Monthly Archives:: January 2008

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know what I have been doing all day today?  I have been FULL OF

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 Tomorrow is a BEEEEGGGG DAYYYYYYYY at the bella home (or is it in?  OMG.. losing it sistahs.. L-O-S-I-N-G I-T.. I am SOOOO excited)  I will be releasing 2 bellas.. YUP.. TWO.  uh-huh  TWO.  PLUS.. some bonus images that I AM IN LOVE WITH (does it sound obnoxious that I love my own goodies??!?!?!?    but really I doooo!  I swear I doooooo !!! HONESTLY I DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)  So with that said, let me tell you about this card.. I worked on it last night and was a little “iffy”.. called Nicky immediately and said “I JUST MADE THEEEE MOST DISGUSSSSTING CARDDD EVAH.. so she immediately says, just cover it up and start again..LOL instead of saying, I AM SURE IT IS NOT THAT BAD.. but ANYWAY, I woke up this morning and looked at it again and I really liked it!  It made me HAPPY!!  I love layering borders.. LOVE that Idea so I am starting to mix and match my current borders and see what I come up with !  So I mixed the small fancy swirl with my sticky swirl border, put them both on a block and off I went with my lettuce Adirondack ink (LOOOOVE ADIRONDACK).. I then was in a giggly kinda mood so I  stamped my upside down giggle and colored them with my spica markers (twinkly!).  The ribbonnnnn OHHH THE RIBBONNN… will be for sale 🙂 but you will have to wait til Monday to see the SURPRISE that will go with that ribbon…. I CANNT WAITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.. I am SOOOOO EXCITEDDDD I can’t BREATHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Mwah to da sistahs who CAN breathe

 

Em

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more SHTUFF

So i have been ASKED AND ASKED AND ASKED “When the heck (never use that word) are ya gonna have a “sistah’s gallery”?  So sistahs.. WE GOTS ONE… it will be a  bit of a work in progress but in order to be PUBLISHED, I need to get some.. I LOVE getting cards 🙂  So if you want to send me a card, email me for my addy and if you can give your info (whatever you would like published on the blog) and I will update!  SOOO EXCITED!!  There are a couple up already!

I also put up some new goodies in the what’s new section.. some prismacolour cool grey 10% markers.. THEY ARE THE BEST COLOUR for adding a “line” or shading around your image.. gives that little ZING! and 3D’ishness (LOL-don’t laugh at my words, n’k?).  I also added Pallette NOIR (great with Copics) and Pallette watermark pad…

Sistahs have been asking me about the splender blender.. it is used once you colour with coloured pencils, and want to “blend” them more, you just colour over top with the splender blender to smmmmooooooooooooth things out.. s’aright? you capichie now?  I will try to do a tutorial on it to show…

Lots more on the way… maybe an image or two?  PERHAPS a BELLA?

MWAHHHHHHHHHHHHH to da sistahs who are SPLENDERED and BLENDERED.

 

Em

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i only have a minit! (love the spelling)

I snuck out to work while Ryan took the chicklets to a birthday party.. I posted some new goodies.. COPIC spica glitter pens (the whole set in limited quantities), tombow multi glue (LOOOVE IT for embellishments), BLACK memories ink pads (great for EVERYTHING but Copic..LOL!  It was the first brand of inkpad I started with and I am STICKIN to it!) and I haven’t mentioned my Zip N DRY glue in a while!  I AM IN LOVE WITH THAT.. I don’t use tape anymore.. can you believe?  it is honestly PHENOM.

Ok my sneaky weaky peaky time is oVaH.. gots TA go..

Mwah to da sistahs who love my new GLOO (love that spelling too).. It’s really sick that I am responsible for teaching my kidlets how to spell and how spelling was my favorite subject in school… Let’s just call my slang, Bella’s Linguisitic Terminology (fancy no?)

 

Em

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I am in LOVE.

with a vase… This is crazyness I know but like I always said, I like to be surrounded by pretty things.. inspiring things.. things that make me smile… On my venture at IKEA with da hubs, I came across these vases..I bought them in white, green and pink.. and have now lined a shelf near my desk with them… OMG…  the embossed whimsy daisies are TDF.. Hubs doesn’t even ask questions anymore.. just buys.. how good is DAT?

do you lovey my new $2.99 vases?

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Mwah to da SISTAHS who, like me, NEED to be surrounded by pretty pretty things

Em

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new TOOLZ on da SITE

Sistahs… oh SISTAHS???? YOU THERE???????

I have gotten some goodies and I posted them!  There is MO’ coming tomorrow! All in the WHAT’S NEW section (again, WHY DIDN”T YOU TELL ME TO DO THAT SOONER???)

we gots lots of colouring to do!  I got the CUTEST set of paints that I saw on Sherrie’s blog.. she has a WONDERFUL tutorial on Copics as well!  you should take a look at her great work.  You should SEE what Sherrie did with these watercolour paints too! YIKES she is GOOOOOOD!

I made up a little kit of 12 of my favorite colours of Lyra watercolour crayons.. smoooothhh and creammmy and last a lifetime.. all you need is a paintbrush, some water and you lift the colour from the tip or the back of the crayon and paint away.. BEAUTIFUL! if you click on the hourglass icon, you will see more info on the product in terms of da COLOURS. (right now I only have 5 sets in stock.. I will be getting a lot more in about 3 weeks when they come in from Germany.. I wanted to see if you sistahs would be interested)

There is also this thing that I am in LOVE with.. yes, yet another thing.  It is called a “static bag”… this is my favoriteST most inexpensivEST thing EVAH!  I use it all the time and this little baby, if you don’t lose it first, will last you forevAH!  you know when you emboss or if you sprinkle loose glittAH on your card, there are always those “strays” that remain on the card and you can’t get rid of them?  WELLLL if someone has ever seen me demo at a show, they will laugh as I belt out “all you have to do is POUFFFFF and SHMEARRRR”.. LOL.. Basically you do a little “pouff” or hit your cardstock with the static bag so it releases the powder and then you “SHMEARRR” the powder all over your paper.. after you have “primed” your card you can emboss or use glue and glittah.. when you shake off the excess, you will notice a CLEAN card.. YEPEROONI.. a CLLEAN CARD!  Love that thing!

 There are some other goodies too so take a lookey in the “what’s new section” (LOVE IT).. more of my favorite things to follow!

Mwah to da sistahs who will pouff and shmear! (sounds perverse, I know)

Em

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ya know when..

You are looking for that perfect offwhite/eggshell/NOT YELLOWY paper?  Well Nickabella and I have ALWAYS been on that quest.. we walk into a stationery store and just always find IVORY to be YELLOW.. ever get that type of thought? LOL.. I am so DEEP.  ANNNYWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY  I have found DA perfect eggshell/ivory/not yellow at all/ PAYPAH!!  It is 80# in weight (wish i was.hmph) and takes spirits and prisma and copic BEAUTIFULLLLY!!  in my “what’s new” section (LOL.. HOW DID YOU ALL LET ME LIVE SO LONG WITHOUT IT???????).. Also have a new little member of my bella family.  His name is YERTLE.  He is my FAVE and his sentiment is cutesy too, NO?  I did post a card so you will be able to see what i mean, bean.

Have a few more goodies/tools to add to DA WEBSITE in the next day or so… STAY TUNED!

Mwah! to da sistahs who have no idea what I am talking about when I contemplate eggshell/ivory paper versus yellow

Em

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yet another one… a MANLY one

I love this sportster.. it makes me smile.. and PLUS.. I never have anything to give to a man..LOL.. although this car in PINK is PHENOM.  I have crystal lacquered it, I have “baubled” the eyes.. YUMMALISH.. did it on watercolour paper and then used my groovy dots border (shhhhh, I cut it again.. lotsa stamps for $9.99!) and I made my own border going across the card.. very simple!

here are the stamp ingredients.. LOL

I like it.  I like it aLot.

Mwah!

OOPSIE, here is the card

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