Elaineabella here, and I am thrilled to finally be sharing the Stamping Bella HOLIDAY 2023 RELEASE with you! We have got an incredible selection of stamps for the Autumn and Winter, including of course Halloween and Christmas. You are going to be spoiled for choice.

Release day is Monday 18th September 2023, when all of the stamps will be available to order from our website.

Let’s get to the fun! We have an amazing collection of samples from our brilliant Babes and some fantastic guest designers (Melina, Sandra, and Yen ). A huge thank you to all of them. They have done such an incredible job, please do leave them all some love in the comments section.

Sandiebella has a fantastic step by step tutorial for us this week, featuring one of our amazing ODDBALL stamp sets.

Oddball Gnome Parents Carousel Album Card.

If you’re thinking it has been a little bit quiet around here, there’s a good reason for that! We’re working hard on getting our Holiday 2023 release out! The good news is, there isn’t long to wait! Sneak peeks start on Friday 15th September, and release day is Monday 18th September!

MWAH!

Elaineabella

This week I thought we would just concentrate on one of my favourite Halloween stamps.

CURVY GIRL LOVES HALLOWEEN

She’s just so cute in her star patterned dress, and she comes with two great sentiments. Our FRIGHTFUL & DELIGHTFUL SENTIMENT SET would also work well with her!

Curvy Girl loves Halloween Copic 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.

Card Samples

Over To You!

Hopefully I’ve inspired you to add these awesome stamps to your collection, or if you already have them, to get creating and sharing!

Share your personal favourite Stamping Bella creations with us. We LOVE to see what you’ve been creating with Stamping Bella stamps. Share a link to your latest Stamping Bella card in the comments below, or an old favourite you made a while ago. Tell us what your favourite stamps are. Are there any additions you would like to see to the range? Let us know!

Another way to connect is by joining us in the Stamping Bella Sistahood Facebook Group and share your pictures.

If you are posting your images online, we would love to see them on Instagram and all the platforms mentioned above. To make it easier for us to find you just use #markergeekmonday and/or #stampingbella as a hashtag. Even better tag me @markergeek and @stampingbella . We love it when you connect, so don’t be shy!

Until next time, HAPPY STAMPING!

MWAH

Elaineabella

Before I share Delphine’s latest Weekend Inspiration card with you, I have some awesome news! Delphine is joining us as a permanent DT member. So please welcome our latest Bellariffic Babe – Delphineabella! So happy to have her staying with us.

For today’s inspiration Delphine has used our TINY TOWNIE FAY LOVES FALL (includes sentiment) and given her a gorgeous autumn scene to stand in, all coloured using Copic markers.

Stunning, no?!

MWAH!

Elaineabella

Hello bellas!

Amy here with a card celebrating the start of spooky season for this Scenic Saturday. As soon as September hits and the nights start to get a chill in the air I’m all about welcoming Halloween and all of the fun and mischief that goes along with it. I was inspired by the recent Crazy Tuesday sale that included this adorable SQUISHY OWL stamp in the savings, and finally inked up this silly trio of jacks and jack o’lantern wannabe.

As I was thinking about what kind of scene to create for them, I ended up taking a cue from the fact that he is an owl and borrowed the branch from the ODDBALL BIRD set for him and his pumpkin pals to rest on. Next, I had to decide what to include in the background. Would we see some landscape back there? A forest of trees and spooky branches perhaps? Ultimately, I decided that sometimes, less is more, and I grabbed the largest of the Tim Holtz moon masks to create a simple, yet eye catching night sky. Once the owl, pumpkins and branch were all colored I masked them off and laid the large moon right over top. Using the Copic airbrush system I added the dark blue/green sky around it, making sure to lighten the colors as I got closer to the stencil so that once it was removed there appears to be light glowing from the moon. This spotlight effect really brings these fun Halloween characters front and center. To complete the card, I borrowed the sentiment that comes with ODDBALL FRANKENSTEIN and used white embossing powder on a strip of black card stock to add it just below the branch. A sprinkling of enamel embellishments in the same colors used in the scene and this clean and simple card was ready to shine! 

Stay crafty my friends!