I Spy With My Little Eye..........Something Monochrome (Challenge No. 37)

Hello everyone and welcome to a new I spy with my little eye challenge, taking place right here on my blog. Pauline and I are back with a new theme and we hope you will join us! As always, our top picks from the last challenge are at the end of this post, invited to join us in the next challenge.

This time it's Pauline's turn to select a theme and it is.........

I spy with my little eye...........

Something Monochrome.

We can't wait to see what color you choose to feature on your monochromatic projects. As always, the linky tool is at the end of this post.

Here is what we came up with to inspire you:

My Card (Ellie)

(All details are right below the card.)

I went with a brown color scheme. I recently got Tracy Evans' new-ish stamp set Framed Delights, I knew I wanted to use it with my cats set by Tracy Evans - Numerical Cats and this is what I came up with. The hearts at the top left are from the set Branched Heart also by Tracy Evans. Stamping looks black but I used Versafine Clair Pinecone ink which is a very dark brown. On the background I used a crackle stencil by Prima with Tea Dye Distress ink. I distressed the edges for an aged look and used DCWV Cocoa paper as a layer and Stampin Up Espresso paper for the card base. It's hard to see but I added rhinestones to the top and bottom of the stamped frame.

I am entering the above card here:

• Crafty Animals - Animals
• Crafty Catz - AG
• Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! - AG with Stencils
• Fab n' Funky - Monochromatic
• Neglected Stuff Challenge - I had that Prima crackle stencil for many years but think this is my first time using it. 
• Paper Rock Scissors - Paper and/or Scissors (all layers are paper and I used scissors for distressing)

Pauline's Card

Such a beautiful design with that gorgeous color! Please visit Pauline's blog to find out how she made this card.

We are so excited to have Gerrina of Gerrina's Creatieve Wereld joining us this time as a guest designer. Thanks so much, Gerrina!

Gerrina's Card

So cute and feminine, what a fun design! Please visit Gerrina's blog to find out how she made this card.

Top Picks from Challenges 35 and 36

We had such wonderful entries sharing in our combined Spring Flowers or Spring Showers themes over the last two months. Thank you all so much for joining us! Selecting Top Picks was so hard but since we had a 2-months challenge we decided it was just right to choose 2 Top Picks each, so a total of 4. Each one of you is invited to join us as a guest designer in the next challenge.

No. 1 Chris (Pauline's Pick)

No. 35 Carrie Sheridan (Ellie's Pick)

No. 47 Silke (Ellie's Pick)

No. 51 AdryConceP (Pauline's Pick)

(You can take a closer look at all the pretty pages in this album on Adry's blog.)

Congratulations on your well deserved recognition! Your Top Pick logo is below.

Remember, you are all invited to join us as guest designers for challenge no. 38 starting June 17th. If you would like to be a guest designer please message me (Ellie) at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com so I can give you all the details. Of course, this is not a requirement but would love to have you joining us if you like to :)

To play along in the new 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.
• Back-linking to a recent project is allowed.
• Linkup closes on Sunday, June 14th at 11:59pm CST