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Anna’s Craft Cupboard | Annabelle Acrylics Feature | November 2019

Hello my lovely blog subscribers and welcome to my blog today! It’s been a little while between posts but I just wanted to drop in quickly and share all of my November Anna’s Craft Cupboard shares in one place!!

This month I featured lots of the beautiful Annabelle acrylic pieces available exclusively through Anna’s and here they are!

First up this fun page “You Have My Heart” featuring Annabelle with the oh so fun “Squeeze The Day” collection by Bella Blvd

You can see the full blog post on the Anna’s blog here

And my process video is below

Next was this very mixed media page using a cut file to hand stitch around and some Lindy’s products for the mess “Sprinkles & Fairydust”!


Blog post is here on the Anna’s blog

And video is below!


3rd up was this page “But First… Coffee” created using the Vicki Boutin Wildflower & Honey collection and again more Lindy’s for my background.


The full blog post is over here on the Anna’s blog

While the process video is below


Warning!! This video goes on a bit of personal journey tangent 😉

And lastly was this page “You & Me Silly Selfies” pairing Annabelle with Pink Fresh Studio’s “Just A Little Lovely” collection.


Blog post can be read here 

And my video is, again, below.


I hope you have enjoyed my shares for Anna’s this month! I really loved playing with those gorgeous acrylic pieces and digging into my Anna’s stash of purchased and left over goodies! So fun!

Until next time, happy scrapping and thanks for stopping by!

Melinda

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Anna’s Craft Cupboard | Bella Blvd – Squeeze The Day | September 2019

Hello my scrappy friends and welcome to my blog today!

I know it’s been a little while and my sharing has not been particularly consistent but we have had a lot happening around here and I am doing what I can when I can and enjoying the process.

You may have noticed that my blog in general has just gotten less use, especially if you have been around a little while. There are reasons for that and one of those is simply that sharing on my blog is not my favourite platform to share on as I don’t get much feedback and it doesn’t really start any conversations with other creatives!

If, however you follow me on any of my other social media platforms you will have seen that this month I am up on the Anna’s Craft Cupboard blog again. I got to play with the fun Bella Blvd Squeeze The Day collection and have created the following layouts


First up was this fun pun page created of my youngest “Orange You The Sweetest”


You can find the full blog post on the Anna’s blog here
And the process video is below


Next up was another very bright and messy page “Fruit & Vegemite Lunches”


You can find the full blog post on the Anna’s blog here

And, of course, the process video below


Third was another dark background! I just love the way the bright colours pop off the dark background pattern paper. And a title from the Annabelle acrylic collection “Full of Sass”


Blog post on the Anna’s blog is here

And YT process video is below


And finally this bright and happy page “Love You” using another Annabelle acrylic title


You can see the complete blog post on the Anna’s blog here

And YT process video is below



I think in every video I mention that I didn’t choose this collection, Bri did but I love it! The bright bold colours and themed icons really had me scratching my head for a little bit until I decided to just run with it! Hence, my first page “Orange You The Sweetest” lol

You can find the Bella Blvd collection over here in the Anna’s store.

And all of the Annabelle acrylics live here in the store.

If you’d like to follow Anna’s on their social media profiles here is a list for you with all clickable links!

Store: http://www.annascraftcupboard.com.au
Blog: http://www.annascraft.com.au
Anna’s Craft Cupboard Community FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/annascraftcupboardcommunity/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/annascraftcupboard/
And if you don’t yet follow me on all of my socials I’d love for you to join me! Again, links to follow!

Blog: http://www.melindasweetman.blogspot.com
FB page – To The Stars and Back: https://www.facebook.com/tothestarsandbackms/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/m_sweetman/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsr3iyOFoYPK46t1imtGX7w
As always, thank you ever so much for stopping by! I hope you have enjoyed my shares for this month for Anna’s and I look forward to sharing more creations as I make them!

Have a fantastic scrappy day/weekend/night!
Melinda
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Anna’s Craft Cupboard | Moments | A Scrapbook Layout

Hello my scrappy friends and welcome back to my blog for the fourth day in a row! Another share today for Anna’s Craft Cupboard with the stunning Midnight Collection by Cocoa Vanilla Studios!


This one came together very easily due to the awesome Die Cut Backing Kit that is available in the collection. I did “make it my own” and spent a number of hours hand stitching that circle in the background but it was totally worth it, I just LOVE the end result.

This one has a process video available as well, so hit play below and enjoy!


For more information as well as links to all the products used and more close up shots head over to the Anna’s Craft Cupboard blog!

I do hope you enjoy and I will be back again very soon with another share!!

Until next time, happy scrapping!
Mel
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There is Always Time For Fun

Hi hi!!

Just popped in quickly today to share the 3rd of the 3 layouts I created using the prompts from my little boxes 🙂


The prompts I pulled were 12×12 layout, machine stitching, die cuts, plastic stamping, stencils, mists and a collection kit.

Another  layout for our wedding album


So, the machine stitching, die cuts and plastic stamping are pretty obvious!! I used the mists to colour the heart die cuts and have also added the same colour SU marker’s to the clear matte gel paste I used for the stencil work. The collection kit I used was the only whole unopened collection kit I own which is the Bella Blvd Daily Chevies kit. I even used some of the 12×12 papers for the layers behind my photo.


I pulled some tiny word stickers, a black doily and a mix of thickers and little alpha stickers from my stash.

I had a heap of fun putting this together!! It has been a little while since I pulled some prompts so it must be almost time for me to pull some more! I have been busy doing lots of copic colouring and slowly catching up on our PL album. I realy, really hope to share some more PL pages here but I need to take some more photos and edit etc so fingers crossed, soon!!

As always, thanks so much for stopping by and happy scrapping!!

Mel

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Some wedding layouts!!

Hello there and welcome to my blog!!

Today I am sharing some 12×12 LO’s that I have recently put together of our wedding from 2008. Yup, only 7 years behind but I now feel confident enough to play with 12×12 layouts!! So all up there are 10 pages in our album and over the last month or so I have pulled 7 together!!


I will add here that a little while ago I pulled bits and pieces from my stash for a “wedding kit” which lives in it’s own separate little box so I have some idea what I have to hand to work in with the colours that I have chosen – well the colours that our wedding used 😉 Pink, grey/silver, black and white. My current style also begged to have a few pops of gold and teal thrown in!! And I am also more than happy to use other bits from stash. I used this video from Shimelle Laine as a guide to pulling a kit together if you are interested in pulling your own kit together for either a special occasion or just get your stash used!

I will share them in order of creation starting with this page I pulled together for a NSD challenge I participated in over at the Scrappy Canary VIP Lounge FB group.


This is a photo of my 2 beautiful niece’s immediately after out ceremony sharing a little bonding moment as 2 cousins that had only met a few days prior.

And a couple of close ups



Next up is this layout that I scrap lifted from the amazingly talented Fiona Paltridge from this video on YouTube. This layout took me a few days to complete doing a bit here and bit there but I LOVE the way it turned out!! So happy with it!! 


This layout took me completely out of my comfort zone – so many new things to try but like I said, LOVE how it turned out!!

And a few close ups


Next up are 2 layouts I created on a scrapbooking retreat I recently went to. Both were for challenges – one was a kit challenge – full of delicious Bella Blvd Colour Chaos goodies and the other was a colour challenge. Again, I’m really very happy with how both of these turned out!!

Both of these were inspired, again, by Shimelle Laine – I just adore her style and her classes! The 1st was inspired by a class called Hitchhickers Guide to Scrapbooking and one of the “starting points” she talked about. This was the kit challenge.


And a few close ups


And the 2nd from retreat was inspired by this “Glitter Girl” (aka Shimelle Laine) video.


Again, I’m really happy with how this one turned out too!!

Here are a few close ups

I just adore that Charms Creation heart – simply beautiful!!


And onto the last 3 layouts which again, were inspired by Shimelle Laine – this time her brand new class Ready Steady Scrapbook. I will share these in class order – so class 1 will be 1st, class 2 2nd and class 3 3rd 🙂


And a couple of close ups



Class 2



And some close ups


And class 3


And I think this is my most fave of the 3 from the class! I love, love, love that the design is so simple and that those beautiful papers that I was “saving for that special page” are totally on display and used!!

A few close up’s of this one too and I’m done!!



So, that is it for me for today!!

I hope you have liked seeing what I have been working on and now our album is starting to look a bit more full!!

If you are looking for some fun and easy classes I honestly cannot recommend Shimelle’s classes highly enough!! Full of great information and lots and lots of ideas!!

Thank you so much for stopping by and happy scrapping!!

Mel

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