Ellen Hutson July Color Trend Challenge

Have you heard? Ellen Hutson's popular Pin Sights Challenge will now be known 

as the Color Trend Challenge, an inspiration challenge based on the current 

color trend of the month.

I'm thrilled to be joining Ellen Hutson's family and friends with this month's
Pantone Palette Quietude. Check out the colors in this photo.

Here's my card partly inspired by last month's trip to northern Japan.

To get a jump start on the color palette, I started on a kraft card base. I decided
to "hang" the bamboo like a canopy rather than have it grow from the ground.
The little girl and her umbrella were stamped and colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Falling flowers were stamped and the sentiment was added to the card.
Highlights were added as a finishing touch with a white Gelly Roll pen.

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Are you interested in joining the challenge?
Visit the Ellen Hutson blog for more inspiration and for all the details on how you
can win a $50 gift certificate to the Ellen Hutson Store!

Supplies used:

Essentials by Ellen So Matcha Stamp Set

Ellen Hutson 12 Tags of Christmas With a Feminine Twist

I'm joining Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas With a Feminine Twist--

another one of my favorite seasonal challenges that I look forward to every 

year--and I managed to make two tags for the challenge.

Day 7 featured Heather and Elena and a color challenge using pink, mint, and gold.

Cracked Pistachio was the closest color that I had for the minty sky and I

ink distressed most of the stitched tag, then spattered some water over it.

I assembled the deer on the tag and added pink hearts to the stag's antlers.

I stamped the sentiment and threaded some twine through the hole. As I 

was getting ready to take a photo of the tag, I noticed that I forgot the "gold".

Luckily, I had a scrap of gold card stock that fit perfectly under the sentiment.

Day 10 features another color challenge but this time, a bright palette. Sharon

and Svitlana created such beauties and I couldn't resist joining them.

This tag bears a resemblance to my card that I shared earlier for MFT's December 

Release. The row of houses was cut from watercolor card stock and this time, I used

Zig markers to color the tops of the houses. I brushed water across the top and let

the colors blend. 

A tag was cut from black card stock and white embossed with the sentiment. White

acrylic paint was spattered across the top of the tag and the row of houses was

adhered over it. The tag was finished off with the black and white twine.

I'm hoping to crank out a few more tags, if time permits. I love the versatility

of tags, from simply being tied onto a gift or adhering it to a card base for a quick card.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Ellen Hutson LLC's 11th Anniversary Blog Hop

I'm excited and honored to be part of Ellen Hutson's 11th Anniversary Blog Hop!

You should have arrived here from my creative friend Ardyth's blog. If not,
here is the line up of blogs for Day 2 and be sure to start at Carissa's blog because
you won't want to miss an ounce of inspiration! And don't forget to leave comments
along the way because there are prizes galore!

Carissa Wiley
Michele Ferguson
Chari Moss
Ardyth Percy-Robb
Donna Mikasa
 

The theme is "My Favorite Essentials By Ellen" product. Going through my Flickr 

photostream, it was pretty clear that I often reached for the Mondo Hydrangea,
with the Mondo Peony coming in a close second.

I love all of Julie's Mondo blooms, but the Hydrangea, for me, is the "funnest" to color
and can be quite forgiving.

I've always wanted to gold emboss the hydrangea and color it afterwards, so that's
what I did for my card. The hydrangea was gold embossed three times on watercolor
card stock. I used Distress inks and ink daubers to color in each bloom with a
different color.

I went over each bloom with more Distress inks, let them dry, then spattered
water over the piece. I filled in the area around each flower with Peeled Paint
Distress ink, and blended with water up to the edge of each bloom. After the
 entire piece was dried, I trimmed it and adhered it to a black card base
and finished off the card with the die cut Hello.

I'm the last stop on today's hop. Get ready for more inspiration tomorrow on
Day 3 of the Anniversary Hop! And leave comments every day on all designers'
blogs, and link up YOUR favorite Essentials by Ellen product here for a chance
to win a $50 Ellen Hutson LLC gift voucher!

Essentials by Ellen Mondo Hydrangea

Essentials by Ellen Brushstroke Hello Die

United We Flourish with Ellen Hutson and MFT

My Favorite Things is the featured company for this month's United We Flourish
campaign with Ellen Hutson LLC.  An exclusive set--Good Friends--is now
on sale and available only in the Ellen Hutson store!

Here's my card using this fun set that will appeal to both dog and cat lovers alike.

Rather than color in the images, I went for the chalkboard look. I stamped
all of the animals with Sweet Tooth pigment ink onto Steel Grey card stock.
The heart, ball of yarn, and bone were stamped with Distress Oxide inks,
then colored in with colored pencils.

The panel was cut with a stitched rectangle and adhered to a Stone Gray
card base. I stamped the sentiment on a scrap piece of ink distressed paper,
then trimmed it out with a banner and popped it up on the card.

Visit today's post at My Favorite Things for more inspiration from our Creative
Team and guests, then head over to the Ellen Hutson store to grab your
 Good Friends set!

In the EH Classroom--Hinged Camouflaged Sentiment

I'm delighted to be featured in Ellen Hutson's Classroom today with a project
 using the new Essentials by Ellen Hinged Alphabet Dies by Julie Ebersole.

Here's a peek at my project with a Hinged Camouflaged Sentiment.

I'm also using colors from Laurel's Pin Sights Challenge for June together with the
 Black and White With a Pop of Color trend.

And the generous folks at Ellen Hutson have provided me with a $50 gift voucher
to give to one lucky commenter here on my blog.

If you haven't done so, please visit The Classroom for detailed instructions on how
I created the card, and to see it in its entirety. Leave a comment here by Thursday,
June 22nd, and I'll announce the winner a few days after.

Thanks so much for stopping by and thanks to Ellen Hutson for having me
in the Classroom!

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Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights Challenge

I'm joining Ellen Hutson's Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights Challenge just under the wire.
This week, the challenge is based on this photo for inspiration.

Here's my card. I was inspired by the black stripes and all that gold.

The stripes were made with My Favorite Things Striped Background,
inked with Black Soot Distress Ink and sprayed with water, then stamped on
watercolor card stock. 

The gold blooms and leaves were die cut from gold foil card stock, adhered to vellum
and trimmed out. I gold embossed the sentiment on a vellum banner and
finished off the card with a few gold sequins.

Thanks so much for visiting today!

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Essentials by Ellen Winter Release 2015 Blog Hop

Hello, and welcome to the Winter 2015 Essentials by Ellen Release Hop!
I'll be showcasing several of the new stamp sets and dies on my post today,
all designed by the one and only Julie Ebersole.

And, yay, I get to give this new stamp set called Fancy Thanks to a lucky someone
just for leaving a comment on this post!

Here are a couple of cards I created with this versatile stamp set.

For this card, I brought back the Prize Stag from the first Essentials by Ellen release
and added him and the sentiment to a watercolored background.

On the second card, I added some blooms using the Bold Blossoms stand alone dies
that were die cut from gold foil cardstock and backed with colored cardstock.
The sentiment was gold embossed and I added a sprinkling of gold sequins.

My last card uses Love You So, a fun set with brushstroke sentiments.
I inked several colors of Distress Inks and stamped the sentiment in each circle
with Archival ink. A quick and easy card for any "lovey dovey" occasion.

There is also a GRAND GIVEAWAY in the Ellen Hutson Classroom! To enter, be sure
to leave a comment there, and at every stop along the hop by March 2nd.
Winners will be announced on March 4th.

Here is the list of hoppers:

The CLASSroom
Sandy Allnock
Teri Anderson
Laurel Beard
Heather Campbell
Kittie Caracciolo
Sharon Harnist
Broni Holcombe
Nichol Magouirk
Jean Manis
Jennifer McGuire
                        Donna Mikasa << that's ME!
Chari Moss
Catherine Pooler
Miriam Prantner
Julia Stainton
 Carissa Wiley
 Julie Ebersole 

The entire release is now on sale in the Ellen Hutson store.
Happy hopping and happy shopping!

Altenew Blog Hop Winner + Sneaky Peeks

Hello! What a whirlwind week this has been! I'm here to announce the winner of TWO sets
of stamps from Altenew. Thank you all for hopping along with us and I hope you got
tons of inspiration from all the designers.

The winner from my blog is cm.

 

 

Congratulations, cm! Please email me and put "Altenew Winner" in the subject line 

and I'll send your name along to Altenew so you can choose your new stamps!

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Ellen Hutson and Essentials by Ellen will be revealing their Winter Release on

Monday, February 23rd. There are new stamps and dies designed by

the fabulous Julie Ebersole and I'm honored to be a part of the festivities.

Here's a sneak peek of my projects.

Join us on Monday for the full reveal of another awesome release and a blog hop
with more giveaways! The hop starts at 6am PST in the Ellen Hutson Classroom.
Hope to see you there!

12 Tags of Christmas With a Feminine Twist--Day 9

Today I'm sharing one more tag just under the wire for Ellen Hutson's 

12 Tags of Christmas With a Feminine Twist. This time, I created a tag

with inspiration from Sandy Allnock's tag shown here:

Sandy used a Copic airbrush to create her gorgeous background. Here's my tag.

I ink distressed Picked Raspberry and Chipped Sapphire on a tag, spattered it with water

and added two of the three reindeer from Memory Box. I added some falling snow with 

a white pigment pen and the sentiment is from Hero Arts. As a finishing touch, I added

some Distress Glitter to the ground and a seam binding ribbon.

The tag was attached to a snow dot embossed card and now I can chalk up
another Christmas card. Yay!

And since I did a ton of ink distressing, I'm linking this up to
Virginia's View #10 which is ALL THINGS DISTRESSED.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!
  

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