Hi everyone,

Welcome to another challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps. This week is an easy challenge so you really have no excuse not to join in with the fun!

Again this week the Belles are showing you a sneaky peak of some more new stamp sets that are going to be released into the store very soon. I have made today’s projects with a set called Fanciful Flowers. Some lovely solids images to stamp with in this set. I made a mini set of cards – 6 in total – three Happy Birthday and three Thinking of You cards.

I am entering them into the Current Wee Memories Challenge #82 – Mini. These cards are approximately 3×4 inches.

I love the big sentiments in this set.

And while I was stamping, I made some tags as well…it was fun playing with different coloured inks!

Supplies:

[Mini card set]

Stamps: AnnaBelle Stamps Fanciful Flowers stamp set (to be released next week)
Ink: Versacolor – Camellia, Blue Lagoon, Cyan, Heliotrope, Bamboo, Orange, VersaFine ink – Onyx Black
Card: AnnaBelle Smooth White card
Other Supplies: Foam dimensionals, vellum, Gossy Accents (to adhere butterflies), Kaisercraft pearls – snow

[For you tags]

Stamps: AnnaBelle Stamps Fanciful Flowers stamp set (to be released next week), AnnaBelle Stamps Love Brids (to be released next week) (the 3 little dots on the Thinking of you tag)
Ink: Versacolor – Opera Pink, Cyan, Bamboo, Camellia, Narcissus, Tea Green, Cardinal, VersaFine ink – Onyx Black, Distress Ink – Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Broken China, Faded Jeans
Card: Roman Print Gift tags
Other Supplies: Martha Stewart Butterfly punch,  Gossy Accents (to adhere butterflies), Kaisercraft pearls – snow, AnnaBelle Stamps Natural cotton twine, Black felt pen, Kaisercraft grosgrain ribbon

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out what the rest of the DT have created as well as our January guest designer Cath Dean. The Belles’ links are on my side bar.

Hi everyone,
Just popping in quickly with some cards that I made today following one of the sketches from the Clean and Simple Card Making class run by Jennifer McGuire, Kristina Werner and Julie Ebersole. My heart skipped a beat when I saw this sketch.

I love clean and simple cards and I love how both of these turned out. To create the red background I swished some Fired Brick distress ink over some textured card stock, leaving some white gaps. I like the distressed look. I am entering this card into the current CAS-ual Fridays CFC#34 Challenge – Chip off the Ol’ Block. I have used Thickers chipboard glossy letters.

My second card I am entering into the current Wee Memories Challenge #82 – Mini. My card is a small 4×4 card. Simple, but cute don’t you think?

Supplies:

{I love you}

Stamps: none
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink – Fired Brick
Card: Regal Craft Card – white textured, white card
Other Supplies: American Crafts Thickers – Chipboard stickers, foam dimensionals, Glossy Accents (to adhere Thickers)

Supplies:

{I appreciate you}

Stamps: Hero Arts All Occasion Messages (CL272)
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink – Fired Brick, Dusty Concord, VersaFine Ink – Onyx Black
Card: Regal Craft Card – white textured, white card
Other Supplies: Martha Stewart Butterfly punch, foam dimensionals, Glossy Accents (to adhere butterflies/pearls), Kaisercraft pearls

Thanks for stopping by,

Welcome to the first challenge for 2012 at AnnaBelle Stamps. I trust that you had a fabulous Christmas and may 2012 be a wonderful year for you, filled with many blessings!

This week’s challenge is a colour challenge…AND even more exciting is that we are welcoming not one, but two new design team members…AND we are showing you a sneaky peak of a couple of new stamp sets that are being released…AND we have a new January guest designer! WOW!

Firstly Therese Calvird and Jess Holland are two very talented ladies who are donning the Belle hat at AnnaBelle stamps. Make sure you head on over and welcome them. Also we have Cath Dean joining us for the month of January as a guest designer – welcome Cath!

This week is a colour challenge and the Belles are showing you some creations using 2 new stamp sets that are being released next week. I am totally *in love* with the new set I have used today called “Love Birds”. I think this set is my new favourite!

I had to have a good old think about the colour challenge as they are not my normal go-to colours. It was the silver that threw me! But alas, the two tiny hearts are silver heat embossed and the thread and sprinkle are also silver. Everything else is white heat embossed, except the line which I drew with a white pen.

I am entering this card into the current Wee Memories #81 Challenge – New. I had fun playing with this awesome new stamp set! I am also entering it into the current Runway Inspired Challenge ric#3 which was to use this photo as the inspiration. I went with the black/white theme and the stripy bars on the birdcage reminded me of the dress.

Supplies:

Stamps: AnnaBelle Stamps Love Birds stamp set (to be released next week)
Ink: Versamark watermark ink
Card: Regal Craft Card – Smooth white, black card
Other Supplies: AnnaBelle Stamps metallic sprinkles, foam dimensionals, Silver thread, Glossy Accents (to adhere sprinkles), Zing white embossing powder, Stamp-It silver embossing powder, heat gun, anti static pillow, white signo pen.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out what the rest of the DT have created. Their links are on my side bar.

Welcome to the last sketch challenge for 2011 at AnnaBelle Stamps. Can you believe we are about to move into 2012! Hope that you all had a fabulous Christmas with your friends and family. My whole family was together which doesn’t happen very often, so it was lovely to catch up. BUT I did miss my crafty things so was keen to make something when I got home. I was also very spoiled crafty wise for Christmas, but will share that with you later.

For this week’s challenge we have a sketch challenge…and when I saw it I thought of a ladybird, so that is what I went with. And it is not a card – but rather a chocolate wrapper! I got the idea from a present my hubby got for Christmas. I am entering this into the current Wee Memories #80 Challenge – Anything Goes.

I made the ladybird out of a mixture of punches and nesties and black heat embossed the large red circle with Background by Design #3. The text background is from the Background by Design #6 and the sentiment is from the Squared Posies set. I finished it off with some AnnaBelle ribbon and Cherry Sprinkles.

Supplies:

Stamps: AnnaBelle Stamps BBD #3 stamp set, AnnaBelle Stamps “Squared Posies” stamp set,  AnnaBelle Stamps BBD #6 stamp set
Ink: Distress Ink – Peeled Paint, Walnut Stain
Card: XPress It Blending card, Bazzill card – red, black, beige
Other Supplies: American Crafts black embossing powder, heat gun, Spellbinders circle die – small, Cuttlebug, foam dimensionals, Carl Craft circle punch, , Cherry sprinkles (3mm, 4mm and 5mm), Ranger blending tool, Fiskars Stamp Press, AnnaBelle Stamps 16mm Moss Satin ribbon, Googly eyes

Hope that you can join in and play along – the winner will receive a $15 Gift voucher to the store. Be sure to check out what the rest of the DT have created. All the DT Girls links are on my sidebar – why not leave them some love?

Also Andrea has a sale at the AnnaBelle store at the moment…hop on over and have a browse around and grab a bargain. There is 20% off all stamps and sprinkles.

Until next time,

Hello again and welcome to the last AnnaBelle Stamps Blog Hop. Next year AnnaBelle stamps will be trying something different with regards to blog hops, so stay tuned and see what exciting things we have in store for you. Today you should have arrived from Patti’s blog. If you want to start the hop from the beginning, head on over to the AnnaBelle Stamps Blog.

Today the Belles are making Christmas Ornament projects.

I looped small pieces of ribbon and then adhered them to a circle using small Zots dots. I then sandwiched the ribbon in between another circle. The background is stamped with BBD #6 and the sentiment is from the Holly Branch set. I finished it off with some metallic sprinkles (love these little babies!)

I am entering this into the current Wee Memories #80 Challenge – Anything Goes and this is my second entry into Jay Gee’s Nook challenge #14 to use this inspiration photo. I went with the musical score and the ornament image.

Supplies:

Stamps: AnnaBelle Stamps “Holly Branch” stamp set, AnnaBelle Stamps BBD #6 stamp set
Ink: Versafine Ink – Onyx Black, Distress Ink – Broken China,
Card: AnnaBelle stamps smooth white card
Other Supplies: American Crafts embossing powder – white, heat gun, foam dimensionals, AnnaBelle Metallic Sprinkles, Kaisercraft Grosgrain ribbon – teal shades x 2, Spellbinders circle dies, Cuttlebug, Glossy Accents, Zots adhesive dots, AnnaBelle Stamps natural cotton twine

Thanks for stopping by…and now you are hopping over to the AnnaBelle Blog. Make sure you visit all the DT and leave them some love.

Before I go, I want to wish all my lovely blog readers a very Merry Christmas! “Joy to the World” indeed – may Jesus be the reason for this special season.

Be blessed,

* If you are looking for the Print Candee blog hop, see the post below this one*

It is Friday again, so that means another challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps. We hope that you will find some time to play along with us.

An easy challenge this week. I went with a very clean and simple design – with 2 different colour versions.

I used the Ornamental Christmas and the Stamped for Christmas sets. I coloured the ornaments in with Copic markers and layered them using foam squares and then finished them off with some silver thread and a metallic sprinkle. A really easy card to mass produce.

I am entering these cards into the current Wee Memories #79 Challenge – Holidays.

Supplies:

Stamps: AnnaBelle StampsOrnamental Christmas stamp set, AnnaBelle Stamps Stamped for Christmas stamp set
Ink: Versafine Ink – Onyx Black, Mementos – Tuxedo Black
Card: Regal Craft Card – White textured and Smooth white, X-Press It Blending card
Other Supplies: AnnaBelle Stamps metallic sprinkles, foam dimensionals, Silver thread, Glossy Accents (to adhere sprinkles)

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out what the rest of the DT have created. Their links are on my side bar.

Welcome to another Print Candee Blog Hop. You should have hopped over from Jackie’s blog. If you want to start the hop from the beginning, head on over to the Print Candee Blog. There are some great hidden prizes to be won just by leaving comments along the way…you never know you could be a lucky winner! The more comments you leave, the more chances you have of winning! There is also a prize for one lucky person by leaving a comment on the Print Candee Blog.  You have until 11:59pm EST, on Saturday, December 17^th to comment for prizes.

Today the Creative Team are creating projects with the theme of “card styles”. Each creative team member has chosen a different card style, so we hope that you get inspired by what you see. The card style which I chose is “graphic”. After doing some research around blog land, I found  a lot of graphic cards had lots of white space, clean lines and often used blocks of colour or repetition of shapes.

I printed the 1 Inch Circles – Christmas Red/Green Collage Sheets with Alphabet (Heads Up Girls) onto white cardstock and then punched them out with a circle punch. I scored a grid pattern with my score board onto the background. The “Merry” tab is from the Scrapbooking Elements Clipart (Pink Pueblo) and I added the text myself. Some of the letters are raised up with foam squares but it is hard to see this in the photos.

Supplies:

Digital Images/Stamps: 1 Inch Circles – Christmas Red/Green Collage Sheets with Alphabet (Heads Up Girls), Scrapbooking Elements Clipart (Pink Pueblo)
Ink: Canon colour printer
Card: White card stock, Regal Craft Card – white textured, Bazzil – red
Other Supplies: Kaisercraft gems, Carl Craft 1 inch circle punch, AnnaBelle Stamps natural twine, Martha Stewart score board, foam squares

The next stop on the Blog Hop is the uber talented Therese. I can’t wait to see she has created. And don’t forget that Print Candee is always offering specials. Head to the store and check out this week’s special and the hundreds upon hundreds of digital products they have to offer!

Thanks for stopping by,

Print Candee Creative Team (Blog hop order)
Print Candee Blog (start)
Jackie
Marion (me)
Therese
Jocelyn
Kalyn