Here are a couple more Bella cards I made before the holidays as part of the gift sets I gave to friends (at the end of this post you can see how I packaged them....)
For this card I used some more of my K&Co paper that I got from Costco, Gardenbella, the A Muse Mini Oval and a sentiment from Stampin' Up! (Much Appreciated stamp set).
I colored the bella in with Copic markers then masked her to stamp the oval (**you can see the tutorial on how I do this here).
That funky little felt flower I got from Lauren - she got me all these cool goodies from the Target Dollar spot (I would so love to have Target in Canada - wouldn't that be fabulous???) and the one container had 100 felt self-adhesive flowers in it - for $1!!!!! How cool is that?
So anyway I attached the flower with an eyelet, added some ribbon and sewed around the card base with my sewing machine.
I ran a coordinating piece of paper through my CuttleBug using a scalloped rectangle Nestabilities die before stamping the sentiment and adhering it to the card.
STAMPS: Gardenbella by Stamping Bella, Mini Oval by A Muse, Thank You from the Much Appreciated set by Stampin' Up!. CS: Papertrey White, Barely Banana and Lavender Lace (SU!), Patterned Paper by K&Co (Costco). INK: Brilliance Graphite Black, Certainly Celery, Copic Markers. ACCESSORIES: Ribbon, Felt Flower, Eyelet, Sewing Machine, Nestabilities Diecut.
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This card was super quick and easy to make.
I lightly outlined Sposabella's dress with a really light pink Copic marker, then colored in the other parts and punched the corners of the main image with SU's Ticket Corner punch before sponging the edges.
The patterned paper was a scrap sitting on my desk (from SU's Bali Breeze collection), after adhering it I added a photo corner (SU!'s Photo Corner Punch) and some Chocolate Chip satin ribbon.
STAMPS: Sposabella by Stamping Bella. CS: Papertrey White, Soft Sky Textured, Chocolate Chip, Bali Breeze DS Paper (all SU!). INK: Brilliance Graphite Black, Copic Markers, Regal Rose Classic Ink. ACCESSORIES: Ticket Corner and Photo Corner Punches, Satin Ribbon, Bazzill Brad, Sponge Daubers.
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To package up all the Bella cards I gave as gifts I used Papertrey's Clear boxes - scroll down a bit to see them (I LOVE those boxes - they just make a gift of cards look so much more polished and professional!).
I was able to fit 10 cards into a box (it took a little squeezing as they all had ribbons/primas/embellishments etc etc) so in order to include envelopes I added them behind the box then used a good length of May Arts ribbon to tie them in place.
I made a tag with my marvy scalloped circle punches and Papertrey's Spooky Sweets set (it has the "To From" stamp).
I then punched a hole in the tag and then just pulled the bow I had tied on the box through it to hold it in place and that was it!
