Allsorts Challenge 589 & Allsorts Challenge Belated 11th Birthday Celebration

Hello and welcome! 

It's time for a new theme at Allsorts challenge and this week we are also celebrating Allsorts' 11th Birthday (belated) with lots of prizes! We have a set of Arteza real brush pens, a digi prize from Pinksy Doodles, a die set from Tattered Lace and a Studio Light Layering Flowers stamp set. 

In addition to the prizes up on the challenge blog, some of the Design Team members will be offering their own prize from their individual blogs, so be sure to visit each one if you'd like to be entered for those extra prizes. I'm giving away a Penny Black "Heart Bow" steel die and you can use the linky tool below if you'd like to enter the prize drawing.

Now onto the challenge, it's Lynn's turn to host and she chose the theme of.................

I love.............

This can be a technique, a type of stamp, type of embellishments, maybe a specific color etc., just include something you love and tell us what it is in your post.

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I love: Cats, Cute Animal Stamps, Coloring, Stencils, Distress Inks

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I knew I had to incorporate a cat into my card! I love cats!! This stamp is new to me although it's actually an older wood mounted stamp called Uplifting Occasion.  Stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and heat embossed using clear embossing powder. Then I colored using Distress inks, which is another item I love. I used the stencil  Circle Explosions by TCW and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink. 

This fun sentiment is an oldie from Whimsy Stamps, from my time on their design team and unfortunately no longer available. Also stamped using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink.

I made another card with the same stamp.

Here I fussy cut the image, layered onto white polka dotted embossed card stock and added it to a frame made with Avery Elle's Wonky Stitches dies. The sentiment "sending you smiles" is from the Penny Black sentiment set "Sweet Wishes". 

Below is the prize you can win from my blog. Penny Black's Heart Bow steel die. If you would like to be entered into the drawing, simply link your blog up below. It doesn't have to be a specific post, any post is fine or just your main blog. 

Please note, the drawing on this blog is only for the die below. For the prizes offered from the Allsorts challenge blog, be sure to visit the challenge blog and play along. And don't forget to stop by my team mates blogs too to see if there are other prizes to be won! You can find their blog links on the challenge blog as well.

Thanks so much for visiting!!

Penny Black and More Challenge - My Design Team Favorites Over 10 Years

Happy Sunday! 

The first Sunday of each month is when I normally post my Penny Black and More design team creation. Well, I am here to tell you, last month was my last month on the PB and More design team after just about 10 years.

While the challenge blog is still there for everyone to join in, it is now under new sponsorship and a new name, and the rest of the team will continue to inspire your creativity. As I don't own a single stamp from the new sponsor at this time, I thought it was best for now to step down.

I thought it would be fun to have a look back at my Penny Black and More Design Team creations and I am sharing my favorites in today's post. I tried to pick one favorite for each year I was on the team, but there are a few years where I couldn't decide and am sharing 2. I tried to link to the stamps used, but many of my favorite Penny Black and older and may only be available on the secondary market like ebay or etsy.

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This was my very first card for Penny Black and More challenge:

2010

Using Caroling Trio

2011

Using Critter Party

2012

Using Critter Party 

2013

Using Butterfly Suite

2014

Using Enjoy Life

2015

Using Baby Hammock and  Snippets

2016

Using Crystal Drops

Using Smile All Day

2017

Using Winter Song

Using Guess What

2018

Using Sweet You

Using Delicate Florals

2019

Using Garden Friends and Bunny Friends

Using Caroling Trio

2020

Using Asking the Flowers, Dancing Daisies and  Blooming Sentiments

Had so much fun looking back at my PB & More creations! And while I will no longer design for Penny Black and More I will definitely continue to reach for these beautiful stamps :-)

Thanks so much for visiting!

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I'm linking up here:

Linking up with these wonderful blogs.

Artsy Fartsy // Thinking out Loud Thursday // Little Things Thursday // Thursday Favorite Things // Slices of Life (Encouraging Hearts and Home) // Creative Compulsions // Fridays at the Fire Station // Friday favorites //High Five for Friday // Friendship Friday // Funtastic Fridays // A Morning Cup of Joe // On the Edge // Friday Favorites // Best of the Month-- (first Friday/ month)
Party In Your Pj's // Tuesday Turn About // Wonderful Wednesday // Classy Flamingos // Welcome Wednesdays // Dare to Share // Inspire Me Mondays // Little Cottage Linkup // Love Your Creativity // Handmade Monday // Anything Goes with your Hosts (Mondays) // Craftastic Monday // Beautifully Made // The Happy Now // Hearth and Soul (starts Monday night)

Something Hand Colored for Allsorts Challenge

Good morning and happy weekend! It's my turn to host this week's Allsorts challenge and I picked the theme of "Use a Hand Colored Image". 

 

Now onto my card, I used a new stamp set from Penny Black today. I've purchased it a few months ago but didn't get a chance yet to ink it up.

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Unfortunately this isn't my best coloring. I ran out of my prefered copic coloring paper xpress it blending card and I used this brand from Walmart instead. It works well with colored pencils but not so much with copics :-( . It really is time for me to re-order some cardmaking essentials!! It's funny how I always thought I'd never run out of cardmaking supplies! Well here we are!!  

This stamp set is called Fun Felines and is from a more recent release earlier this year. Stamped with Memento Tuxedo ink and as mentioned I colored with Copic markers.  

I used some of my pattern paper scraps for the card design and the sentiment is from the same cute set. Before adhering to the card base, I used Avery Elle's Wonky Stitches die set to cut out the card front. 

Thanks so much for visiting!

Also, next week at Allsorts challenge we're having our belated Birthday Celebrations with lots of prizes. All info is in the logo below. Hope you'll join us then, and feel free to post this logo on your side bars as a reminder and maybe some of your blogging friends will join us too :)

I'm linking up here:
Colour Crazy Challenge - Coloring // Crafty Catz - Anything but Square // Aud Sentiments Challenge - Add a Sentiment // Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes // Simon Says Stamp - Stamp It // Unicorn Challenge - For a Child // 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Critters // Crafty Animals - Animals // Always Fun Challenges - Cute Critters // Double Trouble Challenges - Anything //

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - September Challenge

Hello and welcome to Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - September challenge right here on my blog! So glad you decided to check out this month's theme and hope you will join in and share something this month! Be sure to scroll down to see if you were one of my last month's top picks!

This Month's Theme:

For the month of September I selected the theme of .....................

Things with Wings

Fairies, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Angels, Bugs, Bats or even Airplanes just to give you some ideas!


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I had my Lavinia stamps out from an earlier project and decided to use them again for today's challenge card. 

I made the background using a mix of Distress Inks (Antique Linen, Shaded Lilac, Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire  and a mask to make some hills. I make my own masks by simply tearing printer paper. 

The "Lunar Buds" blossoms by Lavinia were stamped with Faded Jeans ink and the sentiment with Chipped Sapphire ink. This is an old wood mounted sentiment from Penny Black. The fairies were stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink. 

To finish off the card, I decided to use my Circle Explosions stencil to add some dots using Wilted Violet Oxide ink. Finally I went over the edges with Chipped Sapphire ink and a blending tool to darken them up a bit.

Oh, and I used my Sakura stardust glitter pen on the moon.

Last Month's Top Picks

Thank you all for sharing your wonderful creations! Selecting top picks is never easy but I did manage and here they are in order of entry.

No. 11 Nick

No. 36 DebiB

No. 58 Jenny Martin

As always, in order to be in compliance with GDPR I am not able to post links, but I have decided to create a Pinterest Board where my Top Picks of the month will be pinned with links back to each Top Pick's blogs. 

You can see their wonderful creations HERE.

Congratulations! Your Top Pick logo is below, feel free to post it to your own blogs!

To play along in this month's challenge simply use the linky tool below. The usual guidelines 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)
• Please add a link back here to my blog