WELCOME TO BLOGABELLA

and since it has been  such a rough couple of weeks, I wanted to celebrate something happy with my sistahs!  SOOOOO… We are having a 25% off the whole store sale today through the weekend 🙂

code to use at checkout is : bella42

Enjoy my sistahs!

MWAH MWAH MWAH

Em

So sorry for the delay sistahs,

I received a call early Wednesday morning from my mom that my grandmother had peacefully passed away.  Needless to say I was devastated.. grabbed my son and drove 6 hours to be with my family.  Needless to say it was one of the saddest weeks of this Bella’s life.   I just got home last night hence the delay in this post.  Please bear with me through this difficult time :(.  I should be back to my old self soon.

For this weeks challenge we had a sketch

These put such a smile on my face 🙂 thank you baberoonis and da sistahood!

and for our sistahood

and for this friday’s theme: an INSPIRATION CHALLENGE  …

use color, theme whatever you wish to inspire you for this week’s card!

And It’s funny because there will be a stamp coming soon that looks VEHERRRRY similar to this and my baberoonis never even saw it!

Mwah to da sistahs who are patiently waiting for da bella to be back to “normal”

Em

Hiya sistahs!  So today is actually friday and I actually found a half an hour to spend time with you :).. It makes me so happy.  Today I am picking my kids up early as Tyler has a hockey tournament.. so we will be traveling back and forth all weekend.  I recall Ryan telling me hockey was over and beginning again in september.  UMMMM… notsomuch.  hmph.

I thought I would share an image with you which will be for sale soon 🙂  Her name is SERENA and she’s obviously holding a SIGN.. LOL.. Im so clever when I name them no?

Anyway I thought I would fill her sign with words.. and I may change the words up from day to day.. we will seee. but she is inspiring me.. and I am going with it!

isn’t she cute??  I love her 🙂

so stay tuned for announcements and teases beginning for our next release  k?

Ok for this week’s bellarific friday is a ONE LAYER card

Le

Now tell me.  ARE THESE NOT OUTSTANDING?  I would curse between the OUT and the STANDING but decided to control myself 🙂

Now for da amazing sistahood!  If you don’t see your card here, please email it again.. some things disappear into cyberspace

Loved this challenge and I KNOW that it was challenging to use only one layer!  Next week I will announce some winnahs for contributors!

Next week’s challenge .. A SKETCHYPOO!

Can’t wait to see your creations!

Mwah!

t’s see what our baberoonis came up with shall we?

Sistahs,  Elaineabella and I have put our heads together and we have come up with a FANTABULOUS ideaR… wanna hear?  k.

why it’s Colourmaps of course!

We will slowly be introducing colourmaps which will be included with every current image we have.. this IS a work in progress and right now we have  UPTOWN GIRL REILLY and UPTOWN GIRLS the THREE AMIGAS available.  These colourmaps will be available to those purchasing the images as of today.  I will update in the descriptions of the stamps if there is a colourmap included or not.  We will also be offering different downloadable colourmaps for a nominal fee in the near future.

Ok.  I took a breath… and now I will tell you what a COLOURMAP is.

Throughout my almost 10 years of Stamping Bella I have always gotten the questions.. how do I colour these images?  What do you recommend?  Copics?  how do they work?  what colours do I use?  what colours blend together?  HELPPPP MEEEEE…

Well Elaineabella and I have solved this problem 🙂

and this is what a colourmap is

So what you will receive with the stamp is a copic “guide” with blendable colours and inspiration for blends in conjunction with our images!  Seriously.  This is brilliant.  no?

Oh and you will notice we have a new logo :)… There is a new website coming soon with a great new look.. easy navigation along with a release and some amazing news and product…

so bear with us sistahs during this CUH-razy time… we are still here making some magic happen

here’s a closeup of our new logo coming soon to a theatre near you 🙂

Making cards is cool sistahs.  Really cool.

mwah

Em

Would love to hear what you think about this idea

Em

Oh sistahs.. had a rough week. My computer crashed.. took 2 days to fix.. was out of my sorts.. was stressed.. you wouldn’t have wanted to listen to what I had to say LOL.

But here I am.. alive and typing on my HEIMLICHED (sp?) computer ready to post some juicy inspiration.

Our theme for this week was a sketchypoo

Let’s see how our baberoonis interpreted this shall we?

LOVE LOVE LOVE these cards!

And now for our PHENOM.. AMAZING.. DEDICATED… and LOYAL sistahs!

Just Love this week’s roundup!

Now for next week (really This friday coming) the theme is….

ONE LAYER WONDER… so you are allowed only ONE layer on your cards.. have fun with this!

Mwah to da sistahs who will play along!

Em

Can you HEAR me from where you are???   It’s early Saturday morning.. the kidlets are still sleeping (how did that happen?).. and I am in my woman cave typing to you 🙂

Hope your week was FAB  and I PROMISE you there is a reason why I have been so quiet on the blog.. cuz I am SO BUSY preparing for something HUUUUUGE!  I love to keep my sistahs in suspense :).  If you haven’t already “liked” our page on facebook, please do.. I try to post inspiration every day.. and I love to share sistahs’ cards and love when sistahs post their creations to our page!

Now for this week’s theme we had an inspiration sketch which was SO gorgeous.  I have to thank Danabella and my whole team for these amazing challenges we have weekly.  It takes a LOT of time and effort and I so appreciate 🙂

ok the sketch *ahem*

Let’s see what our Baberoonis have come up with shall we?  I love seeing how everyone interprets the photo!

Are these LUSCIOUS or what???  hmph.  I wanna be half as talented as these baberoonis.. they continue to make me blush and make me feel so humbled with how beautifully they represent my stamps.

And now for da SISTAHOOD who also continue to amaze me every week!

Gorgeous roundup this week sistahs!

Next week’s theme? a SKETCHYPOO!

mwah mwah mwah to my sistahs who will participate!

and mwah to those who don’t too 🙂

Em