New Stamps in my Shop!

Hi everyone! No card at the moment, just wanted to mention that I finally received my wholesale order from Penny Black and new stamps and a couple dies are now added to my

Etsy *stamp* shop.

Almost everything is from the latest Sunshine and Smiles release. The Baby Hammock is an old Penny Black stamp, but sold out so quickly last time I had it available, that I decided to re-order it too. It seems to be a popular stamp for baby cards. 

 

 

 

 

 Two thin metal dies

Thanks for stopping by!

 Hope you all have a great start of the new week. I am hoping to share a card soon too, as I plan on playing along in Kathy's the daily marker 2 day 30-day coloring challenge :-)

Blossom and butterfly

I found some time yesterday morning to play with some stamps, and so I made this card. Wish I had photographed it yesterday too...it's a rainy day here today, and it's so hard to get a good photo on rainy days.

All stamps are from Just For Fun Rubber Stamps. Some of them I just received in my latest Design Team packet, and some of them I've  had for longer and used before.

The dark paper and stamping on the right side corner on my card is actually a dark brown, it appears black or navy blue on my screen. I will have to photograph this again, once the sun comes out - but not sure if that's going to happen today. The little flower was fussy cut after coloring, and then adhered to the card with dimensionals. The leaves behind the flowers are from a larger stamp, I simply cut those two out to place behind the flower. Die cut behind sentiment is from Whimsy. Butterfly was done using a Martha Stewart punch.

Product List:

small corn flower, 2sided doodle background small

stamptangle leaf flourish large,  texture cube

Michelangelo script, unmounted sentiments sheet 1

(all stamps above are from JFF)

Notables 5 die (Whimsy Stamps) , MS butterfly punch

sticky pearls, brad,

Memento and Distress inks

 I would also like to play along here:

Crafty Calendar  - Things with wings
Simply Create Too -  Keep It Simple
 Penny's Paper-Crafty - Anything GoesRuby's Rainbow - May Blossoms and Butterflies 

 

Thanks so much for visiting!!

Hope you have a fantastic weekend!! 

Flowers in my Pocket

Very happy to say that I feel so much better! I spent a nice Memorial Day with my family, then on Tuesday I forced myself to start exercising again after taking a week off. That and letting out some tears really helped me...I hate when I get so emotional, but luckily it doesn't happen very often!

The cute pocket stamp is a new one from Whimsy Stamps' latest release. This one was illustrated by Meljen's Designs.

The pocket and flowers have been stamped onto copic blending card, colored and fussy cut. I  stamped the image again onto designer paper and then adhered the pocket to the card, but leaving the glue off on the top part, so I could stick something inside the pocket. I didn't have any real tickets at home, so for the photo I used one of Whimsy's older ticket sentiments to put a couple tickets into the pocket. The "a gift for you" sentiment is from a more recent set "Happy Birthday". I embellished with a little button, some twine, and washi tape on the left side.

Here is a closeup. I got the texture on the jeans pocket by coloring a piece of scrap jeans with a copic blender and then simply pressed the fabric onto my copic colored image. (Huge thanks to my blogging and DT friend Danni for the wonderful tip!)

Whimsy Product List:

Flowers in my pocket,

Happy Birthday

Fun Life tickets

ticket die

I am entering the card here:

Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew- For a Teen
 Penny's Paper-Crafty - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes

 

Thanks so much for visiting!

 Hope you are enjoying your day!

Monday Morning Challenge / Winner and Info

Happy Monday everyone!

 Huge apologies for not posting sooner, it hasn't been a fun week for me. Just hoping things go back to normal soon. For now I have decided to take a break from my Monday Morning Challenge, and hopefully I will continue again in Fall. 

A huge "Thank You" to all of you that have played along in my challenges these last few months!

I wanted to announce last month's winner, random.org chose #25

That is Jennifer S.

Congratulations Jennifer! Please email me you address at ellibelle_blog at yahoo dot com, so I can get the prize shipped to you.

Thank you all again for your support. I should be back with a card later this week.

Hope you all had a wonderful long Holiday weekend!