Pretty Flowers for Monday Morning No. 6

Happy Monday and Welcome to another Monday Morning challenge! Huge thanks to everyone that played along in my last challenge! It was wonderful seeing all your gorgeous colorful creations! The winning number - selected by random.org - is No. 14. That would be


Gloria Shirr

Congratulations, Gloria. Please email me your mailing address at
ellibelle_blog at yahoo dot com
so I can get the prize shipped to you.

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For this month I have chosen a very simple theme, and very fitting for this time of the year...

*Pretty Flowers*

They don't have to be the focal point of you card, just be sure there are some flowers somewhere on your creation.

Feel free to use any stamp maker, and you may combine this with any other challenges. 

Just remember these simple rules:

It must be a new creation
You must mention my challenge and link back here in your post

You may enter up to 4 times

Please note, winner will be chosen from US entries due to postage cost and lack of tracking overseas. 

 For this month I inked up the stamp Divine, which was one of the large beautiful floral stamps released by Penny Black earlier this year.

The blooms on this stamp are large enough to paper piece. It's what I had in mind when I purchased this stamp. I used some polka dotted paper from my stash, but also used a gray copic to add some shadows on the paper. The background was masked off using washi tape, then watercolored. The words stamped on the bottom were done with a clear set from Whimsy Stamps.  After removing the washi tape, I stamped the image and then added the fussy cut blooms. 

Product List: 

Divine, Snippets
(both are available in my Stamp Shop)
basic backgrounds and borders (Whimsy Stamps)
mixed media card and neenah card stock
striped vellum, designer paper from stash
watercolor paints, button, hemp twine


This month I am giving away this beautiful stencil to one randomly selected winner.

Now it's your turn to get inky. To play along simply link your creation below. If inlinkz is not available, simply leave a comment with your post link below.

You have until Sunday May 24th 8AM to play along.

Happy stamping :-)

ETA 5/20/18:
To protect the privacy of those who entered this challenge, the linky tool has now been removed.

Getting Inky on a Rainy Day

It rained pretty much all day yesterday, so I decided to get another one of my new stamp sets inky :-) I'm not 100% sure I like this card, hopefully I'll get a chance to play with these stamps again.

I stamped the watercolor background by simply inking a small acrylic stamp block with distress inks and spritzed with water. The random dots were made by flicking watercolor brush with the same paint made from distress ink. 

Product List:

Sprigs(clear stamp set)

Distress inks, versafine onyx ink

mixed media and SU card stock

washi tape, vellum striped paper

button, twine

Playing along here:

Challenge Up Your Life - watercolor
Crafty Calendar   - Add a sentiment
Brown Sugar –Anything Goes
Scrap & Craft Challenge  - Ribbon Or Twine
Addicted to Stamps and More -  Anything Goes

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday. The sun is out today and we're having a beautiful blue sky. Hopefully it'll warm up a bit more too in the next few days :-)

In the Mountains and By the Sea

Happy Friday! I have two cards to share today, using stamps from Just For Fun Rubber Stamps, that I received in my latest Design Team packet.

First up, I created a mountain scenery card. Although I love the look of this card, I am not in love with the way my ink pads stamped. I don't know why I couldn't get a good solid impression...if anyone has any good ink recommendations for solid stamps, please let me know!

Product List:

Fawn, Fir Tree, Leaf Sprig with Berries

Enjoy Life sentiment

(stamps above all by JFF)

SU and distress ink, 

torn paper mask,  sequins

SU and Neenah card stock

I used more stamps from my last DT packet for the card above. Loved that large background stamp so I had to add it to my design team choices, and the boat is just great to use for masculine cards, so I had to have that one too :-) 

Product List:

World Travel background, Tall Ship, Film Strip

unmounted sentiments sheet 1

(all by JFF)

turquoise ink, black ink

SU card stock

And that would be all for today. Thanks so much for visiting!

Have a great weekend!

Whimsy Super Boy

Happy Wednesday! I finally have some time for blogging...I had finished this card last week, just didn't get any time until today to write up my post. 

Hope you're all doing great and are enjoying spring. It got cold and windy here this week, hopefully it'll warm up again, but at least the sun has been out for most days :-)

Today I am sharing a card I made with the cute stamp "Super boy" from Whimsy Stamps' latest release. This image was so much fun to color! And I think it's perfect for a little boy's birthday card!

The image has been stamped onto xpress blending card and colored with copic markers. Then fussy cut. The designer paper is really old from Stampin Up. All stars were die cut using Whimsy Stamps dies. "Super Hero" sentiment is part of the set that includes the super boy stamp. Birthday Wishes sentiment is part of the set "Boy Talk". 

Product Links:

Super Boy, Boy Talk

Pierced Stacking Star Die, Pierced Star Die Set

(all products above are from Whimsy)

I am playing along here:
Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes 

Crafting from the Heart -Always Anything Goes

 Cutie Pie Challenge - -All about boys
Stamp and Create -Anything Goes

Thanks so much for visiting!