Ramona Loves to Glide...

Good morning friends, I have a sweet simple card to share with you all today using Stamping Bella's 'Ramona Loves to Glide' stamp. 

I stamped this cutie directly onto the paper that I printed out using a digitally created pattern from Lily Bimble's Christmas Village collection. (I love saying Lily Bimble, it's such a fun name, lol!) I was on a mission to find paper that somewhat resembled an older pattern collection from October Afternoon called Verry Merry. Click on the link, do you remember it? You do? That means you must have it! Pleasepleaseplease email me if you do, LOL! 

Just kidding, but I had to come up with a substitution because that OA paper is nowhere to be found! Lily Bimble comes the closest.

Ramona is colored with my Copics, and I added lots of glitter all around her because she's skating on sparkly ice of course. I didn't want to cover up too much of the image with ribbon, so I opted for a cute baker's twine bow with a snowflake brad and some colored bells.

Now that I look at it, I wish I had added a sentiment to it. I still can, and I will do that today. I'm home today because I broke my toe at work on Friday. I dropped a heavy box on it and let me tell you it hurthurthurt! Owwie! It's all sorts of ugly rainbow colors today, but it doesn't hurt nearly as much anymore, thank goodness.

Thanks for stopping by, hope your Monday is not terrible today!

Spread Christmas Cheer

Good morning friends, can you believe it's December already? I have been a busy little beaver decorating and crafting for the holidays. Putting up lights, decorating the fireplace mantle, making all sorts of crafty Christmas things that are not cards, lol! I'll take pictures soon, I need lots of natural light to get a good shot of the mantle where I have displayed a lot of the things I've been working on. Most of these crafty projects are all thanks to my Pinterest addiction! I've always been a crafty sort, dabbling in one thing or another, but cardmaking kind of grabbed me and kept me at it for the longest time and I ignored all my other hobbies. I think that's changing. I've even gotten the itch to paint again, I miss it so much! I'll try to share my other projects soon. In the meantime, here's another CAS card I created using Stamping Bella's Uptown Girls. LOVELOVELOVE these gals, they look like such a fun bunch don't they?

They're colored with Copics, glittered with Stickles and Spica pens and I heat embossed a Papertrey Ink sentiment all on one layer of cardstock. I added a tiny bit of patterned paper border around the whole thing because I just can't make a card without using a little bit of it!

I added my signature bow with some colorful tiny jingle bells and call this card done! Another simple card I am very pleased with. 

Well it's the start of a new work week, so fun hobby time is limited till I get a day off again. poo... Thanks for visiting, I'll be back with another card soon!

Bellarific Friday is Back to School!

Well my kids are back in school, they started this past Monday. I can't believe I have a Senior and a Sophomore in High School! I am feeling my age coming on. 

I am starting to worry about empty nest syndrome already, several years away! But times flies so fast, and before I know it, both my kids will have graduated and moved out, and I feel like crying. I'm not ready, stop time! I need more time! 

And I'm getting way ahead of myself, I know, lol. All because of Bellarific Friday and our Back to School challenge. hmmph!

Here's a cute little project a teenage girl might like for Back to School. I got one of these little spiral notebooks from Michael's dollar bins and simply embellished them with some pretty papers and this adorable Perry has a Laptop image. 

I paper pieced the the big comfy chair with a nice plaid paper from a new Bo Bunny pad. Beautiful rich autumn colors perfect for school time. The rest of the image was colored with my Copics and some colored pencils.

I added a couple of funky file tabs I got from the Silhouette store to the notebook pages for dividers. The notebook paper border is a cut file from the Silhouette store too. 

I hope you'll join us in our challenge, head on over to the Stamping Bella blog for all the details on how you can enter your card for a chance to win some Bella Bucks!
Thanks for visiting, have a great weekend!

Mommy and Mimi Lulu in the Snow

Good morning friends! I've got another Christmas card to share with you all today. I've never used this character before, Lulu from Stamping Bella. Very different from what I usually use, but there is something about her unique-ness that I just love. This one is called Mommy and Mimi Lulu in the Snow. 

I stamped her in a grey ink, to make the lines lighter than usual. It almost looks like no lines, just coloring. Almost all monochromatic, mostly blue with touches of red accents. 

The card background was cut on my Cameo, using patterned paper from one of Lili of the Valley's new paper pads. I dug into some of my stash, for the sentiment and metal label holder from SU. GOT to use these things UP! lol
By the way, this card is listed in my Etsy shop if you're interested, along with a few others.

Well, I'm off to bed, the kids are back to school and I have to get up earlier so we can all get a shower in time! 

Thanks for visiting!

Bellarific Friday Sketch ~Dancing in the Rain

Good morning friends, it's Friday and that means we have another challenge for Bellarific Friday. This week we have a lovely sketch to work with. 

My card is loosely based on the sketch, but ovals just weren't working for Lolly and her Brolly! I went with rounded corners instead, lol. Did some paper piecing in yellow plaid for her slicker, umbrella and Wellies. I always add a bit of shading to my paper piecing with Copics to add dimension.

I went over all the yellow rain gear with some Crystal Lacquer to make them look like the real thing. {love}

While digging through some of my old, old supplies I came across these raindrop clear stickers and they are perfect for this card! I never knew what to do with them until I made a rainy day card, lol. I think they're so cute!

The papers are from an older October Afternoon collection, I am determined to use up my old stash! 

Hope you'll join us this week for Bellarific Friday over at the Stamping Bella blog, there could be some Bella Bucks in it for you...

Clarissa and Camille Have a Cafa

Happy Bellarific Friday! I have a little gift box to show you today featuring Clarissa and Camille Uptown Girls. A couple of months ago I got my auto delivery from Green Mountain Coffee and they included a few free samples for me, a cold drink cup and a box of four iced coffee K Cups. They came in this awesome custom box that I immediately tore apart and vowed to duplicate it! And here it is...

I simply traced it onto some sturdy cardstock and cut it out. It was a large template so I had to use two sheets of paper and weld the two together after I cut them out. Boy I wish I knew how to make this into a cut file for my Silhouette Cameo! I'd love to have my machine cut it out and save me a lot of time...

Look at the inside, so purrrdddy! I love it! A simple little gift for a happy birthday wish, which is our theme this week for Bellarific Friday. 

Thanks for visiting, I hope you have a great weekend!

Stamps: Stamping Bella 'Clarissa and Camille Have a Cafa' with matching sentiment, PTI tag sentiment
Ink: Adirondack
Papers: Hammermill for stamped image, PTI, Bazzill
Tools & Accessories: PTI ribbon, Nestabilities, Copics, Cheery Lynn Doily Die, old paintbrush, acrylic paint, Scor Pal

Abra-ca-dabra! It's Bellarifiic Friday Sketch 16

Hello everyone, isn't this terrible, I've only posted one card this week! I just could not get any more done after our little weekend get-away. I came back on Monday, caught up on all the chores and it was back to work on Tuesday. Not much more time left after all that, poo!

But anyway, I felt like a little Halloween and pulled out 'Monstah Bash' for this week's card. 

For some reason I wanted to water color these cute little monsters, so I pulled out my Tombows and water color paper and quickly brought these guys to life. 

The papers are last year's Basic Grey Halloween paper pad. The fancy frame is a free cut file from Shery K Designs. Her blog has tons of free files, they're wonderful! 

Hopefully I'll have some more things to share this weekend when I have a chance to get caught up, stop by and see me soon!
Thanks for visiting!

Bellarific Friday sum sUM SUMMERTIME!

Good morning friends! It's Friday, and I have a long weekend off from work! Me and Jimmy are heading up to do some R & R at a friend's lake cabin. Fishing, blueberry picking, and maybe some shooting lessons for me (maybe). I need a little rest and relaxation, so this can't come a moment too soon. 

Our theme this week for Bellarific Friday is all things SUMMER. Sweet Isabelle loves her Ice Cream was my choice for this card. Nothing says summer like ice cream, so that was an easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy choice!

Pretty lady was colored up with Copics to match the pretty papers from My Mind's Eye paper pad. Those pastel stripes remind me of an ice cream parlor awning.

I traced the chair Isabelle is sitting on with a black Sakura Glaze pen, to make it look a little more like wrought iron. It has a bit of shine and dimension, which I really like!


You're all welcome to join us in our Bellarific Friday challenge, next week we have an awesome sketch to work with! Get all the details on the SB blog. You could win some Bella Bucks!

Well I'm off to do some relaxin', hope you all have a great weekend!


Stamps: Stamping Bella, Catslife Press sentiment seal
Ink: Adirondack, Fresh Ink
Paper: My Mind's Eye, PTI, Bazzill, Hammermill for stamped image
Tools & Accessories: Tonic corner rounder, grosgrain ribbon, EK Success tiny scallop punch, Copics, Spica pens, Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder

Bellarific Friday Sketch 15

Happy Bellarific Friday!  We have a fun little sketch for our challenge this week, you can see it here. I like working with sketches, makes cards a breeze to do. That's the part I usually struggle with the most, the layout. 

Anyway, here's Ramona and Teddy in Their Balloon, floating high up in the blue sky. 

I love the Dr. Suess sentiment that comes with this stamp, good for a lot of occasions. 

Next week our theme for BF is Sum-Sum-Summertime! We'd love to have you join in our challenges, stop by the Stamping Bella blog to get all the details on how you can win some Bella Bucks.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Bellarific Friday... Christmas in July

Good morning everyone, it's time for the weekly Bellarific Friday challenge! Our theme this week is Christmas in July and I colored up 'Quinn in her Boots' just for the occasion. 

She's colored with Copics, shaded with some colored pencils and I added some gold buttons to her coat with a gel pen. 

I cut some pretty holly flourishes to decorate the card with my Cameo, using designs from the Silhouette Store. I would use my Cameo on every.single.card if I could, but my computer is in the living room area of our house, and my Cameo is on the table in the other room of our house. I am patiently, patiently waiting for the day when I can set up my computer next to my Cameo and craft area so I can use it more easily any time I want. sigh... unfortunately, the unused computer desk is covered in someone else's stuff. Grrrr... I thought I was a terrible procrastinator! lol


Thanks for dropping by, have a great weekend!


Stamps: Stamping Bella, Catslife Press sentiment seal
Ink: Adirondack, Ancient Page, Distress
Papers: My Mind's Eye, PTI, SU
Tools & Accessories: Silhouette Cameo, Copics, colored pencils, twill ribbon, gold gel pen, Stickles, Martha Stewart pine edge punch, Crystal Lacquer

Bellarific Friday Sketch 14

Good morning folks, here we are again with another Bellarific Friday for you, we have a sweet sketch to work with this week. If you missed seeing the sketch, take a look at it here on Bloggabella. While you're there, you can read the very, very sad news that the physical location for Stamping Bella is closing it's doors. BUT, the online business is thriving and will continue on full steam ahead! I'm a little disappointed, I really wanted to see the SB store some day soon, but it is what it is.

I chose to color up the adorable Matilda on Her Swing with my Copics for my card. So sweet and innocent is lovely Matilda.

Papers are from My Mind's Eye paper pad. I was so shocked to see my local AC Moore had a ton of these paper pads from MME the last time I was there, they usually never have much that I like! MME is one of my fave paper companies, so I kind of went overboard! It's easier to not get tempted when buying papers online because you can't quite get an idea of their gorgeousness from a computer monitor, but seeing them in person? Uh-uh. I'm in trouble...

I even ran the wood grain patterned paper through my Big Kick with a wood grain impression plate to give it additional texture, and it looks awesome IRL. So hard to capture with a picture :-(


The rose is made from wool felt that I dyed myself a loooooong time ago, before the days of cardmaking. Before the days when wool felt was popular even. I used to make wool crafts all the time, like penny rugs and hand sewn dolls and other primitives. I kind of stopped doing all that years ago, and all my lovely wool felt sat in a pile, unused. I am so glad wool felt has become the 'thing', lol!


So make sure you stop by Blogabella to get all the details on joining in our challenge for a chance to win some Bella Bucks, and to see all the loveliness from the rest of the DT. 


Have a great weekend!

Let the sunshine in...

Good morning folks, I have a very few minutes before I have to get ready for work, so I thought I'd share this card I made using Sunshiny Flynn from Stamping Bella.

I found the perfect background paper for this stamp from someone's online photo album that they so kindly shared for free. See here.

I'll be back tomorrow with Bellarific Friday, have a great day!

Two Balloons

Good morning blog friends! Can you believe tomorrow is already July 4th?! It's officially summer and the temps will prove it, lol! It's been gross around here lately.

Here's a sweet card I made using Angelina by Mo Manning. How cute is this image?! Love her...

She's colored in Copics, and I heaped on a bunch of Crystal Lacquer over the balloons to make them nice and shiny. 

The sweet and pretty papers are from a digital collection from Design House Digitals called 'Gidget'. The sentiment seal is from Lili of the Valley.


It's going to be a long, hot and strenuous day at work so I'm going to keep it short and sweet. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Bellarific Friday Sketch 13

Good morning blog friends! When your mojo goes on vacation, my advice would be to find a sketch to give you a jump start, and this week's Bellarific Friday sketch fits the bill perfectly. Saved my bacon, I would've been in deep doo doo if I had to come up with something on my own! 

Soooo, here's my card, as close to the sketch as I could get with a square base. I used Uptown Girl Molly Makes a Detour. I cannot get enough of these Uptown Girls, they make me happpppyyyy!

She's colored with my usual - Copic markers. 

Don't forget, you can join in on the Bellarific challenge for a chance to win some Bella Bucks! Head over to Blogabella for all the details.


Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!


Stamps: Stamping Bella, sentiment from Lili of the Valley
Ink: Memento, SU
Papers: stamped image colored on Hammermill color copy, My Mind's Eye paper pad, SU & PTI
Tools & Accessories: Copics, Glaze pen, PTI ribbon/button, Tonic corner rounder, Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles

Tropical Boo-kay

Hello everyone, it's Bellariffic Friday, and we get to pick our favorite sketch to work with. I chose this pretty & simple one:

I pulled out an oldie but goody, that I discovered too late was DISCONTINUED! (oops, sorry folks) Anyway, it's a pretty little bouquet that I embossed in gold and water colored with Distress inks. Simple and quick! I chose some bright summery colors, Turquoise, Chartreuse and a pretty yellow.

The card base was supposed to be the largest Romantic Rectangle from the Spellbinders die set, but I couldn't measure correctly I guess, LOL. So I ended up only die cutting the bottom of the card base. Sometimes you just have to improvise, right?

I hope you'll join us for next week's challenge, we are Inking up the Girls! Pick your favorite Bella girl and get inky. If your card gets chosen you could win some Bella Bucks, and who couldn't use some more $$ to spend at Stamping Bella?!!


Thanks for dropping by, have a wonderful weekend!

Inspired by Color

Good morning everyone! Remember the Tessatina die I used on this card a few days ago? I was playing with making backgrounds and two cards were born as a result. This is the other one. Totally different look to it, right? This card was inspired by a color scheme I saw on Design Seeds called 'Crashing Hues'. I fell in love with it and had to translate it onto a card.

So I matched up the colors to cardstock I already had, SU's Soft Sky, Baja Breeze, PTI's Soft Stone, Ocean Tides and Smoky Shadow. The colors look amazing together! Want to know how I got those super delicate die cuts glued onto the paper? That was a PITA and if anyone has any tips for gluing them down, please share! 
I poured a small puddle of decoupage glue onto a piece of acetate, then rolled a brayer through it, then brayered glue to the back of the die cut. It worked OK, but a bit of glue ended up getting on the front of the die cut. I had to put a thin coat of decoupage glue all over the finished background after gluing down all the die cut strips to hide it.

It's a very pretty background though, and I love it. I colored Stamping Bella's 'Lucille Sends her Love' in blue green and grey Copics. 
I made all the flowers in matching colors using a daisy punch from The Punch Bunch.


Well, that's it! Thanks for stopping by!

Tessie the Teacher

Good morning! Have you been checking out the peeks on Stamping Bella's blog? Lots of new stamps coming soon, so if you've been loving the Uptown Girls or are a fan of Mo Manning's designs, you're in for a treat! Here's one of the new stamps coming out real soon, Tessie the Teacher'. 

I just adore her! I colored her with Copics, then cut out the entire image, so I wouldn't cover over the 'blackboard' behind her. I used that real wood paper to die cut a frame, then painted a piece of dark grey cardstock with Charcoal acrylic paint. I 'stamped' the coordinating sentiment on the blackboard, but the white wasn't as white as I wanted it to be, so I went over it with a Sharpie poster pen.

The alphabet border was cut with my Cameo. So are you excited for the new release? I am!


Thanks for stopping by!


Stamps: Stamping Bella
Ink: Memories
Paper: Digital paper collection from Shery K Desings printed on Hammermill, PTI
Tools & Accessories: Spellbinders Labels, Copics, Spica pen, Sharpie Poster paint pen, satin ribbon, Cameo, Delta acrylic paint, sewing machine

Bellariffic Friday Sketch 11

Good morning friends, it's Friday and we have another sketch for our Bellariffic Friday challenge. 

I pulled out my 'Flora the Cyclist' stamp again, and colored her with pretty spring Copics. I matched her with the papers from My Mind's Eye 'Miss Caroline' paper pad. 

This card is so big, I had to piece together two pieces of cardstock to create the base. I just could not bear to cover up any more of the pretty striped patterned paper than necessary, so it's almost 6.5" square!

Plus, I wanted to make a really pretty big bow using this awesome crinkled silk ribbon. I'm going to have to make a custom envelope for this one! 


I hope you play along with us, get the details on SB's blog for a chance to win some Bella Bucks!


Thanks for stopping by!

Bellariffic Friday: Blue, Yellow & Black Challenge

Hello everyone! The weekend is coming, the weekend is coming! Mine happens to be a three day weekend thankyouverymuch! So happy...

So how about a Ketto card this week? Remember these little pixies? I went crazy for them and bought up a ton when they came out, and they've been sitting in a binder getting dusty for a long time. Tsk, tsk...

I don't like to do that to my stamps. I believe they need to be used over and over, and over. Get my maximum cuteness from each one.

This is Maisy Ketto, and she's Pixie royalty! She's got her crown, and her gold flower scepter to prove it. She's colored with Copics.

I didn't have any patterned paper in blue, yellow and black- so I stamped my own. I stamped the  dotty circles on vellum, then matted the vellum on some sky blue cardstock. Stamping on the vellum instead of directly onto the cardstock keeps the ink colors pure. The blue and black would look fine on sky blue cardstock, but the yellow would turn green-ish. 

So in addition to the color scheme for this card, I have a polka dot profusion going on, lol! It's blue, yellow, black and polka dotty all over! 


Pardon me, I'm anxious for the weekend to be here, so I'll be on my merry way. Thanks for stopping by and don't forget next week's Bellariffic Friday is a sketch!

Stamps: Stamping Bella 'Maisy Ketto', PTI
Ink: Memento, Perfect Match, Versafine
Paper: PTI
Tools & Accessories: PTI ribbon, EK Success tiny scallop edge punch, Copics, Souffle pen, Stickles, Nestabilities

Little Monster

Good morning folks! I was almost ready to panic for a while early this morning when our internet suddenly went out. Whenever our power goes out (last night), doesn't matter if it's for a few seconds, or a few hours, the internet goes mental for a while. I had a heck of a time trying to get it back up and running. If I could devote the time and energy into cleaning my house the way I do to get my internet up and running, I'd be living in a showplace haha!

So here's today's card using a classic Stamping Bella image, 'King of the Wild Things'. This is one of my favorite images for a little boy's birthday card. Such a cutie pie!

I paper pieced his costume with a polka dot pattern from the 'Tiny Woods' Kaisercraft paper pad. Added some shading with my Copics, then colored the rest of the image too. I went back with a white Souffle pen to add the dinosaur talons. 

Fish tail banners are so popular right now, I see them everywhere! Instead of trying to get them perfectly even and square with a ruler and blade, I quickly did a search in the Silhouette Store and found a digital set. For .99 (actually less, I bought a subscription for a year), I now have an unlimited number of fish tail banners in any size I could dream of! Woo hoo, I didn't have to fork over $27 for metal dies!! Love me my Cameo...


Hope this little monster makes you smile, have a great day! 


Stamps: Stamping Bella 'King of the Wild Things', PTI sentiment tag
Ink: Memento, Perfect Match
Paper: Kaisercraft, PTI
Tools & Accessories: Silhouette Cameo, PTI Limitless Layers dies, Pinking rotary cutter, Perfect Layers Rulers, PTI ribbon/button, baker's twine, Souffle pen, Copics, sewing machine


P.S.- Don't forget this week's Bellarific Friday challenge is Blue, Yellow and Black!