The Pink Elephant Challenge #100

Hey everyone, I am still around :) I've been MIA from my blog for awhile as I have been spending a lot of time with family. The end of March my nephew was killed in Afghanistan so it's been a busy & emotional past couple months. He was buried in Arlington and we got to go there for the burial, what an honor. He is greatly missed. Through this I have realized how much I have taken the freedoms of this country for granted and those that sacrifice for us every day.

Other things I have been doing is teaching classes in my home and dying ribbon and selling it on etsy and my website The Pink Petal Designs I would like to get some other things to sell on my site too so in the near future I will be carrying some scrapping and card making supplies along with card and scrapbook kits.

Here is a sample of my ribbon that I dye, this one is a new favorite color "robins egg".

I had the honor to sponsor the challenge this week with my ribbon at The Pink Elephant Challenge and will be offering a buy 3 get 1 free sale on my ribbon for the rest of the month. So be sure to pop over there and check out what the girls have done with my ribbon this week. I also created a card for the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to either check out my etsy page or website if you're interested in purchasing some of my ribbon!

A Birthday Card

I really haven't been sharing much, I guess my blog has been on the back burner. So I thought I'd share a card I made in January for my mom's birthday.

I created a collage of stamping for the background using a Hero Arts definition stamp and butterflies, the damask stamp is from Memory Box. I LOVE the collage look! I also used the Hero Arts Envelope Pattern background stamp for the background on the floral image. That floral stamp is also Hero Arts called Flower Swirl Vine which happens to be 25% off this week over at Hero Arts I colored the flowers using my Copic markers. That ribbon bow is made from my Mint Leaf Hand Dyed Ribbon that I have for sale on my website. I also used some Core'dinations cardstock for my card, I just love that stuff!

Keep checking back, I have some fun stuff planned for April with lots of giveaways & you won't want to miss out on that!

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Neglected

Yes, I know I have neglected my blog I've been too busy posting on my Facebook business page and website to come over here and post. My little business is actually off to a good start. I thought I'd share the cards I will be doing for my next class next week. Some of them are repeats from ones I've done on my blog before so they'll look familiar. The class is a masculine class with 6 cards.

Here they are

Howdy Strangers!

Wow has it really been over a month!?! I have been neglecting my little blog while I have been stepping out into my new little venture this year. For quite awhile now I have been thinking about teaching scrap classes out of my home, well last month I got a phone call from a lady that takes some of my classes at the lss and she's got a group of 6 ladies that get together to take classes and they need a teacher to teach them. So I took that as a sign that I needed to give this little venture a try. So I have been busy getting my little scrap studio all set up and ready to give this a try.

Now, I have a little something to share with you today. My lss just got in some yummy October Afternoon paper that was calling my name so I paired that with a Hero Art flower stamp and created this little card. I also used a sketch from Sassy Lil Sketches (lovin' their sketches) for the design for my card.

Here's the sketch

And here's my card

TPE Winter Wonderland

Because of the busy holiday season we are only having one challenge this month at The Pink Elephant. All the teams created something with a Winter Wonderland theme. That is actually a perfect theme for around here, our area was hit with 15" of snow this weekend so everything looks like a Winter Wonderland around here. I decided to scrap a photo from the photo shoot my husband did last week with my nephew (who is home on leave) and his girlfriend.

Be sure to head over to The Pink Elephant to check out what the rest of the team made.

Ella's Pink Scrapbook #28

It's time for another scrapbook challenge over at The Pink Elephant This week's challenge is a color challenge; red yellow & blue. I'm still working at those Alaska pages & Im still on my daily index pages. So that's what this layout is, it's from our day at port in Juneau. You can't really see it in the circles at the bottom but it says day 5 and June 23 I did the numbers in a lighter ink and the camera didn't pick that up. I've been taking on a pretty simple style with my layouts lately, I think it takes me longer to do a card then a layout these days.

Be sure to head over to TPE to see the other design team work and if you decide to participate we'd love to see your work too!

A Quick Christmas Card

Hero Arts was doing a 90 min. scramble challenge this afternoon. They announced what you had to do for your card and you had 90 mins. to create a card. This challenge was to create a card using a non traditional Christmas flower. I immediately thought of my new Tattered Florals die I got. I cut those out of some tissue paper then stamped them with the Hero Arts script stamp with Vintage Photo dye ink. I then sprayed it with spray adhesive and sprinkled on some mica flakes. I used the Hero Arts Fabulous Flourish as my background image using the Mahogany dye ink then rubbed some Vintage Photo onto the background too. I topped the card off with a Hero Arts sentiment adorned with some twine, and a snowflake with a little jewel in the middle of it.

Here it is, I finished it in about 1/2 hr, well within the 90 mins! Love the scrambles they do.

Now it's off to do a little bit of scrapping before heading out to some friends for the evening.

Tutus and Party Hats

My great niece recently celebrated her 1st birthday and I had great fun making her gift! What little girl doesn't like tutus? Well ok, maybe she wasn't as excited about it as we were :) And I just couldn't resist making a cute little birthday hat. So here's some pics from the event.

Here's the tutu and party hat, cute I know!

And a close up of the party hat

Brinley showing off her new tutu (she actually wasn't real excited about it, but it's so cute!)

And Brinley in her party hat. She wasn't very excited about this either, she didn't keep it on very long.

There you have it, a cute girl, a cute tutu and a cute party hat!

I've been thinking about making up some of those cute little party hats to sell in my etsy store. Of course I think about a lot of things but real life seems to always get in my way of my fun crafty life.

Ella's Pink Scrapbook - Challenge #26

This week's challenge at The Pink Elephant is a Child Theme challenge. I decided to scrap another layout of my sweet little great niece, she's such a doll & it's fun doing the girlie pages.

Be sure to stop on over to TPE to check out the rest of the Design Teams work.

Some Christmas Cards

I was working on some Christmas cards for a class I have coming up in November and decided to just make a bunch and choose 3 from what I made. These 3 are the ones that aren't going to be done for the class. Lately I have had 2 manufacturers that I just love love love, Hero Arts & Tim Holtz. These cards showcase that.

This first one was a pretty simple one using some Hero Arts stamps. I love the black, red & white combo.

Another Hero Arts stamp, I did the emboss resist technique with this one where the stamp is embossed and then I rubbed the Tim Holtz dye ink over the images. I also used my cuttlebug for this one, my #1 go to tool for cards! The other thing I am loving right now is the wrinkle ribbon (hand dyed seam binding) looooove this stuff!

And lastly is this ornament card, not sure Im digging this one so much. I used Hero Arts again (love the music notes background) some Tim Holtz dye inks for the background and then some crackle rock candy. The ornament is cut out from grungeboard (love), crackled then inked up with some alcohol inks. I got impatient waiting for the paint to dry so I used my heat gun which gave the effect of the deep crackles, I think for this application finer ones would have been better.

That's it for now. I have a birthday party for a special little girl (my great niece) who just turned "1" & Im hoping to get some cute photos of her with some things I made for her so I will share that later on.