June 1, 2026
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Thank you to everyone who participated in our MerMay 2026 challenges! We love seeing your cards whether it is for a challenge or just because, so please keep sharing!
Week 1: Meghan Kennihan
Week 2: Marcia Harlamert
Week 3: Michela Pozzi
Week 4: Paola Passerini
Week 5: Anna Bartsch
If you are a winner, please email [email protected] so I can get your voucher sent over to you!
Here’s a look at all of the challenge entries for MerMay. I think you will agree, they are all mermazing!
If you’re feeling inspired, take a look through our Beach & Mermaid category for rubber stamps, or take a look in our Digital Stamps section.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
May 8, 2026 0 Comments
Happy Bellarific Friday! Not only is it Bellarific Friday today, it is the start of our second MerMay 2026 challenge. All you have to do is play along with each Friday this month, using currently available mermaid or beach themed stamps from Stamping Bella, and you could win $$ to spend on new stamps!
You can get all of the details in our Week 1 post HERE.
Our Babes have of course done an amazing job coming up with cards to inspire us again this week!
A fintastic card from Michele to get us started! Love the colours and the beautiful background.
An absolutely gorgeous scene from Delphine featuring our sweet Summer Bundle Girl and her puppy.
LOVE the sentiment choice from Ginger! Plus that background and the gorgeous pencil colouring. Mermazing!
Jenny created a sweet shaker card using our little Bundle Girl on her own without the puppy!
Debra’s background really evokes the feeling of waves! Love it.
An adorable beach scene from Steph! Love that stencilled background.
Hopefully the Babes have you feeling inspired to…
You can either enter here on the Inlinkz (no link needed), or over in the Week 2 album in our Stamping Bella Sistahood FB group.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
May 1, 2026 0 Comments
What a Friday! We’ve got our usual Bellarific Friday for you, but as today is the 1st of May, we’ve also got the start of our MerMay fun.
To get things started, we’ve got a special offer for you. 15% off all Beach and Mermaid themed rubber stamps from now until midnight EDT on Sunday 3rd May!
Offer applies to new orders only. Prices are already adjusted on the website. Discount does not stack with any other codes. Rubber stamps only.
This MerMay we are also inviting you to join in with our Bellariffic Friday challenges! You have the whole month to enter all of the challenges. Just follow along with each challenge listed below. You can enter your cards each week on the Bellarific Friday post, but I am adding all of the challenges for the month below so you can work ahead if you want to.
You must use CURRENT Stamping Bella rubber or digital stamps with a beach or mermaid theme, so make sure you check the website. Follow this link to see our Beach & Mermaid Rubber Stamps. We have two digital stamp sets that would fit the theme: Squidgy Mermaid Digital Stamp Set and Rosie & Bernie the Unicorn Under the Sea Digital Stamp Set.
You can enter via our Inlinkz below, or over on our Stamping Bella Sistahood Facebook group in the pinned challenge albums.
All the MerMay challenges will close at 2359 UTC+1 on 31st May 2026. A winner from each challenge will be drawn at random from all of the entries in our FB group and inLinkz and announced on Blogabella. The prize for each challenge is a $25 gift certificate for the Stamping Bella online store. Entrants are permitted 3 entries per challenge theme. Entries must be made to either FB or inLinkz, they may not be submitted to both – duplicate entries will be removed from the draw. You do not need a link to enter here on inLinkz.
You have all month to enter your cards in each weekly challenge. Every Friday the Bellarific Friday post and an album in the FB group will go up for you to enter your cards.
1st May 2026: MojoBella Sketch Challenge
8th May 2026: Photo/Colour Inspiration
15th May 2026: Anything Goes (this week the actual Bellarific Friday challenge for the Babes is a showcase of the latest release, so your challenge will just be to create whatever you like featuring mermaid/beach themed stamps).
22nd May 2026: Anything Goes (this week the actual Bellarific Friday challenge for the Babes is to use anything but the latest release, so your challenge will just be to create whatever you like featuring mermaid/beach themed stamps).
29th May 2026: MerMay Showcase: mermaids and underwater only this week please!
Here’s your inspiration from the Babes, featuring the MojoBella sketch shown above!
Look at that gorgeous tail! A mermazing card from Steph.
Such a cute card from Michele! Love the papers and those little die cut details.
Our shaker queen didn’t disappoint with this one! Love the paper in the shaker panels, and the colours on this adorable mermaid.
A very cool underwater collage style from Debra, complete with googly eyes!
A dreamy underwater scene from Delphine.
And last but in no way least, a fabulously coloured mermaid and a gorgeously layered card design from Ginger!
Hopefully you are feeling inspired to go and get your mermaid/underwater/beach themed stamps inked up! Looking forward to seeing your entries for the challenge. Have fun. MWAH!
Elaineabella
October 17, 2025 0 Comments
Friday is here again! Happily it brings some wonderful inspiration from our Babes. This week it also brings the winner announcement for our Harvest Hues & Halloween Views Challenge!
Winners can claim their prizes by emailing [email protected]
Our first winner, who will receive the mystery package of our stamps is Ruth Charles-Myers, with this fantastic Oddball card!
Our second winner, who will receive a $25 gift card for our website is Marcia Harlamert, with this adorable card featuring one of our Amy Glatiotis Collection stamps!
You know I love these weeks, when we ask our Babes to be inspired by each other. Let’s take a look!
Jenny created this beautiful Halloween card with some inspiration from Michele, which you can see below!
Debra created this beautiful Halloween card with a little inspiration from Delphine, which you can see below!
Love this fun card from Michele! She was inspired by one of Debra’s cards which you check out below.
Delphine created this gorgeous card with a little inspiration from me, which you can see below!
Another gorgeously coloured Tiny Townie from Ginger this week! She was inspired by Michele, and you can see that card below.
Finally, Steph created this beautiful card featuring one of our Kristin Farnsworth DandyLion stamps, inspired by Michele’s background stenciling on one of her DandyLion cards, which you can see below.
Wishing you a wonderfully colourful and crafty weekend. Hopefully we’ve inspired you to get your rubber stamps inked up.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
September 16, 2025 0 Comments
After a little break we are back with a fun challenge for you!
Since the participation has mostly been via our Stamping Bella Sistahood Facebook group for the past couple of challenges, we’re going to keep it simple and ask for entries to be uploaded over there.
Dates: The challenge is open from now 16th September 2025 to the end of 14th October 2025 (midnight ET). Winners will be announced here on the blog by 17th October 2025.
Prizes: Winners will be drawn at random from all the entries. One winner will be drawn to receive a mystery prize pack of Stamping Bella rubber stamps (around $50-60 value). One winner will be drawn to receive a $25 gift card for our online store.
Theme: Fall and Halloween. You can create cards/projects with either theme, or both!
Rules: You are permitted 4 entries to the challenge. Cards/projects must follow the theme above and feature a Stamping Bella stamp image as the main focal point. We would love to see you using as many Stamping Bella stamps as possible, including our sentiments, but we won’t nitpick over that! Just make sure that the main focus is a Stamping Bella image.
Upload your cards to the challenge album in our Facebook group HERE.
It shouldn’t need to be said, but entries we can see have been hand drawn or that we determine have been created using counterfeit stamps will be disqualified.
Have fun! If you need to do a little shopping, we have so many wonderful rubber stamps to fit the themes in our HALLOWEEN/FALL section!
MWAH!
Elaineabella
August 1, 2025 0 Comments
Firstly, apologies that I didn’t post the Christmas in July Challenge winners yesterday. I got caught up with work for the new Holiday 2025 release, and ran out of time! Hopefully you will forgive me when you see the new release later this month.
So, before we get into this week’s fabulous cards from the Babes, we have some winners!
Our first winner, who will receive the mystery stamp prize pack is Meghan Kennihan. Congrats Meghan!
We love this festive card Meghan shared, featuring our UPTOWN GIRL WINTER FAMILY & DOG STAMP SET.
Our second winner, who will receive a $25 gift card for our website is Melanie Ze. Congrats Melanie!
Melanie shared some beautiful cards, including this pair featuring our CURVY GIRL WITH BUBBLY RUBBER STAMP.
If you could both email me at [email protected] I will arrange for your prizes to be sent over!
We will be taking a little break from the challenges in August, but look out in September for something fun to participate in! In the meantime, please do keep tagging us when you share on social media, or join us in our Stamping Bella Sistahood FB group and share your Stamping Bella cards/projects there!
This week the Babes were challenged to be inspired by fellow team members, and as usual we have some really fun results.
Jenny created this adorable Christmas card, and I love the colours she used! Jenny was inspired by one of my cards, which you can see below.
Michele went with a soft vintage look for this Oddball, and was inspired by one of Ginger’s cards, which you can see below!
Delphine created this beautifully sentimental winter card, inspired by one of Michele’s cards.
Such a cute summer card from Steph! She was inspired by one of Ginger’s beach themed cards, which you can see below.
Debra created a fun card with one of our Oddball Fairytale stamps, inspired by Delphine’s card below!
Ginger created a fun festive design, inspired by one of my cards!
That’s it for today! Hopefully you’re feeling inspired to go and get those stamps inky. Don’t forget to leave us a comment below with some love for our Babes and all their hard work.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
July 1, 2025 0 Comments
Happy July! This month we are celebrating Christmas in July, because it is never too early to get started on those Christmas makes. We’ve got a new month long challenge for you, and a fantastic offer to get things started.
First up, from now until the end of 8th July 2025 (ET) you can enjoy 20% off our entire Christmas/Winter stamps section!
While you’re shopping, there are some stamps left in our Retired Stamps section. Grab ’em while you can!
Now on to the challenge fun! The challenge will close at the end of 29th July 2025 (ET), and winners will be announced on 31st July 2025. So if you somehow don’t have any stamps of ours that fit the challenge (or you just want to play with some new ones) you have time to shop before you get crafting, and the current Christmas in July sale is a great opportunity to get a deal!
Simply create Christmas themed cards/makes featuring Stamping Bella stamps.
We won’t nitpick over sentiments, but we would love to see you using some of our sentiment sets on your cards too! We don’t produce dies, so feel free to use whatever dies, embossing folders and papers you like. Just make sure you use Stamping Bella image stamps.
You are permitted FOUR entries to the challenge, and you can enter either in the challenge album on our Sistahood Facebook group, or via the InLinkz link party below in this post. Please do not enter in both locations, although we would love you to share your cards in our Facebook group (just don’t add to the challenge album if you’ve already entered via InLinkz).
Two winners will be drawn at random from all the entries. One will receive a SURPRISE STAMP PACKAGE with at least a $60 value. One will win a $25 gift card for our online store.
You can either submit your cards here or over in the Christmas in July 2025 Challenge album in our Facebook group.
Here’s a little inspiration from our archives to get you started! You can click the images to go to the product page for the stamp featured on our website. All of them are included in our Christmas in July sale – running through 8th July.
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We of course also have some sentiments that go beautifully with the above stamps! Please browse our Sentiment Set section for more ideas.
Don’t forget our gorgeous Backdrop Stamps to set the scene. We have some great winter and Christmas themed ones.
That’s it! We hope you will enjoy joining in with us again this month, and we really look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations.
MWAH
Elaineabella
June 30, 2025 3 Comments
A huge thank you to all who participated in our June 2025 Fluttering Wings & Summer Blooms challenge. So many beautiful cards featuring stamps new and old. We love to see it!
We have our winners!
Anna Bartsch is our main prize winner, and will receive the package of stamps from our latest release!
The $25 gift card goes to Janelle PaperSparkles!
If you are one of our winners, please contact me via email to [email protected] to claim your prize!
Let’s take a look at some of the wonderful cards that were entered.
Thank you again to everyone who entered! We really love seeing your cards – please keep sharing any Stamping Bella cards on social media (tag us @stampingbella and use the #stampingbella hashtag).
Our July challenge will start tomorrow (with an extra surprise), so keep your eyes on the blog/social media. Hint: hope you’re feeling festive.
MWAH!
Elaineabella
June 4, 2025 0 Comments
If you haven’t seen our June Fluttering Wings & Summer Blooms challenge make sure you check that out HERE! There’a a prize pack of our rubber stamps and a gift voucher up for grabs.
My card today would fit the challenge perfectly.
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!
MWAH!
Elaineabella
June 2, 2025 0 Comments
After the fun of our MerMay challenge, we decided to keep things going. During June we have a new challenge for you to participate in, with more prizes to be won!
All you need to join in are stamps from Stamping Bella featuring bees, butterflies, dragonflies, moths or flowers. Or all of them! Lots of scope for creativity!
The challenge will close at the end of 27th June 2025 (ET), and winners will be announced on 30th June 2025. So if you somehow don’t have any stamps of ours that fit the challenge (or you just want to play with some new ones) you have time to shop before you get crafting!
No special requirements for this one, we just want to see your cards featuring Stamping Bella stamps depicting bees, butterflies, dragonflies, moths, or flowers. Be as creative as you like, just make sure you use our image stamps.
We won’t nitpick over sentiments, but we would love to see you using some of our sentiment sets on your cards too! We don’t produce dies, so feel free to use whatever dies, embossing folders and papers you like. Just make sure you use Stamping Bella image stamps.
You are permitted FOUR entries to the challenge, and you can enter either in the challenge album on our Sistahood Facebook group, or via the InLinkz link party below in this post. Please do not enter in both locations, although we would love you to share your cards in our Facebook group (just don’t add to the challenge album if you’ve already entered via InLinkz).
One lucky winner, selected at random from all entries will win this package of EIGHT of our rubber stamps/sets. Worth around $80 USD.
One other lucky winner will receive a $25 gift card for our online store!
You can either submit your cards here or over in the Fluttering Wings & Summer Blooms Challenge Album in our Sistahood FB Group.
Here are some (not all) of our stamps that might fit the bill for this challenge. There are more on our online store!
We of course also have some sentiments that go beautifully with the above stamps! Please browse our Sentiment Set section for more ideas.
Finally, some inspiration from the archives, featuring some of the stamps. Just to get your creative inspiration flowing!
That’s it! We hope you will enjoy joining in with us again this month, and we really look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations.
MWAH
Elaineabella
