Topical Tuesday #55 - Watercoloured Lil Bee

Hi all and welcome to Topical Tuesday!  Today I've watercoloured Lil Bee using Aquarelle Art Grip Pencils.

Here's my completed card :

In the video below I'll show you how quick and easy it is to do a simple watercolour with very few colours!  Once my bee was finished I actually went back and added some orange to him to give him a lift, then sponged the card with Scattered Straw and edged the top corner with Barn Door.

The centre green panel is white textured card that I've swiped with Distress Ink Evergreen Bough, then embossed and brayered again with green to highlight it.  The sides are simple Barn Door swiped down to colour!

I hope you enjoyed the video!  Ask away if you have any questions and if you 'd like to share your watercolour creations add them HERE on our ning website - Stamp Embellish Create - remembering to include this week's tag - tt055

Hugs for now,

Andrea

AC157

Hi all!  Yes it's time for a new challenge and this week it's a sketch to follow/interpret, and what an unusual one, well for me anyway lol!  Play along with us and you could be our challenge favourite and win a Discount Coupon for $15.00 to spend at the AnnaBelle store!!

First up is our guest Belle Janet!

Here are the Belles fabulous designs!

Therese

Sue

Kylie

Marion

Gayatri

Andrea

We cannot wait to see your cards/projects over the next 2 weeks!  

Hugs for now,

Andrea

AC156 Challenge Favourite!

Can you believe 2 weeks have passed by so quickly!!  I can't!  It's time to announce the AC156 Colour Challenge Favourite and Top 3, so are you ready?!?

Congratulations to Alshandra, you're our 'Favourite' this week!  Here is Alshandra's bright and fun card :

Email me for details of your prize and special blinkie!

Now our Top 3!

Andrea

Lynne

Jess

Be sure to grab your blinkie ladies from the blinkie page!

We have a new challenge tonight to share so join us back here at 8.00pm AEDT!

Hugs for now,

Andrea :)

Topical Tuesday~More Fun With Sprinkles(tt054)

Hi Guys,

It's Kylie here with another Topical Tuesday post and today I have something a little different for you, a storage idea, a hint and a mini tutorial lol!

As some of you might know I LOVE Sprinkles and Andrea has an Awesome range in the store in the most gorgeous colours in sizes 3mm, 4mm, 5mm and 6mm but my favourite colour would have to be Icicle followed by Chilli and Cherry lol and don't forget that the Sprinkles also come in Hearts and they are sooooooooo very pretty, don't forget to check them out lol!

First a storage idea for your Sprinkles...

When you receive your Sprinkles they come packed in cute little baggies...

and I put my Sprinkles in plastic craft divided containers that you can get from your discount variety or hardware stores and I purchased mine for about $1.50 each and I have one for each of the different sizes...

This container is holding my 6mm Sprinkles and I have written the colours on top of the lid and this is working really well for me lol and I have all my Sprinkle containers packed on top of one another in my craft trolley and in easy reach lol!

Now onto a card using my favourite Icicle Sprinkles and an hint on how to apply your Sprinkles onto your project!

I have printed off a sheet of Digi Paper in Rose from the Chilli family and adhered my sentiment banner and my 'Happy Birthday' sentiment comes from Fanciful Flowers Stamp Set!

I then stamp my Sprinkle flourish from the stamp set 'Flourishes' Stamp Set that has been designed to be used with ABS 3mm Sprinkles and you use the dots as a guide to create a bling flourish(don't worry the end of my banner will be covered with a flower lol)

I have placed my Rose stamped panel onto my White card base and
Now here's my *Hint* lol and the easy way to apply your Sprinkles lol!  Using Embellie Gellie that is available form the ABS Store!

Using a little Kindy Glitz Gem Clear(also available n the ABS store)apply a little amount to your dots and using the Embellie Gellie pick up your Sprinkles and place directly on top of the adhesive

Look how the Embellie Gellie grabs the Sprinkle and as soon as you place it on your adhesive it comes off the Embellie Gellie like magic lol!

Continue placing your Sprinkles on your dot guide to create your Bling Flourish!  I have not placed any Sprinkles on the top and bottom of the flourishes as seen in the pic as I'm placing a flower there and to save Sprinkles lol!

To finish off my card I have made a flower using a piece of Digi Paper also from the Chilli family in Rose Dots and used my Silhouette to cut out a flower, placed three Icicle Sprinkles in the center and placed my flower on the card and a scattering of Sprinkles to finish off!

My finished card:

and here's a close up of my Sprinkle Flourishes:

Supplies Used:
AnnaBelle Stamps:  'Flourishes' and 'Fanciful Flowers' Stamp Sets, ABS Smooth White Cardstock, Chilli Digi Paper, 3mm Icicle Sprinkles, Embellie Gellie, Kindy Glitz Clear Gem

Other:  Black Memento Ink

So how do you store your Sprinkles?

If you like create a project with 'Sprinkle Flourishes', I would love to see what you create and don't forget to share your creations HERE in the Ning gallery using tag tt054

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Till next time, have a wonderful week!

Hugs,
Kylie XX

Blog Hop Winner!

Hi all!  Thank you so much for playing along with our February Blog Hop and release!  We had such fun sharing our new stamps and dies with you :)

We had a bit of a late comment but I thought I would include Lynne in the draw hence the different number :)

Congratulations this month to lucky number 2....Nicole!  Please email me your details and I'll send your prize out to you!

Continue to have a wonderful day everyone and we'll see you back here tomorrow night with our regular Topical Tuesday post!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Friday Feature - Blog Hop!

Hi and welcome to Friday Feature!  This week we have a blog hop for you to showcase the release of the February sets and dies!

Let's get straight in to it with the all new sets!

Easter Blessings - 6" x 4"

Easter Chickadee - 3" x 4"

CBD005 - Easter Chickadee

CBD006 - Designer Flowers

For this weekend ONLY! 

Purchase the February Combo Deal of - Easter Blessings, Easter Chickadee and CBD005 - Easter Chickadee and save 20%!

We also have the brand new Cuts By Design - Designer Flowers reduced by 20%!  This die co-ordinates with our Designer Flowers set released last month!

Both these deals conclude this Sunday at midnight!!

Now are you ready to hop with us?  Would you like to perhaps win something for being so very nice?  Well join in the hop starting at my blog HERE...leave a comment on each of the Belles blogs as you go...like us on Facebook or here on the blog...and you could win the February Combo!  Pretty cool huh?!?  Want to purchase the deal but think what if I win it?  Don't worry!  If you have purchased the deal over the weekend and are the lucky person drawn from random.org then I will refund the purchase amount :)

So let's get hopping!  You have until Sunday night 8.00pm AEDT to add your name to the Inlinkz below!!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

P.S. Don't forget to tell your friends and have them join in as well!!

Topical Tuesday - Satin Ribbon Flowers (tt053)

Hi there,
It's Marion here from Made Marion, showing you how I create ribbon flowers using some of the gorgeous satin ribbons that can be found in the AnnaBelle store here. For today's project, I created a floral centrepiece for a gift box - perfect to give to someone special this coming Valentines.

Enjoy the video.

I can't wait to see what you create using this technique. I hope you will share them with us in the gallery found here (please use the tag tt053).

Thanks for stopping by,

Marion