WELCOME TO BLOGABELLA

Where you felt that you had a child hanging on every limb… where you felt like you were a constant chauffeur?  Well I sure have!  I will never forget.. when I demo’d at a 4 day show here in Toronto in October (the ‘creativ’ festival.. and YES I DID SPELL IT RIGHT OK?) where I had 2 super cool hot mamas sitting with me at my table.. we were just chatting and having glitter fights (one of them SHMEARED it into the other one’s hair, then the other one took the spoon and put it down the other one’s shirt and I participated by dunking myself in it (I swear, my husband thought I ate the stuff as each and every night my TONGUE.. yes my TONGUE was saturated in glitter–along with the rest of my bod). Anyway, these two ladies followed me to the LSS who launched me for another demo about a month later.  We started talking about our kids and they said to me “Emily, I think it is so important that you have a bella who drives a minivan with lots of kids in the picture.. that’s our lives and we would have tons of people to send that to”.. I say to myself. “self? do ya think that is a good idea?” and I answered myself.. (no i did not.. that is a sign of TRUE sickness).. I thought about it and said WHO would send that to someone.. and then I looked out the store’s window and what do I see parked there?? Yup you guessed it my tres-chic silver MINIVAN… who usually sits in there?? MY 2 KIDS… so I said, you know what?  That is a phenom idea.. I think I will dedicate this “minivanabella” to all those moms out there who are the dedicated chauffeurs/caregivers/boo boo kissers/feeders/lovers/minivan-drivers (i mean to drive that you deserve a medal). Don’t get me wrong.. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my minivan but it took quite a bit of convincin’ to make me drive that big piece of metal.. but now I have finally learned how to drive it without bashing into sidewalks (remind me to tell you that story.. OY YOY), or running people over (you get the picture).. now the great thing about this stamp is that the minivan (thank you Nicky for the great idea!) can actually be cut out and used for a background.. HOW CUTE IS THAT??????

In any event.. I am pretty pleased with this one.. have you ever heard me say “pretty pleased?”..  no.. I am all about superlatives.. I LOOOOOVE this bella and can totally associate with it… I even made a stamp that says “I know you’re bizzy”.. HOW cute is that??

So that’s my little nugget of information tonight.. I am half asleep right now but wanted to just keep in touch..I will be posting annoyingly throughout the weekend so stay tuned.. have some ideas up my sleeve and wanna know your thoughts..

 C.E.A

chief executive addictabella but you can call me sista for short

 have a great weekend

Em

P.S. arent you glad you finally found a cardmaker’s blog who doesn’t feature ANY techniques or cards?? (LOLOL.. even making myself laugh here).. I promise I will post some cards but you know what?? Where can you find a goofball addictabella who can shamelessly write about her antics and capers without blushing??

toodles for now AGAIN

Em

Hello sistahs

I will be posting more as the day progresses.. ok, maybe after the kiddies are asleep 😉

I just wanted to let you know that I have 2 sizes of the shopping bellas.. the bigger one has more room to color but is second on the drop-down list so you would have to click on the arrow.. I wanted to put the bigger one as the first choice but no can do..

just wanted to give y’all (my contribution to the american contingency) a head’s up!

speak to ya latah

CAO  (chief addictabelling officer)–*giggles*

ok, so this is what I have been thinking about and let me know what your thoughts are.  I have created cardbackabella. She is deliciously CUTE.  I want to just EAT her.  I have been thinking long and hard about this and I think it is fair. Let me know your thoughts.  I have created a very affordable stamp to be placed at the back of the beautiful cards (or whatever else was created with my bellas).  it is teeny tiny measuring 1″ * 1.5″ and it is visually appealing. It is a stamp of stamping bella and next to it in little print it says

“images owned by Stamping Bella ©

www.stampingbella.com

very very small and inconspicuous and it allows the artist to still stamp or handwrite “created by and their name”

am i out of my mind or is this tres cool with everyone?  Please give me your thoughts.  It is important to me and my angel policy to have it known that my images are copyrighted and belong to me but at the same time, I want to allow my fellow sistah addictabellas to create create create!  That’s how I started!

Tell me what you think oh sistahs

Em

stamping bella???  HERE SHE COMESSSS MISS STAMPING_BEH_EH_LAAA (sang to the tune of miss america…)  Idn’t she adorable??? I LLOVE HER.  she has been revamped from scrap and stampabella.. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE HER..

let me know what you think

emma-i’m-annoyinga-bella

wanted to make sure you understood that SHMIZ (AKA LIZ).. has a *pure* and innocent look too.. like Elizabella.. YA HAPPY miss innocence??–not.

Em-addictabella

WOULD THE NEW AND IMPROVED ELIZABELLA PLEASE COME FORWARD? My friend Liz in montreal (Elizabeth) looked at my line and I showed her her namesake.. she said “OH, that’s nice”.. so of course I ask her what’s wrong with her?  she says.. umm.. she’s not sexy at all and I SO AM..lol. (she so IS and I wanna kill ‘er)… SO, I decided to add *ahem* for lack of a word that I would LOVE to scream out on my blog but won’t (I promised I would be ‘clean’ here.. LOL).. a pair of SEDUCTIVE , HOT, laces up to the YAHOO boots..  NOW she be sexy. NO? 

This one’s for you , SHMIZ.

em-addictabella