AC157 Favourite

Good afternoon all!  It's time to announce our sketch favourite for our last challenge!  We had 21 amazing entries which we thank you so much for, we love coming for a visit!

AC157 Challenge Favourite is....Gillian!

Contact me via email Gillian and I'll send through the details of your prize and blinkie!

Now our Top 3!

Dorothy

Brenda

Pam

Be sure to grab your blinkies ladies!

See you all this evening with a brand new challenge!!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Topical Tuesday #56 - Mixed Media Card

Welcome to our Topical Tuesday!  This week and next week I'm afraid you'll be seeing me again as we do a bit of catch up with the Belle DT changes happening at the moment, so I hope you won't be bored, I do tend to do something with pencils!

This week I'm calling our TT a 'Mixed Media Card'.  Now I'll be honest here, I don't actually know what mixed media exactly stands for, but to me it sounds like when you use lots of different things to colour, and different mediums to add texture or highlight, so with that I made this card.  When I started, apart from the three panels and the first 3 colours of pencil I didn't know what I was going to do, I even had a different stamp out to use :)

The card is for a friends Mum who's birthday it is today, and I said to my friend - vibrant or pastel?  Well she chose vibrant, I hope she isn't too shocked with what she'll be getting lol!  Don't worry I'm not really late with the card, my friend won't be seeing her Mum until Friday, phew!

I have a video below but I will detail the colours I've used just in case you'd like to know, and hopefully in sequence :)

Inktense Pencils : Sherbert Lemon, Apple Green, Teal Green, Ionian Green, Fuchsia, Sienna Gold, Cadmium Orange, Baked Earth

Gelatos : Lemon, Green Tea

Pitt Artisit Big Brush Pens : Magenta, White

Inks : Versafine, DI Pine Needles, Memento Lilac Posies

This is a close up of the centre panel, it gives you a bit more of an idea of the texture gesso and using brushes gives, oh and fingers!  They are great to blend both the Gelatos and Big Brush Pens with!  (They were a Christmas gift from DH!  I don't have many colours but would love some more lol!)  You'll see or the imperfections, but that was half the fun!  Well most of the fun really!

Now on to the video.

I would love for you to share some of your 'mixed media' work!  Stop by our ning house - Stamp Embellish Create - and sign up to be a member, then you can share with everyone!  Simply add the this weeks tag - tt056 - to make it easy for everyone to find!!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed this week's TT!  I'll try to think of something other than pencils and water for next week but would love some suggestions so throw them at me!

See you Friday!

Hugs,

Andrea

Friday Feature #4

Welcome everyone to our Friday Feature!  This week we are taking another look at our new Easter sets and the Belles have some great ideas on how to use them!  Along with that for this weekend only when you purchase any of our Easter sets (new and old) I will include some gorgeous ribbon for you to use on your cards!

Today we also have news to share, Gayatri is stepping down from our DT!  After a big move back to Perth just before Christmas, and with life becoming even busier she has decided to clear the deck a little :)  We will miss you Gayatri and hope to see you pop in from time to time!  Also Danielle is taking a break, but we hope to see her back here soon!  Good luck with everything Danielle, we'll miss you as well!

Let's take a look at this week's projects!

Therese

and 

Marion

Sue

Kylie

Gayatri

Andrea

I hope you enjoyed seeing what the Belles have been up to!  Be sure to pop by Gayatri's blog and say 'Hi!'.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

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