WELCOME TO BLOGABELLA

contest ends next Thursday Dec. 21st! keep em coming!

See the post below… WHOMEVER comes up with the BEST excuse ever that I will personally use on my husband can get a bella of their choice as a prize!! So get cracking and make sure to leave your email or blog address in the comments so I can contact you!

Happy thinking!

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My dearest 8–perhaps another repeat customer so I may have 9 on Monday!  YIPPEEEE

It’s Friday..and the first night of Chanukah… SO EXCITED… what tool should I buy myself to celebrate? (*giggles*)… Already have my EYE on a purse.. hmmm just what I need.  The great thing about shoes or purses are that they always fit AND if you need a BIGGER size, you don’t get aggravated or depressed!  So what.. I am now a size 10 shoe rather than a 9.  Do you get depressed?  NOPE.  Same with stamp supplies.. they always *fit*– LOL.  Next week, I promise to get more into the card making techniques and I have to concentrate on posting more images on my site.. lots and lots more. So, we will wait for next week for the juicy stuff.  Now I would like to confer with all my fellow crafters.. How many times have you gone to the cash at your LSS or Michaels or any hobby store and recite the following mantra “my husband is gonna divorce me if he finds out that I spent this”.  I think I have said this line about 6543 times and counting SO… thanks to my mentor and design team member Nicky Manel (you will see her work here next week), I have learned several ways of dealing with this issue.  Namely, creative accounting.

(1) as you see in the attractive picture above (hey at least the garbage can is PINK!), you can easily just crumple up the bill and flick it carelessly into the trash.. and BURY IT. (you can light on fire as well, but this is quite dangerous)

(2)  You can take your goodies to the cash and simply pay a portion in cash and the rest on credit, get two bills, make sure that the lower bill is the cash bill and keep that one in the bag.. come home with a *BIG GRIN* on your face and say to your beloved “CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT I BOUGHT FOR $20??”  little does he know that the other $180 bill is stuffed in the bottom of your purse.

 (3) you can leave the goodies in the car til your lovey goes to sleep and THEN, ONLY THEN, dressed in holy ratty pj’s run to the car when no one is looking, grab the bag and STUFF and I mean STUFF into your closet.  When you take it out and he happens to ask you when and where you got it (if he cares) then you will have a look of SHOCK and HORROR on your face and say “THIS OLD THING?”.. ALWAYS works..

 These are my FAVES but they are getting old so if anyone wants to share their creative accounting tips, it would be my honour to learn from you.. need to freshen up the excuses!

 Toodles and love to all

Have a PHENOM weekend and I will *see* you on Monday!

Em

you would read a blog about an eraser? 

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Hello Extravagant 8! 

Today is considered “useless” day in my books.  By “useless” I mean I-SO-CAN’T-GET-ANYTHING-DONE-SO-I-WILL-TALK-ABOUT-AN-ERASER-DAY.  I ran around dropping off my son, picking up my son then dropping him off again (only to pick him up YET AGAIN-LOL).  I stopped at my LSS to celebrate Hannah’s birthday (one of my stamping group ladies) and we all ate, shmoozed,ate drank and ate (sounds like my driving schedule! *giggles*)  Anyway enough about me cuz CLEARLY I can go on and on and on!

 I wanted to talk about this BIG TICKET ITEM for sale on my website!  I just love this eraser I swear.. it is soft and gummy yet firm enough to even get into close corners!  I use it to erase my chalk *errors* and the paper comes out soooo clean that you wouldn’t believe there was anything there in the first place!  important stuff huh?  But really, it is important cuz without it, you would have one helluva messy card!  Another use for it is to smudge your chalks.. fun to play around and make backgrounds!

 So, I thought I would post something today.. Something brain candyish that you really don’t have to focus on and HERE IT IS!

Off to cut, stuff, and index.. til the wee hours of the night….

 toodles to my 8!

Em

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Hi fabulous 8!  (my audience has exploded! *giggles*)

I am on my way to get my 3 new bellas made (nope, not telling)!! SO EXCITED you have no ideaR! Picked up lots of rubbaH yesterday so should be packing and posting more stuff today!  Valentines is almost done and should be on line (fingers crossed) by Monday!

Here is a happy card I made using my swirly heart and tombow markers to colour in.  I just love tombows for their translucency and ability to get into small areas without streaking.. OH and their wonderful, amazing colour palette… just love those tombows!  So I coloured each swirl in by hand in different colours, stamped it on my “bella coated paper” with Black memories ink, layered it on my “romance” by Bazzill and then layered that on my ultimate fave Bazzill colour “parakeet”.  YUM!  Then, I FINALLY used my scalloped scissors made by fiskars.. have had a small obssession with the ‘scallop’.  Everything I have bought for the past 2 months has been scalloped in some way..LOL; paper, scissors,trimmers,templates,punches.. hmph.  So I scalloped the bottom of the parakeet leaving some room for my ‘thinking of you’ sentiment and I stamped it with my swirl to match the heart (shhh don’t tell anyone but if you get my swirl border, you have one or two extra swirls that you can cut off and use for your background) . 

Before I layered it, I looked into my organized (not) drawer of ribbons and found this spectacular little bit of pink satin and voila!  

 Now my question to all of you right now is… what do you think happened after I made this card?

 Yup, I had to go and by about 600 yards of every different colour satin ribbon.  Hmph.

toodles to you

have a great day

Em

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Hello six of you

I am so tired and needing some sleep but am so *juiced* by this card that I had to share.. oh and by the way, I have no idea what sleep is.. I am always awake and inspired and creating and emailing and surfing.. hmm a full time job me thinks!  This card actually was inspired by Julie Ebersole – one of my faves around – and her love for ‘tinis.  I was out shopping (for a change) and saw this AMAZING paper (Karen Foster Designs) that I thought Julie would love and her love for my Cosmobella… what a treat to pair the two together!! Of course had to send it to her!  Oh and my curly “cheers” sentiment which makes me happy too!

I am obssessed with the Mineral Spirits technique (I am posting a kit on my site cuz I love it so much–called the bella spirits and blender and sanding block) and I actually tried something new!  I usually use a beautiful coated paper that works amazingly with the technique AND is cost efficient-(will be selling as well) but THIS time.. THIS time I used hot press water colour paper.. OMG. OMG. OMG.. it was spectacular.  The prismacolor colored pencil just ‘melted’ and ‘blended’ into the paper… what a treat (V.V.V. expensivo)! And of course Black Memories ink (my fave) and quickie glue pen and sparkle.. otherwise known as GLITTAH.  LOVE IT!!!  do you think I had fun with this card????

 Toodles to all six of you and have a phenom day

(Oh I think we are up to 7-my mother in law is reading too *giggles*- I better behave)

Em