Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - February Challenge

Hello and welcome to Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - February challenge taking place right here on my blog! I'm so glad you decided to stop by to check out the new theme and I'd love for you to join in too!

I can hardly believe it's February already, although time flies, January seemed to have been such a looooong month, it had been extremely cold here too and I am looking forward to hopefully better weather in February, although for today we're having a winter storm warning! But at least it's not so frigid now! Hope you are staying warm where-ever you are located! 

But lets get on with the challenge - be sure to scroll down to see if you were one of my Top Picks from last month! 

This month's theme

Fitting for the month of February I selected the theme of..................

Hearts or Flowers

As always the theme is for your inspiration (optional) and you may link up any of your crafty makes. This doesn't have to be a card, it can be anything creative as long as it's handmade by you!

And here is what I made:

All stamps are by Penny Black. I started out by stamping the fence (PB Snow Fence) using Ice Spruce Distress Oxide ink then inked along the edges/sky using the same ink. If you look closely you can see that I also used a circle mask when I inked up the edges and sky.

The white splatter was done using a Posca pen. Sentiment is from the Penny Black set Dream Love Sentiments stamped in Versafine Onyx ink. 

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The cute stamp - Penny Black Nose to Nose has been stamped on a separate piece of Bristol Vellum paper, colored and then fussy cut. They look white but were colored in a very light shade of gray and blush pink cheeks. 

  

Penny Black's  Berries die was used behind the bears and the heart is a die from Avery Elle's Heart Frame die set.

Penny Black Nose to Nose // Penny Black Snow Fence //  Dream Love Sentiments // Penny Black Berries die // Avery Elle Heart Frame Die Set // Ice Spruce Distress Oxide // Festive Berries Distress Ink // Versafine Onyx ink // Posca pen // 

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The color inspiration for my card came from this month's mood board from The Four Season's challenge, so will be entering my card there.

And also linking up here:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge // Simon Says Stamp - With Love // The Paper Funday - Hugs and Kisses // Dies R Us Challenge - Love// Paper Shelter - For the One You Love // Cardz 4 Guyz - Beginning with "P" (Polar Bears) // Ike's World - Love // Unicorn Challenge - Let's See Red // Double Trouble Challenges  - AG Thing 1 // A Gem of a Challenge - AG // Di's Digis Designs - Winter Fun // Crafty Catz - AG // DL ART Thankful Thursday Challenge - Valentine // Crafty Gals Corner - Snow Much Fun // Double D Challenge - Hearts

Always Anything Goes:

Taylor Made Cards 4 U // 613 Avenue Create opt. twist watercolor // Creative Moments // Through The Craft Room Door // The Corrosive Challenges // A Bit More Time to Craft // A Perfect Time To Craft // Classic Design  Challenge * // Crafts Galore Encore // DL.Art Linky Challenge // Love to Craft // QKR Stampede // The Creative Crafters // World Wide Open Design Team Challenge // Lil Patch of Crafty Friends 

Link Parties:

Dare to Share // Sunday Showcase - First Sunday with Ada and Mireille  //  Inspire Me Monday //  Link Up Potpourri //  Random-osity Good, Random, Fun // You're The Star Blog Hop Link Party @Stonecottage Adventures // Anything Goes with Your Hosts @ My Random Musings // Jenerally Informed The Happy Now // Spread the Kindness Linkup @ Shelbee on the Edge //  Thursday Favorite Things // Little Things Thursday // Encouraging Heart and Home @ Slices of Life // 

 Last month's top picks

I will continue to add my favorites to the dedicated Pinterest board, but going forward I will once again showcase the top pick's creations with links to their individual blogs, which will be removed at the start of each new month's challenge to remain in compliance with GDPR.

Selecting just three is never easy but something that needs to be done and here they are from last month's theme of Something New or Anything Goes. They are listed in order of entry.

No. 9 Debbie M

No. 28 Pia

No. 30 Carole

Congratulations!! Well deserved recognition. Your Top Pick logo is below, feel free to post it to your own blogs if you like to :)

Can't wait to see what you will share this month!

A few things to remember:

• You may follow the theme or anything crafty goes.

• You may combine with any other challenges.

• You may use any brand of stamps/digis/products (no company restriction).
• No more than 3 entries per person please - no worries if you end up with more.
• Please do include a link back here to my blog in your blog post.
• Backlinking IS allowed.