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Nov 9, 2024

The Wallace Family

It's Saturday again and time for a new theme at Allsorts challenge. But before I get to that I wanted to let you know that we are looking to add a few more design team members to the team. And starting with the last December challenge, Allsorts will no longer be a weekly challenge but every two weeks instead from that point on. You can read this post if you are interested in applying for a design team position. 

So this week our theme is simply..........Christmas. Prizes are from Lavinia Stamps. 


I finally managed to use Lavinia's Berry Wreath stamp. It's one of those stamps I had to have but then somehow couldn't use is properly. (I've had it for a few years!!) And I have to admit this card took me several tries too because I couldn't get the wreath stamped the way I wanted it to be. 

I added some snowbanks with a torn paper mask. All stamps are from Lavinia -The Wallace Family, Snow Falls, Small Snowflakes, Mini North Star and of course Berry Wreath. I used a colored pencil to color the berries. All inking was done with Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink. I used a white Posca pen for snowy splatter.
 

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I added a bow on the top where the wreaths stamped images meet (I stamped it twice) and lots of stickles glitter for some sparkle.
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I wanted to remind you that the linky tool for the Papercrafters Year in Review sign up is now open. You can read all the details in this post or if you already know what it's all about and are interested then you can use the linky tool below to sign up. It's a fun and easy way for us papercrafters to share our favorite makes of the year with each other. 

This linky tool is for the Year in Review blog hop sign up.



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Nov 6, 2024

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - November and December Challenge

Hello and welcome to Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenge taking place right here on my blog. As you may have noticed in the title, this challenge will run for two months so you have until the end of December to join in this time. 

It was so great seeing many of you joining in last month, thank you all for sharing your creativity. The Top Picks are at the end of this post.

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 :) Btw, since this linky is open for 2 months you are welcome to share up to 6 creations and I will select a Top 6 (3 from each month).



Before I share my card I wanted to let you know that the linky tool for the Papercrafters Year in Review is now open. Any papercrafter with a blog is invited to sign up for this fun end of year blog hop where we share our own favorites of the year. You can read all about it here. 


And here is what I made:

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I used one of Penny Black's Masterpieces Made Simple pieces for the focal point. They really make it easy to create a pretty card with but it does feel a bit like cheating as I didn't use any stamps or inks to create the image panel.

All I did here was add the sentiment, berries die cut and snowflake die cut, and then some stickles glitter. I framed it with dark brown cardstock and then mounted onto a card base which is from Stampin Up from a  card kit I recently found at a thrift store. They had several sets of card kits and have to admit I mainly purchased them for the envelopes that were included but no reason not to use the other pieces too. 


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Top Picks with aTwist - October


As always there was such a great variety of themes represented and selecting just three following a twist is never easy. But I finally managed and the twist from the October challenge is............ Embossing, meaning each one of my top picks included some sort of embossing.

They are listed in the order of entry:

No. 23 Debbie M.

No. 58 Kate

No. 60 Jolanda

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. Remember, this time the challenge runs for 2 months so you have until the last Wednesday of December to join in, which happens to be Christmas Day.

A few things to remember:
  • You may combine with any other challenges.
  • You may use any brand of stamps/digis/dies/papers (no company restriction as long as copyright laws are followed).
  • A short description of products used is expected, most importantly the source of focal point.
  • This linkup is for sharing handmade projects of any kind not limited to papercrafts.
  • Please try to limit to 3 entries per month - it's ok if you end up with more than 3 but I may not be able to visit your entries after the 3rd.
  • Please do include a link back here to my blog in your blog post.
  • Backlinking to a recent post IS allowed.
You can read more about the Guidelines/Copyright info here.


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Nov 2, 2024

The Wonder of the Season

Hello again, I am back with my second card for today. To see my card for the October Card Chain Challenge please click here.

At Allsorts challenge our theme this week is............. Magic of the Season of course that comes with the option of Anything Goes. We'd love to have you joining us for a chance to win. This week our prize comes from AALL and Create, an A 4 stamp set.

And here is what I made:

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I created this outdoorsy scene using products from Penny Black - Into the Sky, Christmas Story, Season's Gifts, Beneath the Birches die set, Dancing Snowflakes die set. The die I used for the sentiment is many years old from Whimsy Stamps and no longer available. 

I used Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink for the sky and hills and then used a white Posca Pen for snowy splatter. Stickles glitter was applied to the die cut snowflakes and branches for some icy sparkle but unfortunately it doesn't show up well in the photo. 

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I plan to share the card above with these challenges:



I wanted to remind you that the linky tool for the Papercrafters Year in Review sign up is now open. You can read all the details in this post or if you already know what it's all about and are interested then you can use the linky tool below to sign up. It's a fun and easy way for us papercrafters to share our favorite makes of the year with each other. 

This linky tool is for the Year in Review blog hop sign up.

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A Little Bear for October Card Chain Challenge

Last month I decided to take part in the Card Chain Challenge and today is reveal day. My October card went to Joanne in CT. We were given a variety of challenge options to choose from, I decided to go with Bears, Plaid and (unplanned) also Needle/Thread.  And this is what I came up with.

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The image I used is an older wood mounted stamp by Penny Black - Rainin' Daisies - colored with Copic markers. I wanted this to be a fall themed card so I covered up the daisies on the umbrella with falling leaves which were done with an old MFT leaves die (part of a flowers and leaves die set). They were cut from some snippets I had laying around from a previous inky project. Branch die  Blustery and Polaroid die are both by Penny Black. I used distress inks for inking. The plaid background was done with a stencil set -  I no longer have the packaging so unfortunately unsure of the make.


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I received this wonderful floral card from Carol in UK. Love these bold flowers on the stitched die cut. 



In case you missed it: the linky tool for the Papercrafters Year in Review sign up is now open. You can read all the details in this post or if you already know what it's all about and are interested then you can use the linky tool below to sign up. It's a fun and easy way for us papercrafters to share our favorite makes of the year with each other. 


This linky tool is for the Year in Review hop sign up.


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Nov 1, 2024

Four Seasons November Challenge - Clocks and Acorns

November is here and that means it's the last month of "Anything Fall Goes" at the Four Seasons challenge for this year. As always, there is a mood board to inspire you but it is up to you to use it or not. Anything Fall related is welcome!


Here is what I came up with this month inspired by the bottom right image of an acorn. I immediately thought of this stamp by Aall and Create - Garden Times #979. 

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I started by stamping the image onto the background softening the edges of the script a little bit (the script on the background is part of this stamp and in a rectangular form.) I originally inked this up using Vintage Photo and Peeled Paint Distress inks. 

Next I added some more stamping on the background with more stamps from Aall and Create - Pinecone #389 and Clocks & Flowers #558.  

I decided that the acorn wasn't standing out enough after I had stamped the word "Autumn" so I stamped it again using Ground Espresso Oxide ink (which is the same ink I used on "Autumn", "Minute by Minute" and the leaves in the corners. The acorn was then fussy cut and the flower inside the acorn colored with Wild Honey Distress ink. Unfortunately the brown ink mixed with the wild honey so I didn't get a nice yellow flower but this time of year most flowers still around do look rather brown-ish so it worked out. 


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PS: The sign up linky tool for the Papercrafters Year in Review hop is now up. Any papercrafter is welcome to join in this hop. You can either sign up with the linky tool to be a co-host or link up your own Year in Review post Dec. 30th - Jan. 5th. You can read all the info in this post where you will also find the linky tool to sign up if interested.

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Oct 28, 2024

Papercrafters Year in Review 2024 - End of Year Blog Hop Sign Up

Happy Monday!

It's that time of the year again, time to sign up for the "Papercrafters Years in Review" blog hop. (I am actually posting this a bit later than last year.) 

I have written a Year in Review post for many years and just a few years ago I decided to make it a yearly blog hop so others can join in the fun and we can all visit each others "Favorites of the Year" post. I would love to have you take part in this hop as co-hosts. 



When: Monday, December 30th - Sunday, January 5th


Details:

  • Create a blog post featuring YOUR OWN favorite creations of 2024 to be scheduled on your blogs for Monday December 30th 9am CST (3pm UK time)
  • You may choose to feature a top 5, top 10, favorite of each month, favorite Christmas makes, etc... it is up to you in which way you want to feature your favorites.
  • I will provide the html code for the linky tool to each person signing up as a co-host. It would be great if you included this in your post on your own blogs but not neccessary as long as you post a list of each participant.
  • You may invite your blog followers to link up their own favorites during hop week should they decided to create their own "year in review" posts. The linky tool will be open for one week starting December 30th.
  • You must have a blog to participate.
  • This will be a blog hop, so please plan on visiting and commenting on each participant's "Year in Review 2024" post when time allows during "hop week".
  • This sign up is for any papercrafter with a blog. You don't have to have a papercraft only blog - as long as you have some favorite handmade cards, scrapbook pages, etc. to share in your review post you are welcome to sign up. 
  • Optional: You are welcome to offer a small prize to a winner selected from those who commented on your post (including other co-hosts) but that is totally up to you and it is absolutely not needed to offer a prize in order to be a co-host. 
  • The blog hop will run for one week (December 30th - January 5th)
  • If at all possible, please have a permalink for your year in review post by mid-December when I contact everyone to confirm participation (around the 15th). This year I plan to add all co-hosts' year in review posts to the linky tool so you don't have to do that step when the hop goes live.
  • You don't have to complete your post, as long as you give your post a title and schedule the posting date, you will be able to access the permalink, then complete it closer to hop date. 
  • To get an idea of how this blog hop works you can click here to see last year's hop.

I will close the sign-up linky tool on December 12th (may close sooner if I feel that enough people have signed up before that date), then I will message everyone with the hop list by December 18th so everyone will have plenty of time to prepare their posts even before Christmas should you want to work ahead on it.

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Oct 26, 2024

Something Cute or Cuddly for Allsorts Challenge

Hello and welcome! It's Saturday again and that means it's the start of a new theme at Allsorts challenge. This week we'd love to see something "Cute or Cuddly" and of course there is the Anything Goes option too. You may enter up to 3 times for more chances to win. This week we're giving away a House Mouse stamp and a Oakley and Friends stamp set. 

I decided to make a cute Christmas card with some new to me products by Penny Black which I couldn't resist to from a recent sale I came across.


The stamp set that this puppy is part of is called Christmas Fun and the sentiment die is from the die set Ornamental Branch. On the background I used the background stamp Christmas Story, also by Penny Black. The edges were inked with Antique Linen, Tea Dye and Vintage Photo ink and I did some watercoloring around the bottom to ground the image. I now have my sewing machine at an "easier to get to" spot (no longer hidden away in a closet!!!) so I sewed the edges. Thought it would be a nice touch for this vintage-y card. The sentiment die cut was cut out twice to add a dark green layer under the red.

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Patterned paper is from another paper pack I purchased from Hobby Lobby a couple of years ago. I used a white Sakura gel pen for some highlights.

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