Here is DA WINNAH of DA CANDY!!! Arianne please email me your info!!

1. Arianne Says:
   January 17th, 2009 at 8:01 pm eBeing flatbacked would be amazing!
   They sometimes just get in the way! ;0))

Here are your random numbers:

57	

Timestamp: 2009-01-20 18:19:03 UTC

Ok, this one is gonna discuss some new goodies… I have A DOOZY of another funny post on Monday

I have new flatbacks in!  I have had a KAJILLION emails on how to put them on a card etc.. so here is a little visual

picture is HORRENDOUS.. used the wrong lens.. but you see the new wobbly daisy black and white embellishment and a popdot or 41.. LOL

this shows you the back of the embellishment.. there is still a bit of a "dome" but a popdot allows them to be stuck down to your card or layout

Voila! ready to be applied

Can I tell you how much I LOOOOVE these embellishments? you have NO IDEA!!   they are small and cute and yummy

these are the 2 new ones I posted today.. and there will be more colors available next week! They will also be available as pins, magnets or zipper/purse pulls

and

pictures DO NOT do these justice 🙁

Here are some Nicky Samples of da FLATBACKS…

YUM OR WHA?

need I say MO'?

Since the Cruise we have also had many emails asking about the 3.5″*3.5″ glassine envelopes we used… wellll

they are HEEEEERE!

cute no?

So post a little commenty and you can win each of my new flatbacks and a package of the envies.. s’aright? s’ok?  contest closes sunday night..so let the PEANUT GALLERIES BEGIN!! LOL

Mwah to da sistahs who wish they were FLATBACKED (hmph I know I do :))

Em

LOL.. I am already starting this post off giggling.. LOL.. unfortunately it is at the expense of someone very special to me… My mentor, My friend, My confidante… yep, our very own NICKABELLA. (LOL).. how annoying is it when someone is telling you a story and you have to stop and laugh.. well that’s what I am doing now and the sad thing is.. you probably won’t even find it funny. hmph.  Just wanted to let you all know that i DID get the ‘ok’ from Nicky to recount this tale.

So everyone has a forte, right?  not sure what mine is but NIcky is a great friend, a wonderful cardmaker, friend etc.. but a memory for people’s names?? not-so-much! LOL

So it may have been last year some time, I waltzed into work late and Nicky was dealing with a customer… so I breeze by and nicky says “Emily.. have you met AILEEEEEN?” I am always pleased to see a new customer in the store so I drop my jacket and say “Hi AILEEEEN,welcome to Bellaland”! She graciously says thank you.   So Nicky continues to serve her, showing all of our goodies and continues saying “AILEEN have you seen this? Aileen have you seen that? and I pipe in “OMG AILEEN you NEED to have this!!”.. “Aileen proceeds”  to the cash, thanks all of us profusely and is on her way.

Later that evening I receive a blog comment from a lady stating that she was in our store and was SOO excited to meet all of us and had great customer service etc. SIGNED?  ELAINE.

I call nicky up and I say to her “Nick, are you sure the new lady who came to our store was AILEEEEN (which I think we said about 8976 times when she was there..LOL).. Nicky says ABSOLUTELY.. I asked her name and she said AILEEN. I said ok. maybe the OTHER lady in the store was Elaine. Hmph.

About a week later, “Aileen” comes back into the store. and nicky greets her “AILLLLEEEEENN”! (OMG i am cracking up right now).. And “Aileen says HI!”.. i then mosey on over to her and ask her.. could your name POSSIBLY be “Elaine?” cuz I got a comment on my blog blablabla.. she says Yes, my name is ELAINE.  LOL.. So I say to her WHY DID YOU NOT CORRECT US after the first KAJILLION times we called you AILEEN?  She just says, I couldn’t do it.. I knew you would figure it out at some point 🙂 LOL.  Elaine/Aileen has become a very important part of Stamping Bella.. We LOVE her to pieces and has become a wonderful friend!  We hope you  are enjoying your cruise Elaine/Aileen! (I still call her that).

Second story again was with another new customer who came from out of town to visit and shop.. Nicky greeted her and started speaking to her and called her “GAYLE”… so after a long conversation, Nicky introduces me to her.. “Emily meet Gayle”… “Gayle” looks at nicky and says her name is “Maria”.. LOL.. ( I am LMAO right now).. I look at Nicky and say.. HOW the HECK did you get GAYLE from MARIA? LOLOL.. she looks at me and says, I DUNNO.. so Maria looks at us and says that her sisters’ name is gail if that helps? LOL..

That Nickmeister.. she CRACKS me UP.

Last story happened yesterday.. which triggers this post.

These 2 lovely women walk into the store.. Nicky gets up and recognizes them and loudly says “DOOOORRRISSSSSS” how are you? where have you been? blablablabla.. They continued talking (LOL) and “doris'” sister in law whispers to Nicky.. “HER NAME IS DARLENE”… LOL

Did you find this funny? I hope so cuz I am Laughing.. if you don’t find it funny, please don’t tell me.. LOL

On a bIdnIss note:

Just posted my FAVORITE paper company that I am selling.. I just find it a remarkable array of papers, the quality of the paper is exquisite.. Needless to say.. I am MAJORLY in love… with a sheet of paper.. or 2 🙂

The line is called COLLAGE PRESS and you can find them all in my “What’s New section” here

More stuff to follow tomorrow 🙂

Mwah to da sistahs who remember MY name

Em

How hilarious was the last contest? OMG.. I PEED in my pantZ with some of the comments… I loved the “Emily you are so skinny” mantra.. as it is SO FAR FROM THE TRUTH..LOL.. But it was fun to read.  I thank you all so much for participating.. it means the world to me that people care enough to take time out and actually post something.  I wish it was more consistent!

Lots of stuff going on  in our Splitcoast Forum (If you are not a part of that group yet, you TOTALLy should be.. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? K are you a member yet? lol)  there are some PHENOM sistahs over there.  There are contests, and prizes and challenges.. it is really a fun place to be!

We are even starting a book club there (the last book I read was the Friday night knitting club by Kate Jacobs.. LOOOVED it.. and will soon be reading her second book called Knit Two.. I am now reading the book Q&A.. the movie Slum Dog Millionaire was made based on this book)..  We even have  a crockpot recipe exchange.  I am SOOOOO in love with my crockpot.. I told Ryan that if I wasn’t married to him…. LOL..Since I have started a low carb way of life (AGAIN).. it is really a handy tool and the food is YUMMALICIOUS!!

If any of you have and love your crockpot and have some amazing websites/recipes, why don’t you share? post a comment or email me or post it on splitcoast.. HOW MUCH FUN WOULD THAT BE?!

Mwah to da sistahs who are also in love with theirs… crockpots that is

Oh Oh Oh oh oH! I FORGOTTED!

did you see the chichi FLATBACKS? OMG OMG OMG.. I am in LOVE with them!!

I wish you could jump into the screen and seethese in person.. pictures nevah do it justice! I love these bittyblooms.. available in magnets, flatbacks, pins and zipperpulls

Em

And the WINNER IS…

Here are your random numbers:

368

Timestamp: 2009-01-12 17:45:05 UTC

1. Maureen Wong Says:
   January 11th, 2009 at 10:20 am eYou are gorgeous and should never change!! MWAH!!!

   LOVING the new images!!

Maureen you are the WINNAH! email me as soon as possible to collect your information and send your goodies!!

I wanted to thank everyone for their comments.. I laughed so hard at some of them.. not to be believed!

MWAH to da sistahs

wHOOOOOOO wantsta (LOL) see EYE candy to go with the RELEASE CANDY??  Check out what the marvelous and talented and skinny NICKABELLA  made!

how cute are these using the new spellbinders large curved rectangles? kraft paper? mineral spirits? lyra colored pencils? YUMM-O

yummy big fat juicy buttons, lyras, Basic Grey Urban Prairie's patterned paper...YUMMMMMM

Lyra colors.. twitterpated PAPERS! and of course the I heart you sentiment!

could you just EAT HER??????????????????? I mean, HONESTLY.

idn't it great to be different? LOVE this card

and yet another set of zipper pulls, magnets, flatbacks or pinpacks 🙂  LOVE these things.. ADORE these things.. WANNA MARRY these things (sorry Ryan)

LOOOOVE. hmph.

Lotsa new stamps being released tomorrow!!!!

SO who wants one of each stamp released?? hmmmmmm? who wants it????  There are LOTS being released and the retail value will be highhhhh…. (said in a teasy singsongy voice)

SO.  Here’s what you have to do.  WRITE A COMMENT. k? say hi. tell me how skinny I am (lol).. tell me how skinny YOU are.. I really don’t care what you say.. just SAY. K?

I will keep this contest going till sunday night.. This will also be the post that I update tomorrow with the new releases.

Mwah to da sistahs who write a comment about NUFFING  (that’s “nothing” for people who have just ‘met’ me).

Em

***THE WINNAH OF THE RESOLUTIONS POST was MIESJE!!!  Lisa was in my shop today from Oshawa and I made her choose a numbah so she chose her favorite numbah 16!!***

congrats Miesje!  email me please!

Sistahs,

Today has been a VE-HERRRRY biZzy day at da Bella’s!  We have created more embellishments for your enjoyment 😉

Introducing Daisybella and Owlies embellishments (available in pinbacks, zipperpulls, magnets and flatbacked embellishments).. We are IN LOVE with them and the goal is to introduce a new set every week! ok, maybe every 2 weeks 🙂

Our lovely and talented Nickabella has created these masterpieces with them.. Oh, ahem, and a little tutorial will be included in this entry

Here are the owlies and daisybella embellishments available in our brand new what’s new section!  You will notice a little difference in our website .. a little easier to navigate and less cluttered! I am working on it this week so please bear with me.. but the new stuff is in the what’s new section!

these are available in flatbacks, pinbacks, magnets and zipperpulls. We are also able to accomodate bulk orders and custom.. so if you want 10 of 1 style, we can do it!

also available in bulk and custom.. Tiddly has outdone herself!

is this ADORABLE?? love the flatbacks here (or magnets) do you lovey????

close up of the sampler card.. LOVE IT!

another closeup.. couldn't resist

and here is the owlie card.. tutorial to follow!

LOOOOOOOVE this card.. with the green pearls and the COLORING OF THE BRANCH? you just wait!

closeup of da OWLIE..

And now for Nicky’s Faux-Watercolour-Straight-ON-da-RUBBAH-with MEMENTO Markers-TECHNIQUE

prepare your tsukineko memento FABO markers and solid stamp of choice

we chose our branch with birdie stamp and Memento markers included in arizona canyons and greenhouse sets We just LOVE these markers as they are waterbased, fade resistant ,sheer yet pronounced (if that makes sense).. you can colour right on the rubbah AND they match all the inkpads!!!! (all the colors of the inkpads should be up tomorrow) There are 4 other sets available that you can find in our what’s new section

Color the branch with the rich cocoa memento marker directly on da rubbah

Nicky colored in all the leaves with the lighter green NEW SPROUT

Now color in the side of each petal with a darker green (bamboo leaf memento)

Now with the lighter marker (NEW SPROUT) like when using the Copics, feather out towards the inside of the image to soften the darker line

and then she HUFFS and she PUFFS and SHEEEE BLOOOOWS the stamps! LOL.. if you put marker on rubbah, esp. dye based, it dries rather quickly. So to remoisten, we HUFF on the stamp to get all the juices flowing again. I will never forget my first class with nicky and she did this.. I LAFFFED my head off..LOL!

VOILA! A bEEyOOtiful Branch and leaves with depth.. LOVE IT NICKABELLA!

Mwah to da sistahs who love to Huff and Puff

EM

Sistahs!

Happy new year to you all!  We had a great new years eve.. wanna know what we did?  K, I’ll tell you.  My girlfriends Caryn and Melissa and I ordered dinner and went to Mel’s house ( Oh ya, the kidlets and the hubs’ were there too 🙂

We each had our laptops and our toys (IPOD ITOUCH’s) and were downloading applications (including the price is right and deal or no deal) and then we tried to figure out how to download movies.. this was not an easy feat sistahs.  We all didnt know how to do it.. we were figuring out brakelite, squidoo (??) and other websites to facilitate these downloads to no avail.. Melissa is stil downloading her first movie..lol and it is 3 days later.  Needless to say, I MISS that dining room table where lots of laughter, drinks and cake was shared by all!  We had an absolutely FAB-O time.. New Years day, a group of our friends went to see the tales of DESPEREAUX.. a new movie out for the kidlets

who can resist this FACE????

I am in LOVE with this little gentleman.. and that is WHO he is.. a little gentleman full of bravery and fearlessness.  Not your “typical” mouse i tell ya. The movie itself is a  little long but just looking at that mousie’s face makes it well worth it.  So if you have little ones that would enjoy this movie, please take them and give a SMOOCHIE to despereaux from DA BELLA will ya?

Guess what we did after DA MOVIE?  We returned with our laptops to Mel’s house and resumed positions at that fateful dining room table and ate leftovers.  We still tried to figure out HOW TO DOWNLOAD da movies and laughed throughout cuz it didn’t work.  hmph.  double hmph.

Some new years resolutions

Be happy with who I am. (and diet)

Enjoy EVERY moment (and diet)

Save money (keep dreaming AND DIET)

create BEEYOOOTIFUL things (and diet whilst (lol on the whilst) doing so)

be kind to others (and diet but don’t make the others diet)

Take more photos (and then look at them to make sure I diet…LOL)

Keep bringing in the most amazing finds and great product (and diet)

Give charity (food so i can diet)

What are your resolutions?  A little blog candy for you (contest closes Monday night)  if you tell me what you resolve to do in 2009

here’s some nicky EYE CANDY for you… I just ADORE these cards.. is she not da BEST?

is she not adorable???

love, love LOVE!!!

when you open this card it says "i missed your birthday".. goes with all the words in the "no fair girl" set

so how’s DAT for a little eye-blog-despereaux candy?

mwah to da sistahs who love little white mousies named Despereaux

Em

My dearest sistahs

I am so sorry i have been MIA lately but have been “cookin” up some surPRIZES.. do you forgive me???

I will be releasing my new valentines images next week and OMG… you will RE-HEALLY freak out.. there will be a bella, some stellas (LOLOL), some HUGGABUGGS and some bittyblooms.. OMG.. it will be a REAL treat.. I PROMISE!!

I will also be releasing more embellishments which I am totally in love with 🙂

This is a beautiful end to year 2 of Stamping Bella online.  It is with EXCITEMENT and LOVE and PASSION that I greet 2009 and TRUST me sistahs, I will try my BESTEST to make 2009 the BESTEST year EVAH!

so Mwah to YOU my loyal sistahs for helping me continue my passion and sharing all of your experiences, likes and dislikes, passions and dreams with me.

have a healthy and happy and SWEET new year

Em

raindrops and roses and whiskers on kittens… (did everyone know that the sound of music is ONE of my FAVORITEST MOVIES EVAH??)… going to buy tickets to see it live here in Toronto (hint hint Ryan)

Weekend was great.. we went to see Disney on Ice with the kidlets.. aside from taking the subway and having to walk 67 miles to get to the DARK theatre (we were late) and almost falling down 85 CONCRETE stairs to find our seat.. it went GREAT! LOL.. this kids really enjoyed it.

Ok, onto BIDNISS…. I am so EXCITED to launch these new embellishments.  I can GUARANTEE you that there will be 60 kajillion (plus or minus a few kajillion) sets coming out…  They are called BELLA’s  BACKED BADGES… BACKED is the operative word.. We have magnetic backs, zipper pulls, flatbacks and pinbacks 🙂  back back back back back..LOL

nickabella worked her magic incorporating the bella badges on the 2 cards shown. They are magnets!

Have I  mentioned how in love with them I am?  they will be offered in ZIPPERPULLS, PINBACKS, MAGNETS and FLATBACKS

here is hippiechickabella flatback in the center of a flower (sorry for the glare 🙁 )

zipper pull on Dena's Jacket 🙂

zipperpulls on my purse

These designs will be available in MAGNETS, PINS, ZIPPERPULLS

zipperpull samples

DO YOU  LOVEEE THESE?? I LOVVVVE THESE!!!!

You can find them all here in the what’s new section

The hippie chick set– did you know that this year is the 50th birthday of the peace sign?  This one is my tribute

Huggabugg set- need I say more?

butterfly set

Mwah to da sistahs WHO LOVE these embellishments…

you wanna just SNUGGLE them.

EM

Sistahs,

SARAH PENDERGAST.. COME ON DOWN!! you and your kitty story win the contest 🙂  (#42 picked by mr. fella here)

Mwah!  Email me and we will work out da DEETS

EM

sorry I haven’t written in a while.. I was SOOO EXCITED to release something new and *POOF* a blizzard.. they are calling it “STORMAGEDDON”.. LOL.. have you evah?  We had to close the store early and not sure about if we can open tomorrow.. weather permitting!

So Monday,  we will be launching new embellishments and BOy will you be happy.. we are thrilled!!

So how about we give out a christmas gift certificate of $50 on monday to the store 🙂  whaddya think?

I need some funny stories to keep me company on this BLECHHY day..

so put a comment in and if you feel like telling a story, please do 🙂

as you know I read each and every comment and i just love them all!

mwah to da sistahs who are in sunshine and yummy WEATHAH

contest ends sunday night 🙂

Em