Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - June/July Challenge

Hello and Welcome to Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - June/July challenge! As you may  have guessed from the title of this post, this challenge will run for two months. I have family visiting later this month and into July so it will be a busy (but definitely fun) month for me. My initial thought was to skip this month and return in July, but as I still have some time now I decided to run this theme for two months, as some other challenges do to cover the busy Summertime. This means I will select two winners at the end of July, so I hope you will join in! Also, usually I ask for no more than 3 entries, but since this time it's a two -months challenge, you may enter as many times as you wish, as long as it is a new creation.

June/July Themes

Summer Scenes, Summer Treats or Summer Colors

Choose one theme or combine the themes as you wish! I can't wait to see your Summer creations!

If you are regular reader of my blog, then you will have seen this card I recently shared using the stamp set Summer by the Sea. As mentioned then, I made another card with the same stamp set and created another scene. This is a retired stamp set, but it's usually found on ebay. 

I paired it again with the Hero Arts stamp sets Color Layering Waves and Color Layering Sea and Sky. Such great sets to create scenes with! Speaking of Hero Arts, did you see the  Hero Arts - June My Monthy Hero kit that was just released on Monday? It's a fun Jungle themed set perfect for Summer themed cards! You can click the snippet below to see what the kit looks like.

I started by stamping the beautiful girl using  Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink on watercolor paper and colored her with Zig Clean Color markers. I stamped her again on a post it note, fussy cut to use as a mask. As on my previous card with these sets, I placed a strip of painters tape to mask off the sky portion, then inked the sea with Hero Arts Blue Water Reative ink from one of their previous Monthly Hero stamp kits. Waves were done with a stamp from the Color Layering Waves set usingthe same ink. Silhouette boat, clouds, birds and sentiment are both from the set Color Layering Sea and Sky and the sandy texure is an oldie from Stampin Up - Itty Bitty Backgrounds. Sky was inked with  Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide. The clouds were stamped with  Pumice Stone Distress Oxide and the birds were stamped with Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide.  

Hero Arts Color Layering Waves // Hero Arts Color Layering Sea and Sand // 

  Zig Clean Color Markers  // Pumice Stone Distress Oxide // Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide // Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink 

Stampin Up Summer By the Sea // Stampin Up Itty Bitty Backgrounds (both retired - but most likely availabe on ebay or etsy)

Below is a picture of both card I made with these sets. 

You can read more about the boy card here. I do love how these turned out and had soooo much fun creating them both!

Sharing my card with these challenges:

Paper Minutes - Children // Artistic Stampers - By the Seaside // Send a Smile for Kids - Cards for Teens or Kids // Always Fun Challenges - Summer Fun // Colouring in Scrapland - Watercolors // Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes // Get Creative Challenges - Anything Goes // Use Your Stuff  - Summer Fun // The Corrosive Challenges - Anything Goes // 2 Sisters On The Blog - Things with Wings // Creatalicious Challenges - Use Blue // Creative Craft Cottage Challenges - Use Ink // Catch The Bug - Anything Goes // Sweet Stampin - Oceans of Fun 

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June/July prize:

I am continuing offering a gift certificate of $6 to one of these digistamp companies (winner's choice): Mo's Digital Pencil, Bugaboo Stamps or Tiddly Inks. Please note, the companies are not affiliated with this prize offer, the prize is sponsored by me and gift certificate will be purchased by me once the winner has made contact. 

Since this challenge runs for two months, I will select two winners from all eligible entries, each one receiving a $6 Gift Certificate to one of the digi shops mentioned above.

Last Month's Winner and Top Pick

As always, due to the GDPR no winner or top pick links or photos will be posted for privacy protection. But last month's linky tool is still available here where you can see the winner's / top pick's wonderful creations.

It was a great month and I had so much fun visiting your entries. Lots of beauties following the feminine or add a sentiment theme, but there can only be one winner...

Aunty Sue

Congratulations!! You won a $6 Gift Certificate to either Mo's Digital Pencil, Tiddly Inks or Bugaboo Stamps. Be sure to message me at 

ellibellescorner at gmail dot com with your choice of digi shop by June 15th to claim your prize. If you do not hear from me within 24 hours of messaging me, please do double check that you have sent to the correct email address and leave me a comment on this post. 

There were so many wonderful entries and selecting favorites is never easy. But I did manage and here they are listed in order of entry:

  

No. 36 Margreet

No. 55 Lynne

No. 69 Stempelfrieda

Well done all! Your top pick logo is below, feel free to post it to your own blogs if you like to.

So now it's time for you to share your Summer Scene, Summer Treats or Summer Colors creations! Can't wait to see what you come up with this time! Simply use the linky tool below. You have until July 31st to join in.

A few things to remember:

Three entries total per month please.
This time you may enter as many times as  you like as long as it's a new entry.

Your blog post must inlclude a link back to my blog.

Your entry must follow the challenge theme!

You may combine with any other challenges.

May use any brand of stamps and products.

Also please 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. 

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