Black Magic - tt051

Hello,

Sue here, and it's my turn to try and inspire you to join in the fun that we call Topical Tuesday.  

I thought I'd share a card made using the Black Magic technique. In short it's just stamping a solid image using white pigment ink to black card. Once the ink is dry you add colour with colouring pencils.  

Requirements:

A solid image.  

Black card.

White Pigment Ink.

Colouring Pencils.

Card for your base card.

Embellishments to complete your card.

Heat Gun. (possibly)

1.  Using white pigment ink stamp your solid image to black card. Use a heat gun to dry the ink well before colouring. (or like me, go make dinner whilst it dries:))

2.  Colour over the white ink using (Prisma) colouring pencils. For my card I used three shades of a colour for the larger flowers and two for the smaller ones and stems.  

 3.  I dry blended the colours for the flowers and left a little of the white ink showing on some too.

Here's the finished card, I added some  highlights using a white gel pen to finish off the black panel.

This is a fun, easy technique.........why not give it a try! Add your project to the gallery at Stamp Embellish Create giving it the TAG tt051........I'd love to see your version:)

Thanks for taking the time today........

AnnaBelle Stamps Products:

Garden Silhouettes, Sentiment is from Designer Flower

Smooth White Card

Classic Cherry Digital Paper Pack (Apricot)

6mm Gingham ribbon - Lollipop

Pearls.

AC155

It's time for a new sketch to play along with! I love sketch challenges and I love seeing how people interpret them, so let's see what the Belles came up with!

Please welcome back our Guest Belle Janet with a gorgeous card using Lil Monster - isn't he adorable!

Therese

Sue

Gayatri

Marion

Kylie

Danielle

Andrea

Thanks for stopping by and we look forward to paying you a visit this fortnight!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

AC154 Favourite!

Welcome to Friday!  It's time to announce the winner of our colour challenge #154 and to say thank you to everyone who played along, it was such a treat to visit each of your blogs!

This week out faFavourites spot goes to Andrea with this gorgeous card :

Thanks Andrea!  Email me and I'll send through the details of your prize and blinkie!

Now our Top 3, and you've all made this very hard once again!

Patti P

Jeanette

Gillian

Amazing ladies, thank you for the inspiration!  Be sure to grab you blinkie for your sidebars from the blinkie page!

See you all later on tonight for a brand new challenge and samples from the Belles!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Topical Tuesday #50 - Working With Inktense Pencils

Hi all and welcome back for this weeks Topical Tuesday!  This week it's my turn so I thought what a great opportunity to show you how easy it is to create the vibrant background to the card I made for our release blog hop using Inktense pencils.  I love working with these pencils!  They are so vibrant and rich and because they are permanent once dry you work and build on the colour without effecting whats underneath!

Unfortunately with the video the lamp I used to brighten my work area left the videoed result a little washed out, but I hope you can still get the idea on how I made this card!  You simply can't go wrong with these pencils and the more you play with them the more you become addicted to them!

Thanks for stopping by and watching!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Blog Hop Winners!!

Good morning all!   I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and you all enjoyed the hop of our new release sets!  Sorry I didn't get to the announcement last night, but I'm here now with the good news :)

The winner of the sets is # 36 Lyndal

And the winner of the ribbons is #22 Joyce

Please contact me with your details and I'll get your prizes ready!

Thank you everyone for sharing in our excitement and fun!  We hope this year our hops will grow with more and more joining in :)

Have a wonderful day everyone and I'll see you tomorrow night with our next Topical Tuesday!

Hugs for now,

Andrea :)

Friday Feature - Blog Hop!

It's time to hop and time to share with you our first release for 2013!!!  

First up let's take a look at the sets!

Designer Flowers

This is a 6" x 8" set of 26 images and sentiments, and could be used for many occasions!

Standing Tall

This is a 6" x 4" set of 9 images and sentiments and is fun to colour as well as makes for a very quick CAS card if needed!

Along with the 2 sets tonight we have new ribbon in the store, and it's gorgeous!  We've started out our gingham ribbon range with 6 colours and in 2 widths - 6mm & 16mm!  Aren't they beautiful!

So now let's talk about how we're going to celebrate the release!  Firstly you can play/hop along with us from now until 8.00pm Sunday 20th January by leaving a comment on each of the Belles blogs and adding your name to the Inlinkz below, and you do not have to have a blog to enter!  There will be 2 randomly selected winners!!  The first will receive both of the above sets and the second will receive 2m of each of the colours of gingham ribbon in either the 6mm or 16mm (winners choice).

Now because it's a Feature Friday we have a discount, so for those who love both sets we are offering them at 20% off!  Can you believe it!  Follow the link HERE to the Combo price pack in the store (don't place the sets in your cart individually)!!  The reduced amount will apply until midnight this Sunday, and don't worry, if you're the lucky winner I'll refund the set amount and include some samples ribbon for you :)

So let's start hopping!

Head to my blog HERE  then follow on from there!  If you get a little lost then come back here and I will have hopefully added in the links :)

Have fun!

Hugs for now,

Andrea x


Blog Hop Order :
Andrea
Sue
Kylie
Marion
Therese
Danielle
Gayatri

Giveaway Winner!

Thank you to you all for helping to promote our release and blog hop tonight!

We have a winner and would like to congratulate #5 Rebecca!  Contact me via email with your details and I'll get your parcel organised!

Hugs till later this evening,

Andrea