Aug 21, 2024

I Spy With My Little Eye ....... Something From the Garden (Challenge No. 18)

Hello and welcome to a new "I spy with my little eye" challenge taking place right here on my blog! Pauline and I are back with a new theme and we hope you'll join in the fun! We had some fabulous entries last month, thank you all so much for joining us! 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 next challenge.

This time it was my turn (Ellie) to select a theme and it is................

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


something from the garden.


What can you find in your garden? Flowers, fruits or veggies, maybe a garden gnome, how about a fairy or some garden tools? Lots of options I think and we can't wait to see what you'll come up with. The linky tool is at the end of this post. 
Below are our shares and we hope to inspire you to join us this month.

My Card (Ellie)
All details right below the card
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This cute image is by Colorado Craft Company from the set  Veggie Stack. I colored with Copic markers then fussy cut. There is a matching die set for this but I don't usually purchase them as I don't mind fussy cutting. Whenever I color with copics I feel like making a CAS card and that is what I did here too. I used an embossing folder by Spellbinders for a textured background and then cut out a circle  for more interest. Lavinia's Feather Leaf stencil was used inside the circle aperture. The sentiment is part of the same set. I added a die cut butterfly (Penny Black Soaring die) to finish it off.
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What a delightful card so perfect for the garden theme! To find out how Pauline made this card please visit her blog.


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We are thrilled to have a guest designer joining us this month, please welcome Jenn of StampinAngelJenn. Thank you for joining us, Jenn!!


Isn't it gorgeous!!?? To find out how Jenn made this card please visit her blog.


Top Picks for Challenge no. 17


Many thanks once again to everyone who joined us in the last challenge with your  Summertime Vibes makes. Our Top picks are below.

Remember, Top Picks are invited to join us in the next challenge if you like to. That would be for challenge no. 19 starting Wednesday September 18th ! Of course it's not a requirement but we would love to have you both as guests!!

No. 5 Viv (Pauline's Pick)


No. 32 CraftyCarri (Ellie'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. 19 starting on Wednesday September 18th . 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. 


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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 From The Garden".

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 


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Aug 10, 2024

Summer Days (and showing the mistake from recent beach card)

Happy Saturday! It's time for my new Allsorts challenge card share and since several of my blog readers wondered what the mistake was that my dear hubby fixed for me (on one of my last Allsorts challenge cards) I decided to show you the original card LOL. But first let's talk about the new Allsorts challenge, it's Sarah's turn to host and her optional theme is "Summer Days". This is another 2 week challenge for the summer. If you are done with summer crafting then please do share all your other new crafty makes (Anything Goes) for a total of 3 entries. We have Prizes from Stampendous, two beautiful stamps and one set of stamps.


For my card today I used the beautiful palm trees from Just for Fun Rubberstamps. I'm not sure what happened to the company but it appears that they are no longer in business. I used to be on their design team many years ago.

I started out by inking up the sky, masking off the bottom third. I used Antique Linen, Victorian Velvet, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress inks/oxides. When this was finished I used Black Soot to ink up the bottom portion. The trees, boat and birds (both from a retired Hero Arts stamp kit) were stamped using Versafine Onyx ink. The sentiment is from Tim Holtz's Tiny Text sentiment set. I also used a MFT cloud stencil for a few clouds.

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Ok, so now here I am sharing one of the card I had made for the last Allsorts challenge which my husband decided to fix for me or it would have ended up in the recycling bin.

I won't be offended if you laugh, I can't believe I didn't notice how wrong everything was until I uploaded it to the computer. 


As you can see, the proportions are so off and the palm tree looks like it's growing right through the girl who seems to be sitting by a small wave (without water!!!) in the middle of the sand collecting a sea shell. So wrong LOL!!


Above my husband first used white paint (gesso?) to cover up part of the tree trunks and the bottom portion of the sand, then used his watercolor pallet paints to add a little more water in that area as well as sand to where the tree tunks used to be. And that is how this project could be saved :)

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Aug 7, 2024

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - August Challenge

Hello everyone and welcome to the August edition of Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday challenge where you are invited to link up all your crafty makes! 

There were so many fabulous creations shared during the months of June and July, thank you all so much and be sure to scroll down to see who made the Top Picks with a Twist. As the challenge ran for 2 months, there are 2 sets of top picks with a twist, so 6 creations in total.

As most of you know, the theme is now always ....



Anything Goes


and instead of a challenge theme there will be a "Top Pick Twist", meaning I will select a twist from all of the entries for the Top 3. Nobody will know what the twist will be (not even me) until the end of the challenge. So do link up all of your crafty makes, your entry might be the one inspiring the Top Pick twist :)

And here is what I made for this month:


It's been a little while since I made a cute card so I decided to ink up this cute Penny Black stamp for this month's card. I used Copic colors for coloring and then fussy cut the image. I wanted to work with an inky (brushos) background but somehow I just couldn't make it work which left me with a few "extras" of inky backgrounds. After struggling for some time (somehow this seems to happen a lot to me recently 😄) I decided to make a CAS card with some of my favorites that always seem to work out - Lavinia's Feather Leaf stencil and Whimsy Stamps script border (retired). 

I rounded the bottom corners, added the sentiment (Penny Black Sweet Wishes), some staples and the cute butterfly (Penny Black Soaring die set) to finish off the card.


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Top Picks with a Twist - June

The June Twist I selected is..........Fun with Stencils

Congratulations....


No. 4 Chris



No. 33 Maxine


No. 53 Elaine P.



Top Picks with aTwist July:


The July twist I selected is ......... Gardener's Delight.

Congratulations....

No. 71 Linby



No. 77 Fiona

                                                                  
                                                                       No. 109 Priya



Congratulations to each one of you!! Well deserved recognition! Your Top Pick logo is below, feel free to post it to your own blogs if you like to :)




I will continue to pin the top picks to the dedicated Pinterest board, but will also include photo and link back to the original blogs/sites here. These will be removed at the start of the new challenge to stay in compliance with GDPR.

To join in this month's challenge please use the linky tool below. The linky tool closes on the last Wednesday of next month at midnight so you have until Wednesday August 28th to join in. 


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Aug 1, 2024

Wild Poppies Silhouette: Four Seasons August Challenge

Happy August, not sure how we are already in the last full month of summer but here we are, and it is also the last month of summer creations at the Four Seasons challenge blog for this year. We have a wonderful new (optional) mood board to inspire you and hope to see you joining us! 


I was inspired by the beautiful Poppy for my card, although I wish I had used a bit brighter colors for more of a summer-y feel. 

I started out with the negative of a circle die cut and inked with Distress inks/oxides. Wish I remembered which exact colors I used. I tried working ahead here but didn't actually write up the post after I was finished with the card, something I really need to work on! In any event, I used some red inks for the most part and added either black soot or hickory smoke to the bottom left of the circle.


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Luckily I do remember which stamps I used, it is the beautiful Wild Poppies stamp from Lavinia and the sentiment is from the Penny Black set Blooming Sentiments. I used a white Sakura gel pen for some details and added a tiny butterfly done with Penny Black's die Soaring. I layered the white butterfly onto a black butterfly to create a shadow and finished off with some black enamel dots. The red background paper was done with the same red inks.

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