Hiya sistahs,

hope you had a PHENOMALISH weekend!  We had a great weekend here.. a full house on Saturday for our monthly Stamp Til you CRAMP day which was loads of fun!  Had a great Sunday with the kidlets.  Tyler has now de MYSTIFIED emailing so I have been responding to many of his emails..LOL.  What else? hmmmm OH an amazing new addition to our SCRAPPING BELLA TEAM!  I am so excited to introduce you to SEVERINE DI GIACOMO.  I have been oogling and ogling and begging and pleading and FORCING and CYBERHUGGING the amazingly talented Severine until finally she could not resist and said YES!  She lives in Switzerland and I think I may just have to pay her a visit! LOL.. I so wanna go there… hmph.

please meet Severine and I want you to send her big “BONJOURS” on her bloggypoo!

here is a little bit about Severine:

“My name is Severine Di Giacomo.  I live in a small village in the French speaking part of Switzerland.  I work part time as a teacher and am also a mother to 2 sons aged 11 and 8.  I discovered scrapbooking in 2003 thanks to the internet.  At the time, scrapbooking was unknown in Europe and I immediately became addicted.  My style of scrapbooking is simple and can be described as graphic and classic at times.  This style allows me to keep a strong focus on my photos0 which is my second passion.

I was fortunate to be a part of several design teams both European and American (and now Canadian!)  .  Each time, these experiences allow me to evolve and grow.  I also had the opportunity to collaborate in a few books such as FREESTYLE- Autumn Leaves on SIMPLY GRAPHIC- Memory Makers, or more recently SCRAP SIMPLE Hilary Heidelberg.  I am also part of a creative team of a French magazine “entreARTistes” magazine and I am totally thrilled to join the fabulous Scrapping Bella team!”

The amazing thing about Severine’s use of my stamps is that she uses images (not traditional scrapbooking stamps) and uses them as her embellishments.. truly genious!  She will teach you how to get more “mileage” out of your stamps and actually show you samples of how to use my stamps in a “hybrid” type of way! both for cardmaking and scrapbooking! Brilliant!  Here is a couple of Severine’s samples to “wet” your appetite.  In this layout she used our Peace VW which just added a “splash” of color and our LOVE definition block

here is a closeup

Here is another sample where she used our BRANCHING OUT OWLIES stamp, 10 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT YOU MEMORY block, YAARGH sentiment and the “GOOD” from our GOOD LUCK sentiment.. Gorgeous!

and another layout using FROGGY KETTO and our SCRAPLINES PICTURE PERFECT TICKET

how great are those layouts?  and just gives you a fresh new perspective on image stamps, oui oui? (just for Severine)

Now let’s discuss some WINNAHS

the BELLARIFIC FRIDAY CONTRIBUTING WINNAH is

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

5- DEANNA WOODLAND! You win $20 in Bella bucks!  please email me

Timestamp: 2010-03-22 23:40:15 UTC

Now for da WINNAH from da CONTRIBUTAHS.. $10 in Bella bucks

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

34- SARAH! you win! please email me

Timestamp: 2010-03-22 23:44:40 UTC

Don’t forget Bellarific Friday this week!  You can email me your submissions by Thursday night as a JPEG attachment to emily@stampingbella.com.  This week’s theme is this sketch

Mwah to da SISTAHS who need to practice their French for Severine

Em