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Hello everyone! This week I’m sharing a seasonal card in autumn colours and featuring a super sweet hedgehog, Sweet Mushroom Hedgie! I combined him with the Mushroom Border stamp.

Stamps Used:

I created my scene with the border in the foreground, so I stamped it first, then I masked the mushrooms and stamped my hedgehog. To make sure I have a combination that works, I always test the scene on a piece of draft paper in my stamp press without even masking it, to make sure my character is placed exactly how I want it. 

I coloured everything in Copics, stamped a sentiment from the Autumn Sentiment set, added a bit of texture stamps and a piece of washi tape. I matted my image on white cardstock, coloured with one of the Copics I used in my image to have a perfect colour match.

Copic markers used:

Background: B000, 00, YG01, 03, 05
Hedgehog: E50, 51, 53, R20, W4, 6, 7
Big mushroom: E04, 41, 43, 44, 56, 59
Other mushroom: E15, 18, 35, R35, 37, 59, Y13, YR00, 02, 04, 24, 27
Blades of grass: YG67

Have a fab weekend!

MWAH!

D xx

Happy Friday! The Babes are back with more amazing inspiration this week, featuring a host of stamps from our collection.

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On last week’s post we had 9 comments, and I’ve used a random number generator to select a winner (counting comments from oldest to newest).

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The Cards

This week the Babes had another MojoBella sketch from the archives to work with.

Love this Halloween card from Ginger with the layers and embellishments!

Stamps Ginger Used:

Debra’s card is just adorable! Love the clever tag layer and the ink blended circle, plus that branch from an Oddball stamp set!

Stamps Debra Used:

Such gorgeous rich autumn tones on Delphine’s card!

Stamps Delphine Used:

Oddball Rosie is such a great stamp for sending messages of encouragement. Love Michele’s colouring and choice of papers!

Stamps Michele Used:

Love that Alice used our cute Mini Oddball Bee Kid to create a fun halloween card!

Stamps Alice Used:

A spooktacular card from Sandra again today!

Stamps Sandra Used:

A regal card from Steph this week!

Stamps Steph Used:

It’s definitely snuggle weather right now! Love Sandie’s choice of stamp this week.

Stamps Sandie Used:

Jenny is really getting cracking with those Christmas cards, and this one is absolutely beautiful! Love those layers and details.

Stamps Jenny Used:

That’s it! Happy stamping and crafting. Make sure you leave a comment on this post to be in with a chance of winning the $25 gift card for the store.

MWAH!

Elaineabella

Sandiebella is back! After a very busy time with work, Sandie is back creating her magic with tutorials for us. Starting with this awesome Halloween Rocker Card featuring our Oddball Witchy Sistah 1 rubber stamp!

Supplies:

Spooky Sentiments set

Black card

Halloween themed papers

Die cuts (optional)

Distress oxide ink, Twisted Citron

Lacy Scalloped Dies

Double stitched circle dies

 

How to: 

Stamp Oddball Witchy Sistah 1 on to white blending card, colour and fussy cut around the outline. 

 

Cut one 5.5″, and one 4″ lacy scalloped circle from black card. 

Cut one 5″ and one 3.5″ double stitched circle from contrasting Halloween themed paper. 

 

To create the card base, fold the large scalloped circle in half and burnish well with a bone folder

 

Cut the large circle in half and adhere either side of the card base. 

 

Adhere the small paper circle and scalloped circle together. 

 

Decorate with Halloween die-cuts

 

Apply 3D foam to the back, only on the bottom half 

 

Adhere the circle to the card base, positioning so that only the bottom half is stuck to the base. 

 

Adhere Oddball Witchy Sistah 1 using foam tape.

 

Stamp the sentiment onto white card, cut out using a small scalloped circle. While the die is still in place, ink with twisted citron distress oxide ink. 

 

Adhere the sentiment and embellish the card as desired. 

Happy Wednesday! The week seems to be flying by again… I’m back with a new Halloween card featuring one of our LATEST RELEASE stamps.

As a reader, I love this series of stamps featuring houses sitting on top of stacks of books. They’re so lovely, and a lot of fun. You can find them all in our Kristin Farnsworth Collection.

Stamps Used:

Copic Colouring Video

Watch me colour this stamp in the video below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on my YouTube channel.

That’s it from me for today! See you on Friday for Bellarific Friday. If you have yet to comment on last week’s post, make sure you do that to be in with a chance of winning a gift card!

MWAH!

Elaineabella

Happy Monday! I’ve got a new card and Copic colouring video to share with you today featuring one of the NEW RELEASE stamps.

Isn’t he adorable?

Stamps Used:

Copic Colouring Video

You can watch me colour the above image in the video below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on my YouTube channel.

That’s it for today! I’ll catch you on Wednesday with another card and colouring video.

MWAH!

Elainebella

Hey friends!

Amy here with a new Scenic Saturday card on the ol’ Blogabella. Since the Holiday release hit the virtual shelves at Stamping Bella, I’ve been working my way through the trio of Oddball Witchy Sistahs and I’m ending the little series with Oddball Witchy Sistah 1. For the background I thought it would be fun to pair this fabulous witch with the Cottage on the Hill Backdrop and give it a creepy night time make-over.

Stamps Used:

Oddball Witchy Sistah 1 was stamped first, then masked before I stamped the Cottage on the Hill Backdrop high on the card front right over top her. Because the cottage itself is pretty tiny in comparison to our witch, placing it so high up gives us room to create the correct perspective between the two stamps. Once the mask is removed from Witchy Sistah, that cottage and even the hillside it rests on look be be pretty far behind her. I did have to extend the fence and hillside to the right of Oddball Witchy Sistah 1 by hand since the stamp was positioned far to the left but it was a simple thing to sketch in. When it came time to color, I thought she would look quite stunning with a head of silvery white hair, haloed by the light of the full moon. She’s a powerful witch with a few centuries under her belt and at this point she has seen been there, done that with all things Halloween. The rustic fall orange of the treetop and the bushes create a nice visual triangle that helps lead the viewers eye right to our witch’s face and her large spell book as the key point in this layout. Just don’t stare too long into those big eyes or she will have you under her spell, LOL!

Stay crafty my friends!

Amybella