Ellen Hutson | Essentials by Ellen March 4th Release IG Hop!

Today's the day! The new Essentials by Ellen Release is now available in the shop and we're celebrating with an Instagram Hop. The Design Ambassadors and our guest for this month, Joan Bardee, have prepared loads of inspiration for you. We're giving away three $25 gift certificates and all you need to do is hop along for your chance to win. While appreciated, comments left here do not qualify.

My card for this hop features the Painted Florals, Casual Greetings Hot Foil Stamp and Berry Basket. I also included the A2 Piercing Plate 2. I knew I wanted this card based around the Berry Basket and I thought about stacking them so I cut them from Bazzill Peppermint, Candy Corn and Circus Peanuts cardstock.

Then I stamped the three flowers from Painted Florals in Rouge, Orange Peel and Sauna. The flower centres were stamped in Versafine Onyx Black. The leaves were stamped with Black Jack, once for the base layer and twice for the details. I layered the flowers on gold glitter cardstock to create a sparkly offset shadow before attaching them to the leaves.

I created the card base from white linen cardstock, then cut a 4" x 5.25" panel of Bazzill Pale Rose cardstock and added texture with the A2 Piercing Plate 2. I glued it to the card base flushed with the bottom-right corner.

I arranged the Berry Basket die cuts on the panel and trimmed off the excess. I popped the flowers on to the card with foam tape and added the perfect sentiment from the Casual Greetings Hot Foil Stamp Set, which was heat foiled with Polished Brass Hot Foil on Hero Hues Pitch Black cardstock.

Ellen Hutson is running a gift with purchase March 1st through 7th. You will get the Lucky stamp set free with any purchase of $75 or more! This means you can qualify for this free set when the new release goes live, while supplies last. It's a fun and fabulous freebie so get it while you can!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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