Stamping Bella Tiny Townies & Inktense Coloring

Hi guys, Julia here!

Today I get to share a stamp company that is "newish" to the Make the Day Special Stamp Store and was completely new to me, but their darling images have won me over immediately: Stamping Bella. You might know their quirky images, and I got a few of the newer stamps. They are blue rubber stamps, not red, and they are fantastic.

You might have already seen this image on Instagram, I posted it a while ago, but I didn't know if I wanted to turn into a card or not. Eventually, I used a Mama Elephant die to cut it from the watercolor card stock and glued it onto a purple card base.

The coloring was done with Inktense pencils, and I found that it takes quite a while longer to color with these than with, say, Copic markers. Why? Cause you're putting down one layer (lighter color) first, then let it dry. Then you go back with a darker shade and let that dry. And then you repeat this until you are happy with the results. In total, this image took me about two hours (easily) to color, but I found it very relaxing.

I hope you enjoyed my little behind the scene look at how I put the card together. Thanks for stopping by, let me know what you think, and have a great day!

Tiny Townies - Sally and Her Snail

Mama Elephant Basic Set - Creative Cuts

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Make Your Images Stand out on Craft Cards

Hello crafters! Today I have a super fun car to share with you, and that is both because of the motive and because of how I put it together. The stamp I'm using is from a brand that is new to the Make The Day Special Stamp Store and it is called Stamping Bella.

The moment I saw this girl with the monster behind her, I fell in love with the stamp. That could totally be me :-) I love to read and when I read I usually get totally lost in the story, so monsters, cities, and all the characters come to life for me and I'm literally an entirely different world.

I colored it with my Inktense pencils and actually started while I was in my short vacation in Italy at Lago Maggiore, but it ended up being too hot to do anything so I finished it back home. I will be having a few videos featuring colorings Inktense pencils because I found it quite challenging when I started out and maybe it's the same for you. Basically, you work in layers. You put on your lightest color first, activated with water, let it dry, then going with your darker colors and you repeat this process until it looks great to you. everything in this image has at least five layers, and the monster even ended up having nine.

The fun frame that I created on the front panel is from a die from Avery Elle and I can see myself using this a lot. It just adds the right amount of interest to a front panel without having to add any bulk because of layers.

Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope you give the Stamping Bella product range a look. They have just wonderful motives and I will be having more cards with their stamps in the future. Have a great weekend!

Tiny Townies - Dorothy The Dreamer	Hero Arts Ultrafine Embossing Powder	Scalloped Frame Elle-ments	VersaMark Watermark Ink
Clear Design Ultra Clean	Scrubber Pad

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For the Love of Bellas!

I know you all get excited when we get new stock - well so do I and our newest brand Stamping Bella excites me more than most.   I've been a huge fan for years so am really thrilled we can now add them to our store offering.   So you can probably guess what I'm featuring for my inspiration post today - yep a whole lot of Bella's - well 3 to be exact.   I also got new Inktense pencils this week so needed a good excuse to do some serious colouring........

Let's take them alphabetically - first up we have "Bree Loves Buttercream" from the new Tiny Townies range (the little sisters to their ever popular Uptown Girls range more of which will be coming to store soon!)

I coloured her with inktense pencils on watercolour cardstock, added a good helping of glitter and then cut her out.  The background is designed to look like the party room that she's carrying the cake to - using one of our real wooden veneers for the floor and adding texture to the wall with texture paste coloured with distress reinkers through the balloons stencil which was sprinkled with more glitter whilst wet. 

Next I went all weddingy with "I do" from the close-ups range.   I think this stamp makes for very striking and unusual wedding cards.

Nothing fancy at all here - simple colouring using the inktense pencils and a hint of shimmer on the lace which doesn't show well in photos.  I die cut a couple of simple layers to mount it using stitched mat square dies.   In retrospect I should have stamped and embossed the sentiment in white or silver as its a little lost in the black.....

Finally is my favourite - probably as I was getting more used to the colouring medium by the 3rd card!  Let me introduce "Sage the Scientist" also from the Tiny Townie range.  I just love this image and can see it being used in a variety of situations - do the little birds remind anyone else of minions????

You can see a hint of the stamp in the corner of this image - did you know stamping bella stamps were blue?  Much cooler than red rubber!

This was really simple too - these images were just all about practicing colouring today.  Inktense pencils plus a little more glitter and glossy accents on the glass which again is not showing well in my photo.  I split the sentiment up to help balance the card, and added some simple strips of card and washi, again to add balance and interest to the simple layout.

NEWS FROM THE STORE

• It will be a quiet week in store next week - nothing new is expected until closer to the end of the month as the first few weeks have been mega busy!
• We will be getting Lawn Fawn restocks though if you missed out anything in the latest release.
• That will hopefully give me a little time to work on some behind the scenes stuff as we have big plans a foot ;-)   Watch this space for news!

Hope you're making the most of the longest day!

See you next weekend and Happy Crafting!

Tara