Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - February Challenge

Hello and welcome to the February editition of Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday challenge taking place right here on my blog. I'm so glad you stopped by today and hope you'll join the fun too! There were some fabulous entries last month - thank you everyone for joining in - so be sure to scroll down to see the Top Picks. 

As most of you know, the theme is now always ....

Anything Goes

and instead of a challenge theme there will be a "Top Pick Twist", meaning I will select a twist from all of the entries for the Top 3. Nobody will know what the twist will be (not even me) until the end of the challenge. So do link up all of your crafty makes, your entry might be the one inspiring the Top Pick twist :) The linky tool is at the end of this post.

  

As there is a new challenge blog in town blogland (Neglected Stuff Challenge) I thought why not  look through my stash to see what I can find that's been neglected. And I found plenty of items, most included on this card are neglected.

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While I didn't have this Penny Black stamp - Sweet Love 2292K - for many years, I did purchase it over a year ago from eBay, absolutely love it but somehow I just haven't reached for it until now. I stamped with Memento ink and colored with Copic markers. Then I also found the Heart Embossing Folder by Cuttlebug which I've had in my stash for many MANY years and I've last used it in April 2020. That doesn't really sound too long ago to me but it was almost 5 years ago. Time flies!! The Ticket Sentiment set is an absolutely neglected item from my design team time at Whimsy Stamps - The Fun Life Ticket sentiments and Ticket Die. The last time I used this particular sentiment set was 2015, the die a few years ago with another ticket sentiment set. I actually don't think I have ever used this particular quote from the set!! also found some very neglected ribbon in my stash, the lilac grosgrain ribbon. I'm not sure I've ever used this! Oh, and not to forget the fancy die -Curved Stitch, this was a "had to have" Penny Black item when newly released several years ago but I only used it once in 2018 (I did a search on my blog to find out :)

Well, I'm really happy how this turned out using mostly neglected items. 

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I plan to share with these challenges:

• Can You Handle The Pressure? - Embossing Folders
• Colourful Options - Mood Board (below)
• Crafty Calendar - Hearts
• Critter Crazy Challenges - Critters
• Daisy Chain Challenges - Layer it up
• Dream Valley Challenges - Pink or Red
• If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - Hearts Galore
• Neglected Stuff Challenge - AG using neglected stuff (I wrote about my neglected stuff above)
• Paper Rocks Scissors (also a Brand NEW challenge blog!) - Must Use Paper and/or Scissors (I used cardstock from Stampin Up and Neenah, and scissors for cutting ribbon and twine)
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - PB stamps and option of hearts
• Stamping Sensations - AG option Valentines, Romance, Weddings
• Talking About it Tuesdays - Anything Goes
• The Crafting Challenge - Love is Red
• We Love Stamping - AG option CAS

 
     Colourful Options                            If you give a crafter a cookie

January Top Picks with a Twist:

 
Now it's time to announce the Top Picks with a twist from the January entries. Thank you all again for joining in the fun, I really enjoyed visiting your entries and selecting a "twist". The twist I went with is "Furry Friends" meaning all three Top Picks have featured a furry friend :)

   No. 20 Carol Gill 

No. 50 Helen F.

No. 66 Mary Marsh

Congratulations to each one of you for your well deserved recognition. The Top Pick logo is below, you may post this to your own blogs if you like to :)

I will continue to pin the top picks to the dedicated Pinterest board, but will also include photo and link back to the original blogs/sites here. These will be removed at the start of the new challenge to stay in compliance with GDPR.

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To join in this month's challenge please use the linky tool below. You have until the last Wednesday of February to join in (February 26th 11:59pm CST). 

A few things to remember:

• You may combine with any other challenges.
• You may use any brand of stamps/digis/dies/papers (no company restriction as long as copyright laws are followed).
• Please note: entries using pre-colored digital images will no longer be selected as top picks. 
• A short description of products used is expected, most importantly the source of focal point.
• This linkup is for sharing handmade projects of any kind not limited to papercrafts.
• Please try to limit to 3 entries per month - it's ok if you end up with more than 3 but I may not be able to visit your entries after the 3rd.
• Please do include a link back here to my blog in your blog post.
• Backlinking to a recent post IS allowed.

You can read more about the Guidelines/Copyright info here.