This month at AnnaBelle Stamps the Belles have been busy whipping up some projects using the Easter Chickadees Stamp set, which has matching dies as well. For more inspiration, head to the AnnaBelle blog.

To make my card, I traced around a heart die lightly in pencil and then I took the smallest stamp from the set and got to work stamping. I coloured in the flowers with Copic Markers and also die cut some of the same flower to pop up around the heart wreath for some added dimension. I used a flower punch (cut up) to create the leaves and the green dots were stamped with my scoring stylus. The sentiment is from the Love Birds stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to check out the monthly challenge. Head here for details.

Until next time,

It is time for a new challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps and we are getting in the mood for a little bit of love 🙂

I’ve made another window card…

…with a love heart centre thanks to a little bit of masking.

And I added a little bit of Wink of Stella to the flowers for some subtle shimmer (yes I caved and bought one….nothing like jumping on the bandwagon :))

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

Hope that you will find some time to play along.

Until next time,

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 which can be found here.
• 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.

Hello and welcome to the AnnaBelle Stamps January release Blog Hop. You should have arrived from Kylie’s blog. Today, two new stamp sets are being released into the store. Check them out below.

I used all the same elements in both to make them a set.

Now for a giveaway. To be in the running to win these sets, simply comment on all the DT blogs and then add your name to the inlinkz on the ABS blog. Happy hopping and good luck.

Your next stop on the hop is Therese’s blog.

Blog Hop Order

ABS blog

Andrea

Kylie

Marion <– you’re here!

Therese

Tobi

Marcia

ABS Blog

AnnaBelle Stamps is releasing some new stamps next week, so fellow DT member Kylie and I have created some projects to whet your appetite before the release.

To create the banner, I stamped onto some patterned paper in my new Luxe Memento ink (which I got for Christmas from my FAB SIL), and then clear embossed over the top. I love the shine and texture this technique creates and it also intensifies the ink colour.

Be sure to check out Kylie’s blog for some more inspiration.

Until next time,

I know I’m a little late, but I’m in summer holiday mode at the moment so everything goes at a slower pace right? This was my Christmas card for this year (well last year now). I wanted it to be simple enough to reproduce quickly.

Thanks for stopping by, I’ll be back soon with some of my holiday crafting projects.

Happy New Year! We are home from our mammoth Christmas holiday/adventure, visiting so many family and friends (we clocked about 3500kms all up). It was lovely seeing everyone but boy does it feel good to be home. There is no place like home 🙂

This week at AnnaBelle Stamps it is time for this month’s challenge, which is a sketch.

We are having the most beautiful summer weather here on the South Coast. It was a cool and overcast 24 degrees today, unlike the majority of NSW! At my parent’s farm in North West NSW, it was a sweltering 44 degrees (that’s 111.2 degrees Fahrenheit!) Boy am I glad for our cool, coastal sea breezes. My card today reflects the warm colours of summer.

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

Don’t forget that Andrea is having a huge AnnaBelle Stamps sale where you can save 30% on ALL stamps!

Until next time,

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 which can be found here.
• 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.