Thursday, July 16, 2015

July Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights Challenge

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great week! We went to the Badlands today and had perfect weather. If you ever have a chance to go, it's a great national park. :)


I'm very happy to be participating in the July Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights Challenge! The Pin-Sights challenge is a monthly challenge at Ellen Hutson based on a Pinterest-inspired photo. Laurel really hit it out of the park with this month's inspiration pin! You can see it over in The Classroom [Go check it out, but please come back! :)]

Here's how I was inspired:

You Rock!

My focus was the Twelve Days stamps set, but I used a total of five Essentials by Ellen stamp sets. :) All of the background squares are stamped or masked:

You Rock!

The top left was blended over the All Lined Up stencil. For the top right, I stamped the stars from the Cozy Christmas set, and the bottom right was stamped using the Bokeh Dots. I clear embossed the flowers from the Bold Blooms set and then blended the ink over the embossing. To get whiter blooms, I ironed off the embossing powder. It was the first time doing this technique, and it worked like a charm! My iron will finally get used for something. ;)

I hand-cut the squares and wonky-stitched around them. To emphasize the drums, I added a piece of vellum:

You Rock!

The cool drums are from the 12 Days set. I masked the number, Copic-colored the drums, and die-cut a star from the Home and Hearth dies for the the bass drum. The sentiment is from the 12 Days Companion Greetings. Here's one more close-up:

You Rock!


Want to play along? You can link up your projects over at The Classroom. Want to see what one random participant will win?


Yep, super awesome! I hope you have a chance to play along!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

9 comments:

  1. Omg!!! This is AWESOME!!!! I love that little drum set!! And all of those back panels...dude! ❤️ Love the stitching...just this whole card...amazing!

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  2. Just sensational, Jocelyn! My husband and I visited the Badlands last year on our 5,475 mile jaunt... indescribably gorgeous... like another planet!
    =] Michele

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  3. Loving that grid you created and the stars, such a fun card!

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  4. This totally rocks!! I LOVE the patterned grid!!

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  5. So much fun! I love how you made the patterned-paper-like squares from EH stamps. Great card.

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  6. I thinkYOUR card is BEYOND amazing!!! Love the individual 4 stitched panels!!! Just INSPIRING!!!

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