Sistahs!  I am working on the release as we speak!  Will be updating this post as we ‘speak’.

First I would like to announce the winnah of the $20 spree

Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2009-02-06 16:49:28 UTC

1. Shannon Roberts Says:
   February 3rd, 2009 at 3:41 am eUmmm ya! And I have a big fat list waiting to be ordered it would be so great to have that extra nudge! MWAH to the queen!

Shannon, I will be sending your $20 right now!

We have all been thinking here at bellaland how we can help our sistahs out.. I think that the economy has been really lousy and after having seen the attendance at CHA, I had a kind of wake up call… so in honor of VALENTINES day.. and the ECONOMIC BLECHINESS, we have decided to honor free shipping to da sistahs EVERYWHERE and ANYWHERE in the world, for all orders over $45 as a thank you for your continued support even through this “blechiness”.. so THANK YOU sistahs for all you do!  Hows’ THAT for a bellarific friday? hmmmmm?  Please enter the code mwah without the quotation marks.  Off to post images now!

This free shipping is not applicable to the bella bead bonanza nor the free gifts.. that offer is completed!

Let’s discuss our new artist ELENA FRENCH.  She is super FABBY DABBY, ADORABLE, TALENTED.. and when I saw those turtles.. OMG.. I just about had a heart attack.. literally.  And when she said YES?!?!?! I think I really DID have a heart attack.. Honest.  Here’s a little bit about Elena

is she not adorable??

and here is a little bio about her

When Elena French woke up one morning dreaming of illustrated turtles she knew she could not put off the ideas in her head any longer! Working as a graphic designer for a government contracting company in Connecticut was a stable job but did not supply the creativity she was craving. So like any other closet artist she started drawing anyway! At night, on weekends, she could be found head bent over a drawing pad, dragging her set of Prismacolors wherever she went. She is stepping into the world of blogging, illustrating, Etsy, and now stamps! What a dream come true! Elena hopes to continue creating artwork that is full of whimsy, hope and childlike innocence. She has done graphite and charcoal portraiture for years but is now focusing on Children’s Room art and Illustration. To contact Elena or just get to know her heart, you can visit: Elena’s website at www.elenas-easel.blogspot.com  or e-mail her elena.french@gmail.com

Please please please post her a comment on her blog and inspire to draw more for us!  SHOW HER DA SISTAH LOVE!!

Please welcome the beginning of the Turtle Tots collection. You can find picking posies here

I want to EAT this turtle.. are turtles low fat? LOL

Turtle Tots CHEERLEADER– ahem did you notice the BOW on her HEAD? you can find her  here

how about LOVE IS IN THE AIR?  This is an all year round stamp.. with miss you.. I just love you.. LOVE THAT FACE! You can find her/him here

miss my sistahs!

And finally the turtle tots BIRTHDAY WISHES!  LOOOOVE this one (shocked?)

introducing PREDICTABELLA.. you can find her here

LOOOVE her.. and please notice the hat on the cat? billboardabellas words fit in the ball!

and underwatergoddess-ABELLA you can find her here

is she not BEEYOOTIFUL?

Also wanted to let you know that I have the BASIC GREY MARRAKECH AND PORCELAIN papers in.. HOT OFF THE PRESS!  you can find what I have here

Here is our FAVE Christy Croll TIDDLY INKS goodies!

adorable or WHAT?

bon appetit!

yum!

DEEVINE!

just a little break between stamps 🙂

COULD YOU GET MORE APPROPRIATE THAN THIS? LOL

for sale!

and the individual charm 🙂

Ok, back to stamps:

More from the WONDERFUL and TALENTED Jessica Rose from VOL.25

great for scrapbook pages and cards! LOVE these hanging blocks!

love completely random thoughts 🙂

for scrapbook pages, for cards.. bridal showers, bachelorettes, weddings.. I LOVE this one!

stars are HOOOOTTTT!

almost everything I saw at CHA had clouds.. you can journal right in here or stamp your sentiments!always hard to find journalling for music buffs 🙂 LOVE THIS CONCEPT!another great memory block!Ok, posting the next two things then gotta take my kidlets to a birthday party 🙂 will continue later and will let you know when I am done!aren't these so VINTAGE and fun! Can be used for boys cards, layouts etc.. LOVE them.. and each set is different.. this one happens to be archie 🙂

so springy and sooooo cute.. LOVE these chickadees :)arent these great? very vintage-y looking and colourful! great for boy's cards, humorous or scrapbook pages/layouts! all sets are different

look at her looking at you.. could YOU RESIST HER?

yummalish.. especially da TOOF (tooth)

coooochie cooooo

meet Ellie-Phant....

meow?

he's just chillin

roar?

life is such a balancing act, no?

a wonderful end to a wonderful release 🙂

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I cannot believe I am posting this picture but I found it PERFECT in regards to our RELEASE tomorrow.. ya know.. NANNY NANNY BOOOOOO BOOOOO.. I know what I am releasing AND YOUUUU DON”T.. LOL

Sistahs today we had an amazing day in Bellaland 🙂

We ALWAYS get questions emailed to us asking what our day is like and I never have a chance to respond or describe or put it into words.. well that lovely silly face above is a snippet of how I behave on a daily basis..LOL (not really.. I am VERY PROFESSIONAL.. just ask the local sistahs who come and visit! 😉 BE QUIET local sistahs..LOL

So our local tv station called me earlier this week and asked to set up an interview at the boootique and of course I said sure!  I have been on TV before and you could have confused me with a mute.  I am so animated and bubbly in real life and then once the camera goes on…. RIIIBBBBBBITTTTT (see my RIBBIT theory from a post 2 years ago..OMG 2 years ago..LOL) .. I cannot STAND being in front of the camera.. blech.. fooey.. yuck.. but for the sake of da sistahs, I sucked it up :).  So the camera crew came today and we have our LUNCH BUNCH who comes every thursday and had some sistahs hanging out.. I thought that today would be DA PERFECT DAY to show you what goes on… I gave Ryan the camera to take shots while I was being interviewed.. (remind me never to do that again as you will see)..

there's DENA!! hi DENA!!! she is our shipping logistics right hand EXTRAORDINAIRE! this is a portion of our "warehousing" department where all the goodies are!

a snapshot of our "scramping Room". lunch bunch in the back Nicky Marjorea Dianne (scrapbooking teacher), shelley and Simone is sitting at the front table :).. LOVE that room

the PHOTOGRAPHER.. aka Ryan taking pictures of VERY IMPORTANT things like the release forms we had to sign for the tv show..LOL

nickabella.. chief designer EXTRAORDINAIRE!

ryan took a picture of a pen.. RYAN START WORKING!!!

me being miked..

the interview.. blechy phooey.. RIBBBIT

da lunchy bunchy- nicky, hannah, marjorea, michelle! mwah sistahs!

ryan wanted everyone to know that we eat HEALTHY in bellaland..LOL

HI SHELLLLLEY!!!!

a portion of da lunch bunch.. we MISSED YOU IRENE!!

ok so that is a snippet of  a thursday at da bella bootique.. Hope you enjoyed!

oops cant forget RYAN!!

here he is... MR. AMERICAAAAA

So tomorrow is da day.. have lots of images and am featuring a new artist 🙂  LOVE her and LOVE her artwork!

and have something else up my SLEEEEVE!

mwah to da sistahs who lovey da pictures

Em

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Sistahs,

please don’t forget to post a comment here to win a $20 shopping card!  Just in time for our release on Friday.. there will be 2 BELLAS… Count ’em sistahs.. TWO! and they are FABBBBBBBBBBY DABBBBY DEEELISH!  You will totally love them.. PLOMISE (how Jayden said promise). AND another surprise too 🙂

Very biZZy at da bella bouuuuutique!  A lot of scrapbooking stuff as we are growing.. so much fun!

Dianne’s Jovial January inspiration of the month did sooo welll last month (we do have a few left)  that we are now introducing Fabulous FEBRUARY inspiration of the month for you to enjoy!

love the flowers, accents and stamp LOVE COLLAGE used! Great Job DI!

more FLATBACK updates..LOL.  I AM OBSSESSED.  TOTALLY OBSSESSED. and if you know me? these little doohicky’s will nevah evah stop.. so more eye candy!

sorry for the dark picture but these are BRIGHT and VIBRANT and yummalish! (if I do say so myself..LOL)

you can find CHANTILLY DRAGON HERE .. LOVE IT!!

check out my VINTAGE GRAPES in cream HERE

hot hot hot!

and VINTAGE GRAPES in teal!

BEEYOOOTIFUL 🙂

I hope you enjoyed the eye candy!

Mwah to da sistahs who STAMP and SCRAP!

Em

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Hiya sistahs

I am sitting here in my family room.. watching a cartoon cuz I am too lazy to get up and change the channel and my kidlets are in bed.. how pathetic is THAT?

Well, I promised I would share some stories and some pictures so here goes.. it may be a little longwinded (I know, hard to believe)

So first of all, it took us a whole day to get to california.. we took 3 planes.. Toronto to Chicago, Chicago to Denver, and Denver to Santa Ana.. it was a LOOOONG day sistahs but we were so excited to see goodies and people that we haven’t seen in a long time that it was well worth it!

A couple of things we saw along the way the store below was in the Denver airport

I mean how could I resist.. the name AND A MAKEUP STORE? I have died and gone to heaven!

Nicky and I travelled first class and let me TELL you that it was a gift… the seats are NICE AND WIDE.. Nicky and I played the WILL THE SEATBELT FIT AROUND US game…LOL.. and they always did! LOL (Phew!).. if you read my CHA post last year, we discussed the red carpet for first class.  It is an amazing thing really.. you feel like ROYALTY.. see below..

I mean, wouldn't YOU feel like royalty on the red carpet? do you even SEE the red carpet? lol

We finally arrived at the hotel and were COMPLETELY wiped. It was draining and all we wanted to do was go to sleep so that we can be fresh for the show.   We had a very nice suite with 2 rooms and 2 baFrooms and we were ready to call it a night.  I run to her and ask her if she is able to find her blinds?!  We only had sheer curtains and I was getting increasingly angry that we would have to sleep without a blind and the sun would shine in our eyes in the a.m.  SO I decided to be CRAFTY and attached my curtains with a bella pin ( a bit upside down)

this is me being CRAFTY

wide angle shot of my "craftiness"

Nicky says that she too can’t find her blinds.. so I am just ready to scream.. I call the main desk, start packing my clothes to move, they send the maintenance man to our room, he walks to the windows and casually pullllls the blinds across the window and make the room nice and dark.. I say.. did you just put those curtains in??? he looked at me like I was some KOOK and said no ma’am.. they were always there.   Well I was sure we would stump him when he got to Nicky’s room but sure enough, he pulls the curtains to reveal a blind.  It was RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!! we were VERY humiliated..LOL

The next day was the show and a great time was had by all.. we bought LOTS of goodies.. you know me.. I won’t reveal until it starts trickling in and once it does… WATCH OUT! we got beautiful papers and other goodies.. so stay tuned and please tell your scrappy friends too that I will have the newest and the BESTEST stuff.

Here are some pics from the show

could absolutely NOT resist this baby.. and the daisy in her hat.. and the sling... and her face and pout.. and her stunning mother 🙂 SO CUTE I had to stop! wouldn't you?

the above picture has Nicky, Me, Keri Lee Sereika, Anna Wight and the owner of Whipper Snapper designs.. am I LUCKY or WHAT?

Terri Conrad (former designer for Webster's Pages-- LOVE THAT PAPER), Me, Nicky and Shannan Teubner (STEUBY!!)

kim hughes (love her), me, and Julie Ebersole (Love her too)

Yup.. that's Linda from AMUSE artstamps.. LOVE her and LOVE her stamps!!

We spent lots of time with Kim from My Favorite Things and Alma from the cat’s Pajamas.. LOVE YOU SISTAHS!

That’s pretty much it in terms of pictures.. on our way back to Toronto, and in the John Wayne airport, I decided that morning to wear EVERYTHING THAT HAD dangles, metal, rhinestones, skulls.. all in one outfit.  Sure enough, the second I went through security, I set off a KAJILLION alarms.  I was thinking to myself.. why didn’t i wear my sweats? of ALL days!!!  So they keep on making me walk in and out and in and out and finally they took me aside to a type of “holding” cell where they had to frisk me.. all of a sudden I am in a compromising position and see ANGELA from unity stamp co.  she says HI EM and i wanna crawl under a rock with hands midair and legs spread apart..LOL

All in all a phenom time was had.. although I must say I am happy to be home and was even happier when I walked into Bellaland yesterday 🙂

Mwah to da sistahs who will come and visit

Em

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So I have been back for 37 seconds and it seems like I was in california forever ago 🙁

I missed my sistahs!! and have lotsa surprises!!

Well,  first of all I forgot my memory card reader at home so I will have to upload pictures tonight or tomorrow 🙁

met soooo many people.. had SUCH a great time sistahs but I wished that each and every one of you were there!  Nicky and I laughed pretty much for 5 days straight.. lots of goofy things happened (of course).. I got sick (of course), met some icons whom I admire (of course) and ate a lot (of course).

I just wanted to let you know that I am home safe and sound and miss you lots and have lots to share..

will write a proper post later tonight 🙂

****unfortunately, later tonight will have to be tomorrow.. have misplaced my cardreader.. GRRRRRR

mwah to da sistahs who are as goofy as we are

Em

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So Ryan says to me.. what am i supposed to do with da sistahs you are “leaving behind” while you are at CHA?  so I “says” (lol) back to him.. “TAKE GOOOOOOD CARE OF THEM”.. so he says to me “should we do something nice so they don’t miss you too much?” so I “SAYS” to him “sure”! So here it is sistahs!

I am leaving tomorrow for sunny california to do some shoppin’!  I will miss you terribly and try my BESTEST to take pictures and post from there.. BUT.. i may not be able to cuz I have computer issues when I am away.. but I promise I will try!  I will be selling 2.25″ pins with funky designs that you will be able to collect!  After this gift with purchase sale is over, I will be posting them for sale on the website.. I have LOTS up my sleeve! I designed this set and I just LOOOOVE IT!!!  Sale starts today 🙂

For every order from:
$30-$49.99 – You will receive a new bella 2.25″  LOVE pin and a coordinating mix of charcoal and pink  LOVE donuts… YUM

have you ever seen the "got milk" ads? well that is what inspired me.. the picture does this no justice and looks amazing on a black bag.. YUM!

sparkly sprinkly yummy!

OK now, if you spend

$50.00-$74.99–  you receive a pin and the donuts AND a set of LOOOOVE flatbacks

DEELISH OR WHAT? ready to go on your page (has the foamdot)

Now if you spend

$75+– you receive “the whole kit and LOVE caboodle”– you get the pin, the set of flatbacks, the donuts,  and a beeeyootiful pocket mirror.. check it out!

is that not PHENOMALICIOUS? check out the MWAH mirror for your purse! YUMMALISH

Did Ryan not have DA BESTEST IDEAR EVAH??

Mwah to da sistahs who LOVE da LOVE collection

Em

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Yep,  she SHO’ is.  I have spoken about Dianne before.. She is our in-house SCRAPBOOKING director and has been buggin’ me for MUMFS (months said by my little Jayden) to start going heavy into scrapbooking and I HEMMED and I HAWED (LOL) and finally decided.. yeperooni.. thaSS what I’s gonna do!  As I mentioned, we will be opening www.scrappingbella.com but it is still a work in progress so we will try to amalgamate the scrapbooking shtuff into this site for now.  You will notice the “GET SCRAPPIN'” button on the left of the home screen.. this is where all the new goodies.. there and under PAPER.. I am determined to get da BEST and da NEWEST and da MOSTEST uniQUEST stuff.. This will be posted in the WHAT’s NEW section and in the scrappy section.. ARE YA HAPPY NOW DIANNE?? LOL.

Dianne will KILL me for tooting her horn but she honestly is PHENOM.  Her main passion is Shabby Chic.. that is her passion but her ability to change her style is incredible.. she can go GRAPHIC (wait til you see February “INSPIRATION”).. has been published and has been seen on TV.  She has a major following here in Ontario and holds very very unique classes.  I will be posting February classes in a few.

Ok, so we are talking about “INSPIRATION”.. Dianne will be creating  Limited EDITION monthly “INSPIRATIONS” including stamped images, embellishments etc.  I absolutely LOVE this one and all of them that she is working on… we will only be making 10 of each and then BYE BYE inspiration..LOL

Here’s Dianne’s Jovial January Inspiration

is this not FRESH and FAB-O?

you receive a picture of the layout and contents and then you are off to work your magic.  We hope you LOVEY them..

So please tell your scrappy friends.. (ahem.. not CRAPPY friends..LOL) about the scrapping stuff being uploaded daily.. It is TOO MUCH FUN!

Mwah to da sistahs who will miss me when I am at CHA… 3 more sleeps!

Em

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