Yay, it’s Friday!

It’s birthday week at AnnaBelle Stamps! For one week only, it is 20% off storewide to celebrate AnnaBelle Stamp’s 4th birthday.  The code is – 4years – with the clearance section as the only exclusion.

For this week’s Friday Feature, the Belles are using the newly released stamp set Butterfly Sunshine. It is such a lovely set.

I must admit I don’t use a lot of kraft cardstock – to be honest I find it a bit ‘dirty’ looking, but I thought it worked OK here as it really let the focal image take centre stage. I couldn’t have spaced out the sun rays evenly if I hadn’t used my stamp-a-ma-jig. I have only acquired one recently, and I don’t know how I managed so long with out one! A must have tool in your stash, especially if you are working with rubber stamps like this set is.

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.

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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.

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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.

Hello! Welcome back to another AnnaBelle Stamps challenge. This week is a rather tricky colour combo – so I hope you have got your game face on!

This is the second week in a row for me using dreaded purple (even though it is technically lilac…it is still in the purple family!!) Thankfully some new inks arrived at my door last week…and so I was able to match the colours fairly well. I didn’t have any blue twine, so I just inked up some white twine instead.

Onto other news, Andrea will now be releasing a new digi stamp each month – you can find this on the ABS website. She also has a Deal of the Week which starts on Friday and will run until the following Friday. This week’s deal is the All Squared stamp set which is 20% off for one week. Head to the ABS site for more details.

This week’s winner will receive a $10 Gift Voucher to the AnnaBelle Store. Be sure to check out the rest of the Belles’ projects – their links are on my sidebar.

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At the moment I am taking the Stretch Your Stamps class over at Online Card Classes. I am loving learning new techniques and just watching talented people craft. I am a little behind with making projects, but managed to pull something together yesterday using a background stamp as shown on Day 1.

Short and sweet from me today. Thanks for stopping by,

Hey there crafty lovers,

Glad that you have joined me for this month’s blog hop at Print Candee. You should have arrived from Jocelyn’s blog. The Creative Team have been busy creating cards inspired by this photo.

Photo credit

I love all the summery colours. I was drawn to the middle bag on the left with all the rainbow stripes and the cool texture. It inspired this birthday card for a friend’s daughter who was having a rainbow themed birthday party! I think personalised cards are extra special.

I used the Rainbow Dots Paper Pack from The Digi Butterfly making sure I used the same colour sequence as the photo and the hexagon embossing folder gives the card great texture (like on the bag).

Head on over to the store and check out the HUGE range of digital products available.

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Print Candee blog
Lisa’s blog
Kalyn’s blog
Therese’s blog
Jocelyn’s blog
Marion’s blog (you are here)
Print Candee blog

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Hi everyone,
Just popping in quickly with some cards that I made today following one of the sketches from the Clean and Simple Card Making class run by Jennifer McGuire, Kristina Werner and Julie Ebersole. My heart skipped a beat when I saw this sketch.

I love clean and simple cards and I love how both of these turned out. To create the red background I swished some Fired Brick distress ink over some textured card stock, leaving some white gaps. I like the distressed look. I am entering this card into the current CAS-ual Fridays CFC#34 Challenge – Chip off the Ol’ Block. I have used Thickers chipboard glossy letters.

My second card I am entering into the current Wee Memories Challenge #82 – Mini. My card is a small 4×4 card. Simple, but cute don’t you think?

Supplies:

{I love you}

Stamps: none
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink – Fired Brick
Card: Regal Craft Card – white textured, white card
Other Supplies: American Crafts Thickers – Chipboard stickers, foam dimensionals, Glossy Accents (to adhere Thickers)

Supplies:

{I appreciate you}

Stamps: Hero Arts All Occasion Messages (CL272)
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink – Fired Brick, Dusty Concord, VersaFine Ink – Onyx Black
Card: Regal Craft Card – white textured, white card
Other Supplies: Martha Stewart Butterfly punch, foam dimensionals, Glossy Accents (to adhere butterflies/pearls), Kaisercraft pearls

Thanks for stopping by,