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 

clear20

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.

InLinkz.com

Blog Hop Winner!!

Hello all and welcome to Monday!  Come on, we have to get a little excited about it being Monday, so to make it even better for one lucky person we have the announcement of the hop winner!!  This month's lucky winner of a Lil Belle set is the lucky last hopper....

Congratulations Anita!  Contact me via email with your details and choice of set and I'll get that posted out to you!

See you all tomorrow night for another fabulous Topical Tuesday, this week with Therese!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

Friday Feature - Lil Belles' Blog Hop!

This week we are playing with our Lil Belle's so it should be a great hop!  It's just as exciting for us because we don't get to see each others projects until we do the hop!!

If you haven't seen any of our Lil Belle stamps you can check them all out below :

Now for this weekend ONLY grab yourself one of the Lil Belle's for 20% off!!  Simply key in the discount code   ff008 and 20% will be deducted from the purchase amount, but it's for this weekend only!! Or you could be the lucky winner from our blog hop and score yourself one of our Belles, the winner gets to choose, so you can play along and shop and not double up! So let's get started!  To go in the draw to win one of our Belle's simply hop along to each blog and leave a comment as you go, and remember to add your name to the Inlinkz below.  A random winner will be selected and announced on Monday!  Start HERE at my blog, and I hope you have fun!
Blog Hop Order (Just in case things go wrong!)
ABS Blog Andrea Sue Marion Therese Donna ABS Blog
Hugs for now, Andrea

Topical Tuesday #65 - Watercolour Flowers

Hi there,

It's Marion here for this week's Topical Tuesday (even though it is Wednesday - my apologies for the delay :) Today I have a video on how to create a watercolour effect using distress markers and water. This technique works best with solids stamps. For this project I have mainly used the Designer Flowers stamp set.

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