<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006</id><updated>2011-08-14T07:08:49.135-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Michelle-A-Bella Creations</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>42</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-7705674520100360174</id><published>2010-10-01T13:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-01T13:13:26.760-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Something New &amp; Exciting Coming up....</title><content type='html'>Have you noticed anything different about my blog?  Well I have just made one change for now but there will be MORE to come...I have changed the name of my blog!!!  SOON I will be setting up my blog to feature cards and items that will be for sale!!!  I am also thinking of getting into selling digital stamps!!!  Yipppeee! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May I ask a favor?  When you read this post, i would love to hear from you on my comments page, so i can see who is just as excited about this change as I am!  Happy Weekend everyone!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-7705674520100360174?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/7705674520100360174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=7705674520100360174' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7705674520100360174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7705674520100360174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2010/10/something-new-exciting-coming-up.html' title='Something New &amp; Exciting Coming up....'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-5011076294354479280</id><published>2010-05-05T22:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T22:16:40.472-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Challenge #17 for Mother's Day</title><content type='html'>Well it is another "Dare to be Sassy Thursday" at Sassy Studio Designs, challenge #17, and the theme is "Mother's Day".  My mom LOVES the sun and the beach so I was inspired to make this stair fold card.  This card was fun to make, I made her bikini all sparkly with Stickles, and it was fun to make the waves and the sun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am so excited, this will be &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MY&lt;/span&gt; first Mother's Day too.  My baby is only 5 months old, but I am still excited and feel loved and so happy to be a mommy!  Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S-JOs1lnf0I/AAAAAAAAAQE/RH3AHRa2XPM/s1600/IMG_7779.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S-JOs1lnf0I/AAAAAAAAAQE/RH3AHRa2XPM/s320/IMG_7779.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468019429787270978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S-JOt0KrydI/AAAAAAAAAQU/cVmcLaatBF8/s1600/IMG_7782.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S-JOt0KrydI/AAAAAAAAAQU/cVmcLaatBF8/s320/IMG_7782.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468019446585739730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 class="date-header"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try  {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S-JOtd9MglI/AAAAAAAAAQM/huIiSapC9jk/s1600/IMG_7780.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S-JOtd9MglI/AAAAAAAAAQM/huIiSapC9jk/s320/IMG_7780.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468019440623583826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="date-posts"&gt; &lt;div class="post-outer"&gt; &lt;div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template"&gt;&lt;a name="6895092949017878859"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.com/2010/04/dare-to-be-sassy-thursday-17.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-5011076294354479280?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/5011076294354479280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=5011076294354479280' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/5011076294354479280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/5011076294354479280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenge-17-for-mothers-day.html' title='Challenge #17 for Mother&apos;s Day'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S-JOs1lnf0I/AAAAAAAAAQE/RH3AHRa2XPM/s72-c/IMG_7779.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-1474836226356189051</id><published>2010-04-28T19:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-28T20:02:13.611-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sha-zam! - Dare to be Sassy Challenge #16</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S9j2KA2hjxI/AAAAAAAAAPs/r_HuC6BCoqs/s1600/IMG_7630.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S9j2KA2hjxI/AAAAAAAAAPs/r_HuC6BCoqs/s320/IMG_7630.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465388799701913362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's Dare to Be Sassy Thursday Challenge #16.  This week's challenge is a color challenge using  black, white, and one other color of your choice!   I chose red to be the other color!!  I love that color combo black, white and red!  I had so much fun dressing up this sassy lady - made her shoes, hat and bodice sparkly red.  For her cane, I added a red jewel to give it some pizazz!! Enjoy!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S9j2KvpVdNI/AAAAAAAAAP0/_DwI7jcSs1M/s1600/IMG_7632.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S9j2KvpVdNI/AAAAAAAAAP0/_DwI7jcSs1M/s320/IMG_7632.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465388812263060690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S9j2LJtITwI/AAAAAAAAAP8/8WlFBSv4SLE/s1600/IMG_7633.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 290px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S9j2LJtITwI/AAAAAAAAAP8/8WlFBSv4SLE/s320/IMG_7633.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465388819258298114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-1474836226356189051?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/1474836226356189051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=1474836226356189051' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/1474836226356189051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/1474836226356189051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2010/04/sha-zam-dare-to-be-sassy-challenge-16.html' title='Sha-zam! - Dare to be Sassy Challenge #16'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S9j2KA2hjxI/AAAAAAAAAPs/r_HuC6BCoqs/s72-c/IMG_7630.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-7209511220792829254</id><published>2010-04-26T22:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-26T22:15:30.578-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Entry for another Card Contest!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S9Zx35ZwgSI/AAAAAAAAAPk/Wue82NfmT7s/s1600/IMG_7573.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464680402976276770" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S9Zx35ZwgSI/AAAAAAAAAPk/Wue82NfmT7s/s320/IMG_7573.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made this card for a friend of mine's birthday but also planned on entering it in a contest held by Sassy Studio Designs in which they are sponsoring &lt;a href="http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/"&gt;Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge&lt;/a&gt;.  The theme is anything goes, so that made things really easy!  I love entering contests, they really help with my mojo!&lt;br /&gt;So here we go again, wish me luck!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-7209511220792829254?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/7209511220792829254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=7209511220792829254' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7209511220792829254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7209511220792829254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2010/04/entry-for-another-card-contest.html' title='Entry for another Card Contest!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S9Zx35ZwgSI/AAAAAAAAAPk/Wue82NfmT7s/s72-c/IMG_7573.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-2126351369936946021</id><published>2010-04-02T09:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-02T09:50:28.176-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yay, I WON!!!!</title><content type='html'>Just wanted to share that I won the challenge #12 at Sassy Studio Designs!!! Yippeee!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Someone has asked on how I make a photo into clipart, so I might do a tutorial on that when I am at my own computer!  We are away on holidays right now!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Happy Easter Everyone!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-2126351369936946021?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/2126351369936946021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=2126351369936946021' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/2126351369936946021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/2126351369936946021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2010/04/yay-i-won.html' title='Yay, I WON!!!!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-6906308257508939755</id><published>2010-03-27T19:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-27T19:59:38.704-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Take Time to Relax" with wine and a sunset...</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S67Eo_gjpFI/AAAAAAAAAO0/f30I9qJjb5k/s1600/IMG_7094+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 230px; HEIGHT: 313px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453512407314048082" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S67Eo_gjpFI/AAAAAAAAAO0/f30I9qJjb5k/s320/IMG_7094+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have entered another challenge at the "&lt;a href="http://sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.com/2010/03/dare-to-be-sassy-thursday-12.html"&gt;Sassy Studio Designs&lt;/a&gt;" blog, challenge #12. This week the challenge is to make a creation using a butterfly and a flower. Now, at the moment all my SASSY images that I have are all "indoor" images and to me butterflys and flowers means outdoors. Soooo, I thought outside of the box and came up with this...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I took my Sassy image and cut the girl out (originally she is lazing in a chair drinking wine), then a made a photo of a porch swing into clipart and colored it in and then I made my creation! It is a little wall hanging. I made it too big to be a card, LOL!!! But you know I thought it was a good little inspiration wall hanging, we should always be reminding ourselves to "Take time to Relax". The background is supposed to be a "&lt;strong&gt;at dusk&lt;/strong&gt;" sky, and you can't see them too well, but I did use spots of silver stickles for the stars that are JUST appearing!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S67EpeZ6biI/AAAAAAAAAO8/w_BtcP0e5RY/s1600/IMG_7092.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453512415607680546" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S67EpeZ6biI/AAAAAAAAAO8/w_BtcP0e5RY/s320/IMG_7092.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S67EqFa33XI/AAAAAAAAAPE/LLM0zRun604/s1600/IMG_7091.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 237px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453512426080689522" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S67EqFa33XI/AAAAAAAAAPE/LLM0zRun604/s320/IMG_7091.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S67EqgmNAHI/AAAAAAAAAPM/i2e425_2dzk/s1600/IMG_7093.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453512433375969394" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S67EqgmNAHI/AAAAAAAAAPM/i2e425_2dzk/s320/IMG_7093.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;           &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hope you enjoy this and wish me luck with the challenge!!! I just LOVE entering these contests, I may not win, but it sure inspires me! Cheers for now!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-6906308257508939755?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/6906308257508939755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=6906308257508939755' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/6906308257508939755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/6906308257508939755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2010/03/take-time-to-relax-with-wine-and-sunset.html' title='&quot;Take Time to Relax&quot; with wine and a sunset...'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S67Eo_gjpFI/AAAAAAAAAO0/f30I9qJjb5k/s72-c/IMG_7094+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-4487071701657272238</id><published>2010-03-21T00:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-21T00:42:13.372-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Warm up with some Sassy and Hot Chocolate!!!</title><content type='html'>Lately I have gotten into purchasing Digital stamps as they are a lot cheaper than actual stamps! I have found some great sites and one of them is called &lt;a href="http://sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;"Sassy Studio Designs"&lt;/a&gt;. I have also joined their blog and this week they have put a challenge up to make a card with a pocket and some flowers and whomever wins can get some FREE digi's. So here is the "card" I made.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S6XMad3VksI/AAAAAAAAAOs/1Rt3Wg7Z9kw/s1600-h/IMG_6996+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 288px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450987679067247298" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S6XMad3VksI/AAAAAAAAAOs/1Rt3Wg7Z9kw/s320/IMG_6996+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My card is actually a little gift holder for a pkg. of hot chocolate!  I found the template on SCS &lt;a href="http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/48507?sorttime=all&amp;amp;sortby=v&amp;amp;way=desc&amp;amp;si=coffee%20cup"&gt;HERE &lt;/a&gt;.  My flowers are the White flower brads but in a way they do look like snowflakes.  The other spots are flakes of snow using "flower soft snow".  My sentiment is from a SU Christmas set.  Enjoy and wish me luck! tee hee&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-4487071701657272238?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/4487071701657272238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=4487071701657272238' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/4487071701657272238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/4487071701657272238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2010/03/warm-up-with-some-sassy-and-hot.html' title='Warm up with some Sassy and Hot Chocolate!!!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S6XMad3VksI/AAAAAAAAAOs/1Rt3Wg7Z9kw/s72-c/IMG_6996+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-167187464220670869</id><published>2010-03-21T00:27:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-21T00:32:13.962-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm BACK!!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Hello All!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I can't believe my last post was a year ago, but at lot has happened! I got pregnant and had a baby!!! So as you can imagine, things have been pretty hectic, hectic but exciting!!! I LOVE being a mom and it helps so much that my baby boy is such a GOOD HAPPY baby!!! All is well! I have slowly gotten back into card making, mostly for fun, as I am no longer a SU demonstrator. I have joined a few blogs though that post challenges and contests, so I will try to participate once in awhile or when I can!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is a picture of my beautiful baby, he is already 3 months old!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S6XLMd1KyxI/AAAAAAAAAOk/TrQfc5e3WY0/s1600-h/BW+Mar+1-10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450986339028355858" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S6XLMd1KyxI/AAAAAAAAAOk/TrQfc5e3WY0/s320/BW+Mar+1-10.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hope all is having a great weekend and here's to being creative again!!!  Cheers for now!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-167187464220670869?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/167187464220670869/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=167187464220670869' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/167187464220670869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/167187464220670869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2010/03/im-back.html' title='I&apos;m BACK!!!!!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/S6XLMd1KyxI/AAAAAAAAAOk/TrQfc5e3WY0/s72-c/BW+Mar+1-10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-1918050307959049649</id><published>2009-03-29T16:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T16:50:46.311-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Some "bunny" loves you....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SdAIdDNKzBI/AAAAAAAAAOE/XeXwOyO0VB4/s1600-h/IMG_4264+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318760455094324242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SdAIdDNKzBI/AAAAAAAAAOE/XeXwOyO0VB4/s320/IMG_4264+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SdAIds5KibI/AAAAAAAAAOM/tc-0l0SrwKk/s1600-h/IMG_4265+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318760466284710322" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SdAIds5KibI/AAAAAAAAAOM/tc-0l0SrwKk/s320/IMG_4265+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SdAIdt2J2LI/AAAAAAAAAOU/AqNCJd0jg2w/s1600-h/IMG_4267.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; I got really excited when I got this idea in my head to make a "playboy bunny" sort of Bella!  I free-hand drew the ears, the basket is clipart, and I got the smallest pom-poms at the dollar store for her tail!!!  I am pretty happy with how it all turned out!!! Can't see it that well, but I did put a pretty pink stickle on the eggs and on Bella-Bunny's shirt!!!  Enjoy and Happy Easter!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-1918050307959049649?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/1918050307959049649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=1918050307959049649' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/1918050307959049649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/1918050307959049649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2009/03/some-bunny-loves-you.html' title='Some &quot;bunny&quot; loves you....'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SdAIdDNKzBI/AAAAAAAAAOE/XeXwOyO0VB4/s72-c/IMG_4264+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-1320975273165926944</id><published>2009-03-29T16:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T16:43:32.666-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Zippy - do-da...Zippy-do-day...my oh my, what a wonderful day!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SdAG25xRa6I/AAAAAAAAAN8/h-pDGmuHfkI/s1600-h/IMG_4200+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318758700214741922" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SdAG25xRa6I/AAAAAAAAAN8/h-pDGmuHfkI/s320/IMG_4200+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ok, is this not the CUTEST stamp ever!!!!  I went and got it on EBAY, I HAD to have it!!!!  It is a PENNY BLACK stamp called "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Sensations&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;"!  When I look at this picture, I just want to jump right in and hook arms with the sheep/cow and off we go, skipping along!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is a birthday card for my friend...I was a little nervous to give it to her because I wasn't so sure how she liked "Cute" cards, but she loved this one, I was so happy!!!  How could it not make anyone smile???? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-1320975273165926944?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/1320975273165926944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=1320975273165926944' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/1320975273165926944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/1320975273165926944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2009/03/zippy-do-dazippy-do-daymy-oh-my-what.html' title='Zippy - do-da...Zippy-do-day...my oh my, what a wonderful day!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SdAG25xRa6I/AAAAAAAAAN8/h-pDGmuHfkI/s72-c/IMG_4200+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-7999872628219033996</id><published>2009-02-27T12:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-27T12:18:05.575-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sketch Time!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;      &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SahKPD0EmhI/AAAAAAAAAN0/1ty_vxjvVKg/s1600-h/CARDsketch3-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 229px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307573783438334482" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SahKPD0EmhI/AAAAAAAAAN0/1ty_vxjvVKg/s320/CARDsketch3-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SahJZAyl4jI/AAAAAAAAANs/H7MnVEKXkbU/s1600-h/IMG_4129+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307572854913884722" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SahJZAyl4jI/AAAAAAAAANs/H7MnVEKXkbU/s320/IMG_4129+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Where I am a Design Team Member "&lt;strong&gt;A Page at a Time&lt;/strong&gt;", we have weekly challenges and sketches. FINALLY I was able to participate in one and this is the link where you can check it out, thanks for the great sketch Sarah! Cheers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://apageatatime.forumotion.net/sunday-card-sketch-challenge-f9/22nd-feb-card-sketch-t1227.htm#12694"&gt;http://apageatatime.forumotion.net/sunday-card-sketch-challenge-f9/22nd-feb-card-sketch-t1227.htm#12694&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-7999872628219033996?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/7999872628219033996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=7999872628219033996' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7999872628219033996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7999872628219033996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2009/02/sketch-time.html' title='Sketch Time!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SahKPD0EmhI/AAAAAAAAAN0/1ty_vxjvVKg/s72-c/CARDsketch3-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-4466474630196064778</id><published>2009-02-27T12:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-27T12:11:38.646-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Free Digi Stamp from 2 Scoops of Rice Blog!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SahIb79m8zI/AAAAAAAAANk/urfQPLS64pI/s1600-h/IMG_4133+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 250px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307571805645894450" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SahIb79m8zI/AAAAAAAAANk/urfQPLS64pI/s320/IMG_4133+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I love it when you can get something for FREE, especially when it is a really cute stamp image!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is the link to where you can request for this FREE digi stamp image, isn't she so cute!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://twoscoopsricedesigns.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html"&gt;http://twoscoopsricedesigns.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Two scoops rice designs is a small business from Las Vegas and they have really CUTE but different stamp images!  Go check it out!!!  Cheers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cafepress.com/twoscoopsrice"&gt;http://www.cafepress.com/twoscoopsrice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-4466474630196064778?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/4466474630196064778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=4466474630196064778' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/4466474630196064778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/4466474630196064778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-digi-stamp-from-2-scoops-of-rice.html' title='Free Digi Stamp from 2 Scoops of Rice Blog!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SahIb79m8zI/AAAAAAAAANk/urfQPLS64pI/s72-c/IMG_4133+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-107135355108667834</id><published>2009-02-20T19:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-20T19:55:37.620-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Love You Twinkle Fairy!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZ96uI2EbLI/AAAAAAAAANM/yjS4xEEOVf8/s1600-h/IMG_4123+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 222px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305093819132570802" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZ96uI2EbLI/AAAAAAAAANM/yjS4xEEOVf8/s320/IMG_4123+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Isn't she the cutest!!!! I had a lot of fun making this card....I do feel it is missing something in the top left corner there, but I also didn't want to take away from the gorgeous paper I was using! Believe me the picture doesn't even do it justice, it is the prettiest shade of pinks and greens ever!!!! Thanks for looking!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZ96uvX1u9I/AAAAAAAAANU/TAiCvxicgOQ/s1600-h/IMG_4125+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 248px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305093829474761682" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZ96uvX1u9I/AAAAAAAAANU/TAiCvxicgOQ/s320/IMG_4125+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZ96u2v3BeI/AAAAAAAAANc/GJYs6Kw6TC0/s1600-h/IMG_4126+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305093831454557666" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZ96u2v3BeI/AAAAAAAAANc/GJYs6Kw6TC0/s320/IMG_4126+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZ96u2v3BeI/AAAAAAAAANc/GJYs6Kw6TC0/s1600-h/IMG_4126+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZ96u2v3BeI/AAAAAAAAANc/GJYs6Kw6TC0/s1600-h/IMG_4126+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-107135355108667834?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/107135355108667834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=107135355108667834' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/107135355108667834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/107135355108667834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2009/02/love-you-twinkle-fairy.html' title='Love You Twinkle Fairy!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZ96uI2EbLI/AAAAAAAAANM/yjS4xEEOVf8/s72-c/IMG_4123+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-3934038830471174091</id><published>2009-02-14T11:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T11:24:47.047-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Valentines Day!</title><content type='html'>Just thought I would post a few Valentine Projects that I have done up recently. The diarama card is one that we made in my Stamper's Club. I love making these cards!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZcYR2C7EgI/AAAAAAAAAMs/3DQJaVjBcJY/s1600-h/IMG_3961+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302733781096665602" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZcYR2C7EgI/AAAAAAAAAMs/3DQJaVjBcJY/s320/IMG_3961+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZcYRvTrWzI/AAAAAAAAAMk/ogKFV5YbMSA/s1600-h/IMG_3963+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302733779287890738" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZcYRvTrWzI/AAAAAAAAAMk/ogKFV5YbMSA/s320/IMG_3963+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZcYSGSKSvI/AAAAAAAAAM0/uhBLoOtlCLM/s1600-h/IMG_3964+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302733785455545074" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZcYSGSKSvI/AAAAAAAAAM0/uhBLoOtlCLM/s320/IMG_3964+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The back view&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a card I made for my Dad, he is a Valentine's Baby!  Happy Birthday Dad!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZcYSZSvlcI/AAAAAAAAAM8/uynWxzK4xB0/s1600-h/IMG_4005+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 267px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302733790558262722" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZcYSZSvlcI/AAAAAAAAAM8/uynWxzK4xB0/s320/IMG_4005+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wishing you all a very Happy and lots of LOVE Valentines Day! Cheers!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-3934038830471174091?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/3934038830471174091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=3934038830471174091' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/3934038830471174091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/3934038830471174091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2009/02/happy-valentines-day.html' title='Happy Valentines Day!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SZcYR2C7EgI/AAAAAAAAAMs/3DQJaVjBcJY/s72-c/IMG_3961+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-6458891425049037721</id><published>2009-02-06T17:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-06T17:40:12.629-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Some Bella Birthday Cards...</title><content type='html'>I really enjoyed making these Bella Birthday cards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one is for my one aunt who LOVES cats!  Funny, whenever I saw this picture of "Kittycattabella", I always envisioned her wearing a turtleneck but then when I went to color her shirt in, I realized she wasn't wearing that type of shirt! LOL!  Ah well, I made her wear one anyways!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://s443.photobucket.com/albums/qq158/michelleabella/?action=view&amp;amp;current=IMG_4082copy.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i443.photobucket.com/albums/qq158/michelleabella/th_IMG_4082copy.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This next card is for my aunt whose birthday is TODAY!  I wanted to make her a real cheery sunshiney card, so here it is.  She loves to be outdoors and in the sun!  I free-hand drew the "birthday" hard to do, but I think I didn't do too bad of a job! hee hee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://s443.photobucket.com/albums/qq158/michelleabella/?action=view&amp;amp;current=IMG_4080copy.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i443.photobucket.com/albums/qq158/michelleabella/th_IMG_4080copy.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well I am off to go get ready to meet my aunt and her family for a birthday dinner. I am bringing the cake, yum yum!  Happy Weekend everyone!  Cheers!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-6458891425049037721?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/6458891425049037721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=6458891425049037721' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/6458891425049037721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/6458891425049037721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-bella-birthday-cards.html' title='Some Bella Birthday Cards...'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-7704731510678836888</id><published>2009-01-29T15:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T15:22:11.705-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Opps...my mistake!</title><content type='html'>For those of you who try to leave a comment on my photo with "Photobucket"( once you click on my photo to make it bigger), you have to be subscribed to "Photobucket" to leave a message.  I feel it is a safe site, I have joined and I do not receive any spam or anything like that from them!!  If you are still leery, no worries,  you can tell me if I &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SEE&lt;/span&gt; you or just send me an email!!!  Cheers for now!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-7704731510678836888?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/7704731510678836888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=7704731510678836888' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7704731510678836888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7704731510678836888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2009/01/oppsmy-mistake.html' title='Opps...my mistake!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-5265582455129783051</id><published>2009-01-29T14:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T14:17:17.744-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Modern Art Bella - Cherish!</title><content type='html'>G'day everyone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had so much making this piece of art....I love the colors (Black, Ruby Red, Olive Green and teal) and I am thinking of mounting it onto a square canvas!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://s443.photobucket.com/albums/qq158/michelleabella/?action=view&amp;amp;current=IMG_3996copy.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i443.photobucket.com/albums/qq158/michelleabella/th_IMG_3996copy.jpg" border="0" alt="Cherish Bella" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMPORTANT NOTE -&lt;/strong&gt; Click on image to make it bigger and for those of you who can't post a comment because you don't have a blogger account, when you click on the photo, it should prompt you with a message asking if you want to leave a comment or not!!! How exciting!  And &lt;strong&gt;PLEASE do leave a comment, I LOVE receiving comments, makes my day!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://s443.photobucket.com/albums/qq158/michelleabella/?action=view&amp;amp;current=IMG_3996copy.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i443.photobucket.com/albums/qq158/michelleabella/th_IMG_3996copy.jpg" border="0" alt="Cherish Bella" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I used was &lt;strong&gt;BASIC GREY&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Scarlett's Letter&lt;/em&gt;: Letter's to the World and &lt;strong&gt;Maya Road&lt;/strong&gt;: Bugs &amp;amp; Butterflies Chipboard set (so much fun), where you can get at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;A Page at A Time Store&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.pageatatime.biz/"&gt;http://www.pageatatime.biz/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SU Paper:&lt;/strong&gt;Taken with Teal and Ruby Red, basic black&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stamps:&lt;/strong&gt; Butterflyabella &amp;amp; &lt;strong&gt;SU&lt;/strong&gt; "Warm Words (retired)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for looking and have a great day!  Cheers!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-5265582455129783051?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/5265582455129783051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=5265582455129783051' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/5265582455129783051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/5265582455129783051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2009/01/modern-art-bella-cherish.html' title='Modern Art Bella - Cherish!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-15038561744928198</id><published>2009-01-25T14:35:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-25T14:50:06.801-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am so sorry it has been a while since I have last posted...sooooo much going on, which included being in Vegas, Christmas time, being sick, major computer problems and still some computer problems!!! I will post what I can today but when my computer techie get's here, I hope to post what I really wanted to post....this beautiful Bella Picture I did up!&lt;/div&gt;                  &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;My bosses' birthday is coming up too and she is a very stylish lady, so I thought this card would be perfect for her!! And it was so much fun to make!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SXzrhcsASVI/AAAAAAAAAMM/YwevQEtuX8Y/s1600-h/IMG_4066+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 270px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295366221749832018" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SXzrhcsASVI/AAAAAAAAAMM/YwevQEtuX8Y/s320/IMG_4066+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SXzrhZI5NQI/AAAAAAAAAMU/Pmwt5cVbSRY/s1600-h/IMG_4067+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295366220797261058" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SXzrhZI5NQI/AAAAAAAAAMU/Pmwt5cVbSRY/s320/IMG_4067+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;You can find the template here &lt;a href="http://www.splitcoaststampers.com//forums/showthread.php?t=148547&amp;amp;highlight=dress+template"&gt;http://www.splitcoaststampers.com//forums/showthread.php?t=148547&amp;amp;highli&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.splitcoaststampers.com//forums/showthread.php?t=148547&amp;amp;highlight=dress+template"&gt;ght=dress+template&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SXzriDV8ZVI/AAAAAAAAAMc/oKjB-iXZmGo/s1600-h/IMG_4069+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 202px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295366232126285138" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SXzriDV8ZVI/AAAAAAAAAMc/oKjB-iXZmGo/s320/IMG_4069+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For both of these cards, I got my lovely paper from the store &lt;a href="http://www.pageatatime.biz/index.html"&gt;A PAGE AT A TIME&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Basic Grey: Scarlett's Letter: "Secret", "Rapture" and "Among the Ruins".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SXzp99sLGrI/AAAAAAAAAME/c_XHESrwk1o/s1600-h/IMG_4072+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 264px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295364512621992626" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SXzp99sLGrI/AAAAAAAAAME/c_XHESrwk1o/s320/IMG_4072+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This card is for my uncle's Birthday that is coming up...quite simple but that is what I think manly cards should be like.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-15038561744928198?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/15038561744928198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=15038561744928198' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/15038561744928198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/15038561744928198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-new-year.html' title='HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SXzrhcsASVI/AAAAAAAAAMM/YwevQEtuX8Y/s72-c/IMG_4066+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-3913697654886400504</id><published>2008-11-16T22:50:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T23:05:49.924-08:00</updated><title type='text'>More Design Team Items...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Boy I haven't been on here for quite awhile but I have been busy making cards. I will have to post the rest later on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The 2 items that I am showing I used paper that I got at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pageatatime.biz/"&gt;A PAGE AT A TIME&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The paper is called "&lt;strong&gt;Masterpiece Studios - Stemma Collection - "&lt;em&gt;Snowman &amp;amp; Snowflakes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;". Very funky and sparkly paper! Thanks Jen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My first card that I did was a "Gate Fold" card and my snowman is made out of circle punches! I am quite pleased how he turned out!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SSEWT43xaYI/AAAAAAAAALw/QoCrb3KJz1s/s1600-h/IMG_3191+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 303px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269517569939827074" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SSEWT43xaYI/AAAAAAAAALw/QoCrb3KJz1s/s320/IMG_3191+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SSEWTtMmjtI/AAAAAAAAALo/7YCQ_j20Lig/s1600-h/IMG_3192+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 288px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269517566805970642" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SSEWTtMmjtI/AAAAAAAAALo/7YCQ_j20Lig/s320/IMG_3192+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My second item is made out of this &lt;a href="http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/mugcard.htm"&gt;mug template &lt;/a&gt;that I found on SCS. It is used to hold a packet of Hot Chocolate. Unfortunately, I didn't have any packets of Hot Chocolate, so I made a bookmarker instead. Again, I am pleased how my little snowman turned out, I love snowmen, sooo cute!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SSEWTdBPVRI/AAAAAAAAALg/ZyXFdwlcI_Y/s1600-h/IMG_3188+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 239px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269517562463343890" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SSEWTdBPVRI/AAAAAAAAALg/ZyXFdwlcI_Y/s320/IMG_3188+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SSEWSwnhb4I/AAAAAAAAALY/09ZpShYffpA/s1600-h/IMG_3185+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269517550544318338" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SSEWSwnhb4I/AAAAAAAAALY/09ZpShYffpA/s320/IMG_3185+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SSEWSbAsJNI/AAAAAAAAALQ/m1ycKAuJ8Gg/s1600-h/IMG_3187+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 264px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269517544744297682" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SSEWSbAsJNI/AAAAAAAAALQ/m1ycKAuJ8Gg/s320/IMG_3187+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thanks for looking everyone and especially to those who leave comments or subscribe to my blog, I really really appreciate it! Cheers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-3913697654886400504?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/3913697654886400504/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=3913697654886400504' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/3913697654886400504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/3913697654886400504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-design-team-items.html' title='More Design Team Items...'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SSEWT43xaYI/AAAAAAAAALw/QoCrb3KJz1s/s72-c/IMG_3191+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-4789902521301229964</id><published>2008-11-07T22:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T20:27:11.512-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Quick but fun Card!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRUw8G0xcdI/AAAAAAAAALI/lvQb2EVt4iU/s1600-h/IMG_3108+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 320px; height: 286px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266169148461904338" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRUw8G0xcdI/AAAAAAAAALI/lvQb2EVt4iU/s320/IMG_3108+copy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; It was one of my "Masculine" co-worker's birthday so this is the card that I made him.  It was very fitting for him as this co-worker of mine wears shorts ALL YEAR round, even when it is raining or snowing...CRAZY!  You know, come to think about it, I don't know if I have ever seen him in pants...and I have worked at this place for over a year now!!!! LOL!  Anyways inside the card I mentioned something on the lines of "to the dude who wears shorts all the time...cudos"! tee hee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know if the penguin image is ringing some bells for you, but I free-hand drew the sunglasses on this little cutie and also added his mouth!  Way cuter I think!  I put crystal lacquer on his glasses to make them look shiny.  On the black cardstock I used the cuttlebug folder "waves".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of Birthdays, "Little Monkeys" storage systems is turning 1 years old this month and so in honor of that, "you want a cookie" blog is offering some great Birthday blog candy for the event!  &lt;a href="http://youwantthecookie.blogspot.com/"&gt;Check it out!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Rainy Weekend everyone!  Cheers!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-4789902521301229964?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/4789902521301229964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=4789902521301229964' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/4789902521301229964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/4789902521301229964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/11/quick-but-fun-card.html' title='Quick but fun Card!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRUw8G0xcdI/AAAAAAAAALI/lvQb2EVt4iU/s72-c/IMG_3108+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-595239205881933650</id><published>2008-11-06T20:41:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-06T20:46:14.420-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Let's Make a Snowman...!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRPHNe5Bl5I/AAAAAAAAALA/_Zxj7l3Mfb4/s1600-h/IMG_3100+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 297px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265771423770711954" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRPHNe5Bl5I/AAAAAAAAALA/_Zxj7l3Mfb4/s320/IMG_3100+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRPHM16jg0I/AAAAAAAAAK4/n5xuFjo9K3A/s1600-h/IMG_3084+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265771412771275586" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRPHM16jg0I/AAAAAAAAAK4/n5xuFjo9K3A/s320/IMG_3084+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;        &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRPHMkbkQvI/AAAAAAAAAKw/NndWXYEv8F4/s1600-h/IMG_3083+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265771408077898482" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRPHMkbkQvI/AAAAAAAAAKw/NndWXYEv8F4/s320/IMG_3083+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had soooo much fun making this &lt;strong&gt;ACORDIAN CARD&lt;/strong&gt;!!!  I cut out the snowmen and the tree shapes from the Company line "MY MIND'S EYE"&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; Be Merry&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; series!  The card base is made out of &lt;strong&gt;SU &lt;/strong&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Baja Breeze&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" cs.  I never thought I would enjoy pink with Christmas colors but I am realizing it is my FAVORITE!!!!  tee hee!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-595239205881933650?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/595239205881933650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=595239205881933650' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/595239205881933650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/595239205881933650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/11/lets-make-snowman.html' title='Let&apos;s Make a Snowman...!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRPHNe5Bl5I/AAAAAAAAALA/_Zxj7l3Mfb4/s72-c/IMG_3100+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-8425551774134023581</id><published>2008-11-04T18:18:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T18:24:17.886-08:00</updated><title type='text'>So excited ...!!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRECoooBw-I/AAAAAAAAAKg/51Ttzf6KKnw/s1600-h/IMG_3058+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264992336496149474" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRECoooBw-I/AAAAAAAAAKg/51Ttzf6KKnw/s320/IMG_3058+copy.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRECpMtxrdI/AAAAAAAAAKo/bmSfWgjOfrY/s1600-h/IMG_3060+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264992346183937490" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRECpMtxrdI/AAAAAAAAAKo/bmSfWgjOfrY/s320/IMG_3060+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRECpMtxrdI/AAAAAAAAAKo/bmSfWgjOfrY/s1600-h/IMG_3060+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;One of my lovely co-workers announced she was expecting and I tell you I got so excited! I am also finding it weird that I get really excited for some and not for others (not that I'm happy about it, but just not so excited?) maybe it is because it is her FIRST one!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyways, who cares how much I get excited, I am excited to be posting this card! I was so happy with the way it turned out!!! I bought "TeddyBella" just to make this card! I paper-pieced her top and pop-dotted her belly, and also the circles for the thought bubble, put crystal lacquer on the bags and the baby is from the cricut "New Arrival". Had soooo much fun making this card and I really enjoyed my color scheme. Hope you like! Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRECpMtxrdI/AAAAAAAAAKo/bmSfWgjOfrY/s1600-h/IMG_3060+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-8425551774134023581?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/8425551774134023581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=8425551774134023581' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/8425551774134023581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/8425551774134023581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/11/so-excited-for-you.html' title='So excited ...!!!!!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SRECoooBw-I/AAAAAAAAAKg/51Ttzf6KKnw/s72-c/IMG_3058+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-5513405690524845209</id><published>2008-11-02T22:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-02T23:00:54.441-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Busy Weekend - Design Team Designs #2, #3, &amp; #4</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Yeeha! It was a very rainy day on Saturday so I got lots of cards done, and I am glad to say some more cards for "A Page At A Time" website!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The first Card I did was simple but I didn't want to take the focus away from the BEAUTIFUL paper, &lt;a href="http://www.pageatatime.biz/"&gt;"Snowflakes Glitt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pageatatime.biz/"&gt;er"&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Page Masterpiece Studios&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The snowflake is from a retired &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;SU&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; set "Snowflake Spot"and I used &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;SU&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; paper "Elegant Eggplant" and other light purple cardstock.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6XrIT5YuI/AAAAAAAAAJI/zoeKXsaQloc/s1600-h/IMG_3085.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 184px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264311781663793890" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6XrIT5YuI/AAAAAAAAAJI/zoeKXsaQloc/s320/IMG_3085.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Second card I used the same Snowflake Glitter Paper for the border and for the base of the card I used &lt;a href="http://www.pageatatime.biz/"&gt;"Page It Takes Two: Navy Cardstock". &lt;/a&gt;The stamp is new, I bought it at a friend's scrapbooking store and it is from the stamp company &lt;strong&gt;Great Impressions&lt;/strong&gt;. The snow is made from liquid applique.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6Z4FcvNdI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/0hrXoUlmmFI/s1600-h/IMG_3087.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 315px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264314203257124306" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6Z4FcvNdI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/0hrXoUlmmFI/s320/IMG_3087.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6Z4fbTrQI/AAAAAAAAAJY/g72G5telErQ/s1600-h/IMG_3090.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 283px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264314210230447362" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6Z4fbTrQI/AAAAAAAAAJY/g72G5telErQ/s320/IMG_3090.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6ax-t4EjI/AAAAAAAAAJw/L9DjZNKWCY8/s1600-h/IMG_3093.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6axdTK1ZI/AAAAAAAAAJo/g3TueycAWWo/s1600-h/IMG_3092.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6axLbvT0I/AAAAAAAAAJg/myec_K9adnM/s1600-h/IMG_3094.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ok, I saved the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;BEST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for last, I am &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;really really&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; pleased how my third card worked out! I used "Halobella", paper pieced her dress with "&lt;strong&gt;SU Almost Amethyst&lt;/strong&gt;" cardstock, framed with unknown funky purples &amp;amp; blues paper, background paper is again the most beautiful paper I have ever seen &lt;a href="http://www.pageatatime.biz/"&gt;" Page Masterpiece Studios: Stemma Collection: Snowflakes Glitter"&lt;/a&gt; and embellished with ribbon, silver stickles and glitter silver EBP. The snowflakes is used from a retired &lt;strong&gt;SU&lt;/strong&gt; Christmas Stamp set.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6czpuuDGI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/s8PON_p4FG8/s1600-h/IMG_3094.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264317425631759458" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6czpuuDGI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/s8PON_p4FG8/s320/IMG_3094.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6cz0gqTVI/AAAAAAAAAKA/CvDkprkazas/s1600-h/IMG_3092.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6c0C2VLaI/AAAAAAAAAKI/3YXSSPeKyHo/s1600-h/IMG_3093.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6e-vnQHWI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/6EjGEqLF-co/s1600-h/IMG_3096.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 207px; HEIGHT: 324px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264319815212866914" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6e-vnQHWI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/6EjGEqLF-co/s320/IMG_3096.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The sentiment that I used for the card, is actually copied from a stamp sold from the &lt;a href="http://www.elzybells.co.uk/"&gt;Elzybell's&lt;/a&gt; website &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6hP4XZmyI/AAAAAAAAAKY/jtz9XgkD9MM/s1600-h/IMG_3098.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264322308643330850" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQ6hP4XZmyI/AAAAAAAAAKY/jtz9XgkD9MM/s320/IMG_3098.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have more paper to work with for my Design Team Designing, but that will be posted in a couple of days, I get Tuesday off! LOL! 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Jennifer sent us some BEAUTIFUL Christmas papers and ribbon to use!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQp4gJwDh3I/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZoqKo9trG58/s1600-h/IMG_3071.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 289px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263151608304469874" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQp4gJwDh3I/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZoqKo9trG58/s320/IMG_3071.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;My project is the "Shadow Box" Card using the beautiful paper "&lt;a href="http://www.pageatatime.biz/"&gt;Snowfall Stripes&lt;/a&gt;" and "&lt;a href="http://www.pageatatime.biz/"&gt;Tanzanite&lt;/a&gt;" cardstock. As you can tell by the pictures, the snowfall paper has actual glitter embellished into it and it has the coolest texture, very ridgid and 3D like. That is why I used it to do the Shadow Box card.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQp4f5O7g9I/AAAAAAAAAIo/pwPjmlNn3BE/s1600-h/IMG_3073.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 274px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263151603870565330" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQp4f5O7g9I/AAAAAAAAAIo/pwPjmlNn3BE/s320/IMG_3073.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                  &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQp4fLIbKWI/AAAAAAAAAIg/o8BK04Yx_0g/s1600-h/IMG_3068.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263151591495248226" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQp4fLIbKWI/AAAAAAAAAIg/o8BK04Yx_0g/s320/IMG_3068.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The snowman is from a retired &lt;strong&gt;SU&lt;/strong&gt; Christmas set and of course I used liquid applique to make the snowflakes and snow "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;POP&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;". Now I am off to design some more with my beautiful papers from "&lt;a href="http://www.apageatatime.biz/"&gt;A Page At A Time&lt;/a&gt;" web store! Cheers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-8381433865351444325?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/8381433865351444325/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=8381433865351444325' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/8381433865351444325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/8381433865351444325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-first-design-team-project.html' title='My FIRST Design Team Project!!!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQp4gJwDh3I/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZoqKo9trG58/s72-c/IMG_3071.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-4143425413024013589</id><published>2008-10-26T23:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-30T22:36:48.119-07:00</updated><title type='text'>PINK!</title><content type='html'>Good Evening Ladies! Well tonight I worked on 2 cards and they both had quite the PINK theme! One was a birthday card and the other a Baby Girl card! They were fun to make, but I must admit I am all pinked out!!!! LOL!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make the cloud "puffy" I used Liquid Applique!!! LOVE THE STUFF! It goes on like a glue and then when you put a heat gun to it, BAM, poof city! Fun fun fun! Whenever I color a image, I am using Stampin' Up! Markers or watercolor pencils. I have not gotten into the Copic Rage just yet...got to save those pennies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQVdJiXOhpI/AAAAAAAAAIA/ToQNlmaPfbo/s1600-h/IMG_3052.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQVdJQ3Pz2I/AAAAAAAAAH4/9mxzSpL66wo/s1600-h/IMG_3054.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 218px; HEIGHT: 220px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261714153379188578" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQVdJQ3Pz2I/AAAAAAAAAH4/9mxzSpL66wo/s320/IMG_3054.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;              &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQqZKw8mHwI/AAAAAAAAAI4/pgKlfn8-lUs/s1600-h/IMG_3061.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263187524752645890" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQqZKw8mHwI/AAAAAAAAAI4/pgKlfn8-lUs/s320/IMG_3061.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Unfortunately I did not make as many cards I wanted to, but I am hoping to make more tomorrow night and Tuesday forsure!!! Also I am expecting my FIRST designer kit in the mail any day (hopefully tomorrow), so I will be playing with that soon too! Yipppeeee! Good Night!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-4143425413024013589?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/4143425413024013589/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=4143425413024013589' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/4143425413024013589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/4143425413024013589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/10/pink.html' title='PINK!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQVdJQ3Pz2I/AAAAAAAAAH4/9mxzSpL66wo/s72-c/IMG_3054.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-1285867156806781425</id><published>2008-10-23T22:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T22:16:17.484-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kick up your heels.....tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Hello Hello!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have had a very hard stressful week this week, so I am VERY HAPPY tomorrow is FINALLY Friday, Yippppeeee!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQFZtI0GMTI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/4aVD9CKNvBA/s1600-h/IMG_2887.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260584471740428594" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQFZtI0GMTI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/4aVD9CKNvBA/s320/IMG_2887.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I made this Paper-pieced Bella card for a friend's birthday whose I thought was born on the 20th of Oct but then the same person who told me THAT date, told me just the other day it was another date, and I had missed her birthday by over 2 weeks!!!! Grrrrrr and a BIG LAUGH!!! I will still give it to her when I see her!  I cased this card and fell in love with it when I saw it!  I think I found it on SCS, it was for a turning 40 card!!!  I have to say this though, I just LOVE paper piecing Bellas, soooooo much fun!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Happy Friday everyone and have a fabulous weekend! Cheers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-1285867156806781425?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/1285867156806781425/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=1285867156806781425' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/1285867156806781425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/1285867156806781425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/10/kick-up-your-heelstomorrow-is-friday.html' title='Kick up your heels.....tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SQFZtI0GMTI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/4aVD9CKNvBA/s72-c/IMG_2887.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-6261353039972170539</id><published>2008-10-15T22:24:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-15T22:25:10.162-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I Got Picked!!!!</title><content type='html'>Yipppeeee!  I got picked out of 70 applications to become a Design Team Member for the website "A Page At A Time", so excited!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the link if you want to check out her announcement!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://a-page-at-a-time.blogspot.com/2008/10/announcing-page-at-times-1st-design.html"&gt;http://a-page-at-a-time.blogspot.com/2008/10/announcing-page-at-times-1st-design.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-6261353039972170539?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/6261353039972170539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=6261353039972170539' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/6261353039972170539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/6261353039972170539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-got-picked.html' title='I Got Picked!!!!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-3442041454273580981</id><published>2008-10-15T19:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-15T19:46:07.145-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Fall Y'All!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SPapQ7Ehq9I/AAAAAAAAAHI/ugvLT_TQVU8/s1600-h/IMG_2884.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257575723201309650" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SPapQ7Ehq9I/AAAAAAAAAHI/ugvLT_TQVU8/s320/IMG_2884.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well I finally finished my card for the Bellaholic's November Homepage Contest!!!  Not really what I had invisioned but it will have to do!  I feel the left top corner is quite bare, but in a way I didn't want to take away from the GORGEOUS fall paper that I was using!! You should see it in real life!!!  Unbelievable!!!  The paper is BO BUNNY and is called "Beautiful Life Leaf". Also you can't see them that well, but I used some of the "Bella Dots Glitter Light Cocoa" dots, very pretty, blingy dot stones!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Off I go to make another Bella card, a birthday card...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-3442041454273580981?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/3442041454273580981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=3442041454273580981' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/3442041454273580981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/3442041454273580981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-fall-yall.html' title='Happy Fall Y&apos;All!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SPapQ7Ehq9I/AAAAAAAAAHI/ugvLT_TQVU8/s72-c/IMG_2884.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-199509879515042937</id><published>2008-10-13T23:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-13T23:19:10.559-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I just LOVE Long Weekends....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hello Hello! I hope all you Canadian folk had a very Happy Thanksgiving!!! I sure did and I am so happy that I had time to create and make a few cards!!!! I have a few birthdays coming up, so here is what I did so far! I also re-organized ALL my stamp/scrapbooking supplies, now does that ever feel good!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ok, my first card to show is this fairy card I made for a cousin of mine. I had the fairy pre-stamped from a friend, so I just colored her in tonight and cut her out, did some masking with the moon and the flowers, and made the stars out of silver stickles and decorated her wings with stickles also! I am quite happy how it turned out. Of course again, it is WAY prettier in real life but ah well....I'm working on it, on how to make my photos look as they do in real life!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SPQ35RX8CKI/AAAAAAAAAGw/WSJ7AlD_PcA/s1600-h/IMG_2865.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256888122104088738" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SPQ35RX8CKI/AAAAAAAAAGw/WSJ7AlD_PcA/s320/IMG_2865.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;My second card is a Bella card! In real life the cardstock that I used is our Stampin' Up! GORGEOUS color "Taken with Teal", I so wish you could see how it truly looks BRIGHT &amp;amp; VIBRANT. I put stickles again on her pom pom on hat and her cupcake and did crystal lacquer on her balloons! Simple card but fun to make!&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SPQ4oLT3ugI/AAAAAAAAAG4/3UEsuRHCRWY/s1600-h/IMG_2868.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256888927930268162" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SPQ4oLT3ugI/AAAAAAAAAG4/3UEsuRHCRWY/s320/IMG_2868.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;My third card, is a birthday card for an uncle. I have a hard time making masculine cards, since truly I am a girly girl when decorating and such, but I do like the ow&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SPQ5BAcSILI/AAAAAAAAAHA/U6s2URaCvUM/s1600-h/IMG_2876.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256889354509492402" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SPQ5BAcSILI/AAAAAAAAAHA/U6s2URaCvUM/s320/IMG_2876.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;l stamp and my color choice!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Have a good short week everyone!  I should hopefully post my bella card tomorrow night, that I am going to submit to the "Bellaholics Annoym. " November Homepage Contest!  Hopefully I will get more than one vote than like last time! LOL!!  I did have some awesome competition though!!! I am so glad I joined that group, so much fun!!!!  Cheers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-199509879515042937?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/199509879515042937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=199509879515042937' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/199509879515042937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/199509879515042937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-just-love-long-weekends.html' title='I just LOVE Long Weekends....'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SPQ35RX8CKI/AAAAAAAAAGw/WSJ7AlD_PcA/s72-c/IMG_2865.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-2381761999056659275</id><published>2008-10-10T09:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T09:17:58.598-07:00</updated><title type='text'>oops, forgot link to website...</title><content type='html'>Sorry about that, if you want to go see "A Page At A Time" Website here is the link...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://pageatatime.biz/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-2381761999056659275?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/2381761999056659275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=2381761999056659275' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/2381761999056659275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/2381761999056659275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/10/oops-forgot-link-to-website.html' title='oops, forgot link to website...'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-7738676858988076291</id><published>2008-10-10T09:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T09:16:31.106-07:00</updated><title type='text'>WISH ME LUCK!!!!</title><content type='html'>I am so excited! I have an opportunity to apply to becoming a team member on a DESIGN TEAM!!! Yipppee! I would be a design team member for the website "Page at a Time". Here are three cards that I will be submitting for samples of my work. I just made the Christmas Bella last night and LOVE how it turned out!!! Of course the picture doesn't even do it justice in real life, but ah well! I put red stickles on Bella's dress, crystal lacquer on her boots, and used liquid applique for her hat and boot trim! So much fun to make!!! Of course they are put on with pop-dots to stand out and the 2 top red buttons are just dallops of red stickles!!! Wish me luck Everyone!!! Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO9_L9mnNbI/AAAAAAAAAGY/epax0H6dtNg/s1600-h/IMG_2847+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO9_L9mnNbI/AAAAAAAAAGY/epax0H6dtNg/s320/IMG_2847+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255559133656462770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO9_MHoqmeI/AAAAAAAAAGo/ckyrdmQ4c5c/s1600-h/Tia%27s+Bday+Bella+Card+-+Apr+08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO9_MHoqmeI/AAAAAAAAAGo/ckyrdmQ4c5c/s320/Tia%27s+Bday+Bella+Card+-+Apr+08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255559136349428194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO9_L7hGIyI/AAAAAAAAAGg/bgbQLBHLZXM/s1600-h/Nanny%27s+80th+Bday+Card+email.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO9_L7hGIyI/AAAAAAAAAGg/bgbQLBHLZXM/s320/Nanny%27s+80th+Bday+Card+email.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255559133096452898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-7738676858988076291?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/7738676858988076291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=7738676858988076291' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7738676858988076291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7738676858988076291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/10/wish-me-luck.html' title='WISH ME LUCK!!!!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO9_L9mnNbI/AAAAAAAAAGY/epax0H6dtNg/s72-c/IMG_2847+1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-5307211512384083710</id><published>2008-10-10T08:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T09:00:39.256-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Busy Bee, that is me!!!!</title><content type='html'>Hello Hello! Sorry it has been a while since I have last posted, work has had me CRAZY busy!!! I was looking through my card gallery though and would love to post some more of my past favorites! Enjoy looking!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO973v34koI/AAAAAAAAAF4/jCV5tfaROtk/s1600-h/Shelley%27s+Get+Well+Card+-+Jul+08+email.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO973v34koI/AAAAAAAAAF4/jCV5tfaROtk/s320/Shelley%27s+Get+Well+Card+-+Jul+08+email.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255555487838540418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO973n3uquI/AAAAAAAAAFw/ldvnMB_9k5U/s1600-h/IMG_1586.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO973n3uquI/AAAAAAAAAFw/ldvnMB_9k5U/s320/IMG_1586.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255555485690407650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO9733K5AnI/AAAAAAAAAGA/F8yD7TB_jGo/s1600-h/Anniversary+Card+-+Jn+08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO9733K5AnI/AAAAAAAAAGA/F8yD7TB_jGo/s320/Anniversary+Card+-+Jn+08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255555489797309042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO974baZHYI/AAAAAAAAAGI/aQ8L4EPYQMY/s1600-h/Shelley%27s+Bday+card+08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO974baZHYI/AAAAAAAAAGI/aQ8L4EPYQMY/s320/Shelley%27s+Bday+card+08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255555499526004098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO974bJBrTI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/nlJs2lclHZc/s1600-h/Grateful+Card+2+-+Mulberry+Batik.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO974bJBrTI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/nlJs2lclHZc/s320/Grateful+Card+2+-+Mulberry+Batik.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255555499453164850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-5307211512384083710?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/5307211512384083710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=5307211512384083710' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/5307211512384083710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/5307211512384083710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/10/busy-bee-that-is-me.html' title='Busy Bee, that is me!!!!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SO973v34koI/AAAAAAAAAF4/jCV5tfaROtk/s72-c/Shelley%27s+Get+Well+Card+-+Jul+08+email.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-5596359384992732859</id><published>2008-09-29T20:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-29T20:50:40.782-07:00</updated><title type='text'>For Grandpa...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SOGhfzM1G6I/AAAAAAAAAFo/x9Amyb1pJBY/s1600-h/Grandpas+Bday+card+-+08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251656208182746018" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SOGhfzM1G6I/AAAAAAAAAFo/x9Amyb1pJBY/s320/Grandpas+Bday+card+-+08.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I enjoyed making this card for my Grandpa's birthday.  "Three in a Tree" rubber stamp is from INKADINKADOO, love their stamps!!!  I just sponged with SU Old Olive ink to fill it in!  Simple, but manly I think!  LOL!  Cheers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-5596359384992732859?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/5596359384992732859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=5596359384992732859' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/5596359384992732859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/5596359384992732859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/09/for-grandpa.html' title='For Grandpa...'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SOGhfzM1G6I/AAAAAAAAAFo/x9Amyb1pJBY/s72-c/Grandpas+Bday+card+-+08.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-8442066133988675825</id><published>2008-09-21T12:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T12:15:22.317-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My "Zindorf" Case Attempt...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNaccGavfUI/AAAAAAAAAFg/QWchl1r1OMU/s1600-h/dsc04690.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248554422319938882" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNaccGavfUI/AAAAAAAAAFg/QWchl1r1OMU/s320/dsc04690.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNacb2Yb0SI/AAAAAAAAAFY/0D1K6aM_g7E/s1600-h/Leaf+in+puddle+Card.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248554418015293730" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNacb2Yb0SI/AAAAAAAAAFY/0D1K6aM_g7E/s320/Leaf+in+puddle+Card.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;                                                                                                                   &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Copy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When I saw this Michelle Zindorf's card, I knew I was going to TRY and make it for a sympathy card that I had to make. I enjoyed making the card, too bad for the circumstance...anyways, here is the original and then my attempt...I was happy with how it turned out but in a way I don't think with mine, you can tell it is a leaf in a pool of water...what do you think? Just to note as well, I didn't have a brayer as Michelle used, so all my technique was sponging. I think that will be my next purchase is a brayer though. LOL!  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WOW, as I post my photo up beside Michelle's I sure notice the difference of vibrancy of color...my photos are not doing my card's any justice as to what they look like in REAL life, &lt;strong&gt;any suggestions?&lt;/strong&gt;  Of course her colors are brighter than mine, but mine was somewhat vibrant as well...hmmmm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SUPPLIES USED:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SU Inks:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Old Olive, Ballet Blue Blue, Cool Carribean, Always Artichoke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SU Paper:&lt;/strong&gt; Whisper White and Always Artichoke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EBP:&lt;/strong&gt; Clear&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;To view Michelle Zindorf's &lt;strong&gt;beautiful &lt;/strong&gt;work here is the link:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/"&gt;http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-8442066133988675825?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/8442066133988675825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=8442066133988675825' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/8442066133988675825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/8442066133988675825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-zindorf-case-attempt.html' title='My &quot;Zindorf&quot; Case Attempt...'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNaccGavfUI/AAAAAAAAAFg/QWchl1r1OMU/s72-c/dsc04690.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-9090518461762614744</id><published>2008-09-18T19:42:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T20:30:23.441-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Part 2 of VanIsle SU Meeting - Pics of Make N ' Takes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Just thought I would post a few of the demo's from the meeting of the make n ' takes that we made! I would post all of them, but I am having trouble posting photos on this blog and until I figure it out, I am only going to post a few more! LOL! Thank you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMcnsHGJAI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/G7Lug-jrNkw/s1600-h/Slit+Punch+Border+Card.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247569458998158338" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMcnsHGJAI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/G7Lug-jrNkw/s200/Slit+Punch+Border+Card.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMcnVPtEBI/AAAAAAAAAFI/RfqzkcE_hZ8/s1600-h/Pop+Up+Card.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247569452860248082" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMcnVPtEBI/AAAAAAAAAFI/RfqzkcE_hZ8/s200/Pop+Up+Card.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMcnd3lJ1I/AAAAAAAAAFA/splCiS3qfnQ/s1600-h/Pocket+Card.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247569455174985554" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMcnd3lJ1I/AAAAAAAAAFA/splCiS3qfnQ/s200/Pocket+Card.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMcnIa3tpI/AAAAAAAAAE4/pCdlFaqM9Zs/s1600-h/Masking+Trees+Card.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247569449417422482" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMcnIa3tpI/AAAAAAAAAE4/pCdlFaqM9Zs/s200/Masking+Trees+Card.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-9090518461762614744?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/9090518461762614744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=9090518461762614744' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/9090518461762614744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/9090518461762614744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/09/part-2-of-vanisle-su-meeting-pics-of.html' title='Part 2 of VanIsle SU Meeting - Pics of Make N &apos; Takes'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMcnsHGJAI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/G7Lug-jrNkw/s72-c/Slit+Punch+Border+Card.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-4615904100643750586</id><published>2008-09-18T19:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T20:18:56.060-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Projects from VanIsle Stampin' Up! Meeting - Sept 13/08</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yay, I got to finish some of the make n' takes that we did at the VanIsle SU Meeting! I couldn't wait and they were so much fun to do. And EASY!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These first two projects were my absolute favorites!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;1. Shadow Box Card&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMSTQ4jkzI/AAAAAAAAAC4/fIxoou0SZLk/s1600-h/Holiday+Cheer+Shawdow+Box+Card.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247558112975754034" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMSTQ4jkzI/AAAAAAAAAC4/fIxoou0SZLk/s320/Holiday+Cheer+Shawdow+Box+Card.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Supplies used:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Real Red Paper, SU Markers, Liquid Applique (non SU), 1/2" striped grosgrain ribbon and the stamp set "&lt;strong&gt;Jolliest Time of the Year&lt;/strong&gt;"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMT4ic2N4I/AAAAAAAAADI/jTCSM8a5coQ/s1600-h/slight+angle+of+3D+Santa+Shadow+Box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247559852858161026" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMT4ic2N4I/AAAAAAAAADI/jTCSM8a5coQ/s320/slight+angle+of+3D+Santa+Shadow+Box.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is a closer look at the Shadow Box Card at a slight angle, you can see the 3D of the applique and even though it is a bit hard to tell here, the face is 3D also!! You stamp the Santa's face again on a separate pc of paper , cut it out and then apply over the first santa's face, way too cool!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMVkRuMRaI/AAAAAAAAADY/Yu0ig85Wx6s/s1600-h/close+up+of+3D+santa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247561703793378722" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMVkRuMRaI/AAAAAAAAADY/Yu0ig85Wx6s/s320/close+up+of+3D+santa.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I LOVE Liquid Applique!!! It goes on like glue, looks like glue, but when you put a heat gun to it, it puffs right up!!! FANTASTIC!!!! I love making things pop out, make it more dimensional...I hope they will be making more colors in the future!!!! For the white applique, make sure not to heat it too long or it will burn!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMVIoc1hgI/AAAAAAAAADQ/OatdBgBjc3E/s1600-h/close+up+of+3D+santa.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; 2.Diaper Fold Packet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMWSYapRGI/AAAAAAAAADg/1PJutgQTRZg/s1600-h/Diaper+Fold+Packet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247562495864423522" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMWSYapRGI/AAAAAAAAADg/1PJutgQTRZg/s320/Diaper+Fold+Packet.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This was an amazing little project to make!!! You only use 1 sheet of Double Sided 6x6 paper and start folding - you do not use any adhesive!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I love this packet because you could make it for so many things: ornaments, party favors, gift for teacher or anyone, door prizes, etc. LOVE IT!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMYJNvawrI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/0QB63rLY8Ew/s1600-h/Goody+decorated+for+diaper+fold+packet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247564537403196082" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMYJNvawrI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/0QB63rLY8Ew/s320/Goody+decorated+for+diaper+fold+packet.jpg" width="267" height="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry this p&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMXXPXDCjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/hT2SikQQw7o/s1600-h/york+pattie.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;icture is not right-side up (anyone know how to fix this?) because when I took and edited the picture, it was the right way!!!????&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMXXPXDCjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/hT2SikQQw7o/s1600-h/york+pattie.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyways, I am posting it because to show you how you can decorate a simple York Pattie for your prize in your little packet!!!  mmm York Patties, they are good!  And if you want to make a whole bunch of these, you can get a HUGE bucket of these Patties at COSTCO!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-4615904100643750586?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/4615904100643750586/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=4615904100643750586' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/4615904100643750586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/4615904100643750586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/09/projects-from-vanisle-stampin-up.html' title='Projects from VanIsle Stampin&apos; Up! Meeting - Sept 13/08'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SNMSTQ4jkzI/AAAAAAAAAC4/fIxoou0SZLk/s72-c/Holiday+Cheer+Shawdow+Box+Card.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-70361372975396883</id><published>2008-09-13T22:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-13T22:47:06.284-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stampin' Up! VanIsle Meeting...WOW!</title><content type='html'>I just have to write a quick post to say how EXCITED I am!!!!  Just came back from an all day meeting in Nanaimo for Stampin' Up! - The VanIsle Group (SU Demonstrators from Van. Isl.) and it was wonderful!! During a part of the meeting we get to do make n' takes and they were fabulous, EASY, FUN, and did I mention FABULOUS?!!!  I cannot wait to get my club going and get teaching these fabulous items!  I wish I could post a pic of them but I admit I did not fully finish any of them because I wanted to make sure I would be able to partake in ALL of the make n' takes and let me tell you , I barely finished...but there were alot of them!!! LOL!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PLEASE come back&lt;/strong&gt; soon to check out the items as I will hopefully be finishing them on Wed night and will be able to post some pics!!!  Cheers!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-70361372975396883?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/70361372975396883/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=70361372975396883' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/70361372975396883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/70361372975396883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/09/stampin-up-vanisle-meetingwow.html' title='Stampin&apos; Up! VanIsle Meeting...WOW!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-7990338248670131658</id><published>2008-09-02T17:43:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-08T17:35:59.138-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Full Moon Splender...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SMXEtyfKhGI/AAAAAAAAACo/4xBybHsftUc/s1600-h/Uncle+Pauls+Bday+Card+-+June+08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243813632068453474" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SMXEtyfKhGI/AAAAAAAAACo/4xBybHsftUc/s320/Uncle+Pauls+Bday+Card+-+June+08.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SMXEuZRRNGI/AAAAAAAAACw/x5S4nY7p6RU/s1600-h/Inside+Uncle+Pauls+Bday+Card+-+June+08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243813642479154274" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SMXEuZRRNGI/AAAAAAAAACw/x5S4nY7p6RU/s320/Inside+Uncle+Pauls+Bday+Card+-+June+08.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is my first card at attempting to do "Masking". I am glad it turned out (the moon is a little low but that is ok) for the most part! The Stamp set is from SU called "Noble Deer", which is now unfortunately discountinued but still a wonderful stamp set to use!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thanks for looking! Cheers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-7990338248670131658?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/7990338248670131658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=7990338248670131658' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7990338248670131658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7990338248670131658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/09/full-moon-splender.html' title='Full Moon Splender...'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SMXEtyfKhGI/AAAAAAAAACo/4xBybHsftUc/s72-c/Uncle+Pauls+Bday+Card+-+June+08.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-7884250989290869476</id><published>2008-09-02T17:43:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T10:00:20.046-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cupcakes Anyone?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SMQIU2PkEqI/AAAAAAAAACQ/9MO6CAbsUxE/s1600-h/Olivias+Bday+Card+-+Aug+08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243325020417299106" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SMQIU2PkEqI/AAAAAAAAACQ/9MO6CAbsUxE/s320/Olivias+Bday+Card+-+Aug+08.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I just had to show the cupcake card that I made for my friend's little girl who was turning 5! When I saw this on SCS, I fell in love! Not only do I LOVE real cupcakes, now I am loving to make these cute cute cards! Thanks Lindsey! With the template it is actually very easy to make and so much fun to design!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is the link of where to find photos and template to make these yummy cards!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/874713?si=cup%20%20card"&gt;http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/874713?si=cup%20%20card&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Enjoy and there's no calories, yippeee!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-7884250989290869476?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/7884250989290869476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=7884250989290869476' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7884250989290869476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/7884250989290869476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/09/cupcakes-anyone.html' title='Cupcakes Anyone?'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SMQIU2PkEqI/AAAAAAAAACQ/9MO6CAbsUxE/s72-c/Olivias+Bday+Card+-+Aug+08.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-2127899606447616258</id><published>2008-09-02T17:43:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-05T20:18:55.642-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Have a Sunshiney FALL Day!</title><content type='html'>Have a Sunshiney FALL Day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242742394719667634" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SMH2bkYlhbI/AAAAAAAAACI/IvXA90QsQO8/s320/Have+a+Sunshiney+Fall+Day+-+Sept+08.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello Fellow Stampin' Sistahs!Yay it's Friday! Hope you all had a great week! I am excited to be posting this card. When I joined the "Bellaholicanonymous" group and found out they had a "Monthly Bella Card Contest" I got inspired to do this card for the month of October. Since I didn't have any special "Halloween" Bellas, I thought I would do a fall theme. For this contest, anyone who is part of the "Bellaholicanonymous" group, can post a photo of their card and place it in the monthly album for the contest. Then all group members vote after a closing date who should win. Who ever wins the contest, their Bella card is chosen to be displayed on the "Bellaholicanonymous" Home Web Page! Wish me luck ladies! tee hee. I have already seen some of the other cards, and I am running against some ROCK'N competition!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-2127899606447616258?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/2127899606447616258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=2127899606447616258' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/2127899606447616258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/2127899606447616258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/09/have-sunshiney-fall-day.html' title='Have a Sunshiney FALL Day!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SMH2bkYlhbI/AAAAAAAAACI/IvXA90QsQO8/s72-c/Have+a+Sunshiney+Fall+Day+-+Sept+08.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-6784266800920787357</id><published>2008-09-02T17:43:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-02T18:18:16.236-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Favorite Bella Cards I have made so far...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SL3kMyQz2vI/AAAAAAAAABo/O4TlxDWXyAI/s1600-h/Java+Bella+Orange-Pink-Brown.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241596449630968562" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SL3kMyQz2vI/AAAAAAAAABo/O4TlxDWXyAI/s320/Java+Bella+Orange-Pink-Brown.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is a card I made for a friend's birthday! I just loved the flowered paper and how the colors worked together! I was quite happy with how the whole card turned out!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SL3kvvCoFtI/AAAAAAAAABw/Us0nsgTQkPA/s1600-h/Rock%27n+Bella+-+RaeAnne%27s+Bday+card+-+Jn08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241597050061592274" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SL3kvvCoFtI/AAAAAAAAABw/Us0nsgTQkPA/s320/Rock%27n+Bella+-+RaeAnne%27s+Bday+card+-+Jn08.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This next card I cased the design from SCS and when I found this funky paper, I knew I had to use it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SL3lkSZtL1I/AAAAAAAAAB4/6rdTtmw-13I/s1600-h/Walkabella+Card+Mar+08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241597952906833746" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SL3lkSZtL1I/AAAAAAAAAB4/6rdTtmw-13I/s320/Walkabella+Card+Mar+08.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This was my very first Bella stamp and card that I made. I had so much fun coloring her dress and the background paper (pink)! And I am a dog lover to boot, so this is one of my favorite stamps!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-6784266800920787357?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/6784266800920787357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=6784266800920787357' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/6784266800920787357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/6784266800920787357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-favorite-bella-cards-i-have-made-so.html' title='My Favorite Bella Cards I have made so far...'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SwASTJq3YNE/SL3kMyQz2vI/AAAAAAAAABo/O4TlxDWXyAI/s72-c/Java+Bella+Orange-Pink-Brown.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461451248090032006.post-3867062324189522449</id><published>2008-09-02T17:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-02T17:44:22.650-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Let the FUN begin!!!!</title><content type='html'>I cannot believe I have just started a blog!!!! But I am actually excited about this! (Thank you Krista). One of the reasons why I have started a blog is because I have just joined a wonderful group called the "Bellaholicsanonymous" and they all post their cards via a blog. I LOVE Bella stamps!!! It is like stamping, coloring and playing Barbie's all in one, Love it!!!!! And yes, as the group name implies, Bella stamps are VERY addicting, you just can't stop at one! LOL!Also because I am a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, it will be good to be able to post my SU card samples, upcoming classes and feature new products and promotions!I will post a few of my favorite Bella cards that I have made in the past for friends and family. I have cased some of the cards and I apologize that I do not remember from whom, so I will from now on IF I do case someone elses work, I will make note of it! Thank you!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3461451248090032006-3867062324189522449?l=michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/feeds/3867062324189522449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3461451248090032006&amp;postID=3867062324189522449' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/3867062324189522449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3461451248090032006/posts/default/3867062324189522449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelle-a-bella.blogspot.com/2008/09/let-fun-begin.html' title='Let the FUN begin!!!!'/><author><name>Michelle-a-bella</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09776612626461176236</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
