Posts By: Stamping Bella

> bellarific friday
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It’s BELLARIFIC FRIDAY! and some other bits and bobs of info

and since some people don’t wanna tweet (even though I am having a BLAST with it..LOL).. I am gonna show you 2 of the 3 snapshots (can’t find the other right now but will update) I tweeted about.. and I will tweet (can I say tweet more??? ) more throughout the weekend.. and MUH-AYBE will put some here too 😉 .. I want ALLLLL my sistahs happy..

Ready set go!

Jane Davenport is one of our new artists from Australia.  She is ABSOLUTELY PHENOM.. I LOVE her!!  I took all of her classes  and she has been a true inspiration to me.  I mean really.  And when someone inspires me.. I FORCE everyone to get inspired too.. LOL.  Jane taught me how to DRAW.  I mean really she did.  Watching her.. observing her ways.. sharing the love of art supplies.. we are really kindred spirits :).  Jane is hosting an event at Teesha Moore’s art annex.. if you are around that area or feel like taking an amazing class and traveling.. I would recommend this one!  I want to go SO BADLY but the timing is just off for  me and I am so sad :(.

sneak peek one.  If you KNOW Jane and just browse around her blog.. you will know which one this is… this is Jane’s trademark and this image makes me SOOOO VERY HAPPY.. gonna stamp this EVERYWHERE..LOL

Love this one… can’t wait for you to see the rest of her 🙂

 

There are going to be MANY images released on Tuesday.. you will be astonished (never use that word.. dunno why it came out).. I do have a lot of “valentiney” images per se.. but if you know me, I am not so much into “seasonal” images.  If I buy an image.. I want to be able to use it ALL YEAR LONG.. so the images you will see on TOOSDAY are SO versatile and can be used for ValentiMES (as my kids say) or birthdays.. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. this release.  LOL.. I’m like a recording.  Every release is like GROUNDHOG DAY..LOL..

I would also like to welcome some new sistahs from SPLITCOAST who are contributing this week!  if you post on splitcoast as well quoting our keyword (you can find that on our thread there) you have two chances to win some BUCKEROONIS!

Ok Let’s DISCUSS BELLARIFIC FRIDAY this week.. the first of 2012!  There will be firsts of MANY things in 2012!  WOOOHOOO

The theme for this week was a SKETCH.. and our LOVELY and TALENTED Ebrubella will be supplying these sketches for us for the year!! how amazing is she??  This was this week’s sketch

Let’s see what da baberoonis came up with shall weeeeee????

Cathabella used LITTLE PEEP’s HEART

Danabella used IZZIE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP

Ebrubella used MEREDITH the TEACUP GIRL

Lindabella used UPTOWN GIRL POSH HAS PRESENTS

Paulabella used EUNICE and IRVING

Paulineabella used LOVEY HUGGABUGG

Regabella used HOUSE CIRCLE

Robinabella used VERONICA

Steubybella used KISSY

TELL me that isn’t EYE CANDY?  *sigh* I missed these posts…..

Ok and now for our special SISTAHOOD!

Cathy used ROLLANDA KETTO

Ellie used LACIE AND HER ICE CREAM CONE

Jennifer R used UPTOWN GIRL CLAUDIA has a CANDY

Jennifer B used MISSMATCH KETTO

Karen MOTZABELLA used BEEDAY HUGGABUGG

Leslie used JASMINE (that sounds mean doesn't it? LOL)

Lynn used FELIX KETTO

Margo used EUNICE and IRVING

Tanya used EXPECTAFELLABELLA

Violet used FELIX KETTO

Dawn used ALL WRAPPED UP

Kerri used SNEAKY SNEAKY BIRTHDAY BELLA

LOOOOOVE these cards and I hope you are inspired to go and craft!

Don’t forget to keep checking here , twitter, facebook, ..LOL I am now a social media GODDESS.. for some more sneaky peekies.. lots of uptown girls coming!

mwah mwah mwah

NEXT WEEK’S THEME is to ink up your FAVORITE BELLA IMAGE!

oh and AJ monday theme… RESOLUTIONS.  Wanna see some mixed media goodies

oh and did you know that I tweet now? 😉 lol just kiddinK

Em

 

> Card Samples
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to Tweet, or not to Tweet… guess what?

I’m a tweetin’!!!!  I have been SOOOO afraid to tweet.  I didn’t understand it.. nor did I want to.  Sometimes I would test or DARE twitter to post what I write.. like that I am sitting in the doctor’s office..LOL.. I thought I would bother mr. twitter.. Uch I am nuts i tell ya!

Now I have more important BIDNISS to take care of.. showing some sneaky peekies for TOOSDAY’s release… YES TOOOOOOSDAY’s release.. didja hear me?? TOOOOSDAY’s release.. it is one of my bestest and BIGGEST and I love it..LOL.. I think I say that all the time don’t i?  We have 2 new artists coming on board.. and I am SOOO excited for you to meet them 🙂  you will NOT be disappointed.

now if you wanna see some sneak peeks coming up in the next few days.. the only way you will see them is through…………. TWITTER.. or as I would say… TWITTAH!

So if you wanna follow me on TWITTAH… press the TWITTER icon on my home page, open an account and I promise we will have fun!  I am gonna post a lot.  Gonna post some sneak peeks.. things coming up in the store.. etc.  I am LOVING this stuff.. Thanks HELENABELLA for creating an addicted MONSTAH!

Mwah sistahs..

3 little mini sneak peeks are up.. put a comment in so I know you came to visit!!

mwah

Em

 

> Card Samples
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PROJECT LIFE WEEK 1 and how to use your stampies in there

Hiya sistahs.. well I promised, so here it is.  Please forgive the pictures.. I don’t think they are the greatest of quality but you will get the ‘picture’.. get it?  project life, get the picture? LOL  uch.. not so funny.

Well I am still on the mend.. between pneumonia and rupturing cysts, I am not too pretty, nor am I so pleasant to be around..LOL  so I should be back on track next week.. my family hopes at least 😉

So has everyone visited us on Splitcoast?  there is a lot of fun chatter going on..LOL.. lots of friends to meet.. it’s a great place to be!  Also, don’t forget to “like” us on Facebook so you can see what’s going on in our little part of the world 🙂

Update on the DUKAN diet.. have had some personal emails asking questions.. well.. I have completed week 1/ ATTACK PHASE.. and have lost 7 pounds (I think.. I go on the scale 3 times, and get 3 different numbers.. so now I have made a deal that I just look at the first number..LOL).. I have not suffered one bit, nor have I felt like I have been on a diet.  I am loving this but could easily quit any day so take everything with a grain of salt..LOL.. although I really don’t wanna quit.

Ok.. so there’s my catchup.. think I need to get out more? LOL

Here’s some pics of da PROJECT LIFE for my first week EVAH.  Loved every minute of it. *sigh* if only I could retire…

it's my first week.. had to see what I had, no?

here’s my first page

here’s the second page

here’s a 6*12 insert cuz I had too many pictures for the week 🙂

 

 

was so proud of myself.. after Denabella and Helenabella tried to teach me Photoshop, I figured out how to put an overlay on my picture.  go me! (you’ll see it on the left in white)

Here I used our WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN stamp (in the next two photos).. LOVE THEM!

here I used YOUR BOOK IS DUE stamp and covered a whole journal card to make lists!

and here I used our THUMBS UP stamp from our MOODY FINGERS set (don’t look at the book title n’k?)

 

Here I used the FILM square and the ARROW from our GRUNGY SET #1.. LOVE IT

 

and that’s really it for the week!  I enjoyed working on it thoroughly!  As I am an avid collector of embellishments, stickers, letters, brads.. grrrr….grrrrr…grrrr.. I have FINALLY found a way to put it all int GREAT use!  There is nothing like DIGGING in my pile of goodies and finding just the right thing 🙂

Mwah to da sistahs who are STAMPING and DOCUMENTING LIFE!

Em

> ART JOURNALING TOOSDAY
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AJ MONDAY IS BACK!!!

Ok sistahs.. it’s a new year and I don’t want you to STOP art journaling n’k?  Promise?

so next week’s theme is : RESOLUTIONS.

Now I know that some people to like to make resolutions.. if you don’t have resolutions for 2012 then write about your dreams, your wants, your aspirations.

The background is a FREE FOR ALL.. so you can stamp, you can watercolor, you can gesso, you can paint.. you can stick.. whatevah you want.. I just want you to get some info down so that we can look at it next year and see how we have all evolved.

Entry is due by Monday morning LATESSSST (JANUARY 16th).. just send me a jpeg of it and I will post on my blog

S’aright?

Start journaling!

Tomorrow I will post my first week of project life.. you will be BLOWN away by some of the stamps I used 🙂

Mwah

Mwah

Mwah

Em

> chit chat
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it’s a new year.. it’s a new little word chosen to represent my year, and a surprise!

Happy new year to my sistahs!  I think it is now 5 years I have been blogging… OMG.. when I think about it, I realize how quickly time passes… Crazy I tell ya!

So it’s a new year… 2012.. I always wonder what it is in store for us.. so far the last 3 days were pretty good..LOL.. (it’s so good that I make myself giggle..LOL)

So last year I talked about my one little word for the year.. (i just had to look it up.. that’s how seriously I took it.. that’s how quickly it was forgotten.. 🙁 ).  The word for last year was COMMITMENT.  Guess what?  Without even THINKING about last year’s word, I told my girlfriends that this years word is COMMIT…LOL.  So clearly I need to focus on this no?  YES.

This year I have a LOT of goals to COMMIT to.  I want a NEW word next year LOL so I have to conquer this one.

this is in NO particular order cuz ALL of them have to get done 🙂

(1)  I am turning 40 in June.  I need to lose weight.  I need to focus on myself again.  When I see grey in my hair, I can’t wait for Paulabella to visit lol.. I need to take care of MY needs.. make time for me to COMMIT to MYSELF

(2)  I will COMMIT to the DUKAN diet.  I have seen all my friends around me melt away.  I wanna melt too.  I am COMMITTING to melt!

(3)  EXERCISE.. slowly.. I hate it with a passion.. but I remember how I felt when I COMMITTED to exercising and never felt better

(4) MINIMIZE.. I need to commit to NOT overindulge.  To enjoy what I HAVE. and USE what I have and to be HAPPY.

(5)  PURGE.. I need to PURGE what I don’t need… not “oh.. I will use this some time”.. if I haven’t used it in 5 years, I think it is time to part ways

(6) SPEND MORE QUALITY TIME WITH MY FAMILY… COMMIT to them.. not to my laptop..LOL.  Be more ACTIVE with them

(7) TAKE MORE PICTURES.. REMEMBER THE LITTLE MOMENTS.. I look back.. and I don’t have as many pictures as I would like to have..

(8)  JOURNAL MORE.. be more honest with my family.. with myself.

(9)  COMMIT to PROJECT LIFE..  Commit myself to sit 1 night a week and document the week’s activities, nonsense, laughs, cries, feelings.. cuz ya know what?  I want my family to look back and see what we accomplished.. to laugh at the memories.. to read my honest journaling.  to smile.

(10) Focus on LIFEBOOK this year.. similar concept to Project life but DIFFERENT.. stay tuned for Angela and I.. and what we come up with!

(11) ARE YOU BORED YET?  just checking cuz I am not done.. LOL.. I am COMMITTED to this list.

(12)  SAY I LOVE YOU MORE.  HUG MORE.  LAUGH MORE.  KISS MORE.

(13)  LIVE LIKE I WILL NEVER HAVE REGRETS

(14)  READ MORE

(15)  CREATE AMAZING NEW THINGS for my sistahs.. we already have something REVOLUTIONARY in stamping in the works.. you will FAINT!

(16)  CREATE, CREATE CREATE.. PAINT more..have the GUTS to call myself an ARTIST.

(17) BLOG MORE.. maybe even VIDEO more to make it more personal 🙂

(18)  LEARN more.. from classes, from other people.. suck it up like a sponge.. always keep my brain working

(19)  FOCUS

(20) MAKE TIME

I think that’s it.. actually I am SURE that there are a million more things but I think I have to tackle this list first.

WHAT IS YOUR LITTLE WORD?  TELL ME!

now for the surprise!  Well we tried a forum on our website and it didn’t really work because we couldn’t focus on the upkeep of it.. no one had the time to take care of it and watch it and COMMIT to it to blossom SOOOOO….

Stamping Bella is back at SPLITCOAST STAMPERS!  This is an amazing website with lots of information, stamping advice, galleries etc.  And we will have our own member forum there AGAIN (we were one of the founding member companies there)  so we can chat and blab about releases, diets, commitments, lifebooking etc… I know many sistahs who have developed very close friendships from my last forum and that is my goal here.  To find crafty friends that don’t look at you weird when you sniff a piece of paper with happiness LOL (I have done that in front of my REGULAR friends and I don’t want to tell you what they thought of me..).  So won’t you join us there?  Start a thread.. let’s blab!  I love the interaction.. I will be there all the time.. cuz that is another one of my COMMITMENTS.

if you check out our banner on Splitcoast, you may just see some new images.. new uptownies.. just sayin’.  And if you stop by there, please just say hi. k?

Ok.. I think I have bored you enough

I’d love to hear what your resolutions are.. what your one little word is.

MWAH (that’s one little word, no?)

Em

> Card Samples
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will you be there? hmmm? will ya?

know what I’m talking about?  hehehe  it’s the event of the YEAR!

you can find all information HERE if you want to attend.. Angela Urbano and I will be hosting a class there.. well *ahem* Angela is actually teaching.. I will be there for entertainment..LOL :).. It is supposed to be an amazing event :).. anything that Catherine from SCT puts together is phenom.. so if you have not registered yet, might I suggest you do so ASAP? LOL

So lets discuss a little bit what the class Angela is teaching is about.  First of all, if you dont know Angela, she is an AMAZING scrapbooker.. Life journaler.. her style is graphic and clean.  Just gorgeous!

The class is called LIFEBOOK 101.. here’s a little excerpt of what the class is about:

 

“Are you one of those scrappers who can’t think of the right words to say on a layout?  Do you hesitate when writing what you truly feel when you are in the moment?  Do you suffer from JOURNALER’S BLOCK?

Conceived by Angela Urbano and Emily Block , Lifebooking is a new revolutionary way of looking at how we we scrapbook.  Lifebooking is BOOKING LIFE not scraps..LOL.  It’s time to track the little details of your life.. the simple facts to the most difficult emotions.. and the lightbulb to the Seinfeld moments we experience every day.  A lifebook page doesn’t always start with a visual, a colour palette, a photo or pretty patterned paper.. Sometimes it’s the words that tell the story.  Sometimes it’s the words that paint the picture.  Sometimes it’s the words that capture the moment.

Angela will take you through “journaler’s block’ exercises to create a 12*12 double lifebook spread.  Join us om our Lifebooking adventure.  Check out our different lifebooking techniques which make us each unique as well as makes us one.   We will arm you with tools needed to start capturing the words.  They will arm you with the most POWERFUL TOOL needed.  the power of YOUR WORDS.  Lifebook THAT. ”

Angela and I have been hard at work developing a new concept.  A concept that is extremely important for future generations.  It’s called LIFEBOOK.  It’s a verb.. ie.  DO YOU LIFEBOOK?  or OMG I HAVE TO LIFEBOOK this moment :)… it can also be a noun… I am a LIFEBOOK GEEK/NERD.. LOL  ..

The foundation of lifebooking can be different for everyone… Angela loves to Lifebook on 12*12 pages.. I LOVE to lifebook in my journal.. you can lifebook on a napkin, toilet paper.. a bar coaster…

So what is a lifebook you ask?  Well, it’s a place where you can document your every day musings, thoughts, events, conversations.  A place to put random pictures that will be appreciated in years to come.  How I can’t wait til my kids look back at my lifebooks and giggle.. cry.. and understand that their mom is more than a mom.. but a PERSON.  Are you angry that you ate that MARS BAR?  Stick the wrapper in your lifebook and write why you are angry about it and in 20 years, our kids won’t even know what a Mars bar is… in effect, it is creating your own history.  Write the weather down.. your mood… what you REALLY felt this day or that day..  It’s your place to say it as it is.

Now along with the concept of LIFEBOOKING will come a series of PHENOM stamps that will be used in your lifebook.. whether it be on a 12*12 layout, your daily agenda, or your journal.  These stamps will be a series of icons.. and prompts to help you get in the habit of lifebooking.  They are the CUTEST things ever (if I do say so myself..LOL).. and they will be SO useful :).  We will have a WHOLE series that you will NEED and WANT to collect.

I think the daily nonsense.. the daily grind is what scrapbooking is really about.  Of course celebrating the loss of a tooth is an amazing feat.. but what about the tooth fairy.. how you explained her to your kids.. what about the PRIDE on your child’s face.. documenting what they felt.. documenting what you felt when your child lost that tooth… like OMG I KNOW this kid will need braces.. and how much is that gonna cost me!  As TABOO as that sounds on a scrapbook layout, it’s OK to say that in your lifebook.  Your kids will thank you for it.  Trust me!

Wanna see a little sneaky peeky of the layout for the class?  OHHH and there is a bonus single page layout and a card that will be taught in the class! And I will be doing make and takes with these new little stampies.

Can you see the stamps in this sneak peek?  HMMMM? (that’s Angela looking very mysterious)

Trust me sistahs.. Join us in this journey.  You will not regret it.

More to come

Mwah.

Mwah.

Mwah.

Lifebook a mwah, will ya?

Em

 

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I’m alive

I am alive sistahs.. I am on the mend… I have never been that sick before in my life but I am hoping with a little R&R, I will be back to 100% soon.  I came into the office after not being here for almost 2 weeks!  I missed Denabella and Helenabella so much!

I wanted to just come on here to say hi.. and to say that I miss you 🙁  and to say that I will be MUCH more verbose in the next coupla weeks. 

I am working on a PHENOM new release .. and some other GREAT news coming your way!

Mwah to da sistahs who still come by and say hi

Em

> Card Samples
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InfluENZA

Sistahs,
Seems like I am gonna be mia for a little longer . I have now been in bed since last Tuesday and have visited my doctor today. Have been given meds and cough suppressant. We are moving tomorrow! I am not quite sure yet what they will do for me
I am surmising that more of what happened this weekend will happen tomorrow. Everyone working around me. Maybe they can staple me to the bed, staple the covers around me and slip me in the moving truck?
I wish you all a very happy and healthy holiday. Be safe, be warm and WASH YOUR HANDS all the time lol

We are expecting and planning for amazing things in 2012

Mwyuuehe (that’s a mwah through a Kleenex lol)
Em