I hope you were able to join in with the 1st anniversary celebrations at the Muse Card Club last week. We had lots of great entries. This week, I am back with another card for your inspiration.

Here are some of the guidelines if you are unfamiliar with how Muse works.

• Use the Muse card as inspiration, explain your interpretation and link back to Muse.
• Provide supportive comments to at least 3 of your fellow member’s submissions.
• Vote for 3 of your fellow member’s submissions that you find inspiring, once voting opens.

For the full challenge guidelines go here.

Hope you can find some time to play along this week,

I’m popping in just before the deadline for this month’s Papertrey Ink Blog Hop – Pretty in Pink.

I layered strips of patterned paper onto some white card stock and then to create a softer look, I sewed a piece of vellum over the top. The sentiment is white heat embossed on top of the vellum.

Until next time,

AnnaBelle Stamps is releasing some new stamps next week, so fellow DT member Kylie and I have created some projects to whet your appetite before the release.

To create the banner, I stamped onto some patterned paper in my new Luxe Memento ink (which I got for Christmas from my FAB SIL), and then clear embossed over the top. I love the shine and texture this technique creates and it also intensifies the ink colour.

Be sure to check out Kylie’s blog for some more inspiration.

Until next time,

I know I’m a little late, but I’m in summer holiday mode at the moment so everything goes at a slower pace right? This was my Christmas card for this year (well last year now). I wanted it to be simple enough to reproduce quickly.

Thanks for stopping by, I’ll be back soon with some of my holiday crafting projects.

Happy New Year! We are home from our mammoth Christmas holiday/adventure, visiting so many family and friends (we clocked about 3500kms all up). It was lovely seeing everyone but boy does it feel good to be home. There is no place like home 🙂

This week at AnnaBelle Stamps it is time for this month’s challenge, which is a sketch.

We are having the most beautiful summer weather here on the South Coast. It was a cool and overcast 24 degrees today, unlike the majority of NSW! At my parent’s farm in North West NSW, it was a sweltering 44 degrees (that’s 111.2 degrees Fahrenheit!) Boy am I glad for our cool, coastal sea breezes. My card today reflects the warm colours of summer.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Belles’ projects – their links are on my side bar.

Don’t forget that Andrea is having a huge AnnaBelle Stamps sale where you can save 30% on ALL stamps!

Until next time,

About our challenges:

• We post our challenges the first Friday of each month at 8:00pm AEST (AEDT during Daylight Savings).
• Each challenge runs until 24 hours prior to the next challenge.
• All entries MUST include AnnaBelle Stamps as the main focal image, this can include our digi range which can be found here.
• One random winner will be the lucky recipient of a $20.00 AnnaBelle Stamps Discount Coupon! This opens the challenge up for everyone to play along with and to have a chance at the prize.
• We will feature our Top 3 picks and announce the winner prior to the next challenge going live.

How To Play Along:

• Copy and save our challenge banner and include it and a link back to the ABS blog in your post.
• For those without a blog you can still play along! Simply upload your card to a image sharing site like Flickr and include a link to the challenge in your description.
• Please link directly to your entry not just to your blog.
• Please don’t link to postings made prior to the date of our current challenge. All projects submitted must be new.
• You may enter any of our challenges several times as long as each submission is with a new creation.
• Only AnnaBelle images can be used as the main image.

This week at AnnaBelle Stamps the Belles have been busy whipping up some projects using the Love Birds Stamp set. I really love the images in this set.

My husband and I celebrated our 12th Wedding Anniversary this week, so it was great timing! This was the card I made for my hubby.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Belles’ projects – their links are on my side bar.

Andrea is also having a huge AnnaBelle Stamps sale where you can save 30% on ALL stamps!

I’m not sure I will be popping in again before Christmas, so I hope that all of you have a blessed Christmas with your loved ones. We are about to head off to my sister’s place in Queensland. Lots of driving to be done (around about 3000kms all up), but it will be great to catch up with family and friends again.

Until next time,

Hello. This week it is my turn at the Muse Card Club.

This is something a little different for me as I very rarely decorate the inside of a card. Well I think I have certainly made up for it this time. I got out my trusty punches and put them to work. Here is the inside of the card.

I used Bazzill Swiss dots card stock to add some interest to the punched flowers. The sentiment was computer generated.

Here are some of the guidelines if you are unfamiliar with how Muse works.

• Use the Muse card as inspiration, explain your interpretation and link back to Muse.
• Provide supportive comments to at least 3 of your fellow member’s submissions.
• Vote for 3 of your fellow member’s submissions that you find inspiring, once voting opens.

For the full challenge guidelines go here.

Hope you can find some time to play along this week,