Allsorts Challenge 514: Sentiment in Focus

Hello and welcome! Happy Saturday! It's time already for a new theme at Allsorts challenge, hope you can join us this week. Helene is hosting this week with the theme of "Sentiment is Focus" and we're giving away a great sentiment stamp set by Bee Crafty.

This card was an easy and quick one to make. I already had the ink "smooched" background from a previous project. So then all I had to do was stamp the sentiment and brushstroke flowers using my Tonic Stamp Platform. I stamped the flowers (Penny Black Blossom Branch) using Spun Sugar  and Seedless Preserves Distress Ink. I wanted to keep the flowers in the background to fit our theme better, so I didn't bother inking it up again, although it might have been a good idea to do so and could have easily be done with my Stamp Platform. But by the time I noticed it that it needed re-stamped, I had already removed the card. (I really need go get some re-inkers then this wouldn't have happened!! Or I should have I used my Distress Markers instead!)

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The sentiment from the Penny Black set Happy Wishes was stamped using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink. I love the crips impression this ink gives. The script background stamp I used with Spun Sugar ink is an oldie but goodie from stampin Up - French Script. I carried this script over onto the card base. Before adhering the image panel onto the card base I inked up the edges with Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink and distressed the edges. 

Penny Black Blossom Branch // Penny Black Happy Wishes // Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink // Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide // Bundled Sage Distress Oxide // Seedless Preserves Distress Ink // Spun Sugar Distress Ink // Tonic Stamp Platform // Tim Holtz Paper Distresser Tool // Stampin Up French Script (retired) - but most likely availabe on ebay or etsy

I am sharing with these challenges:

Cardz 4 Galz (Flora this time) // Pattie's Creations - Flowers // Pearly Sparkles Challenge - Flowers or Showers 

Anything Goes:

Cute Card Thursday // Penny Black Saturday Challenge // Crafting With An Attitude // Crafting By Designs  // The Crafty Addicts // Lemon Shortbread // A Perfect Time To Craft // Classic Design Team Open Challenge // Happy Craft Challenge 

Thank you so much for visiting!! Enjoy your day and please come back again tomorrow when I share my creation for Penny Black and More April challenge. It's going to be a cute one :-)

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Friendships Grow // Flashback Friday

Last Friday I posted a card made with some really old stamps and titled the post "Flashback Friday". I thought it would be fun to try inking up some of my very rarely (or never!) used older stamps and post those creations on Fridays. I have no idea how often I will have the time to do these "Flashback Friday" posts, but that's ok as they are just for fun.

I did find some more time to play this week using an old stamp set from Stampin Up - Friendships Grow. I don't know about you, but I love the old Stampin Up sets. Back then when they were current many of the sets were out of my price range, and I actually found this set at Goodwill for just $2.00 a few years ago. But sadly, I have not inked it up until now. 

To make my card I stamped the image with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink on Bristol Vellum paper. Zig Clean Color markers and a Zig Detailer waterbrush were used for coloring. I wanted to make a little scene with the image, so I inked up just the flowers from this stamp and masked off the girls with post it notes and stamped the flowers on each side of the girls. Next I stamped the image on a post it note, did some quick and simple fussy cutting to place this over my colored image, and then I stamped a line of trees in the background. This is another old stamp I purchased online a few years ago -  by PSX F1550.

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I used Distress Oxide ink Iced Spruce to stamp the trees with. The birds are from a little more recent set (but still a couple of years old) set by Penny Black - Spread Cheer. It's actually a stamp with lots of birds, but I masked off all but two to use on my card, stamped with Pumice Stone Distress Oxide ink.

The sentiment is part of the Stampin Up stamp set. I used Versafine Clair Nocturne ink again for stamping. The edges were all distressed.  I used some retired designer paper to mat the image panel. The card base is Hero Arts Dove White 100lb card stock.As you can see I tied a bow with some sheer ribbon, another item I use so rarely, but I thought it fit the image style so well. 

Stampin Up Friendships Grow // PSX F1550 (both retired but are probably available on ebay or etsy) // Penny Black Spread Cheer // Versafine Clair Nocturne // Distress Oxide Iced Spruce and Distress Oxide Pumice Stone // Strathmore Bristol Vellum // Hero Arts Dove White 100lb Cardstock // SU Retired Designer Paper // Zig Clean Color Markers // Zig Detailer Waterbrush

I am also sharing with these challenges:

Stamplorations Challenge - Stamps and Watercolors (I used Zig Clean Color Watercolors)

Stinkin' Inkers - Trees // Double D Challenges - Beautiful Watercolors // As You Like It Challenge  - Favorite Coloring Medium (Love my Zig Clean Color markers, because I find them quick and easy to use and love the watercolor look) // Cardz 4 Galz - Flora or Fauna (I really do love both) // Art Impressions Stamp Challenge - Outdoor Scenes // Moo-Mania & More - Polka Dots // Pattie's Creations - Flowers // Craft-Dee BowZ - Bows // Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Pattern Paper

Anything Goes:

Cute Card Thursday // Crafting With An Attitude // Imagine That Creative Playground // Crafting By Designs // Crafty Creations // Creative Moments // The Crafty Addicts // Through The Craft Room Door *//

Thank you so much for stopping by today and your interest in my "Oldies but Goodies" creations. Hope I can inspire you to dust off some of your old stamps too 😃

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Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - April Challenge

Hello and Welcome to the April theme at Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenge taking place right here on my blog - Ellibelle's Corner! Before I let you know more about this month's theme I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone that joined in last month. I had lots of fun visiting your blogs or galleries and a winner and top picks have been selected. They are listed at the end of this post.

This Month's Themes

I think everyone is enjoying choosing from multiple themes, and since each challenge runs for a whole month, it makes sense to let you choose from more than one theme. This month they are:

Wings, Tails or Spring Blossoms

Choose one theme or the other, or you may combine as you wish! I can't wait to see what you will share this month!

For my creation above I used a mix of Lavinia stamps on an inked background. I started out by masking the edges of my 7x7 inches Bristol Vellum paper using  painters tape, then used Distress Oxide inks for the background, applied with an ink blending tool.  I used the colors Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet and Blueprint Sketch. A little water was spritzed on the background for a fun reaction before stamping the plants, fairies and words. All stamping besides words were done using  Hickory Smoke distress oxide ink, then I used  Cracked Pistachio ink for some of the words.



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 Lavinia stamps //  Bristol Vellum //  Painters Tape // Distress Oxides: Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch, Hickory Smoke // Ink Blending Tool // 

I am also entering my card here:
Creative Craft Cottage Challenges - Spring Fever (it does appear that these fairies have long been awaiting the arrival of spring!) // Daisy Chain Challenges - Spring // Addicted to Stamps - Spring // 
Anyhing Goes:
Crafty Sentiment Designs // Lemon Shortbread // Through The Craft Room Door // Path of Positivity // Creatalicious Challenges // Happy Craft Challenge // The Creative Crafters // A Gem of a Challenge // Creative Fingers // QKR Stampede  // 

Before I continue, I wanted to mention that the Hero Arts April "My Monthly Hero Kit"  has just been release and is now shipping. If you love to work with dies and die cuts, and like creating scenes, then this kit might interest you. 

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This month's prize:

A randomly selected winner will receive this fun Whimsy Stamps rubber stamp (retired) from my prize box. 

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Last Month's Winner and Top Picks

The winner of the $6 Gift Certificate to Tiddly Inks or Bugaboo Stamps digi shop is .................

No. 22 Lynne 

from Lynne's Craft Haven

Congratulations Lynne. Please email me at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com by Wednesday April 17th to claim your prize. Be sure to let me know in your email which shop you choose for your prize. (Please note: Tiddly Inks or Bugaboo are not sponsors, the Gift Certificate is sponsored by me.)


And now onto the top picks, which is never easy to choose, but I did manage and they are listed in the order of entry as follows:

No. 31 Craftduckydood

No. 52 Inky Fingers

No. 54 Carole J.

Well done!  Below is your Top Pick logo, feel free to post it to your own sidebar if you like to.
Unfortunately I am unable to post links back to the creations (to be in compliance with GDPR), but you can see these beautiful top picks by clicking on the entry numbers in last month's linky tool HERE.

To join in this month's challenge simply use the linky tool below. As always feel free to combine with any other challenges and you may share up to 3 creations during the month. Please don't forget to leave a link back here to my blog!  I can't wait to see what YOU will share!

Please remember: this is a public blog, meaning any papercraft you link up or any comments left on this blog will be visible and clickable by third parties. The blog owner is not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without permission. 

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Curious Cats and Hero Arts April Kit Release Info

Hello and welcome!

Today I am sharing a card I made with a new stamp set I purchased last month from the Hero Arts March release. I just couldn't resist these two cute kitties! Also, the new Hero Arts April kit is releasing today, and you can find more info about that by scrolling down.

This stamp set is called Curious Cat. I started out by first stamping the fish bowl using Broken China Distress ink on Watercolor Paper. I stamped the fish bowl again on a post it note and fussy cut it to use as a mask. With the mask in place I then stamped the orange kitten using Vintage Photo Distress Ink, then removed the mask. The gray kitten was stamped on a separate piece of watercolor paper using Black Soot Distress Ink, stamped off once for more of a gray shade instead of black. I watercolored everything using Zig Clean Color markers. The sentiment which is part of the same cute stamp set was heat embossed using Versamark ink and White Embossing Powder. The gray kitty was fussy cut after it dried and I adhered her to the card with pop up tape. I decided the background needed a little something, so I used one of the designs from Penny Black's Oscillations Stencil  to mimic some wallpaper. The card base is Hero Arts Dove White 100lb card stock, also a recent purchase. 

When we had fish, our cat Thomas (who is represented by the orange kitty on this card :-) used to love drinking the water from the fish bowl. I really wish we still had fish now, but we decided not to get any more, because the same culprit that drank the fish water, would alway hammer against the fish tank with his paws, scaring the fish to death. So we decided not to get any new fish.

Hero Arts Curious Cat // Winsor & Newton Watercolor Paper // Zig Clean Color Markers // Distress Ink Black Soot // Distress Ink Vintage Photo // Distress Ink Broken China // Versamark Ink // White Super Fine Embossing Powder // Penny Black Oscillations Stencil // Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass 

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I am entering my card with these challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches - I turned the sketch sideways

Make My Monday - Something Humorous // As You Like It Challenge - Favorite Color Medium (Love my Zig Markers because they are so quick and easy to use) // Alphabet Challenge - A is for Animals // Sweet Stampin - Funny // Aud Sentiments Challenge - Any Sentimeny except Happy Birthday // 

Anyhting Goes:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends // Simon Says Wednesday // The Corrosive Challenges // A Gem of a Challenge // Crafty Catz // QKR Stampede  // Crafting With An Attitude // Crafting By Designs // Crafty Creations // Creative Moments // Lemon Shortbread

And now for some info about the April My Monthly Hero Kit:

If you love creating scenes with dies and die cuts then this kit is for you! It's a really fun kit for travel themed cards. Although working with dies is not normally my first choice of products to use, (I personally prefer using stamps and coloring) I can see these working beautifully along with stamps from my stamp collection to create fun travel themed cards with. 

This is what the kit looks like.

This month's kit includes:

• 4" x 6" Clear Stamp Set
• 7 Scenery Fancy Dies
• 14 5.5" x 8.5" Sheets of Hero Hues Premium Cardstock (Sand, Mustard, Pumpkin, Cherry, Plum, Adriatic, Arctic)
• 2 5.5" x 8.5" Sheets of Vellum Paper
• 2 Rolls of 1/2" Foam Tape, 2.2 yd. each, in 2 thicknesses
• Tombow Mono Drawing Pen (Black)

Also, check out these wonderful European inspired Add-ons!

By the way, these Add- Ons are also available as a Complete Set for those of you wanting and them all! And remember, if you are in the United States, then your order of $50 or more ships for free.

Thank you so much for stopping by!


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