WELCOME TO BLOGABELLA

Hi Sistahs,

Welcome to a new segment of our blog.. where each of our baberoonis will take turns trying to inspire you 🙂

Stephabella starts us off today.  This is SO exciting 🙂

Hi everyone!

Stephabella here and I’m so excited to be kicking off  DT Thursdays.

I’m always looking at my stamps to see how I can get more use out of them and how I can create different looks. One of the ways I love to do this is by stamping a portion of an image rather than the entire stamp.The projects I’m going to show you today will hopefully give you some ideas on how to do this as well as using stamps with some different mediums you might not have thought about- so let’s get started!

A while ago I made this card by using only a portion of some of my fav Uptownie stamps. I really had fun doing it so I thought I’d make another one for this tutorial.

It’s a nice and simple card to do but made using only a small proportion of each of the stamps to give a completely different look.

I used Madison Has A Margerita, Vienna On Her Vespa, Maybelline Loves Mail and Ava Loves To Celebrate. The sentiment is from Samantha And Sierra Take A Selfie.

A tip for a project like this is to stamp out on scrap paper all the images you think might work for the project

Then use the frame you’re using for the project to help you select what images might work best and to plan out what part of the image you’re going to use- bearing in mind, you might want to do some masking like I did with Perry’s pear. It also helps with placement of the frame as it’s sometimes interesting not to centre the image – like with Molly, I didn’t want any white space above her head as I wanted to show off as much of her dress as possible.

Here are the Uptownies I picked for this project all coloured up.

I used Molly Makes A Detour, Perry On Her Laptop, Brynn Has A Baby Shower and Isabelle Loves Ice Cream.

As you can see for the final image, I masked off Perry’s pear and Brynn’s other arm.

And here is the finished project…

It’s a lot of fun to use more than one gorgeous Uptownie on a card, no?

I thought I’d show you a couple of other fun projects you can make using only a portion of a stamp.

How about a tag using a part of Downtown Guy Calvin Loves His Computer?

Or what about a cute teeny tiny matching brad using the wine glass from Reilly Loves To Relax?

Or my personal favs- some cute magnets using part of Charlotte Loves To Shop and Abigail The Artist. Here they are in action on my memo board…

I hope you’ve enjoyed the first Stamping Bella DT Thursday and have maybe been inspired to look at your stamps in a fresh way!

Paulineabella! Do you sistahs remember our amazingly talented Paulineabella?  She will always have that name as she was on our Baberooni team a few years ago and I know her personally and adore her!  Pauline has agreed to inspire us with some cards on Wednesdays for May and June.  How lucky are we?

You can find Pauline’s blog here.. go and get inspired!

For today’s post, Pauline used UPTOWN GIRL TIFFANY LOVES TO TEXT

I just love this card so much.. I hope you do too!

MWAH!

Em

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Crazy Tuesdays are our way of thanking you for being such loyal and amazing sistahs/customers.   It’s a great way to have some retail therapy without breaking the bank!  Its’s a great way to collect our images and to share with friends!  It’s just an all around good thing 🙂

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oh and our stamp of the month is LULU”S GARDEN OF DAISIES!  20% off all month long 🙂

Mwah to da sistahs who Love Crazy TuesdayS!

Em

Thank you for joining me again for another colourful start to the week! If you’re just joining us you may want to check out the previous Marker Geek Monday posts HERE.

Today’s post will be the last pencil related one for a little while. My markers are starting to sulk! If pencils are your thing though, don’t worry, I will be mixing things up again soon. 😉

As promised last week, today I am exploring a more budget-friendly option for colouring with pencils. Perhaps you’re just starting out (or know someone who is) and want to try out the medium before making a larger investment, or perhaps you want a cheaper option for colouring on the go when travelling etc, or like me you have a problem with collecting colouring mediums. This post is for you!

Like me, many of you probably grew up with the Crayola brand. Coloured pencils, crayons, markers, novelty stamping markers etc. If you have children, they probably have a pack or two in their art supplies. It is easy to dismiss them as “for kids” and as such “limited”. Fact is, you can achieve some great results with cheap art supplies. It is definitely nice to have the expensive professional quality stuff, and there are definite advantages, but for colouring stamped images you can get a lot of mileage out of cheaper brands. Don’t feel that because you can’t or don’t want to afford the high end supplies that you can’t have fun or create beautiful coloured images. You can.

In the first example I limited myself to using colours from the 24 pack of Crayola coloured pencils. You can pick these up for around £3 to £5 here in the UK, and from a quick look on Amazon around $5 in the US. In the second and third examples I used pencils from the 50 pack.

I used Zest-It Pencil Blend as a solvent to blend together with blending stumps. Zest-It is an alternative to odourless mineral spirits like Gamsol.

Petunia and the Cool Chicks look pretty good, right? You can see how they look in Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils in last week’s post. The stamp is called “Nice to See You Petunia” and is available along with more Petunia Pig stamps and other adorable creatures in the Woodsies range at Stamping Bella. The “Cool Chicks” have their own section in the store, although they are becoming known for popping up all over the place to make us laugh.

As much as I love my more expensive art supplies, I think it’s also great to try and work with cheaper and more readily available alternatives (it’s also a fun challenge). The fact is, people receiving your cards aren’t likely to notice the difference, and they won’t care that you spent $5 to $10 on pencils rather than $200. The pencils don’t make the magic, you do!

MWAH!

~Elaineabella

and the theme for this week is BIRTHDAY WISHES!

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

AliceWERTZabella used EDNA loves ICE CREAM

Angelabella used EDNA WITH A CUPCAKE ON TOP

Faye-WJ-abella used UPTOWN GIRL POSH

Kerribella used PETUNIA gets a PIGGYBACK

Lesliebella used OWLIVER loves to CELEBRATE

Sandiebella used UPTOWN GIRL PAISLEY has a PREZZIE

Shelabella used TINY TOWNIE BLOSSOM loves BALLOONS

TracyBELLA used Petunia has a PARTY

TracyMACabella used LEO the LION STUFFIE

hows DAT for inspiration???

Now let’s look at da sistahood!

For our INLINKZ contributions, check out the AMAZING cards at the bottom of THIS POST!

and now for our EMAILED contributions!

How’s DAT for inspiration?

Now for next week’s theme?

use WASHI TAPE or RIBBON on your creation!

For more information on how to enter our challenge CLICK HERE.

MWAH to da sistahs who love BELLARIFIC FRIDAY!

Hiya sistahs.. I don’t know what’s with ME and WEDNESDAYS but for some reason I can’t get my act together and post  LOL..

This is our last week with PAULABELLA and her PHENOM cards and I can’t wait to share her creations today.  Dont worry.. this isn’t the last we see of Paulabella .. LOL.. I put her hard at work!

I hope these cards inspire you to create!

Here’s Paulabella’s card using MAIL CHICK stamp and CUT IT OUT bundle

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and here is her card using TINY TOWNIE HEIDI needs a HUG

what’s so cute about this stamp is that the chick giving the flower on the left is a separate stamp in the set 🙂  These chicks? I just CANNOT.

Seriously there are no words except I CAN’T EVEN.

I hope you “CAN’T EVEN” too.

Mwah

Em