Topical Tuesday #90 - Kusudama Ball

Hello all and welcome to my belated Topical Tuesday!  I hope you don't mind I took a little longer than planned to finish this ball, and I wanted the instructions to be right before I posted.  These are gorgeous completed, you may remember one I did a couple of years ago with idea that I would follow through with the tutorial, but it never happened!  The last ball I made took me a couple of weeks from memory, so I don't know why I thought I'd have it done in a couple of days when it takes a day to edit the video and images lol! but here we are!

I've done a video and a photo tutorial, which I think work well together and believe me, once you've folded one the others will just follow.  So without any more blubber and rambling here is my Kusudama Ball :

In the video I've used a 10cm square just to show how to do the folds but in this photo instruction the piece is 6cm x 6cm.

Start by cutting 60 squares and score each of them on the diagonal.

Fold

Take the bottom corner and fold up towards the top point

Repeat on the other side.

Take this fold and fold back towards the side.

If you put your finger in to the corner section you can more easily get it to lay flat.

Fold the top point down on both sides.

Then fold this section in to itself.

And adhere together.

This is one petal.  You need five petals to make one flower and 12 flowers make up the Kusudamo Ball.  In the video I show how it all comes together!

I hope you enjoyed watching and thank you for your patience!  Next time I'll know it's 2 days to make the ball and 1 to edit the video and images lol! Hugs for now, Andrea

New Challenge!

Okay, so November isn't exactly close to Christmas (well it is, but I'm trying not to freak myself out!), but if you haven't already started your card making then this challenge is for you!!
Grab your favourite AnnaBelle Christmas stamp and lets get stamping!!!

Did you happen to see our exciting post last night??  We had three new Christmas sets to share and a discount on all Christmas sets for one week!  Simply key in the code at checkout :

15Christmas

Marion

Sue

Therese

Tobi

Have a fabulous weekend all!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Challenge rules - AnnaBelle Stamps must be used to qualify for prize and Top3 

Stamped For Christmas

Scribble Scrabble 2

Santa's Star

Holly Branch

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Challenge Winner!

Thank you everyone who played along with our October challenge and a very big thank you to those who voted!!  

First up is our random winner of the $20.00 Discount Coupon.....

Congratulations Vikki W!!  Contact me via email and I'll send through the Discount code :)

Let's congratulate our Top3 for this month :

Janet

Karen

Janet

Hugs till later,

Andrea

Teaser Alert!! Or is it a Release??

Thank you for stopping by, because today I have three new sets to share with you!  It just must be my luck because once again this new release was delayed.  Images I sent to the manufacturer in July finally arrived last week, and although this story is not the first time it's happened to me, I know if I was working 12 months in advance it probably wouldn't.  But never the less it's always fun to see new Christmas designs, and I hope you'll love these.  So are you ready to see our Christmas 2013 Cling stamps???  Here we go!

Holly Jolly Christmas

This cling set is a 6" x 4" set of 14 images and sentiments.

$22.95 inc. gst

Merry Messages

This cling set is also 6" x 4" and has 16 images and sentiments.

$22.95 inc. gst

Christmas Tree Trio

This cling set is a 4" x 4" set of 9 images and sentiments.

$16.95 inc. gst

There are no new samples just yet but we will have in the coming weeks I'm sure!  I'm going to get a move on this weekend and make some up.  I did use one of the Christmas trees in my last Topical Tuesday so be sure to check that out!

These are now available in store at AnnaBelle Stamps!  To celebrate ALL Christmas sets are discounted by 15%!  Simply key in the following code at checkout for the discount to be applied!

15Christmas

  This offer will be open until  midnight 8th November AEDT :)

Hugs for now everyone,

Andrea :)

Christmas Tree Trio

Merry Messages

Holly Jolly Christmas

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Voting starts now!

First up I need to start with - Oooopppss!!  Yes the Belle who was to do yesterdays Topical Tuesday kind of missed it, but I figure we can give her that one because she has been so super busy with study and training and working!  I get exhausted just reading what Marcia has been up to lol!  I am up next week and I have something already in mind which is so unlike me, so we'll see how I go with that :)

The voting has begun!!

Come and check out this months beautiful challenge creations and place your vote next to your favourite!  We'll be announcing the Top3 this Friday as well as the random winner of our $20.00 Discount Coupon so get involved now!  Find the link to the current challenge in the lefthand side bar :)

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Friday Feature - Printable Pages 1 & 2

Thank Goodness It's Friday!  

I hope everyone has a relaxing and crafty weekend planned because I think we deserve it lol!!!

Today the fabulous Belles are showcasing the new Printable Pages, and for this week you'll save 20% so be sure to check them out! Let's get straight in to it and see what they have to share!

Sue

Marcia

Marion

Therese

Tobi

Kylie

Ladies these are just gorgeous, thank you so much for sharing!!

I hope you've enjoyed taking another look at our Printable Pages!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Printable Pages - Christmas 1 Printable Pages - Christmas 2

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Topical Tuesday #89

Hi there! It's Tobi Crawford here with what I hope to be an informative tutorial using PanPastels and Annabelle Stamps!

Before I got to using the pastels I had to prep the base. 

1) I covered the area with Matte Medium. 

 

2) Cover the area with old book paper and seal with a layer of medium. 

 

3) Once the matte medium has dried, pull off any excess paper.

 

 4) Cover the area with some watered-down gesso. 

5) Mix some acrylic paint with acrylic glazing fluid. It will extend the paint.

 

6) Paint the area with the acrylic paint mix then wipe some away with a baby-wipe. The idea is that the paint will stain the area and provide a colourful base. 

 

7) Now we start with the PanPastels! I used VersaMark as a medium for the pastels. They will stick to the VersaMark.  

8) I used a really fluffy brush to dust on the PanPastels. Magic!!

So I just kept adding layers of PanPastels with VersaMark until I was happy with the background... Here's what I got: 

I used Backgrounds By Design 8 and Splat Attack. Perfect sets for art journalling!! 

Thanks for joining me today!