July 5, 2016
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and you know what that means? CRAZY PRICES for handpicked images for 24 hours only! These prices do not include the “CUT IT OUT DIES” but it makes buying them even more tempting.. BWAHAHAHAHA
Crazy Tuesday happens every FIRST tuesday of the month and it’s SO MUCH FUN! It’s a great way to continue your collection.. to start your collection.. to start a collection for someone else? To start a gift pile? Or simply to be able to have a little retail therapy without the guilt!
to check out the CRAZY prices.. go to our website.. it’s on our front page! It sure is CRAZY!
Happy shopping sistahs!
July 4, 2016 14 Comments
Another Monday rolls around, bringing with it a whole new week of possibilities and colour! It seems much better when you look at it that way, right? Positivity through colour!
This week I’m addressing a topic that I know many of you have been hoping for: Pleats and Folds. I have used Copic Markers for this post, but the approach will be similar for other mediums too. Whatever medium you use, hopefully this post will help you start to visualise how you can break down the colouring and approach adding pleats and folds to an image.
As of this week I’ve added an extra element to Marker Geek Monday. Over on my own Marker Geek Blog you can find a card featuring today’s image, along with a bonus Copic colouring video showing how I coloured a background for the image. When you’re done here, I invite you to pop on over and check it out: Flowersbehindmybackabella Simple Copic Background with Video. While you’re there I invite you to subscribe or bookmark the blog for regular Stamping Bella inspiration!
The Flowersbehindmybackabella rubber stamp from our recent release is perfect for practicing adding pleats and folds to an image. That dress offers lovely open space to colour in and get creative. The lines of the image offer some hints at where you might place the creases, without boxing you in with black lines. This makes it a little bit easier to “go with the flow”. Plus she’s quite simply a gorgeous image, perfect for numerous occasions.
If you have trouble visualising the marker strokes, keep on reading this post to find a Copic colouring video that should help! To see the Copic colours used, read on to the end of the post where you will find a Copic Colour Map for this image.
I have also put together a video showing how I coloured the folds in the dress of Flowersbehindmybackabella. Like my Copic Hair Colouring Video last week this video has only been sped up slightly, to allow you to see more clearly how I colour.
Here is a full Copic Colour Map for the Flowersbehindmybackabella colouring featured in the videos. Remember that if you purchase Stamping Bella stamps you can obtain colour maps for the versions shown on the product packaging – go HERE to find out how to do that. Between those and the bonus colour maps featured here on the blog, you can build up a great library of colour combinations to try out with your own Copic collection.
Over on my own Marker Geek Blog I have a festive version of this guide, featuring one of the Stamping Bella Holiday 2016 Releases – Christmasgiftabella. Click through to check it out!
Marker Geek: Stamping Bella Christmasgiftabella Copic Pleats & Folds (w/card, video & step by step).
The process is the same, but you may find it interesting to watch the video and look at the step by step for a slightly different shape/style of dress.
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 as a hashtag!
Until next time, HAPPY COLOURING!
MWAH
Elaineabella
July 1, 2016 6 Comments
our stamp of the month is Edna Blows a Kiss
this stamp is so awesome.. first because she’s EDNA of course.. and also she comes with the separate kissy lips, fairy dust and cloud.. just amazing.. NOT ONLY THAT.. BUT WAIT.. THERE”S MORE… she has a matching CUT IT OUT DIE..AND some bases to perch her on.. she has a DAISY BASE, a CLOUD BASE, a SIGN base… could anyone ask for more?
Not only is it bellarific friday but every first friday of the month, our BABEROONIS come up with amazing samples using that stamp. HERE WE GO!
Here’s ALICEWERTZabella’s card
Danabella’s card
FayeW-Jabella’s card
kerribella’s card
Lesliebella’s card
sandiebella’s card
Shelabella’s card
and Stephabella’s card
How’s that for AMAZINGNESS!!!
and now for our sistahood! The theme was GLITTER AND BLING!
Take a look at the bottom of this POST to see our INLINKZ contributions!
Here’s Carlabella’s card using BRIGITTE the BRIDE
Here’s margo’s card using seniorita GLADYS the SUPERHERO
Stephanie used I’ll ALWAYS HAVE YOUR BACK STUFFIES
and for next week’s theme?
a MOJOBELLA sketch!
mwah!
June 30, 2016 11 Comments
Welcome to Stamping Bella’s Design Team Thursday! Today I’d like to show you a little project that helps us get more use out of our smaller stamped images.
I’m working with two stamp sets. For my main card images I’ve used the Mail Chick set with it’s coordinating dies.
I’ve also cut a piece of red cardstock and a slightly smaller piece of vellum.
The second stamp set I’ll be using is the Mr. Postie’s Mini Envelope Accents and some Versamark ink
I couldn’t find my regular powder tool so I just grabbed some talcum powder and used a little on the vellum to get rid of any static. I used a paint brush to spread it all over.
Next I stamped a couple of the images from the Mr. Postie set, the small letter and air mail airplane, randomly on the piece of vellum and then sprinkled on some white embossing powder.
After heating the embossing powder with a heat gun my vellum panel was ready. I then attached it to the red cardstock with a few little dots of glue here and there. I went back later and added a couple more embossed imaged along the top edge to balance out the panel a bit better.
And here you have the finished card with a fun background created from those little accent stamps.
There are other stamps in the Stamping Bella collection that would make awesome backgrounds like the cherries in the Cherry Chick set, the cloud in the Edna Blows a Kiss set, and the Easter Eggs in the Row of Bunny Wobbles set
Don’t let those little treasures gather dust.
June 29, 2016 5 Comments
Paulineabella! I wanted to thank Pauline for the last 2 months being an AMAZING Wednesday inspiration!!! MWAH Paulineabella!!!
Paulineabella used our MASON JAR OF FLOWERS on her GORGEOUS card today. This Stamp has it’s own CUT IT OUT die available too!
I wish you a glorious Wednesday my sistahs
and by the way, I NEVAH use the word GLORIOUS.. no idea HOW AND WHY it slipped out but I’m leaving it there.. Makes me sound very elegant no?
MWAH.
glorious Em.
June 27, 2016 22 Comments
I’m back! I’m pretty sure you didn’t miss me too much last week though, given all the release preview excitement. 😉 The latest Stamping Bella rubber stamp release is of course now available to order, and inspiration for using the new images is in plentiful supply. You can also share your love for the latest release, Stamping Bella and the Sistahood as a whole by displaying one of our new badges on your blog sidebar!
In case you missed them among all the excitement, I’d like to draw your attention to the fact that I’ve started uploading colouring videos to YouTube once again! You can find all of my Stamping Bella related videos in my Stamping Bella YouTube Playlist. I invite you to subscribe to my channel if you’d like to keep up with future uploads, which may include other brands of marker than Copic, and quite possibly coloured pencils too. Make sure you have a browse through the playlist as some of the older videos might prove quite useful, including my Copic Galaxy Colouring Video (as seen on my Stamping Bella Nacho and Hayley The Superhero cards).
Today I’ve got another video for you. It actually uses footage from one of the videos I published during the release sneak peeks, showing how I coloured Thinkingofyouabella (you can view that video on YouTube). Since I have used Thinkingofyouabella for today’s Copic hair combos I thought it would be useful to share a slower version of the hair colouring portion of the original video. This time the footage has only been sped up slightly to keep the video under 10 minutes, so you can see exactly what I’m doing and still fit it into a quick break. 😉
Here’s the video which you can watch in HD below or over on Youtube.
As you can see in the video, I start by mapping out the areas I think will be in shadow, or which would be darker in colour using my darkest marker. I then work backwards towards the lightest shade, which I use quite sparingly (I want to avoid over-blending and losing the texture I have created in the hair). When all of the hair is coloured I assess the image before going back and deepening some of the darkest areas using the darker markers.
Thinkingofyouabella is a fantastic image for practicing both hair and skin colouring, as those areas are larger than on many of the other stamps in the collection (although I will point out that some of the other Bellas have fantastic legs to practice colouring definition on).
Here is a full Copic Colour Map for the Thinkingofyouabella colouring featured in the videos. Remember that if you purchase Stamping Bella stamps you can obtain colour maps for the versions shown on the product packaging – go HERE to find out how to do that. Between those and the bonus colour maps featured here on the blog, you can build up a great library of colour combinations to try out with your own Copic collection.
You may remember that in one of the first Marker Geek Monday posts I shared a set of Copic Hair Combos: Marker Geek Monday Copic Hair Colouring #1 (which includes some tips along with the Copic combo sheet). Today I’ve got a few more to share with you!
You will notice that two of the combos shown are exactly the same – E42,E43,E44 – this is to demonstrate the dramatic difference in results you can get just by using the markers in a combo either in a different order or by laying down more or less ink. In these examples I simply varied how much I laid down with the darkest marker (E44). The third marker combo adds Y21 to the mix to show how the addition of another colour can also change things dramatically! Another reminder that you don’t need all the markers to achieve variety in your colouring. 🙂
Note: the skin combo I used on all of the examples in the image above was: E000,E00,E11. For more Copic Skin Combo suggestions please see my earlier post: Marker Geek Monday – Copic Marker Skin Combos.
If you try out the marker combos 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 hair colour combos with us. Let’s talk colour!
If you are posting your images using these combos, 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 as a hashtag!
Until next time, HAPPY COLOURING!
MWAH
Elaineabella
