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World Card Making Day Sat, Oct 3 & Announcement!

Ellen Hutson, LLC has several fun participation opportunities and giveaways planned in celebration of World Card Making Day this Saturday, October 3.

We'll be creating something fun just for you over in the CLASSroom as well as provide some savings when you are shopping for the holiday season ahead!!!  In preparation for Saturday, you can do some thrifty shopping prior to World Card Making Day. The offer shown above is only valid on Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2.  EVERYTHING in Ellen's store (in-stock items only) will be included in this sale! This offer cannot be combined with any other coupon code. Please note that once an item is no longer visible on her website it means that she is currently out of stock on that item - so shop early!  You can full details here.

We hope to see you on the CLASSroom blog Saturday for all the festivities!

And did you see this sweet announcement on Taylor's blog today?  I'm beyond thrilled to be back with the Baker's Dozen Designers and can't wait to show you the first of this month's Taylored Expressions sneak peeks that start tomorrow ... trust me, you are going to love this release!!

Lockhart Floral Thanks

I needed a quick thank you card and happened to already have this beautiful Lockhart Stamp Company Hydragea image colored.  I RARELY make cards this way -- I usually choose all my papers & cardstocks and then color my image to match.  But I happened to find this Basic Grey Perhaps paper that picked up the pinks I used in the hydrageas, so that was a good thing (channeling Martha here!).

A Sugar Plum Memory Box notecard and Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #84 made this card come together quick & easy peasy!

I colored the image with Copic markers: R20, R22, YG01, YG03, YG63, B21, B23, E50, E31, E35, W1 and Pink Spica Glitter Pen.  I didn't have any green ribbon that matched, so I colored white silk ribbon with Copic YG23!  I used the nifty Bow Easy again to tie the perfect bow -- love that thing!

 

• Stamps: Lockhart Stamp Company Hydrangea
• Paper: Memory Box Sugar Plum Notecard, Basic Grey Perhaps
• Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Copic markers (pictured above) & Pink Spica Glitter Pen
• Accessories: Spellbinders Classic Circle Nestabilities dies, Fiskars Apron Lace border punch, Bow Easy, sewing machine, dimensional foam tape 

Inchie Magnet School Clip

It's easy to tell school is back in session ... just by all the important paperwork we have lying around!  If it stays on the kitchen counter, it's either likely to get food on it or be thrown away by mistake, and if it goes to my desk then it's likely to get covered up, colored on or glued together, LOL!  So usually the best place for all those reminders is the refrigerator door -- is your house the same way?  At least that way it's usually right in front of us at least three times a day!

So that's how this magnet clip came about.  I got this one at Target, in the office supply section.  They came two to a pack and are a little over 1-inch wide.  I topped it with an Inchie Arts White Inchie Square that I stamped with Karen Lockhart's Itty Bitty Cape Cod House.  I thought this house might resemble an old-fashioned little one or two-room school house.  I colored it with these Copic markers:

I added red rick-rack to the bottom of the clip, to cover up the rest of the metal and then looped some around the top, too, just to add some more color.  Then I added the word "school" to the bottom of the Inchie, using my 15-point JustRite Times New Roman Font -- just in case I decide to make a few of these clips later one ... maybe one for each member of the family, perhaps?  Then we'll know this clip is dedicated to the school papers.  The Inchie was added to the metal clip with a very strong double-sided adhesive, or you could use Gorilla Glue or E2000.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend!  I'm working on some samples for a new stamp release (sneak peeks start on Thursday, Oct. 1) and World Cardmaking Day on Saturday, so things will start hopping around here later in the week ... I hope you'll check back in!

• Stamps: Lockhart Stamp Company Itty Bitty Cape Cod House #3056, JustRite Stampers 15-point Times New Roman Font
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers (shown above)
• Accessories: Inchie ArtsWhite Inchie Square, Doodlebug Ladybug rick-rack, magnet clip, X-Press It High Tack Tape

WSC99: KIS a Frog

It's Weekend Sketch Challenge time again and it's number 99!  I always love the challenge of using a sketch -- it makes me think outside my box and try something new & different!  We hope you'll play along with us today, too!  Here's what I have to share.

KIS was my motto for this card ... no, not as in kiss a frog, but Keep It Simple!  So I grabbed one of my Taylored Expressions' Key Ingredients Kits (The Places You'll Go) and I had everything at my fingertips that was already color coordinated for me!

This sweet princely frog cuppie from Taylored Expressions' Trick or Sweet II set does double duty and isn't just for Halloween.  I thought this card might be good to serve as an encouragement for a young boy, or without the sentiment, I think it would make a cute baby card!  There are some other very sweet images in this set that I'll be using to make little notecards to tuck into my girls' backpacks!

I stamped froggy with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto Taylored Expressions Choice Buttercream cardstock and colored him with these Copic markers:

His little bow tie is accented with a Tiny Twinkle gemstone.  The sentiment was stamped onto solid patterned cardstock from the Kit and die cut.  Other than that, a little machine zig-zag stitching and some brads from my stash finish it off, Keeping It Simple!  I made the card 3.75" wide (and 5.50" tall), so the focal image could extend off the right side of the card 1/2-inch and still fit into a regular A2-sized envelope.

You can see samples today of this sketch made by these awesome women:  Beate, Cambria, Charmaine, Jenn, Lori and Mary Jo.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

All supplies, except "other", available from Taylored Expressions:

• Stamps: Taylored Expressions Trick or Sweet II
• Paper: TE The Places You'll Go Key Ingredients Kit (Prism Intese Kiwi cardsstock & My Mind's Eye patterned paper), TE Choice Buttercream
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers (shown above)
• Accessories: Spellbinders Classic Circle Nestabilities & Tags Trio dies, Taylor's Tiny Twinkle gemstones, Sakura Quickie Glue Pen.  
• Other: MM brads, sewing machine