WELCOME TO BLOGABELLA

How has your week been?  It’s been nice around here although all I do is carpool my kids and spend my life in a car.. but who’s complaining? LOL

Tyler lost another tooth a couple of nights ago and the tooth fairy forgot to leave him money (Ryan’s job).. so this is what Tyler brought downstairs this morning.. I find it so cute that Ryan changed up his handwriting for this..LOL

now for some winnahs from last week’s Bellarific friday!

Winnah for CONTRIBUTING ($20 voucher) goes to….

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

2-Joann you win!  Please email me and I will send you your vouchah!

Timestamp: 2012-10-19 13:12:35 UTC

Now for da COMMENTAYTIN’ winnah ($10 in bella buckeroonis)

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

19- JULIE F you win!  please email me and I will send your vouchah!

Timestamp: 2012-10-19 13:13:42 UTC

Ok now for this week’s challenge! a sketch!

Let’s see what our Baberoonis came up with!  A few of them are “out of commission” this week unfortunately!  We hope they all get bettah!

Elaineabella used our large MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR sentiment

Are these creations BEEYOOTIFUL or what?

Now for da sistahood!

Stunningly inspirational!  I love when da sistahs contribute!

Next week’s challenge:  Take 3 papers and 3 embellishments to make a card (and a Bella stamp of course ! LOL)

Mwah to da sistahs who will comment and say hello and contribute for next week

Em

And yes you were right.. Our NEWEST RELEASE will all be CLING MOUNTED.  Yes we all love naked rubbah don’t we?  but I have been getting incessant emails about mounting.. and decided to go for it :)… This will be starting ONLY with our newest release and we will be working backwards (LOL) to try to get everything mounted but it involves A LOT of work.. so we shall call it a CONSTANT work in progress to ultimately achieve the goal of having everything mounted.  The BETTER goal is that we are hoping this won’t involve a price change either :).. so best of both worlds right?  right!

Ok let’s discuss AJ TOOSDAY shall we?  The theme this week was ANYTHING GOES… sometimes it’s nice to have a ‘prompt’ and sometimes it’s nice to just let loose.. so please remember, even if I give a prompt,  EVERY WEEK is ESSENTIALLY a free week because you can submit anything you want and I will showcase it.  I believe so much in art journaling that I just want to share it with everyone.. that being said, let loose, have fun.. scribble, draw, drip, droop (LOL).. do what ever da HECK you want on a page and submit it.  come on.. I dare ya!

So let’s see what our little AJ sistahood came up with shall we?

I got a little carried away this last week with “arting”  that I made a couple of AJ pages and some canvases have been born :).. if you follow me on IG, you will see a lot more samples but I will try my best to share with you here

I have been looking at this stamp for a long time… since it’s creation, I always loved it.  I can’t explain why.. She certainly is not our most popular stamp but I had to make her because she just made me happy.  She gave me such a good feeling so I had to clean her up and stamp her on BELLA’S BESTEST NEW VELLUM! (trying it out sistahs but so far looking amazing and will be for sale soon)…  Take a looky.  Her name is BUTTERFLY KISSES.  and because I love her so much, I wanted to share her so I put her on sale 🙂  you can find her in our “SPECIALS” tab. enjoy!

Here’s another one using our BE WHOO YOU ARE owl… He’s on the bottom right stamped on our vellum and colored in with prismacolor  pencils 🙂

Next week’s theme is to use CLOUDS somewhere on your page.. I love dreamy fluffy clouds :).  Again, you don’t have to follow this….  submit anything you feel like playing with 🙂

Mwah to da sistahs who ARE SCARED to AJ but who will try 🙂

Mwah mwah

Em

so excited.

really I am.

Had to share.

Mwah

And lots of things happening around here 🙂

On my off time (if that really exists)  I have been painting.. exploring.. figuring out who I am artistically…  And I actually got my first commission! Yes I sho’ did!  I will show you the painting in it’s initial stages…LOTS may change from this point onwards, but at least I have the GUTS to show you where she’s at right now… her nose still needs to be fixed and her face needs to be “applied”.. but you can get the general idea 🙂  .  I hope you like her!  I will show her to you once I am done 🙂

and now for some WINNAHS from last week!

Winnah for CONTRIBUTIN’ ($20 in BELLA BUCKS) goes to

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

4- MICHELLE! you WIN!  please email me and I will send your "loot"!

Timestamp: 2012-10-12 20:16:25 UTC

Now for a winnah for COMMENTAYTIN! ($10 in bella bucks) goes to…

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

8- ANGELA you win!  please email me and I will send your VOUCHAH!

Timestamp: 2012-10-12 20:17:27 UTC

Now let’s talk about this week’s theme shall we?   Our theme is HALLOWEEN.. bwahahahaha (said scarily).. Let’s see what our sistahood came up with k?  They are gonna KNOCK your SOCKSIES off!

Aren’t they GORGEOUS???? Now for DA SISTAHOOD!

I just LOVE everyone’s work!!  Next week’s theme?  a SKETCH!

and let’s NOT discuss weight watchers shall we? LOL.. next week will be a better week 🙂

Mwah to da sistahs who will get CRAFTY this weekend

And don’t forget AJ TOOSDAY !  ANYTHING GOES

AND AND don’t forget to post a comment here so I know you are there 🙂

MWAH MWAH MWAH

Hiya sistahs!  Where have you been?  It’s been crazy around here with Thanksgiving and the long weekend.. don’t ask.  I decided to host it this year which means I had to COOK.  Tyler looked at me in horror saying “MOM.. but you DON’T cook”..LOL.. Little does he know that his MAMA does cook.. and I showed HIM..LOL

On Sunday we invited two other families and their kids and the preparations began at 7AM… my first turkey.. and I think it came out BEYOOTIFUL

Whaddya think?

Tyler helped me baste all morning

And much much more but that’s what was documented and instagrammed…

Hope my fellow Canadian sistahs had a great Thanksgiving too.  So much to be thankful for really 🙂

So today is AJ TOOSDAY on WEDNESDAY.. But I think I am missing a couple of entries.. so if I missed yours, please email me and I will put it up right away!

The theme this week was documenting your life with ephemera and stick it all down and make a page out of it 🙂

and here’s my page which has NOTHING to do with this week’s theme but i went NOWHERE to collect stuff LOL

Next week’s theme is a FREE FOR ALL.. just do anything you feel like on a page and send it in to me!!

can’t wait to see 🙂

Now don’t forget to post a comment on our bellarific friday post from last week for a chance to win $10 in bella buckeroonis!

Mwah to my BEEYOOTIFUL sistahs

Em

just put in code october2012 at checkout k?

So now let’s discuss some winnahs for last week’s BELLARIFIC FRIDAY shall we?

Winnah for COMMENTAYTIN’ goes to ….

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

13- ANGELIQUE you win 10$ in Bella Bucks!  please email me and I will send your vouchah!

Timestamp: 2012-10-05 13:55:15 UTC

Now for da winnah for CONTRIBUTIN’ goes to

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

2-Heather B you win!  please email me and I will send your $20 VOUCHAH!

Timestamp: 2012-10-05 13:57:01 UTC

See??? isn’t it easy to just send us a card  or project using our stampies for a chance to win?!?!?  LOL

Now for this week’s theme, we had a SKETCHYPOO

and a couple of announcements!  WE have TWO AMAZING BABEROONIS coming to our team…  ready?  I am soooo grateful that they agreed to join us and you will see why in a second.

Meet Vicki Garrett..  Do you know her already?  I have known Vicki for years and always always loved her.. we get along so well, she is just such a beautiful sincere person… and her work?  GORGE…  wanna see her first BELLARIFIC FRIDAY CARD?  K.

and now for another new BABEROONI!  MARY JOHNSON.. she is amazing!  She has been participating in our challenges and she pushed me over the edge with her last few cards.. so without further ADO.. meet Mary, her blog and her card!

and now for our AMAZING  SISTAHOOD!

How’s DAT for BEAUTIFULNESS?  hmmmm?? I LOVE fridays..

Next week’s theme?  HALLOWEEN!! stamp, paper, embellies … colours.. anything HALLOWEEN!

Can’t wait to see what you come up with 🙂

now off to get some work done!

MWAH!

Em