*If you are looking for the AnnaBelle Stamps Blog hop and Giveaway, see post below this one*

I’m back with a card that I made on behalf of my kids for my hubby’s birthday which was yesterday. He told me it is the best card I have made him – so I guess it gets the thumbs up! Gotta love that.

It didn’t take long to put together. The chevrons behind the cut-out letters is washi tape.

And what’s a birthday without a cake? There is ALWAYS time for one in our household. In my opinion you are never too old for a fun cake!

Thanks for taking a peek,

It’s Friday…and I’m on holidays! School is out for 2 weeks! Yee Haa!

For this week’s Friday Feature, the Belles are using the recently released stamp set Beside the Sea.

I stamped the image and then coloured it with Copics. I even decorated a matching envelope. This is a mini card measuring 10cm by 10cms.

Can you believe that even though I live beside the sea, I had to Google the colours for a seagull? I see these guys all the time looking for free food! My daughter loves to chase them 🙂

Be sure to check out the rest of the Belles’ projects to see how they have used this set – their links are on my side bar.

Thanks for stopping by,

Hello. I am back with another card for the Muse Card Club.

This week I had fun combining lots of different products from different companies – Hero Arts, Papertrey Ink and Simon Says Stamp. I coloured in the flower with a mix of Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils.

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 and thanks for stopping by,

Hello. It’s time for another challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps.

Before I get onto my card – some housekeeping. Things are changing slightly here at AnnaBelles.

• Challenges will now run for a month – so more opportunities for you to enter.
• We also ask that you use an AnnaBelle Stamp as your main focal image. If you don’t have any AnnaBelle Stamps – no problem, there are some freebie digi stamps HERE.
• Finally, one random winner will receive a $20 gift voucher to the store. We will still be featuring our Top 3.

For this week’s card I used Splat Attack which is a newly released set and it is a lot of fun to play with.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

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.
• 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.

I haven’t played along in a challenge for ages –  and what a better way than with Case Study #155 where the Muse is one of my all time favourite card makers – Jennifer McGuire. Here is her inspiration card.

I was drawn to the banners, but created one big one, instead of smaller ones. The background stamping also emulates the diagonal feel that is on Jennifer’s card.

And while I was at it, I decided to try another Jennifer idea and make a card that was not the norm – the banner lifts open to write your message underneath. I can’t find a link to where she showed this idea, but it made such an impression on me I wanted to try it. The main focal point was a little time consuming as I placed all those individual pieces back into the die cut, but I love the result!

Thanks for stopping by,

Hello,

Popping in quickly with a card for the Monday Mood Board #17 challenge using the inspiration picture below. I love all the summery colours.

Here’s my card using the Folk Art Floral Stamp set. I love this little set!

Thanks for stopping by,