It’s the first Tuesday of the month which means it’s CRAZY TUESDAY!

Grab this month’s offers at crazy prices today and only for today! Check out the inspiration below to see why you need them, then click on over to the store to grab them before the prices return to normal (by midnight tonight).

So, as Sandie wasn’t able to get a tutorial done for last Thursday, and I didn’t manage to get my act together and get any colouring done last week, we bring you Thursday with Sandiebella on Monday, rather than Marker Geek Monday. Ahem! Normal service will resume shortly. In the meantime, enjoy another wonderful step by step guide from Sandie, this time showing you how to recreate her adorable exploding thank you card!

Exploding Thank You Card

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I hope you’re enjoying a beautiful weekend. Our lovely Delphine is back with some fantastic inspiration this Sunday! Just look at this wonderful card featuring ODDBALL LEONARDO (set includes sentiment).

Delphine coloured Leonardo using Copics and a little pencil. The background was created using acrylic paints.

I don’t know about you, but I’m definitely feeling inspired! My craft desk is calling.

MWAH!

Elaineabella

Hello bellas!

Amy here, with a new summertime inspired Scenic Saturday card. Living in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, hiking is certainly a popular past time around here. And since I recently added the fabulous Curvy Girl Loves to Hike to my Stamping Bella collection, I went right to her as the star of this show. Because my goal was to really immerse Curvy right in amongst the tall trees of the forest, I used a couple scraps of masking paper to block out part of her hand, walking stick and feet when I stamped her. Once the masks were removed, I was left with blank space that I could then color in as a large tree trunk and grass that both now appear to be in front of her. This simple trick adds interest by helping to create a foreground and midground within your scene.

I took my time coloring Curvy and the landscape in front of her, including the addition of some large boulders on either side of the path and the wood sign containing the sentiment, because I find it is easier not to accidentally meld the background and foreground together when one is already completely fleshed out and the detail work taken care of. So, once I had that foreground space looking just how I wanted, I moved on to sketching in the forest behind our pretty hiker. Adding a babbling brook cutting through roughly the middle of the scene was a fun way to add some additional distance between Curvy and the rest of the trees. Just remember that the further in the distance you want something to appear, the lighter the colors you want to use to create them. Take those trees way off in the very back, I used a single earth tone Copic, E55, to sketch them in over the golden glow of the sky that I laid down first. Now when they are viewed in comparison to the more detailed trees, your mind reads them as further away rather than side by side. I hope this makes sense and that it inspires you to play with color as a way to create depth in your own coloring.  🙂

Stay crafty my friends!

Today’s Bellariffic Friday inspiration is all about our current Stamp of the Month offer for June – our adorable THE GUINEAS GET MARRIED stamp set.

We’ve got some lovely cards from the Babes showing off how cute this one is! The lovely sentiment you see on all the cards is included in the stamp set with the adorable guinea pig bride and groom.

Wishing you a colourful and crafty weekend!

Elaineabella

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 take a look at some of our amazing ODDBALL ICONS – our quirky take on some inspirational characters you may recognise! This collection includes some really great options for those sometimes challenging cards for the men in our lives. We have quite a few in the collection, so we’ll take a look at some today, and more in a future post or two!