A bella and some news!

So here it is....the card I mentioned yesterday.

UnderthehoodyBella.I colored this Bella image a few nights ago with my Prismacolor markers and LOVED the colors. I LOVE the chair! My husband is a barber and his barber chair is a vintage bright red leather chair with chrome, so I knew I had to color the chair red (at least the first time)! I was a little nervous about using the red marker directly on the paper, so I colored red all over a clear plastic stamp case then picked up the color with my colorless blending pen, then took that to the paper. This seemed to work really well and I liked the color it achieved. I didn't color it perfectly and I bled out of the lines in a few places and tables are too grey, but I had already colored the robe and chair so I wasn't starting over! I think it turned out pretty good (minus the table top). I colored the dryer hood with a silver prismacolor pencil and popped it. Then I went to bed! The next morning, while I wasn't supposed to be stamping, I walked by my table and saw a scrap of red paper on the floor. It had some embossed circles on it and I thought...."Oh, this would look good with the red chair!" So my table pulled me in and I had to finish the card! I dug through my scraps and found a nice little scrap to match the robe. Usually when I spend a lot of time coloring something I try to keep the rest of the card simple to sort of showcase the colored image. I laid it all out and decided the turquoise needed a bit of something. I found my Daisy Ds rub-on tape and ran it across the paper a few times, added some brads...and that was it! These are not my normal colors, but I think they look great (minus the table....it really needs to be a different color..maybe I will just make a new card!).

The News.

I am very happy to announce that I have been chosen for Jacksonbelle Embellishment's Design Team. I've been shopping with Lindsey at Jacksonbelle Embellishments for a couple of years now, and when she made her design team call I just knew I had to submit. I love her little shop! My local friends all know that it is very hard to find good stamping/crafting supplies around here (the nearest Michaels is over 2 hours away....gasp!) so we end up doing a lot of on-line shopping. I'm so excited to be working with Lindsey and all of the other design team members! Stop by, say hello, and tell them I sent ya!!

Lynda Benden
Beth Thomas
Lila Holgate
Maren Benedict
Erin McKinney
Dee Jackson
Broni Holcombe
Amber Hight
Elizebeth Neumann