Happy Friday! This week the Babes and our guest designer Sandra have created some stunning cards featuring our NEW HOLIDAY 2023 RELEASE. There’s such a variety of stamping fun to be had with it, and there’s a little something for everyone in there.
I’m back at home and almost back to normal routine now, so there’s a colouring video to go with my card today, at the end of the post!
I’m happy to say that the HOLIDAY 2023 RELEASE is now available to order on our website! Head over to the WHAT’S NEW SECTION to see everything in one place and shop.
We can’t wait to see what you do with these new stamps!
Elaineabella here today with the FINAL DAY of sneak peeks from the Stamping Bella HOLIDAY 2023 RELEASE! We cannot wait to see all of the wonderful creations you all come up with using these new stamps, and tomorrow you will be able to get yours ordered and on the way.
Release day is Monday 18th September 2023, when all of the stamps will be available to order from our website.
Time to get on with sharing all of the inspiration from our brilliant Babes and fantastic guest designers (Melina, Sandra, and Yen ). Each and every one of them have done such an incredible job, please be sure to leave them all some love in the comments section.
Elaineabella here today with more peeks from the Stamping Bella HOLIDAY 2023 RELEASE! I hope you are enjoying these as much as we do.
Release day is Monday 18th September 2023, when all of the stamps will be available to order from our website.
Ready for the incredible inspiration from our brilliant Babes and fantastic guest designers (Melina, Sandra, and Yen )? Let’s get to it! They have done such an incredible job, please be sure to leave them all some love in the comments section.
Elaineabella here, and I am thrilled to finally be sharing the Stamping Bella HOLIDAY 2023 RELEASE with you! We have got an incredible selection of stamps for the Autumn and Winter, including of course Halloween and Christmas. You are going to be spoiled for choice.
Release day is Monday 18th September 2023, when all of the stamps will be available to order from our website.
Let’s get to the fun! We have an amazing collection of samples from our brilliant Babes and some fantastic guest designers (Melina, Sandra, and Yen ). A huge thank you to all of them. They have done such an incredible job, please do leave them all some love in the comments section.
If you’re thinking it has been a little bit quiet around here, there’s a good reason for that! We’re working hard on getting our Holiday 2023 release out! The good news is, there isn’t long to wait! Sneak peeks start on Friday 15th September, and release day is Monday 18th September!
Today would have been Emily’s birthday. The firsts are always hard. For us, the first blog post, the first release after losing Emily, and now the first birthday she isn’t here to celebrate. Her family and friends have had to go through all of those firsts and so much more without her, and our thoughts and love are always with them, as I am sure yours are too. If you would like to leave a comment in support, I know it will be seen and very much appreciated.
Over the past months we have been working on something extra special to honour Emily on her birthday. This extra special mini release took a lot of love and strength to create, and we hope you will be as thrilled with it as we are.
All of the stamps shown today are available right now in our WHAT’S NEW section on the store.
Most years on her birthday, Emily would share the celebrations and have a sale. We didn’t see why this year should be different. So, help us to celebrate Emily and stock up on stamps!
*The Uptown Girl Emily Da Bella stamp is excluded from the sale as she is a charity fundraiser. Sale does not apply to existing special offers.*
Our amazing Design Team and special guests have all been working hard creating gorgeous samples with the new stamps. We have SO much inspiration to share with you today, you will definitely want to grab a drink and some snacks as you check them all out below. By the end I have no doubt that you will be absolutely itching to go and get inky.
Sneak peeks and release posts were always Emily’s favourites – she loved to share all the inspiration with you and shout about how wonderful the stamps and our Babes are. I’m with her there. Creating the stamps is one thing, sharing them is where the magic truly is.
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you will probably have seen Emily refer to herself as DA BELLA. Just like that, in all caps. Oh boy do I miss the ALL CAPS messages. This Uptown Girl is totally DA BELLA, I cried when I saw the sketches for her. Our wonderful artist captured Emily so beautifully in our Uptown Girl style.
Our beautiful, creative Emily, surrounded by some of her favourite things. The card she’s holding is a nod to her two very favourite things in the whole world – her children Tyler and Jayden.
This stamp is extra special. All of the profits from sales of Uptown Girl Emily Da Bella will be donated to the EMILY BLOCK MEMORIAL FUND. In honour of Emily’s passion for art and her creative spirit, the fund supports children’s art therapy programs.
Our samples for this release include some true to life versions, and some not so true to life. Emily would have loved this. She was all about people expressing themselves and colouring however they like. So when you get your Emily stamp, go wild, use bold colours, and share that stamping magic. Let’s fill the world with colourful Uptown Girl Emilys!
I bawled my eyes out creating this set. Emails and messages from Emily were sprinkled liberally with these phrases, and I miss seeing them from her so much it physically hurts.
You absolutely knew if a message started with “LET ME TELL YOU” or “OMG, YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE!” it was time to settle in for the ride. What perfect sentiments for fun cards to send to a friend or loved one.
Stamping is Magical – Emily would always say this, and tag her social media posts with it. She wasn’t wrong. Stamping is what brought Emily into my life, and into so many people’s. Stamping has given me some of my favourite people, and a truly wonderful community to be a part of. A #SISTAHOOD.
Every time I stamp a sentiment from this set, I’ll be thinking of Emily. I hope you will too. She created something truly beautiful in Stamping Bella, and we’re all so grateful to still be sharing that.
Card Samples:
First up we have a special appearance from an original Bella Babe, our amazing Paulabella. I know how much Emily had missed having Paula on the team in recent years, although she very much remained our Paulabella. I’m so happy that Paula could dust off her pencils for this one. It means a lot.
The rest of the team and our guest designers are no less special. Emily truly loved her Babes, and was so proud of this team and the way everyone always works to bring the stamps to life and inspire. I am immensely proud of how they have all come together to create such a special collection of cards for today. Absolutely OUTSTANDING. The love in this post is just…well… I can’t even.
Emily’s favourite flower was lily of the valley, so our next two stamps are in honour of that.
Emily wanted to add more standalone floral images to our collection, so here’s what will hopefully be the first addition of many to come.
Use this one on it’s own, use part of the image, use the whole image, use it as part of a scene. Colour it, don’t colour it. Pencils, markers, watercolour, inks… Whatever you do, it’s going to be beautiful.
Card Samples:
That’s it! Probably our smallest release ever, but it’s pretty perfectly formed. We hope you agree. Thank you SO MUCH for sticking with us, and helping us to continue with Emily’s dream. We appreciate it beyond words. YOU are absolutely OUTSTANDING.
EDIT 13th April 2023: All of the new stamps are available now in our WHAT’S NEW section.
Elaineabella here, and I’m excited to share the new SPRING/SUMMER 2023 RELEASE with you. We’ve got an amazing collection of stamps to share with you in this release, and there is definitely a little something for everyone.
Release day will be Thursday 13th April 2023. All of the stamps will be available to order from our website then.
So, let’s get to it! Grab yourself some refreshments, and get ready to take in all of the gorgeous inspiration the Babes and our special guests have created! A big thank you to all of the Babes and to our guests Sue Hastead and Cass Stomboli. They have done such incredible work, so please do leave them some love in the comments below.
EDIT: STAMPS ARE ALL NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER in the WHAT’S NEW section on the Stamping Bella store.
It’s the second and final day of previews for the new release! Keeping it short and sweet for you this time, as we know it has already been a long wait since our last release. If you missed the first day of peeks, you can check out that post HERE.
Today we’re sharing some amazing new ODDBALL STAMPS! You know I love the Oddballs, and I also have a soft spot for all things dinosaur, so I’m in stamping heaven with these. It looks like the Babes have been too, because their cards are DINOTASTIC. Prepare to be amazed. If they wowed you yesterday, they will knock your socks off today! I know that Emily would be SO PROUD. They truly show how these dinos can work for all sorts of occasions and cards, and can be soft and pretty, earthy, or bold and bright. LOVE. As Emily would say: OUTSTANDING!
Our special guest designers for this release are the amazing SANDRA PETERSEN and SUE HASTEAD. A big thank you to them for joining us with some absolutely stunning work.
The new release will be available to order on the website on TUESDAY 31st JANUARY 2023 – not long to wait!
We also have a new DINO SENTIMENT SET to go with all the images today. Of course we also have an existing range of SENTIMENT SETS to help you create cards for every occasion, as well as BACKDROP STAMPS to set the scene if that’s your thing! In fact, we have a NEW backdrop stamp today, which you will see on many of the cards below!
DINO SENTIMENT SET
CAVE BACKDROP
Our older CAVE KIDS BACKDROP is also great to pair with the new Oddball Cave Couple and Oddball Dinos (as well as the Gnomes as seen yesterday), but for this release we really wanted an actual CAVE. Here it is, and it is perfect!
Now, let’s get to it and take a look at all of the eye candy from the BABES and our SPECIAL GUESTS!
ODDBALL CAVE COUPLE
Just look at this pair! They’ve had it with prehistoric life. This is a set of two stamps, so as you can see in the samples below: use them together, use them separately, arrange them however you want to create a scene.
Card Samples
Card above by guest designer Sandra Petersen. Sandra also used our ODDBALL GNOME KIDS stamp set to add the snail and toadstool to this brilliant scene!
ODDBALL DINO TRIO
This is one of my personal favourites from the release. Oddball Dino Trio is a set of three separate stamps, so the possibilities are endless! So many ways to use them – all on one card, create scenes with them and the other stamps, use them separately. Whatever you want!
Card Samples
ODDBALL MAMA DINO & HER BABIES
SUCH a great image. Use this one for Mother’s Day, for fun scenes for any occasion, or just because it’s cute… As I mentioned, I’m a dino fan, so in my craft room this one is going on some cards AND getting stamped in my journal, along with the others!
Card Samples
Amy also used a sentiment from our CURVY GIRL MOM stamp set.
EDIT: STAMPS ARE ALL NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER in the WHAT’S NEW section on the Stamping Bella store.
Hey folks, Elaineabella here. Over the past couple of months, we have had the task of finalising the release that Emily was preparing in November. I’m happy to say, that even though it has been tough, we have pulled together and brought the new release to life exactly as Emily would have done. I know that she would be absolutely thrilled with the amazing work the Babes have done creating cards to share the new stamps with you all.
With that said, I will crack on and show you the first set of sneak peeks! If you’re already a Gnome fan you will be very happy. If you have yet to fall for everything gnome, then today might just be the day! Grab a snack and your beverage of choice, there’s a lot to see, and you won’t want to miss any of it.
The GNOMES have all found themselves in different roles for this release. From the everyday hero to the fantastical, there is SO MUCH fun to be had creating with these stamps. The Babes and a couple of special guest designers have created some incredible cards to inspire you. I’m delighted to finally be able to share them all with you. PLEASE do drop a comment here on the blog and let them know how much you appreciate their hard work, we all love to hear from you.
