Bellarific Friday: Spring or Easter!

Hi all,
Welcome to another Friday!  Things are changing at work, and I'm gonna be a lot more tired in life, I suspect.  We shall see how long I can last at my current speed...

But, let's look towards the weekend - happy thoughts!

It's Bellarific Friday!  Every week, we get a challenge where we can use our Bella images, and come up with a project!  So, this week, our theme was to make a Spring or Easter card - perftect timing, no?

Here it is:

I actually only used white cardstock!  For any coloured cardstock that you see, it was white, sponged with ink.  So, the lower layer was sponged with bashful blue ink and matted on white (both punched with my Ticket Corner punch), and I wrapped some white satin ribbon around it. 

I stamped Row of Eggs With Bunny onto Bella's Bestest Paper using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I coloured it with Copics, and added shading and grass with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS.  I added some Wheat Versamagic ink around the edges, and some glitter spots all around the image.  I added a bunch of fun Thickers to the top as the sentiment for a different texture.

Copics used:
*Yellow Egg and Flowers: YR21, Y35, Y38
*Green Egg: YG11, YG13, YG09
*Purple Egg: BV0000, BV04, BV08
*Orange Egg: YR61, YR04, YR07
*Bunny: E40, E41, E43, E30, E31
*Pink Flowers and Butterfly: R20, R43, R46

Next week's challenge??? Our 7th sketch for this year!  Just make a card using the below sketch and any image sold at Stamping Bella and send it to Emily (emily@stampingbella.com) by Thursday night.  You'll be entered to win some Bella Bucks (aka free stuff), and your card will be published on the Bloggabella!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for stopping by!

Pink Orchids

Hi all,
Happy Sunday - hope you all had a great weekend and are ready to start next week with some gusto!  I was mostly cleaning today, but I was so exhausted from this week at work that I ended up taking a 2-hour nap in the afternoon.  Love it when I can do that :-)
I had dinner at my parents' house, and then came home and got crafty for a bit!

My card base is Rose Red CS, all my patterned papers are from the SU Raspberry Tart DSP pack, and I have black and white mats.  I also added a white strip across the middle punched with an EK Success edge punch. 

I stamped Pot O' Orchids for Lulu onto Bella's Bestest Paper using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I coloured it totally with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS - no Copics!  I also added some Wheat Versamagic sponging around the outside of the white square and added a black mat.

Don't forget about our Bellarific Friday challenge this week: to make a spring or Easter card!

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for stopping by!

Bellarific Friday: 6th Sketch!

Hi all,
Welcome to another Friday!!!  We have had summer-like weather this week in Toronto, and today it DROPS to a very cool and rainy couple of days.  It was so lovely while it lasted.

Let me start with this: have you SEEN the new release Emily has put out over at Stamping Bella???  There are SO many new images, and they are AMAZING!!!!!!!!
There are new Ramonas, new Uptowns, new stamps from Vicki Boutin, new stamps that Em herself has designed, and more!  You need to check it out, and fill up your shopping cart!

OK, now that's out of the way, we can move on to another fun topic!  We have another Bellarific Friday to share with you, and hopefully you were able to play along!  We were given our 6th sketch for 2012, and here's one last glimpse:

Another great job by Ebrubella!

Here's mine:

My card base is white CS, the patterned papers are from SU's Manchester DSP pack, and the mats are black.  I added some CTMH square rhinestones to the corners, and the strip across the middle has a punched scallop edge (although it's mostly covered up), and I tied some black grosgrain ribbon around the middle.

I stamped the beautiful Blow A Kiss Jane onto black CS in Versamark ink and embossed her with white EP.  If you saw my card from my last post, you'll be able to see that I'm on a kick with white embossing on coloured or dark cardstock.
I matted that with white CS, then again with black.
I stamped the sentiment onto white CS with black ink, cut it out and added it to the corner.

Next week's challenge???  Spring or Easter!  Make a card with that theme using any of the images sold at Stamping Bella and send it to Emily (emily@stampingbella.com) by Thursday night.  You have a chance to win some Bella Bucks, and your card will be published on the Bloggabella!  Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Have a great weekend!
Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for stopping by!

Dandelion

Hi all,
Well, it's Sunday night, and most people's weekends are coming to an end :-(
I still have tomorrow off, so I am planning on getting stuff done in the day time.

I wanted to get crafty today, but I felt like doing something other than my usual colouring.  I'm playing around with heat embossing, and here's what I came up with:

My card base is Chocolate Chip CS.  I used a piece of a rusty coloured cardstock, but I can't remember the name (it was one of the SU In Colors from a couple years ago), and I embossed it with the Cuttlebug Stylized Flowers folder.  I sponged around the edges with Walnut Stain Distress ink, and matted it with black and white CS.  I also wrapped some Soft Suede polka dot ribbon around that, and added some white pearls to the corners.
I stamped Dandelion Wisps in Versamark onto the rusty cardstock and embossed it with white embossing powder.  I cut it out with Label 7 Nesties, and sponged that with the Walnut ink as well.  I really like how the white pops out from the coloured paper.  Definitely gonna try that again!

Don't forget about our Bellarific Friday challenge this week, to make a card with our 6th sketch!

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for stopping by!
Happy Monday to all those going back to work :-)

Bellarific Friday: GREEN!!!

Hi all,
I hope you're ready for a fun St. Patrick's Day tomorrow!  I have a family event because, as it turns out, my entire family has their birthday in March, so we just celebrate everyone together.
I don't think I'll be drinking any green beer, but hopefully everyone else can take advantage of this fun holiday passed on to us by the Irish!

As you know, it's time for Bellarific Friday, and for me, this challenge was a great chance to make a masculine card.  We were supposed to make either a St. Patty's Day card or a green card - I don't actually have any "lucky" images, so I chose the green theme.
If you were able to play along with this week's challenge, don't forget to post your card on SCS using the keyword BELLARIFFIC1012 so that we can see it in the gallery!

Here goes:

My card base is Certainly Celery CS, and the polka dot paper is from the SU Old Olive Patterns DSP pack with a black mat.  Next, I added another square of Certainly Celery CS, which was embossed with the argyle Cuttlebug folder and matted with black.  I put that square on an angle, and added some Mellow Moss grosgrain ribbon around the base layer. 

I stamped The Big Guy Grilling by Mo Manning onto Bella's Bestest Paper using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I coloured him mostly with Copics, but I paper pieced his shirt using argyle paper from the same pack, and added shading and grass with Prismacolour Pencils and OMS. 

Next week's challenge???  Our 6th sketch for this year!  Make a card using the sketch below and any image sold at Stamping Bella and send it to Emily (emily@stampingbella.com) by Thursday night.  You'll be entered to win some Bella Bucks and your card will be published on the Bloggabella!

Have a great weekend and I hope you see someone wearing a shirt that says "Kiss Me, I'm Irish!".

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for stopping by!

Safe Travels

Hi all,
Just stopping in for a quick post...had a long day at work, and I need to jump in the bath pronto!  I was eyeing one of my new Uptown Girl images from Stamping Bella and had to put something together...

White base, and black mats...the blue mat and the patterned paper are from SU's Tickets and Tokens Simply Scrappin' Kit.  The aviator emblem at the top is one of the stickers from the same pack which I matted with black CS. 

I stamped the gorgeous Uptown Girl Molly Makes A Detour (I think she might be my FAVE) onto Bella's Bestest Paper using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I coloured her with Copics, and added shading with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS.  I sponged the outside of the panel with a very dark ink: Jumbo Java Versamagic ink. 
That was pretty much it - I kept it simple because the image is so awesome.

Don't forget about the Bellarific Friday challenge for this week: to use green on your card or to make a St. Patrick's Day card!  We shall see what you came up with on Friday!

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for stopping by!

Bellarific Friday: Our 5th Sketch of 2012!

Hi all,
Welcome to another Friday and TGIF!!!  I've had a lot of fun with my Stamping Bella images this week, and I absolutely loved the sketch we got for our Bellarific Friday challenge!  Hopefully you got a chance to play along, and I'm definitely gonna hop over to the Bloggabella and check out the entries!

Here's a last peek at the sketch we had to play with:

Here's mine:

My card base is white CS - I bought a pack of white cards and envelopes on sale at Michael's - it was a 50 pack for about $12 I think.  Pretty good deal for everything being pre-cut, and envelopes included :-)

My patterned papers are from SU's Sarah DSP pack and my mats are black CS.  The vertical strip was punched with my lattice Martha Stewart edge punch.

I stamped Rain-Never-Stopped-Me-abella onto Bella's Bestest Paper using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I coloured her with Copics, and added shading with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS.  I punched her out with Curved Rectangle Nesties, and added some Walnut Stain Distress ink to the inside of the stencil.

I stamped the sentiment (that comes with the image) onto white CS, and cut the lines out and stuck them to the image panel.

I topped things off with a yellow Martha Stewart flower in the lower left corner. 

Next week's challenge???  St' Patrick's Day!!!  Either use the colour green on your card, or use a St. Patty's image for the holiday on Saturday!  Send your card to Emily (emily@stampingbella.com) by Thursday night, and you will be entered to win some Bella Bucks, and your card will be published on the Bloggabella on Friday!

Also, don't forget you have another chance to win some moolah over on SCS!  Upload your challenge card to your gallery and use the key word BELLARIFFIC0912 so that we can see all the cards in one spot when we do a search!

And you can pop into the Stamping Bella forum and join in the chats too!

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for stopping by!

Bellarific Polka Dots

Hi all,
I hope you've had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend.  I get a long weekend this week, because I worked on Family Day (new Canadian holiday every February)!  I'm stoked for the extra time off.  Make sure you set aside some time to get crafty this weekend!

And welcome to another Bellarific Friday!  We had an awesome challenge this week - we are definitely a fan of the polka dot!  We were all incorporating polka dots into our creations this week, and I had a blast!  Surprisingly, Em has several images that have dots and spots on them, so they were great, and there are tons of patterned papers that have dots as well!

And don't forget:  If you made a polka dot card for this week, make sure you upload it to your SCS gallery, and use the keyword BELLAIRIFFIC0812!  You will have an extra chance to win some moolah from Emily!

Here's mine:

My card base is Sahara Sand CS, all my patterned papers are from the MME pack called Out of the Blue, and all my mats are black and white.  I added a black strip punched with my Martha Stewart crown edge punch to the middle, and I also wrapped some SU Bermuda Bay grosgrain ribbon (with polka dots) around that base panel.
White Martha Stewart pearls to the corners as well.

I stamped Emma Lulu onto Bella's Bestest Paper using Memento Tuxedo Black ink (cause she has polka dots on her outfit!).  I coloured her with Copics, and added some shading with my Prismacolor Pencils and OMS.  I cut her out using Curved Rectangle Nesties, and I added some Basic Gray sponging around the outside. 

Next week's challenge???  Our 5th sketch for the year!  Just make any card using the sketch below and any image sold at Stamping Bella, and send to Emily (emily@stampingbella.com) by Thursday night.  You'll be entered to win some Bella Bucks (ie. free product), and your card will be published on the Bloggabella for all of us to drool over!

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for stopping by!