Blog update

Hello - I just want to update you regarding my blog.  Instagram seems to be the place to be now to showcase blogging life.  I will still be making lots of cards but will be showing them on my Instagram account now, rather than here on my blog.  I hope you'll follow me there.  You can find me at "lesliesgoodimpressions".  

Hope you're having a good day and I'll see you on Instagram!

Cheerio.....Leslie

Happy Birthday Cheryl

And yet another birthday card!  This was for my BFF, she loves sparkle but NOT glitter so this card has lots of sparkle but I promise not a spec of glitter will come off :) 

I stamped Giftabella with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper, coloured it with copics and used the coordinating die to cut her out.  I made a shaker card, adding lots of sequins, stars, beads and glitter INSIDE the shaker and added some Nuvo Crystal drops on the front.  It's hard to photograph a shaker card because of the reflection.  

Hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Happy Birthday Dana

It was Dana's birthday last month and I'm a little late with her card - thankfully she doesn't care it was just a wee bit late....and I couldn't put it on my blog until she received it in the mail!

I stamped the image, Tiny Townie Huggy Friends, with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured them with copics to resemble us.  Love that purple streak Dana has in her hair!  I used an old Freshly Made Sketch and adapted it a bit.  There's lots of Wink of Stella on "our" dresses and of course some glittery dots.

Hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

The Littles Skating party

I think today is the first Bellariffic Friday of 2018, well I hope so because I'm using all Stamping Bella images :)

Today's card features the Littles collection.  I wanted to make it look like a skating party so used the Skating Rink Backdrop, The Littles Figure Skaters and for the tiny little penguin I used on of the images from the Little Bits Skating Quartet.   

I stamped the background with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured it with copics.  It was really super fast to colour up.  Next I stamped the skaters and the penguin and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

I popped them up for some dimension and added a bow to the top of the card - I think it looks like a picture now :)

Hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Happy Birthday Darcy

Here's a birthday card I made for a friend at work, using the sweet PI Because You're Special.

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured her with copics.  I popped her up onto a scalloped die and added the sentiment on a fishtail flag.

Hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Happy New Year

I hope you all had a lovely relaxing holiday and today we're fresh into 2018!

I ran out of time before Christmas to post this last card.

I stamped the image, The Littles Toboganning, with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured it with copics.  I added a felt snowflake and some red sparkly dots.

Hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Polar bear and the mouse

I inked up another new image from the Stuffie line at Stampingbella.  This is called Polar bear and the mouse - and you can see why - LOL.
  

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured it with copics.  I popped him up on a tag and added a snowflake to finish it off.  
Hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Flurry of Love

Today's card features the sweet PI Flurry of Love (MFT).  I have always loved these PI images, they are so sweet and fast to colour up.

The layout is from an old 2015 Stampin' Up catalogue.  I used one of their new silver foil snowflakes behind the image.  The cardbase is stamped with a snowflake background and embossed with silver embossing powder.  I added a couple of sparkly dots to finish it off.

Hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Mini snowman

Today's card is a "mini" version of yesterday's card :)

The image is called "Snow" (Purple Onion).  I found a little package of smaller notecards with the blue snowflakes already on them so all I needed to do was colour the image and add him on top of the snowflake.  

Hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Jolly snowman

For today's card I pulled out "Jolly" (Purple Onion).  I am on a roll with 'easy to make' cards and snowflakes and snowmen seem to fit the bill perfectly.  

The card base is sprayed with shimmer mist and then splattered with some Peacock Feathers Distress oxide ink mixed with a bit of water.  I then used the same ink and blended a circle shape which I covered with a large snowflake (MFT).  I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured him with copics.  Snowmen are super fast to colour!  I fussy cut him out and popped him up for some dimension.

Come back tomorrow for the "mini" version - LOL.  

Hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Sparkly snowflakes

I love how this turned out!  Another super easy card to duplicate, assembly line style!

The card base is sprayed with shimmer mist - can't seem to stop using that!  I stamped a few random small snowflakes in white ink and added a tiny dot of red stickles to the middle of each one.  Then I used some sparkly red glitter paper to die cut some snowflakes (Tim Holtz) and added them to a bit of ribbon.  I put a sparkly dot in the middle of each of the snowflakes, stamped the sentiment (SU) and that's another card ready to go.   

Hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Stampin' Up to the rescue

It's been ages since I stamped using Stampin' Up images but I am so behind on my Christmas card making that I needed to find a quick, easy to duplicate card for this year.  I looked through the Holiday Catalogue and found one!  This is totally CASED from page 36 :).  

I used some silver cord instead of the trim they used and found a great pack of metalic designer paper at Michael's.  I sprayed the card base with some shimmer mist and it really is quite lovely in real life - so sparkly.  There were a few steps but once I got my assembly line going, I was able to crank out 24 of these - half in bronze and half in silver.  I added a few sequins to finish it off.

   
I hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Bellariffic Friday - Mojobella sketch 36

I took a little break from stamping - courtesy of a nasty cold that turned into bronchitis!  I'm feeling much better now and wanted to play along with this week's Bellariffic Friday sketch.  

I stamped the image Tiny Townie Frida Loves Frosty with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured it with copics.  I added lots of glitter to the trim on her coat and three little dots finished it off.

Hope you're having a good day.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Happy Halloween

It's "Carve a Pumpkin Day" which seems appropriate as it's Halloween - LOL!

I stamped the three little squidgy images from Squidgy Pumpkin Trio with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured them with copics.  I foolishly didn't order the coordinating die so had to fussy cut them out.  I added the BOO from Tiny Townie Willow the Witch.  

Have a safe and spooktacular Halloween!

Cheerio.....Leslie

Bellariffic Friday - Inspiration Challenge #10

It's Bellariffic Friday and this week the challenge was this beautiful fall photo.

For my card I used the sweet Tiny Townie Fay Loves Fall.  

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured it with copics.  I used the coordinating die to cut her out and then fussy cut some of the extra leaves off.  The sentiment is from Uptown Girl Serena Has A Sign.

Enjoy the weekend.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Bellariffic Friday - Use a circle

It's Bellariffic Friday and this week the challenge was Use a Circle.  I used several circles, in my pattern paper, my background for the images and the sentiment.

I stamped those crazy Skating Chicks with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured them with copics.  I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and popped them up on a background circle.  The sentiment comes with the three chick images.

Be sure to check out the rest of the BellaBabes and the Sistah's cards for this week on Blogabella.  Next week's Bellariffic Friday challenge is another beautiful photo - Inspiration Challenge #10.  You can take any inspiration from this photo for your card.

We hope you'll get stamping with us. It's easy to play along - just ink up any current (check the website) Stamping Bella image, and email your card to Emily by next Thursday to be featured on Blogabella and for a chance to win $25 in Bella Bucks.  Click here for all the details!

Cheerio.....Leslie

Bellariffic Friday - Mojobella Sketch 34

It's Bellariffic Friday and this week we had Mojobella sketch #34 to work with.

I couldn't help but use one of the new releases...the Littles Snowfight.  Don't forget that Emily is having a sale...15% off the ENTIRE store on until Monday October 16!

I stamped the Littles with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured them with copics.  I added the sentiment from the new Holiday Sentiment set - there are so many wonderful sentiments in this set!

Be sure to check out the rest of the BellaBabes and the Sistah's cards for this week on Blogabella.  Next week's Bellariffic Friday challenge is Use a Circle.  So it could be a circle image, circle paper, circle shape, the sky's the limit.

We hope you'll get stamping with us. It's easy to play along - just ink up any current (check the website) Stamping Bella image, and email your card to Emily by next Thursday to be featured on Blogabella and for a chance to win $25 in Bella Bucks.  Click here for all the details!

Cheerio.....Leslie

It's RELEASE DAY!!

Finally, it's here....release day for all the new images that Emily has been teasing us with this past week.  If you missed any click here to see them all.  Here's a quick refresher of my three teasers.







Emily is also giving us 15% off everything in the store today - just add the code joy2017 before you check out.  All the details are here.

I've already placed my order and now anxiously await its arrival.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Teasers - Littles Snowfight

Another day of teasers and today my card is using the new "Littles Snowfight".  I love anything to do with snowmen so this was the perfect image for me to colour :)

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured it with copics.  The sentiment is one of new ones from Holiday Sentiments coming out with this new release - there are 13 sentiments - so this is a must have for all your holiday cards.  

Be sure to check out the rest of the teasers on Blogabella and leave a comment there for a chance to win!

Cheerio.....Leslie

Teaser - Littles Santa

Another day of teasers!  Today my card features The Littles "Santa Has Arrived".  I hope you're checking the blog daily for all the other new images!

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Bella’sBestest paper and coloured it with copics.  The sentiment is from the new Holiday Sentiments - there are 13 different sentiments to choose from.  I added lots of glitter and some dots made with Nuvo Crystal drops.

Be sure to check out the rest of the teasers on Blogabella and leave a comment there for a chance to win!

Cheerio.....Leslie