Hello everyone and welcome to the AnnaBelle Friday Feature Blog Hop! We are very excited tonight to be sharing two brand new sets that we have been featuring over the last 4 weeks with little sneak peeks and today is the big reveal. This is also my last post on the ABS team. I've gotten a little too busy with, well... LIFE! My doctor who is dealing with my chronic fatique and Fibromyalgia is always telling me to JUST SAY NO, and make sure I have rest every day. That's hard to do in a fast-paced world like ours, but I'm starting to make some good changes. I have enjoyed working with Andrea and the other girls on the team so much, and I wish them all the best...
Onto my card:
I really love stamping on kraft cardstock. It is more subtle than stamping on a bright colour, but I enjoy the chalky effect of pigment inks (in this case I used Memento Luxe) on the kraft. I got the ombre effect by inking the stamp from yellow - to orange - to red and when the colours overlapped I tapped very gently to get the colours to mix.
You can't see where one colour ends and the other begins, right? This is such a cool background stamp, it's a staple in my collection now, for sure.
Here's a look at the sets:
Wedding Medallion
This set of 18 images and sentiments includes a large medallion that is approximately 9cm in diameter as well as gorgeous sentiments perfect for the couple in love! We've teamed it with the background below!
BBD9 - Elegance
This huge background stamp measures nearly 13.5cm x 15cm so will be perfect for the Australian sized C6 card as well as large 13cm square cards! Yum!
Do you want to win both of these sets???
Follow along with our hop starting at Andrea's blog, Stamping Moments, leaving a comment as you visit each of the Belles blogs. Mine is the last stop, so if you've done the hop, add your name to the Inlinkz at the bottom of the post on the ABS Blog. You have until Sunday evening 8.00pm AEDT to join in and one lucky person will win both of these sets! Be sure to help us out by letting you friends know!
Happy hopping everyone!
Hi there! I'm showcasing a card today featuring a new set from Annabelle Stamps that's
going to be released at the end of the month. I've waited a looooong time to use
this set because I've had a few ideas percolating for a while now!
I don't think I've mentioned this before, but I splurged and got the entire set of Memento Luxe Ink pads
and have been playing around with them. Consensus: I love them! They give a perfect, bold impression every time. The only drawback is that because they're a pigment ink, and VERY juicy, they take
a long time to dry. I always have to remind myself to heat-set when I'm finished.
There you have it, you'll have to wait for the big release on the 31st of January! Want a sneak peek of the sets??
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Well.... I guess it's time to move on from Christmas. I really do hate packing up all my seasonal stuff, especially since I didn't use half of the stamps and papers I wanted to!! December is just way too busy to get all of my holiday cardmaking done. Maybe I'll keep it around for a while and see what I can get done for Christmas 2014!
So in the spirit of moving on, here's a card I made for a couple of challenges and this has nothing to do with Christmas!!
So in the spirit of moving on, here's a card I made for a couple of challenges and this has nothing to do with Christmas!!
I made this card for the new Annabelle stamps sketch challenge (click here for all of the info) using Remember When. This whole card was made with white cardstock. All of the colours are Memento Luxe ink applied with the Ranger Ink Blending Tool.
In addition to the Annabelle challenge, I played along with the current Runway Inspired Challenge. Here's the inspiration photo:
That fabulous green-gold is a tough colour to create, so I layered, well... Greens and a golden yellow ink. I also added some Taupe accents because the only other neutral besides the white/cream colours was her skin!
Thanks for stopping by!! Happy New Year!
This was, by 25 blog posts, my busiest blog year. I had 4-6 design teams that I served on and it was quite the chore for me to juggle everything while maintaining my super-busy teaching schedule - but I came out alive! lol...
I am looking forward to a more relaxed 2014 with only a few design teams on my plate and a lighter teaching load at my LSS. I am still quite busy with my music-teaching position and I only see myself getting
busier as time goes by. My choral program is building bigger and bigger every year
and it thrills me to no end to have all of my dear students involved!
In the tradition of many bloggers out there (and I've done it for 4 years now too), I am going to share MY favourite projects from 2013. I have gone through some creative changes this year and consider mixed media one of my forte's and one of my favourite ways to create cards. Copic is still up there, but I feel like I'm more versatile after this year...
So here we are:
January
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| The first of many mixed media canvases. |
February
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| Kind of wiener-obsessed after adopting one of my own! |
March
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| This year I really refined my shading-with-chalk-pencil technique. Love it! |
April
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| I designed my first stamp set this month! That was awesome. |
May
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| This card is one of my most-pinned cards. So simple though! |
June
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| Definitely got into Art Journalling this year. This page has been pinned almost 100 times! |
July
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| I started designing for Annabelle Stamps. They're gorgeous!! |
August
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| Another Annabelle Stamps card. I held on to this one!! |
September
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| This is a cute little canvas book I painted. It was a lot of fun... |
October
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| PanPastels came into my life and it's been great. |
November
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| One of TSGs fastest selling stamp sets. So sad that TSG is gone now... |
December
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| I gave this to my train-loving Dad. This was a fun card to make! |
Just like last year I noticed my propensity for using black cardstock. I must vow to use more of my delicious Bazzill Cardshoppe this year!! But I love the addition of my new mixed media supplies - it's definitely influenced my style for the better.. (I think?!?!)
I'd LOVE it if you commented with a link to YOUR top cards of 2013! I just love looking at everyone's best projects at a glance. Head over to the Catered Crop and share your "Top 2013" creations for a chance to guest design with them! Take care, and Happy New Year!!
I haven't been very at filling it yet, but I bought a Christmas Smash Journal to record memories from this year's Christmas happenings. My family and I are flying to my parents place for the holidays, so hopefully we'll create some exciting memories for me to share!
I was drawn to the album because a lot of the pages were really beautiful and really "on-trend" (I hate that term, but it was appropriate) but I just needed to add a few personal touches..
This is one of the first pages. It's supposed to be for Black Friday, but 1) we don't have that in Canada, and 2) I'm not going to journal about Black Friday.
I added some stamps (from Annabelle Stamp's Merry Messages) to personalize:
Then I journalled:
This page was really cute to start with:
But I added a little heading:
Have a great day!!
Topical Tuesday: Chalkboard Ornaments
- December 10, 2013
- By Tobi Crawford
- 2 Comments
Hi there,I'm here with a fun kid-friendly Topical Tuesday for Annabelle Stamps!
I bought a package of plain, clear Christmas ornaments knowing I wanted to decorate them somehow, so really this was all just playing around...
First, we painted our ornaments with Black Gesso. Yes, there's BLACK gesso! It dries matte so I figured it would look just like chalkboard paint (because I didn't have any...).
Next, using a few stamps from Holly Jolly Christmas, I stamped in white pigment ink onto the ornament. Hint: don't mount the stamps on anything. Use your fingers to help the stamp hug the curves of the ornament.
So when all was said and done, I liked the clean-and-simple look of the black and white (with a touch of red) better than my attempt at colour:
I still have a few ornaments left to decorate, I wonder what I'll do with them??!!
Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoyed my post today!
Hello all, thank you for joining us tonight for the very last challenge of 2013! This month it's all about colour, and these would be perfect for lots of different occasions including Christmas! So grab out your stamps and join in with us!!
Here's my card for the challenge:
I tried and tried to find some papers that matched the colour-scheme, but it was no good... So I went about finding some PanPastels that worked.. I don't have a lot of them so I had a compromise on a couple of the colours, but that's ok, right? Instead of using regular cardstock I used Ranger's "Specialty Stamping Paper." It's basically a low-gloss glossy paper. It was interesting to try to get the PanPastels to show up (the blues didn't like it at all) but once I found some colours that worked it ended up looking kind of like marble...
I used stamps from the Holly Jolly Christmas set and used a little wire twine to string them together. Do you like the glitter paper?? I can't resist using it around the holidays..
Want to play along with the challenge?
Head on over to the Annabelle Stamps Blog to check out the DT samples! Remember to be eligible for the $20.00 Discount Coupon you must use AnnaBelle Stamps and follow the guidelines HERE!
Hi guys! So today I got a new toy: the eBosser, so I had a bunch of die-cuts laying around and said to myself, "Hey! I can use those!!"
I die cut: the tag, the snowflake rosette, the green snowflake, and the tattered strips. To add some textural elements to the tag I stamped some snowflake circles onto the patterned paper with today's featured set, Round For Christmas, and embossed it with white EP.
Then I stamped a couple sentiments onto the strip.
I have quite the collection of holiday tags, so if you need any, LET ME KNOW!! ;)
Have a great weekend!
Why is it that Christmas cards are so easy to make? The ideas just keep coming and coming and my only hope is that I will have enough time to use all of my pretty stamps before the big day!
Here are a couple of cards made with some new Annabelle Stamps:
I am teaching a mixed media card class at Clipper Street and this card is a combination of a couple ideas from it. The sentiment is from Annabelle's set called Merry Messages and I stamped it on vellum with Staz-on. Plus... that beautiful poinsettia by Spellbinders - it's a "classic" in my Christmas repertoire.
This uses Merry Messages again, this time paired with these adorable stamps from Hero Arts. They are a few years old (like maybe, 5 years old!!) but are still one of my fav's. CUTE CUTE CUTE!!
Check out all three NEW Christmas sets here, and have a great week!
Check out all three NEW Christmas sets here, and have a great week!
I'm so excited that we're all thinking about Christmas!! I had a little choir rehearsal at my house last night and my students were thrilled that I was playing Christmas music... YAY!!
For this month's challenge I used some BRAND-NEW stamps from Annabelle... Just released yesterday! Check out my card:
Absolutely non-traditional colours, but these papers are all from this year's Pink Paislee Christmas collection. I love them because they are rustic and woodsy and warm.. All good things when it comes to Christmas.
For the sentiment and main image I used stamps from Holly Jolly Christmas. I stamped the wreath in green then added white and red Liquid Pearls. It was a snap and yet so pretty!
Check out the Annabelle Stamps Blog for more challenge details!
Hi there! I have a little step-by-step tutorial up at the Annabelle Stamps blog today. I got to the point with my Dylusions Art Journal where it was FULL (ie: too thick to add any more stuff) so I bought a new one. That meant I had to decorate the inside cover of the journal and this was the perfect opportunity...
There are so many ways to apply PanPastels and using VersaMark as a bonding agent is a fun way to use the pastels with stamps.
So head over to the Annabelle Stamps Blog to see the tutorial. Have an awesome day!
Welcome to our Friday Feature and this week we are playing with the set Sentimental Bluebells! I have used this set a bunch of times; the images are timeless and so easy to work with... Here's my card today:
I stamped the image on watercolour paper with Archival ink and coloured with Distress Markers. I love going around the edges of the image with Distress Markers - it's really easy to get that soft glow... Even easier if you have the Tim Holtz wide water pen. It's lots of fun!
So let's see what the Belles have created for us this week and because it's our Friday Feature stamp set it's been reduced by 20% for the next week, so get in quick before all stock goes!!
Welcome to Annabelle's new monthly challenge! This month we have a sketch to work with, nice and simple, not too hard, open to interpretation! Make this sketch your own! Me, I generally stick to what I see, my imagination doesn't work too well, but I'm always amazed at what others see from the same sketch!
I did a little fancy stamping with my new Annabelle Stamps and some Distress Markers! I coloured various blue and grey markers on the large background stamp from Scribble Scrabble 1 then took a deep breath and "huffed" some warm air on the stamp to re-energize the ink. Then stamped! The sentiment was a combo of some thought bubble stamps from Scribble Scrabble 2 and the sentiment from #1.
We have our new guidelines in place which you can find HERE, so be sure to have a browse of those if you are new to AnnaBelle Stamps Blog :)
The Top3 will now be picked by you! All entries will now close 2 days prior to the next challenge going live and a reminder will be sent out for you to come by and vote for you favourites! It just seems like a lot of fun, so we'll see how it goes :)
Hello and welcome to the Annabelle Stamps September Blog Hop!! This month we have two brand new clear sets as well as a brand new digital product called Printable Pages!!
To start are our new clear sets Scribble Scrabble 1 & 2. These are large 6" x 8" sets and you can see we've created a theme for each - round for 1 and squares for 2! This could open the way for all sorts of shapes to come don't you think :-)
First up is my card with Scribble Scrabble 2:
As you may have noticed, I've been loving making my own backgrounds lately and this set is AWESOME for that kind of stuff! I chose some funky colours and stamped the shape randomly all over the cardstock. When the ink dried I "scribbled" around the shapes... Fun, right?
And here's my card with the printable pages:
I coloured the image with pencil crayons and odourless mineral spirits... Was a fun change!
We have two prizes to give away this month! One person will receive Scribble Scrabble 1 and Christmas 1 and another the Scribble Scrabble 2 and Christmas 2!! All you need to do is follow along with our hop and comment as you go before heading back to this blog to add your name on the Inlinkz below, it's so easy and you don't need a blog to play along!! The Inlinkz will stay open until Sunday night 8.00pm AEST so you have a full 48hrs to play along and share with your friends :)
Next on the hop is Marcia Pringle!
Enjoy!
Annabelle Stamps September Sneak Peek
- September 25, 2013
- By Tobi Crawford
- 3 Comments
Hello everyone! We are very excited to be sharing with you some sneak peeks of our September release happening this Friday!!! It's a little bit of a giveaway that might have something to do with Christmas!!
To begin we have a few projects to share little teasers of from the Belles below and you'll have to go to their blogs to see the full project ahead of the full reveal on Friday :)
I have two projects for you today! Hooray!
I don't know what it is, but I think I love grey, black and turquoise for Christmas. Clean, simple, and graphic. The tree was decorated with a little touch of black glitter. This baby really sparkles!
Card #2:
Thought bubbles are so in and I am so glad I have a set to play with now! lol!! People love cards like this - no fuss, no muss... I especially love the scrabble sentiment!
Head on over to the Annabelle Stamps blogs for the whole blog hop! Some cool prizes are in store *wink wink*
