Thursdays with Sandiebella

It’s DT THURSDAY- KATHY RACOOSIN EDITION!



Hiya sistahs!  It seems like I have been doing a LOT of harassing the last 2 years LOL..  Sandiebella committed to our DT thursdays.. Elaineabella has been busy with keeping our blog alive with Marker Geek Mondays and Spotlight on Tuesdays and now our brand new STAMP IT SATURDAYS with Sandie AND Elaine.. and active and fun with posts.. I have been busy preparing AMAZING and inspiring guest posts.. Our BEST ON EARTH Bellarific Babes Design team has been making DROOLWORTHY projects.. Our releases are going to be more frequent… WHO THE HECK CAN ASK FOR MORE?  I am grateful and so happy that this Sistahood of talent works with me.. my crazy ideas.. and of course my BEEYOOTIFUL stamps.

KathyRacabella hosts the 3o day color challenge on IG and on her blog.. she is SO creative and SO talented.. and after much begging asking nicely numerous times LOL.. she has said YES to contribute to our blog every FIRST Thursday of the month!  HOW COOL IS DAT?  I am SOOO happy to welcome Kathy to our little family.

So without further ADO.. wanna see what she came up with?  hmmmm?

Ok let’s go

DESIGN TEAM THURSDAY-Kathy Racoosin uses XO SQUIDGIE RUBBER STAMP and PETUNIA'S IN LOVE RUBBER STAMP

Hello Everyone, My name is Kathy Racoosin and I love to color. My blog is The Daily Marker and I am super excited to be here on The Stamping Bella blog today. My goal was to start out with a video and ah… my storage was all used up on my computer so I was trying to solve the problem by myself… not a good idea so …in my haste….  I ended up deleting over an hour of my video. Soooo I can only share some of my card making process but, hopefully you are saying some is better than nothing?


DESIGN TEAM THURSDAY-Kathy Racoosin uses XO SQUIDGIE RUBBER STAMP and PETUNIA'S IN LOVE RUBBER STAMP

My first card I kept coming back to and adding more layers of coloring. For the second card I use the coordinating die cut and didn’t spend near as much time on the coloring.

In the video I share how I stamped & masked off the “Petunia’s in love” pig with the help of the new Misti magnets then I stamped the XO-SQUIDGIE. I colored the pig with a variety of markers and then removed some of the color with the blending solution … plus adding texture.

DESIGN TEAM THURSDAY-Kathy Racoosin uses XO SQUIDGIE RUBBER STAMP and PETUNIA'S IN LOVE RUBBER STAMP

The “Small Talk” stamp set from Mama Elephant was the perfect tiny little pop that my one layer card needed. Once I was finished coloring with some Copic markers I added a few more highlights with colored pencils. When I was finished I inked up a dot stencil from Simon with a dauber and some soft ink. Glossy Accents were added to the pigs glasses, her shoes and antenna. I set my card aside to dry so I could start one more.

DESIGN TEAM THURSDAY-Kathy Racoosin uses XO SQUIDGIE RUBBER STAMP and PETUNIA'S IN LOVE RUBBER STAMP

Blending was simplified on this card and I drew a pattern on her dress to hide the “no blending”.  Some blending was added to the XO and I added “Copic Blending Solution” to add texture to the letters with my rag.

DESIGN TEAM THURSDAY-Kathy Racoosin uses XO SQUIDGIE RUBBER STAMP and PETUNIA'S IN LOVE RUBBER STAMP

I colored some twine with my marker and tied it around the “O” . A few sequins and I was finished.

I hope you picked up some tips today and wishing you a lovely weekend.

Hugs, Kathy

 

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16 Comments

  1. denise i says:

    love it! some great ideas and tips!

  2. Susan G says:

    Kathy…always fabulous!!! Thanks for the great coloring and design ideas.

  3. BunnyD says:

    Oh so cute! Love the Peggie on the XO of the Squidgy!

  4. I love these cards! Thanks so much for sharing Kathy! Masking using rubber stamps is not an easy task! Thanks for sharing how you did this. 🙂

  5. Patti Leon says:

    Tremendous amount of helpful tips and insight to your creation. I would have never guessed cyberspace ate your other video. You Rock Kathy Racabella. Lucky us you finally said yes to Stampingbella. Amazing group of talent. Big Hugs!

  6. Teresa Doyle says:

    A great SCORE to have KathyRacabella on your amazing team! They don’t get any better in the colouring world, IMHO! ? her!

  7. Gail Plaskiewicz says:

    I’d like to say Kathy and I are buds. I’d like to say that but I don’t know how she feels about that. She sent me a reply to something on her blog and she said I seemed like a really nice person. She’s right! LOL That was so cool though and I saved the e-mail. I’ve been doing Kathy’s coloring challenge for about a a year or 2 and I get all her e-mail’s. An on-line friend of mine told me about her and I was hooked! She is amazing at coloring and as you can see above, she did Petunia’s In Love and XO Squidgie stamps proud. Welcome to Stamping Bella, Kathy! It’s so cool that the 2 people I get e-mail’s from are now working together. Life is so good when that happens, isn’t it?

    • Awww Gail you are such a sweetheart leaving me love all over the place. Thank YOU!! Sorry I stink at email … I think you know that about me. Sooo happy that you are enjoying the union of Stamping Bella and me. You have such a kind heart. Big hugs, Kathy

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