Colour Create Challenge #74

Well, first week of holidays has started and it is passing by in a whirlwind! I have devoted this holiday to spring cleaning my house from top to bottom, so time is just flying. I am also trying to spend more time catching up with my challenge cards so that I am a little ahead when I go back to work in another week. This week's challenge over at Colour Create is to work with the gorgeous colours - fuschia, green and white. Here is the inspiration pic:

Green is always a challenge for me and I am having trouble using my New Leaf cardstock as I just can't seem to pair it well with other colours. So I thought I would give it a go with this simple card:

I have used New Leaf for my base and then I started by embossing my white layer with my Elegant Bouquet folder and die cutting an oval from the centre. Using Chamomile tea dye ink, I stamped my Text Style background on some more white cardstock and then added a flourish over the top with Crumb Cake ink. This layer was added to my New Leaf base with a layer of acetate on top. Finally I added my embossed white layer.

The butterflies from the Butterfly Dreams set were stamped in Versamark and Melon Mambo ink and then clear embossed and adhered to the oval with Glossy Accents. I used some green polka dot ribbon along the bottom, threading it through a tag stamped from my Blooming Button Bits set in Crumb Cake ink.

On the inside, I stamped two more flourishes in Crumb Cake ink and my sentiment in Melon Mambo ink.

I have checked out all the other DT creations and they are stunning so make sure you hop on over to the Colour Create blog to have a look. Link up your creation using fuschia, green and white and you will be in the draw to win this fortnight's prize!

Supplies
Stamps: Butterfly Dreams, Fancy Flourishes, Background Basics: Text Style; Blooming Button Bits, Vintage Picnic (PTI)
Cardstock: Select White, New Leaf; Clearly Creative Cardstock (PTI)
Ink: Chamomile tea dye ink (PTI); Melon Mambo, Crumb Cake (SU); Versamark
Accessories: Oval nestability (Spellbinders); Elegant Bouquet embossing folder (Sizzix); Tiny Tag die set (Cuttlebug); green polka dot ribbon; Glossy Accents (Ranger); clear embossing powder (SU)

CSAYL - Be Inspired

Hello again,

This week's challenge over at the CSAYL blog is to be inspired using this gorgeous photo:

As soon as I saw it I loved the colour combo but knew I didn't have any background paper to match so I set about creating my own! I got the inspiration for this background from the latest issue of Australian Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft magazine, where copics can be used to create a check/plaid background. I have also decided to enter this card into the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #122 using this sketch:



I used Tempting Turquoise cardstock for my base and layered a colour I never use - retired Gable Green and then added my background layer on top. I created the background by ruling up my lines lightly with pencil first and then using my copics to draw in the thin and thick lines. This was so much fun and I LOVE the result and will be doing this much more in the future.

I stamped the Joy image from Taylored Expression's Wings Of Joy set in Tuxedo Black ink and coloured it in with my copic markers, adding some Glossy Accents to the berries. I then cut and embossed this with my circle nesties. While still in the die, I sponged some blue pigment ink around the edges.  I then adhered some Hawaiian Shores ribbon and mounted my main image on top. The front was finished off with some AnnaBelle Stamps sprinkles.

On the inside I stamped the bird image from Wings of Joy in Tuxedo Black ink and coloured it in with copics. I then added the Merry Christmas sentiment in Old Olive ink.

The CSAYL girls have come up with some wonderful creations, so be sure to have a look over at the CSAYL blog.

I am now officially on two week's holidays so hopefully, fingers crossed, I will be able to have some more regular posts on my blog and stop chasing my tail!

Have a great weekend!

Supplies

Stamps: Wings Of Joy (Taylored Expressions)

Cardstock: Stampers Select White (PTI); Tempting Turquoise, retired Gable Green (SU)

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Old Olive (SU); blue pigment ink (Martha Stewart)

Accessories: Hawaiian Shores ribbon (PTI); circle nestabilities (Spellbinders); copic markers; sprinkles (AnnaBelle Stamps); Glossy Accents (Ranger)

AnnaBelle Stamps Sketch Challenge ABSC039

Welcome back to another monthly sketch challenge from AnnaBelle Stamps. Before I talk about my card, I have to apologise if the colours and quality are not very good. My trusty laptop's battery decided to give up this week so I am waiting for a replacement and in the meantime I am using my ancient desktop computer which has really bad lighting. So when I edit my photos to make them clearer for this old computer, it probably is making them look worse really! It makes me realise how attached I have become to my laptop and how much I miss it. So please bear with me for the next week or so with my posts!

Anyway onto the challenge cards and I decided to use Mother's Day Bouquet for these two gift sized cards as the vase and flowers can be adapted to any occasion.

I used some Cristina Re designer paper for both the top and bottom of the card, adhering some white ribbon to cover the join. My vase was stamped in Certainly Celery ink and then the flowers added in Tuxedo Black in and coloured with my Copics. A tiny strip of the DP was added above my sentiment from the All Things Grow set which was stamped in Melon Mambo ink. I added some white adhesive pearls for my bling.

On the inside I continued the theme with the same DP and added a sentiment from Mother's Day Bouquet in Melon Mambo ink.

The next card uses another vase from the Mother's Day Bouquet set, stamped in Pretty In Pink ink with the same flowers. Again I added a tiny strip of DP above the sentiment which was stamped in Old Olive ink. I used some more DP from the same Cristina Re paper pack for my background.

On the inside I stamped my sentiment in Old Olive ink.

We have some changes to our challenges, so be sure to read the details below:

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 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 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

Make sure you pop on over to the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to all the rest of the fabulours creations by our wonderful team!

Supplies

Stamps: Mother's Day Bouquet, All Things Grow (AnnaBelle Stamps)

Cardstock: Stampers Select White (PTI); Certainly Celery, Pretty In Pink (SU); DP (Cristina Re)

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery, Melon Mambo, Old Olive (SU)

Accessories: whtie adhesive pearls (Kaisercraft); white ribbon; copic markers

AnnaBelle Stamps Blog Hop - Baby Joy

Thanks for joining me for another AnnaBelle Stamps Blog Hop. This time, we are featuring the stamp set Baby Joy designed by our talented team member Iwona:

AnnaBelle Stamps Blog Hop

Come and join us the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month as we have fun sharing a new set with you!  

Play along with us for your chance to win the Blog Hop set OR the detailed prize!

How to Play :

Playing along is now even easier!  You can leave a comment on one or all of the DT blogs and add your name using the Inlinkz tool which can be found on any of the DT blogs.

Each Hop a random winner will be drawn and if you've commented on the mystery DT blog then you will be the winner of the Blog Hop prize!   The hop will run for 1 week and the winner will be announced the following Tuesday!

So even if you only comment on one blog you may be lucky enough to have chosen the mystery DT blog to comment on, and still be in with a chance to win!  


If you have come from Patti's blog then you are in the right place; if not then start over at the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to join in this week's blog hop and check out all the lovely designs on the way!

Here is my card:

I chose to use the pram image which I coloured with my Copics and paper pieced the pram with some Cosmo Cricket DeLovely DP. This was then matted on some grey cardstock. For the base I used some white cardstock which I edged on the front with my Apron Lace punch. I then used some more of the DeLovely paper and tied around some olive ribbon to cover the seam. The main image was then laid on top and some pink rhinestones added on either side. I stamped the sentiment from Baby Joy in Melon Mambo ink on a tag die cut and tied this to the bow with some white twine. Finally I added a pink flower stamped with Backgrounds By Design 1 to the bow centre with a glue dot.

On the inside I combined a few Baby Joy sentiments and stamped them in Old Olive ink, matting this layer on some grey cardstock. Some more Old Olive and Melon Mambo flowers were added to this strip. Along the bottom I adhered some DeLovely paper that had been edged with my Apron Lace border punch.

I am entering this card in the Inkspirations Challenge #74 for this week:

Now be sure to add your comment to the inlinkz tool below for your chance to be in the draw for this fortnight's blog hop prize and then head on back to the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to finish!

Supplies
Stamps: Baby Joy, Background By Design 1 (AnnaBelle Stamps)
Cardstock: Select White (PTI); Basic Grey (SU); DeLovely DP (Cosmo Cricket)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Melon Mambo, Old Olive (SU)

Accessories: white twine (SU); Apron Lace border punch (Fiskars); Tiny Tags die set (Cuttlebug); Copics; olive ribbon; pink rhinestones; glue dots

CSAYL - Black, White and ???

Hi,
Well winter is well and truly here - I am typing up this post absolutely shivering and it feels like  perfect weather to keep building up my Christmas card stash. Thanks to the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog, I have now made a very healthy supply which will be ready to go at Christmas. This week's challenge is 'Black, White and ??? - create a holiday project using black, white and only one other colour of your choice. It is sponsored by A Perfect Presentation

and the winner will receive 1 free template of their choice. I decided to use the 'My Little Bag' template.

My extra colour of choice was red and I stamped my Christmas tree image in red ink and clear embossed it. The To/From sentiments were stamped in Smokey Shadow ink. Once I had completed my stamping, I die cut the image using a circle nestability and then mounted this on to red cardstock die cut with my Blossoms 4 die.

I punched two holes in the top of my bag with my Cropadile and then set two eyelets and threaded through some red satin ribbon. The designer paper that I have mounted on to my white base is from Kaisercraft ( I think it is the After Five collection). I have to admit that there is a little addtion of grey on my project, but I just felt that I needed to use the reverse of the black and white paper to break the pattern up a little.

Hop over to the CSAYL blog to check out the other team creations and make sure you add your project for a chance to win the fabulous prize from A Perfect Presentation!!

Supplies
Stamps: A Rhonna Christmas (Autumn Leaves)
Cardstock: Select White (PTI); After Five collection (Kaisercraft)
Ink: Real Red (SU); Smokey Shadow (PTI); Versamark
Accessories: My Little Bag PDF template (A Perfect Presentation); circle nestability, Blossom 4 nestability (Spellbinders); clear embossing powder, cropadile (SU); silver eyelets; red satin ribbon

Say It In Yellow, Orange and Turquoise

This week's challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps is to say it in Yellow, Orange and Turquoise. I decided to use my most trusted AnnaBelle stamp set - Ballerina Rose. I decided to take some inspiration from a couple of cards in the latest US CARDS magazine which I subscribe to and try hand sewing.

I stamped the Ballerina Rose image on to some Thrift Shop DP from October Afternoon and then hand cut them out. I then individuallly hand sewed them onto some cream card that had been embossed with my Fleur De Lis Impressabilities plate. Following this, I used my paper piercer to pierce some flourishes and then hand sewed them with some kraft coloured thread. Finally I stamped my sentiment from Jasmine's Cupcake in Pumpkin Pie ink and adhered this layer to a Kraft base.

On the inside I again embossed my cream layer with my Fleur De Lis Impressability again, stamped the sentiment from Acacia in Pumpkin Pie ink and adhered two more flowers from Ballerina Rose along the bottom. I matted this on some yellow Thrift Shop paper before adhering to the inside.

How To Play Along : 

- We post our challenges every Friday at 12:00pm AEST (AEDT during Daylight Savings).
- Our Sketch Challenge Runs from the last Friday of a month through till the last Friday of the following month.
- Each Friday in between we have themed challenges. To be eligible for the monthly prize of a $20 gift voucher to spend in store at AnnaBelle Stamps you MUST take part in the sketch challenge AND one of the weekly challenges.
- Please link directly to your entry not just to your blog.
- Include a link back to this blog in your post.
- Please don't link to postings made prior to the date of our current challenge.  All projects submitted must be new.
- A maximum of 5 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, but you can play along without them. For those who use AnnaBelle stamps and upload to the Gallery HERE then you will also be in the running to be our Monthly Guest Designer!


Here are the other designers - check out their lovely creations!

Andrea

Sue W

Kylie

Iwona

Lisa

Sue K

Stephanie

Patti

and our fabulous guest designer - Janet O'Brien

Supplies
Stamps: Ballerina Rose, Acacia, Jasmine's Cupcake (AnnaBelle Stamps)
Cardstock: Kraft, Very Vanilla (SU); Thrift Shop DP (October Afternoon)
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise (SU)
Accessories: Fleur De Lis Impressability (Spellbinders); linen thread; kraft thread; paper piercer

Colour Create Challenge #73

It's Challenge 73 over at the Colour Create blog and the inspiration picture for this challenge is:

which is to use blue, white and grey with an optional extra - vellum. The sponsor for this fortnight is Michelle's Scrapbooking and the winner will receive a voucher to spend in the store:

I decided to add to my Christmas card stash with a cute digi image -  Merry Mice from Di's Digi Downloads.

I started with a grey base and added a layer of white, adhering some blue snowflake paper to the bottom half and used some light blue ribbon to cover the join. I coloured my digi image with Copics and added some glitter to the snow and snowflakes. I then sponged around the edges with some light blue pigment ink and matted this layer onto some grey cardstock. I stamped my sentiment from Holiday Button Bits in Smokey Shadow Ink and also matted this onto some grey cardstock, tucking it behind my image. Finally I punched a large snowflake and heat set it with glitter. I then punched a second snowflake from vellum and overlapped this on top, finishing off with a light blue button tied with some blue glitter crochet yarn.

On the inside, I used some more of the designer paper along the bottom and stamped my sentiment in Smokey Shadow ink.

Make sure you check out all the other DT creations over at the Colour Create blog and link your card - you have a fortnight before this week's challenge closes!

Supplies

Stamps: Merry Mice Digi (Di's Digi Downloads); Holiday Button Bits (PTI)

Cardsstock: Basic Grey, Whisper White (SU) Snowflake DP

Ink: Smokey Shadow (PTI); Versamark; blue pigment ink (Martha Stewart)

Accessories: Snowflake punch (Marvy); copics; Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Heat and Stick powder (SU); vellum; blue ribbon; blue button; blue crochet yarn (Twilleys)

CSAYL - Babes In Toyland

Over at the CSAYL blog the challenge is 'Babes In Toyland' - make a Christmas card for a child. I STRUGGLED with this for some reason and it was only at the last minute that I thought of the little gingerbread man from PTI's Holiday Button Bits.

I stamped my background from A Little Argyle in kraft ink and added a small snowflake from TE's Wings of Joy set stamped in Baja Breeze ink. This layer was then matted on some Aqua Mist cardstock. I stamped my gingerbread man in Kraft ink, edged him with my clear Atyou Spica glitter pen and then sewed on two white buttons with some Kraft thread. I popped him up on dimensionals and then added the Merry Christmas sentiment, adhering the banner underneath my image.

I used my Banner Day die from MFT, cutting the larger banner  with Pure Poppy cardstock and the small banner with some retired Baja Breeze DP. I edged the sides of my red cardstock with my red Atyou Spica glitter pen. I then added the letters to spell Harry using some American Craft thickers.

The inside was also stamped with my dotted Argyle background stamp in kraft ink with a few more random snowflakes. I combined two sentiments from Holiday Button Bits to finish it off.

Have a go at creating a child's christmas card and link it up to the CSAYL blog for your chance to be a Guest Designer in July!

Supplies

Stamps: A Little Argyle; Holiday Button Bits (PTI); Wings of Joy (TE)

Cardstock: Select White, Baja Breeze, Pure Poppy (PTI); Retired Baja Breeze DP (SU)

Ink: Kraft; Real Red (SU)

Accessories: Banner Day Die (MFT); whie buttons; kraft thread; Clear and Red Atyou Spica glitter pen; American Craft thickers

Say It With Masking and Sponging!

This was quite a challenge this week!! Over at the AnnaBelle Stamps blog, the weekly challenge is to say it with masking and sponging. For this card I decided to use the Daisy Delight set:

I used Kraft for my main layer and masked the medium sized daisy three times and then added a small daisy to finsih off. I stamped them in Real Red ink and clear embossed each daisy. Then I used my R22,R24,R27 copics to colour the flowers and dotted the centres with my white gel pen. I sponged the edges of the flowers with Whisper White Craft ink and gradually softened the edges.  I used a sentiment from Acacia stamped in Tuxedo Black ink and added some chilli sprinkles underneath. This layer was then added to some red cardstock which had been edged with my Upper Crest border punch along the bottom. once adhered, I added some red gingham ribbon along the bottom. All the layers were then added to a Kraft base.

On the inside I stamped another sentiment from Acacia, adding a small daisy mounted on top of some leaves also from the Daisy Delight set.

Head on over to the AnnaBelle Stamps blog and see all the other designers' cards.

How To Play Along : 
- We post our challenges every Friday at 12:00pm AEST (AEDT during Daylight Savings).
- Our Sketch Challenge Runs from the last Friday of a month through till the last Friday of the following month.
- Each Friday in between we have themed challenges. To be eligible for the monthly prize of a $20 gift voucher to spend in store at AnnaBelle Stamps you MUST take part in the sketch challenge AND one of the weekly challenges.
- Please link directly to your entry not just to your blog.
- Include a link back to this blog in your post.
- Please don't link to postings made prior to the date of our current challenge.  All projects submitted must be new.
- A maximum of 5 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, but you can play along without them. For those who use AnnaBelle stamps and upload to the Gallery HERE then you will also be in the running to be our Monthly Guest Designer!

Supplies
Stamps: Acacia, Daisy Delight (AnnaBelle Stamps)
Cardstock: Kraft, Stampers Select White (PTI); Real Red (SU)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Real Red ; Whisper White (SU); Versamark
Accessories: 3mm Chilli Sprinkles (AnnaBelle Stamps); Upper Crest punch (Fiskars); clear embossing powder (SU); red gingham ribbon; Copics; white gel pen; distressing tool (Tim Holtz)

AnnaBelle Stamps Blog Hop - Acacia

AnnaBelle Stamps Blog Hop

Come and join us the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month as we have fun sharing a new set with you!  

Play along with us for your chance to win the Blog Hop set OR the detailed prize!

How to Play :

Playing along is now even easier!  You can leave a comment on one or all of the DT blogs and add your name using the Inlinkz tool which can be found on any of the DT blogs.

Each Hop a random winner will be drawn and if you've commented on the mystery DT blog then you will be the winner of the Blog Hop prize!   The hop will run for 1 week and the winner will be announced the following Tuesday!

So even if you only comment on one blog you may be lucky enough to have chosen the mystery DT blog to comment on, and still be in with a chance to win!  


If you have come from Patti's blog then you are in the right place; if not then start over at the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to join in this week's blog hop and check out all the lovely designs on the way!

Today we are featuring the set - Acacia which is such and elegant and pretty set to work with:

Not only is the image such a great design, but there are so many wonderful sentiments that can be used for a number of occasions. Here is my card:

I started with a Kraft base  with two corners rounded and used a scallop pattern from Backgrounds By Design 4 to stamp along the bottom in Versamark ink. I then added a lemon layer which was edged with my Apron Lace border punch. The Acacia image was then stamped on white cardstock with Tuxedo Black ink and coloured in with Copics. Finally I added some lemon spotted ribbon with my sentiment from Acacia stamped in Old Olive ink.

On the inside I stamped my sentiment also from Acacia in Old Olive ink and added a strip of Kraft and lemon cardstock along the bottom. This was all matted on to some more lemon cardstock.
Now be sure to add your comment to the inlinkz tool below for your chance to be in the draw for this fortnight's blog hop prize and then head on back to the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to finish!

Good luck!!  

Supplies
Stamps: Acacia, Backgrounds by Design 4 (AnnaBelle Stamps)
Cardstock: Kraft, Lemon Zest, Stampers Select White (PTI)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Old Olive (SU); Versamark
Accessories: Copics; Apron Lace border punch (Fiskars); corner rounder; Lemon Zest ribbon (PTI)