Hello bellas!

Amy here, and we are headed to the beach for this week’s summer inspired Scenic Saturday card. The Mini Oddballs Playing in the Sand stamp set had caught my eye and there is something about this mischievous pair that had me excited about telling their story on a card.

I began by stamping this fun-loving pair into the lower left hand side of this A2 sized card front. I knew that between the ocean, sand and sky that I would need to figure out where the horizon line would land. One of the easiest cheats I share for that is to use the eye line of your main character as a reference point. Grab a ruler and whether a little above of a bit below their eye line, quickly sketch in your horizon and this will convincingly lead the viewer’s eye back into the far distance of your scene. Because of their smaller size and the low placement of my stamping, the horizon line at the Oddball girl’s eye line ended up splitting the scene nearly perfectly in half. The top of the card became all blue skies and wispy clouds while the bottom half contains all of the action. I wish I could say that I planned for that all along but in truth, this was a happy accident that added a great sense of balance to the overall scene. All that was left for me to do was color up these Mini Oddballs in some bright, happy colors and hint at some rippling waves disappearing off into the distance. As a final finishing touch, I was compelled to add some beach umbrellas way back at the horizon line, opposite the playful kiddos because I felt that the design needed an extra splash of color and balance. To be honest, they probably look more like beach balls but that accomplishes the same goal so you won’t find me complaining, LOL!  😉

Stay crafty my friends!

This week Bellariffic Friday is all about our wonderful ANIMAL FRIENDS stamps. The Babes have all chosen great stamps to work with this week, and the cards are phenomenal! There’s even a new colouring video at the end, so dive in and enjoy.

Debra used MOUSE BANDIT (includes sentiment)

Ginger used our UNDER THE SEA CREATURES set

Jenny used ELLIE LOVES PHANT STUFFIES and our PINKY PROMISE SENTIMENT SET.

Christine used our UNDER THE SEA CREATURES set and the UNDER THE SEA SENTIMENT SET

Alice used GUINEA WITH A KEY (includes sentiment)

Sandie used MOUSE BOUQUET (includes sentiment)

Elaine used DONKEY TRIO STUFFIES and our ENCOURAGEMENT SENTIMENT SET

Donkey Trio Stuffies Pencil Video

Watch Elaine colour this stamp in the video below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on her YouTube channel.

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

Elaineabella

Time for another amazing step by step tutorial from our Sandiebella!

Father’s Day Pop-up Card with Gift Card Pocket

Supplies:

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 more 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, you can find the first post about them HERE and there will be another post soon!

The Oddball Court Jester stamp is such a great image for fun birthday cards. You can watch my Oddball Fairytale Court Jester Copic Video below now to see how he came to life using Copic markers.

Oddball Fairytale Court Jester

Stamps Used: Oddball Fairytale Court Jester, Fairytale Sentiment Set,

Oddball Fairytale Court Jester 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

Hi!

Tamara here with you with my new card made for Stamping Bella design team. I used The Cat and The Ornament image to make this early Christmas card. First I stamped my rubber stamp with Archival Ink – Jet Black on 300 g HP Fabriano artistico watercolour paper and then I coloured it up using ZIG black marker for the cat and Barn door distress ink for the ornament. I added some details with white gel pen and then I fussy cut it.

For the card I chose some pretty red-white-teal papers from my stash. I made the center part as a shaker filled with lots of pretty sequins, diamonds and clay embellishments.

Sentiment “It’s all fun and games until santa checks the naughty list” is from Stamping Bella also. It’s just one of the great sentiments from “Holiday fun sentiment set“.

Have a great Sunday!
Hugs, t.