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Stamp It Saturday – Littles Elves Colouring Videos

Phew! You may have noticed that I’ve been a bit quiet recently. We finally moved house last week! It has been a crazy week of unpacking and sorting, lugging furniture around, rearranging, tidying and putting up the Christmas decorations. I feel like my brain is still somewhere back in early November, but the rest of me is painfully aware that Christmas is nearly upon us and I’ve got lots left to do.

Marker Geek Mondays and Stamp It Saturdays are on hold until the new year. They will return in 2018, hopefully bringing my mojo with them. In the meantime, I’m going to share some of my latest colouring video uploads with you here on the blog!

Stamping Bella Colouring the Christmas Elves with Elaineabella aka Marker Geek

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> wonderful wednesdays with...
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It’s WONDERDFUL WEDNESDAYS WITH FRANCINE Vuilleme!

Hello everyone! Francine from Switzerland here! Have you been busy creating Christmas cards? I hope you have a lot of fun using all these super sweet Christmas stamps.

Today, I have a new project for you featuring the Little Bits Snowman and the Little Bits Sledding sets:

 

I decided to create a sponged background to make the white snowman pop. I used the Sunburst stencil from Wendy Vecchi that I sponged with teal and blue Distress inks using blending tools. Next, I colored and cut the girl and the snowman (LITTLE BITS SNOWMAN SET, and  LITTLE BITS SLEDDING SET ) I adhered them with foam pads to the sponged background for more dimension. I stamped the “merriest wishes” sentiment from the Holiday Sentiment set in black ink on a white banner and fixed it with 3D adhesive squares below the characters. To finish off my card, I added three enamel dots. I really love this green and teal color combination for winter or non-traditional Christmas cards. What is your favorite color combination for Christmas and winter cards?

 

I hope you’ve got inspired by this project! Happy holiday season to all of you and see you next week!

 

Francine

> bellarific friday
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It’s BELLARIFIC FRIYAY sistahs! :) A SKETCHYPOO!

Hiya Sistahs.. WHAT A CUH-RAZY week this week right?  This release was INSANE!!! We are working hard at filling orders as quickly as we can.. the volume? OMG insane.. so THANK YOU to all for taking advantage of this sale and being committed and loyal to our brand 🙂  The sale continues until MONDAY at MIDNIGHT.. so if you still haven’t taken the plunge now is the time !  All of the stamps and CUT IT OUT dies you see below are on sale 25% off along with the rest of the store!  Use code : thankyou2017 and POOF 25% gone!

For today’s challenge we had a SKETCHYPOO!

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> wonderful wednesdays with...
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it’s WONDERFUL WEDNESDAYS with the WONDERFUL Francine Vuilleme :)

Hello everyone! Francine from Switzerland here! I’m so happy and excited to join Stamping Bella as a guest during the next few weeks! Thanks so much to Emily for having me!

 

I’ve created two clean and simple Christmas cards that I want to share with you today. Here is what I came up with:

 

 

For the first card, I used the super cute Santa from the Little Bits Santa’s Gifts set. As I really like traditional Christmas colors, I decided to go for a red and white combination. I create a horizontal design made of three lines with the color highlight in the center to keep the card clean. The red dotted paper adds interest and makes the Santa stand out against the background. I also used some Christmas baubles to emphasize the feeling of holiday season. These baubles are from the Little Bits Set of Elves rubber stamp set. To finish off my card, I stamped the “Warmth×Joy×Happiness” sentiment from the Holiday Sentiment set in black ink. As you can see, you don’t have to use various colors or element on a card for maximum impact. Keeping white space helps to focus on the character itself.

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For the second card, I decided to put the sentiment as the focal point and to highlight it using “accessories”. The Christmas fireplace mantle from the Little Bits Santa’s Mantle set I used on this project is meant to be for the Fireplace Backdrop. I drew some wooden “legs” to use the garland as a stand-alone element. I first stamped the beautiful sentiment from the Holiday Sentiment set in black ink onto a white top-folded card base. I colored and cut the garland with scissors (but you can find the matching “CUT IT OUT” die here to make it easier) , as well as the dog from the Little Bits Santa Kids and Pets set. The sweet sleepy dog adds so much cuteness! (“Cut it out die” can be found here )  I adhered the garland and the dog with foam pads to the card base for more dimension. As for the first project, you don’t have to use a lot of elements to embellish a card. Try to think out of the box and play with all funny accessories you can find in the sets. Not only the main characters or critters are worth it.

 

I hope you’ve enjoyed this post! Happy holiday crafting and see you next week with a new project!

 

Francine

 

> RELEASE SNEAK PEEKS!, sneaky peeky
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Sneak Peek day 5 and a chance to WIN- ONE MORE SLEEP!

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Winner of the $25 gift certificate goes to:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

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Rosie J says:
December 3, 2017 at 2:36 pm  (Edit)

Keep on creating please. I love all of your stamps. The chicks are so cuddly cute!

 

**PLEASE EMAIL customerservice@stampingbella.com  with the subject line: I AM THE DAY 5 WINNER**

 

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ok no more dilly dallying sistahs.. this is BIDNISS… let’s begin!  LOL!



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> RELEASE SNEAK PEEKS!, sneaky peeky

		

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SNEAK PEEK DAY 4 and a chance to win!

	


		

		
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Winner of the $25 gift certificate goes to:


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December 2, 2017 at 10:50 am  (Edit)


So many cute new images! Yay!


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Hiya sistahs and WELCOME to day 4!  Almost there!



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> bellarific friday

		

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It’s BELLARIFIC FRIDAY featuring our NEW stamp of the month AND an announcement!

	


		

		
Hiya sistahs!  Hope you are as excited as I am with this new release.. the releases are all labours of love and they are all pieces of me, my family, and my memories :).. so welcome to da Bella’s life!


Moving along I am SO happy to announce that we have two new Baberoonis on da team and I can’t wait to introduce you!  First of all, they are not BOTH baberoonis.. WE HAVE A FELLAROONI.. BABEAFELLA, in da house!  Seriously for reals… we may need to control ourselves with how adorable and talented he is! Meet Steveafella… aka Stephen Kropf  .  (@stephenkropf) I had the honour of meeting him at the Kathy Rac event here in Bolton in September.. I saw his work.. I spoke to his sweet face and I was in love.  I knew he had to be with us. At that same event, I just happened to be sitting next to another AMAZING person….  I mean I don’t ask for this, it just comes to me.. and THEN I run after it LOL.  Her name is Sandy Boone (@threeroomstudio) and I FELL HARD for her too.. we got along so well.. laughed the whole day.. and then I peeked at her work and almost COLLAPSED.. I NEEDED TO OWN HER TOO.. ok I am a bit harsh… just LEASE her for a while.. LOL.. LOVE!  Sandy has her own small clear stamp company called THREE ROOM STUDIO.. she has adorable stamp sets and I would love for you to go take a look at them!  They are so much fun and I firmly believe in helping sistahs in the industry… Well NICE AND KIND sistahs at least 🙂


SO without further ADO, let’s meet our two newbies with a big round of APPLAUSE and a comment or two making them feel welcome.


Our theme for our babe/fella roonis (this AIN’T gonna be easy for me).. was to feature our brand new Stamp of the Month, CHRISTMAS TUG OF WAR.  The die is also 20% off all month long but there are limited quantities so once they are gone, they are gone ..no rainchecks.. so HURRY!


here’s Steveafella’s card

www.stampingbella.com: Rubber stamp used: CHRISTMAS TUG OF WAR, card by Stephen Kropf

and a closeup

www.stampingbella.com: Rubber stamp used: CHRISTMAS TUG OF WAR, card by Stephen Kropf

Next we have SandyBOONEabella’s card (we have 2 sandy/ie’s)  Sheesh this is getting conFOOsing

www.stampingbella.com: Rubber stamp used: CHRISTMAS TUG OF WAR, card by Sandy Boone

the eyes!!! LOVE


Next is Christineabella’s card

www.stampingbella.com: Rubber stamp used: CHRISTMAS TUG OF WAR, card by Christineabella

Fayeabella’s card

www.stampingbella.com: Rubber stamp used: CHRISTMAS TUG OF WAR, card by Fayeabella

Jennybella’s card

www.stampingbella.com: Rubber stamp used: CHRISTMAS TUG OF WAR, card by Jennybella

JennyDixabella’s card

www.stampingbella.com: Rubber stamp used: CHRISTMAS TUG OF WAR, card by Jennydixabella

Shelabella’s card

www.stampingbella.com: Rubber stamp used: CHRISTMAS TUG OF WAR, card by Michele Boyer

Sandiebella’s card

www.stampingbella.com: Rubber stamp used: CHRISTMAS TUG OF WAR, card by Sandie Dunne

How INSPIRING!


Next we have our INLINKZ contributahs!  You can look at the bottom of THIS POST to be even more inspired 🙂


And now for our EMAILED Contributahs!


Colleen used Tiny Townie Rita and her Reindeer




Here is Amy’s card using our TINY TOWNIE Rita and her Reindeer



and now for NEXT WEEkS THEME?  A SKETCHYPOO!



Just follow that sketch with a current Stamping Bella rubber stamp and poof! you’re ready to submit!