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Pinkfresh Studio Holiday Cards Blog Hop

Good morning, crafty friends! Here it is November 1, and the start of the holiday season! To help get you in the holiday spirit, Pinkfresh Studios is having holiday inspiration blog hops today and tomorrow and I'm participating today for the Ellen Hutson LLC shop. <--Because you know that's my favorite online retailer of all your crafting needs! ;-) You can find the Pinkfresh Studio products at Ellen's shop HERE. Here's my inspiration for you today: I adore this sweet Great Joy stamp and coordinating die set -- aren't those woodland animals absolutely the cutest?!! I gold heat embossed this beautiful wreath image onto watercolor paper, then watercolored the images with my Gansai Tambi watercolors, using minty green, dark pink, and aqua colors. The bow was stamped with Picked Raspberry Distress ink onto watercolor paper that was watercolored with lighter pink. Then I shimmered the bow and accented some of the lovely details in the wreath -- the candy canes, animal bows & scarves, holly & berries, bell -- all great iconic holiday images that really put you in the holiday spirit! To finish this card, I popped the bow and wreath up on foam tape onto the watercolor card... Read more →

Happy Halloween & Holiday Season!

Happy Halloween and the start of the long 2+ month-long holiday season! A little PSA for TODAY ONLY -- Make your own holiday sale over at Ellen Hutson LLC! The more you spend, the more you save -- on ANYTHING you'd like! Now that's my kind of sale! ;-) Click the banner below to get started: And here's a little start-of-the-holiday season inspiration for you, using Julie Ebersole's Over the River Essentials by Ellen stamp set: The sweet little houses were stamped with Distress Oxide Inks, the rooftops glittered with Tonic's Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen (which unfortunately isn't showing well in the photo), then die cut with Essentials by Ellen Folk Hearts die. The heart was popped up on a Oyster Gray stitched scallop die cut (made by shortening a scallop rectangle die cut). Such a sweet, versatile stamp set for several different holidays! And just in case you missed it, it is sneak peek week for the new upcoming Essentials by Ellen stamp and die release this coming Sunday, Nov 4 at 9am Pacific at Ellen Hutson LLC! You can see inspiration projects with all of the new products each day this week over at Ellen's CLASSroom blog. You... Read more →

Crafty Sales!

Hello, Crafty Peeps! I wanted to let you know about a few sales going on, so you don't miss out on some great products & savings! Since it's time to start thinking about your holiday crafting needs . . . Save 25% on the holiday stamps & dies in the Holiday Sale category (be sure to use the 'holiday18' code at checkout): And while you are shopping at Ellen Hutson LLC, don't forget about the 'Last Chance' clearance sale that's still going on (no code needed!): And the maker of my favorite combo stamp pad/marker/reinker holders (shown below) and Marker Nook holders, Stamp-N-Storage, is giving FREE SHIPPING on all orders this weekend, through midnight CDT on Monday! Shop HERE: I hope you have a beautiful Fall weekend! Read more →

Ommission Stamping with New Leading Ladies!

A new release from Brandi Kincaid exclusively for Essentials by Ellen is now available in the shop! You can see lots of inspiration on the "This Just In" page of the Ellen Hutson LLC website and on Ellen's the CLASSroom blog. There are two new Leading Lady stamp and coordinating die sets (Bookworm Lady and Holiday Shopper Lady), a great little Ugly Sweater Accessories stamp and coordinating die set, plus some great stand alone dies - Winter Window and Snowfall Backdrop! Today I'm using the Holiday Shopper Lady and the adorable Winter Window die. I always love thinking "outside the box", to find unusual and different ways to use my supplies. So while the Winter Window die would probably normally be used to look at an outdoor scene, I've created a scene of my Holiday Shopper Lady looking into a store window. She's doing a little sidewalk window shopping for her long holiday shopping list, waiting for the store to open so she can catch that big sale! Remember those commercials where everyone is crowded around the store doors, waiting for it to open,saying "Open-open-open"?!! To get this look, I did some selective inking of the Holiday Shopper Lady stamp... Read more →