Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - November Challenge

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Hello and welcome to the November Crafty Wednesday challenge right here on my blog! I'm so glad you decided to check out this month's theme and hopefully you'll join in! There were some beauties entered last month using traditional stamps, be sure to scroll down to the end of this post to see if you were the lucky prize winner or maybe one of the lucky top picks! 

This Month's Theme

We're getting closer to the busy holiday season so this month I picked the theme of:

Christmas/Holidays

An easy theme and can include all your holiday makes - cards, gift tags, altered bags and boxes, handmade gifts etc. 

I decided to make a Victorian themed Christmas card with a retired PSX stamp (G1879) I purchased from ebay a few years ago. Unfortunately there is currenly only 1 of these stamps listed on ebay USA. I did also find one listing on ebay UK at a better price. But you might be lucky if you simply search PSX Christmas stamps.



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My card was pretty easy to make. I started out using a circle die cut as a guide and I stamped the snowflake repeatedly around part of the circle using Faded Jeans distress ink. Next I heat embossed the Carolers stamp  using Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink and Clear Embossing powder. I colored with Faded Jeans, Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose and Black Soot Distress inks using a Zig Detailer brush. As you may notice I inked an impression of snow on the ground using a torn printer paper mask and Pumice Stone distress ink. The music notes were done with another retired stamp. This stamp is similar. The Christmas sentiment is from the Penny Black set Season's Gifts stamped and heat embossed with Versafine Clair ink. Using a blending tool I inked up the edges using Faded Jeans ink again then distressed with scissors. 

PSX G1879 - Carolers  or search PSX Christmas Stamps  (UK listing for exact stamp) // Penny Black Season's Gifts // Similar Music Notes Background Stamp //  Faded Jeans Distress Ink // Vintage Photo Distress Ink // Tattered Rose Distress Ink // Pumice Stone Distress Oxide Ink // Black Soot Distress Ink // Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Zig Detailer Brush // Ranger Ink Blending Tool // Clear Embossing Powder // Heating Tool // Bristol Vellum Paper //  Heavyweight 110lb Cardstock

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I linking my card up here:

Anything Goes:

Crafty Sentiment Designs // Lemon Shortbread // Through The Craft Room Door // Unicorn Challenge // Colouring in Scrapland // Lil Patch of Crafty Friends // The Corrosive Challenges  // A Gem of a Challenge // Catch The Bug // Crafter's Castle // Crafty Friends Challenge // A Bit More Time to Craft // A Perfect Time To Craft // Crafts Galore Encore // Happy Craft Challenge // Love to Craft // Crafty Catz -// QKR Stampede

Themed Challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams - Christmas // Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Christmas //  Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Winter Clothing // Country View Crafts' Challenge - Hand Stamped  // Creative Sketchy Girls - Christmas Cards // Happy Little Stampers - Christmas // Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog - Christmas // The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Christmas // Winter Wonderland - Holly/Ivy

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

Thank you all that took the time to join in and share your beautiful creations. Unfortunately there can only be one prize winner, and this month's prize goes to............

Maxine from Kiwime's Creations

Congrats Maxine, you won a $6 Gift Certificate to either Mo's Digital Pencil, Tiddly Inks or Bugaboo Stamps. Please message me at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com with your choice of gift certificate and I will get that sent to you. 

As always choosing top picks is never easy but it has to be done, and here are my top picks from last month's challenge in order of entry. 

No. 17 Meghan Kennihan

No. 42 Kuni

No. 56 Inky Fingers

 Congratulations! Feel free to post this Top Pick logo 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 "stamp it" theme by visiting last month's challenge/ linky tool.

To play along in the November 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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