Hiya sistahs 🙂

Just thought I would share a little bit of DIS and a little bit of DAT with you 🙂

I’ve been journaling a LOT lately :).. keeping up in one of my favorite planners called the HOBONICHI.  If you haven’t heard of it, BEWARE.  ENABLER ALERT and I CANNOT be blamed.  N’uh uh… Nope.. not taking responsibility for this one :).  The shocking thing about this Hobo (as I refer to him) is that I actually have been using it almost EVERY SINGLE DAY.  The beauty of the size I bought (A5) is that it has the month at a glance (which I love)… the Week at a glance.. Which I love.. and Daily pages which I enjoy collaging and scribbling in  ( I actually decorate all of my pages :)).  Ive mentioned it here before but I love documenting life.. taking and printing little pictures.. writing about the good, the bad and the UGLY.. and basically leaving a legacy for those around me.. to maybe understand me more.. to create my own “history” by gluing things in that are current but that won’t be so current in 50 years.. LOL.. does that make sense?  I won’t be so current in 50 years.. HAHA. I make me laugh!

Another thing I love about this journal is the paper… ahhhhh… the paperrrrrrr…  It’s called Tomoe River paper and it is GLORIOUS!  It’s super thin and can take a lot of abuse.. it takes fountain pens beautifully without much show through.. you can stamp on it.. you can even watercolour and collage on it too.. It’s OUTSTANDING. Bella’s stamp of approval fo’ sho’.

Here’s my page from yesterday.. where I treated myself to an OMBRE (where your hair is darker at the top and gradually gets a bit lighter towards the bottom)…. my hair was so grey that I couldn’t even look in the mirror any more! not that there is anything wrong with grey… but I no likey on me.  So I decided to do something a little different.. change things up  a bit.

On the TOP RIGHT of the page you will see our JAVA SPILLS stamp… this is my GO TO stamp to make backgrounds, to fill space in my journals.. etc.  it’s AMAZINK.

I was speaking to my friend today and confirmed my journaling portion on this page with her.  It’s not only me who feels HIDEOUS at the hairdresser.  I LOATHE looking in the mirror there.. LOL.. why do I feel so yuck there? My friend also said she feels the same way.. she thinks there’s something in the lighting and that there should be photo filters everywhere as soon as you walk in LOL.

Another great thing about this journal is that you can use all your scraps in there… you can swatch your coloured pencils, inks paints.. It’s about life and what’s important to you.  It’s YOUR place to play.

LOVE.

Another thing I shared on social media today was that our very own FAYEW-Jabella got our Tiny Townie Penelope has a pencil on the right hand side of the COVAH of Making Cards magazine.  WOOHOOOOOO!!!  Take a lookie.

I also didn’t do WONDERFUL WEDNESDAYS WITH PAULA yesterday!  Here’s her STUNNING CARD using Tiny Townie Blossom loves BALLOONS..her colouring?  sigh.

Mwah to da sistahs who “make their own journaling history”

Em

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Hiya sistahs!

I just wanted to do a little recap of what was posted on social media this week 🙂  I know that some of you do not go on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram so I thought this would be a good way of sharing 🙂

This week I decided to play with watercolors.. like splishy splashy watercolors.  I have ALWAYS been enamored with watercolors.. I have also ALWAYS been scared to death of them LOL.  Now I have decided to embrace the power of the watercolor and have fun with them.

I colored up our new image THE CHICK AND THE LADYBUG in this image… now to cut and put on a card 🙂

here was the first image

and then I went a little NUTS with colour LOL

will make a card and show you 🙂

I also worked on the BUNNY WOBBLE and the PEONY.. I just love this image

look how yummy watercolor is.  like SERIOUSLY temperamental and delish (kinda like me LOL)

and the completed card

I also featured TracyMACabella’s UPTOWN GIRL CURLY CLARA needs your ADDRESS.. such a versatile stamp.. you can put the address in the bubble and stamp on happy mail envelopes, cut them out with their matching dies and put on gifts..  or on a card with your favorite sentiment!  You can also use her in your journals and put your favorite quote or thoughts of the day in there 🙂  .. so much fun!

Christine Levison showed this card using our new SLICK CHICK in our FB SISTAHOOD GROUP.. I just had to share 🙂

And that’s our weekly inspiration 🙂

Stay tuned for Bellarific Friday tomorrow!  It’s gonna be fun!

MWAH

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Hiya sistahs!

Just wanted to do a little review of what I have posted on social media this week 🙂  I know that some of you refuse to dive into the GIANT RABBIT HOLE of instagram and FB and Pinterest and I really don’t blame you sometimes LOL.. but sometimes I do.. I mean don’t you know what you’re missing? LOL.. just kidding.. you’re probably MUCH MORE PRODUCTIVE than I certainly am!

First I wanted to show you an amazing card I found on instagram yesterday.. I mean I flipped.. first because it’s one of my favorite stamp sets because it’s SO ME.. and second of all, it’s just a wonderful, simple and beautiful card.  Sometimes we don’t need to be fancy.  I quickly hijacked Jenny’s IG post and DEMANDED.. ahem asked nicely if I could share her card and she said yes!  You can find all of Jenny’s work on her BLOG

I am ALWAYS looking for cards.. so if you are on instagram, simply tag me @stampingbella or use #stampingbella in your post and I will look for you!

Such a sweetheart!

Here’s Jenny’s card using one of the CHICKS WHO COULDN’T EVEN .. Why do I relate to these chicks so much.. something’s wrong with this picture 🙂

Thank you Jenny for making such a gorgeous card!!

I also posted a STUNNING card by Faye Wynn Jones..

Her work is OUT OF THIS WORLD and not that I’m giving away anything.. but you MAY just see more of her in the near future.. read it as you will 🙂

Here is her card using our CLOSEUPS- CLINK.  I LOVE our closeups!  The intention of these stamps was to just zone in on a moment on our lives.. a closeup of a moment, if you will.  And that’s what I love so much about them.  This card can be used for almost any occasion!  Birthday, retirement, promotion…. you name it 🙂  Someone mentioned that they used it for a divorce card.. hmmmmm. LOL.

Faye brought this card to life in my opinion.  GORGEOUS!

And to see more of our CLOSEUPS.. you can look HERE

From our BELLA VAULT, I also posted a gorgeous card by Sandiebella used UPTOWN GIRL SUNNY is Stylish

So that’s our Thursday recap 🙂

I hope you enjoyed it and are RUNNING to your craft spot to make a card.. stamp.. scribble.. SOMETHING! LOL.

Bellarific Friday is tomorrow and it is not too late to create a card using this week’s sketch!

you can email me your card or you can simply add it to our INLINKZ spread at the bottom of this post

MWAHHHHH

Em

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and I mean TEENY TINY.. LOL so I added something else 🙂

Because we were so busy with our Crazy Tuesday sale and our new WWW post, I didn’t post much on social media.. TOO BEEEZY

Here’s one card by Paulineabella that I did post and I hope you love it as much as I do!

in this card Paulineabella used our CHICKS RULE stamp..

isnt it adorable??

I also wanted to show you one of my other collections (and this is just a portion of it LOL… WASHI TAPE.. omg.  I remember when I brought washi tape into my retail store about 3-5 years before ANYONE knew what it was :).. and every since then I have been smitten.

One of my favorite local Etsy shops I love to support is a shop called PAPER PLUS CLOTH

Rowena has a GORGEOUS shop with such GORGEOUS tapes .. i use them on my cards and in all of my journals..  She is away until Feb 6th but put your email address in the link I gave you above and you will receive an email when she is back and then drool all over your computers 🙂

Take a look at my WONDER WASHI WHEEL! I put them all on an embroidery hoop so I can see them all and just tear where I need to tear.  I smart, no?

A VERY small post but it was packed with inspiration 🙂

Mwah!

Em

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