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Social Media Round Up!

Happy Thursday, friends! This week we've been featuring our 12x12" Fundamentals Stickers sheets, and our Social Media team has been busy creating projects to inspire you to use these versatile stickers!

First up is Jamie with this gorgeous take on focusing on just the pinks and gold foil in the Make Your Mark collection. We love how she used the Fundamentals stickers in each of her little vignettes  leading towards her photo - so great!

Bella Blvd: Make Your Mark: Impossible, Borders. Gift Tags. Epoxy Stickers. Paper Pieces. Fundamental Stickers.

Find Jamie's inspiration and projects throughout her Social Media here:
Instagram I Pinterest | Facebook | Twitter

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Next up, Laurie created two adorable cards, each using our Fundamentals stickers in creative ways. The first seamlessly integrates all the adorable sentiments from the sheet with our Paper Pieces from the Popsicles and Pandas collection. We just love how she tucked those elements inside the die cut of this card! Too cute!

 
Bella Blvd: Popsicles & Pandas: Picnic, Fundamentals, Paper Pieces;  Enamel Hearts: She Blooms Mix.

 

And next up, Laurie, used a mix of our Elements Puffy Stickers from Illustrated Faith's Delight in HIs Day collection along with the sentiments from the Fundamentals Stickers to create a super fun and meaningful card that anyone would enjoy receiving! Love it!

Illustrated Faith: Delight In His Day: 3 x 4's, Fundamentals, Puffy Stickers;  Enamel Hearts: Bless Her Heart Mix

Find Laurie's inspiration and projects throughout her Social Media here:
Instagram  | Facebook | Pinterest

 

Thanks so much for joining us today, friends! 

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Make sure to follow all of our Social Media team to see the latest projects from these talented designers! And follow along with us on the Bella Blvd Instagram feed to find even more inspiration!

Illustrated Faith Monthly Devotional Kit : "I Am"

Hi there sweet friends!!! When Melisa Garcia shared her theme of " I AM" with me, my heart skipped a beat! I have been hearing this need in our community and I am so excited to work through this month with you! Thank you so much for joining us and make sure to share your work!! I can't wait to see! 

In the Illustrated Faith 'I Am' devotional kit, Melisa Garcia invites you on a two-week journey to dig deeper into knowing Christ. Join Melisa as she leads you to make room for Christ, to take steps in becoming fearless, to speak truth about who you are in Him, to be patient, to forgive.  

 

"...I learned early on that if I wanted to know who I am, I first must know the great I Am. You will know who you are when you recognize whose you are. So that is my call to you."

—Melisa Garcia

 

What's included:

Devotional message:
I Am
Digging Deeper

 

Sample copies:
Day 1 - Fearless
Day 2 - Capable
Day 3 - Free
Plus 11 more!

 

Product Details:

• 1 plastic pouch
• 1 devotional booklet
• 1 clear stamp collection
• 1 roll of washi tape
• 1 sheet of cut-out paper pieces
• 2 cardstock sticker sheets
• 3 tip-ins
• 1 magnet
• 1 thank you card from Shanna

 

 Here's a closer look at this month's devotional kit from Illustrated Faith!

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I Am is a perfect set for illustrating your faith and celebrating Jesus! Join contributing artist and devotional writer Melisa Garcia for this inspiring kit available now only at DaySpring.

Shop DaySpring here for all Illustrated Faith's exclusive monthly Devotional Kits. 
Available while supplies last.

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Tips & How To's for Digital Designing with Sabrina

Hello, this is Sabrina from the Bella Blvd Digital Team. For today's how-to and design tip I wanted to focus on sharing some tips on different ways to use fundamental stickers.

Every Bella Blvd digital collection comes with a wide variety of fundamental stickers and they give you so many options when it comes to creating your page. For many of my layouts the fundamental stickers provide the foundation for my layouts and also help create a lot of visual interest.

Let's get started with some fun and easy tips to use those fundamental stickers.

Tip 1- Use the fundamental stickers to create a striking border.
On this recent layout I decided to make a visually striking border by using a ton of fundamental stickers from many collections. I also used some puffy stars and hexies, but the majority is the stickers. I added two paper strips underneath to ground all of the fundamental stickers and this helped the stickers to not look they are just 'floating'.

Tip 2- Use the fundamental stickers to make awesome clusters on your layout.
For this layout my only embellishments were fundamental stickers. I clustered each them with various shadows and depths to make each sticker each stand out. I repeated this two more times to make a total of 3 which creates an awesome visual triangle. 

Tip 3- Use the fundamental stickers to make your own custom 'paper'
Let's say you didn't want to use the paper in a Bella Blvd digital collection, but, instead, you wanted to create something unique. To make your own custom 'paper' you could duplicate the stickers many times to cover the paper area. As seen in this layout, I used a template that has several paper sections. I only used one real paper and the rest are duplicated fundamental stickers in the various
paper sections. Can you guess which is the real paper? I'll give you a hint its the bottom yellow paper. The rest of the 'paper' sections were covered by fundamental stickers! I just duplicated them many times to fill the sections and this is something that is so fun in digital. Using elements more than once and as much as you want!

* Don't forget to copy something is Photoshop Elements you click the element you want to duplicate, then hit alt and the layer will duplicate.*

A close up of the duplicated fundamental stickers to make 'real' paper. Four out of the five sections for paper are made using duplicated fundamental stickers. 

The finished layout of my cool dude using the fun boy themed Alex Bundle. The fundamental stickers give my layout a unique look and, once again, shows how flexible digital scrapbooking is. 

I hope these tips were helpful and inspire you to try new ways to use the awesome fundamental stickers. They are definitely superstars in the digital bundles with all the wide range of uses! 

Bella Blvd Digital: Alex Digital Bundle Oh My Stars Digital Bundle, Secrets of the Sea Digital Bundle, Popsicles and Pandas Digital Bundle, Acrylic Words, Puffy Stickers, Make Your Mark Digital Bundle. Illustrated Faith: IF Basics Hexies.

Fundamentals Stickers: Process Video With Gail

Hello Bella fans! This week the creative team is working hard to bring you inspiration for using the fabulous and SUPER versatile Fundamentals stickers! I’ve created a very colorful layout and used Fundamentals stickers from across lots of collections! Please watch my process video below to see how the layout came together! (And don’t forget to subscribe to the Bella Blvd YouTube channel here.)

Scrapping by color and not by collection is fun to do as you get to go through all your bits and pieces looking for that perfect embellishment in just the right color! I created sections for each color on my layout by adding the paint swipes on the background.

As well as the Fundamentals stickers, I also added some Paper Pieces die cuts, puffy stickers and enamel hearts to the layout to vary the texture and dimension of my embellishments.

I added a few layers of patterned paper (in coordinating colors of course) behind my photo and the Acrylic Word for my title was perfect! I love how the brush lettering style really suits the artistic feel of the background!

I finished off the layout with some journaling – cut into strips before adding to the layout so it doesn’t cover up too much of the background. You can still see the bold teal paint showing through in between each of the strips!

You can’t go wrong with the sheets of Fundamentals stickers – they are loaded with labels, banners, arrows, icons, sayings, tabs, alphabets and more! I hope I’ve given your creativity a kick start this week!

 

 

Make Your Mark: Fundamentals Stickers, Borders; Secrets of the Sea (Girl): Whale of a Tail; Secrets of the Sea (Boy): Fundamentals Stickers; Popsicles & Pandas: Fundamentals Stickers; IF Seeds of Faith: Fundamentals Stickers, Puffy Stickers; IF Delight In His Day: Fundamentals Stickers, Happy Heart; IF Basics: Daily Paper Pieces, Acrylic Paint Set; IF Bright & Brave: Geared Up For Jesus, Fundamentals Stickers; IF You Are Loved: Fundamentals Stickers; Acrylic Words: Embrace Today; Cute Clips: Rainy Day; IF Enamel Hearts: She Blooms Mix, Bless Her Heart Mix

 

Washi Tape Background With Gail!

Hello and welcome to the blog today! The creative team have shared lots of fun ideas using washi tape this week and I can’t wait to share another idea that will suit a whole variety of themes, depending on what washi tape colors and designs you choose! Today I have a Father’s Day layout to show you!

I dug through my Bella Blvd washi tape stash and pulled out several rolls that coordinated and also had a slight masculine feel to them. Then one by one, I started laying them down at an angle, over the top left corner of my background.

Then all I had to do was trim off the overhang and my background was ready to go!

I love how this turned out! I took guidance from the other colors in the washi tape and added teal, black + white and orange layers and embellishments.

For my layout title I combined one of the Acrylic Words with some hand stitching.

Now, a little backstory on my photos . . . when I went looking for a photo to create a layout about my husband and our kids, I couldn’t find a recent one of them all together! So instead, I found a photo of each of our children as newborns, being held by Daddy. I just love the comparison and it still lets me tell the story of what a great Dad he is!

It actually feels kind of satisfying to use lots of washi tape on the one project! I mean, the Bella Blvd rolls have so much tape on them and are such fun designs – it was about time I stopped hoarding them and started using them and I hope you do the same!

Have a great weekend and Father’s Day! My goal is obviously to take a photo of my husband and our kids together!

Secrets of the Sea Boy: Dancing Jellies, Finding Fishies, Great View Washi; Popsicles & Pandas: Fundamentals Stickers, Confetti Washi; Make Your Mark: Break Rules Washi, Say Yes Washi; IF Basics: Daily Paper Pieces, Criss Cross Black Washi, Well With My Soul Washi; IF Seeds of Faith: Fundamentals Stickers, Collection Kit; Cute Baby Boy: Love Him Washi; Acrylic Words: New & Sweet; Puffy Hearts Stickers: Orange Mix

Social Media Round Up!

Happy Thursday, friends! Today we are sharing projects from our Social Media team using the latest washi tapes from our Illustrated Faith and Bella Blvd collections. 

First up is a beautiful card from Laurie using the Make Your Mark collection along with washi tapes from the Illustrated Faith Basics collection. The black and white lend themselves beautifully to this collection and we can't think of a better, more meaningful combination! Gorgeous!

Bella Blvd: Make Your Mark: 6 x 8 Paper Pad, Fundamentals, Paper Pieces.  Illustrated Faith: IF Basics Washi Tape: Criss Cross, Let It Go.

Laurie created a second card, this time it's all about fun, using the Barn Yard collection. How cute is that cow print washi tape? Just darling for a farm-themed birthday celebration!

Bella Blvd: Barnyard: Daily Details, Fundamentals, Paper Pieces, Puffy Stickers, Got Milk Washi Tape Enamel Dots: Oreo Black

 

Find Laurie's inspiration and projects throughout her Social Media here:
Instagram  | Facebook | Pinterest

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Next up, Stephanie used her washi tape to create these pattern-filled triangles for her layout. Then she used a variety of washi tapes to add additional embellishment, even trimming the numbers from our 1" wide Illustrated Faith Chapter and Verse washi tapes - so clever!

Bella Blvd: Washi Tape: Break Rules. Acrylic Words: Love & Promise, Be You, Be Brave. Illustrated Faith: Washi Tape: Criss Cross, Whispers, Chapter 3 Verse.

 

Find Stephanie's inspiration and projects throughout her Social Media here:

Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest

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Last up today, is Leanne. She decided to create some pocket page filler cards with her washi assortment. This sweet and simple filler cards are quick, easy and ideal for those pages that just need a little extra something. So fun! 

Bella Blvd: Alex: Group Text; Washi Tape: MYM Break Rules, Washi Stickers: Oh My Stars, Enamel Dots: Cotton Candy; Ciao Chip: Hello There. Illustrated Faith: Washi Stickers: IF Basics Criss Cross Black, IF Basics Criss Cross Color; IF Bright & Brave; IF Clear Stamps: You Are Loved; IF Enamel Hearts: Hey Sugar Sugar. 

 

Find Leanne's inspiration and projects throughout her Social Media here:
Instagram | Pinterest | Facebook

Thanks so much for joining us today, friends! 

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Make sure to follow all of our Social Media team to see the latest projects from these talented designers! And follow along with us on the Bella Blvd Instagram feed to find even more inspiration!