Happy Birthday Wendy!

I am just thrilled to be a part of this fun Birthday Blog Hop to celebrate Wendy Bond's birthday.  Karen was such a sweetie to organize the fun.  Wendy is super talented and there's nothing better than being showered with love on your birthday.
Hopefully you just came from Charlene's blog. If not, you can hop back to the start with Karen. As much as I wanted to ink up one of my Pure Innocence cuties, I decided to dig a little deeper and use a stamp I hadn't seen in a while.

This Maisy Ketto stamp from Stamping Bella was just what I had in mind. I colored her with copics and dressed her up with a little Stickles Glitter. The sentiment comes from MFT, though, it's a sentiment from Birthday Girl à la mode.  She's finished off with a sweet little twill-button-twine combo!

Wendy, hope your birthday is really special! Now off you go to Jackie's blog!  See you back here tomorrow for our first MFT Teaser Day!

Fishy Birthday!

So here's my little guy's birthday card from yesterday. I just adore this image by Stamping Bella. With our lake house and all the fishing we all do during the summer, I knew I had to have him. Sketch comes from last Friday's Bellariffic Friday Challenge. He's colored with Copics and the sentiment is a punny one from Papertrey ink! See you back here tomorrow! Hugs, Lisa

Birthday Boys!

Last week was a big birthday week for us (next month is a big Birthday MONTH!). My oldest turned 8 and his best friend and our neighbor turned 9! So I made sure I had some older boy birthday cards done.

This was one of the reasons I was so excited about Stampin Bella's release last month. I think they carry a great line of boy stamps. Now that my boys are getting older, and so are their friends I need to start updating my kid birthday stamps to images geared toward tweens! I think these two work great! (the birthday boy image is one included in my blog candy, didjya see????).

I almost used the new MFT set, Bling Bers. It really is a great set all by itself, because it has quite a few sentiments for lots of occasions. This last one was for my guy. That plaid circle just makes me smile.
I used a sentiment from Papertrey Ink and Limitless Labels set. I'm trying hard to use what I've got. I even pulled out some SU stamps yesterday!!!! Wow, I know, I was shocked too. I did order from the new SU mini and can't wait for my goodies to get here. I'm curious about their new clear mount stamps (I didn't get many stamps, mostly accessories!!!). Okay, I've got to get the boys out the door for school. Hugs to you all! Lisa

Happy Birthday Stamping Bella!!!

This is so cool! Stamping Bella is celebrating it's 3rd Birthday and we are all invited to join in the fun. There are 80+ bloggers joining us today! Welcome to the Bella Birthday Bash Blop Hop sponsored by Stamping Bella! If you've just happened upon my blog, you can CLICK HERE to start from the beginning at Bloggabella.

Prizes??? Of course!!!! Here's what I did for you today. I feel soooo clever and YES, I'm patting myself on the back for coming up with the idea. I needed to make a little girl soccer card so you know what I did? I morphed 2 stamping Bella stamps from the Green Bean Baby line-Coco has a Cuppycake and Jackson the Champion. With the help of my stamp-a-majig and some masking AND lots of trial and error, I think I got it pretty good. But, hint, hint, Emily, we need a girly soccer player for this line too! ;) The girls were a black and white team, so I stuck to those colors and put them on a kraft card base. I'll stop with the chit chat and send you on your way. Enjoy all the Bella inspiration today, I know I will! Next up is Lindsy!
Three gift certificates for $100 in Bella Bucks will be hidden along the hop, but we’re not telling you where so be sure to leave some love as you hop!!! Make sure you leave comments on every post so you have a chance to win!! The winners will be announced on Monday, December 7 at the Stamping Bella Blog. MWAH!Hugs and MWAH, Lisa

It's a Chichiboulie Blog Hop and a PRIZE for you!

I couldn't resist this fun opportunity to join in on this Stamping Bella Blog hop featuring the Chichiboullie stamp line. I hope you came from Monica's blog, if not then start here so you don't' miss out on all the wonderful ChiChi Bella creations.

I used my Poppy Bittyblooms and pieced her all up with some gorgeous papers by Memory Box, Butterfields. The sketch comes from Card Patterns this week.

We've sweetened the pot! How about a prize? In addition to the fabulous eye candy, we have decided to hide a prize somewhere along the hop! One pre-selected blogger will draw a random winner from the comments on her post, and the winner will receive a $25 Gift Voucher to Stamping Bella!!! The fun part is...we're not telling you who it is! So as you hop, make sure you leave comments on every post so you have a chance to win!! We will announce the winner on Friday in the Splitcoast forum. MWAH!Thanks so much for stopping by! Now it's time to hop on over to Jane's Fabulous card in her gallery! Have fun and don't forget to leave everyone a comment for a chance to win some bella bucks! Hugs, Lisa

annnnnd Post #2! It's a Bella-Riffic Friday!

I just couldn't stay away from this week's Bella-riffic Friday challenge. You know I've recently added some new Bella stamps to my collection. There are some amazing other lines that Emily carries and that's what I picked up earlier this month. The theme today is Flowers! Here's my Poppy Bittybloom with a SCS sketch from a few weeks back. I was dying to use more of the MFT perfect plaid ribbon so I went searching for a bright color scheme to pair up with the yellow ribbon.

I thought the pretty Lemonade dp by Basic Grey was a good fit. Did you see this blog candy goodness? Joanne is so sweet and I just LOVE her style! Gotta love buttony bows! Enjoy your Friday! Hugs, Lisa

A Card for Coach!

As promised, here is the card I made for each of the boys soccer coaches. I am in loooooove with this new line from Stamping Bella, Green Bean Baby. There's just something about all the images that make me smile. This one, Jackson the Soccer Player, was a no brainer for me to get, since we are such a big soccer family. I colored little Jackson with Copics and used Mercy's Tuesday sketch to mount him up on a card. I loved this sketch, a good CAS layout. I customized his little jersery to match each boy's team colors. This one is Joshua's card. Paper is by Fancy Pants. I stamped the soccer ball twice, cut one out and popped it up.

One final note, thanks for all your empathy from yesterday's post. Being a mom is tough, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. Last night was much calmer and without incident! Hugs, Lisa

Bella-rific Friday! -post #2

Yeeeaaah!!!! I'm happy to say I got out some very neglected stamps and got them inky! Can you believe I actually stamped a card just because? Well, to be honest I made the birthday card because I had out my cute little Bella's for this challenge today. So I guess you get lucky and get to see both of them today.
I think these Bella's were one of my first "contraband" (you know, non-SU images) I purchased over 2 years ago. It's funny how things can spiral out of control, now I think I own just as much non-SU stamps as I do SU. Boy am I glad, there are just too many other good things out there. Lately, lots of cute images from Stamping Bella have been catching my eye. I started following the Bellarific Friday blog hop and ended up winning some Bella Bucks (it sure pays to play! once in a while I get lucky!) and now lets say a fun little order is on it's way to me :) I thought it was only fair to use some of the images I had on hand before the new ones arrive. So here I am for the Bellarific Friday challenge....anything baby! I forgot how much I love this image, Teddybella. It's perfect for my son's teacher who is due next month with her first baby! The sketch is from Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #42. I used the same cute polka dotted paper (October Afternoon, Ducks in a Row. Get yours at Limelight Papercraft!) on my next card. This is the one I made all by myself (no challenge involved!) for my college BFF. Her birthday was yesterday, so this is on it's way to her.
Thanks for stopping by. I'm sure you'll be seeing lots more Stamping Bella cards. Stay tuned! Hugs, Lisa