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Hiya sistahs!

I love Fridays.. and guess what other day I am loving this week.. SUNDAY!!  First because it’s Valentines day… and SECOND.. because it’s the first day of our sneak peeks for the RELEASE!!! WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!   So get your typing finger WELL rested to write me comments for a chance to win the stamps featured.  This is gonna be a fun release.. lots of new ideas.. a new character… LOVE!

Now for this week’s Bellarific Friday we had a MOJOBELLA sketch!

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

AliceWERTZabella used UPTOWN GIRL MONIQUE loves MACARONS

Angelabella used FOREVER MY ALWAYS

Danabella used PEACHES the STUFFIE

and the inside

Kerribella used UPTOWN GIRL LUCILLE sends her LOVE

Lesliebella used TINY TOWNIE PENELOPE has a PENCIL

Stephabella used UPTOWN GIRL MACKENZIE loves MUSIC

Sandiebella used HARRY has HAPPY MAIL stuffie

Shelabella used Chicks with a SPRINKLE on top

Tracybella used LEO the STUFFIE

TracyMACABELLA used Marmalade the Stuffie

DROOLWORTHY?  I think so!!!

Now let’s check out our INLINKZ Sistahs who contributed at the bottom of THIS POST… LOVE THEM ALL!

and now for our emailed contributing sistahs 🙂

How amazing are these creations???  I just love and appreciate that when you sit down to create, you think of lil ole us 🙂

MWAH!

Now for next week’s theme?

to make a 1-2-3 card – 1 Stamp 2 Papers and 3 embellishments

use any current Stamping bella image in your creation and you’re done!  For more information on how to enter, click HERE

mwah to my sistahs who love Fridays… oh and sundays.. oh.. and…

Hiya sistahs!

Just wanted to do a little review of what I have posted on social media this week 🙂  I know that some of you refuse to dive into the GIANT RABBIT HOLE of instagram and FB and Pinterest and I really don’t blame you sometimes LOL.. but sometimes I do.. I mean don’t you know what you’re missing? LOL.. just kidding.. you’re probably MUCH MORE PRODUCTIVE than I certainly am!

First I wanted to show you an amazing card I found on instagram yesterday.. I mean I flipped.. first because it’s one of my favorite stamp sets because it’s SO ME.. and second of all, it’s just a wonderful, simple and beautiful card.  Sometimes we don’t need to be fancy.  I quickly hijacked Jenny’s IG post and DEMANDED.. ahem asked nicely if I could share her card and she said yes!  You can find all of Jenny’s work on her BLOG

I am ALWAYS looking for cards.. so if you are on instagram, simply tag me @stampingbella or use #stampingbella in your post and I will look for you!

Such a sweetheart!

Here’s Jenny’s card using one of the CHICKS WHO COULDN’T EVEN .. Why do I relate to these chicks so much.. something’s wrong with this picture 🙂

Thank you Jenny for making such a gorgeous card!!

I also posted a STUNNING card by Faye Wynn Jones..

Her work is OUT OF THIS WORLD and not that I’m giving away anything.. but you MAY just see more of her in the near future.. read it as you will 🙂

Here is her card using our CLOSEUPS- CLINK.  I LOVE our closeups!  The intention of these stamps was to just zone in on a moment on our lives.. a closeup of a moment, if you will.  And that’s what I love so much about them.  This card can be used for almost any occasion!  Birthday, retirement, promotion…. you name it 🙂  Someone mentioned that they used it for a divorce card.. hmmmmm. LOL.

Faye brought this card to life in my opinion.  GORGEOUS!

And to see more of our CLOSEUPS.. you can look HERE

From our BELLA VAULT, I also posted a gorgeous card by Sandiebella used UPTOWN GIRL SUNNY is Stylish

So that’s our Thursday recap 🙂

I hope you enjoyed it and are RUNNING to your craft spot to make a card.. stamp.. scribble.. SOMETHING! LOL.

Bellarific Friday is tomorrow and it is not too late to create a card using this week’s sketch!

you can email me your card or you can simply add it to our INLINKZ spread at the bottom of this post

MWAHHHHH

Em

Paulabella again!

She is up to her antics… and her amazing handle of the prismacolor pencil….LOL

Here she used our MILTON.  How the heck does she make our images look so real?  how are those cheeks so EDIBLE.. HOW?????    *sigh*

and that’s our daily dose of inspiration.  Hope it makes you run to your craft space and CREATE!

Don’t forget this friday’s Bellarific Friday challenge and participate!  You can either email me or ADD it to INLINKZ on THIS POST!

the challenge due friday is the sketch which you can find on the same post mentioned above!

Hope you enjoy these little inspirations on Wednesday… I know I love writing them 🙂

Oh and P.S.  SNEAK PEEKS For our new release starts this VALENTINES DAY!!! Sunday!  36 imagesof pure awesomeness…  and dies too!! Stay tuned!

Release day is Feb 23!! WOOHOOOOO

MWAH!!

Em

WOOHOO sistahs.. we had a busy week togethah and I LOVED EVER MINUTE of it.. I hope you did too!

First I would like to announce our JANUARY $25.00 CONTRIBUTION WINNAH!

LINDA C you win  using I’LL ALWAYS HAVE YOUR BACK stuffies in January via INLINKZ! please email me (emily@stampingbella.com) and in the subject line please put “JANUARY BF WINNER)

here’s Linda’s card

Since this is the FIRST Bellarific Friday of the month, we have our BELLARIFIC BABES showcasing our Stamp of DA month.. Uptown girl Lucille sends her love!

Lucille is 20% off all month long!

This post is meant to inspire you and show you different ways to colour and place Lucille on a card!  All of these styles and techniques, of course, can be used with ANY of our stamps!

I hope you love this feature on our blog as much as I do 🙂  It’s so much fun to see everything posted togethah!

The theme for this week was also LOVE IS IN THE AIR for our sistahood.

Ready? SET?  lets DROOOOL!

Here’s AliceWERTZabella’s card

Angelabella’s card

Danabella’s card

Kerribella’s card

Lesliebella’s card

Sandiebella’s card

Shelabella’s card

Stephabella’s card

Tracybella’s card

TracyMACabella’s card

SEE?  I told you you would drool.. TOLLLLLLD YOOUUUUUUU

Now for our amazing SISTAHOOD!!

Check out our INLINKZ contributions for this week  at the bottom of THIS POST

and now for our amazing EMAILED contributions!

*sighhhh***  PHENOMALISH!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE our sistahood.  And if THIS isn’t enough inspiration for you and you WANT to be THROWN OVER THE EDGE (don’t tell me I didn’t warn you)… you NEED to join our FB sistahood group.. OMG.  I’m warning you though.. It’s CRAZY in there.. the cards the sistahs are sharing are OVER THE TOP AMAZING!!  If you are not part of FB.. I will ask permission of those submitting in there if I can share some of their creations here!  They are BEEYOOTIFUL.

Ok now for next week’s theme?

A MOJOBELLA SKETCHYPOO!  I LOVE these sketches specifically designed by JULEE from VERVE for us!! Amazing! you can also see the rest of her card sketches on MOJO MONDAYS blog

You can check out HOW TO ENTER our challenge HERE.

you can also submit your entry via INLINKZ on this post BELOW!

If you participate you have a chance to win $25 in a bella voucher.. I announce winnahs on the first friday of the month for the previous month!

Mwah mwah mwah sistahs!  See you monday!

and I mean TEENY TINY.. LOL so I added something else 🙂

Because we were so busy with our Crazy Tuesday sale and our new WWW post, I didn’t post much on social media.. TOO BEEEZY

Here’s one card by Paulineabella that I did post and I hope you love it as much as I do!

in this card Paulineabella used our CHICKS RULE stamp..

isnt it adorable??

I also wanted to show you one of my other collections (and this is just a portion of it LOL… WASHI TAPE.. omg.  I remember when I brought washi tape into my retail store about 3-5 years before ANYONE knew what it was :).. and every since then I have been smitten.

One of my favorite local Etsy shops I love to support is a shop called PAPER PLUS CLOTH

Rowena has a GORGEOUS shop with such GORGEOUS tapes .. i use them on my cards and in all of my journals..  She is away until Feb 6th but put your email address in the link I gave you above and you will receive an email when she is back and then drool all over your computers 🙂

Take a look at my WONDER WASHI WHEEL! I put them all on an embroidery hoop so I can see them all and just tear where I need to tear.  I smart, no?

A VERY small post but it was packed with inspiration 🙂

Mwah!

Em

well it’s WONDERFUL WEDNESDAYS WITH… of course!  you couldn’t guess that?  COME ON sistahs.  Seriously. LOL

My goal for 2016 was to communicate with my sistahs more.. and I have created a new WEDNESDAY “activity” for us!

Every month we will feature a new card every Wednesday by our featured WWW guest designers.. some will be featured for multiple months.. some for single months.. it depends on what my girls could commit to.  I have now booked the year so we will be having LOTSA LOTSA fun on wednesdays together!! WOOHOO

SO our WWW designer for this month is….. drumroll please…….  Our very own loveable and squooshable PAULABELLA.  Paulabellla started with us and has been a personal BFF for many many years.  She used to come and teach at our amazing store and she is just one special sistah. (I made her commit to about 3 months LOL..I woulda forced her for 12 but felt cheeky)… Paula makes MAGIC with her favorite method of colouring.. PRISMACOLOR pencils and Odorless mineral spirits and a paper stump.  MAGIC I tell ya!

Today’s card by Paulabella is using TINY TOWNIE PENELOPE has a pencil.  I hope you enjoy it and get inspired by it as much as I do 🙂

Mwah to da sistahs who now love WEDNESDAYSSSSS!

Em