Hello again. This week at AnnaBelle Stamps we have a colour challenge for you…and I certainly did find this a challenge. It was the blue that I struggled with the most.

In Australia we don’t celebrate Father’s Day until September, so I am nice and early with this one! These colours seemed very manly to me – hence my male inspired card. See those flags in the corner? They are my newly purchased chipboard pieces that I coloured with Versacolor ink (pigment ink).

Now I wasn’t sure if I was happy with the orange background, so I tried a blue one as well – but in the end I think I like the orange better.

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

Before I go, this past weekend I had the privilege of meeting (for the first time) my fellow DT and blogging buddy Therese. Therese and I started blogging around the same time (nearly 3 years ago now!) and she was one of my first followers. I flew up to Brisbane and we went to the Brisbane Craft Expo together. We had a lot of fun chatting and buying….but it was so lovely to finally meet her in person! Here’s a little picture my sister snapped of us from my phone. I’m on the left and Therese is on the right.

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About our challenges:

• We post our challenges every Friday at 8:00pm AEST (AEDT during Daylight Savings).
• Each challenge runs for a week, and will close on the Friday 10.00am so that we can announce and showcase our weekly winners prior to the next challenge.
• Each weeks winner will receive our special blinkie to display on their blog and a $15.00 Gift Voucher to spend in store at AnnaBelle Stamps (or something equivalent).

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 out Stamp Embellish Create social site (you’ll need to join) and add the current challenge ‘tag’ to your photo!
• 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.
• A maximum of 7 challenges may be combined including this one.
• You may enter any of our challenges several times as long as each submission is with a new creation.
• We would love you to use AnnaBelle Stamps and embellishments, but you can play along without using them, it’s all about sharing ideas 🙂

Today I have a Topical Tuesday video to share with you over on the AnnaBelle Stamps blog. Here is a look at the card I have made using distress markers and water to create a watercolour effect.

Head here is to view the video.

Until next time,

Hello. It is Friday again and that means it is time for another challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps.

Before I get to the challenge though, the AnnaBelle team is very happy to be welcoming a new DT member today and that is Donna Wardle. Make sure you visit her wonderful blog and leave her some love.

Now onto this week’s challenge which is a sketch.

And here is my take…

This challenge will run for 2 weeks and the winner will receive a $15 Gift Voucher to the AnnaBelle Store. Hope you will play along with us. Be sure to check out the rest of the Belles’ projects – their links are on my side bar.

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I am back again today sharing another card at the Muse Card Club. Can you believe we are up to Muse #13 already? Hope that you will find some time to play along this week.

This week, I have made a card by colouring directly onto the stamp using Distress Markers. The Hero Arts Little Stencil Flower stamp actually has a stem, but I was able to leave it off using this method. Before stamping I huffed on the stamp. I then went back over it and added in some details with the same colour distress marker.

The middle flower is popped up on some foam to add some dimension.

I can’t wait to see how my card inspires you this week.

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.

Until next time,

Hello and welcome to AnnaBelle Stamps Friday Feature Blog Hop. You should have arrived from Kylie’s blog.

Today, the Belles are showcasing the Squared Posies Stamp set – an older set, but a good one. I have made a Mother’s Day card, creating a soft palette by  water colouring with Distress Markers onto watercolour paper. To finish the card, I scored some lines around the outside with a scoreboard. I think my Mum will love it – she loves blue.

Now for a GIVEAWAY. If you would like to win the Squared Posies Friday Feature set, comment on all of the DT’s blog and then head back to the ABS blog and add your name to the inlinkz. You have until Sunday 8pm (Australian EST) to enter.

Also ALL flower sets are discounted by 20% when using the discount code ‘flowers’.  This offer will run for a week!

Your next stop on the hop is the AMAZING Therese.

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Blog Hop Order

ABS blog

Andrea

Sue

Kylie

Marion <– you’re here!

Therese

ABS Blog

Hello and welcome to Friday Feature at AnnaBelle Stamps. This week the Belles are showcasing the stamp set Love Birds. This stamp set will be 20% off this weekend until Sunday midnight (AEST).

For my first card, I masked off the heart in the middle and then distressed around it using Worn Lipstick. I then stamped the different sized hearts from the set over the distressing. I am currently taking the Online Card Class – Clean and Simple Card Class 2 and was inspired by Amber’s beautiful tree card on Day 1. I took her idea and ‘reversed’ it.

I am entering this into the Anything Goes challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog.

And because the Belles are showcasing the Love Birds set, I have another completely different card that I made a while ago, but never posted. I found it on my computer so thought I would share it.

Edit: And it just so happens that this card fits so nicely into the Online Card Class – Day 4! Ha!

Be sure to drop by the rest of the Belles and see their projects. Their links are on my sidebar.

Thanks for stopping by,