WELCOME TO BLOGABELLA

Hiya!  Hope you had a great week 🙂  .. we have been deluged with SNOW.. and ICE.. and FREEZING COLD!  I am so hoping that you are warmer wherever you are 🙂

There will be NEW rules to Bellarific Friday.. We will no longer be giving a prize for “COMMENTAYTIN'” on the blog AND we will only give ONE prize of $50  to ONE winnah at the end of the month.  We will do a roundup post with all contributors and then put it in a hat and pick a winnah!  If you contribute 4 (maximum 1/week)  times, you get your name put in the hat 4 times.  Sound fair?   ANOTHER new rule is that ALL ENTRIES MUST HAVE CURRENT STAMPS that are available on the website.  So before you make your card, please go to the website and click the name in the SEARCH bar on the top right of our home page please.  Using  discontinued stamps just creates frustration as it is not available any longer 🙁

OK so let’s discuss winnahs from our last entry

Winnah for Contributin’ ($20 in bella bucks) goes to…

Here are your random numbers:

1- DIANA you WIN!  please email me and I will send your vouchah!

Timestamp: 2014-01-10 17:22:04 UTC

Winnah for COMMENTAYTIN’ ($10 in bella bucks-LAST WEEK OF COMMENTAYTAH winnahs)

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

9- DENISE I you win!  please email me and I will send you a vouchah!

Timestamp: 2014-01-10 17:19:39 UTC

Now for this week’s theme?  An inspiration photo!

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

how’s that for GORGEOUSNESS??

Now for da sistahood 🙂  I would first like to WELCOME all of our new subscribers!  *WAVING!!!*.. and would like to welcome our new contributahs!  So nice to see !!

Another thing to discuss is that there will be a release in about 2 weeks.  There will be 6.. count ’em 6 new uptownies!! 2 new senioritas.. mixed media stamps and journaling stamps.. It’s a HUGE release and PHENOMENALICIOUSLY amazing  I promise 🙂

Mwah to da sistahs WHO LOVE Bellarific Friday!!!

Em

FORGOT TO POST THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE!!!

a sketchypoo!

Get da picture sistahs?

So happy to be kinda back in work mode.. kids are back in school on Monday.. WOOHOOO!!! (did I say that out loud?  no I typed it so it doesn’t count..LOL)

Well lots of things are happening this new year.. I cannot share yet but what I CAN share is that we are going to be having one HELLUVA mega release.. including new concepts, new ideas.. just when you think there can’t be anything new right?

Well I am popping in to announce that we have a new BABEROONI!!!!  Her name is Tammie Edgerton.. and OMG you will LOOOOVE her work!!  she is one amazing babeabella!

Here is her first project using UPTOWN GIRL OPAL and I find it so perfect for today’s post

you likey?

So what has everyone been up to??? Any good prezzies?  relaxation?  any new resolutions?  i’ll have you guess mine.. LOL

Don’t forget NEXT WEEK Bellarific Friday resumes with a BANG!  So please send me your entries and make our bellarific fridays better than they have ever been!

inspiration picture

I will come back and talk to you about the DOCUMENTED LIFE project again.. I am very into it and am preparing some stamps for it too.. shhh you didn’t hear it from me!

Em

Sistahs

we are having a 30% off boxing day sale valid until SUNDAY NIGHT at MIDNIGHT!  use code boxingday2013

happy shopping and happy holidays from ME to YOUUUUUU!

Em

Hiya sistahs,

lookin’ for some inspiration over the holidays?  Well you can take a looky here.. don’t forget to look in our GALLERY for amazing inspiration and our upcoming challenge for the new year!

Hoping you will have a wonderful, safe and happy holiday 🙂  Oh and if you follow me on Instagram you will have seen that I have been working on completing my PRISMACOLOR chart.. as I am getting into colouring again, I need the COMPLETE set.. no?  I am proud to announce that I now have them all… seee????

So how about some winnahs from last week?

Winnah for COMMENTAYTIN’ ($10 in bella bucks) goes to…

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

4- KAREN M you win!  please email me and I will send your VOUCHAH!

Timestamp: 2013-12-20 18:39:15 UTC

Now for da CONTRIBUTIN’ winnah ($20 in bella bucks)…

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

3- LINDA you win!  please email me and I will send your VOUCHAH!

Timestamp: 2013-12-20 18:40:15 UTC

Now for this week’s THEME….

ANYTHING GOES!  so any bella stamp on any layout or substrate is eligible 🙂

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

and I participated again this week 🙂

** I CAN”T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE SISTAHOOD lol*** my mind is honestly leaving me slowly and painfully

fun!  I am going to be participating a lot more soon 🙂

so our next challenge will be on  Friday  JANUARY 10th! and it’s an inspiration challenge… you can make multiple entries and just email them to me for our post on Jan. 10th.

here’s the inspiration photo.. use any element, or overall “feeling” you get and send it in!

enjoy and stay tuned… there may just be  some sneak peeks up ahead and SISTAHS.. this will be one of our BESTEST releases EVAH!

mwah to da sistahs who love surprises

** PPPPPS.. don’t forget to leave a comment here for a chance to win $10 in bella bucks!!** oh and to say hi 🙂

Em

Hiya sistahs!

hope you’re having a great week so far 🙂

I am busy shipping.. thinking.. artwork reviewing.. 2014 is gonna be CUH RAZY!! do you hear me???  heheheh that’s me torturing you..

I was surfing my IG feed the other day and just wanted to share a class, idea that my pals are hosting in the new year… This is why I love da sistahood.. we share, we share we share!  Ideas, Inspiration, classes.. I am all about that.. and when I saw this mini class, I thought I should share with you 🙂

I have always been a stationery/leather goods/pen/planner MONGER.. Since I was about 8 years old.. I had a pen collection, papers, stamps, agendas, filofaxes.. you name it.. I owned it.. or at least had it on my wish list..

Every December, I start buying my agendaS for the year because 1 never does it for me.. then I lose where I wrote down my appointment… uch I’m a mess.  So when I saw THIS idea posted on Instagram, I thought it would be perfect.. it’s a planner.. it’s an art journal… it’s whatever you want it to be in ONE PLACE!

It’s called “THE DOCUMENTED LIFE” project..   I think it’s so important to record our day to day.. for History’s sake.. for our legacy’s sake.. for people to understand US later on… for us to look back on.. to remember the good times, the bad times…I love it.  And I wouldn’t post it, if I didn’t truly believe it 🙂

there are AMAZING hostesses in this project.. if you go to Rae’s blog.. you will get all the information.. and don’t forget to join the FB group to get all updates!  And if you haven’t “LIKED” stamping Bella yet on FB, you should!  there are going to be many updates going on there too 🙂  oh and on Instagram.. I’m such a Social Media junkie LOL.

Just a little nugget of amazingness I wanted to share with da sistahs.. Oh and a little hint.. if you are into agenda “decorating”.. you will SQUEAL with delight when you see what I am coming up with :)..

Mwah to da sistahs who are EXCITED!!!

Em

that’s what Tyler’s friend always says.. yo this and yo that.. even to my husband.. Yo ry! LOL.. so I thought I would add it in today YO.

Ok so I haven’t mentioned the Jan. thing yet but it seems to be happening.. and I still can’t tell.. so thought I would leave you with that teasy nugget (yo).

P.S. the soup I posted on Monday was a HIT.. finished a huge size crock pot of it in 2 nights and I have a fresh pot on tonight.  The Parm rind made SUCH an intense difference.. the taste of the soup became nutty and rich.. It was DEELISH.. and remember the story of me sneaking the rind in my purse?  Well I was in HEAVEN yesterday.. I walked into a different grocery store and THERE BEFORE MY OWN EYES were BOXES of parm rind pieces for sale!!! I grabbed two and was soooo happy I didn’t have to beg for it anymore. LOL.  So I put a few pieces in a cheesecloth, tied it up and threw it in the soup again.. (yes I’m obssessed)..

Ok blablabla.. let’s talk BIDNISS.. some WINNAHS this week!

Winnah for COMMENTAYTIN’ last week ($10 in bella bucks) goes to…

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

4- ANGELA you win!  please email me and I will send over your vouchah! (yo)

Timestamp: 2013-12-13 16:28:37 UTC

Winnah for CONTRIBUTIN’ last week ($20 in bella bucks goes to…)

NUMBAH 1~ LOL  Maria you win!  please email me and I will send your vouchah!

Now if you send me your card and you don’t see it here.. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE email me because I am often a dumba-YO-bella.. LOL.. so nevah take offense.. And If you send me an email that you don’t get a response to.. or you don’t see your card posted then, please try again.. email may have gone to spam and I don’t check that often enough!

Now for this weeks theme… a SKETCHYPOO

Let’s see what the baberoonis come up with shall we?  I even participated this week 🙂

And now for da SISTAHOOD!

Aren’t these fun?????  I love fridays-even-when-its-snowing-outside

NEXT WEEK’S THEME?  Our last one for 2013!!! ANYTHING GOES.. Only rule.. use one of our stamps… I wanna see a big END OF YEAR turnout YO’S (can you pluralize “yo”?)

Mwah to da sistahs who’s kids also use slang

P.S. don’t forget to leave a comment for a chance to win $10 in bella buckeroonis!!

Em