Elaineabella here with this week’s Stamp It Saturday post! This week I’ve been playing with Distress Inks, and I thought I would share how easy it is to create simple yet effective backgrounds to complement Stamping Bella images.

Continue reading Stamp It Saturday: Distress Ink Backgrounds with Elaineabella

Hiya sistahs!

I hope you had a great week 🙂

It’s been a bit insane around here but we are managing.  most of your orders should be out right now and I so hope you will share your creations on social media!  You can post in our amazing and supportive FACEBOOK GROUP or on instagram or twitter using either #stampingbella or our new hashtag #spotthisstampingbella for an opportunity to be featured on our new Sunday feature SPOTTED ON SUNDAY.  If you use this new hashtag, you have given us authority to use your creation! And of course you get a little spending money in your account 🙂

Ok now let’s discuss Bellarific Friday shall we?

This week, since it is the first Friday of the month, our Baberoonis feature our STAMP OF THE MONTH.  This month’s stamp of the month is UPTOWN GIRL REILLY loves to RELAX.. she is 20% off all month long!  We hope these inspire you 🙂

Let’s begin!

Here’s Alice’s card using Reilly

ChristineAbella’s card

Danabella’s card

Fayeabella’s card

Jennybella’s card

Lesliebella’s card

and the inside

Paulabella’s card

Shelabella’s card

and finally Sandiebella’s card

*SIGH*… this team I tell ya…  AMAZING!

Now for our amazing sistahood!  Click HERE and scroll to the bottom of this post to see our INLINKZ contributahs!

And now for our EMAILED contributahs!

Lynn used UPTOWN GIRL BIANCA

Annette used GARDENING CHICKS

Already have the rubber stamp?  You can find the corresponding “CUT IT OUT” die HERE

Don’t have the STAMP or the DIE and WANT NEED them? you can find them packaged as a BUNDLE HERE and you can save 15% !

Natalie used UPTOWN GIRL MELANIE the MODERN BRIDE

Already have the rubber stamp?  You can find the corresponding “CUT IT OUT” die HERE

Don’t have the STAMP or the DIE and WANT NEED them? you can find them packaged as a BUNDLE HERE and you can save 15% !

Georgia used the CHICK and the BUNNY WOBBLE

Liz used Uptown girl Bentley gets blown away

Aren’t these amazing?

Now for next week’s challenge….

A SKETCHYPOO!

just follow the design of the sketch using a CURRENT Stampingbella stamp and email to us!  If you are a newbie to our challenge, click HERE for more rules 🙂

MWAH to da sistahs who love Bellarific Fridays!

xo

Em

Save

Save

MIXED MEDIA COLORING

Hello Everyone, My name is Kathy from The Daily Marker and I am excited to be back on the Stamping Bell Blog today.

Tea cups, floral vintage dishes, crystal … all things I love to collect so when I saw this stamp called, “Edna’s CUP OF TEA” from Stamping Bella I just had to have it. I set out to create a card set of four but, things went a little south.

I stamped the image on Tim Holtz pre cut watercolor color paper and inked the stamp with black archival ink.

Notice two of the cards the tea cups are positioned differently. I was chatting and placed the paper in the wrong area in the misti but, fortunately it still worked. I was away at a retreat when I colored these sweet angels but, I managed to pull together a little video to show you how I painted the background with distress ink.

When everything was bone dry I added some shadows with my copic markers. Gasp I know and it might use a little extra ink but, it’s a time saver for me and it works well if I don’t go over the black line.

A little extra shading with a sharp tip colored pencil. Easy to control and just fun too.

Adding foam tape to my watercolored card panels gave my card some depth and more interest. Some white dots and lines with a white gel pen was the final touch. I hope you picked up a few tips today and thanks for your visit. Hugs, Kathy=

Unicorn Magic

Hi it’s Jennifer here with our  Wonderful Wednesday post.  Today I made some really cute and fun gift cards… and yes I did sneak some sequins in and glitter on the magical wings of these adorable Unicorns.

I have used the rubber stamp sets UNICORNS and UNICORN SENTIMENT 

they are also available as a Unicorns “Cut It OUT” and 

Unicorn Sentiment “CUT IT OUT” dies on their own or

Unicorns BUNDLE and  Unicorn Sentiment BUNDLE 

where you can save 15% when purchaseds as a bundle!

A great set to go with these Cuties is Unicorn Add On Set BUNDLE.

 On my wish list now too!

Here is my first unicorn gift card.  I was only doing 3 buuuuut  they were so cuuuuute and addictivvvvvvwe that I did 5 with more I am

still making ?.

To make my gift cards I make a base 15cm x 7.5cm .  I use a nice double stitched square to fit inside for my bright papers  which is a great way to use scraps. I then use a smaller

stitched square in white and emboss it with a small print and dimensionalize it.

The die cuts I have used are Sunshine Layers from WPlus 9  for the rainbow and the Castle is from La-La Land Crafts and they worked perfectly with these cuties.

For card #2, I managed to get a shaker and some sequins in ?.   I just used a stitched circle for the shaker section.  Ooops , I just realized that my butterfly must have flown off the card!  Use your imaginations as  it was in the top left hand corner pink and glittery.

 Card 3,  I just love this adorable sentiment .. it should be  applied everyday to ones self.

For card number 4, I think I might go over the horns with a glitter pen..

 you can never have enough sparkle!

and finally, for card number 5 the clouds are in the same set mentioned above.

Hope you enjoyed these cuties and I hope that I have inspired you!

Have a great crafting week.

Jennifer

Hey hey! Elaineabella here with your usual dose of Marker Geek Monday colouring fun, except…it’s Tuesday! Don’t ask – Monday was a blur.

There is no Crazy Tuesday this week – the warehouse are working flat out getting all the new release orders out to you, that’s all the crazy they can handle!

Before all the NEW RELEASE shenanigans last week, I shared a little waffle about colouring mediums for colouring stamped images: Marker Geek Monday Colouring Mediums for Colouring Stamps. In that post I promised I would do a little more with watercolour/water based supplies, and here I am! I’ve got a few fun cards to share, hopefully showing that you can create beautiful, fun cards with whatever you have!

Hey hey! Elaineabella here with a brand spanking new regular feature here on the Stamping Bella blog! I know, so much NEW happening this week. 😉

SPOTTED ON SUNDAY – every Sunday from now on I will be sharing cards and other creations that have caught my eye featuring Stamping Bella stamps.

Our very first Spotted On Sunday is…

Sue Hastead a.k.a. Tanglemouse Cards

This gorgeous card by Sue caught my eye recently. So pretty! That frame…those flowers…the gorgeous colouring…the tags… Yep. Love it!

Stamp Used: Stamping Bella Uptown Girls Victoria & Juliette’s Night Out

Fantabulous! Thank you for letting me share, Sue!

Want to catch my eye? HASHTAG IT!

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.

Stamping Bella on Instagram: @StampingBella
Stamping Bella Facebook Page: Stamping Bella on Facebook
Stamping Bella Facebook Group: Stamping Bella Sistahood Chat Group