Another month has rolled around and it is my turn at the Muse Card Club.

I simple little owl card for you this time using the Hero Arts Playful Animals stamp set. I had to extend the branch to have my owl centred. Coloured with Copics and Glossy accents added to the eyes.

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 at Muse this week,

We had a massive response to the first Tag You’re It! Challenge. What’s more, you are in for another treat, as our guest designer for Challenge #2 is one of my all-time-favourite card makers – Laura Bassen! And what a beauty it is as well.

I took some of the elements from Laura’s tag – the leaves, the die cut and the colour. To create the multicoloured sunburst background, I used Distress markers and coloured each ray individually and then spritzed lightly with water before stamping.

For more details on the challenge and the guidelines, go here.

Hope you can find some time to play along. To link up your creations head to the Tag You’re It! Challenge blog.

Today my blogging buddy Therese Calvird and I have a little treat for you. When we met in person over a year ago, we decided that we should have a mini challenge between us. It has taken a little while to get off the ground, but better late than never right?

For today’s challenge we are using this gorgeous cake as our inspiration.

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I loved the airy look of the butterflies and the overall colour scheme. Here is what I came up with.

I white heat embossed the Hero Arts Antique Engraving’s butterfly onto vellum and cut it out. The leaves are also die cut from vellum to replicate that airy look on the cake. In order to create some interest in the background, I blended in some distress inks and then using a Studio Calico Chevron mask, I lightly spritzed it with some water. The water reacts with the distress ink and created a watermark look.

Well I am off to Therese’s blog – Lostinpaper, to she what gorgeous creation she has made. How about you hop on over as well?

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Hi! Andrea has all the Christmas sets at the AnnaBelle Stamp’s store reduced by 30% for the month of July! What a great discount. Why not go and stock up?

For today’s Friday Feature, the Belles have been busy making Christmas cards. I created my own patterned paper by repeatedly stamping the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Holly Jolly Stamp set. I white heat embossed the baubles from the Ornamental Christmas set onto vellum and added some clear Wink of Stella glitter pen for some shimmer. I popped up the baubles with some mounting foam and in order to conceal the adhesive, I cut it the same shape as the inner part of the bauble.

Make sure you stop by the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to see what the other Belles have been up to.

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You may have heard of a new challenge that has popped up in blogland – the Tag You’re It! Challenge. Well today I am excited to announce that I have been asked to be on the Design Team for it. If you know me and follow my blog, you will know that I do love making tags! To meet the other talented Design Team members, head over to the Tag You’re It! Challenge Blog.

So, if you LOVE creating Clean and Simple tags or cards, this challenge is for YOU! Every two weeks we’ll feature a designer’s project for inspiration. You’ll link up your creation, then come back to see if IT was TAGGED as the winner! Our focus will be tags, but a card or a scrapbook layout with a tag, even if it’s teeny tiny, is acceptable. Even bookmarks can take the form of a tag. Just have fun and be creative with TAGS!

To get the ball rolling at Tag You’re It! Challenge, we are having a 5 day mini challenge to get you warmed up. This week we have a guest designer, Karin Åkesdotter who has created this cute summer scene tag!

For my tag, I used the same layout as Karin and created this using Lawn Fawn’s Blue Skies stamp set.

For more details on the challenge and the guidelines, go here.

Hope you can find some time to play along. To link up your creations head to the Tag You’re It! Challenge blog.