Friday Feature #5 - Blog Hop

This week we are concentrating on flowers and in particular the Squared Posies set!  This set is a 6" x 8" set of 4 main floral images in a frame along with 21 sentiments for lot's of different occasion!

To celebrate all the beautiful flower images out there I decided to have a sale on our very own floral sets!  So for one week only when you key in the code - flowers - 20% will be taken off the regular prices of all flower sets!

Also what's a hop without a prize!  So for one lucky hopper I'll send out the above set - Squared Posies - for you to play with!  All you have to do is comment on each blog as you hop along and add your name to the Inlinkz below, too easy!  But hurry though because the Inlinkz will close this Sunday night at 8.00pm AEDT!!  Tell your friends about the hop and get them involved as well :)

To get started you'll want to hop to my blog HERE and check out how I've used this set!  If you missed our last Topical Tuesday then scroll down to the post below or take a look HERE because I used one of the flowers in my project :)

Blog Hop Order :

Andrea

Sue

Kylie

Marion

Therese

Happy hopping everyone!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Topical Tuesday #57 - Mixed Media Journal Page

Happy Tuesday everyone!  This week I'm back with more water and paints and colouring!  A couple of weeks ago I started to clean my office and tidy my very large collection of cards I have made.  Many I have given to charity or the school fete because I simply don't know what else to do with them!  Then I thought what about an art journal....it would mean I could still colour without adding to my card collection...so I set out to find a journal and start one (you'll see which ones I bought on my personal blog and find a giveaway as well!).

I started with some acrylic paints and covered the entire page.  In the centre I adhered a torn piece of newspaper then applied a thin coat of gesso before stamping my image from the Squared Posies set.

Check the video out below for all the details, and I'm always happy to answer any questions you might have :)

Have a wonderful evening everyone!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

AC158

Hi all!!  Aren't they yummy colours this week?!?  I hope you like them as well and will love creating with them (or as close to them as you can get lol!).

Thanks to our very special Guest Designer Janet who has been amazing to work with!  Sorry for the late post of your card, my mind just isn't in gear, but it is beautiful!!

Our team is down to just the 5 of us for the time being, and I have been unwell for the past week so today I simply had to catch up on the house and have no card to share just yet, but we hope you'll enjoy  :)

Therese

Sue

Marion

Kylie

Thanks for stopping by tonight!  I can't wait to see all of your creations over the next couple of weeks!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

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