Hello! Hello! Happy Thursday to you all!!!!! Laurel Beard here today bringing you our next Mix It Up Challenge!!!! Let's mix it up with with Paper Smooches, shall we?!?!?!
Before I get on to the challenge and the amazing project inspiration, let's first congratulate the randomly selected participant from our last Pin-Sights Challenge. Remember, YOU could win a $50 gift certificate to the Ellen Hutson store just by playing along. Our randomly selected participant (courtesy of random.org) is: Melissa Bickford. Congratulations! Please email me at laurelbeard at me dot com to claim your prize!
The Mix It Up Challenge is a challenge where we invite one manufacturer to contribute a design that combines both Essentials by Ellen stamps/dies with their product to inspire you all!
I am excited to share the work of Kim Hughes, designer and owner of Paper Smooches! All the supplies she used in her project are linked towards the end of this post!
How cute is this peekaboo birthday card? A happy little critter showered in balloons! :) Thank you so much for mixing it up with us today Kim!!!
I also created a project for this challenge:
Please be sure to click on each of the designer's links to be taken directly to their blog posts for more still photos and information on how these projects were created! Now it's time where we invite YOU to play along in our challenge! And don't forget to add your entries to our Ellen Hutson Flickr page too!
- To qualify, simply combine any Essentials by Ellen product and Paper Smooches product! You can create anything your heart desires! A card, mixed media art, art journaling, framed art, home decor.... It's totally up to you what you want to make!
- We will randomly select one challenge participant to receive a $50 gift certificate to the Ellen Hutson store!!!!
- You have until March 14th to link up your projects! You will find the link up at the end of this post. The winner will be announced on March 16th!
Kim's project supplies:
Laurel's project supplies: