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Happy Australia Day!

Friday 26 January 2018

Happy Australia Day everyone!  Hope you're celebrating this amazing country of beautiful people!  I feel so very proud and blessed to be an Australian.
Smiles,

Andrea

Using Multiple Digi Images

Sunday 21 January 2018


Today I'm using multiple digi images in a Word document to create my card.  The images in the Hold A Candle set are all .png with a transparent background and white filled so that they can be overlapped.


I started by opening a new document in Word, in this case it was an A5 size, inserted my images, adjusted then printed on to Smooth White Cardstock, then coloured with Copic Markers for a super quick card :)



Have a fantastic Sunday afternoon.

Smiles,

Andrea

Creating a Card using Digi Stamps in Word

Thursday 18 January 2018


Today I have a very quick card using the Hold A Candle Printable Stamp Set.  I generally create in Illustrator, but I realise not everyone has this program, so I've put together some basic steps using digi stamps in a Word document.


Once I had my image and text set up I printed on to Smooth White card and coloured with Copic Markers.  Hope you enjoy the short video :)

Smiles,

Andrea


Hold A Candle Pages

Wednesday 17 January 2018


To compliment the digi set 'Hold A Candle', I've added a new product called Printable Pages.  These are perfect for those that don't feel confident using digi stamp sets and include pre-designed A4 sheets that you simply print, cut and colour.
PP Hold A Candle has eight designs - 4 on each page - that are repeated with sentiments.  For the examples below I have used the new freebie 'Greetings' you will find on the freebies page and attached after using dimensional foam.


Here's a quick video making the above card..






I have used smooth white card to print these images on, and then coloured using Copic Markers.


They were very quick to pull together!
The hardest part is trying to pictures of white card!  I'm hopeless at it!!


Hope you enjoy the quick video.

Smiles,

Andrea









Birthday Doodles

Tuesday 2 January 2018

Hi and "Happy New Year!"  I hope all had a very blessed Christmas with family and friends, and that the coming year is filled with joy, hope and happiness.
Just to show that I was not totally slack when it came to making Christmas cards this year, I've included a little sample of what I made below :)
To begin though here is a card I made for a friends birthday that fell during December.


I used the stem and circle from the Doodle Delicious set, repeating, resizing and overlapping them how I wanted, then set about being a little creative with my fineliner.  The beauty of doodles is that there is no right and wrong way to go about it!

I then coloured the images using Inktense Pencils by Derwent and aimed for a more subtle background to this CARD I created earlier.


On to my Christmas cards and gift cards.  I created the cards using an amazing image from Mo's Digital Pencil called 'From Bethlehem', and the gift tags using his super cute elves.


I simply added the words I wanted to share and then coloured using Copics.  Have a great week with just a little creating if you can fit it in ;)

Smiles,

Andrea

Lil Monster

Sunday 8 October 2017

It has been way too long since I've used this little guy to create a card, and I thought since I have a new software program to create videos with why not do a quick Inktense tutorial to go with it.  In my original video from way back (2011) I noticed how blurry it was and even though this video is a bit shorter I think I managed to put just as much info in, so let me know what you think.  Here's the card I created using the current challenge over at Colour Throwdown.


Today I've used Daler Rowney 100% Cotton paper and stamped my image slightly off centre before adding the sentiment.  I went about colouring with Inktense Pencils and creating the video below :)



After I had finished colouring my image (and the video) I decided to add in a coloured background.  My only hope that the soft colours are not too girly for my 25 year old son!  Yes it's his birthday next week and this is the card we're giving him.  Oh well he'll just have to like it regardless of his age!



Have a wonderful week everyone!
Smiles,
Andrea

INKtensely Doodled

Monday 2 October 2017


I've had fun this week finishing a new Printable set and creating some samples to go with it.  My new set is called Doodle Delicious and is a bit of a combo of clusters of flowers and individual images to create your own.




I started with the circle and stem as well as leaves, layering them and resizing to achieve a simple layout, then set about filling in my design.  You'll see exactly what I mean in the video.
I also used masking fluid in a few key areas.



I used both Inktense Pencils and Blocks for the first card and just the pencils for the next two.  The colour really is just as vibrant as it appears.  Lastly I added the sentiment.. a little freehand expression lol!  Not good at that, usually relying on a font to print or a stamp.



I
 kept the next a little simpler and the one below just adding in the grass and a few vines.



What a year I've had so far.  We went on our very first overseas trip in June to Europe and we are in love.  London, Paris, Milan, Florence and Rome are places we have to visit again, and will one day.  The saving began the minute I arrived home (well after I had another 2 weeks vacation and then started a new job).  Life has been crazy wonderful!
I set up this blog moving some of my posts across from my Wordpress blog to save that yearly fee, and will soon change my 'shop' (which is really just a hobby) over to a less expensive format all in the hope of changing my mindset from the AnnaBelle Stamps era to a home hobby again.
Have a great week!
Smiles,
Andrea

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