Make Each New Day a Celebration of Life

Hello and welcome! It's the first challenge of 2024 at Allsorts and I am here to share my card. It's Lynn turn to host and she has a fun Mood Board for inspiration and as always you can go with the "Anything Goes" option if you can't find anything to inspire you on her mood board although there are so many options. I'm also announcing the winner of my prize giveaway from the Year in Review post at the end of this post, so be sure to scroll down if you left a comment on that post. 

The prizes come from AALL and Create and Craft Stash, for Allsorts challenges 760, 761 and 762 and all winners will be announced on the last Friday of the month.

Optional mood board below:

There were a mix of winter and early spring images on the mood board so I decided to make a late winter/early spring themed card with some snowdrops and a bird who got caught in a snow storm but he doesn't seem to mind as he knows spring is just around the corner :)  Speaking of snow, we're expected to get several inches on Tuesday but unfortunately it's not around the corner in real life :(

The image is by Penny Black (Pretty Perch) stamped with Versafine ink and colored with Distress inks. I added some grid paste (snowfall) from Tim Holtz on the bottom portion then I flicked some white paint from a Posca pen onto the background for some snow flurries.

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While I looked through my sentiments I thought this one was a great choice to go with the image. It's from the Penny Black set Big Love which has lots of wonderful inspirationals sentiments.

A closeup of the image below. I've had this for a while but this is only my second time using it. 

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I plan to share with these challenges:

• Penny Black Saturday - use PB Stamps
• Simon Says Stamp - Something New (New Day Sentiment)
• The Crafty Addicts - AG
• Word Art Wednesdays - AG
• A Perfect Time To Craft - AG
• Crafts Galore Encore - AG
• Triple B - Birds, Blooms or Butterflies
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge -  A New Start (New Day)
• Creative Inspirations Challenge - AG
• Krafty Chicks - Use Stamps

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Year in Review Winner of Whimsy Stamps $10 gift certificate:

Many thanks to all of you who visited the post and left a comment, and a big thank you also to the co-hosts who joined me this year!!

The winner was selected from the comments left on the post using Random.org.

Congratulations ScrappyHorses, you were the 19th commenter!

To claim your prize please message me by Friday January 12th at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com. (As mentioned, this prize is not sponsored by Whimsy Stamps, it is provided by me.)