Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday: September Challenge

Hello and welcome to the September Crafty Wednesday Challenge right  here on my blog! I'm so happy you decided to check out this month's theme and hope you'll decide to join in! Be sure to scroll down to see if you were last month's winner or one of my top picks, and THANK YOU to those of you playing along last month. It was great visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations!

This Month's Theme

Something Beginning with "B" 

Lots of choices here...birds, bees, butterflies, baby, blue, boy, birthday, banner, border, binoculars, bicycle, barnyard and I am sure there are many more! I can't wait to see what you come up with! Be sure to let me know in your post what your "B" is especially if it's not too obvious.

I went with Blue, Birds and Beaks.

For my card I decided to ink up the Penny Black stamp The Sweetest Sound using Distress Markers, spritzed lightly with water then stamped on to Bristol Vellum Paper using my Tonic Stamp Platform. I used Distress Markers in Faded Jeans, Seedless Preserves, Crushed Olive, Rusty Hinge and Worn Lipstick to color the image directly on the rubber. The card was then inked with Bundled Sage Distress Oxide, Wilted Violet Distress Oxide and Faded Jeans Distress Ink. (I don't have this color in the Oxide formulation, but luckily you can mix and match the formulations.)

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Next I created some ink puddles by pressing Wilted Violet and Faded Jeans ink onto a clear stamping block, added water and with a paint brush I flicked each color onto the background for a fun effect. The Sentiment from the Penny Black set Happy Wishes was stamped using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink.

The music notes were stamped with Faded Jeans ink using and old rubber background stamp. This clear stamp by Echo Park is similar.  I only wanted a few parts of the music notes showing, and since it is an unmounted rubber stamp, I inked only a portion of it and was able to bend the stamp and sort of "roll" it onto the card where I wanted the music notes stamped. Finally I wiped the Wilted Violet inkpad across the edges for more depth before adhering to the white card base. 

Penny Black The Sweetest Sound // Penny Black Happy Wishes // Distress Markers // Distress Inks and Oxides: Faded Jeans, Wilted Violet, Bundled Sage // Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Bristol Vellum Paper // Tonic Stamp Platform // Music Sheet Stamp - Similar Option

I'm linking up here:
 Create With Joy - Week 398 //

Below are the products I've used as found on Amazon for those of you interested. These and some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning I may earn a small commission if you buy something through the links, at no additional cost to you. As always, thanks so much for your support. 

This Month's Prize

For the ease of things I am continuing to offer the winner a $6 Gift Certificate to either Mo's Digital Pencil Shop, Tiddly Inks or Bugaboo. I am not affiliated with any of these companies and the prize will be supplied by me. 

Last Month's Winner

Chriss R. 

Congratulations Chriss! You won a digi gift certificate from either Mo's Digital Pencil, Tiddly Inks or Buggaboo Stamps. Please message me with your choice by September 18th at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com to claim your prize. 

Now onto my top picks, there weren't too many entries but surely some beauties and it's never easy to select just three. But I did manage and here they are in order of entry:

No. 6 Vicky

No. 10 Jan R

No. 21 Nana Connie

Congrats to all of you, your top pick logo is below. Feel free to post it to your own blogs!

To be in compliance with GDPR no links have been posted, but you can take a look at these wonderful entries HERE in last month's linky. 

To play along in the September challenge simply use the linky tool below. The usual rules apply:

• Enter up to 3 times with a new project.
• You may combine with any other challenges.
• You may use any brand of stamps/digis (no company restriction).
• Be sure to add a link back here to my blog.