June 18, 2016
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COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED. WINNERS ANNOUNCED BELOW. Please email me emily@stampingbella.com with what you won in the SUBJECT LINE and your snail mail address!
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Winnah of COSMOBELLA CUT IT OUT “DIE” AND RUBBER STAMP BUNDLE GOES TO
Here are your random numbers:
191-EULANDA YOU WIN!
Timestamp: 2016-06-25 02:19:14 UTC
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WINNAH OF CAKEABELLA CUT IT OUT “DIE” and RUBBER STAMP BUNDLE GOES TO
Here are your random numbers:
14-LYNNE in NI you win!
Timestamp: 2016-06-25 02:20:29 UTC
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WINNAH OF ILOVEMYPETSABELLA CUT IT OUT “DIE” AND RUBBER STAMP BUNDLE GOES TO
Here are your random numbers:
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
June 17, 2016 10 Comments
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!
June 16, 2016 6 Comments
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:
Thanks for stopping by!
June 15, 2016 8 Comments
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
June 13, 2016 11 Comments
Time for your weekly dose of Marker Geekery! 🙂
Today’s Marker Geek Monday post is a bit of a follow up to last week’s post, in which I talked a little about keeping things simple and also about finding comparable colours in other marker brands. This week I am revisiting the same image ROW OF BUNNY WOBBLES, keeping the colouring simple again and also providing some colour matching info for Copic Markers & Pro Markers.
Winsor & Newton ProMarkers happen to be one of the brands of marker that I own a selection of, alongside my Copic markers. Since I had a little difficulty finding colour comparisons between the two for last week’s post, I thought I would spend a little time playing with the markers and come up with some suggestions of my own. I don’t own a complete set of ProMarkers, so this information is based on the selection I do have available. I have created a colour match chart which you will find at the end of this post.
ProMarker Colour Map
A few observations I made while testing out the ProMarkers and colouring the ROW OF BUNNY WOBBLES image:
ProMarker & Copic Marker Colour Match Suggestions
Here is a handy reference chart I came up with based on my comparisons of the ProMarkers I had available with my Copic marker collection. Please bear in mind that the appearance of colours will be affected by a number of factors, including the tone of the paper you colour on and your colouring style. As such, these are suggestions based on my own observations, which I hope you will find helpful.
Other Alcohol Based Marker Brands
As soon as I can, I will be working on some similar information for other marker brands that I have available to me, so please watch this space!
Spectrum Noir users may find THIS CHART created by Corinne Jones and Irene Sherman useful!
Thank you for joining me again this Monday! I hope I’ve helped inject a little colour into your day. Do get in touch to let Emily and I know how you are enjoying this post series! Drop us a comment below, or tag your colouring pics on Instagram with #markergeekmonday so we can check them out.
NOTE: Next week Marker Geek Monday will be taking a little break, but don’t worry, there will be plenty of colouring inspiration as the June 2016 release previews will be happening! Make sure you join us starting on Saturday 18th June, you definitely won’t want to miss out. 😉
MWAH!
Elaineabella aka Marker Geek
June 10, 2016 4 Comments
Ohh what a week.. let’s hope next week is bettah shall we? LOL
Hope you’re all doing well!
I do have some good news… the good news is that we will be starting SNEAK PEEKS for our new release on JUNE 18th! yeppers.. and our release day will be my BIRFDAY (what could be a better present to me) on June 25th. I think You will be AMAZED.. and NOSTALGIC at this release.. to say the least. I’m not giving any other hints.. n’uh uh.. nope. NO WAY HOSE-AY. don’t bug. cuz I WILL NOT cave. LOL.. ok maybe I will at some point.. not sure… time will tell 🙂
Ok enough blabla
This week’s Bellarific Friday theme was a MOJOBELLA SKETCHYPOO
Let’s see what our AMAZING BABEROONIS came up with shall we?
AliceWERTZAbella used TINY TOWNIE PENELOPE and her PENCIL
our JUNE guest designer Carlabella used Tiny Townie ANABELLE needs your ADDRESS
Danabella used GARDENING CHICKS
FAYE-WJ-abella used TINY TOWNIE BREE loves BUTTERCREAM
Kerribella used MACARON BOUQUET
Lesliebella used TINY TOWNIE MELISSA loves MOVIES
cut it out and stamp bundle!
Sandiebella used UPTOWN GIRL SABRINA loves the SPA
Shelabella used TINY TOWNIE HAYLEY the SUPERHERO
Stephabella used THE CHOIR
Tracybella used TINY TOWNIE HEIDI needs a HUG
TracyMACabella used THE STUFFIE GANG
SOOOO GORGEOUS!!!
check out the BOTTOM OF THIS POST to see our INLINKZ contributors!
and now for next week’s theme?
An INSPIRATION PHOTO!
use any of the colors.. the sandy beach.. the rocks.. anything that inspires you from this GORGEOUS photo.. I wanna be there. hmph.
mwah!
