September 9, 2024
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Some cowgirl fun with one of our gorgeous new Uptown Girls today!
Isn’t she fantastic? So many ways you could colour her – I opted for the glam Barbie look.
Watch me colour this stamp in the video below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on my YouTube channel.
That’s it for today! I’ll catch you on Wednesday with another card and video.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
September 8, 2024 2 Comments
Hello everyone! This week for my Inspiration Post, I have done something a bit different to feature one of our latest stamps, a journal page! I find playing with paints and stamps in my journal so relaxing, so I thought I would share one.
I chose to use the beautiful Uptown Girl Greta Loves To Garden, coloured her in Copics and fussy cut her.
To create my background, I applied acrylic paint with a brayer for my sky, and then drew on top of my sky with acrylic markers and Posca pens. I added a few touches of pencil here and there to add a bit more contrast to my background. For the sentiment, I stamped the word “autumn” from the Autumn Sentiment set and die cut the word Hello. I then added a piece of washi tape and my Uptown Girl on it.
Copic markers used:
Skin: E000, 00, 11, 15, R20
Hair: E37, 59, YR23
Pink: RV10, 32, 34
Purple: BV08, 13, 17
Carrots: Y35, YR04, 07
Tomatoes: R22, 24, 27
Leaves: BG72, 78, G14, 17, 28, YG17
Happy stamping and crafting!
Delphineabella
September 6, 2024 6 Comments
Happy Bellarific Friday! We’re back with more fantastic cardmaking and colouring inspiration to help you get those stamps inked up and on your next project.
Each week you have a chance to win a $25 gift card for our website, just by commenting on the Bellarific Friday post for that week.
On last week’s post we had 13 comments, and I’ve used a random number generator to select a winner (counting comments from oldest to newest).
Our winner for last week is Bo Gilmore!
Congratulations Bo! Please email me at customerservice@stampingbella.com and I will get your gift card sent over.
Let’s get into the inspiration! This week the Babes were asked to create something using stamps from the latest release. Feel free to play along and do the same and share your creations with us!
The Spec-Taculars and especially Spec-Tacular Swinging Pots were a popular choice this week.
Jenny created a gorgeous shaker card. I always love the soft feminine detail on Jenny’s cards, and of course the shakey shaker element!
The little mixed media details on Delphine’s work always make me so happy. Such great texture and detail.
Sandra created another eye-catching scene by fussy cutting the image and popping her up in front of a fun designer paper background.
Alice’s layered collage style always feels so warm and cozy. Her cards are like a big warm hug.
Love the colours Debra chose for this little mermaid! She looks magical.
Michele’s cards never fail to make me smile. She always frames the images so well.
Ginger very cleverly again used just one of the cuties from the Swinging Pots stamp! I love how she layers fussy cut images and other elements like the sentiment in the background here.
I used one of our beautiful new Kristin Farnsworth stamps for today’s card. Such a beautiful image, with so many possibilities for colouring and creating.
You can watch me colouring the Jar of Sprouted Hearts stamp in the video below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on my YouTube channel.
That’s it from us today! If you’re feeling inspired, be sure to tag us on social media #stampingbella and @stampingbella on Instagram and Facebook. Feel free to share your creations in the comments section below too. REMEMBER: leave us a comment on this post to be in with a chance of winning that $25 gift certificate! No need to create anything, just leave us a comment.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
September 5, 2024 1 Comments
Elaineabella here, a little late with my usual Wednesday post. This month is being a little unkind to me so far, but I managed to get my video edited and uploaded today, phew!
A final mermaid themed card for the year.
Those little octopus friends are just irresistible. So cute.
Watch me colour this stamp in the video below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on my YouTube channel.
That’s it from me for today! See you on Friday for Bellarific Friday. If you have yet to comment on last week’s post, make sure you do that to be in with a chance of winning a gift card!
MWAH!
Elaineabella
September 2, 2024 1 Comments
Today I’ve got a little LUNETTES inspiration for you! Love these little characters that Kristin Farnsworth created for us.
She’s such a fun little character, and there are so many ways you could colour that hair. It just invites you to go a little wild with the colour choices! I of course, coloured her using Copic markers.
Watch me colour this stamp in the video below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on my YouTube channel.
That’s it for today! I’ll catch you on Wednesday with another card and video.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
August 31, 2024 0 Comments
Hello there!
Are you ready for a new Scenic Saturday post here on the Blogabella? This week I’ve had fun mixing and matching some old with the new on my card, pairing the lovely yet headstrong Oddball Jane Austen with the Bella Cottage from the latest release.
I’m sure that it is no surprise to any of you that I am always especially excited when new background stamps are added to the store. They are always designed to work perfectly with any of the various character collections available at Stamping Bella, which makes them extremely versatile. As soon as I got the Bella Cottage in my hands I knew that it would make for the quintessential country cottage in Oddball Jane Austen’s idyllic world.
I stamped and masked off Jane before stamping the cottage right over top of her at about waist height. When you are trying to create a sense of distance and perspective with your background stamps, the higher up you place them on the card front, the further away from the character they will appear to be. Conversely, the lower you stamp the background image, the closer it will appear to be. So if I had stamped the cottage right at Jane’s feet, the perspective would make it look more like a child’s play house rather than an actual place for her to call home. Once the mask was removed, I could then use my Copic markers to to draw in a meandering path from the front door to Jane at the front of the card, reinforcing the sense of distance that I wanted to create between her and the cottage. The color palette is soft and rather muted as I was going for the look of a grey, drizzly day with the potential for rain. The end result is a charming scene worthy of one of Jane Austen’s novels. 😉
Stay crafty my friends!
Amybella
