Essentials by Ellen Favorites

Happy Black Friday, friends!  The Ellen Hutson LLC 12th Anniversary celebration continues this week!  Each day this week Ellen's Design Ambassadors are celebrating by creating with our favorite Essentials by Ellen stamp and die sets!  Keep a watch on Ellen's The CLASSroom blog for some great inspiration by a different set of designers every day this week!  And you know Ellen -- it's her anniversary, but she's giving you the gifts!  You didn't think she would forget you on Black Friday, now did you?  :)

Just click the graphic above to head over to the store -- that's one heckova great deal!!

Here's a card I made with one of my very favorite stamp sets, Julie Ebersole's Essentials by Ellen Mondo Sakura:

Be still my heart!  Julie's mondo florals never cease to capture my heart!  I colored this gorgeous floral image with another of my (newest!) loves . . . the AMAZING brand new Daniel Smith Watercolor Half Pan Sets Ellen started carrying in the shop recently -- I haven't been able to put them down!  I can only describe them as soft & buttery -- they reactivate with your watercolor brush SO very easily and can easily be worked and re-worked after they are on your paper.  They are simply amazing!!

After gold heat embossing the floral images, I watercolored them. Shown below are the colors I used - Quinacridone Rose from the Ultimate Mixing set (top left), and (lower left) Serpentine Geniune. Shown on the lower right below is Myan Blue Genuine from my PrimaTek set that I panned and mixed into the Blues set case.  

The Ultimate Mixing set is a great deal -- in addition to the 15 pan colors in the set and their great little case that makes them perfect for travel, you receive an ADDITIONAL empty 15-pan case that you can fill with any additional tube paints you'd like!


I wanted to keep the beautiful watercolored flowers the main focus of this card, so I just mounted the colored image with foam tape to a card base with a 1/2-inch piece of gold metallic cardstock along the left side. Be sure to head over to Ellen's The CLASSroom blog to see all the wonderful inspiration the other designers have for you today!  

I hope you are enjoying your long holiday weekend!

SUPPLIES:

Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps, Mondo Sakura by Julie Ebersole VersaMark Ink Pad Neenah Cardstock, Neenah Heavyweight, Classic Crest Solar White 110 lb, 25 pk Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock, 8-1/2 x 11 Crafter's Companion Shimmering Cardstock, Gold Dust Ultimate Mixing, DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors Half Pan Set Blues, DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors Half Pan Set DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors, PrimaTek 5ml Set of 6 Silver Brush Black Velvet Watercolor Brushes, Short Round 8 My Sweet Petunia MISTI Laser Etched Stamping Tool (8-1/8 X 10-1/2) Inkadinkado Embossing Magic Bag Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder, Gold Ranger Heat It Craft Tool Hero Arts Embossing Gun (Wagner) Fiskars Deluxe 12 Inch Paper Trimmer with Aluminum Cut Rail Scor-Pal Measuring & Scoring Board 12x12 Teflon Bone Folder Tim Holtz Tonic Mini Snips X-Press It High Tack Double-Sided Tape, 1/2 in X-Press It High Tack Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape, 1/2 in

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[creatingincolors]

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Oh my that is GORGEOUS! Now I want to go pull out that stamp and my Daniel Smith WC to see if I can come anywhere close to what you've created.