Something "stamped" and some pink

Happy Friday!!

Another week has come and gone, I can't believe it's almost november!! I am going to have to start thinking about christmas presents very soon. It's less than 2 months until christmas!!

Today we have another fun challenge over at stamp something. We are wanting to see something "stamped" this week, that's right, this week we want you to get your fingers inky with some "real" stamping. But that's not all, we are also wanting to see some pink on your card, it could be a lot of pink or a little pink.

For my card I used one of my new Lili of the Valley stamp, I think it's called Window box. So so cute! Another one I had to have when I placed my LOTV order.

The image has been stamped on couture 80lb card stock (from I heart papers), and colored using derwent coloursoft pencils and baby oil. I embellished with some punched flowers using a Martha Stewart Punch, some ribbon, and sticky pearls. I also decided to do some machine sewing. It is really hard to see but I applied stickles to all of the flowers in the window and the punched flowers too.

I have used the sketch from sketch saturday, but I had to change the embellishment placement a little bit to work better with my image.

I am also entering my card to these challenges:

• ABC challenge (glitter)
• Paper Pretties (square cards)
• A spoon full of sugar (lets get punchy)

Thanks so much for stopping by today, hope you'll join us this week, we have our monthly sponsor simon says this week offering a fabulous prize to one lucky winner.

Happy stamping!
Ellie.

DTC #82 - use a non-craft item

Hi everyone and happy tuesday!

We have a super exciting challenge for you this week at Digital Tuesday. Sandy is our hostess and she wanted us to think outside the box this week and

use something in our creations that is not usually used for crafting.

How's that for a challenge! I hope you will all join because I'd love to see everyone's ideas!

I ended up making two cards for this challenge both using different non-craft items.

First I am showing you the card made with a super cute image from our sponsor of this week, Doodle Pantry. It's from the set called Holiday Sheep.

It's been printed on couture 80lb card stock which I got from I heart papers. Then I colored the "skin" with a copic marker. The ornaments were colored with derwent coloursoft pencils and blended with baby oil.

For my non-craft-item on this card I thought it would be fun to use some cotton from a cotton ball for the sheep's wool. I applied two-way glue to it and then just stuck bits of a cotton ball to it. I tore most of the cotton ball off just left a thin layer on the sheep. It was really soft and fuzzy. Somehow I couldn't help myself but add stickles to the fur so now it isn't fuzzy and soft anymore :-( but it still does have a nice textured feel to it.

My Designer Papers and colored card stock are from Stampin up. The pretty poinsettia flowers are from a clear stamp set from Penny Black called Christmas Treasures. (Did I mention I was one of the winners of some Penny Black Blog candy that was offered for Word Card Making Day? Not only did I get the beautiful clear stamp set, but 4 additional Rubber Stamps too!! )
I've also used some stampin up ribbon and martha stewart's branch punch. Then sentiment is from stampin up.

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Now onto my second card - I actually wanted to use twigs from the garden for this one. But it just didn't work out the way I wanted it to. So while I was drinking my coffee one morning I remembered reading about something being done with coffeefilters.

And that is what I did. The multicolored paper in the background is a coffeefilter.
Here's how I did it:

Step 1: wipe ink pads across a large plastic cutting board (I used old olive, creamy caramel, pumpkin pie)

Step 2: spritz cutting board with some water

Step 3: spread coffee filter out on the cutting board and get it covered with the ink mixture.

Step 4: Lightly crumble up coffee filter to make sure it is covered in colors

Step 5: Flatten out and dry with heating tool. Then cut to shape.

There is a tutorial on how to do it on SCS in the resource section but they used re-inkers on the tutorial. I tried that and the filter came out too dark so I thought I'd try it with just inkpads. I am really happy how it turned out.

After I adhered it to my card front I applied some rub-ons to the paper. Would you believe this was the first time I used rub-ons? (I do think I had something similar to rubons as a child many years ago).
Then I also sponged the edges with some chocolate chip ink.

I've embellished my card with some paper flowers and brads and of course glitter. The sentiment is from our sponsor, Doodle Pantry.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I do hope that you'll join us this week. A fun prize from Doodle Pantry will be up for grabs for one lucky winner!

I also want to remind you that there is still a little time to join in the fun at Penny Black @ All Sorts. The theme is Fall, so if you have any Penny Black stamps be sure to play along. A new challenge will be posted on the first so keep you eyes open for that one too! Several prizes are up for grabs there every month.

Have a great day,
Ellie .

Stamp Something Digital

Hello and a happy friday to all of you!
Hope you're having a happy fall season wherever you are! We have been having some beautiful fall weather here, it did cool off from the 80 degrees we had but as long a the sun is shining and it's not too cold I am happy.

This week it's digiweek at stamp something. For my card I used a digi from some odd girl, one of our sponsors. I was able to choose an image from their store to use for the challenge. This one is called Kaylee cuddle, isn't she a cutie!


She's been colored with derwent coloursoft pencils and baby oil. Her skin has been colored with copics. In the photograph it looks like I forgot to color her legs, she is in fact wearing yellow leggings the same pale yellow as the bunny that she is holding.

Papers are from My Minds eye, card stock is couture 80lb (white) and creamy caramel from SU. I embellished with a flourish die (tim holtz sizzix), some paper flowers (Martha Stewart), pearls, ribbon, glitter and machine sewing. The sentiment is from an old SU set.

My card also fits these challenges:

• ABC Challenge (flowers)
• Tuesday Throwdown (anything goes)
• Incy Wincy (pink and brown)
• Karber Weekly (digi & kids)
• I did it creations (for a girl)
• One stitch at a time (embellish it)
• sweet stampin (ribbon)
• totally gorjuss (pink)

I hope you'll play along this week to create something with a digi, besides Some Odd Girl we have a few other sponsors as well, Wink Wink Ink, Digi Doodle, Sassy Studios, Bella Studios, Prairie Fairy, so there are going to be lots of prizes to be won! Be sure to visit the rest of the Design Team's work featuring these fantastic sponsors.

Have a great day!
Ellie.

A Halloween color challenge

Happy Tuesday everyone and thanks so much for stopping by today!

Our challenge this week at digital tuesday, chosen by Michelle R., is

Halloween with the colors yellow purple and black.

For my card I used the set Trick or Treat from our sponsor Blackleaf studios, they generously let the design team play with it! Be sure to check out the rest of the Design Team's work, for more ideas on how to use it because one lucky winner will receive this set of 9.

I used a photo editing program to merge the spiderweb and spider image. Then sponged the edges using some yellow ink. Since I was unable to find a halloween designer paper with yellow in it I decided to just use a purple halloween themed designer paper and then added some yellow elements.

The large spider was cut out using a cuttlebug embossing folder. Sentiments were computer generated.
I applied stickles glitter to the web and spiders and used some silver cord for the web the spider is hanging on.

I hope you'll get a chance to join us this week, for a chance at winning the set.

Lots of halloween challenges still going on so here's my list of challenges I am entering this to:

• Cute Card Thursday (theme: bugs)
• Pixie Dust Studio (theme: fall)
• Creative Cottage (theme: halloween)
• Stampin Royalty (theme: halloween)
• Two Sisters (theme: halloween)
• Bee Crafty (theme: halloween)
• Cinema Saturday (theme: something handcut or diecut)
• Crazy for Challenges (theme: fall)
• One stop craft (theme: halloween)
• Totally papercrafts (theme: halloween)
  

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I am having a super busy week (as is the whole month of October) so I probably won't be back with a new card until Friday.

Hope you'll have a fantastic week!

Ellie.