bingobella

Morning everyone! I hope you are having a super week...can you believe tomorrow is Friday? Yay! Double yay for a long weekend!

When I saw the CPS sketch for this week and that Stamping Bella was hosting it I knew I just had to pull out my newest Bella. I call her Bingobella but her real name is Bingodabbabella. See? My version is much easier to remember! LOL! Anyway, I like to make cards for Todd's grandmother just as a way of staying connected and she does love her bingo so this is perfect!

I have to say that I'm in love with this card simply because of it's monochromatic color scheme. I was thinking of putting another color in this card but the colors that match the best with Brocade Blue just didn't sound appealing for a Bella card so I stuck with Brocade Blue and White.

I can't wait to get this sent out to her! I hope Todd stops home this morning so he can write a little note to her inside so it can go out in the mail today!

I just have to tell you what a dork I am. I thought it would be nice to have a Memorial Day BBQ with some of ours friends. Apparently, I wasn't thinking when I sent out the e-vites because we now have over 40 adults and 30 children coming to the BBQ. I'm not in the lest worried about the food and such as everyone is going to bring a little something but I am worried that it will be too windy to be outside...I can't have 30 children running around my home. Yikes! It was suggested to me that a couple of the older children take the younger kids to the school a half block away to play. That is a great idea and I just need to dig out my walkie talkies so we have communication with them. Wish me luck everyone!

Anyway, I'm off to start my day! I hope you all have a wonderful Thursday and I'll see ya tomorrow!

golfafella gift card holder

Good morning everyone...how was your weekend? I got lots accomplished and I'm thrilled about that. I still have A LOT to do but that is life I guess.

Remember the other day when I showed you the box that I made for my friend's birthday? Well, we went and had dinner at that friend's house last night to celebrate our husband's birthdays. Papa Al's birthday was last week and Todd's is tomorrow. Anyway, we got a gift card to a local coffee place for Papa Al so I decided to alter a Sheetload of Shortcuts gift card holder to present it in. Papa Al is a big fisher and golfer so I had to go to Golfafella. I don't recall which patterned paper this is but I have used it with Golfafella in the past and toally love the argyle paper with the argyle socks. Too fun! I have used the bashful blue taffeta to hold this holder together as I have the birthday sentiments popped up on the inside so it is quite thick.

I enjoyed altering this holder until I got to the inside panel that actually holds the gift card...wow, that was quite the pain. I still don't think it looks top notch but I do know that Papa Al loved it and really that is all that counts!

Tomorrow is Created by Courtney day so I hope you'll check back to see what fun CBC Challenge you'll want to try (and it is fun)!

Don't forget to stop at my Tastefully Simple blog and become a follower so that I can send you out a sample. I'll send you a sample of one of our wonderful products when you do, so go check it out HERE! Be sure to leave me a way to get a hold of you so I can get your address! *I think I've got the followers "thing" fixed so head on over and check it out!*

Well, you guys...I hope you all have a wonderful Monday! Oh, did you play in the PCP 10th Day of Christmas Challenge? I'd love to see if you did so link me up girl! See you all tomorrow!

sarah's bella sketch challenge

Good morning friends! It sure has been a busy week here at our house with no real time to get any of my fun stamping in...darn it! This card today I made a few days ago from my friend Sarah's Bellaholic Anonymous Sketch Challenge for November.

For this card I used some patterned paper that I got at a local scrapbook store. I cannot remember who the manufacturer is but the stripes are on one side and the polka dots on the other. Very cute paper with a great combination of burgundy, blush, brown, and white. Anyway, I stamped Lattebella on my favorite PTI white and colored her with my COPIC markers. This card opens on the right where the dots end so I created a simple belly band with some chocolate chip card stock and a "cheers" stamp. I attached Lattebella to the belly band so all you have to do is take the belly band off to access the inside of the card.

God has been talking with me about sharing a scripture with a woman that I don't really know but is having a hard time right now so I decided to use this card to write to her. I hope that she likes it and that my words make sense to her.

I hope that you will all try out Sarah's sketch...it is a fun one! I'm working on another card with a sketch from CPS and hope to finish that today. I'll also do some shopping for Thanksgiving dinner. How are your preparations coming? Even though it is usually just my very immediate family for Thanksgiving I still love it! It is such a warm, yummy time!

I'm off to get all my stuff done! I hope that you take the time to really enjoy your day!

just in case

Good morning everyone! By this point we are home from vacation but I thought I would pre-post one last time so as not to be pressured and have to show you something I don't love. Soooo...one more birthday card, k?

This one is totally me! The same color hair and sitting at the computer...yep, totally me! Well...I'm not quite that skinny but you get the idea. This card came to me from my friend and co-worker Stephanie. She knows I love pink too!

Thank you Stephanie! You are too kind!

So...I'll see you tomorrow!

cards and a link

Good Monday morning everyone! I hope you all had a super weekend and are refreshed for your new week!

I have a couple of more fun cards for you all to see today. The card to the right is from Kristine and is a cute Bella card. Do you see all the paper piecing she did? All the outfits are paper pieced...incredible! Love the color theme too! Thanks so much Kristine!

The card below was made by my friend Jen. The truck is from the SU! set Loads of Love. So, so cute! She knows that I love pink and though it is against her nature she made my card with lots 'o pink...I love it! Thank you Jen!

Tomorrow is Created by Courtney Challenge day again so stop back to see what is up!

page plans week 28

It is another Page Plans day girls! You know how much I like these sketches. Except...with today's sketch I struggled...I struggled so much I made the card on the right. Yeah....I'm not sure I like this card all that much but Todd likes it so that is always a positive!

The actual sketch is below so I totally expect you all to make your own card and show it to me! My card is pretty self explanatory except that this is a Bella image and the white and black areas are fun flocked. Can you tell I like to do that with these images? Fun stuff!

Now, go...have fun with this sketch. Remember...link your card back here so I can see what fabulous things you do with this sketch!

a new month

Good morning everyone! Can you believe it is November already? Thanksgiving will be here before we know it!

A couple of more birthday cards to show you today. As you can see they are both Bella cards....and are the bomb!

My friend and co-worker Debby sent me the card on the right. I love the colors, layout and bling she used! She also gave me a gift card to one of the local coffee shops here in town...yum! Thanks Debby!

The other super cute Bella card is from my girl Dani! It features another fun layout with great birthday colors. I love that pink stitched ribbon...very cute! Dani sent me a very fun gift certificate from Sweet N Sassy stamps. Oh, yeah...can't wait to use it...along with the one that Courtney sent...woohoo for me!

That is it for today but make sure you stop back tomorrow for my Page Plans card this week! Catch ya later!

friday brings us pia puddingtop

Happy Friday everyone! I hope that everyone has had just a super week this week! I know mine has gone by super fast which I'm SO happy about!

SOOOO???? Do you not think Pia Puddington is absolutely adorable? I absolutely think she is SO cute! My friend Debby gave me some images of Miss Puddingtop some time ago and I just had to use one! I paired her with some Debbie Mumm paper, SU! card stock, and some taffeta ribbon. Seriously cute! Oh, and I used this Saturday's sketch for you to try on i{heart}to stamp. You can see it HERE. I used my COPIC markers to color her and used some fun flock on the stocking cap and other fun white areas. For a little more contrast I used my Scor-Pal for a couple of vertical score lines down either side of the ribbon then held the ribbon with little swirly decorated ribbon holders. Oh, and the holly on her dress is all outlined with glitter pen.

So, I exercised today and that means I don't have to tomorrow...yay! What does that mean? That means lots of stamping for me tomorrow while I'm awaiting the delivery of my NEW appliances.! Yep, that is right we are stimulating the economy in our town and bought a new refrigerator, stove, and dishwasher this week. Can you believe it? I'm SO excited...my goodness...new appliances AND a trip to Hawaii...woohoo! I will take pictures when they are installed so you can see them! Does anyone else get as excited about appliances as I do? LOL!

Well, now that my pulse has come down a little after my excitement I guess I'll let you all get back to your day! I hope your Friday is SUPER! See you soon!

bellaholic sketch challenge 1

Good Thursday morning friends! My goodness how this week has gone by quick! Did you see on my side bar that it is now less than two weeks until we head to Hawaii? Woohoo!

My friend, Sarah, is in charge of making the sketches for the new sketch challenge on Bellaholics Anonymous...the Yahoo group. Well, I just could not resist trying the first sketch as it looked sooo cute! Go HERE to see the sketch.

I wanted to make a birthday card for a friend who recently told me that her favorite color is dark blue and that she likes earthy colors. Yeah...I was having a hard time thinking of how to make a fun, cute birthday card out of that combo. I have used Cupcakahbella along with some patterned paper from one of my old 3 Little DReaMs kits for this card. I colored the Bella and the cupcake in blue's hoping it would make them look elegant and not so cutsie. For the corner piece I used a flower from K&Company. I'm not sure that this is the card I want to use for my friend so that is why I've posted it here. Plus I wanted to make sure everyone that frequents my blog sees this fun sketch!

I hope that you all have a fantastic Thursday and I'll see you tomorrow!

stitching

It is Friday so what has that meant? Yep, the 3 Little DReaMs challenge! Dani hooked us up with stitching for our challenge this week and I don't stitch so I got out my SU! All In A Row and used the stamp that looks like stitching. I also used my September kit's papers and the Professabella stamp. Notice my buttons aren't naked this time...it took me forever to find my linen thread! Overall I'm pretty pleased with how this came out. Sorry for the dark picture...my camera/Photoshop wasn't liking me yesterday!

I don't have much for you today. I have a really neat scrapbooking project to show you tomorrow so I hope you'll stop back in and see it in the morning!

loads of buttons

Guess what I got in the mail Saturday? Yep, my 3 Little DReaMs kit for September. I just had to use Teachabella to make a card...couldn't wait...no way! You can still order a September kit so make sure you go check it out at the link above.

Everything you see on this card...I got in my kit! How fun is this? If you notice the layout of this card is from the Friday sketch challenge that Dani had for us. Just check below to see what I'm talking about. I thought that maybe two rows of buttons would be too much but I think it is cute and may just use it for Kyler's teacher this year. Fun!

Short post today because you know how sometimes life gets in the way of things? Well, that is my life right now. I haven't had much time to stamp (much to my dismay) due to family "things." Also, we are taking a short little family vacation so I won't be back until Thursday although...I may try and post from where we will be at. I'll just have to wait and see how it all goes.

I hope you'll all hang on with me through this next week or so and I'll see you when I get back!

belli challenge 27

Today is Wednesday which means...belli challenge! Lets talk about the card/tin first and then I'll remind you what the belli challenge is all about and link you to the other players.

First of all...can you believe I don't own this stamp? I, thankfully, had gotten one in an image swap. This Bella is ready to party! From the sparkle in her clothes to the sparkle in her balloons, cupcake, and hat she is one happy girl! I used Basic Grey paper from their Cupcake pad for this card and based my colors for the image on that. I have to be honest with you guys and tell you that I'm so disappointed that picture. I put a lot of effort into the details of this card. The jeans are light blue with Spica glitter in blue on the seams, the balloons...two are glitter, the rest have glaze pen on them. The party hat...the blue is glitter pen and the rest has glaze all over it. The cupcake's icing is white gel pen and green glitter pen. It looks amazing IRL. I hope you don't think I'm bragging or something like that because I'm not...I'm just giving you the full effect! This card's layout is from Lauren's Saturday Sketch.

Then, the little tin...the top is made with my JustRite stamper. I just picked a border that went well with the card and the ribbon on the tin (which you can't really see), spelled out Happy Day, cut it with my Nesties and mounted it on the top of the tin. I often can't decide if I should get acquaintances a gift or not so in here I put mini M&M's as a little treat. I also think it would hold a necklace, ring, or something little along those lines. That ribbon is adhesive backed so it was the easiest application ever!

And, onto the deets of the belli challenge. Each week, Chris tries to give us a challenge that will get us using things we have lying around our stamp rooms! With a constant flow of new things coming out, we tend to forget about the other things we have and they quickly become clutter! Come join us in the Belli Challenge and be sure to post your link to Chris's website!

This Weeks Belli Challenge is ANYTHING BIRTHDAY RELATED! You can make, embellish or design MANY different things with a BIRTHDAY theme. There are twizzle sticks, Rub Ons, Stamps, Chipboard, Glitter, Brads, Stickers, Party supplies...the ideas are endless!

Best part is...there is a prize to be awarded. Make up something birthday related, upload it to SCS with the Keyword CBC27 and then link it to Chris's blog and you'll be in the running for some patterned paper! Woohoo! Link me up too so that I can see!

The other players this week are below...

Holly Brown
Shelly Koskinen - Shelly has a ton of them this week!
Laurie Serino
Christi Thorsen
Chris Dickenson
Rochelle Wick I don't see her card yet but keep checking!
Jennifer Greco
Ceal Pritchett

There you have it...a pretty full list this week! Go check 'em all out...you'll love them! Come back tomorrow to see the little candy holder I made for my summer sister, Sarah!

sending joy

First off...thank you for all the good wishes on my workout. I actually did fairly well and burned a ton of calories (I wear a heart rate monitor that counts them for me). I definitely will be doing it again and again so that I can learn it all!

Soo...what do you think of Lattebella? Personally, I love this card. I love the old, comfy feel of the designer paper. The vanilla paper gives it a nice soft look. This is all made (minus the sentiment which is PTI) from the July 3 Little DReaMs kit. I forgot to order mine and when Katie asked me if I had...I freaked! Oh, my...please tell me you have more as I really wanted Lattebella. Anyway, aren't the papers and colors lovely? Katie did a great job of picking them out! I used my COPICs to color her and used a little bit of glaze pen on the scarf and coffee cup. Can you believe that there is no glitter on her? Crazy I know! I think the doodling gives it just the right look. Although I don't think you can see it I did sponge just a little Sweet Blush from PTI on the edges of the image.

I got an award from Sarah over at Scrampin' Mama! The rules for this are simple.

1. Only 5 people are to be nominated. (Yikes!)
2. 4 out of 5 have to be dedicated followers of your blog.
3. 1 has to be new or recently new to your blog or live in another country.
4. You must link back to whomever gave you the award.

With all those rules in mind I pass this award onto:

Courtney at Created by Courtney
Dani at Dani Gets Crafty
Katie at {Just Me}
Diane at ddnjoys2stamp
Missy at Missy's Creative Corner is my new comer.

If you look back at my comments you can find that the first four girls comment almost every single time and are so sweet and supportive off the blog too. Missy is new visiting my blog and is very kind too! Thank you so much Sarah! Your support and friendship means a lot to me!

Now for some miscellaneous things...Don't forget about my Thoughtful Thursday challenge to you all. You can check it out HERE. Oh, and I tried a new sandwich yesterday so if you like ham, mustard, and cheese all together and then made kinda like french toast check it out HERE. Don't forget Sarah's fun blog candy HERE.

Alright, girls! If you made it this far...thank you! I am finally done typing at you. Can you just imagine what I'm like in real life? Yep, I talk...a lot!

how do i follow that up?

Well, thank you all so much for your wonderful comments about my Belli Challenge project yesterday. I hope to put it to good use soon!

This card is made with my new Halobella stamp with her accompanying sentiment "you're an angel." I didn't do a lot of coloring on this card and honestly the picture doesn't do it ANY justice AT ALL. It is all very light, very billowy, very soft. I used a sketch from Amy Rysavy (I think), and just went very minimalistic with it. The card stock is Purely Pomegranate (one of my all time favorite SU! colors...should order some more now!), the new Pink Pirouette, and I used some Berry Bliss DP. I colored Ms. Bella with COPICS, and added some Stardust Glitter Pen just on the outline of her wings and halo. Darn I wish the picture would have turned out better! Unfortunately I already sent this out to a friend that I really needed to thank for something, so I can't take another picture. Just picture a very lovely card here, k?!

Today is Thursday so what am I going to say? Yep! You got it...today is do something nice for someone else anonymously day! I decided to make this into a regular feature here at LLLC. So...each week I will post a Thoughtful Thursday reminder and you'll have until Sunday at 5:00 p.m. to comment back on the Thursday post what you have done nice for a stranger (anonymously) between Thursday and Sunday. And, yes...if you have played before you should still play again. Can you imagine how wonderful the world would be if we were all just kind to each other?! And, yes...I'll put a little something in the mail for the person whose name gets pulled out of a hat (box, hand...whatever). So...whatcha going to do this week?

Alright...I'm off to check out my blogs and watch the Tour De France. Have a super day!

bettina buttercream

Good Saturday morning everyone! Here is a card with Bettina Buttercream that I made for my friend, Debby's, birthday on Wednesday last week. The card stock colors don't look very good here but it really was quite lovely together. The pinkish color is Bazzil Bling paper and the purple is PTI Plum Pudding...just beautiful together! I used my Cuttlebug with the birthday embossing folder added some DP and ribbon and voila! It was done. Now what you can't see is all the bing on the card...Bettina's wings have glitter, the cherries are glittered, the embossed area has glitter it is really quite shimmery in real life. I was little intimidated to color her but she was quite fun and I have to say that I had fun with the image! Looking at it now I see some thing that I could have added to it but I procrastinated to long making it and needed to be done. Now...if my Stamping Bella order would just arrive so I can give her the bottle of Bella Dots that I got her!

Kyler is safely home from camp and I'm a bit ticked. The nurse did not give him is medicine likes she was supposed to and he has had some pretty bad reactions to the mosquito bites that he got. I put pictures on my family blog if anyone is really interested in seeing just e-mail me and I'll send ya a link. Poor guy! He said it was fun but doesn't want to go back just because of the bugs. He wore bug spray the entire time he was gone, too! As a matter of fact...the smell was still on him after he showered last night! I won't go into it to much to suffice it to say I'm quite frustrated with the camp right now!

Hopefully today will be a day when I get to work with my new SU! stuff. It has been sitting here looking at me but I do have some other things to get done today soooo...we'll have to see!

I hope you all have a fantastic Saturday and have lots of time for crafting!

another rak

I had forgotten that I had this super cute card to show you. I got this card some time back from Melissa Ferr for the Bella Sistahs Unite RAK day. It was a day where everyone was supposed to send a Bella card to another Sistah. Fun idea! Anyway, Melissa sent me this one. You can see her blog HERE.

Well, girls...I'm way behind in the voting for the SheetLoad of Cards contest. If you haven't voted yet and would like to vote for me to be a guest designer on SheetLoad please go HERE and vote for me!

On another note. Korin, the owner of Sweet N Sassy Stamps has the cutest niece who is quite sick right now. Korin has decided to have a fundraiser for the family. From Korin's blog...

"From today through July 31st I will be donating 50% from each stamp set sold to the Joseph family (not including Sarah Kay and Rachelle Anne Miller). So if you've been thinking about getting some stamps sets, now is the time to do it! If you have any questions, please let me know."

Here blog is HERE if you'd like to go see the entire post. Even though I just ordered some stamps I may go and order just a couple of more just to help out a little...I hope you can too!

Another busy day ahead of me today and because I slept in I am behind already so I must go. Have a super day today!

it's monday!

Good morning to everyone! I am currently gone but scheduled this post for you. This is the new Iwishilookedsogoodonabikeabella. What a name, huh? The layout is from the Stamp Something sketch challenge from June 20th. I know, I know...I'm a little late but better late than never, right?

I'm not sure I like the white gel pen on the outside of this card but it is there so what can I do at this point. The patterned paper is from SU!'s Cutie Pie paper pack (so glad I bought another before it was too late!). The image I got from my friend Debby (hi debby!). I know the ric rac doesn't look like it matches but in real life it is a great accent. Anything that is silver, yellow, or pink is sparkly and so cute! I put a white piece of card stock on the inside and stamped "enjoy life" as the sentiment.

I'll be back later today and hopefully will have something new for you tomorrow! Have a super Monday everyone!

another bikahbabeabella

Okay, I'm nervous to show you guys this one. At first, while making it, I didn't like it...not one bit but now...after looking at it for awhile...I really like it! Maybe I should have used this one for the bling contest, huh?

Everything on this card (minus the bling and sentiment) is, again, from my 3 Little DReaMs kit. The layout is from a sketch challenge this weekend on I {heart} to stamp. I love the "Live Your Bliss" sentiment as many of the bikers I know just really love the experience of riding their bikes, fixing their bikes, and so on. It really is their bliss. The card size is 3"X6". I haven't made a card that size in some time so it was fun to do and who knew that you could fit Bikahbabeabella in such a small card? LOL! So, what do you guys think?

Alright...so we are on for the summer sister swap! I have about six ladies signed up so far so if you'd like to join us you can refer to THIS post and comment either here or there and I'll send you the questionnaire (which I got and modified from Tangii on the Bellaholics group...thank you Tangii!!!). Please e-mail me with any questions you may have!

Oh, and girls...I have seen the Stampin' Up! preview stamps/accessories. There are quite a few things that I like and can you say Scalloped Edge Punch for $15.95?! Oh, yeah baby! And the new In Colors...do you want to know? They are...Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point, Pink Pirourette, Riding Hood Red, and Tangerine Tango. They are lovely colors!

I'm putting together a little catalog show for Pampered Chef so if you need anything let me know and I'll add you to my guest list and send you the website. Your order will be shipped directly to you and I get the credit towards my show. I only need a little more to get to the next hostess level. How's this...if you place an order for my catalog show I'll put your name in a drawing for a SU! Level 1 hostess Print Pack. Does that entice you into "needing" something from PC? LOL!

Alright...that is my excitement for you guys for today! Have a terrific Tuesday and I'll see you tomorrow!