EBE favorites blog hop

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Ellen Hutson is celebrating 12 years! The design team has gotten together to celebrate, by creating cards with our favorite Essentials by Ellen stamp sets. It was too hard to choose one, so I chose 2:



I used Plaid Maker to create my background. I stamped the solid block image in black ink onto red cardstock. To create the lighter squares, I first stamped off onto scrap paper before pressing down onto my red card. I usually take more time to make sure the plaid is perfect, but I eyeballed everything here. I wanted it to look homespun and hand-painted. To finish off the plaid, I inked up some stripes in white ink. It looks so cozy!

The focal image snowman is from my other favorite set, Snow Buds. I colored his scarf, hat and mittens to match the background. I dangled his mittens again like I did in *this card.* I love the look!

The only sentiment I needed was from the Neat and Tangled set, Stay Cool. I overlapped the mittens onto the sentiment and adhered them to a kraft-colored circle. I used a white paint pen to color the outside edge of the circle, and dotted little snow flakes to the inside.

I hope you like it!  If you're shopping today, check out Ellen Hutson's Black Friday sale:

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Merry Christmas, deer!

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I have a cute little card to share today, made with goodies you can find in the Ellen Hutson store:

I'm still not over my love for a black and red buffalo check! I created the pattern using the Plaid Maker stamp set - I stamped the images in black onto a sheet of red cardstock. This stamp set is so easy to line up and use! Don't be intimidated by it. I love that the squares are so nice and big.

Once that base layer was created, I used a Reverse Stitched Scalloped Square Window die to create an area for my focal image.



The sweet deer (from Oh Deer) was stamp and colored with copic markers. My favorite combo for light brown critter coloring is E30, E31 and E33.

I set him against snow drifts, and backed him against a snowy night sky.

The first part of the sentiment was heat embossed onto a strip of black cardstock, which I trimmed out to fit over the larger DEER. I love that I could colored and die-cut that word!

I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

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A holly + plaid Christmas (Ellen Hutson)

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I finally made time to play with the Mondo Holly stamp set and matching dies - I just think they are GORGEOUS:

I colored the big leaf with copic markers and then set it against an Itsy Bitsy Polka Dot Backdrop layer. Behind the polka dot cover plate, I layered a piece of Bazzill Gumdrop green cardstock.



On the left, I used the Plaid Maker stamp set to create a buffalo plaid strip: I stamped it in black onto a sheet of Bazzill Peppermint red cardstock.

To finish off the card, I heat-embossed a greeting from Mondo Holly onto a sheet of Licorice black cardstock.

I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

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Plaid papa (Ellen Hutson)

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If you're looking for my Lawn Fawn post, scroll down or click HERE.

I'm thrilled to be showing off a card I made for my daddy for Father's Day. I haven't given it to him yet, so thank goodness he's not a social media kind of guy! We're waiting for the family to get together this weekend, and I think he'll love it.

The card was made using colors from this inspiration board:

It's always amazing to me that I could use colors that match but come out with a card that has such a different feel than the storyboard.  This is what I came up with:

I used the EBE Plaid Maker set to create the background plaid - I tried my best to keep it all straight but I don't mind the little imperfections - they make it all look more handmade and whimsical. Creating a background like this was an easy way to pull in all of the inspiration colors!



For the sentiment, I stamped the first part onto a sentiment banner and then used the Block Words to spell out B-E-S-T and the Classic Block Alpha dies to cut out P-A-P-A.

I hope you like it! Check out the Ellen Hutson blog for more color board interpretations - click!

New Essentials by Ellen!

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This is my second post today - scroll down if you're looking for my Neat and Tangled card!

Have you seen the newly-released Essentials by Ellen stamps and dies? These flowers! I used them on a graduation party last week, and I colored extras to use on a card.

I wanted to use a plaid with the Mondo Sakura image, like I did for all of the party decor, but wanted to keep things brighter and lighter than the black and white gingham.

I opted to use the smaller plaid image found in the Plaid Maker set, and stamped it out to cover a panel in a light blue.

I then layered a few of the flower clusters onto the card front and snipped what hung off of the area.

A simple banner flag sentiment (the die is from the new Parcel Box die collection) finished things off.

I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

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A floral and plaid grad party (EBE May release sneak peek!)

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Elena here with a girly take on a graduation party, using the new EBE May release stamp sets and dies. Everything you see here will be available for purchase on Sunday, so this is a fun sneak peek!

I love, love, love these new sets! The Plaid Maker set and Mondo Sakura flowers don't look like obvious choices for a graduation party, but I hope you love them together as much as I do.

I started out with a quote on my letterboard - it made me smile!

To create all of the party decor, I stamped a few sheets of plaid. Yes, a few sheets. It sounds daunting, but this set is so forgiving! I can see stamping wrapping paper with it for Christmas - eek! In the meantime, I did a classic black and white check and used it to create cupcake wrappers and little flags.

I also stamped a bunch of the large flower cluster found in Mondo Sakura. It is so gorgeous, isn't it? I put 2 of them together to top the cake,

and one, standing upright, made the perfect and most dramatic cupcake topper.

I wrapped waterbottles with the plaid paper that I stamped, and cut some of the flowers to add just a hint of them, without overwhelming the plaid.

I used the letters found in the Blockwords dies to monogram each water bottle, and placed them onto a tag included in the Parcel box die set.

Speaking of the Parcel box die, I used it to add a gift card to the front of store-bought clear favor boxes. By wrapping the clear boxes in more plaid paper, and adding more floral touches to the fronts of the Parcel boxes, I reinforced my party theme.

These favor boxes are my favorite things on the table by far!

As a last touch, I created a table sign. I wanted to include a few sentiments to show the grad how great she did! The little YAY on the cupcake flags, and GREAT JOB here are just a few easy ways to celebrate your grad!

I hope you like what I created! Thanks for stopping by!