It’s Spotlight Tuesday time again! This week we’re going to continue our wander through the Christmas and Winter themed offerings at Stamping Bella. I know, I know, today is Halloween, but since many of us are well into Christmas crafting, it seems a little more useful to share some festive inspiration!
Marker Geek Monday time! I’m in the midst of moving house, so I’m swapping between colouring images and colouring walls at the moment. Fingers crossed, I’ll be all settled in to a new craft room before the end of November. Wish me luck!
Today I thought I would share some details for images I have been colouring and sharing over on Instagram recently.
Firstly, here’s gorgeous little Tiny Townie Hattie loves Halloween.
I stamped Hattie using Ranger Archival Ink in Sepia on Strathmore Toned Tan paper, before colouring her using Faber-Castell Polychromos coloured pencils.
Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencils Used:
Skin: Light Flesh, Medium Flesh, Cinnamon, Dark Flesh, Ivory Hair: Venetian Red, Indian Red, Caput Mortuum, Terra Cotta, Caput Mortuum Violet, Ivory Hat/Cloak: Black, Warm Grey II, V, VI Dress/Hat Band:May Green, Earth Green Yellowish, Olive Green Yellowish Buckle/Broom: Burnt Umber, Dark Chrome Yellow, Sepia, Dark Naples Ochre, Cream Broom Handle: Burnt Ocher, Raw Umber, Ivory
Secondly, here’s my pencil version of Uptown Girl Kitty loves Halloween.
I stamped this stylish trick-or-treater using Ranger Archival Ink in Sepia on Strathmore Toned Tan paper, then coloured her using my new Derwent ProColour coloured pencils. I will be posting my thoughts on these pencils in the near future, as soon as I get chance to play a little more!
Derwent ProColour Pencils Used:
Skin:Flesh Pink, Salmon, Pink Madder Lake, Mars Violet Hair: Nutmeg, Autumn Leaf, Sunset Gold Ears, Tail etc: Ivory Black, Gunmetal, Blue Grey Dress: Grape, Imperial Purple, Blue Violet Lake Pumpkin: Yellow Ochre, Spectrum Orange, Autumn Leaf
TIP: Should you try colouring on a kraft/tan paper or any other different shade from the usual white, I highly recommend creating a swatch/colour chart on the same paper first. That way you can see exactly how the colours behave.
If you’d like me to cover a specific topic here, do let me know by leaving a comment, and I will see what I can do! Bear with me for the next few weeks though, as I am in the process of moving house and will be busy for a little while setting up my new craft room!
If you try out the techniques shown in any of the posts with your Stamping Bella stamps, be sure to share! We would love to see the results and hear how you feel about them. Show off your creations in the comments below and even better, share your own favourite tips with us. Let’s talk colour!
If you are posting your images online, we would love to see them on Instagram and all the platforms mentioned above. To make it easier for us to find you just use #markergeekmonday and/or #stampingbella as a hashtag. Even better tag me @markergeek and @stampingbella . We love it when you connect, so don’t be shy! Make sure you use the #SpotThisStampingBella hashtag on social media if you’re happy for me to feature your work in my Spotted On Sunday posts!
If you’re on Facebook join us in our private chat group Stamping Bella Sistahood to share your creations there and chat all things Stamping Bella related!
Until next time, HAPPY COLOURING!
MWAH
Elaineabella
For this week’s Stamp It Saturday post I thought I would share a few tips to help you get creating fun scenes with the Little Bits and their coordinating dies.
Here are a couple of cards I created for the Holiday 2017 release, featuring some of the new Little Bits stamps and one of the backdrops. On both cards I used the die cut images to assemble cute scenes.
Stamp & Die Sets Used: Little Bits Winter Tree & Deer Ball, Little Bits Set of Elves, Little Bits Santa’s Gifts, Holiday Sentiment Set
Stamp & Die Sets Used: Winter Backdrop, Little Bits Sledding, Little Bits Snowman Set, Holiday Sentiment Set
This approach is a lot simpler to replicate than masking and stamping, as you could easily stamp a number of each element, colour them in batches, die cut and then assemble in the same way.
Using Cut it Out Dies – tips for using the coordinating cut it out die sets to get great results.
If you try out the techniques shown in any of the posts with your Stamping Bella stamps, be sure to share! We would love to see the results and hear how you feel about them. Show off your creations in the comments below and even better, share your own favourite tips with us. Let’s talk stamping!
If you are posting your images online, we would love to see them on Instagram and all the platforms mentioned above. To make it easier for us to find you just use #markergeekmonday and/or #stampingbella as a hashtag. Even better tag me @markergeek and @stampingbella . We love it when you connect, so don’t be shy!
If you’re on Facebook join us in our private chat group Stamping Bella Sistahood to share your creations there and chat all things Stamping Bella related!
Until next time, HAPPY STAMPING!
MWAH
Elaineabella
Hiya sistahs! I am enjoying a moment’s peace in the corner of our hotel room in Philadelphia today! We drove 10+ hours (CANNOT DISCUSS) yesterday and we are here for a hockey tournament for the boy child. What’s kind of nice is that we met an amazing couple on our HONEYMOON twenty years ago have kept in touch on and off and we are meeting them again for dinner tonight! The only thing is, apparently they’re not married anymore LOL but are still very close.. it’s amazing what time brings.. how life takes its turns and jumps and hops and sprints and nose dives..I am still happy that we get to see them again after all these years! Second, I am apparently not allowed to breathe, speak, sniffle, shuffle, speak loud, whisper, tell a joke etc.. little boy who’s bigger than me seems a bit embarrassed. HMPH.. it’s all about him bonding with his team mates.. there used to be a time when I was the CENTER of this BONDATION… now.. I am not needed anymore. SIGH.. that circle of life I tell ya. it’s ok, he went to one of the boys’ room last night to talk.. and when he came home he whispered to me.. “ma.. you wanna hear some stories??”.. how happy was I that the boy still wants to tell me things? SO SO happy.
Ok enough blabla and on to our Bellarific Friday theme which was an inspiration photo
It’s Spotlight Tuesday time again! This week we’re going to continue our wander through the Christmas and Winter themed offerings at Stamping Bella!
Happy Marker Geek Monday! This week I’ve got a colouring video for you, and a few words about some requests I’ve had lately and the way I colour.
Hey everyone! Elaineabella here with another SPOTTED ON SUNDAY. Every Sunday I’m sharing cards and other creations that have caught my eye featuring Stamping Bella stamps.
This week’s Spotted on Sunday star is…
I spotted this gorgeous creation over on Instagram. Love seeing the new stamps starting to pop up as you all create with them!
Stamp Sets Used: Skating Rink Backdrop stamp and Little Bits Figure Skaters stamp set (coordinating die set also available)
This caught my eye over on Instagram! Thank you for sharing, Lori!
We love to see what you’ve all been up to with your Stamping Bella stamps, and there are lots of ways to share with us.
If you want to be “Spotted On Sunday” make sure you tag us with #SpotThisStampingBella so we know you give permission for your makes to be shared here on the blog! We will be featuring things we’ve spotted from all over the place, but by using the hashtag you’ll make it much easier for us to know you don’t mind us sharing.
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This week’s Stamp It Saturday post is a bit of a hodge-podge! Hopefully you will find something useful in it, though. Please bear with me – I am in the middle of preparing for a big house move, and my mojo seems to have gone on strike until it gets a shiny new craft-room to play in. What a brat!
Firstly, I thought I would share my latest colouring video uploads for the recent release with you.
Watch me colour Polar Bear & Mousie Stuffies in the video below or in HD over on YouTube.
I have left this one close to “real time”, so you can get a really good look at the colouring.
Watch me colour The Walrus, the Polar Bear and the Penguin Stuffies in the video below or in HD over on YouTube.
I hope you enjoy checking out the colouring videos!
I’d like to remind you about some older posts that you may find useful for the new releases too!
Ideas for Using Accessory Stamps – this post created using some of the Fall 2017 stamp sets is also relevant for the Winter 2017 releases! Lots of accessory stamps in the new Little Bits stamp sets would be perfect for creating fun backgrounds.
Stretch Your Stamps – Cropping/Partial Stamping – always a favourite technique of mine for getting the most out of my stamps!
Die Cut Masking with Distress Inks – an easy and effective technique, exactly what you want around the festive season!
Using Cut it Out Dies – tips for using the coordinating cut it out die sets to get great results.
Masking & Stamping – a simple look at how to mask and stamp
Stretch Your Sentiment Stamps – ways to make your sentiment stamps work to fit your card design.
Mirror Stamping – reindeer facing the wrong way? No problem – create a reverse image using your stamps.
If you try out the techniques shown in any of the posts with your Stamping Bella stamps, be sure to share! We would love to see the results and hear how you feel about them. Show off your creations in the comments below and even better, share your own favourite tips with us. Let’s talk stamping!
If you are posting your images online, we would love to see them on Instagram and all the platforms mentioned above. To make it easier for us to find you just use #markergeekmonday and/or #stampingbella as a hashtag. Even better tag me @markergeek and @stampingbella . We love it when you connect, so don’t be shy!
If you’re on Facebook join us in our private chat group Stamping Bella Sistahood to share your creations there and chat all things Stamping Bella related!
Until next time, HAPPY STAMPING!
MWAH
Elaineabella
Hiya sistahs!
Hope you had a great week.. so much going on around here.. I am actually working on a little release for before the holidays.. I know I know.. but I just can’t hold these images in any longer.. I feel like I’m gonna BUST.! Just pure yumminess.. will leave it at that.
On another note, I wanted to announce that Danabella and Lesliebella are no longer on the baberooni team. I know these 2 ladies personally and am proud to call them my friends. I wanted to thank both of them from the bottom of my heart for all they have done for me.. for their loyalty, exuberance, and hard work. I wish them only good things and will miss both of them so much. Love you Dana and Leslie!
For this week’s Bellarific Friday, our theme was to use circles on your card.
Let’s see what our baberoonis came up with shall we?
Sandiebella used our ANGEL SQUIDGY ORNAMENT from our ANGEL SQUIDGIES ORNAMENT and BELL set
You can find the corresponding “CUT IT OUT” DIE and BUNDLE HERE (save 15% when purchased as a bundle!)
