Andrea's Stampin' Moments

SS060210

Happy Saturday everyone, and welcome to Simply Saturday!  I went very simple today because I had to get my card done very quickly.  When DH suggested taking the boys out for an ice cream when we picked Justin up from work I couldn't resist (not that I eat ice cream), but it's great to do things together :)

I went with an idea I have seen many times, and I spent ages trying to find the original blog post of whoever it may have been, where I saw it, of course this was months and months ago.  I do think that it may have been Sandie C who sends me great email updates of incredible ideas....so thanks Sandie if it was you LOL!! 

What do you think?  A CAS card?  And monochromatic?  I think so, so that is what we'll go with this week - CAS and monochromatic, and if you like, one of these torn flowers, from the many blogs I've seen them on!

I must admit that I find it hard to be random - as I've probably said - so I did try  to 'neaten' my torn flowers.  Stuck them together with glue dots and added a couple of buttons.  Really these are super quick!

Thank you to the ladies that took part last week, I was thrilled you joined me!  Using random.org I came up with two numbers for the blog candy 4 and 1, so congratulations Crystal and Sue!  To the other ladies I would love to send you out a little surprise as well, so if you could all email me with your addresses I'll get those out to you ASAP!

I think I mentioned we had had some much needed rain, so I thought I would include a couple of photos I took yesterday afternoon.

This one probably doesn't show it very clearly, but we received 67mm or just over 2 1/2" in 24hrs - Yay!  

 

  These are the cow troughs in our paddock, but the cows didn't have to walk as far today!  The girls belong to the farmer next door, and they're beautiful.

And one last photo, because I don't want to bore you too much :) is our small dam.  This was bone dry with huge cracks, and now look at it, isn't it just too exciting!  See the white pipe?  There was a silly yabbie hanging out of it - backwards - and he was not going to be pulled through.  We had to leave him to wait until the water stopped flowing so he could walk his way back!

Hope you can play along this week!

Valentine Heart - ABSC013

Hi again, and welcome to this weeks AnnaBelle's Bling Sketch Challenge!  I decided to go all out with the bling for this card - as you can probably see!

I must admit that we don't really celebrate Valentines in our house, but I loved  making this very swirly card!  The new Flourishes set is the perfect thing if you love swirly bling like this! 

The Sprinkles I used today are 3mm Chilli along with a 10mm Chilli Heart.  Now you might think there is a huge difference in the colour in the shop photo and this one, but it's simply my photography skills, because the red is much more red IRL than it appears here.  The sentiment is from the Elephant Valentines set and the hearts were cut using Spellbinders.

I hope you can play along with us this week,and be sure to drop by the blog to check out the other DT cards - they are stunning!

Have a great day,

Button Birthday

Hi fellow bloggers!  It is raining here today, so we are doing the happy rain dance because it has been weeks and weeks since we had any at all, which means no watering for me today..yah!...and I could take some time out to make a card!

I still have the give away happening below and I can see that Sue and Robyn must be very excited because so far they are the only ones to take part and will win all the prizes!  So come on ladies give them a run for their money LOL!!

Todays card uses the sketch from Mojo Monday, 'cause I needed a little kick start after so many days off.  I've used the set Helen's Party and stamped the present three times on smooth white and the sentiment directly on to the DSP (from SU!) and then did lots of layering and raising.  I think the shot below will show you how much dimensional foam I used :) in fact I used it all up!

 I love the big button which is from TLOCS's Button Bonanza Fiesta range here , with lots of embellishments and stamps on special, so be sure to take a look.

Don't forget to take a look at the sketch and get your entry in!

Have a great day,

SS300110 - Blog Candy Give Away!

Hi everyone and welcome to this weeks Simply Saturday! 

The new AnnaBelle Stamps and Sprinkles have been out for two weeks now and I thought it might be an idea to share some around to help spread the word :)  Simply join in todays sketch - leave a link to your blog or online gallery with Mr Linky - and most important tell everyone about it!  I will randomly select two winners who will receive :

- One of the new sets

- One of the single stamps

- A jar of 6mm Sprinkles

So start creating and join in the fun.

For todays card I've used the set Floral Stems and stamped the image three times on Smooth white cardstock.

I stamped a couple of extra flowers, coloured and cut them out - not too sure why I only did two rather than three though?!?

Todays Sprinkling of bling are the new Metallic Pearl Cocoa in 4mm, and they are just so yummy!  I kept everything else plain and finished it up pretty quickly so we could take the boys for a swim at a friends - 37 here today and hotter tomorrow - which is o.k. because it is Summer after all.

Hope you can find a minute to put your CAS card together for this week, and just think that if I only get one entry then they'll win it all.

Have fun!

Simply Saturday Participants

1. Sue Walsh 2. Robyn

3. Cheryl (shestamps) 4. CrystalBee

5. Lyn S

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Love Blooms - ABSC012

I wish I had taken this photo a little earlier in the day, because I know it would've turned out better than it has, but I hope you can imagine what it looks like IRL.  This is my card for this weeks ABSC012.  Check out the blog to see details on how you can win this week!

Using the Floral Stems set  I stamped one of the stems on to SU! DSP and cut it out using Classic Oval Spellbinders.  To this I added the new 6mm and 10mm Heart Sprinkles  in Blossom - aren't they adorable?

Along the bottom of the main piece of white cardstock I've stamped a zig-zag design from the Build-a-bling set and attached 3mm Blossom Sprinkles.

 

I decided to make my card for this week as an easel card - because I just love them!  I have a tutorial you can check out here. 

I hope you can play along this week for your chance at this months prize :)  Don't forget to check out the DT cards on the blog!

Have a great day,

Thanks - sk012310

Where has the week gone?  I know it's gone way too quickly for me!  I hope all my fellow Australians had a wonderful Australia Day.  It's good to take some time out to be thankful for the wonderful country we live in. 

I took some time out today to make this card for the PCP sketch challenge, and used the Flowers With Love set and Flourishes set from the new collection.   The Sprinkles are 3mm and 6mm Peach, and I adhered them using Glossy Accents.

The range of colours in the Sprinkles is growing which gives you a great variety to co-ordinate with almost any project.  If you haven't tried them yet, but would like to, join in this weeks AnnaBelle Bling Sketch Challenge or my Simply Saturday sketch for prizes up for grabs!  Check back tomorrow and Saturday for full details :)

Thanks for stopping by this evening,

For You - SS230110

Happy Simply Saturday everyone!  And thank you to those who emailed me and left comments here and on Splitcoast about yesterdays card...I guess 'different' was good :)

I've taken Kraft cardstock again for this card - I just love it! - and sponged the outer edges with Burnt Umber ink.  Todays main image is from the set Flowers For You, and you can see I used the little stem to add an extra flower - so cute! - and this time I've included words on the vase.

 I raised each layer with dimensional foam, and yes, used Copics to colour the images.

A few buttons to the bottom right hand corner and I was finished another Simply Saturday card! 

I love these Spellbinders dies, but then I love all my Spellbinders!

Here's the sketch for you, and I hope you can play along this week.  I have Nathan starting back this week and Justin and Adam don't go back until the 1st of Feb.  I can't believe the Summer holidays are nearly over and I'll be back to just me at home....I will miss the noise - the house is so very quite when they're not here :)

Have a great weekend,

Simply Saturday Participants

1. Lyn S

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Just a little different...for me!

Hi everyone!  Are many of you, like me, getting ready those last few things for the return to school?  New hats, school books, pens, markers, all the fun things....I've always loved stationery!

With todays card for this weeks AnnaBelle Bling Sketch, when I showed DH, I got the response "It's different".  Now was this good or bad I asked, and got the same response, so I'm not sure what to think, so you might have to tell me :)

Using some watercolour paper and my Twinkling H2O's I painted on some random shapes and waited for them to dry before I stamped the image, which is from the Floral Stems set.  I'm not sure if it was the H2O's or that the ink wasn't dark enough, but I ended up going over the image with a fine marker so that it stood out a little more.  I think what I should have done is embossed it, so maybe next time....that's if I do something like this again.

I added very little bling this week, only a 3mm Lagoon Sprinkle all on it's ownsome. 

I had ribbon pieces that were similar to the colours I had painted (make a note to check next time), but not quite a match, so I took the Twinkling H2O's and painted them, and voila a perfect match...well nearly.

I hope you can join us this week for the sketch, we'd love to see you playing along :)

Have a great day,