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.

Fun News & AnnaBelle Stamps Blog Hop

Hi everyone! I have some fun news to share! I've been asked to be a guest designer this month over at AnnaBelle Stamps. This is an Australian Company starring the wonderful Andrea and sells photopolymer stamps. Check out all their goodies here.

We're starting off today with a blog hop using the Ornamental Christmas stamp set.

There are lots of great stamping possibilites with this set.

I stamped this long and narrow card (8.25" x 3.5") with a row of the small ornaments across the front and added a few gems. I broke out my glitter (love it but oh, so messy) to add a bit of holiday sparkle.
Next stop on the hop is Andrea's blog.

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!

Wishing you an inky day!

Ellen Hutson WCMD

I made another card for the Classrooms WCMD Challenge. This challenge was to create a Holiday/Christmas card.

The holiday cardmaking bug hasn't hit me yet so I kept this card pretty simple. I white embossed the Penny Black Crystal Wreath and added some gemstones. The Hero Arts snowflakes on the background were stamped with Brilliance Ink in Platinum Planet. I really like this ink because it's very soft but has a touch of shimmer and who doesn't like a little bit of sparkle during the holidays! Oh, and I used Papertrey Inks Linen and Canvas Impression Plates on the card base for some texture.

Thanks for stopping by!

WCMD at the CLASSroom with Ellen Hutson

There are several challenges over at the CLASSroom to celebrate World Card Making Day. I know WCMD is technically over but the folks at Ellen Hutson were kind enough to have a deadline date of Friday Oct. 7th for projects incase we couldn't do all of our crafting on WCMD. Yeah!!!!

My card is for the colour challenge.

Pretty colours, right?

The focal image, from Judikins, was stamped with Versamark and coloured with PanPastels. The Designer Woodgrain background is from Hero Arts and the yellow strip was embossed with Square Lattice Embossing Folder from Stampin Up.

Thanks for stopping by!

World Cardmaking Day!

It's World Cardmaking Day today with lots of great activities around the world and around the web.

I had a chance to get a little inky this morning and made two cards.

I played around with Stampin Ups Inspired by Nature set which was stamped onto a background using some Distress Inks and Hero Arts Large Fabric Design and Friend Definition stamps.

For my second card I played around with distressing and collage-type stamping. I think I went a little overboard with the distressing...

I distressed with Tim Holtz inks, a distress tool and added a few sprinkles of water drops.

The postcard image is a digi from River City Rubber Works and is called Antique Leaf Postcard. The rest of the images, the Hydrangea, Butterfly and Sentiment are all from Hero Arts.

I hope you get a little inky celebrating World Card Making Day!

CAS-ual Fridays

I made a quick card for CAS-ual Fridays mini card challenge. I forgot how fun it is to make smaller cards! The size limit was 4x4, my card is 3.75 x 2.5.

I colored directly on the rubber of Hero Arts Exotic Bloom stamp (with Marvy markers), sprayed it with some water and stamped it on the paper. I added some paper piercing, sentiment and gems.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lily Pad Cards

I made a card for this weeks challenge at Lily Pad Cards. It's a sketch challenge presented by my all time fave company Hero Arts.

I'm in the fall mood now so I made another card using all Hero Arts stamps.

I flipped the design and embossed the three strips of paper with the Designer Woodgrain stamp and used Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder.

The maple leaf is from the  Real Leaves Poetic Prints set. I used Distress Inks directly on the stamp, stamped it on paper and then applied Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint on top.  I couldn't get a decent pic showing the crackle, it just kind of looks blurry in the photo. I added the sentiment from To/From Petals set and also pierced some holes on the side of the card.

Thanks for stopping by and have an inky day!

Falling Leaves

I'm so glad I had a chance to play in the Hero Arts monthly challenge because one of the themes is Autumn and I love creating cards with leaves.

One of the first Hero Arts stamp sets I bought was Real Leaves Poetic Prints because the leaves are so realistic (especially the Maple Leaf) and they recently brought this stamp set back. But of course you can only stamp the image in one size, right. Well Hero Arts has the Maple Leaf in a digi kit called Foliage here and that's what I used to make this card.

I resized the leaves, cut them out and coloured them with Distress Inks. I wanted them to have a swirling/floating to the ground feeling so I used the Magical Background stamp on the card base.

Wishing you an inky day!

Annabelle Part Three

This is my second post today. For Annabelle Stamps part one and two see below.

The third challenge at Annabelle Stamps is to make a card containing 2 of something that begins with the letter "B" eg. bows, brads, buttons, in honour of Annabelle Stamps 2nd Birthday!  My two things that start with "B" are blooms and buttons.

For the blue background I applied some Distress Inks to one of my acrylic blocks, misted it with water and stamped it onto watercolour paper. I stamped a row of hearts in green to be my "grass" and added a couple of  flowers.  I distressed the edges and mounted the piece onto an embossed card base. All the stamps I used are from the All Squared set.

This was a fun three part challenge! Thanks for stopping by!