Allsorts challenge 545: White on White

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It's Saturday again, that means it's time for a new theme at Allsorts challenge. Brenda is hosting this week and she picked the theme of "white on white". This one was definitely challenging to me, in fact I threw one card I was working on out (that hasn't happened to me in a loooooong time) and another one is sitting on the desk that was a reject as well ... it looked too "busy" to me so I made this one instead.

The dotted background paper was done with an old cuttlebug embossing folder. This one looks very similar but I'm not sure if it's the same. Everything else was die cut using Penny Black dies and my Big Shot machine (as I type this the  Big Shot Starter Kit it is marked to less than $80 which is a great deal if you're looking for a manual die cutting machine, but Amazon prices do tend to fluctuate so if you are interested, be sure to check the price), then adhered to the card using Scor Tape, Pop Up Glue Dots (for the deer) and a Sakura  Quickie Glue Pen to adhere the words.

Penny Black Beneath the Birches Die Set // Penny Black Tall Trees // 

Penny Black Sending Love Sentiment // Big Shot Manual Die Cutting Machine // Scor Tape // Pop Up Glue Dots // Heavyweight Cardstock //Quickie Glue Pen // Cuttlebug Embossing Folder 

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The beautiful sentiment die set was a gift from dear Brenda (thank you Brenda!) I left too much space between the words (to make it work because of the deer) so I added a stickyback pearl. A snowflake might have been more appropriate but the size I had didn't fit into the space. No glitter because the "rejected" card sitting on my desk I covered in glitter and that was part of why I didn't like it so I kept it simple with only the pearl as an embellishment.

I'm also sharing with these challenges:

Anything Goes:

A Bit More Time to Craft // A Perfect Time To Craft // Love to Craft // The Creative Crafters // Cute Card Thursday // Crafting By Designs // Crafter's Castle //

Themed Challenges:

Animal Friends Challenge - Reindeer // Crafty Animals - Animals // Daisy Chain Challenges - Winter // Dies R Us Challenge - Trees // Fabrika Fantasy - Winter // Happy Little Stampers - Dies // Jingle Belles - Baby It's Cold Outside // Krafty Chicks - Winter // Stinkin' Inkers - Dies // Unicorn Challenge  - Winter // Artsystamper Challenge - Monochromatic // Incy Wincy Designs - Animals // Dragonfly Dreams - Winter // Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Use PB Products
Inspire me Monday

Thanks so much for visiting. Hope you can join us this week for a chance to win a great prize from Stamps by Chloe.

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - November Challenge

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Hello and welcome to the November Crafty Wednesday challenge right here on my blog! I'm so glad you decided to check out this month's theme and hopefully you'll join in! There were some beauties entered last month using traditional stamps, be sure to scroll down to the end of this post to see if you were the lucky prize winner or maybe one of the lucky top picks! 

This Month's Theme

We're getting closer to the busy holiday season so this month I picked the theme of:

Christmas/Holidays

An easy theme and can include all your holiday makes - cards, gift tags, altered bags and boxes, handmade gifts etc. 

I decided to make a Victorian themed Christmas card with a retired PSX stamp (G1879) I purchased from ebay a few years ago. Unfortunately there is currenly only 1 of these stamps listed on ebay USA. I did also find one listing on ebay UK at a better price. But you might be lucky if you simply search PSX Christmas stamps.



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My card was pretty easy to make. I started out using a circle die cut as a guide and I stamped the snowflake repeatedly around part of the circle using Faded Jeans distress ink. Next I heat embossed the Carolers stamp  using Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink and Clear Embossing powder. I colored with Faded Jeans, Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose and Black Soot Distress inks using a Zig Detailer brush. As you may notice I inked an impression of snow on the ground using a torn printer paper mask and Pumice Stone distress ink. The music notes were done with another retired stamp. This stamp is similar. The Christmas sentiment is from the Penny Black set Season's Gifts stamped and heat embossed with Versafine Clair ink. Using a blending tool I inked up the edges using Faded Jeans ink again then distressed with scissors. 

PSX G1879 - Carolers  or search PSX Christmas Stamps  (UK listing for exact stamp) // Penny Black Season's Gifts // Similar Music Notes Background Stamp //  Faded Jeans Distress Ink // Vintage Photo Distress Ink // Tattered Rose Distress Ink // Pumice Stone Distress Oxide Ink // Black Soot Distress Ink // Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Zig Detailer Brush // Ranger Ink Blending Tool // Clear Embossing Powder // Heating Tool // Bristol Vellum Paper //  Heavyweight 110lb Cardstock

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I linking my card up here:

Anything Goes:

Crafty Sentiment Designs // Lemon Shortbread // Through The Craft Room Door // Unicorn Challenge // Colouring in Scrapland // Lil Patch of Crafty Friends // The Corrosive Challenges  // A Gem of a Challenge // Catch The Bug // Crafter's Castle // Crafty Friends Challenge // A Bit More Time to Craft // A Perfect Time To Craft // Crafts Galore Encore // Happy Craft Challenge // Love to Craft // Crafty Catz -// QKR Stampede

Themed Challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams - Christmas // Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Christmas //  Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Winter Clothing // Country View Crafts' Challenge - Hand Stamped  // Creative Sketchy Girls - Christmas Cards // Happy Little Stampers - Christmas // Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog - Christmas // The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Christmas // Winter Wonderland - Holly/Ivy

This Month's Prize

For the ease of things I am continuing to offer the winner a $6 Gift Certificate to either Mo's Digital Pencil Shop, Tiddly Inks or Bugaboo. I am not affiliated with any of these companies and the prize will be supplied by me. 

Last Month's Winner

Thank you all that took the time to join in and share your beautiful creations. Unfortunately there can only be one prize winner, and this month's prize goes to............

Maxine from Kiwime's Creations

Congrats Maxine, you won a $6 Gift Certificate to either Mo's Digital Pencil, Tiddly Inks or Bugaboo Stamps. Please message me at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com with your choice of gift certificate and I will get that sent to you. 

As always choosing top picks is never easy but it has to be done, and here are my top picks from last month's challenge in order of entry. 

No. 17 Meghan Kennihan

No. 42 Kuni

No. 56 Inky Fingers

 Congratulations! Feel free to post this Top Pick logo to your own blogs if you like to!

As always, in order to follow GDPR regulations, I am not linking back the individual blogs, but you can see these gorgeous top picks following the "stamp it" theme by visiting last month's challenge/ linky tool.

To play along in the November challenge simply use the linky tool below. The usual rules apply:

• Enter up to 3 times with a new project.
• You may combine with any other challenges.
• You may use any brand of stamps/digis (no company restriction).
• Be sure to add a link back here to my blog.

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Penny Black and More - November

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It's the first Sunday of the month, that means it's time for a new challenge at Penny Black and More. Christmas is getting closer and so for this month we could like to see Christmas Cards and All Things Christmas. Several wonderful prizes are up for grabs so hopefully you'll find some time to join us. The challenge runs until the end of the month so there is definitely plenty of time!

If you're not into making your own Christmas cards, you can also make gift tags, gift wrap or anything else, as long as your focal point of interest includes rubber or clear stamping your creation is good to go!

I created a background using a circle die cut to mask the moon and some torn printer paper for the hills along with  Broken China Distress Oxide ink. The die cut trees were done with Penny Black's Beneath the Birches die set slightly inked with Pumice Stone Distress Oxide. 

The cute critter is from Penny Black's stamp set Holly Jolly Critters. It's just a set of 2 stamps - a row of 4 critters and a sentiment. I used only one of the critters from the row, heat embossed using Versafine Clair Ink and clear embossing powder, colored with Distress Inks and then fussy cut using my Cutterbee scissors. I used a Sakura Stardust glitter pen on the star, scarf and head gear to make them sparkle.


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The sentiment from my favorite Penny Black Christmas sentiment Set Season's Gifts was also heat embossed right over the moon. I used a kraft paper background for my card front, then 110lb heavyweight card stock from Michaels. 

 Penny Black Holly Jolly Critters // Penny Black Season's Gifts // Penny Black Beneath the Birches Die Set // Distress Inks for Coloring (I think Vintage Photo, Mowed Lawn and Worn Lipstick all diluted and colored with  a Zig Detailer) // Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Ultra Fine Clear Embossing Powder //  Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide for the Background Scene // Pumice Stone Distress Oxide for Inking the Die Cut Trees // Circle Die Cut for Moom Mask - similar die set // Sakura Stardust Glitter Pen //  Bristol Vellum Paper //  Heavyweight 110lb Cardstock

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Also sharing with these challenges:
 Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Penny Black Stamps //Cutie Pie Challenge - Cute // Die Cuttin' Divas  - Die Cuts // Simon Says Wednesday - Anything Goes // Cute Card Thursday - Holidays // Crafty Friends Challenge - Anything Goes // Send a Smile for Kids - Holidays for Kids // 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Critters // A Perfect Time To Craft - Anything Goes // Country View Crafts' Challenge - hand stamped // Crafty Animals - Animals // Creative Sketchy Girls - Christmas // Dies R Us Challenge  - Trees or Leaves // Fabrika Fantasy - Winter // Happy Little Stampers - Christmas // Happy Little Stampers - Dies // Love to Craft - Anything Goes // Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog - Christmas // Pearly Sparkles Challenge - Christmas // The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes // Crafty Catz - Snow // Jingle Belles - Animals // Art Impressions Stamp Challenge - Holiday Cards //


Thanks so much for visiting! Hope to see your entry at the challenge blog for your chance to win one of the wonderful prizes by Penny Black and Crafts U Love!

Allsorts Challenge 544: Make Your Own Flowers

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Today's card was made for our new theme at Allsorts challenge where Helene picked the theme of: "Make your own flowers." Hope you can join us and play along for a chance to win a beautiful stamp set by Buddly Crafts.

It's been a while since I added handmade flowers to cards, as I usually use stamps for flowers. But I still have all my dies and punches and for my flowers today I used a layered flower die set from My Favorite Things and my Big Shot manual die cutting machine to cut them out. I've had this die set for a very long time and it's no longer available, but there surely are several other beautiful flower die sets still available for purchase. This set by Spellbinders is similar and the flowers can be layered or use by themselves. I used the back end of a paint brush to curl each of the flower petals before layering and adhering to the card with glue dots.  

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I made the stencilled background with Tim Holtz's Flourish Stencil and used Mowed Lawn Distress Ink and an ink blending tool.  The stripes on the left side were done with a stripes stencil and Black Soot Distress ink. The paper for the flowers is old from my stash and I have no idea who the maker is. The sentiment is from the Penny Black set Friendship stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink. 

The cardfront is Bristol Vellum Paper, framed with green card stock by Stampin up. For the card base I used heavyweight 110lb cardstock I picked up from Michael's. 

Similar Flower Die Set //  Tim Holtz Flourish Stencil // Classic Stripes Stencil //  Ink Blending Tool // Black Soot Distress Ink // Mowed Lawn Distress Ink // Penny Black Friendship Sentiment Set // Versafine Clair Nocturne ink // Stickyback Pearls // Bristol Vellum Paper // Mini Glue Dots // Big Shot Manual Die Cutting Machine

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope to see your entry at the challenge blog!

I've linked to the products I used as found on Amazon for those of you interested. Remember these are affiliate links meaning I may earn a small commission if you purchase something through the links, this is at no cost to you. 

I'm linking my card up with these blogs:

Aud Sentiments Challenge // Crafting By Designs // Creative Moments // Simon Says Stamp // Lemon Shortbread // Through The Craft Room Door // Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges // Inspire me Mondays

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