wait to see what YOU will share!

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