I’m back with my last card for the online card class – Clean and Simple Card making 3.

I have created another one layer card, concentrating on adding texture with an embossing folder (and using a die as a diffuser) as shown by Julie Ebersole on Day 9. I also decided to give Dawn Woleslagle’s creative colouring technique a go as shown on Day 8. After stamping the floral image, I used a Copic O Blender pen to ‘watercolour’ the image. It is a really cool effect.

It has been so overcast here and has rained non-stop for 2 days. I’m about to build an ark I think!
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I have a few more cards I want to post before the end of the online card class – Clean and Simple Card making 3.

I simply loved Cristina Kowalczyk’s card using masking and embossing powders. Very clever indeed. Instead of having a blank space between the different colours of embossing powders, I used a silver glittery embossing powder.

This card was fiddly (and this was the second attempt), so not sure I would do it again in a hurry, but it certainly is a one layer card (except for the red heart). Removing all the masking tape to reveal the final card was fun though.

I’m popping this in the Simon Says Stamp Glitter It Challenge.

I hope to be back soon. Thanks for stopping by,

I’m back with another card for the online card class – Clean and Simple Card making 3.

Today I cut some stars out of some masking paper and then used the negative space as a mask. Then I clear heat embossed the Hero Arts Flower Dot pattern before blending in a rainbow of colours. Happy and bright and a one layer card 🙂

It’s hard to tell, but I covered the colourful stars in some clear Wink of Stella brush glitter pen.

I’m also entering this into the Hero Arts Birthday Challenge making a rainbow birthday card.

For those of you taking the class, hopefully you are enjoying it as much as I am.

I’ll be back soon,

Hello.  A new month means a new monthly challenge AnnaBelle Stamps. Where is this year going? We’re already into Autumn for those of us in the southern hemisphere. Yikes!

These are not colours I usually gravitate too, but that is why they call it a challenge right? I certainly stepped out of my comfort zone here…and this card includes a few ‘firsts’ for me. Water colouring out of the lines – it was really hard for this perfectionist to do! And secondly, I splattered ink. I have admired others do this for months and finally gave it a go. I just made a puddle of Mustard Seed distress marker and water, loaded up my paint brush, flicked and held my breath – and I love how it turned out!

My inspiration has come from this card by Aga. She often uses a dymo for her sentiments as well, which I don’t own, so I used a sentiment that was similar. I popped it up for some added dimension (but in all reality it was to cover up the first attempt of the sentiment which I botched up 🙂 )

Be sure to check out the rest of the Belles’ projects – their links are on my side bar. I hope that you will be able to 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.

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,

Welcome to another week at the Muse Card Club. This week, I was in the mood for a rainbow of colours – we have had lots of rain the past few days so maybe that has influenced me 🙂

I stacked up the ‘You’ diecut from Simon Says Stamp (about 6 of them) to add a little dimension. Seems to be a popular technique right now.

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 this week,