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So I says to myself.. “SELF”… you have SOOOO many goodies in Bellaland to make scrapbook layouts etc.. why not SHOW THEM OFF??? So I respond to myself.. “SELF, you are 1000% right”.. and hence, SCRAPPY TOOSDAY was born (ahem yesterday) and a bit of a schizophrenic was born as well (lol).
Every tuesday, we will be showing layouts, canvases, altered items etc showcasing our different papers, tools, embellishments.. just MO’ eye canDEE… so what do da sistahs THINKY about this?  (please say you love the idea..LOL)

So here goes.  Here is my piece to resistance 🙂

It’s a canvas and it makes me SOOO VERRRY HAPPPPPY. I had a 12*12 canvas which I painted with Claudine Helmmuth’s TRADITIONAL TAN.  I absolutely LOVE her paints (we carry the whole range of course!) and if you don’t know who she is, take a looky here and DROOL.. she is AWESOME!!  We carry her paintbrushes and all her mediums as well.  So what I did here was paint the canvas with TRADITIONAL TAN.  Allowed it to dry.  After it dried (about 1/2 hour), I chose my papers (THAT is a happy bella moment).  I decided to use the Fancy Pants collection.  I used 2 borders from the ON A WHIMSY STRIPS paper.  I used the “this is a crazy life” for the top portion and the vertical stripes strip for the “grass”.  I also used the cloud border under the this is a crazy life. (CLEAR AS MUD? LOL).  I applied everything with Claudine’s GEL MATTE MEDIUM to adhere to the canvas.  I then cut out the QUICKUTZ TREE out of the scraps.. dark brown prism as the background, some Prism LIME and snippets of fancy pants BUNCHES paper and FRESH AIR paper. This die is one of my new faves.. I just love it.. and you can use the head of the tree as clouds as well (2 sizes).. I’m telling you.. not just a hot bod and gorgeous FACE .. but there’s a BRAIN in there too! (LOLOL).  Take your pick of buttons (another little obssession of mine) and VOILA!  I adhered all of the buttons with the MATTE medium and I painted a thin coat over the whole piece.  Dries beautifully and NOT tacky.. LOVEY IT!

Such a simple Happy project!  Hope you LOOVE da scrappy tooosdays (as this is the first..LOL)

DOES ANYONE WANNA WIN MY FAVORITE QUICKUTZ TREE DIE?

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO WIN ONE ($24.99)  please put a comment and tell us what you thinky of the project and if you would like to see more!  This contest will close on Friday May 22nd.  ENJOY!

A couple of other bits of Info!

Stamping Bella is a sponsor this week at CPS (card positioning systems) HQ.. They are an awesome bunch of sistahs, so much TALENT and SOOO VERY SWEET!  So take a looky and I believe you can participate in the sketch too!  SUCH A GREAT SITE!

THE WINNAHS FROM LAST FRIDAYS BELLARIFIC CHALLENGE! (IT WAS SO HARD AND I HATE THIS PART)

STEFANIE SUMMERER!  Your card wins!  Great use of the treading water punch, the coloring, the stamp!  BEEYOTIFUL! You will be receiving a $20 bella bucks code shortly!

now the winnah from the PEANUT GALLERY is #22 (chosen by Nicky!) so

JENN DIAZ you win $20 in Bellarific Bucks!!  you should receive shortly!

FINALLY, let’s take a looky at what our BABES have been up to!

Danabella made a gorgeous card using MADELINE KETTO.  She also used the gorgeous American Crafts SOPHIA TUCKETT PAPER (I LOOOVE IT!) and of course DA  OLIVE BONBON in the center of the flowah!

Jenabella made a stunning card using cuppycake with a HUGGABUGG on top.. sooo cute!  She also used our crackle orange dots around the circle, our sentiment and cuttlebug BLOOM DOTS to emboss.. YUMMY!

Joanneabella made a LUSCIOUS FABBY DABBY CARD using ADDY ‘TUDE.. I just love addy.. she has such personality, no?  And on this card, her boa was made with FLOWERSOFT.. How incredible is DAT? LOVE IT!

Karenabella made the CUH-UTEST card using Lady Owlie and her sign.  Is that YUMMALISH OR WHAT?  Love the use of the  cocoa and poppy BELLA DOTS! And how clever to add in the SMOOCH siren to accent the flowers?  YUM! I wanna be a SMOOCH when I grow up 🙂

Paulabella made 2 BEEYOOOTIFUL cards.  One  using Julia’s DIAPER BAG (YUMMMALISH) and one with CUPPYCAKE WITH A HUGGABUGG ON TOP.. .could you FAINT? LOL.  I could.  right into a pool of chocolate..LOL (self reminder: WEIGHT WATCHERS.. not so much a pool of chocolate..HMPH).. LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!!!!

Lindabella made the most amazing card using ALL BUMMED OUT BABY.. is it not amazing?  It’s for Anyone.. friends, family.. JUST LOVE IT! And the COLORING?  triple HMPH.

Shannanabella made a DEELISH card using AMPLEE ‘TUDE.. how cute is this card????

Ok, QUADRUPLE HMPH… I am out of BREFF (breath).. I talked WAY TOO MUCH

Now, don’t forget our BELLARIFIC FRIDAY CHALLENGE you can find deets on here.. would love to see what you come up with!!

and don’t forget to place a comment on this post.. you can win a beeyoootiful die!

Mwah to da sistahs who are excited cuz there will be anothah surprise next wednesday!!
Em

Hiya sistahs!  Its FREEEEEZING in Toronto 🙁  WE had Jayden’s 4th birthday party and it was a blast 🙂 will share pictures tomorrow or Tuesday 🙂  she was a little princess!

I wanted to present you with the next challenge!  It is card sketch made by Nicky but translated into computer-dom by Shannanabella!  Thank you Nicky and Shannan!!  MWAH!

The entries are due by Thursday May 21st 5pm EST.  Please email them to MOI emily@stampingbella.com.  You can win $20 in bella bucks!!

you likey?  I LOVEY!

Mwah to da sistahs who will participate

Em

Hiya tootsies

How’s everyone doing?  This challenge was a bit of a “challenge” lol for da sistahs.. I am thinking you didn’t like it so much.. so I PLOMISE to do a bettah one for next week!  I just thought the glitz and the bling was so exciting… but I guess not so much..LOLOL.  So it’s gonna be a shortish post today BUT I have a little NICKY NUGGET at the end of the post to help you with your embossing and glittering.. how’s THAT for a treat? MWAH!

Ok so the less than luscious (lol) challenge  was

I wanted BLING BLING BLING and some gold 🙂 but I LOOOVED the interpretations this week .. the cards were absolutely PHENOMALISH!

Let’s see the BABES’ interpretation

Nickabella made a STUNNING card using our happy flowers (mini one). The purple layer is embossed with our new quickutz polka dot embossing folder. She also used our QUICKUTZ labels in polkadot.  The mini image is stamped in the brand new to our store FANCY SQUARE SMALL and layered onto the fancy square large.. I just love those fancy squares :)! She also used ZING gold embossing powder for the sentiment and our gold bonbons.. lots of amazing product on one little gorgeous card!

Danabella made a gorgeous card using PEACE HIGHTOPS.. check out the gold embossing the prima flowers and the hot lips baubles!.. YUM!

Jenabella made a stunning card using ANISE KETTO. I love the layout, the bling and the coloring!

Karenabella made a stunning card using Minty Coffee.  The gold embossing is luscious and the cotton candy bonbons yum!! she also used D’VINE swirl cuttlebug embossing folder.  So colorful!

Lindabella oh sweet Lindabella (LOL) made a yummalish card using YOKO AND ONO KETTO. Love the coloring the shading the paper the gold! OMG!  I am sure she used our famous Lyras 🙂  Gorgeous!

Paulabella used our cutesy ornaments for her card.  So shiny… so Sparkly… SO Blingy… Gorgeous card angelbella!

Shannanabella made a BEEYOOOOOOTIFUL card using KENYA KETTO so simple and elegant I just love it!

and here’s mine 🙂 I decided to use my favorite new paper in the store by Collage Press.  The SWEET SHOPPE collection.  I embossed the sentiment with GOLD ZING.. have I mentioned I love this powdah? and our gold bonbons.. YUM!

So how’s that for Babe o Rama eye CANDEEEEE?

Now for our SISTAHOOD contributions! If I missed yours, please email me and I will post ASAP!  Excellent job by all of our sistahs!

So how’s DAT for some eye candeeeee??? LOVE IT!

So don’t forget to post a comment on this post and you can win a $20 giftvoucher to BELLALAND!

One of our lucky contributors will also have a chance to win $20 so stay tuned!

And now for Nicky’s Nugget!

A great tool for controlling “flyaway” glitter and embossing powder is to use this BELLA STATIC BAG to treat your paper. I call it the “POOF AND SHMEAR” technique..LOL  I am so professional.

I hope you enjoyed this post 🙂

Mwah to da sistahs who will enjoy a LONG WEEKEND here in Canada!

Em

Nickabella has been BiZzy.. check out these gorgeous cards! This one is using our brand new Tiddly DAISY HIGHTOPS.  isn’t it ADORABLE?  Colored with copics and the flower on the top left is one of my faves.  They come from PRIMA in either a TUBE or a BAG in white.. SO versatile! Nicky used her copics to dye these flowers to match the paper.  We will show you another tip with these flowers tomorrow.  You get a KAJILLION of them.. the one in the TUBE are larger than the ones in the bag.  Isn’t it great?  This is so great for a little girl, a teen, an exerciser (what is THAT? LOL).. an EXTREMELY versatile stamp!

Nicky used PEACE HIGHTOPS in the following card.  Also colored with her COPICS and she used our new American Craft ZING embossing powders for the sentiment.  In my humble weight watchered opinion (lol) the TRUE test of using an embossing powder and making sure the quality is top notch is to try it on an itty bitty image or a sentiment to see how detailed it is and make sure the words are legible.  WELL GUESS WHAT?  These powders are absolutely fantabulous.  First, the pallette is gorgeous (45 colors).. 2nd, the fine-ness of them and quality is not to be beat.  Why do you think I brought in EVERY SINGLE COLOR? LOL.. (go big or GO HOME.. my philosophy).. I will show you another tip tomorrow on making embossing and glittering easier..

I love reviewing products.. I am a PRODUCT QUEEN.. I will try my bestest to feature some of my favorite things and see what you thinky

Mwah to da sistahs who LOOOOVEY da cards and who need a little….. ZINNNNGGGG!

Em

you can make your momma an amazing fantastic wonderful phenom MOTHER’s DAY PREZZIE like this

Are these the cutest things EVAH?  Jayden’s school asked us to bring an old pair of shoes to school (these are Tyler’s old shoes) and looky what I got back?  The most GLORIOUS, painted, Blinged, Beautiful Potted SHOEZZZ! LOL.. Come on.. tell me how cute these are?

Weight Watchers update: down 1.6 pounds.. only 678 to go! LOLOL..

Product Update:  Just posted the newest collection of Collage Press patterned paper in our what’s new section.. Look for KNAVE of hearts and SWEET SHOPPE.. OMG To die for!!  The quality is phenom (80 pound paper) and the colours are LUSCIOUSLY EDIBLE.  I have also posted new Cosmo Cricket papers also available in the what’s new section..  YUM!  I have also posted some new goodies in the “Specials” section.. we have no room in Bellaland and I was FORCED to put stuff on sale to make some room (some who visit us can confirm this.LOL).

Babe Card Updates

Danabella made a gorgeous card using BFFabuggs.. stunning!

Jenabella made a YUMMALISH card using savvyshopabella.. the paper piecing, the sketch, the colours, oh my!

Joannabella made a PHENOMALISH card card using cuppacakeabella..let’s all wave to Joanne in Disney!

Karenabella made a STUNNINGABELLA card using ALTEE ‘TUDE.. isn’t it amazing?

Lindabella Shows how the magic starts on the paper with stella with an olive on top.. truly magical. She also made a GORGEOUS card using FLOWER BOTTLES… thanks for calling today Linda.. you made my day 🙂

Paulabella (angelbella) made a PHENOMALISH card using TAKE A STAND KIRBY.. I just love the layout and how delicate it is!! And just wanted to let the sistahs know that i have added a 36 LYRA set to our store.. YUM!  Paula also made a gorgeous card using PHOEBE Ketto.. (scroll down).. OMG stunning!

Shannanabella made a gorgeous card using Daisybella!

BEEYOTIFUL WORK DONE BY ALL! MWAH!

Please don’t forget to enter this friday’s  challenge BLING AND GOLD. Send it by Thursday 5pm EST to emily@stampingbella.com

MMMMMMMWWWWWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

EM

Hiya sistahs!  Just wanted to post quickly that the challenge for this week is based on the back of one of my shirts..LOL.  SOOOOOO you must have a card with gold in it AND BLING… every sistah needs a little bling, no??? and of course a little gold?

fun no?

And now for da WINNAHS…..

for the Contributing Sistahs.. you know how hard this is?  I wish I could pick them alllll!!!! And honestly, in my heart, all of you are winnahs!  But if I had to pick one (which I do 🙁 ) I will pick EBRU VATANSEVER for unique shape and beautiful use of a Ketto.. great job!

Now for the PEANUT GALLERY (those putting in a comment).. Ryan chose #79

MEGAN LOCK!  you have both won $20 gift certs to BELLALAND!

Mwah to da sistahs.. we have a BIG EXCITING goodie that we will share with you by the end of the week!  We are so excited by it and hope you will be too!

Em