Annabelle Sketch Challenge ABSC044

Well, this is my last project as Guest Designer over at Annabelle Stamps and it happens to be a sketch.

I found this design to be a bit of a challenge but ended up with this card.

I was still feeling inspired to use the non-traditional holiday colours that I used on my Hero Arts projects in the post here. I also covered pretty much everything on the card with a fine mist of Perfect Pearls for a little shimmer. You have to have a bit of sparkle at Christmas, right?

All the stamps I used are from this Ornamental Christmas set.

I'd like to thank Andrea for giving me the opportunity to play along with the "Belles" this month, it has been very fun! And thanks to all the "Belles" for their wonderful inspiration!

Make sure to stop by the blog to check out all the marvelous projects by the Design Team and I hope you're inspired to play along with this sketch.

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 Thursday 5.00pm 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 special little something. Our last challenge for the month will be a sketch challenge which will attract our main prize of a $15.00 gift voucher for that weeks winner.

How To Play Along :
•Copy and save our challenge banner and include it and a link back to the AnnaBelle Stamps blog 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 challenge 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.

Say It With...Buttons & Bows

Todays challenge at Annabelle Stamps is to make a card using buttons and bows. I must admit that I have a hard time incorporating these two embellishments on my cards. I so envy crafters who seem to use them with ease.

I used the little bloom from Annabelles All Squared stamp set.

I embossed the card front with the Square Lattice folder from Stampin Up. I punched some circles for little windows and clear embossed the flowers in some happy colours on the inside of the card and each flower got a button centre. I finished off with a sentiment and a double bow.

Stop by the Annabelle Stamps blog to see the projects made by the designers and don't forget to play along and create a card using buttons and bows!

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 Thursday 5.00pm 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 special little something. Our last challenge for the month will be a sketch challenge which will attract our main prize of a $15.00 gift voucher for that weeks winner.

How To Play Along :
•Copy and save our challenge banner and include it and a link back to the AnnaBelle Stamps blog 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 challenge 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.

Annabelle Stamps Blog Hop

Welcome to another blog hop hosted by Annabelle Stamps. Todays hop is all about Holly, the Holly Branch stamp set which you can find here.

For my card I combined two of the holly images and stamped a mistletoe.

I used Distress Ink to colour my cardstock and sprayed it with Perfect Pearls for a soft shimmer. I embossed the holly images, colored the leaves with a Spica Glitter Pen and added some pearls. I really like the larger size of the sentiments (which was stamped on vellum), they cover a card front nicely.

Now your next stop on the hop is Andrea.

To keep our hop as fun and simple as possible, click through each of the DT blogs to see what they’ve created using this set. You can comment if you like, and leave your name using the Inlinkz on any of the DT blogs, or on the AnnaBelle Stamps blog.


You don’t have to comment on all of our blogs, just remember to add your name for your chance to win the Blog Hop prize which is the Ornamental Christmas stamp set. The hop will run for 1 week and the winner will be announced next Tuesday!

Hero Arts Monthly Challenge

I made a couple of Christmas projects for this months challenge at Hero Arts. For both of them I used the colour combo they provided.

Very pretty and untraditional holiday colours.

This card is a mix of traditional stamping and digi. I resized a digital christmas tree image found here (see below), printed it on paper coloured with Spun Sugar Distress Ink sprayed with Perfect Pearls and cut out the ornament shape with my nesties. The background was coloured with Hero Arts Soft Pool ink mixed with water and the image was stamped ontop using Distress Embossing Ink. The Embossing Ink bleaches out and creates a bit of a raised surface.

You can see a video here of this technique by Scrapbooking Made Simple.

My second project is a gift tag.

This tag has two layers. The top one is acetate with the digi tree image printed on it. My snow is mica flakes and the star is glittered in fun pink. The second layer is cardstock coloured with HA Soft Pook Ink and stamped with snowflakes using white pigment ink.

I really enjoyed playing with these non-holiday colours!

Have a great inky weekend!

Say It In Lime, Black and White

I'm back with another challenge from Annabelle Stamps and this one is all about colours.

I love the lime colour, it's so fresh and it makes me think of spring.

I coloured some white cardstock with Rangers Sea Brights in Citrus and stamped on it with the wee flowers from Annabelle's All Squared stamp set and die cut the butterfly.

 I added some gems, antennae and a pipe cleaner body to finish off the butterfly.

Please stop by the Annabelle blog and see what the other designers created and join in the challenge!

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 Thursday 5.00pm 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 special little something. Our last challenge for the month will be a sketch challenge which will attract our main prize of a $15.00 gift voucher for that weeks winner.

How To Play Along :
•Copy and save our challenge banner and include it and a link back to the AnnaBelle Stamps blog 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 challenge 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.

Say It With...Sentiments

Welcome to a new challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps. It's all about the sentiments.

Still on a Christmas roll I used stamps from the Holly Branch and Ornamental Christmas stamp sets.

I really like the larger sentiments in the Holly Branch set so I used the Merry Christmas sentiment across the card front.

I went with the untraditional holiday colours of turquoise and red. I love these two happy colours together! I made a little window on the card front and have the ornament peeking through from the inside.

It's hard to tell from the photo but the ornament is covered in Glossy Accents for some added shine and I used a bunch of striped hemp twine to add to the Christmasy cheer.

Make sure to stop by the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to see all the lovely creations by the design team.

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 Thursday 5.00pm 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 special little something. Our last challenge for the month will be a sketch challenge which will attract our main prize of a $15.00 gift voucher for that weeks winner.

How To Play Along :
•Copy and save our challenge banner and include it and a link back to the AnnaBelle Stamps blog 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 challenge 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.