It's All Cut and Die: Ellen Hutson Mix it Up with Clearly Besotted

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Ellen Hutson Mix it Up with Clearly Besotted

Hi everyone!! I'm back with a little, bitty card made for the Ellen Hutson Mix it Up Challenge I'm just gonna say that this is probably my favorite challenge. I love that you're encouraged to combine different stamp companies products. Sometimes I feel like its a sin to use these products together in public lol!! So, when a challenge like this comes along, I get excited!!

I don't have a lot of Clearly Besotted products but out of the few sets I have, I chose the Fancy Feathers set. As for Essentials by Ellen products, I chose the Wish Big stamp set with co-ordinating dies.

First, I should mention that I decided to make this a blog post AFTER I started the card so the beginning photos are minimal...oops!!
I started with a piece of watercolour cardstock and three Distress Inks: Broken China, Pumice Stone and Mustard Seed. I stamped one of the feather images on a diagonal.

Next I stamped the little birdie image from Wish Big in Versamark Onyx Black also on the watercolour cardstock. I tried to color the bird first using the Distress Inks, then my Zig Clean Color Brush pens...without success.

So, paper piecing it was!! I also, cut the stamped piece with a Stitched Rectangle die from Lawn Fawn.

My card base is grey so I die cut a word bubble out of the same cardstock as well and the watercolour cardstock and stamped the sentiment..Shake Your Tail Feather.

As I did a dry-run putting the card together, it seemed kinda dull so I added a piece of twine around the lower portion, added some white pearls (I'm really diggin' pearls lately) and popped everything up with foam adhesive. Here is the final result...