Andrea's Stampin' Moments

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Hi there today!  I hope you're ready to play along with us again this week!

I went back to my Inktense pencils again for this weeks card but there isn't a real turquoise blue in the set so I went as close as I could :)

My daisy image from the Daisy Delights set has been stamped with Brilliance ink onto watercolour paper and then coloured with Inktense pencils.  

It's been a another one of those weeks where time has been short and stamping has been put to the back burner as I concentrate on new designs for the coming months.  I think we've all been there lol! but as I put my photo up I realised that the Glossy Accents holding the Sprinkles in place hadn't dried :) so I've been left with a smudgy looking flower centre...oh dear!!  

Sometimes we forget little techniques that we have once used and then forgotten, which is what happened to me this week as I blog hopped one evening, coming across this AMAZING crafter Kathy who had added some faux stitching around her flowers!  You must check out her card it's beautiful!

Pop by the DT blogs as well and leave some love if you get the time as we have two wonderful ladies leaving us this week - Iwona & Lisa - so it is a little sad but we hope they'll visit us often :)

Sue W (taking a little holiday)

Kylie

Iwona

Lisa

Sue K 

Stephanie

Patti

Kerry

Thanks for stopping by :)

Hugs,

Simply Saturday

Hi blogging friends!  Not such a lovely day today, in fact it's just a little cold!  We need to start getting use to this as we head towards Winter....BBBRRRRRRR!

Today I've used the All Squared set and stamped the larger flower from the set in three Brilliance colours, and then cut them out adding a large Rose Gem to the centre.  Easy Faux stitching for the stems to complete the flowers.

We are going out for dinner tonight (something we rarely do!) and I am so looking forward to it!  No cooking dinner although I have a slice in the oven to drop around to our church tonight for a cake stall fundraiser tomorrow.  We have three youths from our parish heading off to World Youth Day in Madrid and they need a little help with funding :)  How exciting for them!  I'm a wee bit too old to go lol!...the very obvious word in the name....YOUTH!

Have a wonderful Sunday ladies!  Mothers and all special women alike, it's your day!  I hope to sneak a little creating in to the mix as well :)

Hugs,

Lollipop Ladies Challenge #19

Hi my blogging friends!  I hope your Easter was filled with Joy!  It's time for another Lollipop Ladies Challenge, and this weeks inspiration photo is incredible candy ribbon!

I wasn't sure what it was until I took a closer look lol!, but isn't it amazing, it's too beautiful to eat!

There are so many colours for inspiration in this photo so you can take your pick and our bonus theme for this week is to use ribbon on your project if you can fit it in :)

 

 

For my card I wanted to create a ribbon flower, but they simply wouldn't work the other night, so I had to move on to something else to meet my deadline (which I was late for....I think having chocolate again after so long effected the brain cells lol!).

So I simply set about stitching some beautiful 38mm Stripe ribbon on to my card and scrunched it up as I went.  Ran my sewing machine around the outer edge then stamped the flower stem from the Stemmed Flowers set, and three flowers which I've layered and popped with dimensional foam.

The sentiment is from the Branch Out set and was stamped with Brilliance Thyme.

We hope you have fun playing along with our challenge this fortnight for your chance at the prize!  Remember to add your link to the Lollipop Ladies blog :)

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Thinking of Daisies

It's been a wonderful few days with rain falling - as well as the temperature - to prepare us for Winter!  We turned our heater on for the first time last night, and it was lovely snuggling under a blanket to stay toasty warm lol!

Today I've used the new Daisy Delight stamp set, and set about colouring it with Copics.  I started with the flowers which was the easy part then filled in colour around each of them.  I wasn't happy with the first colour I used, and so the end result is several layers of different Copic colours!

For my base card I used Smooth White card stock and sponged/distressed it with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink, then overstamped with the new BBD5 set.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today :)

Hugs,

Say It With...

...Emboss Resist!  Well I have have one word today....sorry!  I have never been late for a challenge, and this is what you get when you put things off!!  I had all morning to finish my post, but wouldn't you know it my internet has been out all day!  I scheduled the AnnaBelle blog post but thought I had heaps of time to do mine lol! 

Here's my Emboss Resist card :

Using one of the border images from BBD2 I stamped with Versamark over white card then added AnnaBelle Clear EP and heat set.  Then with a sponge and Memento and Tuxedo Black I rubbed the ink on rubbing off any excess.

My tulip is from the set Branch Out and I've lightly sponged around the image with black and pierced from the wrong side.  The ribbon is from our new collection and I've used 6mm Gems which will be added soon :)

I also combined our challenge with this weeks sketch at Splitcoast :



 Thanks for stopping by today, and we'd love for you to join us this week for our emboss resist challenge!  Now to catch up on my days work at 4.20pm in the afternoon :)

Hugs,

Lollipop Ladies Challenge #11

Wow, can you believe it's time again for another challenge from The Lollipop Ladies?!?  Tell me where did the last four weeks go!  The theme this week is...

..Jubes!  With the bonus feature this week of glitter or sparkle, something most of us love to add to our projects!

 

I started by using the new Stemmed Flowers set and chose one of the flowers in two sizes to stamp in the different colours of the jubes, then cut them out.  I cut a large circle from my Spellbinders and embossed it, then stamped the leaves and stems to my flowers.  I drew a line with pencils and coloured a little under each stem then smoothed it with a blending stick before I sponged chalk for the grass and sky.

For my added sparkle I used a Quickie glue pen to draw around the petals, then added some glitter and clear gems to the centres, and 3mm Pumpkin Gems around the outer edge.

You may have seen the sketch before :) it's the current one for AnnaBelle Stamps so be sure to check that one out as well!

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Simply Saturday

I love the weekend - as I'm sure most of us do - even though I pretty much do exactly what I do every other day of the week, the weekend just 'feels' different :)

I haven't done a Simply Saturday for a couple of weeks now, with everything else that has been going on, but I made a card on Thursday for a friend and it seemed perfect for todays CAS theme.  Now the photos are not very good, and I don't have the card to re-take the photo so this will just have to do lol!

I used one of the new borders from the Backgrounds By Design 1 set and stamped it with Brilliance Pearlescent Orchid on to textured white card.  The black Bazzill was punched and ribbon wrapped around.  Then it was just a matter of adding the sentiment - (from Sentimental Bluebells) and I used the straight line of dots from the set Build-a-bling to get the right spacing for my Blossom Gems.

If you'd like to play along and create a CAS card using this card as the sketch, I would love to come and see what you've done :)

Happy stamping everyone!

 

Lollipop Ladies Challenge #8

Hi and welcome today for my very first card for The Lollipop Ladies!!  How excited was I to be asked to play along with them on a regular basis!  Haven't heard of their challenges?  Well you are going to love them because they are all very yummy and come along every fortnight!

Here's todays theme :

                                            

..Jelly Beans, and the bonus theme is to add some gloss!  Now I love the ones from the chemist, and boring old me likes the white ones lol!  I didn't have a jelly bean stamp, or jelly bean themed paper so I went with the colours for my inspiration.  

I used our new Lil Bee, and stamped him on some water colour card with Versamark, added AnnBelle Ebony EP, and heat set before colouring him with water colour pencils.

The bonus theme being gloss I went with adding some Glossy Accents to the flowers and his bellie!  The Sprinkles are a Blossom 6mm Heart and 6mm Pumpkin Gems down the side.

We would love to have you play along with us, so be sure to pop on over to the blog and see what fabulous prize is up for grabs!  Remember this is a fortnightly challenge so you have a full two weeks to take part :)

Pop along to the other Candy Stripers to see some awesome creations!!

Michelle

Mel

Mel H

Chantelle

Marcia

Sammi

Happy stamping everyone!

Hugs,

Enjoy Your Day

I had a bit of time today to play along with the Card Patterns sketch for this week, and although I'm not overly happy with my card, I love the colours :)

 If I had've had just a bit more time I would've possibly stitched around the outer edge, but the laundry has been calling me all day as I try to catch up...and it's not as though I was behind, I just think my boys clear their wardrobes after a weekend...just in case it's dirty!

 I started with the image from the Branch Out set and stamped on to XPress-It blending cardstock with Memento Rich Cocoa, then used several Copic colours to get to something close to the funny mustard colour - it does look a better match IRL :)

Once again I've used the Copic Air Brush to fill in my background, using a turquoise and brown for a speckled effect and YG91 on the smaller disc.

Thanks for stopping by today, and just a reminder we begin this months previews on Wednesday!!

Warm Wishes

Hi everyone!  I've just returned home from posting some orders, and we are preparing for floods in parts of our town.  When I drove the boys to school this morning the rivers were high, but having just been detoured around our main access road I came home via another, and it's amazing how much higher it had risen with another metre still to go over night!  We are fortunate to be a distance from the river, but I can only imagine how worrying it would be for those that live on it, even though they have built up in order to avoid flooding.  I wish I had my camera with me at the time, but I don't think they allow that when your driving :)  It is good to see the water after so many years of drought, so we do give thanks for that.

I haven't had much of a chance to play along with some of the great challenge blogs around, so I love that I found some time today :)  This card is for the Card Patterns challenge this week, and I love the layout!

 I found some DP that I haven't used in ages...it's amazing what you might find when you go looking...

 I stamped my images from the Branch Out set on XPress-It Blending cardstock with Memento Rich Cocoa, then coloured them and added shading with Copics.  I added some of the new Petal coming soon to AnnaBelle Stamps and 3mm Blossom Gems.

Thanks for stopping by today :) 

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Here is this weeks sketch from AnnaBelle Stamps!  I love sketches because for the most part it takes some of the work out of making a card....not that I would call it work :)

If you haven't tried one of our sketch challenges before we'd love for you to join in!  We have a monthly prize with the sketch challenge which always a bit of a bonus :)

 

For my card today I turned to the Branch Out set because I love these tulips and how quick they make a card lol!  I have a few new Brilliance Dew Drops that I'm loving and these colours have a pearlescent look.  Some very quick stitching (before school this morning!) and Sultana Gems.

 

Can't wait to see your projects!  Have a great day everyone!

Simply Saturday - SS240710

  Simply Flowers

This design from the new set Branch Out made these two cards very quick and easy :)   I had lots of housework to catch up on today, but I was still able to throw these two cards together lol!

With this first one I simply stamped the tulip design using Memento Bamboo Leaves and Brilliance Pearlescent Orchid.  I couldn't resist adding a little dimension so I stamped the tulip head again and popped it up with some dimensional foam.

The second card has the same image stamped three times across my piece of cardstock, and some piercing around the outer edge.

The Cuttlebug embossing folder is looks great, and easily turned a plain piece of card in to something more.

A few pink gems on either side of the sentiment and I was finished.  I seem to be using these gems often lately...it may be time to put them away and move on to another colour!

I love that the 'Happy Birthday' sentiment is a vertical option, and it worked in perfectly with the design :)

  Some of our new ribbon was wrapped around and a bow tied then added after with a pop dot.

I hope you have time to create a simple CAS card using flowers this week :)  Add your link below if you do..

Say It In...

...Chocolate and Orange!  Wow, what a great combination!  It was suggested that we do some Christmas projects this month, and I thought that the next couple of weeks would be perfect (not counting this one), then one of the DT girls thought we meant this week, and I thought that I'd give it a go too!  I mean we give chocolate at Christmas, we eat chocolate at Christmas, so why not have a card in this colour too?? 

For my card I went to the Jewelled Tree set and stamped the tree image on a textured off white cardstock with Versamark, then added Bark EP and heat set.  This colour is a very dark brown and so was perfect for the colour combo this week :)

I adhered 3mm Sultana and Pumpkin Gems from the Brown and White Petals Kit, as well as 4mm Peach Sprinkles.  They look so pretty IRL!

The words were also heat embossed with Bark EP, and the ribbon - 16mm Brown DF Satin - was slip stitched down the centre then pulled to gather.  Some double sided tape holds this in place easily.

I used a Spellbinders Impressability to emboss the orange cardstock, but it was a little thick to work really well.  I should've used Bazzill Smoothies!

I hope you like this venture away from the traditional - it was certainly a first for me (as far as I can remember!).  Head over to the AnnaBelle blog to link your creation this week...we can't wait to see what you come up with :)  And don't forget to check out the other DT cards as well, they will amaze you!

See you tomorrow for another Simply Saturday,

Preview 1 - Tree-MEN-dous

We have all been very excited about the sets coming out this month!!  The first set is called Tree-MEN-dous and as the name suggests it is geared to the men in our lives.

  Mostly for Father's Day (which happens in September here in Australia)  the added words of 'Happy Birthday' will make it very versatile for the many men in the family.

I love the trunk to the tree, and it looks fabulous on it's own or stamped with the leaves.  I've already used this one a few times, and can see that I will be pulling it out often :)

 For this card I stamped the trunk with Memento Rich Cocoa and added the leaves in Memento Bamboo Leaves.  I wanted to really subdue the starkness of the white cardstock, so I've added lots of sponging!

Around this main image I've pierced from the right side, and the DSP under this I've pierced from the wrong side, just for added texture :)  I used my sewing machine for the outer stitching, but you can only just make it out in the photo!

I used the button sentiment stamped on Blending cardstock with Rich Cocoa and coloured it with a matching Copic.

 

This card has so many levels to it, lol, I must have used half a sheet of dimensional foam!  But I love doing that!  I am loving making CAS cards, but I love this kind of card as well :)

The gorgeous gems are the 8mm Sultana Gems from the Brown Petals Kit.  I will be selling these separately very soon :) and adding to the Gem colour range.

We had a few hiccups with this release, so some of the Design Team missed out on receiving them in time to make some projects, which they were very sad about.  But someone does have the sneak peek of the next set to be released, and I wonder who can that be?  Check out the DT blogs and then head back over to the AnnaBelle Blog and leave your answer for your chance to win this set!  You have until Midday AEST on Thursday to get your answer in!

ABSC024 - Prize Week

Welcome to another AnnaBelle Bling Sketch Challenge!  I'm running a little behind today, but surely better late than never?  Maybe... 

I still had the Elephant Valentine set sitting out - I really must start putting things away as soon as I use them! - so I went with the other main image in the set :)

Stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black on Blending cardstock I set about colouring her in much warmer colours.  I'm not sure if you'll find an elephant this colour, but I'd picked the DSP first so just went with it :)

Rather than my bling added just to the bottom right hand corner as in the sketch, I decided to go with it in between each indentation.  The Gems are the Pumpkin 6mm from the White Petals Kit and were adhered using a Quikie Glue Pen.

The main oval image is raised with dimensional foam as are the toy blocks.

This sketch has a great prize on offer, so be sure to check out all the details on the AnnaBelle Blog!  We still need lots of helpers to spread the word about our new release happening next week, so if you can add the blinkie to your blog that would be fantastic!

Have a great day everyone :)