New Entries: Handcrafted Felt Ornaments and more...

Hello & Happy Monday, Crafters!

The new October Essentials by Ellen release products are now available in the Ellen Hutson LLC shop!  To find out more about this release, please visit the Ellen Hutson Classroom blog.  There, you will find info about the super fun release prizes ... One random lucky commenter will win $25 to the Ellen Hutson shop and one will win the whole October Essentials by Ellen release!  To enter for a chance to win, make sure to leave comments at each stop along the release blog hop list from yesterday, HERE!  To be entered for the prize drawings, please be sure to leave your comments before Thursday, October 10th at 11:59pm PST.

To help assist in your felt project crafting, Ellen has just put together a wonderful assortment of wonderful Felt and Embroidery Floss collections! These items are available in the collections, as well as individually. So if a particular collection happens to be currently sold out either just click on the "Notify Me" button OR just make note of the colors listed in the collection product descriptions and those can be purchased individually! <<-- Great for mass productions!

   

Now on to my ornament! To create it, I used the new Sew Cute-Ornament die set.

I die cut two of the basic ornament shape from dark teal (wedgewood) felt. Next, the center strip of the ornament was die cut from aqua (caribbean) felt. The JOY word was created using Essentials by Ellen Classic Block Alpha, die cut from the center of the strip and also from bright pink (dragon fruit) felt. How fun would it be to customize this center piece with people's names?!!

TIP: Before stitching your ornament together, assemble and glue all the front accent pieces together:

1. First, using the holly and berries dies from the Sew Cute-Snowman die set, die cut holly leaves from light green (mint julep) felt and the berries from light pink (sakura or carnation) felt. Using bright pink (cranberry 604) embroidery floss, stitch the berries to the leaves onto the aqua strip using a french knot. Then stitch the leaves with light green (pistachio 369) embroidery floss.
2. Use a fabric glue to secure all the accent pieces to the front felt ornament piece. After die cutting the JOY word from the center aqua strip, glue the center strip to the front side of one of the teal ornament pieces, lining up the stitching holes on the outer edges. Then glue the bright pink JOY letters into the negative JOY letter spaces on the center strip; let dry. This will make stitching your ornament a lot easier!

Finally, the ornament topper/cap was die cut from carnation pink felt and also fabric glued into place on the top ornament piece. With all of these pieces glued to the front of the ornament, you can begin stitching the front ornament to the back ornament piece using bright pink (Cyclamen Pink DMC 3804) embroidery floss. Once the ornament is stitched about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way closed, stuff the inside with cotton batting, if you have it on hand, or I just use cotton balls! Then finish stitching the ornament closed, leaving a loop of thread at the top to serve as a hanger.

"Sew" much fun to make!  I know you'll enjoy making some of these sweet felt ornaments, along with felted Sew Cute Snowman!

For more felt ornament inspiration, don't forget everyone's favorite Bear Hugs bear (details HERE):

And Mittens (details HERE)!

Thanks so much for joining me today!

SUPPLIES:

Sew Cute - Ornament, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies Sew Cute - Snowman, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies Classic Block Alpha by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies Bear Hugs by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies Pop-Up Mittens by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies (Retiring) Sizzix Big Shot White & Gray Cheery Lynn Designs Super Fine Crafting Tweezers The Ultimate Glue - 4 oz., Crafter's Pick Ranger Multi Medium, Matte Mini, 1/2 oz. The Ornament Collection, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt The Snowman Collection, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt The Arctic Collection, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt The Color Pop Collection, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt The Flannel Collection, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt The Bear Collection, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt Ocean, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt 9 X 12 - 5 Pk Wedgewood, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt 9 X 12 - 5 Pk Caribbean, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt 9 X 12 - 5 Pk Dragon Fruit, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt 9 X 12 - 5 Pk Carnation, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt 9 X 12 - 5 Pk Sakura, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt 9 X 12 - 5 Pk Mint Julep, Essentials By Ellen Wool Felt 9 X 12 - 5 Pk DMC Rainbow Floss Bundle, Essentials by Ellen The Color Pop Collection, DMC Embroidery Floss, Essentials By Ellen Cyclamen Pink, DMC Embroidery Floss, Essentials By Ellen Cranberry, DMC Embroidery Floss, Essentials By Ellen Pistachio, DMC Embroidery Floss, Essentials By Ellen

Hello & Happy Sunday, Friends!

Today the October Essentials by Ellen release is available over at the Ellen Hutson LLC shop ... NOW!  You'll find a wonderful
new selection of holiday, fall, and general stamps and dies HERE!  

Come hop along with the Ellen Hutson team today, to find some fantastic inspiration! Links are listed below.

For today's project, I stitched a paper snow-woman for you!  Even though she is made with paper, you could easily make her from felt and have her be a removable holiday ornament!

It was super easy to build this sweet snow-woman!  First, I used the previously-released Stitches Cover Plate on Neenah 100 Lb Solar White cardstock to create a quick and easy stitched background. Then I die cut the background using the new Sew Cute-Snowman die. The rest of my snow lady's ensemble was also die cut from cardstock and assembled, then stitched together with DMC Embroidery Floss.

To anchor snow lady to her Oyster Gray card base, I created some "snow hills" at the bottom using a Stitching Lines die and adhered her with Foam Mounting Tape to the card base. To finish the card, I added Stardust Stickles to the holly berries in her hat and silver heat embossed the Joy sentiment from Mondo Amaryllis. Easy, peasy ... done!

Please be sure to check out the Ellen Hutson Classroom blog for more release and giveaway info!

BLOG HOP & GIVEAWAYS
We've got some great release giveaways! One random lucky commenter will win $25 to the EH shop and one will win the whole October Essentials by Ellen release! To enter for a chance to win, make sure to leave comments at each stop along the hop, here starting below! Comment before Thursday, October 10th at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be notified by email.

Please visit these designers today as well, for some more gorgeous inspiration:

Ardyth 
Sandy 
Elena 
Carolyn  
Michele 
Laurel 
Nichol 
Adelina 
Sharon <-- YOU ARE HERE! 
Therese 
Kelly  
Lisa 
Emily 
Jessica 
Carly 
Carissa 
Julie 

Thanks for stopping by today!

NEW ESSENTIALS BY ELLEN SUPPLIES:

Sew Cute - Snowman, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies

Cranberry, DMC Embroidery Floss, Essentials By Ellen

The Color Pop Collection, DMC Embroidery Floss, Essentials By Ellen

OTHER SUPPLIES:  

Mondo Amaryllis by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps Stitches Cover Plate by Julie Ebersole, Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies Stitching Lines by Julie Ebersole, Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies Classic Block Alpha by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies VersaMark Ink Pad Solar White Heavyweight 110 lb - 25 pk, Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock Oyster Gray 100 lb - 25pk, Essentials By Ellen Cardstock Slate Gray 100 lb - 25pk, Essentials By Ellen Cardstock Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Juicy Pear, 25 pk Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Citrus Slice, 25 pk Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Candy Hearts, 25 pk Blush Pink, The Stamp Market Cardstock Fiskars Deluxe 12 Inch Paper Trimmer with Aluminum Cut Rail My Sweet Petunia MISTI Laser Etched Stamping Tool (8-1/8 X 10-1/2) Sizzix Big Shot White & Gray Cheery Lynn Designs Super Fine Crafting Tweezers X-Press It High Tack Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape, 1/2 in Ranger Multi Medium, Matte Mini, 1/2 oz. Silver, Ranger Embossing Powder Dual Speed Heat Tool, WOW DMC Rainbow Floss Bundle, Essentials by Ellen Ranger Stickles, Star Dust

Thank you so much for joining us today for the August Essentials by Ellen Release Hop!

You'll find a lot of amazing inspiration awaiting on today's hop, along with . . .

*PRIZES: We've got super fun prizes! One random lucky commenter will win $25 to the EllenHutson shop and one will win the whole August Essentials by Ellen release! To enter for a chance to win, make sure to leave comments at each stop along today's hop! Comment before Thursday, August 15th at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be notified by email.

But first, here's a little about the card I have to share today, using Julie Ebersole's new Mondo Amaryllis stamp set and Mondo Amaryllis die set:

Isn't this floral gorgeous?!!  I stamped it with Gina K Jet Black Amalgam ink onto watercolor paper and watercolored with these Daniel Smith watercolors: Rhodonite Genuine (PrimaTek Set), Quinacridone Rose (Floral Half-Pan Set or Ultimate Mixing Half-Pan Set), Permanent Alizarin Crimson (Ultimate Mixing Half-Pan Set), Serpentine Genuine (Colors of Inspiration Half-Pan Set), Green Apatite (Floral Half-Pan Set). The finished floral was die cut with its coordinating Mondo Amaryllis die set and popped up on X-Press It Foam Mounting Tape.

The background was created on a 110 Lb. Solar White card base by stamping three of the great graphic sentiments from the Mondo Amaryllis stamp set with Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink, then covering the base with Ellen's 40 Lb. Vellum. To finish the card, clear sequins were scattered.

Visit these artists blogs and leave comments along the way, for your chance to win*!

• Adelina Starace
• Ardyth Percy-Robb
• Carissa Wiley
• Carly Tee Minner
• Carolyn Peeler
• Elena Roussakis
• Emily Midgett
• Julie Ebersole
• Kelly Griglione
• Laurel Beard
• Lisa Spangler
• Michele Ferguson
• Sandy Allnock
• Sharon Harnist <--You are here!
• Therese Calvird

Thanks so much for joining us ... Happy weekend!

SUPPLIES: 

Mondo Amaryllis by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps Mondo Amaryllis by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies Ranger Watercolor Paper, 10 pk Ranger Distress Watercolor Cardstock 40 lb. Vellum - 25 pk, Essentials by Ellen Solar White Heavyweight 110 lb - 25 pk, Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock Jet Black Amalgam Ink Pad, Gina K Designs Ink Pad Hickory Smoke, Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Pad Ultimate Mixing, DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors Half Pan Set Floral, DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors Half Pan Set Colors of Inspiration, DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors Half Pan Set PrimaTek 5ml - Set of 6, DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors Large Fine Point (23637), Pentel Arts Aquash Water Brush My Sweet Petunia MISTI Laser Etched Stamping Tool (8-1/8 X 10-1/2) Sizzix Big Shot White & Gray Fiskars SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer (12") X-Press It High Tack Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape, 1/2 in 4mm Cupped, Sparkling Clear, Pretty Pink Posh Sequins, 4 mm Cupped, Sparkling Clear 6mm Cupped - Sparkling Clear, Pretty Pink Posh Sequins, 6 mm Cupped, Sparkling Clear Ranger Multi Medium, Matte Mini, 1/2 oz. Craft Tweezers, EK Success

Happy Friday, Crafty Friends -- Today is release day over at Ellen Hutson LLC!  Once again, Julie Ebersole has a wonderful mix of whimsical stamps and die combos, along with some great stand alone dies you can mix with anything in your collection! 

I've used some of both on today's card: the new Good Times stamp and coordinating Good Times die sets, along with the Big City and Landscapes die sets, to create this Embossed Watercolor birthday card!

I hope you can see in the photo above how the multi-color sentiment is shiny?  That's because I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Watercolor Markers to ink the letters and words in different colors directly on the stamp. First I stamped the sentiment all over with Versamark using my Misti, then without cleaning the stamp, I applied the different colors of watercolor marker directly on the stamp. The Versamark on the watercolor paper and left over on the stamp help to keep the color nice and wet long enough to then clear heat emboss, for that fun shiny look!  I did the same for the balloon outlines, then filled in the balloons with watercolor of the same color.

Color on the fun scooter was kept subdued, so the colored sentiment and balloons can take center stage ... I used Copic C1 and C2 to shade.

To finish the card, I die cut the sentiment piece (white watercolor paper) with the new Big City skyline die along the top edge and adhered to a black card base. Then the Landscapes die was used to cut the lower edge of the card. The scooter and balloons were mounted with foam tape.  

I'll have another card using this release to share with you next week, but in the meantime head over to the Ellen Hutson CLASSroom blog to find more inspiration from the rest of the Ellen Hutson team today! 

SUPPLIES: 

Good Times by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps Good Times by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies Big City by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies Landscapes by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies Big City & Landscapes by Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Designer Die Combo VersaMark Ink Pad ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker, Set of 24 ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker, Set of 12 COPIC Sketch Marker C1, Cool Gray No. 1 COPIC Sketch Marker C2, Cool Gray No. 2 Ranger Watercolor Paper, 10 pk Ranger Distress Watercolor Cardstock Essentials By Ellen Cardstock, Ebony Black 100 lb, 25pk Sizzix Big Shot White & Gray Inkadinkado Embossing Magic Bag Hero Arts Embossing Gun (Wagner) Fiskars SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer (12") X-Press It High Tack Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape, 1/2 in My Sweet Petunia MISTI Laser Etched Stamping Tool (8-1/8 X 10-1/2) Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder, Clear

It's May Release day over at Ellen Hutson LLC -- Wonderful new stamp and die sets fresh for your Spring picking!  I naturally gravitate to flowers, so it's no surprise I have a wonderful watercolored Mondo Wildflower bouquet for you today:

This beautiful bouquet was gold heat embossed onto watercolor paper, then watercolored with Daniel Smith Ultimate Mixing and Blues Half-Pan sets. I absolutely LOVE how effortlessly these watercolors blend on paper and the amazing shading you can get with them! 

The watercolored panel was die cut with a stitched rectangle die, then mounted onto a Solar White card base. One of the four great sentiments from this stamp set was also gold heat embossed, cut into a banner shape, and popped up with foam tape.

Be sure to head over to Ellen's CLASSroom blog and enter to win some release prizes and see more fabulous samples using this new May Release! Thanks so much for joining me today!

SUPPLIES:

Mondo Wildflowers by Brandi Kincaid, Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps Mondo Wildflowers by Brandi Kincaid, Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies VersaMark Ink Pad Ranger Watercolor Paper, 10 pk Neenah Cardstock, Neenah Heavyweight, Classic Crest Solar White 110 lb, 25 pk Ultimate Mixing, DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors Half Pan Set Blues, DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors Half Pan Set Pentel Arts Aquash Water Brush, Large Fine Point (23637) Silver Brush Black Velvet Watercolor Brushes, Short Round 8 Fiskars Deluxe 12 Inch Paper Trimmer with Aluminum Cut Rail My Sweet Petunia MISTI Laser Etched Stamping Tool (8-1/8 X 10-1/2) Sizzix Big Shot White & Gray Cheery Lynn Designs Super Fine Crafting Tweezers Inkadinkado Embossing Magic Bag Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder, Gold Ranger Heat It Craft Tool X-Press It High Tack Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape, 1/2 in