WELCOME TO BLOGABELLA

Well sistah’s if you follow me on FB you will know that we were coming to Florida for March break.  My DARLINNNGNG husband advised me that driving to Florida was on his bucket list.. how could I say no?  So on the third day in the car.. a couging achy Tyler and a splitting headache, I asked him if we are done with this driving nonsense.. LOL.. he said YES.. it’s now done and he’s happy… Until next year LOL.. There are certainly some advantages.. the biggest one being I DONT HAVE TO GO TO THE AIRPORT… there’s nothing I dislike more than airports.. oh and planes.. oh and people coughing and throwing up on planes.. Ok that’s another story.  LOL.  We are here safe and sound and trying to forget about the drive.. it’s kinda like childbirth no?

Ok Bellarific Friday this week was an inspiration sketch!

 

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

I wanted to give a big WELCOME to our newest babe STEPHABELLA hill.. she is an amazing designah.. so proud to have her!!

Marybella is stepping down from our team and we wish her lots and lots of luck  in her future endeavors!  We will miss you !!

Sandiebella is lost in her craft room reorganizing LOL.. I cant wait to have her back!!

Now for da sistahood!

gorgeousness!!!

now for next week’s theme?

A sketchypoo

Hope you have a great week sistahs!  Follow us on Facebook for daily inspiration!  Post your creations on Pinterest and if I select it and feature it on facebook you can win a $10 voucher!

just tag it Stamping Bella

Mwah mwah feverish mwah

Em

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hiya sistahs.. Hope you had a great week!  I have to thank each and every one of you for the AMAZING reception to our last release.. this has been INSANE (in a good way).. and I am GOING insane (not so in a good way LOL).. Haven’t slept in 2 weeks.. trying to burn the midnight oil to get da stampies to da sistahs before I go away on Tuesday for our March Break trip.. There are NOT enough hours in a day but I will not sleep until everything has been shipped.  I will almost promise that 🙂

So now for this week’s theme.. a SKETCHYPOO!

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

here we goooo!

Is that a ROUNDUP or WHAT?  OMG.. gorgeousness!

Now for the phenom sistahood!

Next week’s theme is an INSPIRATION CHALLENGE!  use colors, shapes.. anything that inspires you from this photo into a card or project using one of our stamps!

Mwah Mwah Mw (too tired to finish the word.. LOL)

Em

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was supposed to be on Monday but I just couldn’t wait :).. HOWEVER, I do need to tell you that the RUBBAH has not arrived yet.  The truck is on it’s way with 9 GIGANTIC boxes FULL 🙂

So if this release is anything that I can anticipate, it’s gonna be a BIG one and I wanted you to get your orders in so I know what I am dealing with and if I need to order another 9 GINORMOUS boxes LOL.  So place your orders as soon as you can so I can gauge what I need.. k? k. LOL.. I know I am a bit bossy :).. I will promise to keep you posted about the volumes and if there are delays .. so PLEASE be patient with me sistahs.. ok?  And if for some reason you are in a hot little rush, Please email me.  That’s what I am here for 🙂

THE WINNAHS OF THE SETS will be announced on top of the last 11 blog posts.  SO PLEASE check for your names on each post to see if you are a winnah.  IF YOU ARE A WINNAH, please email me with your snail mail address and as soon as they come in, they will be sent out.. AND if you are anticipating placing an order along with your win, just email me to match those up OK?  bossy pants again here.  LOL.

Also if you are in the UK, our very own ELAINEABELLA is selling our stamps so it may be easier to purchase them from her!  You can find them here or email her and she will take care of you 🙂

Ok HERE WE GOOOOOO.. the moment we’ve all been waiting for…. (the names of the stamps will be highlighted .. so click on them to find them to purchase)

Let’s start with the UPTOWNIES

UPTOWN GIRLS BEATRICE AND BARBARA

Uptown girl ABIGAIL THE ARTIST

Uptown girl MARCELLA goes to the MASQUERADE

and da WINNAH IS:

UPTOWN GIRL JAYDEN LOVES TO JOURNAL

 

UPTOWN GIRL PAISLEY has a PREZZIE

UPTOWN GIRL LILY LOVES LAUNDRY

UPTOWN GIRL MAYBELLINE LOVES MAIL

UPTOWN GIRLS PAIGE AND PEGGY pour some TEA

 

AND NOW FOR OUR NEW CONCEPT.. THE CLOSEUPS!

THE RIGHT SHOES

and BIG ROCK

 

FLOWER FOR A TRUE FRIEND

and NOW FOR CHRISTINE GROVE’S COLLECTION

SNOOKUMS

SENIOR-ITA BEVERLY loves the rain

SENIORITA GLADYS the SUPERHERO

NOW FOR OUR MIXED MEDIA STAMPS

 

THE PERFECT SCRIBBLES

FULL CIRCLE background

FRAMED NUMBERS

FLOORPLAN

AND NOW for our amazing JOURNALING/PROJECT LIFE/DOCUMENTED LIFE/SMASHBOOK/DIARY/AGENDA stamps LOL

PLANNER ESSENTIALS SET #1

BLABBITY BLA set

THOUGHT BUBBLES SET

LIFE DOCUMENTED SET

CURRENTLY set

 

ARE THESE THE MOST PHENOM STAMPS EVAH?  LOL.. I can’t help it.. I just love each and every one of them.. SERIOUSLY.

And I SO hope you do too.  I hope for you to start journaling and mixed media and I PROMISE to do some videos soon to help inspire you.

Hope you love them as much as I do 🙂

Now for BELLARIFIC FRIDAY! PHEW.. I am ZONKED  LOL

This week’s theme was to use WASHI TAPE or RIBBON on your cards..

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

 

HOW STUNNING ARE THESE???

and now for our SISTAHOOD!

 

PHEW I am POOPED!! I wanted to get this up before I had to run to the dentist and to get weighed.. DOUBLE WHAMMY BLECHNESS LOL

But at least I have these images to keep my spirits high!

Hope you enjoyed the last 2 weeks as much as I did!  I think we all bonded 🙂 I love my sistahood!

Have a great weekend sistahs and BE CRAFTY!!!

NEXT WEEKS THEME is a SKETCHYPOO!

Em

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*** WINNAH OF BEATRICE AND BARBARA AND ABIGAIL goes to….***

 

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

16-MAKALAH you win!  please email me and I will send you your goodies!!

Timestamp: 2014-02-21 14:40:07 UTC

 

 

WOOHOO sistahs!  Today is the last day of the release and I am so excited.  FIRST, I try my best to respond to the comments if there is a question so I am not sure if you receive and email that I responded or you have to manually check 🙂

I am overwhelmed with the personal emails and comments for yesterday’s huge reveal :)… I am SOOO happy there are other sistahs out there interested in journaling etc.. it’s my passion as I mentioned and I am here to help start you off or inspire you with that.. so please feel free to email me if you have any questions at all :).  I will make another post on the supplies I use.. I love looking at other people’s supplies.. makes me happy!

I really recommend the class I mentioned yesterday.. it’s a good starting point. and for $12?  best money you will spend 🙂

I want to finish off the sneak peeks today, pick the winnahs and announce them tomorrow on the release post!

Ok on to today’s sneak peeks.  2 more UPTOWNIES!!

Uptownies Beatrice and Barbara are best friends.. and this image so reminds me of me and my bestie… cuddled up on the sofa.. eating ice cream.. laughing, whispering, sharing secrets.. we may even shed a tear or two (see the kleenex box? LOL)… This image makes my heart sing.. makes me happy and makes me always think of my bestie..  I hope she brings you the same feeling especially with the quote I paired with her 🙂

meet Beatrice and Barbara

of course all of these images are coloured in by our Elaineabella.. She brings them all to life really 🙂

Sandiebella made a gorgeous card using these beauties

Tamabella also made a GORGEOUS card using Beatrice and Barbara

For our next image we have uptown girl ABIGAIL the artist!  I LOOOOVE her too and LOOOVE her quote 🙂  It’s so inspiring!

Meet Abigail

and here is a card by Sandiebella

Tamabella also made a BEEYOOTIFUL card using Abigail

Are these FUN or WHAT?  And have you noticed our Chrystal’s (artist) signature?  You will find that butterfly on the canvas in many of her drawings 🙂

Hope you enjoy these images as much as I do!

Hope you feel that stamping is as MAGICAL as I do 🙂

Wanna win these??? Leave a comment here for a chance!  You have til tomorrow morning to get your comments all in… tomorrow morning is the release!! FINALLY!!!

Mwah to da sistahs who are my true sistahs 🙂

Em

*** WINNAH OF ALL 5 JOURNALING sets goes tooooooo*****

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Here are your random numbers:

73-JULIE ANN you win!  please email me and I will send your goodies as soon as they come in!!

Timestamp: 2014-02-21 14:37:49 UTC

 

 

 

Hiya sistahs!  Today is a VERY exciting sneak peek day for me… As you know, I am VERY passionate about journaling.. about recording life’s little moments.. sticking things down.. jotting down notes.. keeping daily ephemera.. creating your own HISTORY.  Something to look back on.. a relic.. a treasure.. a legacy!  Project life is one amazing project that I LOOOVE and admire anyone who can keep up with it LOL.. I think it by far surpasses scrapbooking.. I think its more “all-encompassing”..   I am also taking a class and following a group called “THE DOCUMENTED LIFE”.. which I LOVE and actually have been keeping current with and am IN LOVE with this project!

First I will feature the 5 sets of stamps useful for these projects.. then I will show you samples of my book and will give you information on where to start and how to start.. Just like I plead with my sistahs to try mixed media, I also think that these two projects mentioned above are SO nice to follow.  The documented life really just requires a few minutes a day.. bond with your planner.. write in it, stamp in it.. color in it.. stick things down in it.. UCH I could go on and on..

Let me introduce you to our journaling stamps… I LOVE THEM.  LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE… and you will be seeing LOTS of samples using them.. LOTS.  and don’t worry there are still 2 uptownies left to reveal LOL.. So bear with me on this post cuz I am really passionate about them and think I can make you be passionate too 🙂

Ok ok ok ok… HERE WE GO!

this set is called PLANNER/DIARY weather/mood/calendar set.  Now why do I LOOOVE this set and carry it with me everywhere I go?  Welllll…  First, with these stamps, I can spend 10 quality minutes with my journal every day and get my “basics” out.. I can stamp and colour the weather.. I can stamp my mood for the day.. I can stamp the doodles and elements to decorate the journal and colour them in.. I can use the square element to make a checklist.. I can use the circles to highlight a date oh I can go on!

Now the calendar and frame is very interesting too… sometimes people are not as regimented and don’t have a planner.. HOWEVER.. you can make any notebook into a journal with this stamp!  Just stamp away.. decorate, circle the dates, day of the week, month and year and VOILA!  you have documented and dated your day!  You can convert any notebook into a diary or planner by dating it.  YUM no?

next is THOUGHT BUBBLES set..

These are AMAZING prompts for that “middle page” in documented life.. or your project life projects… Love the binder clip.. the doodles… and the the words in the bubbles.. it makes me HAPPY!!!

and here is our BLABBITY BLA BLA set lol.. the paper clip makes me so happy lol (it’s the little things sistahs..)..  the glasses? the frame? the pushpin? this is a great set for what you collage or stick down through the week..  I love every word and every image in this set..  I know this will be with me everywhere I go 🙂

Another set called the “CURRENTLY” set… includes quotes.. what your kids said that was “quotable”.. what you are reading.. etc.. LOVE THIS SET!! it describes YOU in the HERE and NOW

and finally our LIFE DOCUMENTED set.. sometimes you want to document what happened in the news for the week.. a clipping.. a headline.. well this is the stamp set for you.  All these stamps are really everyday all encompassing prompts that you can use day in and day out and guess what?  your answer or journaling will always be different.  Now that’s versatility!

SOOO?? do you love these as much as I do?  If you have always wanted to  start a project like this but didn’t know how.. these are the stamps to make you start and help you begin this journey!  I will also try to create some videos to show you my process 🙂

Don’t feel like you are “too late” in the year to start.. it’s never too late and its so much fun!!

what I love about the DOCUMENTED LIFE PROJECT is how juicy it is .. full of colour, material, artwork.. I love sticking in “TIP INS” (you will learn this in the mini class).. and following their weekly challenges.. if we get enough sistahs on this project, we can have our own group here.. and they have a WONDERFUL and supportive group on Facebook.  I cannot recommend this highly enough.. really.   5 Brilliant and talented women put this project together and you will be blown away when you see their work.. Just click on my link I inserted and good luck being productive today LOL

Ok now for my little planner

Here’s my cover.. I sketched the girl on it and found her perfect for this journey 🙂

here’s the side view with my TIP ins added in with Washi tape

here’s the top view with my tabs and happy face clips..

Here’s the top TAB view (They teach you how to do all of these things including the tabs)

the jars below were a challenge on repeating a pattern (that is the tip in.. a page taped in).. on the left you will see the first planner set in action.. the heart the face the weather.. YUM!  That middle page where you see my doodle of the face is where I will use my new prompts.. all the sets above.. along with my doodles etc..  you can see I stuck things down.. words from a magazine.. everything goes in here.. I only have ONE BOOK to bring with me all the time.. work on it at the arena.. doctor’s office.. the car while waiting for the kids.. SO. MUCH. FUN

I included my valentines day cards in my planner.. the words make me smile.. I kept the card with the kids messages on it.. LOL.. Jayden told me I was her idol.  I need to keep this and remind her daily LOL.. the page on the left is my week.. I write most of my appointments on my monthly view.  see next pic

Here is the monthly view.. I need to dig into march but wanted to show you.. I bought a monthly agenda from the dollar store.. ripped out the monthly pages and stuck them into my weekly planner.  I need to see things in a monthly view.

Here is another example of my pages.. Tyler went for lunch with family one day.. and someone was eating a sandwich out of this printed bag the restaurant gave her.. well my son who knows me so well asked her nicely if he could bring this home to me for his mom’s journal LOL.. does he know me or what?.. I cut up the bag and stuck it in my journal.. then I had a random girl I sketched and didn’t want to lose her so there she went :).. you will also see magazine words cut out.. inspiring words etc.. I LOVE WORDS!

more inspiring words I found and HAD to put in my planner 🙂  it’s a “creative manifesto”

and last.. I LOVE AUSTIN KLEON.. LOVE.  so I had to glue something in from him as well .. AND I have been practicing my brush script so the bottom part is made by me 🙂

i know this was very long winded.. but I just wanted to show you a part of my daily life 🙂

hope I didn’t bore you to death! LOL

WANNA WIN all 5????   Leave a comment for a chance!

Mwah to da sistahs who love to document life 🙂

Em

 

 

 

 

**** WINNAH OF UPTOWN GIRL MARCELLA GOES TO THE MASQUERADE goes to…..****

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Here are your random numbers:

4-GABRIEL you win!!! could we have a BROTHAH in our SISTAHOOD???  SOOO HAPPY!!!! please email me and I will send you your rubbah as soon as she comes in!

Timestamp: 2014-02-21 14:35:43 UTC

 

 

Hiya sistahs.. I know my audience is not a mixed media fan base.. I know I know.. BUT I WANT YOU TO TRYYYYYY! LOL.  I promise I will be making videos and will show you how great mixed media is.. ok?  I promise you that.

For today’s release I had to release another UPTOWNIE no?  It’s been a few days and I am feeling the WITHDRAWAL LOL

So today I am showing you UPTOWN GIRL MARCELLA goes to a MASQUERADE.. The quote that I found to go with it is so meaningful and I love it so much.  It says to TAKE OFF the mask and she is wearing the mask and I did that on purpose :)… You can use Marcella for halloween.. or for any day of the year as a pick me up for a friend… you can stamp her and her quote in your journals when you are not feeling “yourself”.. I LOVE her feathery skirt and her puckered lips.. LOVE.

Meet Marcella 🙂

here’s marybella’s card using her!

Wanna WIN HER?

leave a comment here 🙂

mwah to da sistahs who take their masks OFF

Em