Colour Create #87 - Red, Cream and Sage Green

Hi there!!
I'm back after a little blogging break - needed some time to recharge the batteries before getting back into the swing of creating again. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year.

It's Edna's turn to post this fortnight's Colour Create Challenge #87 - Red, Cream and Sage. What gorgeous colours!! Here is her inspiration pic for you:

This week's challenge is being sponsored by:

and the winner will receive a $5 voucher to spend in store.

For my card I decided to use Rustic Cream for my base and then some gorgeous paper from October Afternoon's Thrift Shop collection with Real Red cardstock added to the bottom section. I tied some twill ribbon around the join and then added a Pure Poppy flower button threaded with twine.

The sentiment is from Birthday Balloon Jolinne stamped in Rustic Cream ink and heat embossed with clear powder. It's a bit smudgy looking as I dropped the ink pad right on this section and did my best to clean it all away!

My image is from AnnaBelle stamps - Lil Molly's Flowers, coloured with Copics and paper pieced with more Thrift Shop paper and some sage cardstock. She was then cut out with my oval nesties and framed with my scallop oval nesties. Finally she was adhered to the card with foam dimensional tape.

My card was so late (I didn't check the date and though we had another week before the challenge started!) so the inside hasn't been done on this card yet.

I am entering this card into Ribbon Carousel Challenge's RCC34 - Anything Goes as well:

Hop on over to the Colour Create blog to have a look - the ladies are back with some lovely creations!

Supplies
Stamps: Lil Molly's Flowers (AnnaBelle Stamps); Birthday Balloon Jolinne (MFT)
Cardstock: Rustic Cream (PTI); Real Red, Sage Shadow (SU); Thrift Shop Collection DP (October Afternoon)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Rustic Cream (PTI)
Accessories: Copics; Scallop Oval nestabilities, Oval nestabilities (Spellbinders); twill ribbon, clear embossing powder; cream twine (SU); Pure Poppy button (PTI); foam dimensional tape

AnnaBelle Sketch Challenge ABSC040

Hi,

I am here with my last post as part of the AnnaBelle Stamps DT. I have really enjoyed working on this wonderful team with such a lovely group of talented designers but my commitments both at work and with my children have increased to the point where I have found it difficult to keep up each week. I will miss working with these ladies so much, but I will be participating in challenges at every opportunity. Thanks Andrea for giving me this great opportunity to work with your fabulous stamps!!

This month's sketch challenge is below:



I chose to work with an image from Mother's Day Bouquet as it fits the circle element perfectly:

I stamped the vase on some retired Berry Bliss paper and coloured the roses with Copics. After die cutting around the image with my circle nesties, I stamped the roses again and adhered them to the main image. I used some Purely Pomegranate ribbon, tucking it under my image. This was layered on a panel of more Berry Bliss paper matted with Chocolate Chip cardstock. Some pearls were added around the top of my circle.

The base for my card was made with Pink Pirouhette cardstock, cutting the front smaller than the back and edging it with my Scallop border punch. Finally, I stamped the sentiment from Acacia in Chocolate Chip ink.

To finish the inside I scallop edged some pale pink Berry Bliss DP and some Chocolate Chip card. Another layer of Berry Bliss DP was added along the right hand side. Again the sentiment stamped in Chocolate Chip ink is from Acacia.

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.

Supplies
Stamps: Acacia, Mother's Day Bouquet (AnnaBelle Stamps)
Cardstock: Pink Pirouhette, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Berry Bliss DP - retired (SU)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Chocolate Chip (SU)
Accessories: Scallop border punch,  Purely Pomegranate ribbon - retired (SU); white pearls (Kaisercraft)

Say It In Red, Cream and Chocolate!

Hello again and happy Friday!!! My favourite day of the week!! This week the challenge colours over at AnnaBelle Stamps are red, cream and chocolate - a gorgeous colour combo!! Here is my card:

I started my stamping my Lil' Michelle with Teddy in Tuxedo Black ink on Very Vanilla cardstock and then coloured her in with copics. Her shirt was stamped on some red DP and then cut out and paper pieced. I added some cross stitching near her feet to ground my image using some linen thread. The border down the side was created by using a strip of retired Bella Rose DP and edging it with my Upper Crest border punch. Another strip of DP was added along with some Chocolate ribbon. I stamped my sentiment from All Things Grow in Chocolate Chip ink on a tiny tag die cut and adhered this behind my cream crochet flower and finished off with a red button in the flower centre which I attached with the thread left over after crocheting.

I followed the same recipe on the inside, stamping another sentiment from All Things Grow in Chocolate Chip ink and cross stitching underneath. Some more strips of ribbon and DP were added along the side.

Make sure you take a look at the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to see all of this week's creations and link up your card for this week's challenge. The details are explained 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 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.

Supplies
Stamps: Lil' Michelle With Teddy, All Things Grow (AnnaBelle Stamps)
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Bella Rose DP - retired, Berry Bliss DP - retired (SU); Crevat DP - After Five collection (Kaisercraft)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Chocolate Chip (SU)
Accessories: Copics; Upper Crest border punch (Fiskars); Chocolate Chip ribbon, mat pack (SU); paper piercer; linen thread; cream crochet thread; red button; corner rounder

AnnaBelle Stamps Blog Hop - All Things Grow

Hi everyone,

Its time for another AnnaBelle Stamps Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from Patti's blog. If not, begin your hop over at the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to start and see all the gorgeous creations! This fortnight we are showcasing All Things Grow:

This is a really beautiful set to work with, so I really had fun experimenting with this card (and my new camera!!):

I started by scoring a line across my main panel and then stamping one of the images repeatedly with Crumb Cake ink. I then stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment in Versamark and Tuxedo Black ink and heat embossed with clear powder. Beside this I stamped one of the butterfly images in Real Red ink and carefully used my craft knife to cut along one side of his wings to give them a little lift. I sprinkled some glitter along the wings and also on the edge of the cut section. This panel was finished off by adding some more glitter with Scor Tape just below my scored line and then I matted it on to some True Black cardstock. I wrapped some red AnnaBelle ribbon around my cream card base twice and then adhered my main panel on top.

On the inside I stamped another sentiment from All Things Grow in Tuxedo Black ink and added a strip of ribbon and a line of glitter along the bottom, before mattiing on some more True Black cardstock. Finally I stamped the same butterfly in Crumb Cake ink, adhering this to my ribbon with Scor Tape.

Below are the details of this week's blog hop and make sure you  finish by hopping over to the AnnaBelle Stamps blog.

Blog Hop

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 here on the ABS blog.  You don't have to comment on all of our blogs, just remember to add your name for your chance to win this fabulous set!  The hop will run for 1 week!

Along with each of our blog hops we will announce our special deal that will run for the same week.

HOPPIN' DEAL

ANY purchase that includes the All Things Grow set from Tuesday 19th July - 26th July will receive a pack of 6mm Sprinkles - FREE!

If you haven't tried our Sprinkles then this is a perfect chance to give them a go!  Just add the colour you'd like to the comments section at checkout :)  If you are the winner of the set and you purchased it during the deal you can choose another set of the same size! 

Supplies
Stamps: All Things Grow (AnnaBelle Stamps)
Cardstock: Very Vanilla (SU); True Black (PTI)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Crumb Cake, Real Red (SU); Versamark
Accessories: Red Single Stitched ribbon (AnnaBelle Stamps); Dazzling Diamonds glitter, clear embossing powder (SU); craft knife; Scor Pal; Scor Tape

Say It in...Kraft, White and Green!

At AnnaBelle Stamps this week, the challenge is to say it in Kraft,White and Green. I chose to work with All Things Grow for this card:

I stamped the image twice in Certainly Celery ink and once in the centre in Old Olive ink and then stamped the sentiment from Ballerina Rose over the top. I finished off this panel by adding a punched Kraft butterfly and matting it on a Kraft panel. This was then mounted on foam dimensional tape and adhered to a white layer which had been scored at 1/2 inch intevals vertically. I tied some satin Kraft ribbon around the bottom, threading it through a white button. This layer was then adhered to a Kraft base which had been edged along the bottom with my Upper Crest border punch.

The inside has a sentiment stamped in Old Olive ink from the Acacia set and a tiny punched butterfly to finish it off. Please bear with me and my photos - I am experimenting each time as I am not happy with my shots taken at night as I don't have a light tent or great lamps and so I am slowly trying out my SLR camera outside (which I did on my last post) and am becoming very frustrated with the outcome. I have seen so many amazing blogs out there with fabulous photography, but it will take me a lot of practice unfortunately to have the same look! Anyway - here are the details for this week's challenge and be sure to have a look at the rest of the team's creations.

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.

Supplies
Stamps: All Things Grow, Acacia, Ballerina Rose (AnnaBelle Stamps)
Cardstock: Kraft, Select White (PTI)
Ink: Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Crumb Cake (SU)
Accessories: butterfly punch (Martha Stewart); Scor-Pal; Kraft ribbon (SU); Upper Crest border punch (Fiskars); white butoon; dimensional tape

AnnaBelle Stamps Blog Hop - Backgrounds By Design 4 & Lil' Monster's Balloon

 

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!  

You should have arrived here from Patti's blog. If not, begin your hop over at the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to start your hop.

This week we are focusing on two fabulous sets - Backgrounds By Design 4:

and Lil'Monster's Balloon:

Here is my card:

I kept it very simple, stamping my Lil' Monster on some white cardstock which I adhered onto my white base. I coloured him in with Copics and paper pieced his balloon and shirt. For the strip down the side, I edged some Riding Hood Red cardstock with my Upper Crest border punch and then added two small strips stamped with the star backround from Backgrounds By Design 4 in Pumpkin Pie and So Saffron inks.

On the inside I stamped my sentiment in both Riding Hood Red ink and Bashful Blue. I stamped the balloon twice and paper pieced these also with the same DP.

These are such versatile and fun sets to work with. Make sure you hop on over to the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to finish. Thanks for visiting!

ETA: Sorry this card was late getting onto my blog - I had scheduled it but Blogger didn't want to cooperate and it wasn't until I got home late tonight that I realised!

Bye!

Supplies

Stamps: Lil' Monster's Balloon, Backgrounds By Design 1 (AnnaBelle Stamps)

Cardstock: Select White (PTI); Riding Hood Red, Washington Apple DP - Retired (SU)

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Riding Hood Red, Bashful Blue (SU)

Accessories: Upper Crest border punch (Fiskars); Copic Markers

Say It With..... Frames!!

Back with this week's challenge over at AnnaBelle Stamps!! This one had me stumped for a while - Say It With Frames! I decided to take this on literally and make the front of my card like a photo frame.

I used some old Apricot Appeal cardstock for my base and then stamped my image from the Helen's Party set onto white cardstock, coloured it with Copics and adhered this to the card front. Her trousers and shirt have been paper pieced - one of my favourite techniques.

To create the frame I cut a rectangle from some retired Groovy Guava cardstock and adhered my designer paper to the front. I then ruled up a rectangle which I cut out of both layers with my craft knife. All I can say is I seriously need to invest in some rectangle nesties, as this was such a fiddly job! I then attached the frame to the cardfront with some foam tape to add dimension and used some alphabet letters to spell out my 'happy...' sentiment. I finished off the front with some blue and white flowers with silver rhinestones in the centres.

I used more of the designer paper for the inside layering some white cardstock in the centre. Only the 'Birthday' sentiment was inked up, omitting 'Happy'. I also used the presents from the same set which I coloured in with Copics.

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.

 

Thanks for visiting and make sure you check out the rest of the girls' creations over at the AnnaBelle Stamps blog!

Supplies
Stamps: Helen's Party (AnnaBelle Stamps)
Cardstock: Groovy Guava, Apricot Appeal, Baja Breeze DP (retired), Whisper White (SU); Happy Day DP (SEI)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Pumpkin Pie (SU)
Accessories: flowers (Prima); silver rhinestones (Kaisercraft); Copic markers; foam dimensional tape

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