Allsorts Challenge 556: Take Flight

Hello and welcome!  I'm back today with my card for the new Allsorts challenge theme. It's Tracy's turn to host and she chose the theme of Take Flight, so anything that can fly. I hope you can join us for a chance to win. This week our prize comes from Swedish House Crafts!

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I used a cute stamp from the Penny Black set Happy Critters, heat embossed using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and Clear Embossing Powder, and I colored with a mix of Copic Markers and Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. The butterflies are part of a wood mounted Penny Black stamp (What a Spring - old, linked to ebay). 

It's hard to tell but the background was inked with Tumbled Glass ink and I used an old Cloud stencil from Stampin Up to create clouds. You can easily make your own cloud stencil out of a scallop circle punch or even cut by hand if you don't own one, there are Youtube videos available to show you how to. 

Grass from the Penny Black set Enjoy Life was stamped using Shabby Shutters and Mowed Lawn Distress inks and then I added the border die cut using Penny Black's die Love Always. I first inked up a strip of paper using Shabby Shutters and Picked Raspberry  ink, then cut it out with a manual Big Shot machine. 

Sentiment is also from Penny Black, from the set Sweet Wishes, also heat embossed. When the card front was complete, I ran it through my die cutting machine using Avery Elle's Wonky Stitches Die.

Penny Black Happy Critters // Penny Black Sweet Wishes // Penny Black What a Spring // Penny Black Enjoy Life // Penny Black Die Love Always // Avery Elle Die Set Wonky Stitches // Distress Inks Shabby Shutters, Tumbled Glass, Mowed Lawn, Picked Raspberry // Copic Markers // Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils // Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Clear Embossing Powder // Sticky Rhinestones - Options

I'm linking up with these blogs:

Colour Crazy Challenge - Coloring // Daring Cardmakers - Cheer Someone Up // Double D Challenges - Balloons // Mod Squad - Animals // Simon Says Stamp - Pets // The Three Muses  - Happiness // 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Critters // Happy Little Stampers - Dies // Let's Craft & Create Challenge - Love is in the Air // Double Trouble Challenges - Say Cheese // Penny Black Saturday Challenge - PB stamps // Inspire me Mondays

Thanks so much for visiting!!

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Feminine And More Than A Single Word

Good morning! Today I have two cards to share, it's the 18th meaning it's time for my midmonth creation for the Penny Black and More challenge blog and then it's also Saturday when the new theme at Allsorts challenge goes live! Hope you can join us for your chance to win! We have some fantastic prizes to give away - a prize by Craft Stash from Allsorts and prizes from Penny Black and Blade Rubber Crafts at Penny Black and More.


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Both cards feature stamps illustrated by Mo Manning.

First up is my card for Penny Black and More where our theme this month is "Make it Feminine". This stamp  All Connected is new to me, I came across it on Ebay at the end of last year for only $6 with free shipping and I had to have it :-)

Penny Black All Connected // Penny Black Snippets // Penny Black Wood Floor Die Set // Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Clear Embossing Powder // Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils // Cutterbee Scissors // Antique Linen Distress Ink // Mini Ink Blending Tool (I have these but really want these) // Big Shot Die Cutting Machine // Tonic Stamp Platform (no longer available - Alternative Options) // Mini Paper Flower Options // Natural Jute Twine

I heat embossed the image on Bristol Vellum paper using my usual Versafine Clair and clear embossing powder, colored with Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils then fussy cut. The floor was done with Penny Black's Wood Floor Die Set, inked with Antique Linen distress ink. The pretty pattern paper is from my stash (by Stampin up and really old). As you might have guessed, I had to add the flower to the chair because some ink transfered to the card stock where it wasn't supposed to. Then I decided to add the other flower and Twine. I feel like it needed a 3rd flower (two just seems weird) but I couldn't decide where to put it so I left it as is.

Stampavie Rae with Journal (Stampavie out of business but I found this stamp in a larger size by Penny Black) // Penny Black Brick Wall // Penny Black wood mounted sentiment stamp (old) // Penny Black Oscillations Stencil // Ink Blending Tool (I have these but really want these) //  Memento Tuxedo Ink // Pumice Stone Distress Oxide Ink // Copic Markers // Cutterbee Scissors // Tonic Stamp Platform (no longer available - Alternative Options) // Paper Flower Options // Foam Mounting Tape // Xpress it Blending Card

The second card was made for our theme at Allsorts challenge, chosen by Mervi this week it's "More Than a Single Word". I chose an old wood mounted sentiment by Penny Black for my "words". 

The pretty image is a clear stamp by Stampavie (no longer in business), this was another ebay find a couple of years ago and part of stamp lot I had found. While looking for a working link, I discovered this stamp was at some point produced by Penny Black (in a larger size), and I found it available at the Rubber Buggy. Otherwise it's probably available as a digi version from Mo's Digital Pencil. 

The brick wall stamp is also a stamp by Penny Black, I used Pumice Stone ink for stamping and a little bit of sponging, then added some stenciling to the bottom portion of the card. 

Image has been stamped with Memento ink on Xpress it Blending Card and colored with copic markers this time. Honestly I don't enjoy coloring with copics so much anymore, I think I forgot how to ... there is so much blending involved, it's just too complicated to have it look halfway ok! I think flowers  are much easier to color with copics than people.

Anyway, the image was fussy cut after coloring and I used Foam Mounting Tape  to adhere to the card. I embellished with a yellow  paper flower. 

I'm linking up with these challenges:

Card #1

Mo Manning Challenge - Something New (New to me stamp) // Colour Crazy Challenge  - Coloring // Cute Card Thursday - What's New (New to me stamp) // Sisterhood of Crafters - Thinking of You // Make My Monday - Anything But Square) 

Card#2

Path of Positivity - Character Traits (Dreamy Girl always thinking of poetry and her journal - that would have been me once upon a time :-) 

Inspire me Mondays

Thanks so much for visiting!

Allsorts Challenge 554 and How To Easily Mask Mistakes While Adding Interest to Your Card

Today is the start of a new theme at Allsorts challenge with this week's topic of "Say it with Flowers" hosted by Brenda. We have a great prize to give away by Bee Crafty - a pretty floral stamp and sentiment -  so hopefully you'll join us for your chance to win!


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I stamped and heat embossed the image from the set Blooming Garden using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and Clear Embossing Powder. With a circle mask in place I inked the paper using Blueprint Sketch ink, starting at the bottom and using a lighter touch towards the top. Next I used Seedless Preserves ink on the bottom 1/3 of the card blending with the blueprint sketch ink.

Thought it would be a good idea to wash my hands (as you can imagine I had pretty inky fingers at this point and usually transfer some ink to the white part of the card.) Well, even though I dried my hands there must have still been some moisture on my fingers as it took away some of the ink, the way how distress inks react to water.

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How I Easily Saved My Card:

This is not a new idea, I'm sure many of you do similar things, but since there are always newbie card makers out there, I thought it's worth a mention.

A piece of bubble wrap was laying around on my desk and I thought it would be the perfect item to use to fix the card. I lightly spritzed it with water then pressed down onto the inked paper, just like a stamp. And since distress ink reacts this way to water, I was left with a pretty background. As a matter of fact several supplies and random things found in the kitchen or the office could be used in place of stamps or stencils to add interest to a card, which will help mask mistakes. This card was meant to be Clean and Simple.

The butterflies were also added because of a mistake. When I removed the circle mask, I noticed the circle must have shifted at some point because the bottom edge of the circle was smudged. This is when I decided to add the butterflies, I only needed one but it made more sense to add 3. I used an old Martha Stewart punch to make the butterflies out of distressed inked paper and added an sticky rhinestone to their body centers.

The blossoms and pods were stamped again on xpress it blending card then colored with copic markers. The sentiment from the Penny Black set Friendship was stamped and heat embossed directly onto the inked background. I rub an embossing buddy over the card before stamping, this will prevent the embossing powder from sticking to other parts of the card and it will only stick to the stamped impression.

Penny Black Blooming Garden // Penny Black Friendship //  Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Clear Embossing Powder // Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink // Seedless Preserves Distress Ink // Ink Blending Tool // Circle Nestabilities Die - for the Circle Mask // Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch - Old Options // Sticky Rhinestones // Bristol Vellum Paper // Xpress It Blending Card // Copic Markers // Cutterbee Scissors // Heating Tool // Tonic Stamp Platform - it's being discontinued Similar Options // Bubble Wrap // Mini Mister // Embossing Buddy

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Sharing with these blogs:
Alphabet Challenge - T for Try Something Different (Bubble Wrap Stamping) // Cute Card Thursday - Embellish // Double D Challenges - Punches (butterfly punch) // Fab n Funky - No Design Papers // Simon Says Stamp - Fun with Florals // We Love 2 Create - Something Creative/Mixed Media // Penny Black Saturday Challenge  - PB Stamps
Daring Card Makers (my chosen 3 elements are: Flowers, Dots, the color Blue) // Inspire Me Mondays
  

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Hero Arts - My Monthly Hero January Kit Release

I know many of you love using dies in your papercrafts, and this month's Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kit includes several beautiful dies along with a cute set of sentiments. How cute is that evelope ad bouquet wrap die!!

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The kit is available HERE  (ETA: sold out) along with this month's "Add Ons".

This set is so tempting to me....but I don't really use dies a lot on my cards so I'm still debating it......

Anyway, I just wanted to pop in and post about this new Hero Arts release.  The kit is available HERE, and don't forget to take a look at this month's "Add-Ons" just released as well.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Something Feminine for Penny Black and More

Happy Sunday! It's the first Sunday of the month, meaning it's time for a  new theme at Penny Black and More and this month we want to see Feminine creations. As usual we have some wonderful prizes to give away so hopefully you'll join us. You can use any company you like as long as your focal point is stamped the only exception are Penny Black stickeroos.

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I  made a CAS card using the stamp set Butterfly Garden. I started out by stenciling the background using Stampers Anonymous Flourish stencil and Distress inks. The butterfly was stamped on Copic Blending Card and colored with Copic markers.

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I covered the butterfly in sparkles using a clear Wink of Stella glitter brush and fussy cut using my Cutterbee scissors. The sentiment from the Penny Black set Snippets was stamped directly onto the white card stock and I added a strip of pattern paper, then adhered the butterfly with a glue dot to the dotted paper. The purple card stock is Stampin Up's Perfect Plum and for my white card base I used 110 lb heavy weight card stock.

Penny Black Butterfly Garden // Penny Black Snippets // Stampers Anonymous Flourish Stencil // Distress Inks Cracked Pistachio // Distress Ink Dusty Concord // Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Clear Embossing Powder // Cutterbee Scissors // Copic Blending Card // Wink of Stella

I'm linking my card up with these challenges:
Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Use PB stamps // CCEE Stampers - June In January // Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes  


Thank you so much for visiting! Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend! I plan on taking down the Christmas decorations today. I feel like this holiday season went by so fast!



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Allsorts Challenge 553: Soft Pastels

We're back on a regular weekly schedule at Allsorts challenge and a new theme has just been posted. Helene is hosting this week and she selected the theme of Soft Pastels. Hope to see you joining us. You can make any (paper)craft you like as long as it follows the theme. Our prize this time is a fun set by Stabilo. 

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Back in November I was browsing eBay when I came across a listing of Flourishes  LLC stamp sets. The price was amazing ($10) and it included 5 sets so I purchased the lot. I just LOVE this beautiful line art and the sentiment is so nice too! This company is no longer in business but this artist has her own shop now - Power Poppy, I'm sure many of you are familiar with it. 

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A simple card to make, I stamped the image and sentiment using using Pumice Stone Distress Oxide, sprinkled with clear Ultra Fine Embossing Powder and heat embossed. Then colored with diluted distress inks and my Zig Detailer. Framed with stampin up card stock then used 110lb White Card Stock as the card base.

Here is a closer look:

Unfortunately I can't link to this set as it's nowhere available, but I think it's called "From the Desk of". It might show up on ebay at some point...

Other products used:

Distress Oxide Pumice Stone // Distress Ink Tumbled Glass // Distress Ink Vintage Photo // Hero Arts Ultra Fine Embossing Powder Clear // Heating Tool // Bristol Vellum Paper // 110lb White Card Stock // Zig Detailer

Thanks so much for visiting!!



I'm also sharing my card here:
Little Red Wagon - NBUS // Simon Says Wednesday - Something New - this set is old by NEW to me // Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes // Inspire me Mondays

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - January Challenge

Happy New Year!! 

I would like to wish all of my blog followers and visitors a Happy and Healthy 2020!

Welcome to the first Crafty Wednesday challenge of the year right here on my blog! I'm so happy you decided to check it out and maybe play along! There were some fabulous entries last month, be sure to scroll down to see if you were the prize winner or in my top picks.

This  Month's Theme

Use New Goodies or Old Favorites
(or both)

I think this challenge is for everyone and I hope you'll play along! As always the linky tool is at the end of this post.

For my card I used a "new to me" stamp by Hero Arts along with some old favorites. This stamp is called Antique Bee and Flowers and is available directly from Hero Arts, at Scrapbook. com  or Amazon. My card was inspired by a another challenge card I was working on ...

Hero Arts Antique Bee and Flowers also available Here and Here // Penny Black Happy Wishes also available Here // TCW Chickenwire Stencil // Stampin Up French Script // Distress Ink Tea Dye // Distress Ink Walnut Stain // Distress Ink Antique Linen // Distress Ink Scattered Straw // Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Clear Embossing Powder // Bristol Vellum Paper // Wink of Stella

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The image has been heat embossed on Bristol Vellum paper and colored with distress inks. I then used a chickenwire stencil and french script stamp to create the background with distress inks and I inked and distressed the edges.  Sentiments are from the Penny Black set Happy Wishes, stamped with Walnut Stain distress ink and heat embossed. Layered onto Stampin Up's Old Olive card stock then used 110 lb heavy weight white card stock as the base. Some clear wink of stella glitter was applied to the bee to give it some sparkles. 

I'm also linking up here:
Little Red Wagon - NBUS // Mod Squad Challenge - Make Your Own Pattern Papers // Simon Says Wednesday - Something New // Not Dressed as a Lamb - Any Blog Post

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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 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

First up is the prize winner. Random.org was used to selected the winner, and the prize goes to......

No. 17 Paper Whims

Congratulations, you won a $6 Gift Certificate to either Mo's Digital Pencil or Bugaboo Stamps. (Unfortunately I can no longer offer Tiddly Inks as a prize as no certificates are offered in their new Etsy shop and the other shop is now closed.) 
Please message me at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com with your choice of gift certificate and I will get that sent to you. 

Choosing my top picks is never easy, but it has to be done and here they are in order of entry:

No. 16 Christy Lee

No. 29 Jan R

No. 56 Kuni

Congratulations on being selected as top picks! 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 this month's 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

PS: I recently shared my 2019 Year In Review post, where I picked my favorite creations of 2019. You can take a look here and please let me know if you've done a "favorites of 2019" post. I'd love to come check out yours!