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Tips & How To's for Digital Designing with Sabrina

Hello! This is Sabrina for the digital Bella Blvd team. I wanted to share two projects that have big impact in commemorating Memorial Day. They are both 5x7 pieces that have quotes on them and then decorated with digital products. You could even print them to have as DIY Decor. Let's get started.

The first step is opening two 5x7 canvases. After that you want to select the 'U' command on a PC or the Command Shape tool. You need to scroll down and select the stars. Click on that and draw a star design on your 5x7 canvas. On this screenshot you can see I've drawn some star shapes with them focused in the corner.

 

 

I also used the 'E' or Eraser Tool to erase some of the stars in the middle to get a smaller cluster of stars. You can see this in the second screenshot where I took a close up shot of the bottom right corner. I used the erase tool to delete most of the custom shape of stars to get just a small cluster of stars.

 Once you have all the stars clusters you want you can add in papers by clipping them to the star layers. This command is called 'ctrl + g' on a PC. The papers clipped to the stars will look like this screenshot seen below.

 You can now decorate the quote page with some stars if you want or other embellishment. Here is the finished 5x7 quote page. It is a wonderful way to commemorate on Memorial Day and also just honor anyone who sacrifices so much in our armed forces.

 

 

Here is second 5x7 page I did the same process as the first page.

 

I hope this inspires you to create some digital pages with quotes that can be used for DIY Decor or just pages to showcase your favorite quotes. Thank you for reading!

 

Oh My Stars Designer Papers, Puffy Stars, Spooktacular Alphas and Border, Sports Basketball Border

HONORING OUR MILITARY | CORRI GARZA

Hi everyone, Corri here today sharing a couple of Patriotic themed cards in honor of Memorial Day.  I used paper from the Oh My Stars Collection mixed with a few elements from the All American Collection.  This is an older collection and I am so happy I had a few pieces left to use on my cards. 

 

 

For my USA card, I trimmed a 3 x 4 card off the Borders & Bits page from the All American collection.  I created my "Stars and Stripes" background by trimming a border from the All American Collection and adding it to a piece of the Blueberry Stars pattern paper from the Oh My Stars Collection .  A cute clip, some puffy stars and a tab from the Soccer Ephemera pack are the perfect finishing touches on this cute card.  This would be perfect for a service member returning from deployment. 

 

 

For my second card, I trimmed pieces of the star pattern paper in McIntosh, Scallop & Blueberry and then added some elements  trimmed from the All American Collection along with some star die cuts from the Soccer Ephemera pack. I used foam tape to mount the stars and sentiment strip to give my card added dimension .  Finally, I added a trio of puffy stars on either side of my sentiment.  

 

 

One of my favorite things about Bella Blvd Collections is how all the lines are color coordinated.  Even if you don't have a patriotic themed collection, you can easily pull pieces from various paper packs to create your own red, white and blue themed projects. 

 

Oh My Stars Collection, All American Collection, Cute Clips, Puffy Stickers

 

 

Tips & How To's for Digital Designing with Sabrina

Hi. This is Sabrina for the Digital Creative Team for Bella Blvd. I wanted to give you two ideas for documenting your child's sports, in particular soccer.

This first page is a 6x8 spread where I complied several photos throughout the soccer season to make the spread. You can take your favorite shots of the season and combine them to tell the story of the season. Its a fun way to see the whole season.

Here is the page and I also made some paint splatters to match the theme of dirt, mess and mud.

 

 The second idea for documenting your child's sport is a then and now layout. In this layout I took two photos of my son and put them on a layout to show a comparison. They are photos 3 years apart so the difference is striking. I decided to keep the current 'now' photo at 4x6 size and the 'then' photo is 3x4. I then added in a blue photo mat, star multi colored patterned paper and a fundamental sticker of a scallop border to both photos to add consistency to the design.

Using the Soccer Collection with all the fun fundamentals and ephemera, I was able to add lots of words pieces and die cuts to the layout that really capture the different aspects of the sport. The big and bold title takes up two sections just the photos to add emphasize to the photos and reinforce the theme of then and now.

Here is the layout of my son! So awesome (and a little sad) to see how much my kiddo grew in 3 years.

 

Thank you for stopping by! Hope you have fun trying out these tips to document your child's sports.

Bella Blvd Digital: Soccer Collection Bundle

Baseball and Fun

Good morning everyone!

Sarah back again to share with you a layout I made using the Baseball collection this week.

This layout really didn't go the way I planned.  I started my layout with everything going across the middle of the layout, and a whole different picture picked out, but I dropped my phone in water a little over two weeks ago and lost all of my pictures on it!! I was so sad!  Thats what I get for never backing my photos up anywhere! I will from now on, I promise you that!

Like I said I started my layout with everything towards the top of my layout, going all the way across from side to side. I didn't have my picture printed yet, but knew what size I wanted it to be so I created a layered photo mat, with a little dimension, placed it where I wanted it and went to adding some more color to the sides of my layout.

I added some brighter pops of color/patterned papers to the sides, I distressed the edges of my of my papers to add a little more dimension to them too. I pulled out the sticker sheet and the ephemera pack and started to tuck things in here and there on my layout. I have a love for all the tabs as you can probably tell!

I popped a baseball here in there on some dimensional foam, added a few stars and some more tabs along with baseball mitts and then my title. 

Once I had the title on I thought I was going to be done with this layout, but when I looked at it again, I thought there was to much white space at the bottom of my layout. So I decided to add a few uneven paper strips.  I used a border punch from my stash for one of them and tucked another tab and that cute foam finger in. 

At this point I knew I was done and just needed my photo, then that whole thing with my phone happened :(

 

Well, I liked my layout so I went in to my pictures and found this picture of my son doing some batting practice. We had went to a local park, his sister was using the tee stand and he was being pitched to. He loves to practice and he loves baseball so I thought the title still worked too.

 

Baseball collection: 

Patterned papers; Play ball, Boarders&Details, Hit it, America's Pastime, Ephemera pack, Fundamentals

Ciao Chips;Amorie McIntosh 

Happy Mail for Mom

Lydia here with you today to share the piece of happy mail I sent out to honor the moms in my life!  I actually spent several years of my life solely dedicated to creating happy mail because it just made me so darn happy to send and receive pretty packages in the mail.  I imagine it's no different for the lovely ladies in your lives!

I created a fold out envelope with a slot for a gift card.  I couldn't imagine using any other collection than the Mom Life collection for obvious reasons!  I just love the tones of orange, navy, and pink! 

 

I wanted the outside of my card to be exciting, so using some tulle I sewed on a layer of sequins for a shaker effort!  I then adhered two buttons to the backside, so that I could string the envelope closed.  All that was left was to decorate the inside with Mom Life goodies!

 

Thank you so much for joining me today!  I hope you all have a blessed celebration with your loved ones, honoring the women in our lives who care so fondly for us! xo Lydia

  Bella Blvd Mom Life Collection 12x12 Papers, Sticky Mix, & Ephemera, Bella Blvd Wonky Alphas in Milk White, Illustrated Faith Tiny Alpha Booklet, Illustrated Faith You Are Loved Clear Stamps, Bella Blvd Enamel Dots

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