Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - December Challenge

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Hello and welcome to the December 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! So many wonderful entries last month for the Christmas/Holiday theme, thank you all so much for taking the time to join in! Be sure to scroll down to the end of this post to see if you were the prize winner or one of my top picks!

This Month's Theme

For the month of December I picked the nice and easy theme of ..........

All Creatures Great And Small

this includes animals of all kinds, humans of course and don't forget about those mythical creatures and snowmen! I can't wait to see what you'll come up with this month and hope to see you link up below!

I recently made a similar card with a different stamp and sentiment but loved how it turned out so I decided to make a few more. Here is one, and I will share another one done with this technique in my Saturday post.

I started out by flicking Masking Fluid with a cheap paint brush onto bristol vellum paper and let this completely dry. (Be sure to wash the brush ASAP as it will dry on and you'll end up throwing the brush away). Next I inked up the paper using Distress Oxides Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch and Chipped Sapphire with a blending tool.


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For this card I stamped and heat embossed the images on a separate piece of  Bristol Vellum Paper, then colored with distress inks (regular inks not the oxides). I'm sure most of you have used ink pads for coloring before, but if not, all I do is press a corner of the ink pad onto a clear block (you can use any non-porous surface) then pick up the color with a wet brush (I use theZig Detailer brush) to color the image. One of my critters comes from the set Holly Jolly Critters and the other critter plus star are part of the wood mounted stamp Listening To Stars. 

I used a stitched border die - similar die set - to create the hill, then added the fussy cut animals.

The sentiment from my favorite Christmas sentiment set  Penny Black Season's Gifts was stamped and heat embossed directly onto the background. Glitter was added to the star and hat with a Wink of Stella Glitter Brush.

Penny Black Listening to Stars // Penny Black Holly Jolly Critters //  Penny Black Season's Gifts // Similar Stitched Border Die // Distress Oxides: Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire (for the sky) //  Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Clear Embossing Powder // Winsor & Newton Masking Fluid // Bristol Vellum Paper // Zig Detailer Brush // Heavyweight White Cardstock // Cutterbee Scissors // Wink of Stella Glitter Brush

Sharing with these challenges:

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Critters // Artistic Stampers - Christmas is Coming // Ching-chou Kuik Digital Stamps - Christmas // Country View Crafts' Challenge - Stars // Crafty Animals -  Animals // Creatalicious Challenges - Winter // Creative Sketchy Girls - Christmas Cards // Daisy Chain Challenges - Christmas/Winter // Die Cut Divas - Winter/Christmas plus diecut // Happy Little Stampers - Dies // Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog - Christmas // Sparkles Forum Challenges - Christmas // Sparkles Forum Christmas - Winter Wonderland // Sweet Stampers  - Christmas // The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Christmas // Tinker- Dream - Christmas // Cardz 4 Guyz - Christmas Critters // Ike's World - Christmas // A Place To Start - Happy Holidays // Artsystamper Challenge - Holidays // Christmas with the Cuties  - Cute and Santa Hats // Colouring in Scrapland - Christmas // Cutie Pie Challenge - Animals // Dream Valley Challenges - Christmas // Path of Positivity - Anything Positive/ Peace // Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Sparkle (glitter on star and Santa hat) // Dare 2B Artzy Challenges - Holiday Fun // We Love 2 Create - Creative Mixed Media // Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Christmas // Di's Digis Designs - Animals acting like Humans // My Time to Craft - Christmas Scene // Crimbo Crackers - Christmas Animals // 

Anything Goes this week: 

Let's Craft & Create Challenge // Love to Craft  // Morgan's ArtWorld Open Challenge (F) // The Creative Crafters // Crafty Sentiment Designs // Tuesday Throwdown // Addicted to Stamps // A Gem of a Challenge // Crafty Friends Challenge // Just Us Girls 

Always Anything Goes:

A Bit More Time to Craft  // A Perfect Time To Craft // Crafts Galore Encore // DL.Art Linky Challenge //  Not Just Cards (F) // Lemon Shortbread // Through The Craft Room Door // Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges // Lil Patch of Crafty Friends // The Corrosive Challenges // Creative Fingers // QKR Stampede // Crafting With An Attitude // 

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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

Nancy

Congratulations, 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 it's not been easy to select top picks but it has to be done, and here they are in order of entry:

No. 7 Nancy 

(who coincidentally happens to be the prize winner)

No. 12 Lynne R.

No. 46 Nana Connie

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 to the individual blogs, but you can see these gorgeous top picks following the "Christmas/Holidays" theme by visiting last month's challenge/ linky tool.

To play along in the December 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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