WELCOME TO BLOGABELLA

Hiya sistahs!

long time no speaky!

Well, it’s that day again.. and I just feel it happens very often..LOL .  The week just flies by so quickly!  I was given strict orders from Ryan to day to stay home as I have not stopped coughing and aching for a week and it is finally catching up to me.. so I am following orders.

So let’s get down to BIDNISS before I get YOU sick.. (imagine if I cough and you could catch it through the screen?.. ok I am a little crazy today.. actually delirious..LOL)

Here are last week’s winnahs

Winnah for CONTRIBUTIN’ a card (20$ in bella bucks) goes to

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

6-MARGO you win!  please email me and I will send out your vouchAH!

Timestamp: 2011-10-21 13:26:22 UTC

Now for da COMMENTAYTIN’ prize ($10 in bella bucks) goes to

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

27-HEIDI H you win!  please email me and I will send you your vouchah!

Timestamp: 2011-10-21 13:27:44 UTC

Ok now down to some CARDMAKIN’ BIDNISS and some news!

Our challenge today was a sketch. and a beautiful sketch at that!

We have a coupe of announcements.. Unfortunately TAMMYBELLA  has had to step down from babehood as her responsibilities have been increasing and there is not enough time in the day!  We totally understand that don’t we?  We will miss Tammy tremendously and we all wish her lots of luck, health and happiness!

I now would like to introduce a new babe to babehood.. REGANABELLA.. I have known Regan for the longest time and once I saw her hello kitty sewing machine, I knew we were soulmates..LOL.  Regan is so dynamic.. she would keep you on the floor laughing.. we know her for her “SHUT THE FRONT DOOR” statement and her talent is so inspiring.. her sewing, quilting, cardmaking, scrapbooking.. awesome.  You will so enjoy seeing her contributions to babehood.  Also, you have to look at her picture on her blog.  Every time I look at it, I crack up.

WELCOME REGANABELLA!

So let’s begin with her card  shall we?

Reganabella  used  PEACE ON EARTH large sentiment

Ebrubella used SCARLETT the TEACUP GIRL  (I love the name Scarlett.. have I ever told you that?  )

Cathabella used SPOOOKY STELLA

Lindabella used SEWING PEEP

Paulineabella used CRUISABELLA

Robinabella used Mo’s HOUSEWORK FAIRY

Paulabella used CALL ME PEEP

Steubybella used GAME ON

Danabella used LULU’S ORNAMENTS

Are they not the best?  OMG..

And now for the BEST sistahood in da WHOLEST WORLD..

now tell me we have da BEST sistahood and babehood and artists on the planet?  I dare you to leave a comment (sometimes reverse psychology works, no? lol)

Next week’s theme is STRIPES!  backgrounds, papers..you can colour in some outfits in stripes.. just saying’

Mwah to da sistahs who contribute and comment (and those who don’t too.. i don’t really discriminate, just like to seem popular..LOL)

Em

Hiya sistahs,

hope you’re having a great week.  I am feeling better but still feel a little “off”..

Just a few things to share..

It’s a little quote that is

(1) hilarious and

(2) shows how underappreciated artists are and makes you think about how important our crafty geniuses really are.  PLEASE appreciate our artists :).. without them, we would have a VERY boring world.

Another thing to share is that our secret “PROJECT” is moving along and we will have a launch date of January 13th! and I will let you know the venue so perhaps you can participate!

Maybe there will be a little release again coming soon

and here is a prepped art journal page I worked on that all I need to do is journal in.. ENJOY!

mwah to da sistahs who are contributing to bellarific friday AND AJ monday!

Em

Hiya sistahs!  Hope you had a great weekend! Well my Tyler ended up being ok.. he got a dose of a steroid that cleared him up instantly.. now we have to deal with the sleeplessness..LOL

I , on the other hand have SUCH pneumonia brewing…LOL.. I am feeling achy and fevery, and yucky.

I wanted to thank everyone who said hello at Scrapfest 🙂  It was great seeing familiar faces!

Our free shipping for our last mini release ends tonight at midnight.  All orders over $55 are eligible.  Please use discount code freeshippingoctober

Ok now back to BIDNISS..

Our theme this week was STENCILING.. SPRAYING our backgrounds.. let’s see what everyone came up with!

*sigh*.. just sayin’

Now next week’s theme… hmmmmmm……  USE PUNCHES on your page… be creative.. use the NEGATIVE of the punch as well!  I LOVE that look…  so have fun punching and spraying and colouring and stamping… YUM.

mwah to da sistahs who are feeling PUNCHY (i know very lame but I am sick ya know)

Em

Hiya sistahs!

Thank you so much for loving our past mini release.  If you haven’t seen it yet, just scroll down a coupla posts and you will see the 3 new images.. I love them.  of course I love them..LOL..  I had a completely sleepless night as Tyler has a “croupy” cough and sounds like foghorn leghorn so I was up with him most of the night and taking him to the doctor this morning… I tried shoving his head in a steamy bathroom but didn’t seem to help much…LOL on the SHOVE.

I want to remind you that we are having a FREE SHIPPING sale for all orders over $55 until MONDAY.  just put in the code  freeshippingoctober and you are good to go!

Ok so let’s discuss Bellarific Friday shall we?

Last week’s winnahs are:

For COMMENTAYTIN’ ($10 in Bella bucks)

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

7- MARY J you win!  please email me and i will send you your BUCKEROONIS

Timestamp: 2011-10-14 13:35:43 UTC

CONTRIBUTIN’ WINNAH ($20 in bella bucks) goes to:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

3- Cat S.. you win!  please email me and I will send you your MOOLAH.

Timestamp: 2011-10-14 13:37:31 UTC

Now let’s talk about this week.. HALLOWEEN theme.. colors, stamp theme.. you name it, we leave it up to your creativity!

First I need to make an announcement..  I am so THRILLED to announce that SHANNANABELLA (Teubner)
is back on our team!! She was on our team a long time ago and was the sistah who started all the Bellarific Fridays and I am SO happy that she is now BACK HOME with us!!  Welcome Back shannanabella!! (also known as STEUBY)

Let’s see what our baberoonis came up with this week!

Steubybella (ooohhh I like that) used MONSTAH BASH on a treat bag

Ebrubella used LITTLE WITCHY

Danabella used TRICK OR TREAT ABELLA

Robinabella used MONSTAH BASH

Tammybella used WITCHYBELLA

Paulineabella used STELLA and her BROOMSTICK

Cathabella used EVERYDAY PRINCESS

Lindabella used MONSTAH BASH

Paulabella used THE MUMMY THE WITCH AND THE PIRATE

How’s DAT for eye candee?????

Now let’s take a looky at da AMAZING sistahood!  I see some new people… (said in the same tone as I SEE DEAD PEOPLE in 6th sense).. I bet you’re all saying I SEE NEW PEOPLE in the voice.. you are aren’t you..LOL .. cuz I just did again! LOLOL

Are those amazing or what??!?!

Next week’s theme is a sketch!! Don’t mind the halloween colours.. you can use ANYTHING you want as long as it follows our sketchypoo

Off to the clinic with the Tymeister.. we’ll see if he will survive 😉

I will be at Scrapfest tonight.. hopefully will see you there.. if you see someone walking VERY slowly with her head resting on someone’s shoulder taking a nap.. that would be MOI.

Don’t forget AJ monday.. theme is SPRAY backgrounds..

Mwah to da sistahs who will place a comment to win $10 in buckeroonis

Em

this week is SUCH a screwed up week.. with the long weekend, the release.. STRESS!

Hope you are all having a great week so far.. I am excited for Friday where I am finally able to attend SCRAPFEST in OSHAWA as a guest and shopper rather than a vendor.  I have had many emails asking why I was not going to be there.  I figured I would answer here :).  I AM TOO BUSY!!! LOL.  I always try to make time for an event such as Scrapfest.. an amazing place where everyone shares the same passion.   Inspiration is OOZING.  Friendships are made and remade.. I just love it.. but having just  done Scrapfest in Minneapolis, I just didn’t have the strength so close in time to make Scrapfest an event that it deserves to be… SOOOOO.. Helenabella, Denabella, Angela (bella) and I-abella will be walking the show with our VIP tickets (that’s a fancy word for buying in advance) in hand and our wallets ready to be opened and just chill and ENJOY.  We are so excited!  So if you will be at Scrapfest and you see us wandering aimlessly, please come and say hi 🙂

So yesterday Jayden brought home a Fancy Nancy book.. has anyone read them?  I have been reading them for ages and actually the illustrations look so much like our Mo Manning!.. But FINALLY, Jayden is enjoying the books and now of course, I am stuck with writing fancy words with meanings in brackets..LOL.. This phase should last only a few EXCRUCIATING (that’s a fancy word for painful..LOL) days.. then I will be done.

Ok enough of my blabla.. let’s talk ART JOURNALING MONDAY (on wednesday).  I am hoping that your journals are becoming JUICY and CHUNKY (that’s fancy for CRUNCHY..LOLOLOL.. I kill me)

Our theme this week was to work with your favorite COLOUR on your journal page..   I am hoping that even if you aren’t submitting (shame on you) you are playing along at home (that’s FANCY for YOU BETTER SUBMIT NEXT WEEK..LOL) SOMEBODY STOOOOOPPPPP ME…..

Ok here goes.  Focused now.  Favorite colour

How much do I love these entries?  OMG.. LOVE.

Next week’s theme is SPRAY AND STENCILS as a background on your page.  Now it doesn’t necessarily need to be stencils.. you can use masks, doilies, punched out paper as your stencil, hmmm… lace.. anything you have!  Now if you don’t have spray ink.. you can put a few drops of inkpad refills into water in a spray bottle, shake and spray away!  You can even use RIT dye.. Food coloring.. Kool aid.. mix it up with water and spray away.

Mwah (fancy for I love you and you better leave a comment)

Em

p.s. don’t forget to leave a comment on the bellarific friday post for a chance to win $10

p.p.s don’t forget to take advantage of our FREE SHIPPING OVER $55 sale and new mini release

Sistahs,

to celebrate the recent “HUMP” in delivery and for me to give anyone who suffered along with us a HUGE apology, I am offering FREE SHIPPING for our newest mini release… if you didn’t pick up anything from the last one and you want to pick up some early Christmas or Chanukah gifts, NOW IS THE TIME!

This is a VERY small release.. but so HUGE in beauty :).

Instead of doing big releases as I felt obligated to do, I wanna go back to my “ROOTS” lol.. and keep da sistahs on their TOESIES!

So here goes.. a last minute yummy-make-your-week-goodness

meet uptown girl QUINN and her BOOTS

and here is Paulabella’s rendition of her 🙂

and now for the next image 🙂 and the quote was inspired by Paulabella!

Uptown girl EVE under the MISTLETOE

and Lindabella’s rendition of EVE

and of COURSE the Uptown girls have the same SASSY BEEYOOTIFUL Christmas tree.. whaddya thinky?

Uptown Girl’s CHRISTMAS TREE

and here is Lindabella’s card

Ok.. that’s it for now 🙂  I still have to put up Art Journaling Monday and a little other announcement that we are thrilled about!

P.S. I just LOVE when you leave comments.. I honestly feel like we are “talking” to each other and I read every one as soon as they come in!