January 10, 2025
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It’s our first Bellarific Friday of 2025! Whoo! Feels good to be back, and our Babes are straight out of the gate with some gorgeous inspiration for us all.
First up, a little news – our RETIREMENT SALE is back, now with very limited inventory, all at 50% off. When they are gone, they are gone, so be quick.
Our final Friday of 2024 was also your final weekly chance to win a $25 gift card for our website, just by commenting on the Bellarific Friday post for that week.
On the last post we had 9 comments, and I’ve used a random number generator to select a winner (counting comments from oldest to newest).
Our winner is Andre M!
Congratulations! Please email me at customerservice@stampingbella.com and I will get your gift card sent over.
We will be coming up with some new ways for you to win in the coming weeks, so stay tuned! Make sure you still leave our Babes some love on these posts – they deserve it!
Let’s take a look at the cards! This week the challenge was just to use any stamp from our store except the most recent release. I love seeing which stamps everyone picks.
Jenny is flying in with this adorable card!
Sandra’s card is gorgeous and pretty appropriate for January!
Ginger is getting ready for Easter!
Debra is keeping it colourful with the fab mixed media background on her card!
Michele went for a sweet no line look for this adorable mouse!
Steph used one of our Retiring Stamps on her gorgeous card – be quick if you want to add this one to your collection, there aren’t many left!
I went with another coloured pencil colouring of one of the Amy Glatiotis stamps. Even more in love with these in coloured pencil on kraft card!
You can watch me colour this image using Prismacolor coloured pencils in the video below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on my YouTube channel.
That’s it for today! Hopefully you’re feeling inspired to go and create. Don’t forget to leave us a comment below with some love for our Babes and all their hard work.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
January 8, 2025 0 Comments
I have been itching to colour some of the Amy Glatiotis stamps using coloured pencil, and now the festive season craziness is over, I’m indulging myself!
This little guy is just the cutest, however you choose to colour him!
You can watch me colour this image using Prismacolor coloured pencils in the video below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on my YouTube channel.
If you would like to see my Copic marker version of this, you can find that post HERE.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
January 4, 2025 0 Comments
Hello friends!
Amy here, and I want to welcome you all back after the holiday break to the first Scenic Saturday of 2025. The snow has really been piling up since the new year began, which always makes me want to stay indoors and keep cozy. That feeling ended up being the inspiration for my card, especially when I came across this adorable Tiny Townie Loves to Snuggle in my stamp stash.
This sweet Tiny Townie, all bundled up in a big cozy blanket was giving me all the snow day vibes. She has some good books and her special kitty friend to keep her company while the snow continues to fall outside. To help showcase the weather outside I masked this Townie before stamping the large Winter Window over her. Now, this retired stamp originally comes with a large pine tree outside the window, but I chose to wipe the ink away from it which left me with the open space to add part of the Winter Backdrop stamp instead. Now she has a view of her neighbor’s house, where it looks like they are keeping cozy as well. To add the fun patterning to Tiny Townie’s blanket, I first colored a base coat using light purple and grey Copic markers, then I masked off the area around the blanket before laying a stencil over top and airbrushing a mid-tone grey over the stencil and blanket. Now it looks just like a fuzzy blanket that I got from Costco, LOL! The sentiment I used comes with Tiny Townie Loves to Snuggle and I simply stamped it on a speech bubble die before popping it up above her head to complete the scene.
Stay warm and stay crafty my friends!
Amybella
January 1, 2025 1 Comments
Happy New Year! My very best wishes to all of you for a wonderfully colourful, creative, and crafty 2025. All of us at Stamping Bella are so looking forward to sharing an abundance of stamping and colouring joy with you this year.
I wanted to start the year off with one of our stylish Uptown Girls, the oh so appropriate girl who is ready to celebrate: Uptown Girl Francine.
You can watch me colour this image using OLO markers in the video below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on my YouTube channel.
If you would like to see my Copic marker version of this, you can find that post HERE.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
December 31, 2024 0 Comments
To close out the year, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of our favourites.
Firstly lets take a look at some of YOUR favourites! Our top ten stamps this year are:
I thought I would pick some of my favourites from the Babes’ cards for this collection of stamps!
I also asked each of the Babes to tell me their personal favourite stamp from this year’s releases, and also their own favourite from the cards they have created for us this year. Let’s take a look!
Alice’s favourite stamp is one of our Holiday 2024 releases!
Alice’s favourite card features one of our Oddball Oz stamps!
Amy’s favourite stamp choice was Uptown Girl Briar Rose, and her favourite card also featured her!
Debra’s favourite stamp was Oddball Spring Fairy, which she featured on this lovely card.
Debra’s favourite card was this one:
Delphine’s favourite stamp was our lovely Lunettes Christmas Girl!
Delphine’s favourite card features one of our lovely Bundle Girls stamps.
Elaine’s favourite stamp released this year was Sweet Mushroom Hedgie, as featured on this card.
Elaine’s favourite card was this one featuring Uptown Girl Briar Rose.
Ginger’s favourite stamp was Spec-Tacular Swinging Pots.
Here’s another card from Ginger, featuring the whole stamp image!
Ginger’s favourite card features one of our amazing Yeti stamps!
Jenny’s favourite stamp was Lunettes Angus the Alchemist, and her card featuring him is actually one of my personal favourites!
Jenny’s favourite card is this one featuring Bundle Girl Beekeeper!
Sandie’s favourite stamp this year was the adorable Spec-Tacular Pumpkin Latte!
Sandie’s favourite card features our Fall Is Fun Girl!
Sandra’s favourite stamp features on her favourite card! Little Cutie Mermaids & Octopus Friends.
Michele’s favourite stamp also features on her favourite card! Our lovely Lunettes Christmas Girl making another appearance on the list – unsurprising, she is totally adorable.
Steph’s favourite stamp this year was Uptown Girl Callie the Cowgirl which she featured on this fabulous card!
Steph’s favourite card was this wonderfully wintry one featuring our Uptown Winter Family & Dog stamp set.
Tamara’s favourite stamp was our Black Cat Magic stamp set!
Tamara’s favourite card was this one featuring Three Owls Caroling.
That’s it! We can’t wait to share more stamping fun with you in 2025. Wishing you a very happy New Year from all of us, and thank you so much for your continued support.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
December 27, 2024 0 Comments
Before we get into 2025 and all of the new stamping fun we have in store for you, we need to clear some room! So we are saying a fond farewell to some of our older stamps.
Between now and the end of 3rd January you can order the stamps in our RETIRING STAMPS category with no limits on availability and a 30% discount. From 4th January onwards the discount will increase, but availability will be limited to the inventory we have on hand. So you can either order now and ensure you get the stamps you need, or you can take the risk and wait and see if you can snag them with a higher discount. Up to you!
MWAH!
Elaineabella
