A totally CASED card!!

Well really the card layout is Jen's SKFYTT for May (yes I just got it in!!) but the colouring is totally cased (copied) from the amazing Lindabella and one of her cards from her last class at Stamping Bella.

Linda was kind enough to send me a picture of the card & I worked and worked at colouring Peony Bittybloom up.  I even managed to use pencils for some shading on her dress and flower.  I can't get her shading around the image; I smooth mine out way more then she does but at least I am embracing  shading around the images AND doing the grass with pencils; that's a step right?!

The ds paper is MME Stella & Rose Mabel.  The image is stamped onto bella's bestest paper and cut out with nesties.  I added some glitter around her (again trying to get myself doing the sparkles randomly not in a set pattern)

Just a reminder that this weeks Bellariffic Fridays theme is to do a Masculine card - email your card to Em by Thursday to be included

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day

Dana

Happy Rainy Friday!!

Yes here in Calgary we have rain, rain and more rain!!  This week has been full of rain and we have the same through the entire weekend!!  This weeks Bellariffic Fridays challenge a colour challenge - Kraft, Navy, and Green.

I inked up a sweet Green Bean Baby image - Charlie.  The image is stamped with memento ink onto bella's bestest paper and coloured with copics and the bucket is coloured with pencils and mineral spirits.  I stitched around the layers and added a die-namics border to finish it off.

Don't forget to stop by Bloggabella and see the rest of the babes creations and what the sistahs have submitted.  Next weeks challenge is in honour of Father's Day - masculine cards.  Email your cards to Em by Thursday to be included and you can win some bella bucks!

Have a great weekend - I might have web feet by the time it's over!!

Dana 

Bunch of Blooms

Happy Monday (but feels like a Sunday since it's a long weekend here!)  Hope everyone had a great weekend!!  I managed this weekend to  play along with this weeks sketch challenge from MFT (MFTWSC20) 

I inked up MFT's sweet PI girl - Bunch of blooms and stamped her with memento ink and coloured her up with copics.  I used a clear glaze pen on her shoes and added some glitter to the centres of the flowers.  After shading around her I added some more glitter and for the butterfly I cut it up and popped it up.   The border I used die-namics open scallop border, and the flower is die-namics pretty posies 

Thanks for stopping by

Dana

A Sweet Long Weekend Sunday

I hope everyone is having a great weekend - and for those in Canada the long weekend! Karen has another fabulous sketch for us this week (SSSC118)

For my card this week  you will be shocked that I flipped the sketch, I inked up a MFT WTG image Girls Rule.  

The image is stamped with mementos ink and coloured with copics.  I paper pieced her dress with some of the ds paper MME Stella & Rose - Mabel.  I've been studying the amazingly talented Linda & trying to figure out her shading around the image - I worked on it and I think I'm slowly getting the hang of it! I added some glitter around the shading and popped up the flower.  I used some of my die-namics scallop ribbon border and die-namics simply scallops border.

Please stop by the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers blogs to see their creations and I hope you can play along this week!!  Remember to link your card on Karen's blog

• Jen Tapler
• Karen Giron
• Karen Motz
• Lynn Put
• Sarah Jane Kale'
• Vicki Burdick

Thanks for stopping by & have a great Sunday!

Dana

Polly Packages

Happy long weekend to all the Canadian sitah's out there!!  Don't you love these 3 day weekends?!

This weeks Bellariffic Fridays theme was a sketch which is one of my favourite challenges; how about you?!   I inked up Polly Packages and decided to get another Christmas card done.

The image is stamped on bella's bestest paper and coloured with copics.  I paper pieced the image onto white cs that was embossed with cuttlebugs snowflakes.  The ds paper is cosmo crickets mitten weather.  The sentiment is from stamping bella

Next weeks theme is a colour challenge - Navy, Kraft & Green (any shade of green).  Email your cards to Em by Thursday to be included next Friday.  Don't forget when you enter you can win some bella bucks & with all the new stamps Em's been releasing bella bucks are handy!!

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day

Dana

Dreaming Big Sweet Sunday

Happy Sunday!!  The weather here this weekend is actually spring like & it sounds like it might stay that way for awhile - fingers crossed!  This week Karen's sketch (SSSC117) totally stumped me; and I must admit there was quite the pile of debris on my desk!! Maybe the problem was I didn't flip the sketch like I usually do & that's what threw me off?!

Now when Karen sent the sketch to us Sweet Sunday she kindly said what the dimensions were to make it easier for us; but darn if I know where that information went! I inked up one of my new a la mode stamps from MFT called Dream Big.

The image is stamped with mementos ink and coloured with copics.  I paper pieced the girl sitting on the moon.  The ds paper is from Lily Bee Designs called Picket Fence.  I used a star cuttlebug embossing folder for the background and MFT die namics star border and stars.  In the centre of the star border I used some star dust stickles, then a tiny rhinestone.

Please stop by the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers blogs to see their creations, and remember to link your card to Karen's blog 

• Jen Tapler
• Karen Giron
• Karen Motz
• Lynn Put
• Sarah Jane Kale'
• Vicki Burdick

Thanks for stopping by, I hope this post makes sense we just got home from the Elton John concert (he was fabulous) and I'm very sleepy & just getting this up in time!!

Dana 

Bellariffic Friday - Finally!!

Happy Friday - this weeks Bellariffic Fridays theme was to use Kraft paper, which I have come to love doing

For my card I inked a Mo Manning image - Veronica.  Oh how I love her cheekiness!!

The image is stamped with mementos ink onto bella's bestest paper and coloured with copics.  I paper pieced her dress and on her lips I used a clear glaze pen because she has to have gloss on right?!  For her earrings I used a gelly roll pen to give her sparkle; because she is clearly not a wallflower!!  The ds paper is basic greys life of the party.

Make sure you pop by Bloggabella to see the rest of the babes creations & leave a comment you could in some bella bucks!

Forumabella is up and running - Jessabella is the forum co-ordinator and she has some great monthly challenges and a lot of other fun stuff going on so make sure you check it out!

Next weeks challenge is a sketch so I hope you will all get a chance to play along.  Email your card to Em by Thursday to be included.



Thanks for stopping by

Dana

It's RELEASE day at Stamping Bella!!

Happy Monday - OMG did you see the release over at Stamping Bella today?!  I have to say when Em decided on Friday that she was doing a release I was sad because I was on holidays with hubby and didn't think I would get to colour up a new image for you BUT when I arrived home last night sweet Call Me Peeps was waiting for me!  

My inspiration for the phone was the awesome silver phones that I have loved from Pottery Barn and thought I wanted; until I realized that you actually have to sit in one place to talk on the phone -WHAT?!  No roaming around the house while chatting?!  How could I function?! 

Anyways the image is on bella's bestest paper and coloured with copics.  On her flower and the leaves I used atyou spica pens and on the numbers I used a clear glaze pen.  The ds paper is from Basic grey (Olivia) 

To celebrate Mothers Day Em isn't just sharing new stamps to all of us she is offering 10% off your order - no minimum order!! Click here for the details.

Just a reminder this weeks Bellariffic Fridays theme is to use Kraft cs on your card.  Email your card to Em by Thursday to be included.

Off to place my bella order!!  Thanks for stopping by

Dana

Thinking of You on a Sweet Sunday

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there and a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my wonderful friend Janet - as usual your card is NOT in the mail yet!!  Karen has yet another fabulous Sweet Sunday sketch for us this week (SSSC116)

Yes, I again flipped the sketch to work with my image - a Mo Manning's image from Stamping Bella.  

Sorry Shanna is stamped with mementos ink onto bella's bestest cream paper and coloured with copics, and caran d'ashe pencils and mineral spirits.  I have to admit the swirl on this sketch really threw me for a loop.   I know we can interpret the sketches BUT since I alway s flip them I felt I should do something as per the sketch.  After searching through my stash I actually used some of my "scrapbooking" stash.  I used some Kaiser chipboard and spritzed it with aquamarine glimmer mist.  On the prima flower I also used some glimmer mist.  The ds paper is MME Stella & Rose 

Please stop by the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers to see their creations and remember to link your card on Karen's blog 

• Jen Tapler
• Karen Giron
• Karen Motz
• Lynn Put
• Sarah Jane Kale' 
• Vicki Burdick  

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Sunday!

Dana

Spring Flowers

Todays Bellariffc Fridays theme was to use flowers - hopefully the flowers will start springing up here soon!

For my card I inked up one of my new Stamping Bella Pixie images - Paisley Pixie.  The image is stamped onto bella's bestest paper and coloured with copics.  For the circular flowers (can you tell I'm not a gardener - and I can't blame it soley on allergies!) I wanted to make them like the fluff that makes me sneeze so I used sparkly fluff.  The ds paper is MME stella and rose.  I used a scallop border punch along the bottom and added some yellow ribbon.  The flowers are sculpture flowers that I bought at my local scrapbooking store - Scrapbooker's Paradise WHICH carries Stamping Bella images!!!  OMG when I saw them the first time in the store I was like a proud aunty and took a picture to show Em them!!

Next weeks Bellariffic Fridays theme is one of the Chickens favourite things - Kraft!!  Use Kraft paper on your card and email your card to Em by Thursday to be included next week.

Thanks for stopping by and have yourself a great day

Dana 

May

Well I'm a day late but here is my May calendar page

For this month I chose a sweet PI girl from MFT - My Balloon   The image is stamped with mementos ink and coloured with copics.  For the buckles on her shoes, barrette and heart I used atyou spica pens.  On the balloon I used a clear glaze pen for shine.

Thanks for stopping by & have a fabulous day!!

Dana 

Sweet Sunday Birthday Wishes

It's Sunday and time for Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch SSC115

Ok I flipped the sketch this week intentionally not because of how it was sitting on my desk!  I needed a birthday card for my hubby and we are not the sentimental types so I inked up beer Peep from Stamping Bella's Green Bean Baby line. 

The image is stamped with mementos ink onto bella's bestest cream paper. Because hubby doesn't drink beer with a lime in it I masked the lime out.  I paper pieced the label and used a pitch black atyou spica pen on the sentiment.  On the bottle I coloured the image with caran d'ashe pencils and then used a clear glaze pen to make it look like a bottle.  The rest of the image is coloured with copics.  The ds paper is basic greys life of the party.   I didn't add an embellishment on the right side because it would have covered my little peep.

Please stop by the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers blogs to see their creations - maybe they didn't flip the sketch like me?!  Remember to link your card on Karen's blog if you can play along with us this week.

• Jen Tapler
• Karen Giron
• Karen Motz
• Lynn Put
• Sarah Jane Kale'
• Vicki Burdick

Thanks for stopping by & have a fantastic Sunday!!

Dana