I only have eyes for.........

It's feature Friday and Blog Hop day at AnnaBelle Stamps with Lil Belles being featured by the DT.  The deal for this Friday is, purchase any of the Lil Belles sets and receive a 20% discount.  

The Blog Hop starts and finishes at the AnnaBelle Stamps Blog.  Leave a comment at each blog and your could win a copy of Squared Posies.

If you arrived here from Andrea's Blog you're on the right track! When you leave me you hop over to  Marion's blog.  

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Here's Lil Monster's Valentine stamped and hand cut leaving the chocolates 'out of the picture'! 

I couldn't resist adding the little googly eyes to go with the sentiment today :)  This image was coloured with a mixture of Faber-Castell Gelatos with some Prisma colouring pencils used to add some shading.

Thanks for calling past today, enjoy the rest of the hop...............

Products Used Available from AnnaBelle Stamps.

Lil Monster's Valentine
Lime, Lavender and Pumpkin Buttons

Scrapbook Boutique Inspirational Challenge and Blog Hop for May

Hello,

Today is the  Scrapbook Boutique  Blog Hop and Inspirational Challenge for May, welcome! 

The Hop starts and ends at the Scrapbook Boutique Blog.  If you're following along you should have arrived from Narelle's blog and when you leave me you hop over to Therese's Blog.

The hop is open for one week, closing at midday Friday 17th May. 

To be eligible to win the prize, leave a comment on each of the blogs, with the SB blog being the last one.  The random winner will be drawn from the  SB blog and announced on Saturday18th.

Unfortunately the blog hop prize (and the inspiration challenge) are only open to anyone with an Australian mailing address.

One lucky person will receive the beautiful Bees and Blossoms from Flourishes: 

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We hope you'll join us and play along with our regular monthly inspirational challenge.

   Make a project using the following picture as your inspiration.  

You could be the winner of a $30 gift voucher for Scrapbook Boutique.

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Don't know about you but I thought if someone gave me this gorgeous cupcake I couldn't possible eat it!!!!  I'd just sit and look at it with a silly smile on my face........Isn't it amazing!

As you can see I couldn't get past the cupcake and made a CAS card using Hero Arts - Sparkle Clear: Cupcakes. This little pack includes some gems in pretty colours so two of them were added either side of the sentiment.

Smooth White card for the 4.25" x 5.5" top fold card.  

Two strips of pink card, die cut with Spellbinders Edgeabilities Classic Scallop die came next.  Wrapping some matching ribbon over the top and just easing the top scallops up for added dimension.

Three cupcakes stamped  to the card base and coloured with Prisma pencils. A fourth cupcake was cut by hand and popped over the centre one.  The sentiment, stamped in Versafine onyx black ink with a gem adhered to either side to finish the card off.

Thanks for calling past, enjoy the rest of the hop.................

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Lemon and Lime Birthdays.

Thanks for calling past today.  I'm sharing a card I made using my Dylusion ink sprays and AnnaBelle Stamps products.  I wasn't very happy with yesterdays cards......in fact I've been struggling again recently!  

We've been busy with the next stage of painting and decorating here, so it's hard to concentrate on much else!  I'll take some pictures to share soon but it looks as though I might be moving again.......my crafting space that is!

Hope you have a great week end with plenty of sunshine. See you soon...........

Anything Goes.........ac162

AnnaBelle's has an 'Anything Goes' Challenge this time around, so hope you'll be inspired to play along. You have two weeks to add your link to the AnnaBelle Stamps Blog for a chance to win a Shopping Voucher for the on line store.

This week I wanted to use an image that I haven't really used much at all. The set is called Acacia and was designed by one of the past members of the Design Team - Chupa.

I've die cut just a small portion of this floral image and used one of the  11 sentiments from the set. The image was coloured using Faber-Castell Gelatos.

The centre strip of white card was also stamped using one of AnnaBelle's BBD set #5.

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I'm sharing a second card today......because it's been lying on my desk :) It uses ABS Designer Flowers.

This card came about after  I'd been playing with Distress Paint daubers from my collection of 3!!! I have pink and green as above and also a blue one :)

The embossed background just had some watered down ink painted over and the flower and leaves were stamped over some inked up paper scraps and sit over some ABS black satin ribbon. 

Products available from AnnaBelle Stamps
Acacia
BBD5
Smooth White Card.
Designer Flowers
Licorice Satin Ribbon
Licorice Sprinkles.

Butterflies on a warm Autumn Day...............

Hello,

I hope you're enjoying the same kind of weather as we are........it's been beautiful!

I sent Walshie off this morning to enjoy his favourite beach, (Trial Bay) just for a few hours so I could get on with some cleaning before moving into 'my' room.  My new Uniko Studio stamps were here when we got home on Tuesday evening........... I've been dying to ink them up:)

So after the a bit of boring housework.........finally...........

I've used the new digital 'Round In Circles' and  printed to glossy card stock for a change. I like the shine against the flat white base card.   I used a Spellbinder die to cut the squares and rounded two opposite corners.

The butterfly is from 'Bright Butterflies' and thanks to a generous prize from Beverley of Uniko I have the matching die ......so no fussy cutting yeah!  Loving the large sentiment which is from 'All Occasion Sentiments #1'.

I played with the butterflies again for this second card.  An Easel, haven't made one of these in ages!

I die cut a butterfly from some masking film,  then positioned it over some cream card.

Faber-Castell Gelatos were used to paint the butterfly, the blue has a lovely sparkle but the camera never picks that up :(.  Using a flourish from an older Uniko set FONTiment Fancies - Swirls and Flourishes, I filled the image using Flannel Grey ink before removing the mask.

Some layering of coloured card,  more die cut butterflies, some cream ribbon and two ABS waterfall Sprinkles complete this one.

I'm writing this post up quickly as the 'Boss' is back home after a day in Paradise (his words) LOL.......now he'd like to know what we're having for dinner!   So better go, before he wrecks my nice clean kitchen............

Hope you enjoyed your weekend, catch you soon.......x

Friday Feature - All Things Grow

Hello, how are you? We're enjoying some glorious Autumn weather at the moment, so it's hard to be anything but happy!

It's Friday Feature at  AnnaBelle Stamps  and this week  we're featuring one of my favourite sets,

'All Things Grow" 

If you'd like to add this one to your collection, why not take advantage of the 20% off .....this weekend only. Instead of paying $17.95 this set is reduced to $14.36.

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I masked an area in the centre of a piece of watercolour card. Then using Faber-Castell Gelatos mixed with water I've painted the background.  The image and sentiment were stamped, once the background was dry, using Hero Arts Latte chalk ink.  To finish the card I wrapped some fine hemp twine  and added three Sultana Sprinkles.

I hope you'll take a moment to check in with the Belle's this week. Each card is really different and showcases how versatile this little set is.

Just a reminder that Andrea has a huge Clearance Sale happening at the store.

Thanks for calling past...........x

All products available from AnnaBelle Stamps

All Things Grow
ABS Kraft Card
Fine Hemp Twine - Light Brown
Sultana Sprinkles.


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Anzac Day in Australia

Hiya Bloggers,

25th April Anzac Day, which in Australia and New Zealand is a national day of remembrance.  Services were held here, in our town at dawn this morning as well as at 10am.  We attended the 10am service along with several hundred others of all ages which was so good to see.  Serving members of the army, navy and   air force carried the flags ahead of retired veterans. Children from all the local schools followed behind. Wreaths were laid, prayers were said  and hymns sung.  The vets were off then to enjoy a lunch at the local RSL and probably exchange  stories and remember friends who are no longer with us.  They are remembered!

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I've been MIA again for a week here on the Blog.......It's been a busy month with visitors, Easter, Quilt Shows and the Soccer!  

The Quilt show was good, with a really good crowd over the three days.  A couple of good charities will benefit from the sale of raffle tickets for two beautiful quilts, so that's great.  I did get a 'little' award for my quilt which was a huge surprise.

The Central Coast Mariners, our soccer team (well the team Walshie's Company sponsors) got through to the Finals again this year.  They're a small club without a 'big name' player in the team but with a real family following. We 'had' to go back down for the Final which was held at the Allianz Stadium in Sydney. We drove down to the Central Coast on Saturday and met up with friends to catch a train down for the game on Sunday.  What a fabulous day it was, so much fun to be in the packed stadium with an atmosphere that was like being back home!  The Western Sydney Wanderers supporters were great, very vocal, singing and stamping, generally making a big noise. The Mariners supporters turned out in good numbers with quite a few children along as per most of their games.

Even after the Mariners won 2-0  most all the supporters stayed behind for the presentations and the party spirit continued until we boarded the trains for home.  Whilst Ian worked Monday and Tuesday I managed some hand sewing and a little retail therapy :)

Home again Tuesday evening........... Now I need to settle back down, spend a little time in the garden tidying up before the winter settles in.  I came home to some yummy new stamps,  so I'll be busy with those .....for sure!

Back here tomorrow with AnnaBelle Stamps Friday Feature and this week we're featuring one of my favourite sets so I hope you can call past.

Til then.....................

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