bikbabeabella birthday wishes...

I'm baaaaack! {to coin a certain talented man from The Shining} Have you ever spent a day or two in Bellaland? It leaves me all wound up and feeling crafty, until I get home and sit down for a second! LOL The excitement catches up with me and I feel like I wanna get everything done at once, but I still have not unpacked my "toy" bag yet. {will be getting to that after this post and dinner} New rubber, paper and other goodies need to see their new home. ohhhh paper, get ready for the onslaught of Crate Paper's newest lines...I bought it all at Bella!!

So, the trip was a very happy one, in case you can't tell. I had so much fun with my host family {Emily, Ryan, Tyler & Jayden} and I didn't reallllly wanna come home. {although, it's a little quieter here at my house, minus small children...LOL} I learned a little about Purim, and listened to Emily and the kids sing the Canadian anthem. I just had to be an American in Canada for the winning of the gold in hockey!

Before I took off, I was working on a birthday card for one of the Bella Babes...Jeanie! I wish I could have got it mailed on time, but hey...better late than never right?  

I have told ya'll about talking on Skype, right? Linda and I get connected with each other and color together, over the airwaves. It's NOT as good as being there in person, but it's fun. When we both color, there is not too much talking, it's more like lots of silence and then the occasional flash on the screen of what the other is doing. Well I hooked up with Jeanie on Super Bowl Sunday, while the men folk were watching football. Eventually this lead to a 3-way between Linda, Jeanie and myself. With a three person setup ya don't get video though...it was just all of us talking. Guess what I learned on this day? Ms. Jeaniebella's hubby owns a Harley! The "chicken", as we loving call her, is a biker BABE!!! Naturally I needed to pull out bikbabeabella!!  {my first time coloring}

I used the Oh La La, from My Minds Eye as the inspiration paper and tried to NOT use aqua again! I am in such a rut with that color, and don't know why. It took me a long time to color this up, like two hours. For me, that's long, but I needed to really think, and decide what color to color what. I mean, I am not a biker and I didn't want to color bike gears, and chrome in green. Then there was the whole thing with that empty space between the parts...I had to color it in. Now, I colored it all in dark green and it looked flat...pancake flat! I had a moment flash past me that I may have ruined it...but I took my stump and added gamsol and removed the dark green in the centers of all the areas. I now see depth and I LOVE it!!! It looks better than I had hoped. {I think Jeanie will like it too}

I added so much dimension on here too, but the photo may not be picking it up. On the green areas I used my clear glaze pen, for shine. The chrome go a nice layer of Tim Holtz's glossy accents. Now, I asked Jeanie, aka "chicken", what kind of biker duds she wore, lets hope she has some sexy jeans with glittah! woohoo!!

Happy belated Birthday Jeaniebella!  Ride safe.

Now for some other Bella business... I had to ask what our challenge was for this friday, like in TWO days, friday. We are going polka dotty and we want you along for te ride. Dots are still so "in" and it's a simple little challenge. So join me in making a card {tonight!!} and emailing it to the Bella. I hope you have all caught this late news on the othe Babe's blogs, I don't wanna get fired! hehe

see ya real soon  :)

Comments

[Christine dol]

This is such a gorgeous card Paula! Beautifully coloured!

[Cathy Groden]

Fabulous Paula! I love Bikerbabebella and your green shades are just so neat. I've done shades of pink but I love this and can't wait to get my pencils out to give it a try!

[Linda C.]

Whoa! Too cool! I wish I were on your belated b-day list!! Have you ever thought about teaching one-on-one through Skype?? Unless you travel to Arkansas this would be the only way I could take a class.....! hint, hint

[Rebekka]

This is fabulous..Love the coloring.

[Debils]

Fabulous job on this one Paula! Love, love, love it!

[Cindy H.]

Gorgeous card!! Awesome coloring and I love the bling on her jeans! tfs

[Frannie]

Wow! the coloring on this is AMAZING! It really pops! Love it! Not sure what Skype is but one on one teaching through it sounds intriguing. Do you think you'll ever come to Alberta to teach?

[Jeanie]

Accccckkkkk, THUD!!! Ok, I TRIED SO hard to stay away so I wouldn't spoil my surprise of getting a "Paulabella" card in the mail, but I couldn't stand it any longer!! How did you know his bike was GREEN!! Sistah all I can say is SHUT UP!! This is the most GOR-JUSS card EVAH and it's MINE, ALL MINE!! HAPPY DANCE, HAPPY DANCE, HAPPY DANCE!! I just WUVEEEE my big sistah Paulabella!! Mwah!!
Chicken

[Meahni]

Now that is not fair... okay I can't complain I did get a Paula card once before and I still treasure it. I hope you sent it at low priority so the chicken can wait a little, lol.
It is just stunning Paula!

[lindaH]

all i can say is that i saw it and it made me wanna go buy a bike! happy b'day chicken!

[Conniecrafter]

so cool, like the layout of your paper and the coloring is just excellent!

[Silvia]

I adore this card, it is beautiful. Love the colors and the brown bow is gorgeous. What a great color combination!