Welcome to a sketch challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps. Hope that you can find time to play along with us. My offering this week is not a card, but a bauble to hang on the Christmas Tree. Something a little different and I love how it turned out. For those of you who took the recent Holiday Card Boot camp, you will see I got a little of my inspiration from there.

I used the poinsettia flower from the “Squared Posies” set which I heat embossed in white, then coloured with Fired Brick Distress Stain and spritzed with pearlised water. This is the first time I have used distress stains and I LOVE them! Will have to add some more to the little stash I have I think! The text in the background is BBD #6 set and the sentiment is from the “Holly Branch” set. I added some shine with a pile of silver metallic sprinkles.

Supplies:

Stamps: AnnaBelle Stamps “Squared Posies” stamp set, AnnaBelle Stamps  “Holly Branch” stamp set, AnnaBelle Stamps BBD #6  stamp set
Ink:  Distress Ink – Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, Distress Stain – Fired Brick
Card:  AnnaBelle stamps smooth white card
Other Supplies: American Crafts white embossing powder, heat gun, Spellbinders circle die – small, Cuttlebug, Creative Memoriescircle cutters, Ranger – Perfect Pearls, mini mister, foam dimensionals, thin silver ribbon, Carl Craft square punch, WRMK corner chomper, silver metallic sprinkles (3mm, 4mm and 5mm), Ranger blending tool

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 including our Guest Designer Sue McRae. All the DT Girls links are on my sidebar – why not leave them some love?

Until next time,

Hi everyone,

This month at Print Candee the Creative Team are whipping up some fun projects with the theme of Holidays. I thought I would try a non-traditional coloured Christmas card.

I used the swirl tree image from Christmas Design Elements Clipart (Pink Pueblo) and the background paper is from the Jump Digital paper pack (Digital Potpourri). I layered the digital images up in Adobe Illustrator, but it could be done just as easily in Word. I generated my own sentiment. To finish, I added some pearls, ribbon and paper pierced a border with a swoosh of ink around the edge. Too easy!

Supplies:

Digital Images/Stamps: Christmas Design Elements Clipart (Pink Pueblo), Jump Digital paper pack (Digital Potpourri),
Ink: Canon colour printer, Distress ink – Broken China
Card: White card stock, Regal Craft Card – white extured
Other Supplies: Kaisercraft pearls – snow, pearl, pewter, pink,  Tim Holtz ruler, paper piercer, Kaisercraft grosgrain ribbon – pink

Thanks for dropping by. Digital images are fun to play with – why not give them a go? Check out all the goodies that Print Candee has to offer.

Until next time,

Friday has rolled around again, so that means it is time for another challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps.

Buttons and bows…who doesn’t love to use buttons and bows? I went very clean and simple for this one. I am entering this into the current Wee Memories Challenge #76 – Birthdays and Parties. The sentiment is from the AnnaBelle Stamps “Tree-MEN-dous” set.

And while I was at it, I made another card, but my inspiration for this came from the CAS queen Cristina Kowalczyk.

I used the “Dotted Flowers” stamp set to create this one.

Supplies:

[Happy Birthday]

Stamps: AnnaBelle Stamps “Tree-MEN-dous” stamp set
Ink: Versafine Ink – Onyx Black
Card: AnnaBelle Stamps Pre-cut Kraft card square
Other Supplies: AnnaBelle Stamps natural cotton twine, Basic Grey buttons galore – Brights, Glossy Accents (to adhere the buttons), Martha Stewart score board

[Wishing you Sunshine]

Stamps: AnnaBelle Stamps “Dotted Flowers” stamp set
Ink: Versafine Ink – Onyx Black, Versacolor – Bamboo, Lagoon Blue, Camellia
Card: Regal Craft Card – White textured, Xpress-It Blending card, Bazzil card stock – raisin
Other Supplies: AnnaBelle Stamps natural cotton twine, Basic Grey Button – red, Glossy Accents (to adhere the buttons), foam dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out what the rest of the DT have created, including our Guest Designer Sue McRae. Their links are on my side bar. Hope you can play along with us!

Hello again and welcome to another AnnaBelle Stamps Blog Hop. You should have arrived from the sweet and talented Patti’s blog. If you want to start the hop from the beginning, head on over to the AnnaBelle Stamps Blog. Are you in the mood to win a fabulous stamp set? Well read on.

Today the Belles are showcasing the stamp set “Holly Branch”. This would have to be one of my favourite Christmas stamp sets from AnnaBelles…but then again there are so many beautiful Christmas stamp sets in the store…

For today’s card, I have taken some inspiration from a couple of cards that Jennifer McGuire has showed us in Holiday Card Boot Camp 2011. I have been enjoying the classes, but have not had a chance to have a play until now – been too busy writing school reports! Would you believe that this is my FIRST ever shaped card?

I made the holly wreath (I did a little tutorial a while ago – you can see it here) and then I cut it out…was a bit fiddly, but I think worth it. Coloured it in with Copics and added some pearls (that I coloured in with Copics as well as I ran out of AnnaBelle cherry sprinkles!) I did a little background stamping with BBD #6 (LOVE that stamp set).

Supplies:

Stamps: AnnaBelle Stamps  “Holly Branch” stamp set, AnnaBelle Stamps BBD #6  stamp set
Ink: Versafine Ink – Onyx Black, Mementos – Tuxedo Black, Distress Ink – Bundled Sage, Versacolor – Umber
Card:  XPress-It Blending card, Regal Craft Card (smooth white card), Bazzill – Raisin
Other Supplies: Copic markers, foam dimensionals, AnnaBelle Pearls 3mm, 4mm and 5mm,  Grosgrain ribbon – red, Creative Memories Circle cutters, Kaisercraft Patterned Paper – Seaside Collection

Thanks for stopping by…and now you are hopping over to the AnnaBelle Blog. Don’t forget to add your name to the inlinkz below for your chance to win this fabulous stamp set! Make sure you visit all the DT and leave them some love as well as this month’s guest designer Sue McRae.

It is Friday so that means it is time for another challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps. This week’s challenge made me put my thinking cap on and have a good old think!

I have had in mind to do a button tree for a little while now – and I thought this was the perfect challenge to give it a try. I am pretty happy with the results and I think it would make a great male card! (How is it when I want to make a masculine card I can’t and when I don’t really try, I can?)

Supplies:

Stamps: AnnaBelle Stamps “Tree-MEN-dous” stamp set
Ink: Versafine Ink – Onyx Black, Versacolor – Bamboo
Card: Regal Craft Card – White textured
Other Supplies: Spotty patterned paper – Brand unknown, AnnaBelle Stamps natural jute twine, Buttons galore (mostly Basic Grey, but others just from my stash), Glossy Accents (to adhere the buttons)

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out what the rest of the DT have created, including our Guest Designer Sue McRae. Their links are on my side bar. Hope you can play along with us!