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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!

Ok, so, sometimes we have a few too many balls in the air and some of those balls end up getting dropped! That happened to me last week. So, as I’m catching up and also taking a little break from my usual Monday and Wednesday posts, I bring you our usual Weekend Inspiration with Delphine today, instead of Marker Geek Monday! Ahem. Normal service to be resumed soon!

While I’m catching my breath and getting my life in order, our wonderful Delphine has an absolutely gorgeous card to inspire us all!

Delphine coloured our MINI ODDBALL HAS A PRESENT stamp using Faber-Castell Polychromos coloured pencils and created the background using watercolour markers. The sentiment comes in the set with our Mini Oddball!

That’s all for now! Have a wonderful week.

MWAH!

Elaineabella

Hi!

Tamara here with you on this sunny Sunday. We had lots and lots of rain in the last few weeks so we’re really enjoying the warmer and sunnier days. For this week’s post I made a card with Pinky Promise rubber stamp and Pinky Promise sentiment set. I stamped my image with Archival Ink – Jet black on 300 g HP watercolouring paper and then coloured it up using Distress ink pads. I used Vintage photo distress ink pad for the hands and Barn door and Fossilized amber distress ink pads for the flowers.

I used two sentiments from Pinky Promise sentiment set, “Pinky Promise” and “Friends forever.”. There’s a lot of different sentiments to choose from in this set.

To finish off the card I chose some pastel design papers from my stash.

That’s all from me today.
Hugs, t.

Today’s Bellariffic Friday inspiration is all about the LATEST RELEASE! The Babes have all chosen some fantastic new stamps to work with, so read on for some beautiful ideas to take you into the weekend.

Sandie used ODDBALL FAIRYTALE DRAGON SITTING and our HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU SENTIMENT SET

Jenny used CURVY GIRL LOVES TO ROLLER SKATE with our HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU SENTIMENT SET

Ginger used ODDBALL OZ SCARECROW with the GOOD VIBES SENTIMENT SET

Alice used CURVY GIRL LOVES TO HIKE with our CELEBRATE & CONGRATULATE SENTIMENT SET

Michele used ODDBALL FAIRYTALE COURT JESTER with our FAIRYTALE SENTIMENT SET

Debra used CURVY GIRL PLAYS TENNIS with our FAIRYTALE SENTIMENT SET

Christine used SUMMER BUNDLE GIRL WITH A BEACH BALL AND PUPPY and our SUMMER SENTIMENT SET

Such a fabulous set of cards. I hope you’re feeling as thoroughly inspired as I am. Wishing you all a colourful and crafty weekend!

Elaineabella