August 9, 2024
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Bellarific Fridays are back! The perfect way to get inspired for a weekend of crafting. Each week our Bellarific Babes work with a theme, and create amazing new cards to inspire you. I’m also reintroducing a way for you to win!
With our new website, under each card shown on the blog you will find a handy thumbnail gallery linking to all of the stamps used, making it a little easier for you to find what you need!
To be in with a chance of winning a $25 gift card for the website, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post! A winner will be drawn at random from the comments and announced on next week’s Friday post. Good luck!
Let’s get into the inspiration! This week and next week the Babes are all using stamps from the NEW RELEASE and an “anything goes” theme. Just to ease us back into the swing of things.
Just look at this adorable scene from Delphineabella! Love it!
JennyDixabella used the adorable Lunettes Flower Power, and she looks so sweet in those pastel tones. Love that she used just part of one of the sentiments from the Spec-Tacular Sentiment set too – great way to get more mileage from sentiments.
Debrabella created this bright, happy card using our Spec-Tacular Book stamp. So cute – he’s bound to brighten someone’s day!
Gingerbella also used our Spec-Tacular Swinging Pots stamp, but she used just one of the pots from the stamp! SO cute. Never feel like you always have to use a whole image – using just part of an image can be a great way to get more use out of your stamps and see them in a different light. Ginger used her own German sentiments, which mean “Happy Belated Birthday”. I’ve linked our Spec-Tacular Sentiment Set below, which pairs beautifully with all of the Spec-Tacular stamps.
A little cheat from me – you may already have seen this card on the release day and release review posts. I’ve now edited and uploaded the video for Uptown Girl Briar Rose though, so here she is!
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.
Would you look at this adorable scene from Sandrabella? I love the way she mixes designer papers and die cuts with stamped images to create scenes. So inspiring!
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
August 7, 2024 0 Comments
Before I get into today’s post, a little update from Stamping Bella regarding your orders:
We are absolutely blown away by the support for our reopening and new release. We are so happy that you are all still supporting our little company.
We do need to ask for a little more patience. We know that having placed your orders for the new release and many of our older stamps, you will be eagerly awaiting their arrival. We are working hard behind the scenes to get them shipped out to you. We’re not quite up to speed yet though, with the complexities of a new website, and a completely new manufacturer and distribution centre, there are lots of little wrinkles that keep cropping up. We don’t have as many team members as we did, which makes everything a little harder, especially with a large number of orders to fulfill.
Hopefully after this first new release we will have those wrinkles ironed out. Just bear with us – your orders will be winging their way to you soon.
Thank you for your continued patience and understanding, we truly appreciate you all. Now, for some inspiration…
This little cutie is proving very popular, and I totally understand why! She’s an absolute ray of sunshine, and there are so many fun possibilities for colouring her. Who wouldn’t smile receiving a card featuring this cutie?
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 our first Bellarific Friday since reopening!
MWAH!
Elaineabella
August 5, 2024 0 Comments
Hey all! Feels fantastic to be back here with a Marker Geek Monday post.
This week I thought I’d catch you up with the cards and videos I’ve uploaded so far for the new release. Don’t want you to miss anything!
This little cutie is perfect for all sorts of occasions, and works so well with the new Garden Sentiment Set.
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.
The Spec-Taculars have absolutely earned their place in my heart. So cute and so much fun to colour and craft with. This one is my favourite…so far! I hot-foiled a Betterpress plate and die set to create the sentiment for this card, but our Spec-Tacular Sentiment Set has some fantastic options.
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.
The Lunettes by Kristin Farnsworth have won everyone’s hearts I think! This is my personal favourite…can’t resist a mermaid.
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 be back on Wednesday with another card and video.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
August 4, 2024 9 Comments
Let’s take another look at the new release, and check out the rest of the wonderful cards the Babes have created using all of the new stamps.
You will see these four new sentiment sets on many of the cards in today’s post. They pair beautifully with the new releases, and with so many of our older stamps too.
THE SPEC-TACULARS – adorable bespectacled objects illustrated by Amy Glatiotis. Seems like many of you agree that putting glasses on things seriously increases the cute factor!
Spec-Tacular Mom & Baby Succulent
Kristin’s wonderful new stamps are proving popular, and we totally understand why!
Home Is Where Your Story Begins
Little Cutie Mermaid in a Clam Shell
Little Cutie Mermaids & Octopus Friends
Little Cutie Mermaids & Seahorse
Tiny Townie Rae the Garden Helper
Uptown Girl Callie the Cowgirl
Uptown Girl Greta loves to Garden
That’s everything! Of course there will be more cards to come over the weeks featuring these new stamps. I’ll also be posting my colouring videos – and updating the product pages on the website to include those, so keep your eyes peeled!
MWAH!
Elaineabella
August 3, 2024 1 Comments
Firstly, we are absolutely delighted that you are all so excited about the website reopening and the Summer 2024 Release! Thank you so much for all of the support. We are very much looking forward to seeing all of your creations using the new stamps popping up online.
Today we have an amazing scene card to share featuring some of the new stamps, from our oh so creative queen of scenes Amybella!
Absolutely incredible, isn’t it? I love how Amy has created the perfect fairytale scene for our new Uptown Girl Briar Rose.
Amy coloured her scene using Copic markers.
That’s it for today! I will be back tomorrow with more inspiration from the Babes featuring the NEW RELEASE.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
August 2, 2024 29 Comments
I am so happy to be writing this blog post! We’re back, with our new website and an incredible new stamp release to share with you, and we are all beyond relieved and delighted. Lots to show and tell you today, so grab a drink and a snack then dive in!
New Website:
You should be able to log in to this new website with the same account details as before. If you have issues, please try resetting your password.
Hopefully you will find the new website greatly improved! Our beautiful Emily features on every page at the bottom – just a little reminder that she remains at the heart of Stamping Bella. If you would like to add the Uptown Girl Emily da Bella stamp featuring the same artwork to your collection, she’s still available to order and proceeds will still be donated to the Emily Block memorial fund.
Let’s get on to the most exciting part: the new stamps! We have 22 new image stamps and 4 new sentiment sets for you in this release. The new release is available to order now, and you can find everything in our WHAT’S NEW section.
Nothing has changed in terms of our stamps. They are still high quality deeply etched blue rubber, cling foam mounted.
On our social media sneak peeks, some of you have expressed that you hope the Oddballs are sticking around. They absolutely are. We don’t have any new Oddballs in this release, but they will return, so don’t worry! Hopefully you can also find some new rubber to enjoy in this release.
You will see these throughout the samples shown in today’s post! Four fantastic sentiment sets with lots of options to pair with the new images, and lots of our older stamps too.
First we have a wonderful new addition, who we think you are going to love just as much as we do. Amy Glatiotis of Otis & M has a brilliant quirky and cute style that just fits so well here at Stamping Bella. We adore the humour and warmth in her images, and they make fantastic stamps!
Meet THE SPEC-TACULARS – adorable bespectacled objects. Putting faces on everyday objects makes them cute, adding glasses just makes them even cuter!
Utterly adorable, right? Perfect for creating cards and projects to make your loved ones (and you) smile! Which is your favourite?
Our amazing Bellariffic Babes have of course been crafting away, creating brilliant cards to showcase these new stamps. Let’s take a look!
Spec-Tacular Mom & Baby Succulent
Our wonderful Kristin Farnsworth is back with some amazing new images in this release. Her creativity is contagious, and you will see how much fun the Babes have had playing with her stamps already.
The Lunettes
Let’s start with the adorable Lunettes! Sweet characters wearing fabulous eye-wear. They pair up beautifully with the new Spec-Tacular Sentiment Set.
Then we have the other amazing images from Kristin that can be used on their own, or to create scenes/backgrounds. Truly beautiful and sentimental artwork.
Home Is Where Your Story Begins
Finally, we have some fantastic new additions to a couple of our core lines, and the return of another. We’ve got some gorgeous new Uptown Girls, an adorable Tiny Townie and our Littles are back, rebranded as Little Cuties – starting with some truly adorable mermaids! Let’s check them all out.
Love, love, love! Let’s take a look at the gorgeousness from our Babes featuring these stamps.
Little Cutie Mermaid in a Clam Shell
Little Cutie Mermaids & Octopus Friends
Little Cutie Mermaids & Seahorse
Tiny Townie Rae the Garden Helper
Uptown Girl Callie the Cowgirl
Uptown Girl Greta loves to Garden
That’s everything! I hope you’ve enjoyed this walk through of the new release. A huge thank you for all of the understanding, patience, and support during this difficult time. We can’t wait to get this new rubbah in your hands so you can create wonderful things with it all.
I will be back on Sunday with another post showing off more of the samples from the Babes!
MWAH!
Elaineabella (and the whole Stamping Bella team)
