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Timestamp: 2016-06-25 02:06:11 UTC

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Timestamp: 2016-06-25 02:08:24 UTC

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Timestamp: 2016-06-25 02:09:00 UTC

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Hiya sistahs,

In all honesty, each image is a labor of love.  I work very closely with our amazing, talented, beautiful, wonderful, kind, artist, Chrystal… her creativity cannot be beat.. and then you add my INSANITY and we are an amazing combo.  We’ve been working together for years, I think we finish each other’s sentences and finishing touches on images.. you should hear us squeal (well virtual squeals) when we hit the nail on the head and deem an image perfect :)… well at least perfect to us!

And then… when I share the images with our AMAZING, TALENTED, KIND, WONDERFUL, DT and I hear THEM squeal.. then it’s confirmed.. the image is good to go 🙂

Actually I have always kept the releases a “secret” from the DT.. they get their images to work on and then they are JUST as surprised as you are on sneak peek days with the images they didn’t receive.. isn’t that fun and TORTUROUS of moi?

Anyway, that’s the evolution of an image.. it starts with an ideaR.. it goes into sketch mode.. we discuss back and forth.. it becomes inky.. it gets screams, squeals and happy dances.. and then it’s made into RUBBBBBBAHHHHHH.

So for today’s sneaky peeky down memory lane we have….

beachabella v 1.0.. everybody loved beachabella!

and meet Beachabella 2.0!   SCRUMMY I say 🙂

seriously, I CAN’T EVEN.

And now for some samples?

Here’s Lesliebella’s gorgeous card!  LOVE the stripey beach bag!

and the inside 🙂

Here’s Kerribella’s card.. look how she pops on Kraft.. WOWZA!

And Elaineabella’s card?  that background?  I CANNOT and I WILL NOT.  hmph.  LOL

amazing yes?  YES!!!

Now for our next image?  She started off as “PREZZIbella”..  I wanted to sound Italian.. WHILST (I love the word WHILST) playing on the word “prezzie”.. I was SO clever 10 years ago…

Clearly, Bella’s been doing quite well financially and has become EXTREMELY generous… so now she is called GIFTABELLA.. check this sassy one out!

Seriously.. how amazing is this image?  Definitely a must have.  SO useful for every occasion!

And some samples?

Here’s Tracybella’s card

And Elaineabella’s card

*sigh*

stunningness.

And now here’s “LATTEBELLA” 1.0

Lattebella has morphed into.. WAIT FOR IT…… WAIT FOR IT….

don’ttalktomebeforemycoffeeABELLA LOL!  Seriously this is me.. TOTALLY ME.  plus a few pounds ok?  Did you HAVE to make me admit that? LOL

I LOVE HER!!!!!!  and that sentiment for a bestie?  seriously. It cannot get better.  Well it can, but I’m trying to make a point here.

Now for some samples!

Here’s Tracybella’s card

Here’s Sandiebella’s card

Here’s Kerribella’s card

and here’s Elaineabella’s card

I know I know.. you’re all saying STOP WITH THE MADNESS!!!!  But I can’t .. I’m sorry.  I have 18 bellas to share, plus an AMAZING Edna that you will not be able to take your eyes off of and some WOBBLES you cannot resist… SOOOOORRRRRRRRYYYYYYY

You’ll have to bear with this 10-year-older-BELLA. LOL

Mwah to da sistahs who are LOVING da sneak peeks!

Don’t forget to leave a comment for a chance to win one of the stamps with it’s corresponding “Cut it out” die!  WOOHOOO!

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173-LEAH P you win!	

Timestamp: 2016-06-25 02:11:56 UTC

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99- ROXANNE YOU WIN!  

Timestamp: 2016-06-25 02:13:25 UTC

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186-Jennifer SCULL YOU WIN!	

Timestamp: 2016-06-25 02:15:28 UTC

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Hiya sistahs

I LOVE LOVE LOVE reading each and every comment. makes my heart sing :).. Please leave more comments just so I know you’re there! And if you leave a comment you have a chance to win one of the stamp and die sets!  Yup you do!

The Bellas 2.0 have lots of spaces to colour.. but not as detailed as the uptown girls.. they are great for both novices and intermediate colorists.. that’s what I LOVE about these bellas!.. well, one of the things 😉

Here’s ALLBOXEDUPABELLA circa 2006

And here is ALLBOXEDUPabella 2.0.. isn’t she GORGEOUS? I just wanna POP that bow (somehow when I read that out loud it doesn’t sound like what is should LOL)

Here’s TracyMACabella’s card using AllboxedupABELLA 2.0

and the inside using the coordinating sentiment

Here’s Kerribella’s card

and here’s Elaineabella’s card

AllboxedUPABELLA will have a coordinating “CUT IT OUT DIE”.. and if you buy the stamp and die BUNDLE, you save 15 %!

Now for our NEXT BELLA?  BALLOONABELLA!

Here’s Balloonabella 1.0 Circa 2006

and here’s BALLOONAbella V. 2.o

So fresh and pretty no?

Here’s Stephabella’s card

Kerribella’s card

AkuceWERTZabella’s card

And ElaineABELLA’s card using Balloonabella

LOVE!!

Balloonabella will have a coordinating “CUT IT OUT DIE”.. and if you buy the stamp and die BUNDLE, you save 15 %!

and LAST but not LEAST for today, we have BABYCARRIAGEABELLA

Here’s Babycarriageabella Circa 2006

and now for V. 2.0

boy does she not know what she’s in for LOL.. I just love her hair and face… she’s BEEYOOTIFUL!  They all are!

Here’s Elaineabella’s card

Here’s Stephabella’s card

Babycarriageabella  will have a coordinating “CUT IT OUT DIE”.. and if you buy the stamp and die BUNDLE, you save 15 %!

Arent’ these gorgeous??

For a chance to win 1 set of rubber stamp and Cut it out die, leave a comment below.

MWAH!!!

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191-EULANDA YOU WIN!	

Timestamp: 2016-06-25 02:19:14 UTC

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14-LYNNE in NI you win!	

Timestamp: 2016-06-25 02:20:29 UTC

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38-Tamil MCDANIEL you win!	

Timestamp: 2016-06-25 02:21:35 UTC

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Hiya sistahs!  Well I have been waiting for such a long time to have this release.  TEN YEARS to be exact.  TEN YEARS!  Can you believe it’s been over TEN YEARS since Stamping Bella was born… MOREOVER TEN WHOLE YEARS since BELLA was born.

This release is to bring those of you who started this journey with me , back to where we were TEN WHOLE YEARS AGO.  I remember launching our line and how da sistahood was born and how, I guess, it must have been the right time and the right place to release some stamps with images of women we can EMPATHIZE with.. LAUGH with.. CRY with.. CELEBRATE with… it was just the right time.  We all needed da BELLA at that moment in time.   Well, ten years have passed.  We have all gotten ten years older (hmph).. we are all at different stages.. celebrating different things.. It’s CRAZY!  How does time pass THAT fast?  I am afraid I don’t have the answers but I DO remember what was happening in my life 10 years ago… I had Tyler who was 4… and Jayden was 1.. I was chasing after kidlets, trying to balance a successful crazy business.. holding up a household, trying to keep everything together.  Working 24 hours a day.. changing diapers, cooking, cleaning LOL… I was YOUNGER.. I was more resilient I find… I feel like I was a bit stronger then.. less sensitive.. I HAD A GRANDMOTHER 10 years ago.. one who I loved so deeply who I have lost since then.  I have moved 3 times.. driven different cars.. visited different places… you get the idea… Boy does time FLY.

Well this isn’t a post to make us cry.  It is a post to CELEBRATE.. to celebrate WHO we are.. WHO we have become.. It is a post to Celebrate ALL of the milestones we have been through in these past 10 years.. to celebrate the things we have achieved.

I’m already crying writing this so I am going to stop LOL.

This post and this release is to celebrate BELLA.   To introduce you to BELLA version 2.0.  Just like we have aged and become more refined, so has BELLA.  Happy 10 year Anniversary to US.  To the Sistahood.  To our NEW sistahs.. to our 10 year old sistahs.  Bella represents a little bit of all of us.  Which Bella are YOU?  Now THAT is the question.

I was once asked the question.. HOW MANY CHARACTERS CAN YOU POSSIBLY HAVE IN YOUR STAMP LINE?   and my answer always was.. I’ll let you know when we are done.  I love when I get emails.. or see people looking at a wall of our stamps saying “OMG THAT’S SOO ‘so and so'”… that reminds me of “blabla”.. That’s what it’s all about sistahs.  Our stamps represent da sistahood 🙂

I wanted to also thank my Design Team from the bottom of my heart.. making and loving making these samples for us!  And thank you to Elaineabella for working so hard coloring, making cards, AND VIDEOS for us to enjoy!!!  AMAZINGNESS

Ok enough blabla

Today we are “sneak peeking” Cosmobella, Cakeabella and I lovemypetsABELLA

In case you didn’t start the journey with us  10 years ago, here is the 2006 version of COSMOBELLA.. crazy ay?

Here is our Cosmobella V. 2.0.. isn’t she GORGEOUS???

Here are some AMAZING DROOLWORTHY samples from our amazing DT (click on the image to make it larger)

Here’s ALICEwertzABELLA’s card

Elaineabella’s card

And SANDIEBELLA’s card

All of these images will come with corresponding “CUT IT OUT” DIES!

Meet CAKEABELLA

Here’ s our 2006 version of Cakeabella

and here’s CAKEABELLA V. 2.0

and some GORGEOUS creations 🙂

Here’s FAYE-WJ-abella’s card

Here’s SHELabella’s card

here’s Elaineabella’s card

And Tracybella’s card

We never really had an I LOVEMYPETSAbella in 2006 lol but we did have PARISABELLA (named after Paris Hilton LOL)

And Finally for today, I introduce you to ILOVEMYPETSabella V 2.0

and here’s TracyBELLA’s card

and ELAINEABELLA’s card

I feel a new collection coming on…..

Wanna chance to win a Stamp and CUT IT OUT DIE set?

Leave a comment below and at the end of the sneak peeks we will pick 3 winners for the 3 different sets!

Mwah to da sistahs who walked down memory lane with me 🙂

Oh and P.S. ALL OF THESE IMAGES and CUT IT OUT DIES  will be available on JUNE 25th for purchase!

Em

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Not only is it bellarific friday .. but it’s the EVE of the BEGINNING of our 7 day torture sneakpeek-APALOOZA.. (yes I made that up).. You just wait til you see what you are in for LOL.. Sneak peeks begin TOMORROW all the way til my 44th (YIKES) birthday on June 25th. .. Are you all ready??

Ok now for this week’s bellarific Friday theme:

a GORGEOUS inspiration picture

I would love to be right next to the furthest rock in the back…is that too much to ask?  hmph

Ok Let’s see what our BABEROONIS came up with shall we?

AliceWERTZabella used Tiny Townie RACHEL loves the RAIN

Our JUNE Bellarific Friday guest designer CARLABELLA used Harry loves HAPPY MAIL stuffie

Faye-WJ-abella used Uptown girls VICTORIA and JULIETTE

Kerribella used UPTOWN GIRL MOLLY makes a DETOUR

Lesliebella used HARRY loves HAPPY MAIL STUFFIE

and the inside

Sandiebella used SNOW PALS

Shelabella used UPTOWN GIRL WINNIE sits by the WINDOW

Stephabella used OWLIVER loves to CELEBRATE

TracyMACabella used Tiny Townie HEIDI needs a hug.. lookie at the little “cut it out” die of the chicklet giving the flower.. LOOOOVE!

how’s DAT for gorgeousness?  hmmmm?

Now for da sistahood!

Take a look at the bottom of this post for our INLINKZ contributahs!

And now for next week’s theme?

a MOJOBELLA sketchypoo!

see you tomorrow sistahs! Can’t wait to finally share!!

MWAH!

Hi Everyone!  Tracy here.  Today I am sharing a quick and easy technique to make a watercolor  background.  You can use whatever watercolor inks/paints you have but today I am using Tim Holtz Distress Inks.

Here is what you need to get started.  I’m using Budding Chick Stamp and Budding Chick “Cut it Out” Die. You will need a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of watercolor paper. For backgrounds I use a cheap paper – Artist Loft. For Images I use Canson or Strathmore. The inks that I used are: Tim holtz Distress Inks in Broken China, Faded Jeans, Peeled Paint and Bundled Sage.  You can use the pads or reinkers. If using the pads just stamp onto a piece of plastic or something non-porous so that you can lift the ink with your brush.

Because I dry my paper between layers – I have this piece of board I use so the heat doesn’t damage my table. You can do whatever you normally would do.  I then tape the edges down. This helps in keeping the paper flat and not getting wonky when adding water to it. You can use painters tape, I just use some old washi tape.  I like washi because it doesn’t tear the paper.

After you have your paper adhered, wet the paper with plain, clean water. Then lift some of your Peeled Paint ink and start dabbing onto your paper to create the “grass area”. Do the same above with the Broken China.

After you add in your inks – heat your paper to dry it. You could just let it dry naturally but I’m antsy and when I work on something, I want to complete it. If you do not let your layers dry in between your inks will get muddy!! You have to dry in between layering.

Now you can go on top and add in a couple of dots of the Faded Jean and Bundled Sage. If it’s too harsh just add some water to the top and let it spread out a bit. You can also take a paper towel and dab it.

On my final background you can see that there are couple “bleached” out spots. After I added my 2nd layer of colors, I dried it again.  Then I took my brush, added some plain water to it and flicked it onto my paper.  Let it sit for 10-30 seconds and then took a paper towel and dab the background.

Now onto Coloring the Budding Chick. Below are the colors I used. Sorry for the blurry pic….my camera did not want to cooperate!

After your image is all colored you will then cut it out using the Budding Chicks “Cut it out” Die.

Add some foam squares to the back to “pop” it up.

I finished off my card by cutting out the background with a stitched border. Then used a heavy adhesive, like scor-tape, all around the edges to adhere my background. Watercolor paper can get a little wonky, taping it down as we did in the first step will help though!  Just use a good strong adhesive.
Next I added a small flagged sentiment and finished it off with a button.

Here is the final card:

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Paulineabella!

Last week I was unable to post as I was travelling from Montreal back to Toronto.. so TODAY you get 2 amazing INSPIRING stunningly gorgeous cards which will want to make you RUN… i say RUN …. to your craftrooms!

Here, Paulineabella used I’LL always have your back STUFFIES... I mean.. that BOW?  the BLUSH on da ELLIE’s CHEEK?  I cannot.  nope.. wont.  It’s so gorgeous!!

and HERE Paulineabella used EDNA with a CUPCAKE on top.. SERIOUSLY?  I can’t SQUARED.  Those dimples in da knees? A little TOO close for comfort #ifyouknowwhatImean  .. LOVE

I so hope that these cards inspire.  Make you wanna colour.. craft.. tear paper.. cut paper.. stick embellishments on something 🙂  Because that’s the effect it has on MOI.

speaking of MOI…

MWAH!

Em