Art Journal Monday on Tuesday again

Well, what did ya think of Stamping Bella's release yesterday? OMG....it was everything Emily said it would be AND MORE!!! My order is placed and now I wait, but hopefully not too long and now I just have to decide what to colour first!!!! I ordered almost everything so if there is anything you wanna see me colour up leave me a comment and I'll do it! Kinda like making supper, I don't mind doing it, but sometimes I just want someone to make the decision on what I should cook! And....have you been over to Paula's blog....she's got a giveaway going on so you may want to go check it out.

Okay....on to Art Journalling....I've said it before, I'm not your 'traditional' art journal type in that I don't write all over my pages, for me, it is just a place to play, try new stuff and just be creative. This weeks theme was collage and I had this face that I drew so I decided to create an outfit for her and plop her head on top. Oh what fun I had doing this one! The little flowers were punched out on various papers all from the same basic grey paper pack as the stripes using old SU punch. The funny thing is that I hated this paper and was ready to toss it but once I put it on there and gave it a wash of some gold paint I fell in love.

Then I didn't think it was 'collagey' enough so I did this. Cut the flowers and the fence free hand, added some paint (of course!) then got a little crazy with my white sharpie poster paint pen.

I have to say I AM partial to the first one but that's just me...I think it is the rich gold and red colours that I adore.

I'll be stalking Emily's blog until the post comes up because I can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with this week! I'm having a BLAST doing this!

Spit Happens!

DID YOU SEE THEM YET????

Emily was either late to bed or early to rise because when I got up at 5am I saw that she already had the new release up! And ladies....SHE WAS NOT KIDDING US when she said it was the best EVAH!

NEW Mo's, NEW Green Bean Babies, NEW Lulu's (yes those FAB UPTOWN GIRLS are created by Lulu....COULD YOU DIE!), AND TWO NEW DESIGNERS!!! Three sisters has an edgy sketchy kind of style WHICH I LOVE and OUR VERY OWN MUCH LOVED PAULABELLA debuts her Artist@heart line....so clean, so contemporary....SO PAULA!

Now for a Mo....this is Spit Happens (LOL!) and if you've ever been around a baby you KNOW how true that statement is!

This little guy (girl?) was stamped on bella's BESTEST paper and coloured with the following copic markers...just a tad bit of pencil on the image but all shading and ground was done with pencil.

E0000, 000, 00, 01, 02, 11, 13, 42, 43 C00, W0, 1, T1
R000, 20, 22, BV000, 02, Y15, YR23, YG0000, 21, 23, 25
G20, 40, 12, BG70, 72, 75, 45, 53, B41, 34, 45

Now get your buns over to Stamping Bella and get your cart full, but before you go....you just MAY want to hop on over to the blog because she has some wonderful coloured samples displaying on there all compliments of our uber talented design team!

Off to get inky on a break from the day job today.

Saving the BEST for last!

Meet Stamping Bella MADISON and her MARGARITA!

When Emily showed me this one I told her that she didn't ask my permission to use my image and motto! HAHAHAAA....seriously, I should get some of the royalties from this one.

Because it was going to be used in the paper pieRcing challenge for today I decided to pierce under the sentiment (which by the way, comes with the image) but I couldn't find my handy dandy piercing tool so I laid down a metal ruler. Well, as you can see, it slipped on me and I have a wonky line...oh well, look at what this girl is wearing, I really don't think she will care about a wonky line...she is probably too tipsy to notice!

Okay...enough of that! Are you sensing I LOVE her...she was stamped on bella's BESTEST paper and coloured with the following copic markers. Pencils were ONLY used for the grounding and blue shading.

E000,00, 11, 21, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 31, 33, 53, 55

R20, 21 27, 43, BG000, RV00, 10, 11, 23, 55

V15, 17, 93, 95, G20, 40, 12, 82

YG61, Y00, 11, 35, YR30, 68, C0, T3, 5

WHEW! lotsa colours there! Next week our challenge is all about da bugs...not the creepy kind that have more than 8 legs and scare the **** out of me...the cute kind...like as in HUGABUGS! See ya all soon...I have more of the new release to be coloured up in the next couple days.

Meet the Uptown Girls

If you haven't been to Bloggabella in the last couple days you had better just skip on over what I have to say and hi-tail it on over there to meet the Uptown Girls. Yesterday Emily introduced you to Claudia and today she revealed Victoria and Juliette...and YOU must read her funny story...nobody can tell a story as good as Emily and she fesses up on how she manipulated me into colouring up these gals. Without further delay, meet Victoria and Juliette...and just so ya know...they also come with a sentiment that says "Girls just wanna have fun"...is THAT NOT THE TRUTH!

Now really, HOW STINKING CUTE ARE THESE GIRLS! I seriously think they are the most yummy delish TALL SKINNY GORJUS gals I have EVER laid my eyes on! Did I say skinny, yes I think I already said that.

In case you are wondering that would be me on the left...because A) she's got her fav glass of red with her and, B) it's is one of those BIG glasses like the kind you get at the Keg and C) strapless tight waisted dresses are a thing of my past (actually, maybe a thing of past dreams!)...OMG, I just cracked myself up!

Finally, CHECK OUT THOSE STRAPPY SHOES!!!!! "I" on the left am wearing a silver glittery pair just like the Jimmy Choo's that Kate wore when she wowed Hollywood (ya, I'm a Kate stalker) while my BFF on the right has on some shiney patent leather beauties.

I'm squeezing this post in on my lunch hour, so I'll be back later to list the copics I used....alrighty...I gotta get back to the day job.

Linda.

Cheers to everyone!

I've had such a wonderful weekend! Yesterday I spent the day with my BFF'S, Paula, Pauline, Lynn and Kathy at the Novi Stamping show. The show was not so great, lots of fav vendors not there this year, but the company was wonderful! I also found out on Friday that our classes at the Archivers Scrapfest at the Mall of America are SOLD OUT! OMG...SO excited! And today I spent the morning creating a background in my journal for one of my petite dolls that I have drawn with techniques I've learned in Suzi Blu's Petit Doll Academy...don't you just love the name of that class? I'm totally in LOVE with Suzi! HOW DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO FIND HER?

All of this excitement deserves a good glass of wine and a toast to the weekend...so Babe's...Cheers to a good weekend! There is no other bella besides Winobella that could help me celebrate the end of this wonderful weekend...and of course, we need a toast of Cheers to mark such a wonderful weekend.

Now it is confession time. See those little smudge lines and dots above and below the cheers sentiment? Well, the smudge line above the cheers was a stamping faux pas so I used one of my fine copic liners and added the three dots at the end of the line and repeated the pattern below the sentiment in an opposite direction! What do ya think? A decent save if I don't say so myself! ESPECIALLY because I stamped it directly onto m coloured image and there was NO WAY I was gonna start overl.

I stamped her on bella's BESTEST paper and coloured her with the following copic markers. Of course, I added some shading with pencils, and sponged the edges with versamagic chalk ink.

E000, 00, 11, 41, 42, 43, 44
y23, 26, 28, RV21, 13, 63, 66, 55
R37, 39, YG61, 95, 97, BG0000, 11
B60, C2

I'll be back tomorrow with some doodling in my art journal! A new fav pastime! And don't forget, our Bellarific challenge this week is paper pieRcing....so get out that pointy tool and pierce some paper!

toodles...(or doodles!)...Linda.

Heavy Metal

Happy Friday Babe-a-roonies! Today's challenge was to use metal on our card and I had NO problem with this because I have metal trinkets coming out of my wazoo! I most often use them on masculine cards but this time I thought I'd pair some up with arivedercibella.

Doesn't she look like she's taking off to Paris or Italy all ready to do some shopping and dining and drinking some really good wine! Ahhhhhh.....okay, wake up Linda...dream is over.

I stamped her on bella's BESTEST paper and paired her up with some paper from an older Basic Grey 6x6 pad which I don't know the name of because I no longer have the cover. I used the following copic markers to colour her up, added some shading with pencil and the sponging around the edge was with Distress Ink in Pumice Stone.

E000, 00, 11, 31, 34, 37
G40, 12, 82, BV11, W0, 2, 4
BG70, 72, 75

Our challenge next week will be PAPER PIERCING....use a needle, a piercing tool, maybe your sewing machine with no thread but get some teeny tiny holes in there somewhere and play along!

That's it for today! Have a happy Friday and a wonderful weekend!

Art Journal Monday on Tuesday

You know that I just HAD to play along in Art Journal Monday...but actually, I didn't have to do anything for it because I had already worked on the page at Emily's last weekend. It's messy...but oh so pretty and the texture is just amazing when you run your hand over it.

I started by gluing down some Art Tissue that I bought at Curry's...don't ask me what the difference is between that and regular dollar store tissue except this does not have a shiny side like regular tissue. The colours are really vibrant but you can create new colours just by gluing another colour on top, sorta like mixing colours of the rainbow. Then I applied a light wash of paint over top to 'tone it down'. Finally I took some white tissue that was torn into strips and I got them all sticky and gluey with Mod Podge and pasted them down in circular motion for the flower heads. I sort of did the same for the leaves, but just 'pushed' them into shape with the end of my paint brush. After it was all dry I took some PITT pens to add some shading and colour to the flowers. I love the softned look of that!

And that's it! I'll be heading over to Em's blog to see the wonderful tissue creations and what she has in store for our next Art Journaling challenge! OMG...these are SOOOOOOO fun!!!! And I've got another Bella for this Friday's challenge for you Bella fans out there.

See ya later!

Have you ever felt like this?

Here is the scenario, you work all day, and so does everyone else in the house...and when they get home from work the first thing out of their mouth is what's for supper? But yet, if I get home after everyone else and I ask the same question I just get blank stares. Now even though I DO NOT serve...it's self serve around here...sometimes I feel like I-deserve-a-tip-a-bella.

Of course she was stamped on bella's BESTEST paper and coloured with copic markers. The blue check is an OLD piece that i found in the stash but it had no name on it and the 'quilt' patterned paper is a piece of 12x12 from girls paperie.

These are the markers I used but you know I finished her up with pencil, and also added some sponging with versamagic chalk inks.

E000, 00, 11, 21, 31, 34, 37
RV00, 10, 11, 2, B000, 02
G20, YG21, 13, R24, C2

Oh ya...the brad is basic grey, flower is maya road, scalloped edge punch is EK Success and well, you all recognize spellbinders by now!

Don't go too far because I'll be back tomorrow with my Art Journal Monday page AND for you bella fans, I have another lovely little lady to post on Friday....AND ....i just may sneak in with something else before then.
See ya later!....and for my Canadian friends, ENJOY THE MONDAY HOLIDAY! (there is NOTHING better than a Monday holiday!)