Summertime at Four Seasons Challenge with a Pink Hibiscus

Hello and welcome! Another new month is here and that means it's the start of a new challenge at the Four Seasons challenge blog and it's time to switch from spring to summer. We have fun new mood board to inspire you but as always it is optional and you may share any of your new summer makes up to a total of 3. 

I was inspired by the top right image and actually my first idea was to use a set of flip flop stamps but I couldn't get the design to look like a "me" card. Or maybe it is because I am probably the only person on earth who cannot walk in flip flops LOL, it's true but I have never in my life owned a pair and never will. Too much work to keep them on my feet!!

Anyway, after leaving my flip flop card pieces overnight, I decided the next day that it wasn't worth the struggle anymore so instead I remembered this pretty Hibiscus stamp I purchased from a recent eBay lot and I used the colors from that image. This card is so much more my style than the flip flop card I tried to come up with. 

The stamp is Penny Black's Florescene.

I started by masking the edges with washi tape, spritzed the paper lightly with water then added color with distress ink (peacock feathers) and a paint brush. Removed the washi tape and then stamped the flower. I colored the image using Distress inks as well as Zig Clean Color brush markers. I did stamp the large blossom again on scrap paper and fussy cut after coloring. I selected the sentiment from the Penny Black set Blooming Sentiments and thought my music background stamp would be a good choice so there are a few music notes on the background if you look closely. The music notes are part of a large background stamp by Hero Arts (old) but I used only small parts of it. As it is cling mounted I was able to stamp the music notes at random without much trouble. I thought the card needed something else so I did some paper piercing around the inked square and added stickles glitter to the stamen. 

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I plan to link up here:

• Ally's Angels - AG
• A Perfect Time To Craft - AG
• Beautiful Blossoms - AG
• DL.Art Linky Challenge - AG
• Fab n Funky - Square
• Krafty Chicks - All Occasions
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - PB Stamps
• Stamping Sensations - AG
• The Creative Crafters - AG
• Word Art Wednesdays - AG

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A Blast from the Past

Happy Saturday and welcome! This week it's my turn to host at Allsorts challenge and for my optional theme I selected "A Blast from the Past" meaning I would like to see vintage, art deco, retro etc. themed creations or however else you get inspired by that title. Maybe you'd like to dust off some of your oldest stash. Lots of options I think but if the theme isn't for you then the Anything Goes option still applies and we would love to see all your new crafty makes (up to 3). We have prizes from Stampendous so hopefully you'll find some time to join us this week!

It's been a while since I used this art deco inspired stamp kit by Hero Arts. This one is from the February 2019 release and no longer available at the Hero Arts shop but it may be found on eBay or Etsy. 

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The stencil I used came as part of the kit and I used Old Paper Distress ink for a vintage look. A circle die cut was used on the top part to keep that area uninked for the dancers which are of course also part of the kit. They were stamped on scrap cardstock and cut out using the matching dies. Sentiment and music notes are all part of the kit. I used some stickles glitter for a little sparkle to finish it off.

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I plan to link up with these challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge - D is for Dancing
• Art Impressions Stamp Challenge - All That Glitters
• Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! - Stencils
• Daring Cardmakers - M is for ... Music
• Dragonfly Dreams - Stencils
• Just Us Girls  - Stencils
• Path of Positivity - Anything Positive Goes
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Stamps
• Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero - Tea for 2 (2 dancers)
• We Love Stamping - Vintage

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Allsorts' 15th Birthday Challenge: Anything Goes

Happy Saturday and welcome! This week at Allsorts challenge we are having a bit of a special challenge for our 15th Birthday celebration! What an accomplishment! To celebrate we are having a super easy theme of "Anything Goes" to give everyone a chance to join us and to be entered into the prize drawing.

And speaking of prizes we have a super prize bundle to give away sponsored by the very generous Aall and Create. This bundle will be divided into 15 wonderful prizes one for each year of Allsorts challenges.

The challenge runs as ususal for one week and you may enter up to 3 times with a new creation for more chances to win.

Here is what I made. Of course I used this as an opportuny to share a card made with one two of my Aall and Create stamp sets which I purchased when they had their super sale last year. I had lots of fun creating this card!

I started out by making an inky background where I placed a stencil over my cardstock, spritzed with water then sprinkled some Brusho powders onto the card (and another spritz of water) then removed the stencil and let it dry before continuing.

There isn't much detail showing from the stencil I used which is also good because I have no idea what brand the stencil is. I don't usually keep packaging for the stencils and not all of them I remember the brands. Maybe it would be a good idea to use a permanent marker to write the name on the stencil...

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The car from the set Don't Stop Me Now was stamped directly on the card and then on a scrap piece of card, colored with Zig Clean Color markers and a gray Faber Castell Polychromos pencil for some shading. Then fussy cut. For a little more interest I stamped an image from the Aall and Create set Clocks and Flowers as well as a couple sentiments from the same set.

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I added some stickles glitter to the flowers and headlights on the car and attached one of the sentiments with staples for a little more interest.

Thanks so much for visiting and hope to see you over at the challenge blog!

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I plan to share with these challenges:

• Ally's Angels - AG
• A Perfect Time To Craft - AG
• A Place To Start - AG opt. feminine
• C.R.A.F.T. - AG
• Craft Rocket Challenges - Flowers
• Crafty Calendar - AG
• Creative Inspirations Challenge - AG
• Fab n Funky - Child or Teen
• Moving along with the Times - Flowers
• Path of Positivity - Anything Positive Goes
• Sisterhood of Crafters - Feminine
• Stamping Sensations - AG
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Stamps
• The Paper Funday - AG opt. Flowers
• Unicorn Challenge - For the Girls
• We Love Stamping - AG
• We Love 2 Create - AG Creative or Mixed Media

I Spy With My Little Eye.... Something for Boys or Men (Challenge No. 15)

Hello everyone! Pauline and I are back once again with our new I spy with my little eye challenge which takes place right here on my blog.  We're so glad you stopped by to check out our new theme and hope you will play along with us too! We had some fabulous entries last month, thank you all so much for joining us! I do want to apologize for getting so behind with commenting. Spring always makes life a bit busier but I finally got around to visiting all your wonderful entries a couple of days ago! Anyway, be sure to scroll down to the end to see who made our top 2, both which will have the option to join us for our June challenge. 

Just a heads up, for next month only  we're going to start the challenge on the 3rd Monday (June 17th) instead of 3rd Wednesday, there is a great reason behind it which we will announce with the next challenge. 

It was my turn to select a theme this time around and I chose

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

Something for Boys or Men

We can't wait to see what you will come up with! As always the linky tool is at the end of the post. This time the challenge will close on Saturday before the new challenge starts (that would be Saturday June 15th) to accommodate the Monday start of the June challenge.

And here is what we came up with to inspire you:

My Card (Ellie)

All info is right below the card.

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Father's Day is just a month away and so I decided to take this opportunity to make a Father's Day card. The cute bear  and side table stamps are from the Penny Black set Love and Happiness. I fussy cut the image after coloring with Distress inks and added a little shading with a  Faber Castell Polychromo sepia colored pencil. The background scene was created with Penny Black's floor die, a dots stencil and I have no idea what brand it's by (several to choose from though!) and the picture frame was done with Penny Black's frame die. I added a Father's Day sentiment from a retired set by Whimsy Stamps.

I plan to share the card above with these challenges:

• Cutie Pie Challenge - Bear Hugs
• Daisy Chain Challenges - Boys or Men
• Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges - AG
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge -  PB Stamps

Pauline's Card:

Absolutely fabulous! Please visit Pauline's blog to find out how she made this card.

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We are so happy to have two guest designers joining us this month, thank you so much Gundi and Fiona for joining us! Their beautiful creations are below.

Gundi's Card

Isn't this a most adorable scene??!! Please visit Gundi's blog to find out how she made the card. 

Fiona's card:

A simply perfect masculine make! Please visit Fiona's blog to find out she made this card.

Top Picks from Challenge no. 14

Many thanks once again to everyone who joined in the last challenge where we were looking for wings. There were lots of wonderful entries which made it hard to choose just one favorite each but we finally managed and they are below in the order of entry.

Remember, Top Picks are invited to join us in the next challenge if you like to. That would be for challenge no. 16 starting Monday June 17th! Of course it's not a requirement but we would love to have you both as guests!!

No. 1 Lia (Ellie's Pick)

No. 40 Diane H. (Pauline's Pick)

Congratulations to both of you!! Your top pick logo is below to display on your own blogs if you like to.

You are both invited to join us as guest designers (optional of course!) for challenge no. 16 starting on Monday June 17th. If you are interested in taking part, please message me (Ellie) at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com so I can give you all the details for our upcoming theme.

To be in compliance with GDPR, Top Pick photos and links will be removed after the start of the new challenge. 

Now it's time to link up YOUR creations for the new theme! Anyone is invited to join us with your crafty makes following our theme - "I Spy Something for Boys or Men".

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A few things to remember:

• You may share up to 5 different projects.
• You may combine with as many other challenges as you like to.
• No fully digital projects (including AI generated projects).
• A short mention of products used whenever possible is expected.
• Please include a link back to this blog.
• Backlinking to a recent project is allowed.