I Spy With My Little Eye.......... Something With Feathers or Fur (Challenge No. 22)

Hello and welcome to the January "I spy with my little eye" challenge taking place right here on my blog. Pauline and I are back with a new theme and hope you will join in the fun too! Be sure to scroll down to see who our Top Picks from the last challenge were, both are invited to join us as guest designers in the next challenge.

This time it was my turn (Ellie) to select a theme and it is.............

I spy with my little eye....

Something with feathers or fur.

The choice is yours and you may even include both - feathers and fur. We can't wait to see what you'll share with us! The linky tool is at the end of this post.

And here is what we made to inspire you:

Ellie

(All details are right below the card.)

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I used two new to me Lavinia stamps, Swans and Field Grass. The background was done using Distress inks/Oxides. I first applied ink to a stamping block (Antique Linen in the middle, then Broken China and Chipped Sapphire on both sides. Spritzed with water and pressed the acrylic block onto Mixed Media cardstock. When this was dry (you can use a heating tool but I just used a paper towel to dry up the excess ink and waited a little bit) I added more of the same blue inks on each side using an ink blending tool and this time I also used a mask for the moon. There was too much blue ink on the moon part (you can't really control what you get when doing the acrylic block inking technique) so I decided to add a few clouds using a MFT stencil. Not really a fan of how the clouds turned out but at this point I didn't want to start over again. The little heart is part of a Penny Black die set and sentiment from Tim Holtz's Small Talk sentiment sticker book. 

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I plan to share the above card with these challenges:

• Daisy Chain Challenges - No Design Paper
• Dream Valley Challenges - Something News (New Stamps)
• If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - AG
• The Creative Crafters - AG
• Triple B Challenge - Birds, Blooms or Butterflies

Pauline

Such a beautiful design featuring these wonderful stamps! Please visit Pauline's blog to find out all the details.

We are so excited to have a guest designer this time and that is Amy of Amy's Creative Pursuits. So glad you've joined us Amy!!

Isn't that peacock just stunning!! To find out how Amy made this card please visit her blog.

 

Top Picks for Challenge no. 21

Many thanks to everyone who joined us in the last challenge which goes back to a starting day of mid- November as there was no new challenge posted in December. Selecting top picks is never easy. But we finally managed and they are listed in the order of entry. 

Remember, Top Picks are invited to join us in the next challenge if you like to. That would be for challenge no. 23 starting Wednesday February 19th. Of course it's not a requirement but we would love to have you both as guests!!

No. 30 Emma T. (Pauline's Pick)

No. 51 Loopyloo (Ellie's Pick)

Congratulations to both of you!! Your top pick logo is below to display on your own blogs if you like to.

You are both invited to join us as guest designers for challenge no. 23 starting on Wednesday February 19th . If you are interested in taking part, please message me (Ellie) at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com so I can give you all the details for our upcoming theme.

To play along in the current challenge please use the linky tool below.

A few things to remember:

(Complete list of guidelines and copyright info can be found here.)

• You may share up to 5 different projects.
• You may combine with as many other challenges as you like to.
• A short mention of products used whenever possible is expected, especially the focal point.
• New: While you are free to link up your creations using pre-colored digital art (AI generated, digital pre-colored toppers/images, digital papers etc.), they will be excluded from top picks. 
• Please include a link back to this blog.
• Backlinking to a recent project is allowed.