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Amy here with a card celebrating the start of spooky season for this Scenic Saturday. As soon as September hits and the nights start to get a chill in the air I’m all about welcoming Halloween and all of the fun and mischief that goes along with it. I was inspired by the recent Crazy Tuesday sale that included this adorable SQUISHY OWL stamp in the savings, and finally inked up this silly trio of jacks and jack o’lantern wannabe.

As I was thinking about what kind of scene to create for them, I ended up taking a cue from the fact that he is an owl and borrowed the branch from the ODDBALL BIRD set for him and his pumpkin pals to rest on. Next, I had to decide what to include in the background. Would we see some landscape back there? A forest of trees and spooky branches perhaps? Ultimately, I decided that sometimes, less is more, and I grabbed the largest of the Tim Holtz moon masks to create a simple, yet eye catching night sky. Once the owl, pumpkins and branch were all colored I masked them off and laid the large moon right over top. Using the Copic airbrush system I added the dark blue/green sky around it, making sure to lighten the colors as I got closer to the stencil so that once it was removed there appears to be light glowing from the moon. This spotlight effect really brings these fun Halloween characters front and center. To complete the card, I borrowed the sentiment that comes with ODDBALL FRANKENSTEIN and used white embossing powder on a strip of black card stock to add it just below the branch. A sprinkling of enamel embellishments in the same colors used in the scene and this clean and simple card was ready to shine! 

Stay crafty my friends!

Happy Friday! This week the Babes have been crafting up a storm with some older but still absolutely amazing stamps from our collection. As always, we’re here to inspire you for a crafty weekend!

Ginger has us ready to spook with this adorable GRIM REAPER BUNDLE GIRL card

Christine is taking us into autumn with this lovely card featuring TINY TOWNIE AUTUMN LOVES AUTUMN with the sentiment from TINY TOWNIE CASEY HAS A CORNUCOPIA

Debra used our SUMMER BUNDLE GIRL IN A FLORAL SWIMCAP & PUPPY set along with our FAIRYTALE SENTIMENT SET

Sandie used PUMPKIN SPICE CURVY GIRL

Michele used TINY TOWNIE GARDEN GIRL CARNATION

Jenny used CHRISTMAS TREE ODDBALL with our LONG DISTANCE CHRISTMAS SENTIMENT SET

I hope we’re leaving you inspired to go and get those stamps inked up, and maybe add a few new to you ones to your stamping stash!

MWAH!

Elaineabella

It’s the first Tuesday of the month which means it’s CRAZY TUESDAY!

Grab this month’s offers at crazy prices today and only for today! Check out the inspiration below to see why you need them, then click on over to the store to grab them before the prices return to normal (by midnight on 5th September 2023).

Hi!

Tamara here with you with my latest project made for Stamping Bella. Today I have a Christmas tag for you featuring The Gnome and the mistletoe rubber stamp. This tag can also be used as a bookmark, that’s why I love adding these to my Christmas gifts.

I stamped my image with Archival Ink – Jet black on Fabriano Artistico 300 g HP watercolouring paper and then coloured it up with Distress ink pads. Distress colours used are:
skin: vintage photo
lips, berries: barn door
beard: black soot
outfit: peacock feathers, black soot
mistletoe: peeled paint, forest moss

I used tall frame dies to cut out my image. Then I cut another one from red striped Christmas paper and one from teal striped Christmas paper. I used only a bit of the red one for the front. I glued together the one with the image and the teal one, so that it looks very pretty from the back too. I added bras eyelet and red Christmas ribbon. I highlighted some details with white gel pen and that’s it.

Have a great Sunday!
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Delphine has some wonderful Weekend Inspiration for us today, featuring our ODDBALL WILLIAM stamp set!

Love that design! Delphine created the background using watercolour pens, and coloured William using Copic markers. She stamped one of the sentiments from the set and some swirls using Memento Toffee Crunch ink to add some interest to the background. Finishing touches were added using brown and bronze Posca pen along the edges of the card.

So inspiring!

Elaineabella

Today’s Bellariffic Friday inspiration is all about our current Stamp of the Month offer for August, the amazing MOCHI BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Such a fantastic stamp set, including a great sentiment and till the end of September you can grab it with 50% off!

The Babes have created some stunning new cards to show this set off. There’s also a new colouring video from me at the end of the post. Let’s check it all out!

Mochi Bride of Frankenstein Pencil Video

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.

Hopefully that’s got you inspired for some crafty fun! Wishing you a colourful and crafty weekend.

MWAH!

Elaineabella