You Brighten My Day

Thank goodness it is Friday! What a week... so glad it is over :)

And since it's Friday, I'm here to share this week's AnnaBelle Stamps challenge with you. This is an easy one since everyone should have at least one background (or build-a-background) stamp in their collection, right? :)

I love AnnaBelle Stamps' background stamps as you can build your own, making it as big or small (or long or short) as you like it.

I firstly stamped the sentiment from Love Birds in Onyx Black Versafine ink. I masked the sentiment by covering it with a post-it and then inked up the striped background stamp from BBD7 from AnnaBelle Stamps with Marigold Versacolor ink. The stripe stamp actually has three stripes close together and then one set apart - I just inked the three stripes part of the stamp and stamped it twice to frame the sentiment.

I took off the post-it, adhered the white panel to a white cardbase and that's that!

I know that my fellow DT members have got some gorgeous projects on their blogs for this challenge:


Marion
Sue K
Therese
Sue W
Andrea
Kylie
Patti
See you next time!





About our challenges:

• We post our challenges every Friday at 12:00pm 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 $10.00 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.
• 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 :)

Hope Your Birthday is Simply Wonderful

Good morning! Hope that you are enjoying a relaxing and peaceful Sunday in your corner of the world :)

I thought I would share a card I've made with one of my recent Simon Says Stamp purchases...


I used the Polka Dot Greetings stamp and die set by My Favorite Things to make this card. I stamped the polka dot label in Turquoise Versacolor ink after cutting Smooth white cardstock from AnnaBelle Stamps in my Bigshot. Stamped the sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black ink - so easy to get it right - love these die/stamp combos!


I layered a turquoise patterned American Crafts ribbon over white transluscent ribbon and wrapped around another piece of the white cardstock trimmed to size. I used foam dots to pop up the label and adhered the whole thing to a 4x4 cardbase (same white cardstock).

Well I might go and see what else I can create with this fabulous die and stamp set!

Thanks for taking a peek! :)

In my heart

So happy it's Friday today! I hope everyone has lots of great plans for the weekend... I don't have much going on which is the way I like it! :) I do plan on getting up to date with Google Reader though... I'm so behind on all my commenting it's not funny!

I love Fridays for two reasons - firstly, the weekend is just around the corner and secondly, I get to share another AnnaBelle Stamps challenge with you! This week we want you to use the colours Red, Black and White on your cards.

To keep the hearts straight I drew a line in pencil. I used one of the hearts from AnnaBelle Stamps' Love Birds set and stamped it repeatedly along the line, once with Scarlet Versacolor ink and then around it with Versafine Onyx Black ink. The card itself is my favourite size - 4" x 3" - to fit inside the mini envelopes that I have in my stash.

The sentiment is also from the Love Birds set. The whole sentiment is 'in my heart forever' (which I used on this card) but I masked the 'forever' with post-its and stamped the 'in my heart' part above the row of hearts with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

I really hope you feel inspired by the colours and play along with us! To see the gorgeous creations by the rest of the DT please use the links below:



Marion
Sue K
Therese
Sue W
Andrea
Kylie
Patti
See you next time!





About our challenges:

• We post our challenges every Friday at 12:00pm 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 $10.00 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.
• 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 :)

Because I Love You

Happy Friday! So happy that this week is almost over. I am really looking forward to the weekend, how about you?

Before I show you this week's challenge from AnnaBelle Stamps I would like to announce our new social site called Stamp Embellish Create!  We hope you will love to come and visit...often! We'll start a new regular Tuesday feature from next week! We'll include all sorts of things like tutorials, hints, cards start to finish, and anything we can fit in! We want to build a community of shared ideas and a catalogue of answers to anything "How to..." in the stamping world, and with your help I know we can!
You can set up your very own page and customise it how you like. Add your photos (any crafty photos using any products - not restricted to ABS) and share them with others.
Sign up today! Invite your friends! Membership is free, so why not!!

And here is the AnnaBelle Stamps challenge for this week:

I have been making so many cards with white bases lately which was getting kind of same-y, so I went for red this time around.

I love red and white for Valentine's Day/love themed cards don't you? For this card I used a 4x3 red Bazzill cardbase upon which I stamped a sentiment and a heart (repeated three times) from the Love Birds set by AnnaBelle Stamps with Versamark ink and then embossed with Ultra Fine White embossing powder from Hero Arts.

And that's it. So easy!

I hope you get time to play along with us this week, and if you need inspiration why not take a look at what the other Belles have created:


Marion
Sue K
Therese
Sue W
Andrea
Kylie
PattiHope you have a simply awesome day!




About our challenges:

• We post our challenges every Friday at 12:00pm 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 $10.00 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.
• 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 :)

Winner!

I opened up my email to read my comments at 3am this morning (don't ask!) and was surprised to discover that Marion (my fellow DT member of AnnaBelle Stamps) was the first to comment AND she guessed correctly - my influence for this card was the amazingly talented Jennifer McGuire. I was doing the Inspiration Showcase class at the time.

Marion I've emailed you! Thanks to everyone who commented, it means alot :)

Have a great evening,

You are so special + giveaway!

I hope everyone is enjoying a lovely and relaxing Sunday wherever they are! Here in Brisbane it's been raining for the past week but I think it's finally stopped!

I haven't been very productive in the craft room lately... so I thought I would share a card that I created for a magazine call that wasn't picked up...

I embossed the quilt pattern from the V&A Museum stamp set called 'Cornfield' with Ultra Fine embossing powder from Hero Arts on some white cardstock. I stamped one of the greetings from the Essential Messages set by Hero Arts on a strip of white cardstock in Onyx Black Versafine ink. The background panel and the sentiment strip were matted with Mi Tientes cardstock in 'Dawn Pink'.
I assembled the flower using white and pink paper flowers I found in my stash along with some sewing thread and a cardstock button cut with one of the buttons from the Buttons Quartet die set from Die-Namics using the Dawn Pink cardstock.
I think it's pretty obvious who I was influenced by when I made this card, but I thought it would make a fun giveaway question... so the first person to guess right in my comments will win a brand new jar of this fantastic stuff which I used on the above card:

I'll draw a random winner on Thursday 2nd Feb at 7pm (AEST) if nobody answers correctly before then.

Edited to add: This giveaway is open to everyone, everywhere, no matter where you are in the world ;)
Further edited to add: Embossing powder has been won - Marion was the first to comment and guessed it right in one!! - Jennifer McGuire was the correct answer ;)

Good luck and hope you have a great day!

In my Heart Forever

Hello again! Today I'm here to share this week's AnnaBelle Stamps challenge. It's a very clean and simple sketch today - right up my alley!

Here's my take on it:

I used the birdhouse stamp from the Love Birds set by AnnaBelle Stamps stamped in Versafine Black Onyx ink on a white cardstock circle which I die cut using my Bigshot with a circle nestability. The heart from the same set was stamped in Scarlet Versacolor ink and cut out freehand. I popped it up with a foam dot for dimension.

The sentiment is from the same set, stamped in Versafine Black Onyx ink on a 6x4 top folding white card. The ribbon is from Kaisercraft.

I hope you get time to play along with us this week, and if you need inspiration why not take a look at what the other Belles have created:


Marion
Sue K
Therese
Sue W
Andrea
Kylie
Patti
Cath (Guest Belle)
Have a great day!




About our challenges:

• We post our challenges every Friday at 12:00pm 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 $10.00 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.
• 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 :)