Bellarific Friday - YIPPEE

Good morning Bella lovers and all other stamping friends.  It's another Friday... even better... another Bellarific Friday.  This always makes me smile!!  How about you?  Are you a Bella sistah too???  This is the third week of entries in August for anyone who's interested in becoming a Bella Babe! 

For this week's challenge, I opted to use birthday boy which I just aDORE for a little boy's birthday!  I colored him up in bright colors as I figured little boys would like that too.  : )  The challenge for this week's Bellarific Friday is a sketch.  Check it out...

This was a tricky one for me.  Actually the whole card was.  I couldn't decide on a image OR papers.  I fretted over both for quite some time.  Now that it's over and done, I really like my choices!!  Hope you do too!!!

I don't have much more time to chat as I have to run today.  Hopefully, you can pop on over to and join in this challenge!  Look forward to seeing your creations.

Other Challenges:
Stampin' for the Weekend - anything goes
Totally Papercrafts - summer fun... I used summer colors.
Challenge up Your Life - celebrationsYour Next Stamp Challenge - bold, bright summery colors
Color Cue - aqua, gold, red, white/cream
BoBunny Card Challenge Tuesday - birthday cards
ColorQ - red, yellow, green, blue

EtsyInspired - Lover Dovers -

Have a great day my friends.  Thanks for stopping by!!!
Denise

Stamps:  Stamping Bella birthday boy, sentiment
Paper:  October Afternoon thrift shop (stripes), Heidi Swapp summer dress (blue circles)
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black
Supplies:  Nesties, Stamping Bella bonbon ruby red, MS stickers (blue dots)
Techniques:  Copic markers and prismacolor pencils

Love Somethings

Hello stamping friends.  Once again my favorite day of the week rolls around.  I just love the anticipation of the weekend.  I'm smiling right now as I think of it.  OK, on to stamping.

Today brings a new challenge at Stamp Something.  This week's challenge is Love Somethings.  This was another fun one for me as I love creating lovey dovey cards.  Now, I usually have quite a time deciding what to use for this or that, but this one was easy to decide.  Today is my sister's birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIANA!!).  Unfortunately, I'm a little behind getting a birthday card done for her.  But I still wanted to show her how much I care.  PLUS, she gave me THE greatest Christmas present this year... a gift certificate to McCallisters.com where I buy most of my copic markers (and had a great time buying more)!!  This is Leslie and Lorie Lulu... a Stamping Bella image... and was just perfect for the message I wanted to send.

 

Our sponsor this week is Bunny Zoe's Crafts who offers up lots of great stamping needs.  Nikki, the owner of Bunny Zoe Crafts, has generously offered a gift certificate to one lucky participant in our challenge!

I used a bit of glitter on the girls.  On the bottom of the pink dress, the dots on the green dress, the heart on the apron and a little on the big butterfly.  I also tried a little something new.  I used a Gelly Roll clear star pen on the girls great hair.  I tried working it into more curls.  It didn't really turn out as I has hoped, but I don't totally hate it so I'll work on that a little more.

  

I'll try entering this card in a few other challenges:

 1.  Bellarific Friday the SKETCH

 2.  Copic Creations - feather blending

 3.  Paper Sundaes - valentines

 4.  Cute Card Thursday - spots and dots

 5.  Charisma Cardz - I love you

 6.  C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - valentines or love

 7.  Stampin' for the Weekend - love is in the air

 8.  ABC Challenge - N is for New

 9.  PaperPlay Challenge - love notes

10.  Lili of the Valley - valentines

11.  Creative Inspirations - pink and cream

12.  La-La Land Crafts - hearts

13.  The Pink Elephant - all about pink

14.  Double Dutch - be my valentine

15.  Cute Daisy May - oh sweet valentine

16.  Saturday Challenge - hearts

17.  Challenge up your Life - valentines

18.  The Corrosive Challenge - love

19.  Cupcake Inspiration Challenge - inspiration challenge

 

20.  Papertake Weekly Challenge - love actually

21.  Creative Card Crew - valentines

22.  Simon Says Challenge - inspiration challenge

23.  Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - valentine/love

24.  Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge - inspiration challenge

25.  By the Cute and Girly - love
26.  Delightful Sketches and Challenges - love

WOW!!  How's that for a list of challenges!!!  It's pretty easy to find challenges for a card like mine at this time of the year!!  Fun... fun... fun!!

Thank you all for stopping by today.  I hope you've enjoyed your visit.  Take care dear stampers and have a wonderful weekend!!

Denise

Stamps:  Stamping Bella Leslie and Lorie Lulu

Papers:  BG eva

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, VersaMagic pixie dust

Supplies:  Nesties, shapeabilities, bella's baubles string of pears and espresso, white glitter

Techniques:  Copic markers, sponging

Merry Christmas Birdies

I thought I'd go ahead and get my entry for Bellarific Friday posted a couple days early.  YAY!  I'm so often scurrying around at the last minute.  This is a really nice change!!

I have chosen this cute little birdies on a limb image, Merry Christmas Birdies on a Branch.  I stamped this two or three weeks ago, but hadn't gotten back to coloring it up until last night.  It's really quick and easy to color, but still packs a big punch (I think).  I didn't feel well today, but finally felt like doing something, so I pulled everything together to finish it.

Emily's requirement for this challenge is to use glitter/glitz.  Got that handled.  I glittered up the birdies' wings, part of the branch and the berries (not my favorite part of the glitz).  I also used Bella's ruby red bonbons which I got with my last order.  I paper pieced the Merry Christmas banner and sponged some VersaMagic wheat chalk ink.  Oh... and I embossed the white background sheet with Cuttlebug's snowflakes.

For the layout, I used Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge.  Mercy always has great sketches... I just don't always find the time to work them up.  I'm glad I was able to use this one!

I'll also enter this in the Cuttlebug Challenge.  This challenge was also for glitter!  Love glitter... love challenges that call for glitter!!  : )

Thanks so much for stopping in today.  Come back soon!!
Denise

Stamps:  Stamping Bella Merry Christmas Birdies on a Branch

Paper:  Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly, Gina K. pure luxury

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, VersaMagic wheat chalk ink

Supplies:  Nesties, Bella ruby red bonbons, red, blue and brown glitter

Techniques:  Copic markers, paper piecing, sponging

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hello all!!  I'm hoping you're all having a wonderful day filled with friends, family and fabulous food!  It's a perfect day for recounting our blessings and being especially grateful.  I know I am!!  My family will be celebrating Saturday so I have to wait a little longer.  But, I'm grateful that today I can relax, be creative and anything else my little heart desires!  And that's been exactly what I've been doing!  I'll cook tomorrow... today is mine!!  : )

One thing that always makes me happy is posting and sharing with all of you.  : )  Today, I'm sharing my Bellarific Friday entry.  I've missed the last couple of weeks and I just hate that!!  But... not this week! YAY!!  This week the challenge was a sketch and I just LOVED it!  Nice and simple so our creativity can soar.  Well... I don't know if mine soared, but it sure was fun to work up!!  I went with Cosmobella and some beautiful fall colors from Basic Grey's Indian Summer.  I've been wanting to work Cosmo up and now I have.  She's really fun and easy... and soooo cool!!  To finish the card off, I added some plain white brads.  I don't know if I've EVER used plain white brads, but I thought they fit with this card and I like 'em.  Enjoy your day and... here's to you!

Thanks so much for stopping by.  If you have time to leave a comment, I always appreciative them!! 
Denise

Stamps:  Stamping Bella Cosmobella and sentiment
Paper:  BG Indian Summer, Gina K. pure luxury
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black
Supplies:  BG white big brads
Technique:  Copic markers

It's Bellarific Friday

Good morning all!  It's Friday {grin... grin... grin... grin}.  Not only is the start of the weekend just a few short hours away, but it's also Bellarific Friday.  YIPEE!!!  What else can make Friday's more fun?  For all those folks who are huge Stamping Bella fans, Friday is TONS of fun!  If you have the time, go check out her blog to see all the wonderful creations entered in this challenge.  FUN!!

This is Little Emmy.  She's in a bit of disarray, but sooooo cute!  She is lots of fun to color up.  And I'm just a-lovin' these Basic Grey June Bug papers.  They just seemed to 'go' with this little girl.

This great layout came from the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.  Thanks so much for the inspiration ladies!!  This card also works for the Papertake Weekly Challenge.  Their challenge this week is "Spots 'n Stripes"... use either or both.  : )  Finally, this fits Crazy 4 Challenges who wants us to create a card using at least three different geometric shapes.  I have an oval, rectangles and a circle (button).

Thanks to all of you for stopping by today.  Have a grrrrrrrrreat Friday.  See ya soon.

Denise

What did I learn today?  On Fridays, I use the word 'FUN' a LOT!!  Isn't that FUNny?!?!?!  {grin}

Stamps:  Stamping Bella Little Emmy (sentiment included)
Paper:  BG June Bug, Gina K. pure luxury
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black
Supplies:  Nesites, ribbon, BG button, linen thread
Techniques:  copic markers

Miss Bittybloom

Hi stamping fans!  Hope you've all had a great weekend.  Mine was just pretty darn good.  It was a little chilly yesterday, but today was just wonderful!!  And I did almost nothing useful!  I guess we have to do that sometimes, right??

I'm finally getting this card posted at the very end of the weekend!  It was sooooo fun to make.  I bought this Hydrangea Bittybloom a while back and am finally getting her inked and colored up.  Isn't she just a sweetie?  The whole bittybloom line are all so petite and dainty.  Really fun to work into a card.  The main image may be a little plain.  Maybe when I add a sentiment, that will help.  You can't really tell from the photo, but each little petal has a drop of diamond stickles right in the center.  IRL it looks great!


Bloggabella has a new challenge where Emily wants us to go natural.  "Anything with nature - flowers".  Come on and join in.  It's always fun to stamp with Bellas and you could win some Bella bucks!!

The layout for this card came from Simon Says Stamp Challenge. It's a really nice and simple sketch, but those can be made into beautiful cards.  Just look at what the DT came up with!!

I'd better go wind down as a new work week starts tomorrow.  Hope you have a good... nay... a great week!
Thanks for coming by,
Denise

Stamps: Stamping Bella Hydrangea Bittybloom
Paper:  BG Wisteria, Gina K. pure luxury
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black
Supplies:  Nesties, purple hydrangeas, pearls, blue and diamond rhinestones, white satin ribbon, MS daisy edge punch, diamond stickles