An Optimistic Bellariffic Fridays

This weeks Bellariffic Fridays challenge was a sketch - I tweaked it just a little (putting the oval panel under the other) so I could work with the image I chose.

Uptown Girl Opal the Optimist is stamped with memento tuxedo black ink onto bella's bestest white card stock and coloured with copics.  I fussy cut around the image and mounted it onto a piece of river rock card stock.  The dp is Pink Paislee's City Sidewalks.

Please stop by Bloggabella to see the rest of the babes and sistah's creations.  Next weeks challenge is Winter Wonderland (walking in a….)  Email your card to Em by Thursday to be included on Bloggabella and you could win some Bella bucks!!




Thanks for stopping by!

Dana

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Karen has another fabulous Sweet Sunday Sketch for us this week

Maybe it's the time of year or the snow outside my stamp room window (although we do have a Chinook so it's melting!) but I decided to may another Christmas card.

I've had Inspired by Christmas  from MFT for a LONG time and this is the first time I inked up one of the images!  I stamped the image onto bella's bestest white card stock and coloured his suit and hat with pencils blended with mineral spirits. I added a bit of shading on his beard with copics.   The DP is MME's Mistletoe Magic - I may have overbought it when I was planning my mass production holiday cards and I love non traditional patterns.  I used MFT's fishtail flags stax die-namics for the flag behind the image.

I continued the colour them on the inside of the card and added some fishtail flags stax die-namics in the dp.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set from MFT

If you play along with us remember to link your card on Karen's blog and please stop by the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers blogs to see their creations.

• Dawn Easton
• Jackie Pedro
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Karen Motz
• Lisa Henke
• Lori Tecler
• Lynn Put
• Melissa Hubert
• Sarah Jane Kale'
• Tracy Clemente
• Vicki Burdick

Thanks for stopping by!

Dana 

Inspiration Challenge 5...

Today's Bellariffic Fridays challenge was our last Inspiration challenge for this year - I must say I have really enjoyed these challenges.

I saw the wreath and knew I wanted to do a winter card and used the colours to make it non traditional.

I inked up Uptown Girl Winona loves Winter with memento tuxedo black ink and stamped it onto bella's bestest white card stock. I coloured her with a mixture copics and pencils with mineral spirits.  I then fussy cut the image out and mounted it onto a piece of white card stock embossed with swiss dots. The sentiment is a retired Bella image - one of my favourite sentiments because of the font and size.  I added some rhinestones on the sentiment panel to give her some bling and a snow flake cut with MFT snowflake die-namics.

Please stop by Bloggabella to see the rest of the Babes and sistah's creations.  Next weeks challenge is a sketch - email your card to Em by Thursday to be included on Bloggabella

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!!

Dana

100 Complete!!

I needed to make the holiday cards we send out for hubby's work and to family and friends.  You know once you send out a "made" card you can't go back to buying them and somehow the number I need to make keeps increasing!

For my card this year I thought I had a simple card - Ya right!!  There are 4 layers (one embossed) a sentiment panel that's embossed and then 5 layers to the tree.  Oh and the little washi tape snowflake and rhinestone - yep I'm crazy!!

When I designed the card I was sure I had bought a 2 layer Christmas Tree Silhouette while in Kelowna earlier in the summer, Amanda from Ever After Scrapbooking & Papercrafts was sure it was Dee's Distinctively Christmas Stack tree I'd bought from her - she was right!

The DP is MME's Mistletoe Magic, when I make mass production cards I use the 12x12 paper.  The sentiment panel is a sentiment from My Favourite Things Merry & Bright which I think is retired.  I stamped it with versamark ink then heat embossed with white embossing powder; yep all 100 of them!  For the white panel behind the tree I used swiss dots embossing folder.

Now to find the list and start the addressing process!!




Thanks for stopping by!

Dana

Warm Wishes

Today's Bellariffic Fridays challenge was sketch

For my card I inked up one of Stamping Bella's older holiday images - Minty Coffee with memento tuxedo black ink onto bella's bestest white card stock and coloured with pencils and mineral spirits.  I paper pieced the mug onto the base layer to give the card some dimension.  I then inked around the image with antique linen distress ink then to give it an aged look I sanded the edges of the the circle.  The dp is MME's Mistletoe Magic.  On the corner I added a piece of snowflake washi tape and a rhinestone.

Please stop by Bloggabella to see all the other babes and sistah's creations - remember we are having a Guest Babe starting in the new year click here for all the details.

Next weeks Bellariffic Fridays challenge is an inspiration challenge - email your card to Em by Thursday to be included on Bloggabella 

Thanks for stopping by!

Dana

Branching out on a Sweet Sunday

Karen has another fabulous sketch for us this week (SSSC197) and for my card I inked up one of MFT's new images Trim the Branches Snowman.

The image is stamped onto bella's bestest white card stock and coloured with some copics, but mainly pencils with mineral spirits.  On the ornaments I used either a clear glaze pen or gold gelly roll pen.  I cut the image out using MFT's pierced circle die-namics then layered it on a piece of burgundy card stock cut with a nestie.  The tag behind the dp banner is cut with MFT's fishtail flags layers stax die-namics.  I shaded around the image with bundled sage and antique linen distress inks.  The snow on the ground is done with DecroArt Glistening Snow Writer The DP is Basic Greys Aspen Frost.

For the inside of the card I inked a piece of white cardstock with the antique linen and bundled sage distress inks, added some banners in the dp cut with MFT's fish tail flags layer die-namics.

If you have a chance to play along with the sketch this week remember to link your card on Karen's blog.  Please stop by the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers blogs to see their creations.

• Dawn Easton
• Jackie Pedro
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Karen Motz
• Lisa Henke
• Lori Tecler
• Lynn Put
• Melissa Hubert
• Sarah Jane Kale'
• Tracy Clemente
• Vicki Burdick

Thanks for stopping by!

Dana

Mix n Match....

Happy Friday - today's Bellariffic Fridays challenge was to "Mix & Match" - use more then one Stamping Bella stamp on your card.

For my card I inked up Uptown Girl Claudia has a Candy and "celebrate" definition block.  Claudia is stamped with versafine black ink onto water colour paper and coloured with distress markers and tombow markers.  Celebrate sentiment is stamped with Stazon onto velum paper.  The dp is Glitz's Cashmere Dame.

Please stop by Bloggabella to see the rest of the babes and sistah's creations.

Don't forget we are have a Guest Design Team contest - all you have to do is play along with Bellariffic Fridays, email your card by Thursday with your blog watermark on the image and someone will be asked to be a guest design team member in Jan.  You'll receive some bella bucks, and you never know when Em's looking for more babes!!

Next week our challenge is a sketch to make sure you get your card to Em by Thursday.

Thanks for stopping by!

Dana

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

This weeks Bellariffic Fridays challenge was a sketch - I tweaked it slightly by making my card square to work with the image.

For my card I inked up Stamping Bella's Helga the Hot Chick by Christine Grove with memento tuxedo black ink onto bella's kraft card stock.  I coloured the chick with pencils blended with mineral spirits.  The fan is coloured with copics.  For the shading on the ground I used tea dye distress ink with a sponge.  The DP is Glitz's Uncharted Waters.

I added the sentiment that comes with the image on the inside of the card, I kept the colour theme going and added a banner with the DP

Next weeks Bellariffic Fridays challenge is MIX & MATCH.  Use more then one Stamping Bella stamp on your card.  Email your card to Em by Thursday to be include on Bloggabella.

DA BELLA HAS  SALE - Em's hating the wintery cool weather that's come her way so she's offering 20% off the entire store!!  Just use the code novembersale at the checkout.  Sale ends Monday Nov 4.

DO YOU WANT TO BE A GUEST STAMPING BELLA BABE?!

Starting in January we are going to have a “guest babe” each month

To have your chance to be a Guest Babe you just have to play along with 

Bellariffic Fridays AND have your blog on your card (so we can tell everyone

about your blog).   

By being the BABE for the month you will receive a Stamping Bella Gift certificate and all the challenge early.  PLUS you never know when were looking for a new full time babe........

Thanks for stopping by!

Dana