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Hello Bloggers,

This weeks challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps is to Say It With Stitching.  No excuses you can play along too :) You don't need to be an expert with a needle and thread or own a sewing machine.....Andrea is happy with faux stitching. Think I've got this covered with my card this week I've used both!!!

Lil Monster's Balloon has been worked in thread with a little faux stitching around the red matt.

I found some of those goofy eyes in the local $2 shop and added a couple for fun.....poor thing looks cross eyed!

Take a moment to check in with the Belles (links under the DT tab at the top of my page) or you can see all the cards over on the AnnaBelle Stamps Blog.   Play along with us for your chance to win.

We're enjoying an Indian Summer here in NSW with glorious warm weather......Makes it hard to sit in doors though, so this blog has been a bit quiet.  Back to normal soon I'm sure:)

Thanks for calling past have a great week end.

AnnaBellea Stamps - Pre Cut 140 mm square smooth white card	ABS - White Linen Card -A4 10 pack	ABS - Lil Monster's Balloon	ABS - Memento tuxedo black ink
ABS - 3mm Toffee Sprinkles	Prismacolour Premier Colour Pencils - Tin 72 Colour Set

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Scrapbook Boutique - May Blog Hop and Inspiration Challenge

Hello Bloggers, 

It's time for the Scrapbook Boutique May Blog Hop and Inspirational Challenge.  Hope you can join us! 

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

The hop is open for one week, closing at midday Thursday17th 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 Friday18th.

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

Evelyn has a fabulous stamp set as the Blog Hop prize this month -   Prima Marketing - Fairy Belle  

Why not play along with our regular monthly inspirational challenge.

   Make a project using the following picture as your inspiration and 'make it bright and bold'. You could be the winner of a $30 gift voucher for Scrapbook Boutique.

(Link your project on the SB Blog before 31/5/12)

For my card I used some bright dots and checks from Lilybee Design dp.

Here's how:

1. Trim smooth white card to make a 4.25 x 5.5 inch top fold card.

2. Trim a layer of blue check dp and wrap with red satin ribbon before adhering to white card base approx. 1" up from the base of the card.

3. Stamp the sentiment in Memento Danube Blue ink.

4. Trim the yellow polka dot dp to pop up on foam adhesive squares.

5. Die cut the double scallop border from green dp and adhere to line up with the red ribbon.

6. Stamp the heart image to red Coredinations card using VersaMark ink and emboss with white ep.

7. Cut the heart out by hand and pop up over the scalloped border using more adhesive squares.

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Touch Twin Markers - May Day Giveaway.

May Day Touch Twin Giveaway!

Heads up Bloggers .....for your chance click the link here and read about the May Day giveaway at Touch Twin Markers.

                              May 1st - May 31st (winner announced June 4th)

Annabelle Stamps - Say it in.....

About our challenges: 

- We post our challenges every Friday at 12:00pm 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 $10.00 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 if you have a blog.

- Please link directly to your entry not just to your blog or gallery.

- 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 :)

Hello, we're playing with colour this week at AnnaBelle Stamps. Kraft lemon and white, hope you'll join in.

If you make cards but don't have a blog why not join us at Stamp, Embellish, Create, you can add a picture of your card there just add the Tag ac071 to help us find it. Your card could win you a shopping trip to the online store!  See the challenge details above.

Here's my card this week.......

Take a moment to visit with the Belle's for more inspiration, links are under the DT tab at the top of my page.

Hope you can join in this week............See you soon.

ABS - Fanciful Flowers	AnnaBelle Smooth White - pk 10	ABS - Memento Cantaloupe dewdrop ink	ABS - A4 Kraft - pack of 10
ABS 10lb light brown hemp twine	ABS - 10lb lemon hemp twine	ABS - 4mm Icicle Sprinkles	Helmar - Liquid Scrap Dots

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Other products used are Memento Rich Cocoa for the sentiment and a Spellbinder Classic Lace 12" die.



In my post yesterday I mentioned the little wagtail that comes to visit and some of you asked the question what is a wagtail?   It's a small bird also know as a a black and white fantail.  Here's a picture of one.






Standing like this with their tail feathers in the air they turn from side to side.....so cute...makes them look busy!

It's a doily kinda day......Green, Brown and Ivory - CAS168

Good morning, good morning..........


There's another good thing about where we live now..... want to know what it is?  The post man rides his motor bike past our house then doubles back delivering the mail.  So I  hear him approach and can see if he leaves anything in the mail box :)   In Sydney the mail box was way up the top of the drive....I can't tell you how often I'd walk up there several times a day if I was expecting some goodies.   
It's the small things  such as this make me smile.  Oh and the little wagtail who comes to visit most mornings. Hoping about on the wire of the balcony rail.......so sweet!


I received some new stamps in the mail yesterday all the way from the UK and they took just 6 days to arrive.........how good is that?  I was expecting to have to wait a little longer living outside Sydney but (touch wood) not so far. Perhaps Mum will get her Australian Mother's Day card in time after all :)

Enough chat.... here's what I whipped up with a couple of the new sets from the lovely Beverley at Uniko Studio.   I used Decorative Doilies - THE HANDS OF TIME  a quite modern version of a doily or medallion, I think. The sentiment is from FONTiments - Birthday, lots of words to mix and match here, in great fonts too.

I've used the CAS168 challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers for this card. The challenge called for Green, Brown and White or Ivory.

I masked and sponged a one inch strip using Rangers distress inks in Antique Linen, Shabby Shutters, Tea Dye and Frayed Burlap. Stamping a selection of the doily shapes and the sentiment in the same inks.

Hang on here's a second card using the same sets.......I know two cards in one post ....whatever next! 

For this one I stamped the largest doily using VersaMark to a pale plum card. Punching out opposite corners  with the Something Old Something New corner punch from Fiskars.  Then I randomly stamped a selection of the small images to some white hammered card using Memento Lulu Lavender ink. Again punching out opposite corners. The sentiment was stamped in Memento Sweet Plum before I added a few tiny KaiserKraft pearls. Some Lavender fine twine wrapped and finished with a button, both from AnnaBelle Stamps, were added  before adhering to the card base with foam tabs.

I'm back tomorrow with AnnaBelle's challenge for this week. Hope you can make time to pop past.

Till then..........

Uniko Studio Stamps Decorative Doilies - The Hands Of Time	Uniko Studio Stamps - FONTiments - Birthday	SBB - Ranger Inkssentials - Ink Blending Tool with Foam	SBB - Ranger Distress Ink - Freyed Burlap	ABS - Distress Ink - Tea Dye
SBB - Ranger Distress Ink - Antique Linen	ABS-Distress Ink - Shabby Shutters	SBB - Memento Sweet Plum Ink	Memento - Lulu Lavender Ink	VersaMark Ink
ABS - Button Mix Lavender	ABS - 10lb lavender hemp twine	SBB - Scrapbook Adhesives - 3D foam squares 1/4"

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