Thankful somethings

Happy Friday!!

This week our challenge at stamp something is called

thankful somethings.

For my card I used one of my own digistamps, little susie squirrel with acorn, from
Digital Stamp Oasis.

The image has been printed on couture 80lb card stock and then colored with derwent coloursoft and baby oil. I cut it out using a circle nestabilities shape. Edges were sponged using some bashful blue ink.

I embellished with some brown grosgrain ribbon, brads and punched out butterflies using a martha stewart punch. Tiny sticky pearls and stickles glitter were added to the butterflies.
The sentiment is from Stampin up.

I am also entering my card to these challenges

• the sweet stop saturday (sketch - I flipped it).
• Creative Card Crew (give thanks)
• Crazy Challenges (thank you or thanksgiving)
• Stamps R Us (sparkles and scallops)
• Crafty Ho's (fall colors)
• Paper Sundaes (punches, ribbon, embossing, blue - at least 2 of these)

Our generous sponsor this week is Simon Says stamps and a wonderful prize is up for grabs, as usual! I hope you'll all join in.

Have a GREAT weekend!
Ellie.

A fairy birthday card

Happy Wednesday!!

I needed a birthday card for a little girl who's turning 5 soon and I thought this stamp from Lily of the valley would be perfect to use!

I heat embossed the image and then colored it using derwent coloursoft pencils and baby oil.
Designer Paper is from Bo Bunny (I think), card stock is from Stampin up and Couture (white).

I embellished with a punched border (martha stewart punch), some prima flowers, punched flowers (stampin up punch), Tim Holtz flourish die (sizzix), a paper doily, ribbon and silver cord and some pearls. I also did some sewing with my janome mini and applied lots of stickles and then I used some scissors to distress the edges.

My card fits these challenges:

• Anything goes (emboss it: my image is heat embossed)
• A spoon full of sugar (distressing)
• Paper Playtime (use something you love : I love pink, primas, pearls and this LOTV image)
• Stamps r us (sparkle and scallops)
• Creative Inspirations paint (mythology: my fairy image)
• Paper Sundaes (punches, embossing, ribbon, blue)

That should be about it.

I also wanted to remind you again - if you haven't yet played in this month's Penny Black @ All sorts challenge, you have just about one more week to do so. Some fabulous cute Penny Black stamps are up for grabs to several lucky winners. The theme is "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Would love it if you'd play along, you can enter up to 3 times with a new project.

Have a great day!
Ellie.

Anything with wings

Happy Tuesday!!

We have a new challenge for you over at digital tuesday. It's Anneke's turn to host this week and she wants to see

anything with wings!

For my card I used a brand new to me image from Meljen's Designs. Just got it last week when Whimsy Stamps had their 50% off digi sale.

I needed to make a few more masculine birthday cards, and I think this image works perfecty for a masculine card.


I got out my much neglected copic markers for this image. As you can see it's a clean and simple card, I embellished with some black gingham ribbon and a little bit of stickles. My card is going to Germany so I computer generated the birthday sentiment.

Some more challenges I am entering this to:

• Daring Cardmaker (poppies or vibrant red)
• Cute Card Thursday (anything goes)
• Digi Doodle (cards for men)
• Dutch Dare (clean and simple)
• Pixie Dust Studio (for men or boys)

Hope you decide to join us this week! It's my turn to sponsor Digital Tuesday Challenge, the winner gets to choose 3 digis from Digital Stamp Oasis.

Have a great day!
Ellie.

My first tri-shutter card

Hi everyone!

Another post for today!

My son turned 8 last month and this is the card I made for him. I wasn't too thrilled with it but since he told me it's the best card he'd ever seen I just had to share it. Of course he is all into Mario Brothers right now, so I chose to do a Mario themed card.

I googled Mario and printed out various images on white card stock. Some of them were pre colored, some of them I colored with copic markers.

It was my first time trying a tri-shutter card, and I have to say they are actually really easy to make. I found the instructions on Splitcoast.

I tried not to embellish too much (as he always complains about too much glitter on all of my cards LOL), so I just added some ribbon and a yellow button.

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Before I go I'd like to remind you all again about the Penny Black @ All sorts Challenge for the month of November.

The theme is "It's beginning to look a lot like christmas and below are the amazing prizes you can win, sponsored by the official Penny Black company.

3914K Joy filled stocking

3915H Dear Santa & 3901E To all

40-016 Hedgehog Birthday

3745K Token of love

If you haven't already played this month, be sure to do so, and if you already did, you can enter up to 3 times with a new project. All you have to do is make something with a Penny Black stamp and follow the theme.

Alright then, that should be it for today, I will now try to get some sleep, this cough has been bothering me for days now...I really hope it goes away soon, as it's been keeping me up half the nights.

Have a great weekend!
Ellie.