Good Tuesday morning and welcome to the Holiday II Essentials by Ellen Release Hop! I’ll be showcasing a few of the new stamp sets and dies on my post today! I also get to give away an Essentials by Ellen stamp set! The winner may chose ANY Essentials by Ellen brand stamp set (maximum value $15) currently in stock at Ellen Hutson.com To enter my giveaway, please leave a comment on today’s post with a valid email address by October 27th!
There is also a wonderful Grand Giveaway in the CLASSroom! To enter, be sure to leave a comment there, also by October 27th, with a valid email address; winners will be announced at the CLASSroom on Friday, October 30th!
Have fun checking out all the wonderful designs along the hop!
If you get lost, please visit the CLASSroom blog for a complete list of all the designers.
My first project was made using the new Gourd-Jus die set paired with the Happy Thanksgiving sentiment from the Autumn Acorns set.
When I cut the images I noticed that the negatives that would normally be removed stayed in place. Instead of pushing them out leaving the negative space I secured them all in place on the back with double stick tape. I wanted the lines of each image to be pronounced when I colored them. I used distress inks and mini applicators to apply color to the images. When I was finished applying color I applied versa to the images and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Clear embossing makes the colors become much brighter. Check out my Fall Leaves Tutorial in the CLASSroom if you would like to see step by step photos of my coloring process.
I cut frames from the Impression Obsession All-in-one Frames Rectangles 2 and attached them to the card base with thin strips of mounting tape. I attached all the images with mounting tape and arranged all them in a loose design to appear as if they were sitting on a table at the farmers market. I couldn’t resist putting the two little leaves on the sentiment frame.
My second project was made using the new Christmas Scribbles die set paired with the Christmas Scribbles stamp set. The twinkly stars in the background are from the new Holly Jolly stamp set and the sentiment is from the Tis the Season set.
I applied the color to the tree portion of the stamp with a distress marker avoiding the little star at the top and stamped the trees across the card base. I stamped the tree one more time on a separate piece of cardstock to cut out with the new accompanying die. I used my waterbrush to lightly pull the color down to fill in the open sections of all the trees.
I hand cut the snowy ground layer with deckle scissors and cut the thin frame using my Nesting Card Templates. I attached the ground piece to the back of the frame with double stick tape and then attached the frame to the card base with thin strips of mounting tape. The individual tree was attached in the scene with a double layer of mounting tape. The sentiment was stamped with versa, embossed with gold embossing powder and attached with mounting tape. I added a tiny bit of sparkle to the stars with yellow stickles for the finishing touch..
Thanks for coming by and I sure hope you enjoy hopping to see all the fabulous designs with the wonderful new dies and stamps.
Essentials by Ellen Holiday II 2015 Complete Release
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Gourd-Jus Project
Christmas Scribbles Project
Your gourds are ‘gourd-jus!’ The colors and texture are beautiful. Your sparkly trees are pretty and festive.
Oh, the gourds and pumpkins are amazing, great cards!
Ohhh, both cards are great, but I really really like the nice Christmas trees and how the snow glimmers! Creative regards from stempelfrida
Wow these are so beautiful! I love the second card! Very stunning!
DOESN’T THE SHINE MAKE THE GOURDS JUST POP OUT? aND THIS HAS TO BE THE CUTEST TREE IN THE FORREST.
Great ideas here! TFS! These Essentials are really fabulous–and need I say, essential? So many wonderful designs! kReN
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I love the gourds!! What great inspiration for my Thanksgiving cards that I will be starting this week!
Kitty, your work is always STUNNING! I love both of your cards, they are amazing! TFS!
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Love all of the dimension!
nice cards Kittie,
TFS
Love the Christmas tree card!
You did such an awesome job on those pumpkins and gourds! Love them and that tree in that stamp set is so cool. Love your cards.
Wow!! These cards are beautiful especially the Thanksgiving one.
Gorgeous cards! Love all the sparkle and shine!
Love the shine and bold colors. Thanks for sharing.
Looks like you put a lot of work into both designs, and it shows! Thank you for the inspiration!
Your cards are always so lovely with so much dimension!
Love the beautiful colors on the gourds, so realistic and the dimension is lovely. The little Christmas trees are cute.
As always, fantastic cards!
So gorgeous and luxe looking! TFS and inspiring!
Could your cards get any better????? NO! Your are the queen of making gorgeous scenes and I bow down to you!!! I just love the gorgeous gourds on that first card.
Wonderful cards. I have never thought of leaving the cut pieces in place for dimension…thanks for that tip. I will try it soon. As always, I love everything you do!
Amazing cards! I love the detail……looks like you spent days making them!
Both cards are gorgeous! I love the dimension you created for both cards. Awesome job!!
Those gourds look absolutely real. Totally amazing card.
Oh my-your projects never fail to amaze me-so much lovely detail!
Wow!! Awesome cards!! Your gourds look sooo real!!
gourdjus coloring of those gourds!
lovely cards. tfs!
Beautiful cards! Again, Ellen has outdone herself (and the other designers) with wonderful designs. Thanks for the chance to win.
Love the gourds & pumpkins…perfect for this time of year!
Nice cards. Love the texture on the gourds.
beautiful card, you did such a lovely job coloring the pieces!
Hands down, the most gorgeous cards in the Hop. Love them both. May CASE your fall card and substitute Christmas items for the gourds. Thx for the inspiration again.
Love your Thanksgiving card, so intricate. You Christmas card is one of my favorites so far, love the trees against the white sparkly background.
What wonderful cards. I am enjoying the hop. It’s so fun to see the ideas and creations for this new release!
Fabulous dimension and details on both cards!
Excellent work!! Love the fall colors and the trees. Beautiful stars really set it off!!
Beautiful cards.
Both cards are terrific as always! I adore your shiny gourds! And the scribbly tree is amazingly cute!
Love your little scenes, and always look forward to finding them in the Classroom. These are lovely, as well – you do such wonderful paper crafting! Thanks for such great ideas!
I don,the think my first post really posted so I will try again. Love both Cards, especially Christmas one
Without going into a long story, I’ll just say thank you for sharing the tree card. Both cards are really pretty.
Such a sweet little tree card1
Great cards:)
Love the 3D elements. So fun!
These are both gorgeous cards! And now the gourd dies have been added to my list!!
Stunning cards. Gorgeous details and lovely embellishments.
The intense colors of the gourds and leaves really pop and that tree is just the cutest little tree going!
…the snowy ground under the trees…was that just a white glimmer paper or was it something you added to the paper to make it look like snow? Very pretty.
Good Morning, Kittie. Amazing gourds, and bright colors with lots of texture. Really has the fall colors. I love the way you left the inserts and had them pop.
your Christmas trees in the second card are very different. in design, and love the way you presented them. This is a good one for the office friends. or any made in multiple. ….thanks for sharing….inspired….hugs
You exceeded your usual exceptional die cards!! Your color choices and shine are just magnificent!
It’s been a while since I was given the pleasure of seeing your work and low and behold you didn’t upset! I love the color job on the acorns and gourds! Very classy!
I love the sheen on your harvest card and the Christmas card feels so serene. Beautiful!
Kittie – you never ever disappoint! Thanks for your beautiful designs!!!
Your gourds are just beautiful and so perfect for Thanksgiving.
Such great cards. Love them.
The coloring on the gourds is just beautiful! I’ll have to use the clear embossing idea on some of my projects!
Oh my goodness, what fantastic cards!! Love them!
Dang! These are amazing!
Beautiful!
Outstanding cards!! Wow! So creative! Maria
Loving the dimension/shimmer/shine on these cards!
Love, love, love the gourd and technique!!! You never fail to amaze me with your creations!
Loved the way you used multiple frames on the gourd card and then placed the gourds over top. Great colors.
Wow, such wonderful cards. Love the clear embossing on the gourds, so pretty. And using the pine boughs as trees, very clever.
sweet:) thanks so much for the fall tutorial technique share and the much-loved and needed inspiration for the next season…!!:)
LOVE your gourds card!!! Thanks for the opportunity to win a free stamp set!!
I love the sparkle and shine on your cards. nwilcox95(at)comcast(dot)net
Love both cards but think scribbles is my favorite!
I really love the second card! It is just so shiny and pretty. I really love how you experiment with the layering of the cards to make them look so fun! :)) Thanks for sharing, you have given me so many ideas!!
Very lovely!
Wow your leaves are stunning! Adore your scribbled tree card! The images in that set are my fav 🙂
Love, love, love your beautiful cards! Thanks for sharing!
Your cards are so stunning and so beautiful!!!!
Love the 3-D effect. Love the designs and colors. Great use of the products.
you always create such wonderful cards Kittie and these are exceptional!
The cards are so pretty! The gourds look fabulous with your beautiful coloring and the embossing 🙂
I like the Thanksgiving card the best. The pumpkins, gourds, and leaves are so dimensional and fabulous!
Tis the Season…real cute
So so pretty. FABULOUS!
Love the trees with the gold touches!
I love both of your cards! They are really pretty but the pumpkins are amazing!
Wow What a lush Autumn card! Pretty
Love the snow on the tree card, so pretty!
Who wouldn’t love getting either of these cards in the mail? Adorable.
Your cards are simply lovely. I love them both. Anyone would be so happy to receive them and I am sure they will cherish them. TFS
Your trees are perfect. this stamp is the perfect tree stamp for cards.
Outstanding cards as usual, Kittie! The gourds are stunning & the Xmas trees are glistening. I love this new release from Ellen & Julie’s creations are amazing. Thanks for the inspiration.
I really love these cards I cant decide which one I like more the thanksgiving gourd card or the christmas tree card. Absolutely stunning.
Totally in love with the Thanksgiving scene. Pretty colors.
Love your cards! They look more like a piece of Art work then a “card”.
Wow! Amazing Thanksgiving card. Both cards are beautiful.
Awesome cards…love the clear embossing powder on the first and the sparkle on the last.
Both cards are gorgeous! Love the treatment of the leaves and gourds dies!
Great colors and embossing on the gourds. Makes them look so real.
Your work is so intricate and beautiful. Love all the cards. Embossing the gourds makes them pop!
What an amazing Thanksgiving card!
Beautiful cards! The new releases are fantastic!
These cards are gorgeous.
It amazes me how you all design something so different! Love your cards and the way you’ve used the new releases,tfs!
Beautiful cards! I just love that great texture you created with your gourds! Really fun and fresh!
Take care!
Michele
Your gourds look SO real!
Love these cards. The colors on the fall one are awesome.
Your creations always just knock my socks off with their detailed creativity! Beautifully rendered!
Gorgeous cards Kittie! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
very creative . . . the gourd card is gourdeous. . .
Loved the tree card, so cute.
Both cards are amazing!
OMG Kittie, this is the first time I’ve seen your work and all I can say is “LOVE IT”! Not only are those autumn images sponged with distress inks incredible, but that rectangular die with the different frames is beautiful with the autumn images. Both of your cards are amazing, and different, but your first card is a WINNER! I hope to see more of what you create in the future. TFS Kittie
Your cards are always such an inspiration. I check your website often and love everything you create. These cards are adorable too. Specially the colors of the gourds. Love them
Both of your cards are totally amazing. What beautiful bright colors on the fall card. Great work with the new sets.
oh wow! Love your cards! The trees are just beautiful and the first card…just awesome…colors are spectacular.
Very nice cards, thanks for show us them!!!
Your cards are always works of art! Beautiful!
Ellen, both of your cards are just gourd-jus
Love the brightness on those pumpkins and gourds. Those Christmas trees on your second card really pop with your coloring technique.
WOW on that first card! I love how happy accidents turn into something amazing.
Such simple designs yet so much color and style!
Love the clear embossing and shimmer you added to your beautiful cards! Thanks for the chance to win 🙂 Karlajyungwirth@gmail.com
I love the christmas trees!! That scribble design looks beautiful!
Gorgeous cards!!!
Both cards are really nice – I like the way you colored the gourds (I really like that die set) but I think the tree card is my favorite of the two.
I love all of the texture! Very pretty cards.
Love the colorful fall colors and the “sketchy” trees.
Wow, such great dimension using all the wonderful dies on your cards! Love this new release. Tfs 🙂
Those gourds are amazing! And the tree card, so pretty!
Love these cards. Stay blessed!
Love your shiny gourds – so realistic. The cute scribble tree card is also fun. Thanks.
Kittie, you always put the magic in my day with your fantastic sense of style. The scenes are phenomenal! TFS.
Love the cards…they are beautiful.
I especially liked the autumn card. The embossing on top of the coloring was a great look.
I just love that stack of autumn gourds and what a great idea to leave the cutouts in place for texture!
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LOVE your gourd-jos card, what a great idea to keep those negative pieces in for a more dimensional look, genius! Your scribble tree card is so elegant with the gold, green and white, love the scene.
The gourds and pumpkins are so gorgeous, love that card, and your tree card is so sparkly and pretty! Great work!
Oh my! These are stunning! I watched your Fall Leaves Tutorial. Thanks for the tips.
Your cards are simply beautiful! I love all your details!
I can’t decide if I like your card with the gourds or the scribble trees the best! 🙂 Love your creativity, Kitty.
Wow, great cards! Love the dimension!
Beautiful cards Kittie! I especially love the scribble tree card, would be easy to make multiples.
Vibrant!! so inspiring
Love the colors in the thanksgiving card.
These cards are just beautiful! Thanks for sharing them.
Beautiful cards, Kitty! Love the added clear embossing over the coloring on the leaves and gourds. TFS!
Great way to get a totally different look with the dies! So creative!
Your cards are stunning!!! I love the way you treated the gourds! My email is: janet@swofford.com .
Beautiful, colorful cards!
Both of the cards are really awesome. Love them.
Love the shine – it makes the colors pop.
Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Both cards are lovely and I especially love the card using the scribbles set.
LOVE your cards and this new release!!!
Wow, Kitty! These cards are amazing, especially those pumpkins and gourds! So much wonderful attention to detail.
Striking colors with heated embossing adds really nice shine! Thanks for the great cards
Love all the dimension & texture on the pretty fall card & those Scribbles trees are awesome!! Love, love, love that stamp & die set!!
Wow, your gourds are amazing. (That just sounds wrong…sorry!) Anyway, love the tree card with the snow too. Beautiful cards!
Simply gorgeous!
Love the rich colours of the gourds.
Kittie I love both of your crds especially the Gorud-jus. Those are must have dies!
Absolutely beautiful! Love them both
So beautiful!
Just stunning cards! I mean WOW!
Fabulous cards, WOW! I adore both of them. So unique and so well done! Thank you.
I love the details in these cards. Those gourds really are amazing. Thanks so much. (cbee at inbox dot com)
Kittie you have outdone yourself! The gourds are just beautiful and so lifelike!!! Even the Christmas Scribbles card has such attention to detail. But by far the gourd card my just be my favorite card to date, and I’ve been a follower (lurker) for years! karenpagedave at yahoo dot com
Great cards love the Christmas trees.
Love your style! Have been admiring your work for some time. Both cards are wonderful but I think the Christmas trees are my favorite.
Thank you
wow wow wow, my jaw hit the ground, I love how realistic you have made the pumpkins looked and leaving the die cuts inside too! it just looks fabulous. Thanks or being so inspiring. Hugs Jo
Beautiful cards – especially the thanksgiving card!
Christmas is coming way to soon…unique cards
All the cards were beautiful
Amazing… I did see your tutorial.. Thanks so much for that. I love how you left the negative in and made it pop with color on the gourds. The tree card is Fabulous. Thanks so much for sharing
Wow, great cards! The Happy Thanksgiving is absolutely beautiful!! Thanks for sharing.
Wow, great cards – your layering is amazing!
Kittie, Those gourds just jump off the card!! Such beautiful colors. All of the cards are very inspirational.
The gourds look so realistic, love it.
The gourds and pumpkins look so realistic! And your second sparkly card is lovely.
The Gor-jus dies are my favorite of the whole release. Even though I’ve finished my Thanksgiving cards, I may have to bring these home!
Love the layers on both! Beautiful cards!
Amazing cards! I love the clear embossed gourds. And that sparkly tree scene is simply awe-inspiring!
So pretty! I especially love how you did the first card, such a good idea!
Wonderful gourds card! You have yet to make a card I don’t love! Great EH blog hop!
Kittie, LOVE ♥♡♥ your Christmas Scribble card of trees, stars and that frame! Always love looking at yr work. Hope u do some more kitties in the window or going up those stairs:)
Beautiful cards and I love how you clear embossed the gourds!!! Thanks for the chance to win!
Those gourds are so colorful and fun! Love all the layering.
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Gorgeous card!
Vibrant and Shiny, lovely!
such prettiness!!!! i love the trees in your second card, makes me think of my home in the wintertime
Good tip regarding clear embossing brightening colors. I’ll have to try that.
GORDJUS!!!!!! Really super amazing. Great leaves and love the shine.
Hi Kittie,
your cards are amazing! The gourds looks so real. I love it. The new releases are wonderful. I love Julie stamps and die sets very much.
Have a great day and many greetings from Germany
Birgit
You make such lovely cards and also make them look so easy to do.
Luv the gourd set and card
Great intense textured gourds and love the beautiful layered green xmas trees too!
Aw! I really like the ‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas card’. It’s my favorite of the two.
So love these cards…love the way you framed the gourds…
LOVE all your beautiful cards! Very inspiring!
Fabulous cards!! Such beautiful designs. Love the new release.
Your gourds are so beautiful!
Beautiful cards. The little Christmas trees are cute. Thanks…
The thanksgiving card is absolutely beautiful, looks so real! Love the christmas tree card!!
I love that christmas trees! amazing looks!
Great cards! I especially like the Thanksgiving card using all the gourds. All the colors are great and I really like the way you left the small pieces in place, using them for texture. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing!
I love the fall themed card..
Love both of these cards!
Love your gourds!!!
the Christmas scribble tree is so much fun. it is in my cart…. : )
WOW! These cards are AWESOME……..
love the layering on your cards!
Beautiful cards. Love both of them.
Great cards! Love the trees!
As always, your cards are stunning and inspirational. Love the glitter card with the trees. Thanks for sharing.
The Thanksgiving card is GORGEOUS! There’s only one problem. It’s TOO pretty to be a card. I think it should be a table display for the holiday.
Love the new Gord-jous die set! And the poinsettia dies. Actually, I guess I just love dies! It is great to have matching dies for stamp sets.
Simply lovely! The gourds look so real!!!
The clear embossing powder really made the color on your gourds po . Thank you for the ideas
Cute cards.
Your projects always have so much dimension! Beautiful!
both cards are beautiful. I really like the scribbly-doodly stamps and you have certainly done them justice. I don’t do a lot of fall cards, but I’d really love to do one like yours. It’s amazing. Thanks so much.
OMG, those Christmas Scribbles are just too stinkin’ cute!! I would Love to have those. I love your tree card!
Love the Christmas Scribbles word stamps and the tree stamp!
Spectacular tree card, they’re both beautiful though. TFS
Beautiful cards Kittie. Love the shiny finish on the fall images… the shimmery trees look wonderful too.
Kittie your cards are stunning and so beautiful! I love them!
your cards are stunning and so beautiful, I love them!!!
Kittie your cards are stunning and so beautiful, I love them!
Wow, just wow! I LOVE the tree card!
Beautiful coloring, Kittie!
You always make such beautiful and detailed cards!
Wow!!!! Love what you did for the hop. So much dimension and so much fun!!!
wow! These are amazing!!! I love the layering on all of your cards!
Beautiful cards. I love the clear embossing over the coloring on your Thanksgiving card.
Your Gords look amazing! Lifelike but tiny.
Love how you put clear embossing over the die cut to make the color brighter!! Great idea!!
Amazing cards. Love the colouring of the gourds and pumpkins.
Always look forward to seeing what you will come up with….lovely!
Wonderful. Love all this release Thanks for sharing.
Love all the gourds and the very clever xmas trees.
I really love the stunning colors of the Thanksgiving card. Thanks for the pointer to use clear embossing powder.
Wow wow wow! These cards are amazing! The gourds are just spectacular and the tree cards looks stunning! Love them!
I love the layering of the pumpkins and the trees.
The pumpkin coloring is wonderful.
thanks for sharing some great cards.
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Terrific cards. I think I like the one of trees best, though.
I really like how shiny the gourds turned out. Those colors really pop!
Your cards are framed pieces of art– so pleasing!
Wonderful cards. I like the clear embossing on the first and the sparkle on the second.
Wow! These are great! LOVED the pumpkin card!!!!
Excellent work! Those gourds look like real!
I love the colors in your cards, and the “random pile” placement of the gourds in your Thanksgiving card. Tfs! ~ Andrea
Two very fun projects!
Great cards! I don’t own a die cutting machine but I could stamp these if I had them and cut them out. They look so nice and I would love to receive both of these cards in my mailbox.
STUNNING cards!
I love the happy feelings I get when I see your festive cards. You are talented in design and thank you.
Stunning cards Kittie!
BEAUTIFUL cards Kittie!!!
YES, your gourds really are GOURD-JUS!!!
LOVE you FABULOUS SPARKLING trees and ALL-ROUND-AWESOME card designs!!!
THANK YOU for sharing 🙂
Pretty cards!
The two little leaves added the right touch. Thanks for the technique of making colors brighter.
The first card does look like the farmers market. I like the shiny gourds. The second is simple but elegant. Thanks.
Beautiful cards! I really like the sparkle on the trees!
Love the multiple layer cards as they look so tactile that they MUST be touched!! TFS! Many Blessings, Melitta
Wonderful cards,especially love the colours in the Fall card. So pretty
Awesome fall card with fabulous colors! Love that fun scribble tree too!
Wow the 3D elements really pop and so do the colors! the Christmas card is just adorable!
I love the happy accident of negative space that wasn’t. Your pumpkin and gourd display is stunning. Can’t wait to get my hands on these dies – I just wish that I had 1/10th of your talent with them!
Beautiful Gourds and Trees, Kittie! Great Release~
Wonderful cards. Thanks for the inspiration!
Nice cards.
Everything looks amazing!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Michelle 🙂
Wow! So beautiful and elegant! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love your pretty scenes. Your pumpkin collage looks awesome!
I’m not really a gourd person but your are just beautiful! I can’t believe how rich they look using just Distress colors!
You’ve created two really fabulous cards with wonderful seasonal scenes! The shine and shimmer you’ve added make them even more beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing!
Two very impressive cards. Fantastic blog hop! Cheers.
Wow! Kittie, your cards are STUNNING! That gourd card is super amazing!
They look so real with the 3D effect your did!
I like your second card with sketchy pictures
Lovely card. I love all the special touches!
Love the gourd card!
The dimensionality of your cards is amazing 🙂
How unbelievable! Your gourd card is out of this world! I am new to your site and I can’t wait to look through your art and tutorials! Thank you!
Very cool! What a great prize too! Thanks and God bless! ILuvTheEucharist @ aol.com
SO BEAUTIFUL!! LOVING the Inspiration!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
Both cards are Gourd-Jus, Kittie! Your work is superb in more ways than one, and you truly are an inspiration. TFS your secrets with us. bdlakebum at yahoo dot com
Great cards! So many awesome designers there too