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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

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

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

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So many cute new images! Yay!

Timestamp: 2017-12-03 21:40:36 UTC

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Hiya sistahs and WELCOME to day 4!  Almost there!

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

and a closeup

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

the eyes!!! LOVE

Next is Christineabella’s card

Fayeabella’s card

Jennybella’s card

JennyDixabella’s card

Shelabella’s card

Sandiebella’s card

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!

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I love polaroid photos! These stamps are wicked!

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Hiya sistahs, welcome to day 3 of our sneak peeks!  I do hope you’re enjoying our time togethah!  I know I am!