Essentials by Ellen July Release Hop

The Ellen Hutson, LLC Design Ambassadors have been teasing all week … it's time to release the release with a fun Release Hop!  You should have arrived here from the fabulous, fun, gorgeous, and talented Kelly Griglione's blog!  [even more fab irl!] 

I have several cards to share... so let's keep this Hop hopping! 

Since I used Julie's Waves dies on yesterday's card, I'm shaking things up with Subbing In stamps, and dies today.  It's about a little blue jellyfish in the ocean, peeking into the Porthole of that submarine, and totally jelly of its fabulous interior design - I think he plotzed my shaker elements!

Wednesday I used the rooster from Good Egg stamps and dies to bring birthday fun to a friend … today I'm taking you into the hen-house, or might it be the dog-house for one of these chicks? ruh roh…

 

If you look really closely, you will notice a few 'chicken tracks' that I made using

one of Julie's Stitching Lines set! the walls of the coop using EBE Painted Stripes.

and those new Waves were dry embossed to create a little loft in the hay!

 

I just can't stop singing along with my little old ant from Tuesday's post and Life's a Picnic stamps and dies - he's got high hopes, and can do anything, with a little help from his [many] friends!

 

My inside thoughts:

'Even when the snacks are all gone!'

 

 Which brings us full-circle back to the very first peek on Monday -Brandi always fills her Leading Lady sets with oodles of fun little stamps... that penne pasta from Cooking Lady stamps and dies was just asking to be masked, and tossed into the colander!  Do we pun-loving girls stick together, or what?

 



My teensy little frame-cut was a bit of a leftover from cutting

the MFT Wonky Square from a bit larger piece of DP - both

from Lawn Fawn's Spring Fling petite paper pack.

 

So, there you go!  Thanks, so much, for hanging out with me this week!  It's time for me to send you off to the one and only Therese Calvird - let's face it... anything I can do she can do a million times better!! 

 

BUT before you go, please leave a comment - We've got super fun prizes!!!  One random & lucky commenter from all the hop-stops will win $25 to the EH shop, and one will win the whole July Essentials by Ellen release!!!  To enter for a chance to win, make sure to leave comments at each stop along the hop!  Comment before Thursday, July 18th at 11:59pm PST.  Winners will be notified by email! 

 

=]  Michele

 

Here is the full list of Hop-mates!  HERE is my link to the EH shop for all of the new release products shared today - there is so much to love beyond what I could fit onto my cards in each set! 

 

Adelina Starace 

Mindy Eggen 

Elena Roussakis 

Ardyth Percy-Robb 

Kelly Griglione 

Michele Ferguson  - you are here!

Therese Calvird 

Sandy Allnock 

Lisa Spangler 

Julie Ebersole 

Mindy Baxter 

Carly Tee Minner 

Emily Midgett 

 

  

 

 

CAS[E] this Sketch #330

Another fun Sketch from N@ Ali, and another quick and easy card today!  It just breaks my heart to have all of these pretty papers tucked away!

For CTS #330:

I even double-stamped my speech bubble onto a bit of patterned paper! 

That heart-shape can be any shape at all … which shape will you choose?  We can't wait to see them!  Speaking of, let's all go check out how my CTS teamies have interpreted it! 

=]  Michele

Inspired By #80 ... beach day

 

ahhhhh … a day at the beach!  love every single bit of it... except maybe these pesky beggars... but I've found a way to keep them occupied...

 

 

A bit of acetate-splotchy-distress-oxide-painting, and these gulls were feeling right at home.  I took my cue from the clothes line in the photo... and isn't it fun that one of these fun gulls from MFT is standing on a piling?   

 

Hope you have as much fun with IB #80 as we did!

=]  Michele

EBE Day four - diving in!

Subbing In  is one of those sets that will be fresh for ages … AND Ellen has added a few more fun stand-alone dies that coordinate perfectly with it, too: Porthole includes the porthole die, and a few under-the-sea accoutrements like coral and plants and star fish, and bubbles!  Another Waves has two different wave dies - I actually used one of them in a totally different way for tomorrow's grand reveal!  Have I mentioned the Hop?  and PRIZES??  So excited!  One more sleep!

 

Okay... enough of the chit chat  … you probably came for the card!!

 

 

Leave it to my 14 y.o granddaughter to think about

the Jonas Brothers when she read the caption...

haven't heard it?  It's a goodie!

 

 

There's a little hitchhiker hanging on for dear life!  MAN did I work hard, and way beyond my usual no-fuss Copic coloring for this one … I was determined to make it look a bit submerged!  I'm pretty happy with it... and there is one of the wave dies I mentioned!!!

  

Okay... I'll be back tomorrow at noon EST with a few of my favorite peeps for that HOP I've been teasing you about... see you then?  Sure do appreciate it when you stop by!

xx

 

=]  Michele

Subbing In dies

EBE Sneak day Three!

Thanks for stopping by!
I have another fun peek at another fun set Ellen Hutson has coming your way on Friday... chick it out!!! 

Good Egg has a hen-house full of fun - no need to worry which came first... there are chickens, eggs, hens, and even a rooster with enough sassy sentiments to keep you, and your card-recipients,
smiling! 




Here's one for a really old friend of mine who has a great sense of humor - at least I HOPE she does - yikes!!

There's one more day of peeks before our Hop, and RELEASE, on Friday!

=]  Michele

Good Egg dies
High Five speech bubble

EBE Sneak week Day two!

 
 
 
We're sharing peeks of the Essentials by Ellen July release this week... a teaser of all the fun new goodies heading your way on Friday - and that Hop I may have mentioned... wink.


Life's a Picnic is one of those sets that
has no end to possibilities - today, I was reminded of a certain little ant,
who tried to move a rubber tree plant …
he might have had a picnic along the way... Brandi sure knows how to make me giggle! 

My own inside thoughts:

"Life is a balancing act - seems to me, you've always done your level best!"

 Glossy accents in all the right places!

 

There are oodles of fun images in this set … how you put them together is all up to you - it's also up to you whether or not that little ol' ant is invited! 

See you tomorrow!
=]  Michele

Life's a Picnic coordinating dies

Essentials by Ellen July release - Coming soon!

 



So much to love from Ellen Hutson, LLC again this month … it's time for a new Leading Lady from Brandi Kincaid - this one tickles the chef in me!  Say hello to Cooking Lady...

 

There are tons of fun little gadgets, and foods in this set -

and pun-y sentiments that will surely make you smile! Brandi so 'gets' me!

 

Oh just you wait … it's so hard to peek when I want to spill all of the beans! 

See you tomorrow for more 'peeks?'  Hope so - and there will be a fun Hop this month WITH prizes!!  yay!  Stay tuned for that this Friday when all the products will be available to you!

=]  Michele

Cooking Lady coordinating dies
EBE Pattern Play by Brandi