WELCOME TO BLOGABELLA

Happy Easter to all my sistahs! I hope you will have a family filled weekend with lots of yummies and egg hunts 🙂

Well, today is a PHENOMALISH Bellarific Friday.. albeit small but its the QUALITY that matters right???  Our theme for this week was “GETTING HITCHED” or any celebration of the sort, wedding, anniversary, showers..etc

Here goes.. let’s see what our BELLARIFIC BABES have come up with!

Karen Motzabella used ROSE BOUQUET

Jodibella used ELOISE GREENGRASS

Paulabella used SOLID FUNKY BAMBOO and CELEBRATE DEFINITION BLOCK

Danabella used IZZIE HAS A LETTAH

Lindabella used BRIDALPARTYBELLAS

Jeaniebella used SALT AND PEPPAH shakers (aren’t they a CUTE couple? and you can even monogram them!)

now how’s DAT for da I CANDEE??? I love it!

Now for da sistahood.. now don’t forget, if you participate you are eligible to have a chance to win $20 in bella buckaroonis! Just submit a card, will ya?

aren’t they GORGEOUS?  OMG.. love them!

so now, your job is to place a comment so you can win $10 in BELLA BUCKS!

Next week’s theme is a SKETCHAROONI!  Don’t forget, all submissions are due by Thursday Night emailed to lil ole me.. I love getting submissions! Don’t forget your FLOWERS in there!

also our new APRIL CALENDAR IS UP! you can see our classes here

We have LOTS of stuff happening in BELLALAND

and we have VICKI BOUTIN coming NEXT SATURDAY APRIL 10th! WOOHOO! (very few spots left) she is doing her photo carousel! it’s is YUMMY!  She is also coming to finish off our wonderful NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY WEEKEND by teaching her DENIM ALBUM on May 2nd!  DOUBLE WOOHOO!

Scrapfest is coming up on APRIL 16th and 17th.. we are busy preparing and it is going to be a show NOT TO BE MISSED sistahs!  A room fullll of papercrafting fun, classes, stamps, scrapbook supplies.. YUMMMMMMMMMM

Guess what else?  PAULABELLA AND LINDABELLA are coming back to teach! WOOOOOHOOOOO! (I am so annoying with the WOOHOOOs).  They are coming on May 29th (Paula is teaching that saturday from 11-1 and 2-4) and Lindabella is teaching on May 30th (Sunday 11-1 and 2-4).. so call soon to secure your spot!

And yet another WOOHOOOOO (almost done.. promise).. DONNA DOWNEY…  yes.. DONNA DOWNEY is coming to town for a fun filled weekend!  Call the store for details and to secure your spot.  She is SOOOO AMAZING!! (June 4th-6th)

and FINALLY, I will be a travelling bella in June to ENGLAND! YEP, I was invited by the CRAFT BARN to do 2 full days of demos featuring our stamps! HOW FUN IS THAT? so all you EUROPEAN sistahs bettah be there 🙂 LOL.  Here is some information of this EXTRAVAGANZA that they host.  So excited and trying to force Ryan to take me to Paris while we are there… Ahhhh.. Paris (said like PAREEEEE)

Mwah to da sistahs who always say OUI OUI! to PARIS! (said like PAREE)

Em

Hiya sistahs!  Well we have had a wonderful weekend with family 🙂  my sister in law and brother in law came to Toronto from Montreal to celebrate Passover with us.  Needless to say it was family infested, food infested and fun infested.. and NOW it’s back to work

So let’s discuss some winnahs from Bellarific Friday and show some EYE CANDEEEEE!

The winnah of $20 in bella bucks for CONTRIBUTING to our bellarific friday is

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

35- TINA MAYO you win! please email me and I will send you $20 in Bella Bucks!	

Timestamp: 2010-03-31 20:45:50 UTC

Now for our $10  WINNAH for commentators

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

21- SUSAN P!! you win $10 in Bella bucks!	

Timestamp: 2010-03-31 20:45:50 UTC

Our Darling Piradee has been hard at work and  came out with FABULOSO layouts! WANNA SEEEEEE???? she used 10 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT YOU stamp and masked the title.. YUM!

Here’s Piradee’s layout using our CELEBRATE LIFE stamp

and last but not least her SUMMER FUN layout using our JESSICA ROSE WIREBOUND MEMORY BLOCK

So how’s that for a SCRAPPY wednesday?

Mwah sistahs!

Em

Hiya sistahs!

I was wondering if there is an AWARD for the slackiest blog writer in the world of blogs and if so, I think I would win 🙁

I am soo sorry!! I PLOMISE I will get bettah!! PLOMISE! BELLA’S HONOR! it’s been soooo crazy around here as we are planning for SCRAPFEST which is going to be AMAZING!  We have great make n’ takes prepared and we are SOOO excited!  So if you plan on coming, PLEASE come by and say hello!  You bettah or else I will be GROWLY.. and you no wanna da bella to be GROWLY do ya? LOL

I have a SAAAADDD announcement to make…  Joannabella will be stepping down from her post as Bellarific babe.  She had to make some mighty tough decisions and really had to be a GROWN UP.  What’s up wit dat?  LOL.. I totally understand and sometimes I am put in the same position and it’s all about priorities and children and life and work and  and and.. so Joanne, I must tell you from ME.. from my heart.. that I will personally miss you on the team.. you have become a very instrumental part of the team by organizing us, whipping us into shape, producing beautiful cards.. hmph… getting a little TEARY.. so we wish Joannabella lots of luck and want her to find her “place” and her groove and she is such a strong little thing that she will persevere! MWAH Joannabella.

Here is our sketch for the week.  Let’s see what da BABES and da SISTAHOOD came up with. (I can assure you it is pure yumminess)

Joannabella promised that even though she will step down from her post, she will always be a BELLA cheerleadah so here is her card celebrating her cheeriness 🙂 with a TURTLE TOT CHEERLEADER

Jodibella used BEATRICE BELLBOTTOMS

Lindabella used MORNING GLORIES FOR LULU

THE SPOTTED CHICKABELLA (LOL! I so humor myself).. Jeaniebella used WOOFIN IT UP

Karen MOTZABELLA used our sentiment  A GIRL SHOULD BE

Paulabella used PIA PUDDINTOP

Danabella used  LITTLE EMMY

how’s DAT for I CANDEEEE?

Now let’s talk about da SISTAHOOD

Ok, now how’s DAT for DA SISTAHOOD?!  wow!… I have this feeling that I am missing someone.. if I am, please email me and I will post!  and i apologize 🙁

I swear this post was started at 9am and then everything broke loose! Donna (my UPS lady who every customer here knows by name..LOL)  arrived with a MAJOR Tim holtz shipment.. there was fighting and tugging and pulling hair and YANKING.. it was UGLY sistahs! And then, my internet went down… OMG.. a nightmare.  but HERE I AM.. and THERE YOU ARE.. and Bellarific is posted and I so hope you enjoy

don’t forget to place a comment for a chance to WIN $10 in bella buckeroonis!

**CORRECTED** Next week’s CHALLENGE?  “GETTING HITCHED” or ANNIVERSARY or a SHOWER card!

mwah to da sistahs who DO NOT pull hair

Em

Hiya sistahs,

hope you had a PHENOMALISH weekend!  We had a great weekend here.. a full house on Saturday for our monthly Stamp Til you CRAMP day which was loads of fun!  Had a great Sunday with the kidlets.  Tyler has now de MYSTIFIED emailing so I have been responding to many of his emails..LOL.  What else? hmmmm OH an amazing new addition to our SCRAPPING BELLA TEAM!  I am so excited to introduce you to SEVERINE DI GIACOMO.  I have been oogling and ogling and begging and pleading and FORCING and CYBERHUGGING the amazingly talented Severine until finally she could not resist and said YES!  She lives in Switzerland and I think I may just have to pay her a visit! LOL.. I so wanna go there… hmph.

please meet Severine and I want you to send her big “BONJOURS” on her bloggypoo!

here is a little bit about Severine:

“My name is Severine Di Giacomo.  I live in a small village in the French speaking part of Switzerland.  I work part time as a teacher and am also a mother to 2 sons aged 11 and 8.  I discovered scrapbooking in 2003 thanks to the internet.  At the time, scrapbooking was unknown in Europe and I immediately became addicted.  My style of scrapbooking is simple and can be described as graphic and classic at times.  This style allows me to keep a strong focus on my photos0 which is my second passion.

I was fortunate to be a part of several design teams both European and American (and now Canadian!)  .  Each time, these experiences allow me to evolve and grow.  I also had the opportunity to collaborate in a few books such as FREESTYLE- Autumn Leaves on SIMPLY GRAPHIC- Memory Makers, or more recently SCRAP SIMPLE Hilary Heidelberg.  I am also part of a creative team of a French magazine “entreARTistes” magazine and I am totally thrilled to join the fabulous Scrapping Bella team!”

The amazing thing about Severine’s use of my stamps is that she uses images (not traditional scrapbooking stamps) and uses them as her embellishments.. truly genious!  She will teach you how to get more “mileage” out of your stamps and actually show you samples of how to use my stamps in a “hybrid” type of way! both for cardmaking and scrapbooking! Brilliant!  Here is a couple of Severine’s samples to “wet” your appetite.  In this layout she used our Peace VW which just added a “splash” of color and our LOVE definition block

here is a closeup

Here is another sample where she used our BRANCHING OUT OWLIES stamp, 10 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT YOU MEMORY block, YAARGH sentiment and the “GOOD” from our GOOD LUCK sentiment.. Gorgeous!

and another layout using FROGGY KETTO and our SCRAPLINES PICTURE PERFECT TICKET

how great are those layouts?  and just gives you a fresh new perspective on image stamps, oui oui? (just for Severine)

Now let’s discuss some WINNAHS

the BELLARIFIC FRIDAY CONTRIBUTING WINNAH is

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

5- DEANNA WOODLAND! You win $20 in Bella bucks!  please email me

Timestamp: 2010-03-22 23:40:15 UTC

Now for da WINNAH from da CONTRIBUTAHS.. $10 in Bella bucks

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

34- SARAH! you win! please email me

Timestamp: 2010-03-22 23:44:40 UTC

Don’t forget Bellarific Friday this week!  You can email me your submissions by Thursday night as a JPEG attachment to [email protected].  This week’s theme is this sketch

Mwah to da SISTAHS who need to practice their French for Severine

Em

Yup! Simply BELLARIFIC!  It’s almost 18 degrees here (time to remove my snowsuit..LOL) and for my American sistahs that is 65 degrees! I hate to tell you that it is warmer here than when I went to Florida..LOL.

If anyone has seen my desk lately (OY YOY) they must come back TODAY to take a look at it.  It should be a MONUMENT.  Dena sneakily cleaned it cuz she couldn’t take it.  I, on the other hand, ENJOY and LOVE living in CHAOS..LOL … but I kinda like this neat desk right now!

I also wanted to thank our SISTAHS for making last week’s release SOOO SUCCESSFUL!  It’s been crazy around here and we are kinda buried so bear with us please!  and just because you were so kind with that release, I have another surprise up my sleeve.. you just wait!!

Ok, let’s talk BELLARIFIC FRIDAY.  This week’s theme was MONOCHROMATIC.. I love monochromatic looks.. it’s so clean and pretty.. and WAIT til you see the entries!  OMG! YUMMMM!!!

So this is what our BABEROONIS came up with… you ready?   SET??? LET’s GOOOOOOO

Joannabella used FLUEY HUGGABUGG

Jeaniebella used MUFFY KETTO and CHICHI KETTO

Paulabella used FRANCINE FLAPPER

Karen MOTZABELLA used SNOWMAN CIRCLE

Jodibella used GRACIE LOLLIPOP

Danabella used PEONY BITTYBLOOM

Lindabella used EVA BLOOM

How’s that for our BABEROONIS TALENT?!?!??!!

Now let’s see what our wonderful SISTAHOOD came up with! Just FABBY I tell ya!

How’s DAT for I CANDEEEEE???

Don’t forget to place your comment to be Eligible for $10 in Bella bucks and submit for next week’s challenge to receive $20 in BELLA BUCKS!

Next week’s challenge is the following SKETCH!

hope you enjoy! don’t forget to submit by Thursday to [email protected] for next week!

Have a GLOORRRRIOUS.. BELLARIFIC.. PHENOMALISH weekend sistahs!

big hugs

Em

Hiya sistahs! I hope you are all welllll!

Sorry for the delay in my post :(.. I am gonna announce da winnahs from last week’s bellarific Friday

da CONTRIBUTING WINNAH for bellarific friday and who wins $20 in Bella bucks is:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

36- LORIE HAINES!!! you winnnnnnnnnn!!!!!

Timestamp: 2010-03-18 20:41:42 UTC

now for the COMMENTATOR winnah of $10 in bella buckeroonis!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

6-Rosanne you win!! please email me your info and I will send you $10 bella bucks!	

Timestamp: 2010-03-18 20:44:53 UTC

Mwah to da sistahs who tolerate my BOOOORING postssssss

Em