Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - October Challenge

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Hello and welcome to the October Crafty Wednesday challenge right here on my blog! I'm so glad you decided to check it out! Before I get to the new theme I wanted to thank all of you that decided to play along last month. Some wonderful creations and lots of inspiration! Be sure to scroll down to the end of this post to see if you were the lucky prize winner or a top pick. As always, the linky tool is also at the end of this post.

This Month's Theme

Stamp It!

This month it's all about using your traditional stamps (rubber or clear). You may still use digital products on your creations, but I ask that the focal point is hand stamped, this means you can use a large hand stamped sentiment with smaller digital stamps or papers, or you can stamp a focal image and use a digital sentiment on your creation. Should be an easy one I think. I can't wait to see what you will share this month!

It's been a while since I used the Hero Arts September 2018 stamp kit. Since this kit is fall themed I decided it's time to ink it up and use the matching dies that came with this kit. I don't know if I'm a lazy card maker of what...but I always find matching dies too much to fuss with. Am I the only one??!! Well, after making this card it wasn't really that complicated or time consuming and I love how it turned out! Maybe I'm just too lazy to get off the chair and walk over to the die cutting machine :-)

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I started out by masking the edges of a 4"x5.25" Bristol Vellum card stock with some Washi tape. (I like the width of Washi tape for this border, but you can also use painter's tape.) Next I inked the open area of the card stock with Victorian Velvet and Stormy Sky distress inks using Ranger's Ink Blending Tool. Have any of you used the new dome shaped ink blending applicators by Scrapbook.com? I recently heard about them and they sound promising. I always seem to get too much ink here and there when using the Ranger tool, and it sounds like these are easier to use. 

When the inking was complete I added a stencil pattern with Stormy Sky distress ink to add some interest to the background. After this step I removed the Washi tape. All images are from the Hero Arts September 2018 Stamp Kit, stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and then I heat embossed using Clear Embossing Powder. For coloring I used the Daniel Smith paint dots that were part of this kit and my Zig Detailer waterbrush. Before adding color to the images, I brushed over each image with clean water which makes it easier to add color.

All images were die cut using the matching dies from the kit and then adhered to the card with foam tape. The sentiment (also from this kit) was stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink as well. To finish off the card I added a small strip of yellow polkadotted paper to bring in some more color. The card base is a 110 lb heavy weight card stock I recently picked up from Michaels. Their 110lb white card stock by Recollections works really well as card bases and it's s such a good value too using a coupon.  A clear wink of stella glitter brush was used to add some sparkles to the images.

Hero Arts September 2018 Stamp Kit // Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Victorian Velvet Distress Ink // Stormy Sky Distress Ink // Ranger Ink Blending Applicator // Clear Embossing Powder // Heating Tool // Bristol Vellum Paper // Recollections Heavy Weight Cardstock // TCW Mini Tile Stencil // Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush // Zig Detailer Brush // Washi Tape // Paper Strip from Stash

Also sharing with these challenges: 

Color Throwdown // Mod Squad Challenge - Back to Nature // Make My Monday - Fall Colors // Everybody-Art-Challenge - Use Dies // Crafting Happiness Challenges - Orange // Stamps & Fun = Creativity - The Magic of Fall // Addicted to Stamps - For a Lady // A Place To Start - Masking (masked edges) // 

Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday // Double Trouble Challenges // Lemon Shortbread // Through The Craft Room Door // Tuesday Throwdown //Always Fun Challenges // Get Creative Challenges // Lil Patch of Crafty Friends // The Corrosive Challenges // A Gem of a Challenge // Crafty Catz // Creative Fingers // Jo's Scrap Shack // QKR Stampede

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 and Top Picks

No. 14 - Lena

Congratulations, Lena. You won a $6 Gift Certificate to either Mo's Digital Pencil, Tiddy Inks or Bugaboo Stamps. Please be sure to email me with your choice of company at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com by October 16th to claim your prize.

As I am sure you can imagine, it's never easy to choose top picks, but it had to be done and here they are in the order of entry.

No. 16- Linda Mc Enery

No. 34 - Maxine D.

No. 65 - Kuni

Congratulations ladies. Your top pick logo is below. Feel free to post it to your own blogs if you like to. 

As always, in order to follow GDPR regulations, I am not linking back the individual blogs, but you can see these gorgeous top picks following the "something with B" theme by visiting last month's linky tool.

To play along in the October 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.

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