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Mar 5, 2025

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - March Challenge (and Exciting News!!)

Hello and welcome to the March Edition 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 decide to share your crafty makes too. There were lots of fabulous entries last month, thank you all!! Be sure to scroll down to see if your entry was a Top Pick.

Exciting News!! 

Last week an idea for a new challenge popped into my head 😀 and I decided to make it happen. It will be all about "Gardens" and I am calling it Ellibelle's Garden Party. It will be for papercrafts of any kind, and you may also share garden photography and other garden related posts. I don't know about you but being out in a garden is one of my most favorite things to do and has been my whole life. So mark your calendars and come join the first party starting Thursday March 13th!!


Ok, back to the reason of today's post..

As most of you know, the theme at Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday 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.

Here is what I made:

I'm still playing with my new Tracy Evans Boutique Designs stamps and recently actually managed to watch a video tutorial of one of her recent makes and this is my version of it. I used similar colors and similar techniques but chose different stamps/stencil and a bit different design.

The large cat stencil is Snippet Stencil Black Cat by Tracy Evans Boutique Designs, stamps are Numerical Cats, Abstract Trees (both by TE Boutique Designs), Miniatures - the background text stamping (Aall and Create by Tracy Evans) and Night Stalker - part of the sentiment in black (Aall and Create by Dominic Phillips).
Inks are Salvaged Patina, Wilted Violet, Cracked Pistachio and Hickory Smoke along with Versafine Onyx for the black ink. A white Posca pen was used to add splatter to the background. 


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I plan to link up with these challenges:


February Top Picks with a Twist:

 
Now it's time to announce the Top Picks with a twist from the February entries. Thank you all again for joining in the fun, I really enjoyed visiting your entries and selecting a "twist". This time the twist is.... Anything But a Card. 

And here they are listed in the order of entry:


No. 10 Debbie M.

who made this fabulous explosion box.

No. 13 Fiona Whitehead

who made this beautiful mini book (more gorgeous pages on her blog).

 

who made this beautifully crochet Tulip Surprise.

 

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 March to join in (March 26th 11:59pm CST). 

If the linky tool is missing (it happend last year in March during renewal of my linky tools subscription), please simply leave your blog post link in a comment below.


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.



14 comments:

Joanne said...

Oh that is an exciting announcement! I can not wait for garden season.

brenda said...

Inspirational use of the new Cat stencil and love the colour palette Ellie.

B x

Pauline C said...

Very pretty soft colours Ellie and a gorgeous combo of stamps and stencil. Exciting news about your new challenge - can’t wait to see challenge #1 xx

Fiona said...

Thank you for choosing my book in your top 3

Crafting Queen said...

Really lovely card. Thanks for joining Stamping Sensations and We Love Stamping challenges. Anesha

papierelle said...

Ich liebe es ebenfalls im Garten zu sein und auch die Gartenarbeiten zu verrichten. Gerdae jetzt haben wir perfektes Wetter dafür und auch die Katzen liegen jetzt wieder gern in der Sonne oder stromern durch den Garten. Da passt Deine Karte perfekt und bin begeistert vom Design. LG Gundi

Mary Marsh said...

Such a cute card for this challenge and congrats on starting a new challenge.

Debbie Mageed said...

I'm so happy to see my explosion box in your top three! Thank you so much, Ellie! Congrats to the other winners!

Becca Sadler, owner and manager of HQCB and FQCB said...

Linky says expired...?? I'll leave my link just in case - https://heartquestforloveandcountrycreativity.blogspot.com/2025/02/my-featured-fqcccb-18-agcc-theme.html

Lisa :) said...

What a beautiful card!! Love the colors! Linky isn't working here is my entry https://royalpumpkinart.blogspot.com/2025/03/carnival-card-for-all-seasons-ig-hop.html

Ellibelle said...

Thanks for leaving the blog link, Becca. It's been added now that the linky tool is fixed :)

Ellibelle said...

Thanks for leaving the blog link, Lisa. It's been added now that the linky tool is fixed :)

Linby said...

This is so beautiful. The colours are dreamy and the sentiment is fab. Thanks for taking part at Stamping Sensations challenge.

pinky said...

Oh wow that is absolutely gorgeous! My daughter would just love this card. Thanks for playing along with us at We Love Stamping!
Pinky