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elzy sketch challenge...

 

It's thursday and it has been two weeks since our last Elzybell challenge!! Can you believe how fast time flies??? Me either. Our challenge this week is a sketch by our own Elzybelle Rachel.

 

So, here is my card for the sketch and I kept really close to the original. I can't seem to stop using those bears, have you noticed that? lol  Teddy flowers is just perfect for my mom for Mother's Day next weekend. A bouquet of flowers that will never die... I colored this with my prismacolor pencils and gamsol and added plenty of sparkle. I used the Sassafraslass paper as the inspiration for the colors in the flowers, so much easier than adding a rainbow of shades and finding no paper to match. The die cut flower is from Spellbinders and this is the first time I've used it. {It looked like the flower in the paper.}

I just got another order with more teddies from across the pond and I can not wait to ink those up. If anyone wants to pay me to stay home, just lemme know..there are not enough hours in the day! lol

Check out what all the other design team members are doing, here...

Thanks Rachel for the great sketch!!

need a bestest friend?...

...remember the winnie the pooh song..."i'm just a little black rain cloud...hovering under the honeytree...i'm just a little black rain cloud...pay no attention to little me." That was the tune to my day yesterday and maybe it's lifting. Time will tell when I hit save on this here blog and it goes smoothly. I was just having problem after problem on here and I am not a techie at all! lol

I {{heart}} winnie the pooh, and as soon as I saw this little guy... I {{hearted}} him as well. This is from Stamping Bella, remember I told you they weren't only Bella's & sassy Stella's!

Seeing the turtle and the butterfly playing is just too cute. I originally thought I would make a boys bithday card, but I decided that if someone sent this to me I'd love to get it! I colored this with my Lyra colored pencils and blended with gamsol. I added a wee bit of sparkle on the butterfly wings and on the turtle shell stripes. I decided to not make a naked card and added my sentiment 'bestest friend' to the front. 

Did ya check out the new stamps and papers added to the Stamping Bella shop? I looked yesterday and while I saw lots of rubber 'eye candy'....I LOVE the peekaboo Bella! Guess what's gonna be on my next order!! hehe Check out the new stuff here...Basic Grey Wisteria, Lime Ricky...

Tick-tock, time is running out for the Bella's Friday-RIFFIC challenge, so ya gotta get your card to Emily by thursday. That is one busy sistah loading all those awesome cards for her post...glad I don't have ta do it...shhhhhh, sorry Emily.  ;)  Check out this post for all the deets and see ya soon!!  

skully 1.0 ....

In case you were wondering if I went off on vacation and didn't say anything...I didn't! Well, I sorta had a vacation of sorts, maybe like camping{without electricity} after some wicked storms blew through on saturday afternoon. ***note...I don't like to camp or sweat.Let me tell you, I was both of those saturday and I had a headache from working in the yard. Power was out for 24 hours and it was enough to know we reallyneed to invest in a generator. Luckily we have 'city' water now and no longer use a community well, so toilet and showers all keep working. I cleaned and organized and felt like doing nothing craft wise...I couldn't use my sewing machine, LOL, what was the point?

Before we get onto my card...today is the release of more new stamps from Stamping Bella! I can NOT wait to see what's in store for us!! Here is Emily's post from yesterday... If I knew how to happy dance I would, so lets not think about that sight and move on to my card!

I had been planning on using Skully from the Ketto line at Stamping Bella. I have loved skulls since I was a teenager, hmmmm. I wanted to emboss and I was making all these plans. You know what they say about plans don't ya? My black EP was not working...does it get old or have I just never used it? I can't remember, but it went into the trash.

I went with clear EP on pink cs, and stamped out the large skully in Memento black. Yes, I still had to give a little color with a pencil and a little gamsol. I really had visions of my own patterned paper with the small scully, and I had not made an acrylic card in a long time. I am going to need a card for a 16 year old girl and my niece's birthday will be here before I know it..she is a skull fan too.

On the inside I used the small skully again and the happy birthday sentiment. I feel another skully coming on, so don't be surprised if ya see another real soon! In the meantime get to thinking, and making a card for the next Bella-RIFIC challenge this friday. It's a sketch challenge by Jen del Muro, check it out here on da Bella's blog. {for some reason I am not able to get the sketch to come up on my post?}

Wanna race to see who gets to see what's new at the Bella's house!!

 

a fella & his bella...

Good Morning Bella-RIFFIC friday lovers!!!

Yeah, that's you & I ! The challenge for today was posted a little bit later than usual because that Bella & Nicky in 'Bellaland' are some popular gals. If I lived closer to Toronto I would be there all the time too, until they threw me out for loitering! lol  Pink & brown...one of my FAV combos ever...really, brown and anything is right up this sistahs alley.

This is the photo we were provided and I knew exactly what I was gonna do.

Remember back in Feb. our receptionist at Flushmate was pregnant and we had a lil after work shower. Well, that pretty little Sydnee is here and she is beau-T-full! Healthy and with a head full o' dark hair. We get pics at work from the new momma Jessica and she just happens to also be a fan of...you guessed it...PINK & BROWN!

I had the perfect Bella image that I borrowed from fellow BABE LindaBella last weekend. {BTW, this is on my next order from Stamping Bella, but until then I had one to tide me over.}

Meet Alex, Jessica & lil Sydneebella!  Really, this stamp is babyfellabella and I am in love again. I pulled out my Lyra colored pencils, gamsol and blender stumps and went to town. I did use my Copics for the flestones. {{ I use E0000, E000 , E00 & R20}} I had just picked up the sentiment 'congrats on your little one' while at ScrapFest last weekend so I was pretty excited. {{yes, little things like that excite me, LOL}} I used my nesties and cuttlebug folder with the swiss dots to complete the card. Is it just me...swiss dots just feel like baby anything. The patterned paper is from American Crafts and it added a some sophistication to the baby theme, but it didn't overpower the look. Now, can we talk glitter! I had to add glitter and I added it to the paper, it didn't come that way. I had to put some sparkle on somewhere!!

It's time ta head over to the Bella's blog and check out what the other Babe's & everyone else has done for the challenge. I hope you played along with us because keeping the creative juices flowing is important ya know. Leave Emily a comment and you could win some Bella Bucks!

birthday quickie...

I got asked the dreaded question tuesday, while at work... "hey, ya got any birthday cards? I need one for my dad."  The horror filled my mind as I mentally took note of what was in my basket at home. "No, I have no man cards." I answered back quickly. {There probably aren't too many guys reading this post, so I am gonna spill...I don't like making 'man' cards!} Seriously, you can't add glitter and pretty colors, what's the point? All the cool paper is geared towards girls...am I not telling the truth sisters?

But, I had a plan, and it was a good one. I admit it, if I can make something for my blog and use the stamps from the companies I am on the design team for...I'll do it!! lol

I got home after an exhausting day at work, yes, pity is what I am looking for, and I pulled out my Elzybell stamps. My acrylic set of Mini Messages-a little hello has a cake and I had not inked it up yet. I colored the birthday cake with my prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. Next project was finding some appropriate paper to go along with my image. {Ki Memories} All in all it was a pretty quick card and not too painful, although I still prefer to make cards for the gentler sex! lol

I have been given the news that some of us at work are going back to 32 hours. Orders change all the time, so we'll see how long this lasts. In the meantime I will be outside tomorrow enjoying cleaning up my yard...finally! See ya soon!!

for our beautiful daughter...

Hey there! I wasn't sure if I would make this post today...I was sitting home yesterday feeling really crappy and had a headache too. {change in weather always does a number on my sinuses} But as the evening wore on I decided to see if I could put a little card together with an image from Stamping Bella that I colored at Linda's house on saturday.

I used the wedding gown circle and even though it's supposed to be a wedding gown I think it is perfect for prom. I guess with it being prom season soon and I remember all the dresses my daughter has bought and borrowed... I colored the dress in pinks from my Lyra set and also added a little brown in as well. I glittered with my clear glaze pen and added the glitter right away, doing this in small sections at a time. Using a glaze pen is a neat little way of not getting a huge amount of glue and keeping my dots small. The bow is covered in glitter! I still love lots of sparkle!

I used a combo of nesties to make my circle card, with both large and small scallops. The sentiment I wrote out myself and on the inside I added 'on her special day'.

I have a ton of vintage buttons so I dug through all my white ones to find one to put on this card. As a kid, my dad used to help take care of some elderly neighbors and when they passed away their relatives let my dad clear out the house. They had no children and the family just wanted the house emptied and ready to sell. My dad kept a lot of crafty things because my mom was also an avid crafter. The buttons are all now with me, stored in blue mason jars and a huge bag with bits of material still attatched...waiting for the day I get around to cutting it off. I LOVE buttons!

This weeks BellaRIFFIC challenge has been set!!  Woohoo.. pink n' brown! This is a favorite all over the bloggin' card world, so no excuses sistah's! Check out Em's post here and see you on friday at da Bella's house!

celebrateMFT...

Welcome back for a special day of celebrating Flopsey! {Well, you can celebrate with any MFT stamp really!}

I used gardener flopsey for my cards today. Sometimes I let Flopsey be a girl, sometimes a boy and today I put her in striped gardening overall's and added a few tiny lashes. I stamped this out really late friday night and wanted to make a little garden scene. Then I washed the stamps up and put them back in their package...ahh, it looks exactly like it does in the wrapper! lol  I just added color!

I used the Perfect Paper Panels to stamp out my image, and I colored my Flopsey with my prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. The patterned paper is the Spring paper pack collection from MFT. I added twill and a flowered button to finish her off!   Enjoy your day!!

garden fairies...

 

Today is the day when all the new stamps go on sale!! I showed off all my *new* images, but I have one last *new* sentiment to show you. I had picked the "love grows in my garden' for the topiary stamp, so I saved this sentiment about fairies for this Elzy image. {{I have this stamp in the small American version, from A*muse, but my stampin' BFF Mary bought the original from Elzybells. We are all about sharing in our circle!}}

Little Elzy on the swing here was the closest thing I had to a fairy and there are flowers in the branch, lol. I would have loved to made this a no layer card, but I had this image stamped and sut out to this size so I sewed it onto the card base. It's a very simple card and I love the *new* sentiment! I think I need to do a little shopping, just myself, lets just keep that between us, ok?  See ya soon!

a star is born...

Hey guys, it's a double postin' Sunday because I have a couple pictures to share from yesterday's shopping spree through ScrapFest in Kitchener, Ontario...and it's Stamping Bella Sunday for moi!

Here is the AMAZING wall o' Bella! Hard work & creativity supplied by Linda, Pauline and Kim, {her & her sister own The Paper Pickle in Chatham, ONT.}  The Paper Pickle was doing make-n-take's featuring Bella stamps, I think I spied Ketto's being inked up! They were even able to get da Bella herself to come down and lend a hand. 

The girls all seemed to be having a good time and kept the booth hopping with activity. These gatherings of craft lovin' people are full of long lines and it's all in the name of passion. Gotta have that paper...gotta have that rubber...ohhh, I don't have that color of ribbon!

The cutest little store owners in Chatham!

Kelly & Kim with Emily in the middle.

 

 

 

 

This one kills me because it looks like Emily is just crying over the beauty of the boards...with proud Bella BABE Linda looking on. Her cards have made me tear up as well.

Here's Ryan, Emily's husband and this shot also made me laugh when I saw it. Best seat in the house, outta the way of all those crazy stampers and waiting to shop with his woman! As da Bella herself would say...*MWAH* to the husbands who support their girls habits!

Now, hows about that card? I stayed up pretty dang late friday to get this finished so I wouldn't have ta get it done sunday morning.

I used baby bella hanging bundle, one of the the newest additions to my stash. Does this look different from my regular cards..yes! I used the nesties to cut out the ovals and this is not easy for me. Trying to get everything lined up and positioned is a chore. Trying not to make extra creases in the card is also a chore...I don't know how this is done easily! lol  

I cut out the base oval and used my nestie as a mask for the blue and pink chalk inks. I used a white gel pen for the stars. I colored the baby {with my Lyras} a few weeks ago and cut them out. A piece of black thread is what I tired them together with and put some pop dots behind them. I used my 'a star is born' sentiment and with no room on the bottom of the card, I made a sign for the top! I was done by 11:00 p.m.!

So, this long winded post needs to come to an end... I lent my camera to the picture takers and went in the opposite dirction. {in case you are wondering and some might wonder!} I am gonna relax a little this last day of the weekend and patiently await the next Bella challenge for friday! see ya soon sistah's!!

see-saw sunday...

 

It's day 3 of the latest Elzybell release and tomorrow is your day to scoop up some rubber! Today I am gonna show you another new teddy image that see-sawed it's way outta my stash when I took it to work.

I was kinda scared of the see-saw when I was a kid, it's one place you didn't find me very often at a park. But, see-saw teddy doesn't scare me at all! LOL These cute little guys are having a ball. 

I colored these teddy bears with my prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. I added a little glitter around the orange flowers, and added zig-zag stitching. 

Are you having fun checking out all the design teams creations? Elizabeth has a couple of graduation cards she has done in black and white, perfect for the grad! Check them out here. 

***important note***  If you have an Elzybells reward card and you are ready to turn it in, or getting close...see this post by Elizabeth.  The address on the back of some older cards is not the current address to mail your rewards cards to.