Happy Bellariffic Friday! This week the Babes are bringing some fantastic inspiration featuring our amazing ODDBALL STAMPS! They have each chosen some really great stamps and created fun cards to send us into the weekend feeling inspired to create.

Christine used ODDBALL FLAMINGOS (includes sentiment)

Debra used ODDBALL MARILYN (includes sentiment)

Michele used ODDBALL HOMESTEADERS, ODDBALL BIRD SET, and DOWN ON THE FARM SENTIMENT SET

Ginger used LONG STEMMED ODDBALL (includes sentiment)

Sandie used ODDBALL COCO (includes sentiment)

Jenny used ODDBALL GIRL ELF (includes sentiment)

I hope you’re feeling as inspired as I am. Stay crafty and colourful, and have a great weekend!

Elaineabella

Oddball Dino Trio W-Fold Card

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More Christmas in July today! You can watch my Curvy Girl Angel Coloured Pencil Video below to see how this one came to life using Faber-Castell Polychromos coloured pencils.

Curvy Girl Angel

Stamps Used: Stamping Bella Curvy Girl Angel, Christmas Sentiment Set,

I stamped the image on hot pressed watercolour paper before colouring with Polychromos coloured pencils. After colouring I added some glitter to her outfit using Twinklets Diamond Dust and a Quickie glue pen. I stamped the sentiment using Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink.

Curvy Girl Angel Coloured Pencil 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.

It’s that time of the week again. I’ve got my spotlight out and I’m shining it on an amazing collection of stamp sets – I’m here to show you why you need them. If you already have them, I’m here to remind you why you needed them, and inspire you to get those stamps inky!

Today we’re going to get a little festive in the spirit of Christmas in July and spotlight some festive favourites from our CHRISTMAS/WINTER STAMPS collection.

More fun with the Oddball Oz stamps today! Watch me colour main character Dorothy in my Oddball Oz Dorothy Copic Video.

Oddball Oz Dorothy & Toto

Stamps Used: Oddball Oz Dorothy & Toto, Oz Sentiment Set,

Oddball Oz Dorothy 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.

MWAH!

Elaineabella

Hello bellas!

Amy here, and I don’t know about you but this summer heat wave has me longing for a relaxing day at the beach. Since that isn’t currently in the cards for me, instead I cranked up the AC and figured I would live vicariously through the lovely Uptown Girl Lainie on the Lounger for this Scenic Saturday.

Lainie is definitely living her best life, with a fruity drink in her hand and all day to pamper herself with a bit of rest and relaxation. So, I figured she needed a special background and what could be more special than her own private beach? With Lainie on the Lounger being a larger stamp, I chose to flip the A2 sized card front on its side to a landscape orientation and stamp her off to the left hand side of the card. This left me with room for some fun background coloring, as well as leaving plenty of space for the sentiment that also comes with her. Because I wanted the sandy beach to appear as if it extended quite a ways back in the distance, I used a ruler to sketch in the horizon line at about Lainie’s eye level. This left the top 1/3 of the scene for the sky and the remaining 2/3 for the beach and that ‘rule of thirds’ ratio is another one of those design tricks that create a sense of balance in a scene and makes anything you create more visually appealing. Because my last two Scenic Saturday cards focused a lot on the ocean for setting the scene, this time I chose to flip the view and only hint at the waves lapping at the shoreline. When coloring the water I took advantage of the white card stock base, strategically leaving space between the patches of blue that would read as white foam, especially once I softened the edges with some white ink from a Sharpie extra fine white paint pen. And just like that, Lainie had her own private oasis.  🙂

Thanks for stopping by and stay crafty (and cool) my friends!