WELCOME TO BLOGABELLA

Here’s a little bit of weekly inspiration by our amazing guest designer (yet she’s not considered a guest at all) PAULIENABELLA! (she will always keep that name as she was a baberooni and will always remain close to my heart!)

Seriously I CANNOT with this card.  I simply CANT.  can you? LOL

Paulineabella used our gardening chicks 🙂

mwah!

Monday again! Seriously, I’m getting a little freaked out about the pace at which these Mondays are coming around. Somebody stop the ride, I want to get off for a minute!

 

If you’re joining us for the first time you may want to check out the previous Marker Geek Monday posts HERE.

 

This week I’ve got a little video for you. You can watch me colour one of our recent releases, the lovable and totally squishable EDNA. She’s got her own section on the website, because y’know, she’s a bit of a diva. 😉 Today’s image is MEET EDNA.

Here’s a bonus colour map so you can colour along! (See HERE for instructions on obtaining the main colour maps for Stamping Bella images.)

 

 

I used one of my “go to” hair colour combos, which you can find in this post HERE along with a few others!

 

For past Stamping Bella colouring videos, you can check out this THIS PLAYLIST over on my Marker Geek Youtube Channel!

 

Have a fantastic, colourful week. Remember to experiment, then pop back and share your results here with us on the blog or over on Instagram using #markergeekmonday ! We love to hear from you, so don’t be shy.

 

MWAH!

 

~Elaineabella

YAY!! I LOVE FRIDAYS!!

And off I go to Montreal again to visit my dad for the long weekend

this week’s challenge was an inspiration photo

SOOOO pretty and can be interpreted in so many different ways… the wedding theme.. the floral theme.. the colors.. the stance.. you name it, it works!

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

AliceWERTZabella used TINY TOWNIE BONNIE loves BOWS stamp and CUT IT OUT Bundle

Danabella used our CLOSEUPS “I DO”

FAYE-W-J-ABELLA used UPTOWN GIRL MELANIE THE MODERN BRIDE

Kerribella used TINY TOWNIE BONNIE LOVES BOWS

Lesliebella used closeups “I DO”

Sandiebella used our MASON JAR OF FLOWERS STAMP and CUT IT OUT BUNDLE

Shelabella used TINY TOWNIE BONNIE loves BOWS

Stephabella used UPTOWN GIRL BRIGITTE the BRIDE

Tracybella used our MASON JAR OF HEARTS stamp and CUT IT OUT BUNDLE

TRACYMACabella used UPTOWN GIRL BRIGITTE the BRIDE

These are soooo BEEYOOTIFUL arent they?  *DROOLWORTHY* I say!

Here are some cards from our SISTAHOOD!

 

 

Such gorgeous cards.. so little time LOL

Now for NEXT WEEK’S CHALLENGE

a MOJOBELLA sketch!

 

Mwah to da sistahs who LOVE Bellarific FRIDAY

Lesliebella!

It’s my turn for Design Team (DT) Thursday and today I’m going to show you how I combined two different Stamping Bella images to make a “new” image.  This was a special order birthday card for a little girl who loves purple and does many types of dance including ribbon dancing.

I combined two stamp sets to make this card for her. 

 

(Tiny Townie Fairy Best Friends)

and 

 

(Tiny Townie Tiny Dancers)

I coloured up the left Tiny Townie Fairy with copic markers.  I used the matching Cut It Out and then cut off the other Fairy so I was left with this image

Then I coloured up one of the ribbons from Tiny Townie Dancers and fussy cut it out.  This is what it looked like.

 

I added it over the Fairy’s hand to cover up the fact that I’d cut off the other fairy – LOL.  I popped up both the image and the ribbon for some dimension.  Here’s a closer look

I love making custom order cards for people and combining different Stamping Bella images makes it easy!

 

I’ve made many cards combining images and sentiments.  Here are just a few

Make a Wish Hoppy Poppy image with partial sentiment from Milton

Uptown Girl Curly Clara Needs Your Address with sentiment from Uptown Girl Sunny is Stylish.

Pampered image with sentiment from Uptown Girl Serena Has a Sign.  (This was a thank you for a spa gift card I received)

Uptown Girl Fiona Loves Flowers image with sentiment from Uptown Girl Brittany the Birthday Girl.

 

I hope you’ve enjoyed this DT Thursday and you look at your stamps differently now and find ways to combine images.

 

Cheerio…..Leslie

Paulineabella!

How stunning is this card using our MEET EDNA stamp.. Seriously, I CANNOT.  I need to smush Edna and shove her in my mouth.. that’s how cute she is LOL.

Hope you love her ALMOST as much as I do 🙂

 

MWAH!

 

Time for another Marker Geek Monday! Hopefully a splash of colour will help banish the Monday blues. 😉

 

If you’re joining us for the first time you may want to check out the previous Marker Geek Monday posts HERE.

 

This week I’d like to encourage you to play with your markers (or other colouring mediums) and see how you can achieve variety and interest in your colouring with a limited palette.

 

 

As you can see, I’ve been having fun with MONIQUE LOVES MACARONS, one of the fun Stamping Bella Uptown Girl images. This one is perfect for testing out how using markers from one main “combo” in different ways can create different results. On each stamped image I have taken one main Copic combo and used markers from it on each macaron to create an attractive, eye-catching stack.

 

I’d also like to remind you that your results with the same combos are likely to be different. The look you achieve with your markers will vary depending on how heavily you apply the ink, how much you layer, the order in which you use the markers in a combo, the paper you use etc. This is the beauty of Copic markers – you can build a great deal of depth and variety of colour with quite a limited selection of markers. So, if your collection is still in the early stages, or you are just about to get started, don’t be disheartened! You can have a lot of fun with less markers than you might think. 😉

 

If you don’t have the colours I’ve used, grab a combo of markers you do have and try something similar with those.

 

Top Tips:

• If there is a big gap between some of your markers (or they just don’t blend nicely), like Y11 and YR23 in my examples below, use the “tip to tip” blending method to help blend. This technique involves picking up some of the ink from your darker marker on the nib of the lighter marker, and using that as your mid-tone to blend on the paper. You can either pick the ink up directly from the marker nib, or scribble some ink onto an acrylic block first.
• If you have difficulty creating the depth you would like in shadow areas, use your greys to help out (see HERE for some tips on greys).

 

 

 

There’s something quite satisfying about seeing all those colourful macaron stacks! Another great image to play with would be the MACARON BOUQUET stamp.

 

Have a fantastic, colourful week. Remember to experiment, then pop back and share your results here with us on the blog or over on Instagram using #markergeekmonday ! We love to hear from you, so don’t be shy.

 

MWAH!

 

~Elaineabella