September 15, 2024
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Hi friends!
Amy here with another Scenic Saturday post on the Blogabella. This week I’ve inked up a cute older stamp called, The Gnome and the Squirrel. This one has been in my crafty stash for a while now, just waiting to be inked up. With the nights getting cooler and the leaves beginning to change, this felt like the perfect time to get these two on a card celebrating the season.
I began by inking them up using a dark drown ink rather than black, to give the card a slightly softer look. The fluffy squirrel and the gnome where both colored in earthy autumnal colors before I set in on the rest of the scene. A large tree root directly behind the gnome helps play up their diminutive size, while on the other side of the card you see more of the tree trunk which makes that tree appear to be further off in the distance. To continue playing up that sense of space within the scene I extended the field of green grass half way up the card front then topped it off with a hedge row of Fall colored trees. This simple technique provides just enough background to be interesting yet not too distracting from this friendly pair exchanging tasty acorns. The sentiment is from the Autumn Sentiment set and it keeps the theme of the card general enough that I can send it for any number of occasions that may come up this time of year. 🙂
Stay crafty my friends!
Amybella
September 13, 2024 13 Comments
Happy Bellarific Friday! We’re back with our usual fabulous collection of cardmaking and colouring inspiration to help you get those stamps inked up and on your next project.
Each week you have a chance to win a $25 gift card for our website, just by commenting on the Bellarific Friday post for that week.
On last week’s post we had 6 comments, and I’ve used a random number generator to select a winner (counting comments from oldest to newest).
Our winner for last week is Nicki Bulley!
Congratulations Nicki! Please email me at customerservice@stampingbella.com and I will get your gift card sent over.
Let’s get into the inspiration! This week the Babes were asked to create something using older (but still available) stamps from our collection. Feel free to play along and do the same and share your creations with us.
I love the clean look and fall colours on Michele’s card! The paper piecing on Curvy Girl’s outfit is wonderful too.
More gorgeous paper piecing, this time from Steph! It’s such a great way to create stylish outfits, and so easy to add detail and shading with markers or pencils.
I love that Sandra chose to spook up a non-Halloween stamp! Poor little Harry the Stuffie looks terrified delivering that card!
Ginger made this Oddball even more quirky and fun by adding some oversized die cut glasses! Love how he looks against the kraft too.
Delphine chose our sweet Bundle Girl for her card. Love the mixed media look of that background.
A sweet little card from Alice! Her use of white space and soft layers is always so lovely.
Loving our Queen of Hearts in royal blue from Debra!
I’m in full on Halloween colouring mode now, and I couldn’t resist playing with a favourite from last year! Love this sweet little witchy. I didn’t film the colouring process this time, but have added my original video for her below in case you would like to reference that one!
You can watch my earlier video of colouring this stamp below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on my YouTube channel.
That’s it from us today! If you’re feeling inspired, be sure to tag us on social media #stampingbella and @stampingbella on Instagram and Facebook. Feel free to share your creations in the comments section below too. REMEMBER: leave us a comment on this post to be in with a chance of winning that $25 gift certificate! No need to create anything, just leave us a comment.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
September 11, 2024 0 Comments
Our fabulous Uptown Girl Francine is ready for ANY celebration.
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.
That’s it from me for today! See you on Friday for Bellarific Friday. If you have yet to comment on last week’s post, make sure you do that to be in with a chance of winning a gift card!
MWAH!
Elaineabella
September 9, 2024 1 Comments
Some cowgirl fun with one of our gorgeous new Uptown Girls today!
Isn’t she fantastic? So many ways you could colour her – I opted for the glam Barbie look.
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.
That’s it for today! I’ll catch you on Wednesday with another card and video.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
September 8, 2024 2 Comments
Hello everyone! This week for my Inspiration Post, I have done something a bit different to feature one of our latest stamps, a journal page! I find playing with paints and stamps in my journal so relaxing, so I thought I would share one.
I chose to use the beautiful Uptown Girl Greta Loves To Garden, coloured her in Copics and fussy cut her.
To create my background, I applied acrylic paint with a brayer for my sky, and then drew on top of my sky with acrylic markers and Posca pens. I added a few touches of pencil here and there to add a bit more contrast to my background. For the sentiment, I stamped the word “autumn” from the Autumn Sentiment set and die cut the word Hello. I then added a piece of washi tape and my Uptown Girl on it.
Copic markers used:
Skin: E000, 00, 11, 15, R20
Hair: E37, 59, YR23
Pink: RV10, 32, 34
Purple: BV08, 13, 17
Carrots: Y35, YR04, 07
Tomatoes: R22, 24, 27
Leaves: BG72, 78, G14, 17, 28, YG17
Happy stamping and crafting!
Delphineabella
September 6, 2024 6 Comments
Happy Bellarific Friday! We’re back with more fantastic cardmaking and colouring inspiration to help you get those stamps inked up and on your next project.
Each week you have a chance to win a $25 gift card for our website, just by commenting on the Bellarific Friday post for that week.
On last week’s post we had 13 comments, and I’ve used a random number generator to select a winner (counting comments from oldest to newest).
Our winner for last week is Bo Gilmore!
Congratulations Bo! Please email me at customerservice@stampingbella.com and I will get your gift card sent over.
Let’s get into the inspiration! This week the Babes were asked to create something using stamps from the latest release. Feel free to play along and do the same and share your creations with us!
The Spec-Taculars and especially Spec-Tacular Swinging Pots were a popular choice this week.
Jenny created a gorgeous shaker card. I always love the soft feminine detail on Jenny’s cards, and of course the shakey shaker element!
The little mixed media details on Delphine’s work always make me so happy. Such great texture and detail.
Sandra created another eye-catching scene by fussy cutting the image and popping her up in front of a fun designer paper background.
Alice’s layered collage style always feels so warm and cozy. Her cards are like a big warm hug.
Love the colours Debra chose for this little mermaid! She looks magical.
Michele’s cards never fail to make me smile. She always frames the images so well.
Ginger very cleverly again used just one of the cuties from the Swinging Pots stamp! I love how she layers fussy cut images and other elements like the sentiment in the background here.
I used one of our beautiful new Kristin Farnsworth stamps for today’s card. Such a beautiful image, with so many possibilities for colouring and creating.
You can watch me colouring the Jar of Sprouted Hearts stamp in the video below. If you enjoy watching please do like the video and subscribe over on my YouTube channel.
That’s it from us today! If you’re feeling inspired, be sure to tag us on social media #stampingbella and @stampingbella on Instagram and Facebook. Feel free to share your creations in the comments section below too. REMEMBER: leave us a comment on this post to be in with a chance of winning that $25 gift certificate! No need to create anything, just leave us a comment.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
