AC166 and a Belle surprise!

Hello everyone and welcome to a new challenge!  We are very excited this week to announce two new Belles to the Design Team lineup!!

First up make welcome Tobi Crawford from Tobi's Place!  I was very excited when Tobi accepted my invitation to play along with us, and I just know you are going to love seeing her beautiful style!  She is the only Belle from somewhere other than Australia!

Next is another Australian lady, (we are a bit one sided aren't we lol!)!  Please welcome the lovely Marcia Pringle!  I've 'known' Marcia for a little while now, so I was very happy that she decided to come on board and play along with our challenges and releases!

Hello to both ladies!  We just can't wait to see your beautiful creations here on the AnnaBelle Blog!

So let's get started!

Tobi

Marcia

Sue

Kylie

Donna

Therese

Andrea

Now we would love for you to play along and join in the fun, so here's the layout of our challenge guidelines just as a refresher :

About our challenges:

• We post our challenges every second Friday at 8:00pm AEST (AEDT during Daylight Savings).
• Each challenge runs for a week, and will close on the Friday 10.00am so that we can announce and showcase our weekly winners prior to the next challenge.
• Each weeks winner will receive our special blinkie to display on their blog and a $15.00 Gift Voucher to spend in store at AnnaBelle Stamps (or something equivalent).

How To Play Along:

• Copy and save our challenge banner and include it and a link back to the ABS blog in your post.
• For those without a blog you can still play along! Simply upload your card to our Stamp Embellish Create social site (you’ll need to join) and add the current challenge ‘tag’ to your photo!
• Please link directly to your entry not just to your blog.
• Please don’t link to postings made prior to the date of our current challenge. All projects submitted must be new.
• A maximum of 7 challenges may be combined including this one.
• You may enter any of our challenges several times as long as each submission is with a new creation.
• We would love you to use AnnaBelle Stamps and embellishments, but you can play along without using them, it’s all about sharing ideas 

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

AC165 Favourite!

Hi all!  What a beautiful day it is here today, cold, but beautiful!  We are on the countdown now as Justin gets ready to leave for London next Tuesday!  I am trying not to think about it too much because I know I'm going to be a mess, and I'm missing him already, and do you know it's only for 4 weeks!  But what an adventure that I'm already looking forward to hearing all about when he gets back!

We had some gorgeous cards once again, so thank you for playing along!  Another challenge is on it's way tonight as well as a big surprise, so stay tuned!!

This weeks Favourite goes to Jacqueline with a gorgeous card!  Sorry about the small thumbnail, but Flickr won't allow me to copy the image, so be sure to go and check Jacqueline's card out HERE.

Thanks for playing along Jacqueline!  Be sure to email me for your prize details!

Now our fabulous Top 3!!

Janet

Anita

Karen

Thanks so much for sharing with us this week!  Be sure to grab your special blinkie!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Back In Stock!

After many weeks (sorry!!) Designer Flowers is now back in stock, along with Sentimental Bluebells!! The delay was mainly due to the wait on new design samples as I try to order everything I need together to keep costs down....shipping from the US is expensive lol!

I've discounted these on the web site till the end of the month!

Have a great day all!

Hugs for now,

Andrea :)

Topical Tuesdays - Mix it up Stamping & Embossing!

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 to mix it up with Stamping and Embossing!

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:  Inks - Color Box - Frost White, Versamark, Versafine - Onyx Black.  Embossing Powders:  Zing - Leaf, Aqua. Stampendous - Amethyst.  Cardstock - Smooth Black, SBB - Charcoal.  Powder Tool.  Fiskars Stamp Press. Heat Tool.

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Friday Feature

Hello all!  I hope you are keeping warm those that live in southern Australia!  We have had 3 days of heavy frosts here (I don't much like the cold!), with another week of cool temps, but they do make way for gorgeous winter days!!

As we are near to the end of June (can you believe it!), we thought we'd throw in some Christmas makes!  It's never too early to start on Christmas creating!!  The banner above says 20% off Christmas sets, but I thought it just as easy to extend our EOFY sale to include the weekend so that means 20% off storewide for two more days!!  Simply key in the following code at checkout :

eofy2013

What fun!  So let's see how the girls have used our Christmas sets this week :

Sue

Kylie

Donna

Marion

Therese

Andrea

Well I hope you enjoyed seeing our little start on Christmas!  Have a wonderful weekend all!!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Topical Tuesday #71 - Monochromatic Copic Colouring

Hi there,

It's Marion here for this week's Topical Tuesday. Today I have a video for you on how to add subtle monochromatic shading to a stamped image with Copic Markers.

Hope you enjoy.

I would love to see your creations.  Please share them in the gallery over at the Ning House.

For a full list of supplies, head over to my blog.
 

Thanks for stopping by,

Marion

AC165

Hello and welcome to this fortnights challenge!  We have some interesting colours to use this week, and I think they stumped a few of the girls to begin with, but they came through with gorgeous creations!!

Just before we begin you'll see in the sidebar that AnnaBelle Stamps is having a bit of a sale to help clear items before the end of our financial year here in Australia....it means less for me to count lol!

Now the Belles cards :)

Sue

Therese

Kylie

Donna

Marion

Andrea

We hope you enjoy playing along with us over the next 2 weeks!  Don't forget we have a $15.00 Discount Coupon up for grabs to our Favourite winner!

Have a great weekend all!

Hugs for now,

Andrea