August 3, 2016
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Hello Sistahs! My name is Jenny Bordeaux (aka Owl Be Crafty) and I’m so thrilled to be the guest designer for the month of August! My mother got me started in stamping and card making about 6 years ago and I haven’t looked back. It’s something that provides me an escape from the stress of life and I don’t know what I’d do without. I was honored to be asked by Emily and I’m looking forward to becoming a part of this wonderful Stampingbella community! Also, I could not believe I’m following one of my Copic idols, the fabulous Sandy Allnock! Big shoes to fill so here we go!
I have a HUGE love of owls and just knew my first card had to use Owliver Loves to Celebrate. I colored him up with my Copic markers and layered him on top of a silver cupcake wrapper. I frayed the edges with my scissors just to give it more texture. I like using unexpected supplies to make it a little extra special. If you’d like to know what supplies I used hop over to my blog for details: www.owlbecrafty.blogspot.com
I hope you enjoyed this card and I’m looking forward to being with you Sistahs for the next few weeks! I would love to have you follow me on Instagram @owlbecrafty as that’s where I’ll share more inspiration throughout August. Have a great day and I’ll see you next Wednesday!
Jenny ?
August 2, 2016 3 Comments
Hey folks! Elaineabella here with our weekly “Spotlight On” feature. This week it happens to be the first Tuesday of August. If you’re a regular reader and Stamping Bella fan you will probably be aware that the first Tuesday of every month is CRAZY TUESDAY!
If you are just joining us, or simply haven’t heard of Crazy Tuesday, here’s the scoop! On the first Tuesday of every month we have a set of 24 hour specials. Three stamps are selected from across the Stamping Bella collection and offered at CRAZY prices for just 24 hours. It’s a great way to build your collection of Stamping Bella stamps, or to buy gifts for crafty friends and family at great prices.
The offers apply to the stamps only, for the 24 hour period only.
Let’s take a look at the images and grab a little inspiration from the Bellarific Babes to get you going!
It’s often the little details that really sell me on an image. Like the little itty bitty snail on the flower in this sweet Petunia image. Seriously. Cannot take the cuteness. The chick doesn’t care about the snail though. In fact I think he may be about to shake that flower stem and knock Mr Snail off so the attention is all on His Royal Chickness. Tsk.
If you’re looking for some ideas for colouring Petunia, click through to my Marker Geek Monday Copic Pig Colour Combos post or check out my Marker Geek Monday Petunia Pig in Coloured Pencil post if pencils are more your thing!
Love this stamp. It’s a lot of fun to colour and looks fantastic when you’re finished. There are some small detail areas, but they are quite easy and quick to colour. It’s just a really cute image to pop on a card for a friend, like Stephabella has done below.
Or a fun birthday card like the one Lesliebella created!
This image just makes me feel so festive! Love these three party girls in their gorgeous dresses, topped off with Santa hats. They have to link arms and hang on, the combination of drinkies and those long legs in killer heels could be lethal.
Hopefully I’ve inspired you to add some of these stamps to your own stamp collection, or to stamp up any that you already have! Remember – the Crazy Tuesday offers are good for 24 hours only, today 2nd August 2016.
Share your personal favourite Stamping Bella creations with us. We LOVE to see what you’ve been creating with Stamping Bella stamps. Share a link to your latest Stamping Bella card in the comments below, or an old favourite you made a while ago. Tell us what your favourite stamps are. Are there any additions you would like to see to the range? Let us know!
Another way to connect is by joining us in the Stamping Bella Sistahood Facebook Group and share your pictures.
If you are posting your images online, we would love to see them on Instagram and all the platforms mentioned above. To make it easier for us to find you just use #markergeekmonday and/or #stampingbella as a hashtag. Even better tag me @markergeek and @stampingbella . We love it when you connect, so don’t be shy!
Until next time, HAPPY STAMPING!
MWAH
Elaineabella
August 1, 2016 2 Comments
Hey folks! Elaineabella here with another Marker Geek Monday post to get the week off to the right start…a colourful one!
This week I’ve got a bit of a round up post for you. You may or may not be aware that I have been participating in the wonderful challenge #TheDailyMarker30Day hosted by the equally wonderful Kathy Racoosin. Every day since the start of July as a little personal twist on the challenge I have been colouring a Stamping Bella image and filming the colouring process. The challenge is almost over, and I have only missed one day. This means that I have a nice collection of videos, coloured images and colour maps to go with those images! Since you may have missed some of the colouring action over the course of the last month, I thought it might be a good idea to share here and make sure you don’t miss out on any of the inspiration.
Here’s my colouring for today, Day 28 of the challenge. I decided to have some fun and colour an old favourite. It’s a nice way to loosen up before starting on all the colouring I need to work through for the next release. 😉
Stamp: Flower for a True Friend (incl sentiment).
I coloured the image with my trusty Copic markers, and here’s the Copic Colour Map showing all the colours I used:
The rest of my coloured images and the Copic Colour Maps (and one pencil map) for them can be found on my blog. Click through to my #TheDailyMarker30Day page to view them all in one handy location.
Please feel free to save the images or pin them on Pinterest for reference. Please do not download and share them however – instead direct people to this blog post or directly to the page on my blog so they can obtain them that way. Thank you!
Next time Kathy hosts the colouring challenge, I highly recommend joining in. For me it has been a great way to motivate myself to film more colouring videos and get them uploaded on YouTube. It has also been a great way to get myself excited about social media and sharing again too. Plus, I’ve learned some new things about the filming process and things I’d like to improve as I create more videos and content to share with you. For you, the challenge might be a good excuse to dedicate just a little time to colouring each day, and to get out there and share your work. Remember – it’s all about practice, so any small ways you can get yourself practicing can be a massive help.
You can watch all of my colouring videos filmed during the challenge in the playlist below or in HD over on YouTube. Subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss out on future videos!
While I’m providing you with a round up of colouring fun, I thought it might also be a good time to do a round up of all the Marker Geek Monday posts so far this year! That way you can check out any posts you may have missed, and have a handy link to any you may want to revisit.
Posts include pinnable images showing colour combinations etc, videos and general tips/info.
If you try out the techniques shown in this post with your Stamping Bella stamps, be sure to share! We would love to see the results and hear how you feel about them. Show off your creations in the comments below and even better, share your own favourite tips with us. Let’s talk colour!
If you are posting your images online, we would love to see them on Instagram and all the platforms mentioned above. To make it easier for us to find you just use #markergeekmonday and/or #stampingbella as a hashtag. Even better tag me @markergeek and @stampingbella . We love it when you connect, so don’t be shy!
If you’re on Facebook join us in our private chat group Stamping Bella Sistahood to share your creations there and chat all things Stamping Bella related!
Until next time, HAPPY COLOURING!
MWAH
Elaineabella
July 29, 2016 4 Comments
Hiya sistahs,
hope you had a great week! The blog is just so full of goodies isn’t it? If you don’t subscribe. You should. Like right now. If you do subscribe, then, well.. I LOVE YOU. LOL
Today is Bellarific Friday and this week’s theme was making a ONE LAYER CARD.. which can prove to be QUITE challenging :).. but not SUCH a challenge for our Amazing DESIGN TEAM or our sistahood who contributed!
Let’s see what our baberoonis came up with shall we?
AliceWERTZabella used SUPERBELLA V. 2.0
Carlabella used UPTOWN GIRL LUCILLE sends her LOVE
Danabella used THINKINGOFYOUABELLA V2.0
FAYE-WJ-ABELLA used MARCHING CHICK
Kerribella used LEO the BALANCING stuffie and the little cloud from EDNA blows a KISS
Sandiebella used SPABELLA v. 2.0
Shelabella used DONTTALKTOMEBEFOREMYCOFFEEABELLA v.2.0
Stephabella used MANLY CHICKS
How amazing are these cards??? sigh.. if only I had a teensy bit of this talent!
Now for our AMAZING sistahood
Click on this POST and scroll to the bottom to see our INLINKZ ONE LAYER contributions
and now for our emailed contribution!
and now for NEXT WEEK’S THEME?
ADD SEQUINS, BUTTONS, or DOTS to your cards! easy peasy lemon squeezy no?
MWAH!!
July 28, 2016 10 Comments
Time for another dose of inspiration from one of the Bellarific Babes. It’s Design Team Thursday and this week Faye-WJ-abella has a fun technique to share.
Hey Peeps, it’s Faye here today 🙂
Sponge. Perhaps I’m being a little presumptuous here. But. Sponge. Not just for washing baby arm pits. I know, it’s an overwhelming thought. So, while you let that sink in for a moment, let’s talk about backgrounds.
My style is very clean and simple. But every once in a while, I fancy a little ‘pop’ of colour behind an image. Sometimes, if I feel like getting ink all over my hands, nails and desk, (that’s with scrap paper in place, by the way. If I didn’t have the paper, well. Nuff said.) I’ll get the Air Brush out. And sometimes, I like to get a different fix of Messy. I know, the shocks just keep coming, don’t they?
So, let’s take Thinkingofyouabella, who, is perfect for a little Arty Farty Background Moosh. Now, before I tell you that I am going to colour around the edge of the image with RV91 and R81, as rough and messy as I like… You want to do this part first. Trust me, colouring the background first is a must.
You’ll notice I have already decided my Light Source will be Top Right, which is why I have more of the R81 on the left hand side.
Now, you’ll want a plate, or a Craft Mat, or something you can squirt some Colourless Blender on. Dip your piece of Sponge, (or in fact any fabric with some texture to it, (Put the Bath Towel back please!)) in the Colourless Blender and then apply your Sponge, to the background ink. One pink elephant. Two pink elephants. Three pink elephants. Stop. Move around your image until you have Mooshed the whole lot with the Sponge. You may need to re-dip your sponge as you go.
It’s worth noting that you get different effects by:
I used a lot of wet as that was the effect I wanted, but if you use less, the texture of whatever you are pressing against the paper shows more. So play around.
Now the Mooshing is done, we can colour the image.
Finally, I doodled some and called her done. But that’s only because I chickened out of doing the thing I had planned to do. Maybe I’ll show you that another time 😉
Have a great day.
Faye x
We hope you’ve enjoyed checking out Faye-WJ-abella’s tutorial and are feeling inspired to try it out yourselves. If you do, make sure you drop by and share with us! You can get in touch in all the following ways:
Happy Stamping!
July 27, 2016 30 Comments
Sandy Allnockabella!
Hello once again, sistahs! It’s Sandy Allnock with one more Bella 2.o for you…this time with Allboxedupabella! 
I used to have a boss whose favorite phrase was “smoke and mirrors.” It meant that, as creatives, we have secreats for how we make our magic, and we keep it among ourselves. All anyone else sees is a poof of magical smoke and glitter, and they have no idea how we did our amazing work! This is a way to do that….add beautiful drawn detail on top of your coloring, and your friends and family will be blown away by your skills! Watch the video below, or click HERE to see it in HD on YouTube.
