Off like a prom dress
I tried and tried to get bellarific
Friday done but I couldn’t finish. I will have it up on Monday 🙂
Mwah to da sistahs who are NOT on a bus to Pittsburgh 🙂
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WELCOME TO BLOGABELLA
its GLUEBOOK wednesday on THURSDAY
Hiya sistahs.. sorry I am a day late.. this week has been a whirlwind and did I mention I have to prepare for a big weekend coming up?? yep. I am going on my first HOCKEY TOURNAMENT to Pittsburgh tomorrow at 5:00 am. 7 hours in a bus with 15 hoodlums (lol).. and 4 games and lots of travel. I am asking you which valium cocktail you think I should inhale? LOL. I am excited but at the same time I am feeling ANXIETY for a 7 hour trip on a bus. LOL. I BEGGED and PLEADED with Ryan and Tyler to PLEASE allow us to take our own car.. I was sat down very nicely and told that we are going for the “EXPERIENTH” (yes tyler still has a cute lisp)… and that we can’t miss a minute of bus time etc. hmph. I waTH (was) outvoted-ETH. So I have downloaded a new book to my ipad called GONE GIRL (has anyone read it)? And I am hoping that my valium cocktail, my overtiredness and my book will keep me calm.
OK so that’s what’s going on in my perTHonal life (it’s hard to stop this liTHp ya know).. p.s. I LOVE his lisp and I am not making fun of him ok? I want to suck his mouth when he does that.. so no hate mail about liTHps 🙂
Now for GLUEBOOK wennsday.. has anyone played on their own? stuck down scraps, stamped etc? I hope you were able to and feel the sheer joy it gives me 🙂
here is my double mini gluebook page using a vintage magazine page and some new embellishments including the poppy for remembrance day :)..
Here is another page of mine using a vintage photo. I just love the technology back then.. missing a head, a toe a face but you still have that “charm” of the photo. Vintage photos have become a lucrative part of my collages. They show my feelings sometimes when I just can’t write. make sense? I hope so 🙂
Here’ s Leslie’s page. I LOVE this vintage photo, I love the collaged wings that frame the focal point and most of all, I LOVE THAT QUOTE!!!
here’s Lorie’s page. I love the symbolism, the emotion, the sentiment.. just the whole meaning I know this has for her.
And that is it for this week’s GLOObook series. I hope you love it and will be inspired to contribute and send me your entries by next Tuesday. your entries inspire us all and you just wait til you actually make one.. you will feel SO GOOD 🙂
Mwah to da sistahs who love to GLOO.
OHHH I also wanted to mention that my “EVERY WOMAN HAS A STORY” has been sold! Thank you so much for your support. This is exciting for me!
Em
it’s BELLARIFIC FRIDAY! the sale continues through the weekend AND some NEWS!
and it’s cold and dreary and yucky outside. A day to just chill and vegggggg… Who has time to veg? hmph.
Let’s discuss some winnahs to cheer me up shall we?
winnah for COMMENTAYTIN’ on last week’s post goes to…
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
19- Carol Willis you win! please email me and I will send you yout $10 voucher!
Timestamp: 2013-11-01 12:48:05 UTC
Now for da CONTRIBUTIN’ winnah…
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
2-MARIA you win! please email me and I will send you your $20 vouchah!
Timestamp: 2013-11-01 12:49:07 UTC
Now back to BIDNISS. This week’s theme was a SKETCH!
Let’s see what da BABEROONIS came up with shall we?
Angelabella used RAMONA LOVES TO GLIDE
Cathabella used UPTOWN GIRL FAITH the FAIRY
Danabella used HELGA the HOT CHICK
Marybella used UPTOWN GIRL AUDREY
This is our last week with REGABELLA on da team.. I wanted to thank her for ALL of her hard work and adding her amazing style to our group. MWAH regabella!!!
Regabella used THINKING BIRDS
Sandiebella used UPTOWN GIRL FAITH the FAIRY
Do these cards inspire you? They totally inspire me.. Take some time for yourselves in your craft room/dining room / kitchen and make some cards!! See below for next week’s challenge!
And now for da SISTAHOOD!
Elaine used JAVABUGGS
Leslie used UPTOWN GIRLS PATTIE AND DOTTIE
Margo used HANGING ORNAMENTS
Violet used turtle tots birthday (discontinued)
Gorgeous! I just love when da sistahs participate!
Now for next week’s theme:
MIX and MATCH.. I know I had this a couple of weeks ago but I made a booboo so here it is again.. used 2 bella stamps on one card! that can include a sentiment…
and now for our announcement!
Starting JAN 1, 2014 we will be featuring a Guest Designer each month on the blog. To play along with us and perhaps become a guest designer, you must participate in our Bellarific Friday challenges with a watermark of your blog on your card. By Being a babe for the month, you will receive a gift certificate from us.. plus the possible opportunity of being a full time baberooni! So if you are interested , please start participating every week so we can see your work!
Hope you have a FANTASTICALLY crafty and warm weekend 🙂
Mwah to da sistahs who will participate next week!
PLUS don’t forget to leave a comment for a chance to win $10 in bella bucks.. AND participate in our challenge to have a chance to win $20 in bella bucks and a chance to be a guest designer!
Em
a little bit of me and my artwork :)
Hiya sistahs!
So if you ever ask yourselves what I do to unwind (cuz I am SURE that’s what you ALL ask yourselves LOL).. I will answer that question here 🙂
I Paint.
I collage.
I get messy.
I splatter
I splootch
and then I try to make sense of it all. LOL
I started painting about 4 years ago.. I have always wanted to paint and draw and never had the guts to try.. whenever I drew as a kid I was shot down.. I think it became a part of my subconscious and I always pushed that voice away. My great aunt was an artist.. I remember going to her house as a kid and saw her drawing table.. her bottles of watercolors.. her brushes and would ALWAYS want to be in that room. When she asked where I would like to go, I remember always saying the art supply store.. LOL.. not much has changed 35 years later.
4 years ago I decided, that’s IT. I cannot squash this voice anymore.. this pull.. this tug. So I went for it. HEAD FIRST. KNEE DEEP. And have never looked back. I have taken many online classes.. have studied books.. but really I have followed my heart and my own intuition.
Now me displaying my work is hard for me.. i feel naked so to speak.. exposed. I don’t know if anyone will like it…. or understand it.. or understand how I FELT while painting it.. But I have shown my work to a few people and they urged me to sell my work. SELL MY WORK? what ? are they INSANE? and then I continued to work in my little messy room and found myself with many unfinished pieces.. so I decided.. with MUCH prodding that I will start selling my work.. whether people like it or not? I don’t know. Would they actually hang it in their homes? who knows.. but the thought of a little piece of me somewhere else to be loved and cherished makes me happy (shhh don’t tell anybody). I have two pieces hanging at my best friends house.. and every time I see her looking at them, I see how much she loves them.. and THAT, my sistahs, makes me happy.
I am not saying that my stamps don’t make me happy.. cuz they DOO!!! And I still work on other people’s artwork all day for the stamps.. but sometimes, I need to work on me too.. does that make any sense at all?
So I will be updating this website Under ORIGINAL ARTWORK and will post new paintings all the time :). Obviously it all looks better in real life 🙂
so hope you enjoy a little piece of me displayed on your monitor 🙂
“BE TRUE”.. an abstract landscape .. collage, acrylics, graphite..
the sides.. a bit “graffiti style”
closeup of the trees and the little collage part “be true”
“Every Woman Has a STORY”... All my “girls” look sad… or not so much sad but Thoughtful.. a little quirky and a bit odd :).. sounds a bit like me! All mixed media.. including collage, acrylics, and oil. An original 1940 letter to a woman is collaged in there.. and my little story on bottom in graphite.
and the sides.. I left them cracked and “exposed” showing how our stories always try to come out somehow or another….
“the Line”... Also mixed media using acrylics, oils, collage. I love how the collage from underneath prompted the whole painting and is incorporated into it..
and the finished sides
and there you have it.. a little bit of me… A little bit of VULNERABLE me…
mwah to da sistahs who took a look and smiled 🙂
Em
it’s GLUE (gloo) BOOK WENNSDAY!
What is bettah than gathering supplies, cutting, sticking and embellishing? sistahs doing this and emailing them to me! LOL 🙂 hint hint nudge nudge poke poke..
I just love paper.. vintage, new, colourful, deckled, splotched, stained, ledgered, erased, penciled.. you name it.. and sometimes there is a WEE piece that I SO wanna keep but don’t know where to stick it..LOL.. well this is a perfect home. I am sure that most if not ALL da sistahs reading this have scraps everywhere.. won’t you join us and make a glue book? You can email me by Tuesday of every week and I will post on wednesday.. you can stamp in your book.. but no paint or wet media.. just pure collage… you can make your own papers by stamping, and painting papers then ripping and sticking.. but no paint in da book.. YOU HEAR ME? LOL
Ok here we go..
this is what my little “moley” is looking like…
Here’s one of my pages.. I was on a sewing kick.. vintage everything 🙂
another sewing page.. i love the 2 women waiting by the window.. vintage images just depict my emotions so well
here is Leslie’s page
Here is Lorie’s page
Here’s mary’s page
I just find these pages inspiring and love to share and would love for you to share with me too!
Hope to see your submissions 🙂
and don’t forget Bellarific Friday this week
and our sale!
and a MWAH!
Em
How about a little inspiration and a sale?
November is around the corner and I need a pick me up.. do you? Everyone loves a sale and I thought to “soften” the blow of the cold weather coming we would have a 20% off sale. Whaddya think? Just put in code: novembersale and POOF, 20% off the whole order… that’s a pick me up no? So take advantage sistahs!
Now for some inspiration..
the baberoonis have been hard at work and I think it is only right to share some beauticiousness .. oui oui?
Angelabella used UPTOWN GIRL VIENNA on her VESPA
Angelabella used UPTOWN GIRL BRYNN
Cathabella used LIFE IS GOOD
Cathabella used UPTOWN GIRL LOLLY and her BROLLY
Danabella used SENIORITA HARRIET… (have I mentioned that I wanna be where HARRIET is now?)
Danabella used RAMONA LOVES TO GLIDE
Marybella used UPTOWN GIRL CHANEL the CHEF
Marybella used UPTOWN GIRL AUDREY
Sandiebella used UPTOWN GIRL POSH
Sandiebella used UPTOWN GIRL OPAL
SOOOOO??? does this wanna make you sit in your craft room/dining room table/kitchen table/floor and make cardsies???? It does me!!!
Hope you enjoyed the yumminess today
Tomorrow we will have GLOOBOOK wednesday.. soooo if you have any scraps all over your craftroom/dining room table/kitchen/floor, stick them in your book and email me the pic and I will post!
It’s such a fun project. I use the Moleskine POCKET SKETCH book..(size 3.5*5)… such a cute great size :). I also use and LOVE this glOO stick .. and then all you need is a pair of scissors, scrap papers (vintage ephemera, stickers, labels, scrapbook paper, ribbon, photos.. you name it.. STICK IT.. LOL
And our Sale will be on until next MONDAY so take advantage sistahs
Also don’t forget to post a comment on the bellarific friday post for your chance to win $10 in bella bucks! AND you can contribute to this weeks’s theme which is due Thursday and you will have a chance to win $20 in bella buckeroonis!
Sound good??
now GOOOOO… GLOO, STAMP, GET MESSY!
mwah
Em
it’s bellarific friday!
and boy did I have an exciting week! LOL
I went to the hairdresser..LOL.. this is a very big deal in my life.. I am SO TYPE A. can’t sit still so I refuse to go.. until I get ALL grey and can’t take it anymore.. and off I go! So my little Jayden told me that it was her “LIFELONG DREAM” (LOL) to see my hair straight.. so I decided to put my TYPE A on the backburner and go ahead and get it straightened.. not only that, but I got a HUGE blonde streak in the front.. I needed a change can you tell?
So here’s my hair straight with the CHUNKY streak 🙂
when Jayden saw me, she started to cry. And then she loved it.. and then she said it wasn’t me.. and she wasn’t happy with it.
So I washed it today.. and it’s back to curly.. I have to admit as much as I complain about my curls.. It’s what I am most comfortable with
Another big event this week was Jayden finally got her cast off.. it’s been two months of weekly appointments at the hospital.. it’s been difficult. And they take the cast off and lo and behold.. INFECTION… so now we are trying to treat that 🙁
here she is.. most of the time with a smile on her face .. here she was very afraid 🙁
Ok that’s a little snipped about my week. How was yours?? LOL
And now for some winnahs from last week
Winnah for COMMENTAYTIN’ (10$ in bella bucks) goes to..
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
7-Christine you win! please email me and I will send you da bucks!
Timestamp: 2013-10-25 19:45:31 UTC
Now for the contributing winnah.. ($20 in bella bucks) goes to
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
6-Linda you win! please email me and I will send your vouchah!
Timestamp: 2013-10-25 19:46:54 UTC
And now for THIS week’s Theme… It was mix and match.. and then there was some confusion and should have been FALL COLOURS… so let’s see our MISHMASH challenge LOL
Let’s see what our baberoonis came up with!
Angelabella used the Quote that came from the THREE AMIGAS stamp
Cathabella used TRICK OR TREAT A RITAS (she masked one of them out)
Danabella used SENIORITA DOLORES
Marybella used LULU’S MORNING FIX
Regabella used RAMONA goes FISHING
Sandiebella used LIFE IS GOOD.. a mixed media piece!
and now let’s see da sistahood!
Elaine used QUEEN MILLIE
Maria used ARTSY HOUSE
Violet used SENIORITA DOLORES
beautiful creations!
Next week’s theme:
A sketch!
Have fun with it sistahs!
hope you have a great weekend.. and if you want to play with us and our GLOOBOOK.. just let me know.. I think we will do it on wednesdays…
see you in a couple of days!
mwah!
Em
a little bit of artsy inspiration :)
Hiya sistahs!
Well I promised to share some of my artsy stuff with you so here it is.. if you follow me in Instagram then you may have seen these 🙂
I LOOOVE collage.. I have said that for a long time but I really do.. I love the act of cutting and sticking.. I can’t explain it… finding the perfect image.. finding “accessory” images.. and putting it all into something new.. it’s SOOO much fun 🙂
I have started a little “gluebook” (a pocket sized moleskine sketchbook -3.5″ x 5″) and I vowed not to use ANY paint in here.. JUST paper… and I am LOVING this project. L-O-V-I-N-G. Whenever I need to “decompress”.. I head for this book and just cut and stick. Am I weird? (ok don’t answer that LOL)
So here are some pages from my new GLOObook. (I like how GLOO looks LOL.. )
I drew her in my sketchbook while watching tv and fell SO in love with her that I cut her out and pasted her in my book
I found her picture from a vintage magazine and fell in love with her expression.. it was kind of how I felt at the moment.. and that’s why I tell my story sometimes through vintage images.. sometimes that replaces actual writing for me
Here’s a vintage mail inspired page.. with some new scrappy embellishments mixed in.. scrapbook letters, journal card and the cork chevrons.. the rest is vintage 🙂
Tomorrow I will share some of my painting with you too..
WANNA START A GLOO BOOK??? it’s a great way to use your scraps..
I would love to hear.. and if you do.. maybe we can have a GLOO BOOK sharing day. That would be FUN!
let me know in da COMMENTS or send me an email 🙂
Mwah to da sistahs who not only LOVE the way GLOO looks spelled this way, but who also wanna GLOO.
Em
It’s BELLARIFIC friday sistahs!
How are all da sistahs? this sistah is doing A-OK lol.. just a little quiet.. not really sure why? I have been doing some artsy fartsy stuff.. I should share it with you.. Ok next week, I will defo share my art with you.. k?
Now let’s discuss some winnahs and share some inspiration shall we?
Winnah for COMMENTAYTIN’ last week ($10 in bella bucks) goes to…
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
9- MAXEEN you win! please email me and I will send your $10 in bellabucks!
Timestamp: 2013-10-18 21:21:16 UTC
Winnah for CONTRIBUTIN’ last week ($20 in bella bucks) goes to…
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
3- Larissa you WIN! please email me and I will send your moolah!
Timestamp: 2013-10-18 21:23:05 UTC
Ok now for this week’s theme.. I LOOOOVED this sketch!!!
Let’s see what our baberoonis came up with shall we??
Angelabella used THE CHOIR
Cathabella used SENIORITA DOLORES
Danabella used RAMONA LOVES TO GLIDE
Marybella used ARTHUR
Regabella used ANNIE
Sandiebella used JACKSON the CHAMPION
gorgeousness no??
And now for da sistahood
Maria had 4 kidlets over for the thanksgiving weekend and they all contributed! This is Maria’s card using milo
Carolyn the kidlet used WRAPPED IN LOVE
Gabriella the kidlet used CHEFFABUGG
Daniella the kidlet used CHEFFABUGG
Elaine used OLIVIA
Linda used DAISY HIGHTOPS
Lynn used uptown girl CHANEL THE CHEF
Violet used MINTY COFFEE
How’s DAT for amazingness?
Ok now for next week’s theme…
— MIX N MATCH- use more than one BELLA stamp on the card!
Have fun sistahs
and DON”T FORGET TO POST A COMMENT HERE for a chance to win next week!!!
Mwah to da sistahs who are inspired and gonna make a card!
Em
it’s bellarific friday!
hiya sistahs
I miss you!!!! I am finally feeling more “myself” so I will start posting more frequently next week.. so stay tuned! Weight watchers has been a disaster LOL but I am not giving up.. I know that if I am not well, nothing around me seems to work.. here’s to next week!
Ok so now for some winnahs from last week
Winnah for COMMENTAYTIN’ ($10 in bella bucks) goes to…
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
10- MARGARET ANN you win! please email me and I will send your voucher!
Timestamp: 2013-10-11 14:28:43 UTC
Now the winnAH for contributin to our party ($20 in bella bucks) goes to
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
2- Little KAITLYN you win!!! tell your mommy to email me and we will send you your MOOLAH.. but don't let mom take any bwahahahaha
Timestamp: 2013-10-11 14:29:59 UTC
Ok now for this week’s challenge.. STITCHING.. real or “FAUX”.. let’s see what our baberoonis came up with shall we?
Angelabella used UPTOWN GIRLS FELICITY and BLAIR
Cathabella used UPTOWN GIRL CHANEL THE CHEF
Danabella used UPTOWN GIRL CHANEL the CHEF
Marybella used UPTOWN GIRL CLAUDIA
regabella used YOURS TRULY
Sandiebella used UPTOWN GIRL LOLLY and her BROLLY
gorgeousness? oui oui?
now for da SISTAHOOD
Elaine H used RAMONA and her WAGON
Elaine’s 6yo Kaitlyn used PATIENCE and stitched a BEEYOOTIFUL cloud
Larissa used UPTOWN GIRL BIANCA
and the inside of the card
leslie used UPTOWN GIRL SUNNY
Violet used MORNING GLORIES FOR LULU
such great inspiration.. have I mentioned that my head cleared up writing this post? LOL it’s amazing what visual stimulation can do LOL
Now for next week’s theme? A SKETCHYPOO!
We have a long weekend here so I will see you all on TOOOOOSDAY!
If anyone has any questions or recommendations of what they would like me to write about I would love to hear!
Don’t forget to comment on this post:
(1) because I love you
(2) because I wanna make sure you love me
(3) so you can win some MOOLAH
Don’t forget to SEND IN A CARD for next week’s theme
(1) because you love me
(2) because you REALLY want my head to clear up
(3) because you are bored and have nothing else to do? LOL
Mwah mwah and TRIPLE mwah
Em