Topical Tuesday #68 - Distressed Tag

Hi and welcome to Topical Tuesday!  This week I've made a tag - coloured my image with Prismacolor Pencils, and distressed the tag.

Here's a look at the finished tag :

I created a video as I coloured and sponged and played, so I hope you enjoy :)  

Update : it seems to be taking a lot longer than usual to upload so if it isn't showing straight away it won't be far away :)

We'd love to see your tags, so be sure to play along and share your creations on Stamp - Embellish - Create!  Use the tag - tt068 - so we can easily find yours!  I still have some Distress Inks in the clearance section of the store at great prices, so be sure to take a look at those as well!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Copic Winner Announced!!!

Hello to everyone, and thank you to those who placed an order during the AnnaBelle Sale!!  We still have a huge range of discounted items in the clearance section, so be sure to check it out and grab yourself a bargain today!

We have a winner for the fabulous prize of these Copic Ciao Markers and Blender pen :

A huge congratulations to Brenda Della-Vecchia!!  I'll have these in the post to you today!

Hugs for now,

Andrea :)

Friday Feature - Backgrounds By Design

Hello all and welcome to a fun Friday Feature!  This week we are exploring different ways to use our Backgrounds By Design series and we have some fantastic cards by the Belles to share!

With any of our Friday Features we have a little discount offer for you so you can try out what we have shared, and this week it's 20% off the entire Backgrounds By Design range, but it's only on for this weekend, so be sure to get in quick!  You will need to key in the following for the discount to be applied :

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On with the Belles creations!!

Marion with BBD5

Sue with BBD6 & BBD7

Therese with BBD6

Kylie with BBD2

Donna with BBD3

Andrea

Thanks for stopping by tonight, we hope you enjoyed seeing some different ideas on how to use these great background stamps!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Topical Tuesday #67 - Embossing Resist

Hello,

It's Donna here with my very first Topical Tuesday. I'm afraid I'm not all that good with the whole video thing just yet (it's on my list to concur sooner or later) so I hope you don't mind my very crude photo display... This week I am showing you how to do Embossing Resist. This is great for back grounds or just to make you image "pop" off your card.

Supplies: 
Stamps: ABS - Daisy Delight
Embossing Ink
Clear Embossing Powder
Static Pad
Heat Gun
White (or light coloured) cardstock
Waterbased Dye Ink - Darker than your cardstock colour. I have used Weathered Wood, Shabby Shutters and Wild Honey.
Sponge Blocks

*Remember to emboss images on light coloured cardstock, then apply darker ink to make them "pop".

 My finished card...

If your wondering why the photo's jump from 3 to 5 it's because I took out number 4 and forgot to change the the numbers... I know... duh!!!

Hope you enjoyed my Topical Tuesday.

Hugs,

Donna

AC163

Good evening everyone!  It's time for a new sketch to play along with!  As always our prize to this fortnights Challenge Favourite is a Discount Coupon of $15.00 to spend in store at AnnaBelle Stamps!!

Kylie is back with us this week after the exhausting job of moving house!!  Welcome back Kylie!

Here are the beautiful designs from the Belles!!

Therese with Daisy Delight

Donna with Lil Bee's Big Flowers

Kylie with Lil Molly

Sue with Love Birds

Marion with Standing Tall

Thanks for stopping by!  If you'd like to save a further 20% on the entire Clearance section at AnnaBelle Stamps simply key in the code 

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at checkout for the discount to be applied!  This offer runs through until midnight Sunday 26th May, 2013.  For every order placed an entry will go in the draw to win 12 Copic Caio Markers and Blender pen!!  check all the details out HERE!!!

Hugs for now!

Andrea :)

AC162 Challenge Favourite!

Wow, wow, wow!!  We had 110 entries this last fortnight, and that just has to be a record!  They were all amazing so thank you for sharing with us!!  I thought I had to thank you for playing along because you all make a challenge what it is, so I'm going to announce the Favourite and Top 3 and then I'm going to choose a random number who I will also give a Discount Coupon of $15.00!!

So after much looking and agonising we picked this card as our Favourite :

Congratulations Isha, another amazing card!  Email me for your Discount Coupon code!

Now our Top 3, and having so many entries made it really difficult, but here they are :

Mette

Sylvia

Piali

Thank you ladies for your amazing, gorgeous cards!  Grab your blinkie from the blinkie page :)

Now our random winner of a $15.00 Discount Coupon to spend in store at AnnaBelle Stamps :

Congratulations Billie A!  Contact me for the details of your prize!

We hope to see you all back tonight for a brand new challenge, we'd love for you to join in again!!

Hugs for now,

Andrea :)

Topical Tuesdays - Stamping a Tartan Background!

Hi it's Therese from Lostinpaper, back with the another Topical Tuesday's tutorial!   Today I've got a video tutorial sharing with you a fun and easy technique, Stamping a Tartan background!

Here's my video....

I can't wait to see what you create and would love you to share these at our gallery
Thanks for joining me today, Happy Papercrafting!

Therese

Other Supplies:  Prismacolor Pencils - Cloud Blue, Peacock Blue, Crimson Red, Crimson Lake. Blue Cardstock. Fiskars Stamp Press. Versafine Ink - Onyx Black, Vintage Sepia. Memento Ink - Rhubarb Stalk, Teal Zeal. Distress Ink - Frayed Burlap. Spellbinders Nesties - Large Straight Circles. Bigshot.

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