Family Vacation

Thanks for stopping by today!  We are taking a short family holiday from tomorrow! With a family wedding on Monday and Tuesday being a public holiday - Melbourne Cup - we thought now would be a good time to spend some time with the boys, well two of them anyway.  It's a hard thing to get use to that Justin is now working and can't always come with us!!  

Shipping will resume on Wednesday the 9th November, but in the meantime there will be a storewide discount of 15%!!  This includes already discounted items, so the discount is applied on top of the original discount, which puts many of our discontinued sets at or below cost price!!
Our Blog Hop on Tuesday and regular challenge will still be here so be sure to pop by for a visit and play along :)

Thank you everyone for your continued support of AnnaBelle Stamps :)  From playing along with us each week to loving our stamps!!
Hugs,
Andrea

Say It In...Pink, Green & Kraft Favourite

What a week, and what a wonderful collection of cards and projects for us to look at!  I hope some of you managed to get around and see the beautiful work out there.
This weeks favourite goes to Chelsea with this gorgeous card.  Love the words and image :

Email me for details on your prize and blinkie Chelsea :)
Hugs for now,
Andrea

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Thank you to everyone who played along last week!  I haven't been around to everyones blog yet so I'll announce the favourite in just a little while :)
Nice clean lines, I think I like these the best, well at least I think they are the easiest to work with :)  Our sketch challenge is the last for the month and has a $15.00 gift voucher waiting for this weeks winner, so be sure to add the link to your project in time!
Karin has another stunner for us this week and it's her final project with us!  Thanks Karin for sharing some amazing inspiration with us with your gorgeous cards!!

Karin

Patti

Sue W

Marion

Kylie

Sue K

Andrea

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 11.00pm 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 $5.00 gift voucher.  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 :)
I can't wait to see what you all create this week to share!  Be sure to take a minute to pop by and visit other's that are playing along and see even more inspiration!!
Hugs,
Andrea
Some of the sets used by the team :

Blog Hop Winner!

Hi today!  Sorry I'm so late announcing the winner of our latest blog hop...I'm not sure what happened this afternoon!

Congratulations to number 6 Anni!  Please email with your details and I'll have your set sent out to you :)
See you all Friday for another super fun challenge!!
Hugs,
Andrea

Say It In...Pink, Green & Kraft

A fabulous combo, but then anything with kraft is fabulous to me lol!

Karin

Sue W

Patti

Marion

Sue K

Andrea

Did you see our little survey yesterday??  If you play along with our challenges we'd love for you answer a single question!  Check it out HERE!

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 11.00pm 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 $5.00 gift voucher.  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 :)

Can't wait to see your creations this week!!
Hugs,
Andrea

Say It With...Embellished Corners Favourite

Hi and thank you so much to everyone who played along this past week with our embellished corners theme!!  Your projects were inspirational!!  Our favourite for this week goes to Cath Dean who used beautiful butterflies to adorn her corners, something I would never have thought to do, so thanks Cath!  
Here is Cath's gorgeous card :

See you soon for our next challenge :)
Hugs,
Andrea

Our Challenges

Hi everyone!  As most of you may already know we have weekly challenges each attracting it's own small prize of a $5.00 gift certificate, with the sketch challenge at the end of the month having a $15.00 gift certificate.  I'd love to know what you think about this and if you'd like to see any changes :)
We could do two things :
Continue to have weekly challenges with favourites chosen and announced each week.  All entries from each month would then go in a random draw for a $30.00 gift voucher, so the more you play the more chance of winning!
Continue to have weekly challenges with favourites chosen and announced each week.  Have weekly prizes as we are doing now!
Which idea do you like?  What would you like to see here?  Do you have another idea?  Leave us a comment with your ideas, we'd love to hear from you!!
Take this very short survey (there's only the one question lol!) by following the link :
https://app.icontact.com/icp/sub/survey/start?sid=5257&cid=294839
Thanks for your time today!!
Hugs,
Andrea

AnnaBelle Blog Hop

Today's hop uses our brand new set Gifted Swirls as the inspiration!!  Have you seen our three new mini Christmas sets?  You can check out the release HERE!!  With any order over the next week that has all three new Christmas sets you'll receive a pack of our 6mm Sprinkles included in your parcel!  What fun :) 

Play along with our blog hop and you could win this set!!  It's so easy to play along, and you'll want to start at our Guest Designers blog - Karin!
See you on the hop!
Hugs,
Andrea

Say It With...Embellished Corners

Hi all!  I hope you've had a fabulous week!!  I was jumping up and down with excitement yesterday when I purchased my copy of this months Australian Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft because our very own Sue K made the front cover...with one of our stamps!  Grab yourself a copy and see her amazing projects inside!

The fabulous Belles have again come up with some amazing projects using our challenge theme this week!  We hope you can play along and join in the fun!  First up we have our Guest Designer :

Karin

Sue K

Sue W

Kylie

Marion

Patti

Sue W 2

Andrea

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Andrea

Say It In...Yellow, Lime & Chocolate Favourite

This weeks favourite created a beautiful cheery card using a sunflower image!  Congratulations to NanaConnie for her wonderful card :

Email me for the details of your prize :)
See you all very soon!!
Hugs,
Andrea

Blog Hop Winner!

Hi today!  Another fun hop is over and we have a winner of our brand new set - Round For Christmas!

Congratulations today goes to Denise B!  Please email me with your details and I'll get this set sent out to you :)

Hugs for today :)
Andrea

Say It In...Yellow, Lime & Chocolate

Hi today!  Did you enjoy seeing the new sets??  I love Christmas sets so it's easy to get excited about them lol!  We had such fun playing with them and we hope you will as well :)  They are still available with FREE shipping when you purchase all three of the new sets and use the code - octfree - but for a limited time only!!

A lot of the girls have the Christmas theme happening again today so lets sit back and enjoy the show!  Our Guest Designer Karin is up first!

Karin

  Sue W

Marion

Patti 1

Sue K

Kylie

Patti 2

Andrea

Well there you go, Christmas can be in shades of yellow, lime and chocolate lol!

It's your turn to play and share with us so be sure to add your link to the Inlinkz below or in the sidebar of this blog.  This challenge is open to anyone using any stamps or embellishments, so get your creation linked today!  The weekly prize of a $5.00 gift voucher and a special blinkie goes to the favourite choice each week!!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

ABSC042 Favourite

Thank you, thank you ladies for a fabulous group of cards using our sketch!  We loved them all!!
Congratulations this week goes to Jenny H with this great male card :

Thanks for playing along and sharing with us Jenny!  Email me and I will send you the code for your blinkie and Gift Certificate from AnnaBelle Stamps!!
See you all soon ladies with this weeks great colour challenge!!
Hugs,
Andrea

AnnaBelle Blog Hop

Welcome to our first Blog Hop for October!!  Today we are sharing with you the first full look at our brand new releases for October!!  This is always exciting and we love to hear what you think!  We have also just started daylight savings here so we will either all be spot on or we could be out by an hour LOL!  So if you find that the link is broken..we'll pick it up again soon 'cause we'd love you to come by for a visit :)

Round For Christmas

Gifted Swirls

Ornamental Christmas

BBD6

To help make your Christmas card making a breeze we are offering 'FREE Postage' (regular/standard post) when you purchase all three new Christmas sets!!  Simply key in the code -  octfree  - at checkout!

Now let's take a wonder around and see what the DT have come up with today!  Our Blog Hop set this week is Round For Christmas and we have a very special Guest Designer joining us!  Karin from Peppermint Patty's Papercraft  will be with us for October which is very exciting!  

Starting with Karin make your way around the DT adding your name to the Inlinkz and you could be the randomly picked winner of the set Round For Christmas!!

Our 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, but we'd love to hear what you think, just remember to add your name for your chance to win this fabulous set!

Happy hopping :)

Hugs,

Andrea

Sneak Peek Day 3

Today I'm giving you a little look at two sets, one is another Christmas set and the second a brand new Backgrounds By Design!  I love my background stamps so this is another great one for my collection :)

This Christmas set is called Ornamental Christmas (easy!) and the background BBD6 (easy again!).  Sometimes the names are harder for me than anything else lol!
Thanks for stopping by and sharing our Sneak Peeks with us!  We hope you can come back tomorrow for the full show of each of the sets, a little blog candy and a great deal on these new sets! 
Until then, hugs,
Andrea

Sneak PeekDay 2

Today we have another of our October release Sneak Peeks to share!

This little set is called Gifted Swirls and has a lot of possibilities!  I can't wait to see what the DT creates with this one!
See you tomorrow with our last Sneak Peek before we head in to our Blog Hop on Tuesday!
Hugs,
Andrea

Sneak Peek Day 1

I must say that I am especially excited this week to be showing you some sneak peeks of our four new sets for October, because - like a lot of people - I love Christmas, and I love it even more if I'm ORGANISED lol!...And this year I WILL be!

 This first set is called Round For Christmas and I wonder if the name gives a little something away??
See you tomorrow with another!
Hugs,
Andrea