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Unlimited Inspiration: Color Chaos - Focus On Strandz

All this week, we will continue to provide you with endless inspiration with never-before-seen projects that were featured in our CHA Winter booth display. Our Design Team has been very busy creating oodles of project ideas with all of the new collections and products, and we are excited to finally share them with you!

“Forever”, by Lisa Dickinson.

The rainbow hues of the Strandz papers make my heart happy! And so I decided to use heart die cuts to feature these patterns. I cut a variety of sizes and stitched them vertically to my background, which is a Clear Cut layered over ivory card stock. To add even more color, I used a scalloped border around the entire layout, punched from the Strandz papers and adhered to the back side of my card stock.

Supplies:
Color Chaos: McIntosh Strandz, Punch Strandz, Peep Strandz, Orange Strandz, Bell Pepper Strandz, Pickle Juice Strandz, Guacamole Strandz, Ice Strandz, Gulf Strandz, Blueberry Strandz, Scallop Strandz, Words of Wisdom; Clear Cuts: Milk White Confetti; Ciao Chip: Hearts & Stars, WhatNots, Star Student

“Love Love Love”, by Shelly Jaquet.

Seeing as the Color Chaos Collection has every color in the rainbow covered, it was a no-brainer to create one. I am a huge fan of the tone-on-tone look, so I mixed in a few of the Ciao Chipboard shapes to give the rainbow that extra pop.

Supplies:
Color Chaos: McIntosh Strandz, Orange Strandz, Bell Pepper Strandz, Guacamole Strandz, Ice Strandz, Blueberry Strandz, Daily Detail; Ciao Chip: Hearts & Stars, Flowers & Clouds; Bella Bows: Oreo Black; Enamel Dots: Bell Pepper, Ice; Enamel DooDads: Cotton Candy, McIntosh

“Super”, by Shelly Jaquet.

The Color Chaos Collection has fun written all over it. What is not to love about tone-on-tone stripes with playful patterns on the other side? With every color of the rainbow represented in this collection, I love that I could pull out just the ones I needed to team up with my son’s super hero picture as Spiderman. The burst was actually really easy to create with the diagonal stripes. I started with the Ice Strandz by placing the point of the paper at the center of my paper where I wanted the burst to start. That gave me easy guide lines for the rest of my patterns. The enamel stars where then the icing on the cake.

Supplies:
Color Chaos: Ice Strandz, McIntosh Strandz, Peep Strandz, Blueberry Strandz, Words of Wisdom, Trinkets, Treasures & Text, Just Write Journaling; Enamel DooDads: Milk White, Ice, Blueberry, McIntosh; Ciao Chip: Borders, Hearts & Stars

“You Keep Me Together”, by Stephanie Buice.

For this layout of my Niece and her mom I wanted to keep things simple and allow the focus to be on the pictures. I chose a few of the Strandz papers and my background and bordered it with the Oreo Black Strandz to help make the other colors pop. I added some of the new Bella Bows at the bottom of the pictures as the finishing touch.

Supplies:
Color Chaos: Punch Strandz, Orange Strandz, Bell Pepper Strandz, Pickle Juice Strandz, Ice Strandz, Treasures & Text, Trinkets; Bella Bows: Pickle Juice, Milk White, Ice; Amorie Chipboard Alphas: White; Enamel Dots: Cotton Candy, Punch, Bell Pepper, Guacamole, Ice, Oreo Black

Unlimited Inspiration: Simply Spring Collection

All this week, we will continue to provide you with endless inspiration with never-before-seen projects that were featured in our CHA Winter booth display. Our Design Team has been very busy creating oodles of project ideas with all of the new collections and products, and we are excited to finally share them with you!

“Easter 2008”, by Katie Rose.

This simply spring line is perfect for Easter Hunt pictures! We live in New Hampshire and this particular Easter was very cold. I love that I can pair these photos with these papers and make them feel more like spring. The chipboard that coordinates with this line is adorable. I love that bunny!

Supplies:
Simply Spring: Gingham, Borders, Sunshine, Hippity Hop, Eggstravaganza, Treasures & Text, Chipboard Icons; Ciao Chip: Borders; Enamel Dots: Bell Pepper

“Only a Mothers Love”, by Jen Chesnick.

For this layout I knew I wanted to use this overly large photo of my daughter. I trimmed it down to roughly 9x11. The chipboard of Simply Spring really is my favorite item of the whole collection, so I used up quite a bit of my remaining pieces. I mixed in some fussy cut pieces from the daily details sheet to add some more layers.

Supplies:
Simply Spring: Patchwork, Hippity Hop, Gingham Green, Daily Details, Treasures &Text, Trinkets, Chipboard Icons, Woodgrain Clear Cut; Felt Bows: Cotton Candy; Ciao Chip: Borders, Flowers & Clouds

“Spring Chick”, by Brook Stewart.

I love how the new lines like Simply Spring have so many coordinating embellishment options! The new felt bows and enamel dots have to be at the top of my favorite list for this release!

Supplies:
Simply Spring: Hippity Hop, Sunshine, Daily Details, Borders, Treasures & Text, Trinkets, Chipboard Icons; Enamel Dots: Milk White, Ice, Punch; Bella Bows: Gulf; Ciao Chip: Borders

“Fun Times”, by Stephanie Buice.

The new Simply Spring collection is such a fun take on a spring and Easter theme. I like the colors and the cute little hedgehog, so perfect! For this layout I chose to show that even though the collection is filled with girly colors it can still be used for some fun boy pages.

Supplies:
Simply Spring: Gingham, Daily Details, Borders, Sunshine, Treasures & Text, Trinkets, Chipboard Icons, Woodgrain Clear Cuts; Ciao Chip: Borders; Enamel Dots: Bell Pepper, Milk White; Amorie Chipboard Alphas: White

“Adventure” card, by Shellye McDaniel.

This journal card is so adorable and I didn’t want to take away from the simplicity of the design. I added a trio of chipboard clouds and then accented each with an enamel heart.

Supplies:
Simply Spring: Eggstravaganza, Daily Details, Chipboard Icons; Ciao Chip: Flowers & Clouds; Enamel DooDads: Bell Pepper

“Easter Chick” card, by Shellye McDaniel.

Try adding a sampling of a Side “A” patterned paper by die-cutting a large circle of it and using it as a focal point on a card.  Add embellishments to the side of the paper so that the pattern will remain the focus.

Supplies:
Simply Spring: Gingham, Eggstravaganza, Borders, Treasures & Text, Chipboard Icons; Bella Bows: Cotton Candy

Unlimited Inspiration: Color Chaos Collection

Before we get started, I wanted to give you all a head's up about a little something that's coming soon. I know a lot of you have been patiently waiting for us to announce our next design team call, and it's just about that time! We will be announcing our 2015 Design Team call very, very soon! Be on the lookout for all of the info and important details, right here on the Bella blog.

All this week, we will continue to provide you with endless inspiration with never-before-seen projects that were featured in our CHA Winter booth display. Our Design Team has been very busy creating oodles of project ideas with all of the new collections and products, and we are excited to finally share them with you!

“Cherish Today & Love”, by Shelly Jaquet.

It was like the stars, or should I say flowers, aligned for me on this page. The floral print on the B-side of Punch Strandz was the perfect match to my daughter’s shirt in these pictures. And you can only imagine my excitement when I saw the coordinating Ciao Chipboard flowers. This page just fell together from there.

Supplies:
Color Chaos: Punch Strandz, Peeps Strandz, Words of Wisdom, Daily Details, Treasure & Text, Just Write Journaling; Ciao Chip: Flowers & Clouds, WhatNots; Amorie Chipboard Alpha: Guacamole

“Always Be A Ray Of Sunshine”, by Stephanie Buice.

My niece Kimberly is one of my favorite subjects to scrap about, her girly pictures are always a nice change from my usual boy pictures of Brady. For this layout I challenged myself to use as many of the Crochet hearts as I possibly could and I love how it turned out! I used them at the top of my page kind of like a flower garden of colors, drawing your eye downwards to my pictures. Since they are usually a little out of my comfort zone it was nice to do something different. 

Supplies:
Color Chaos: Treasures & Text, Orange Strandz, Bell Pepper Strandz, Oreo Black Strandz, Pickle Juice Strandz, Cotton Candy Strandz; Ciao Chips: WhatNots; Amorie Chipboard Alphas: Peep; Enamel Dots: Oreo Black, Guacamole, Milk White, Bell Pepper; Crochet Hearts: Punch, Cotton Candy, Pickle Juice, Orange, Scallop, Ice, Gulf, Bell Pepper

“Fierce”, by Brook Stewart.

The Color Chaos line is one of my favorites this release. I love the bright bold colors and patterns that Bella Blvd is so well known for! It went perfectly with this pic of my “Fierce” girl!

Supplies:
Color Chaos: Scallop Strandz, Color Chaos Daily Details, Treasures & Text, Just Write Journaling, Ciao Chip: Hearts & Stars, Symbols, Borders; Enamel Dots: Bell Pepper, Blueberry, Ice; Bella Bows: McIntosh

Unlimited Inspiration: Campout Collection

All this week, we will continue to provide you with endless inspiration with never-before-seen projects that were featured in our CHA Winter booth display. Our Design Team has been very busy creating oodles of project ideas with all of the new collections and products, and we are excited to finally share them with you!

“Fishy Fishy”, by Shelly Jaquet.

Once I set eyes on the Gone Fishing pattern paper, I knew exactly which picture I wanted to use on it. Aren’t they just the cutest little fish, and the fisher-girl is pretty cute too if I do say so myself! And the new enamel dots make the perfect little bubbles to accompany those little chipboard fish.

Supplies:
Campout: Gone Fishing, Let’s Go Camping, Trail Mix, Borders, Daily Details, Chipboard Icons, Trinkets, Treasures & Text; Ciao Chip: Borders; Enamel Dots: Blueberry

“Campfire Cones”, by Jen Chesnick.

Camping is something we do and I was very excited to finally see another Bella camping collection. The papers are adorable and that little bear in the chipboard set is awesome. I knew I wanted to create something with trees, so I cut out tree shapes and lined them with foam. I used twine to create my hanging line and used pop dots to pop up the enamel dots.

Supplies:
Campout: Lets Go Camping, In the Woods, Treasures & Text, Trinkets, Chipboard Icons; Enamels DooDads: Bell Pepper; Enamels Dots: Blueberry

“Life Is Good” card, by Laurie Schmidlin.

I am so excited about this collection! Our family loves to camp as well as hiking, fishing, and other outdoor activities and this collection embodies all of those things! Having four boys, I can also see using this collection for cards! I chose to create a card that can be used for almost any occasion. I used one of the new Clear Cuts papers (positioned over white cardstock), as well as some coordinating Ciao Chip chipboard pieces.

Supplies:
Campout: Daily Details, In the Woods, Under the Stars, Treasures & Text, Bear Tracks Clear Cut, Chipboard Icons

Unlimited Inspiration: Star Student Collection

We hope you've been enjoying all of the project inspiration we've shared over the last two weeks! We're not done yet though! All this week, we will continue to provide you with endless inspiration with never-before-seen projects that were featured in our CHA Winter booth display. Our Design Team has been very busy creating oodles of project ideas with all of the new collections and products, and we are excited to finally share them with you!

“Student of the Month”, by Katie Rose.

I knew I wanted to highlight just one photo on this layout so I paired it with one of the journaling cards on the Daily Details patterned paper. Below that I added several strips from the Borders patterned paper. To finish it off I added lots of chipboard and some journaling.

Supplies:
Start Student: Geek Chic, Borders, School Yard, Daily Details, Treasures & Text, Trinkets, Chipboard Icons, Borders; Enamel DooDads: McIntosh

“School Time”, by Lisa Dickinson.

A grid of circles was a great way to showcase some of the cute embellishments in the Star Student collection. I layered punched papers with chipboard, stickers, Felt Bows, and other fun pieces. To keep my circles from looking like they were floating on the background, I layered a strip of Clear Cuts behind the grid and stitched it in place.

Supplies:
Star Student: International Studies, Art Journal, Brainiac, Chemistry, Schoolyard, Daily Details, Treasures & Text, Trinkets, Art Journal Clear Cuts, Chipboard Icons; Felt Bows: Bell Pepper, Pickle Juice; Enamel DooDads: Bell Pepper, Ice; Enamel Dots: Bell Pepper, Ice, Macintosh

“Preschool Besties”, by Becki Adams.

The Star Student collection is perfect for Middle School and High School Students but it’s also great for documenting memories of kids in Preschool and Elementary School. I wanted to tell the story of how these two kiddos are best friends in Preschool. The Star Student collection worked perfectly. I love the International Studies patterned paper. It makes a perfect background to document all school memories.

Supplies:
Star Student: Art Journal, Schoolyard, Chemistry, Borders, Daily Details, Treasures & Text, Trinkets, Chipboard Icons, Teachers Pet Invisibles; Amorie Chipboard Alphas: Blueberry, McIntosh

“Dedicated Teacher” card, by Laurie Schmidlin.

The new Star Student collection is probably my favorite out of all the new collections! I have three kids in school and it seems that I am always in need of cards for one of their teachers, so that is one of the first projects I made. I used two one of the patterned papers for the background and then layered on one of the Daily Details trimmed down a little. The alphabet stickers are from the Treasures & Text sheet and the other stickers are from the coordinating Star Student Trinkets. I added some of the new McIntosh Enamel Dots and a star from the Oreo Black Enamel DooDads.

Supplies:
Star Student: Borders, Daily Details, Treasures & Text, Trinkets, Chipboard Icons; Enamel Dots: McIntosh; Enamel DooDads: Oreo Black

“Star Student” card, by Laurie Schmidlin.

One of my favorite things about the new Star Student collection is that it can be used for younger students (Elementary aged) as well as older ones! For this card, I started with some polka dot paper (the back side of the Art Journal sheet). I layered on a slightly smaller piece of the Art Journal Clear Cut paper. I wanted it to look like it was floating on top of it so I only used adhesive under the black star paper. For the focal image, I created an award ribbon with a star chipboard piece, punched out circles, and some black ribbon.

Supplies:
Star Student: Borders, Daily Details, Chemistry, Art Journal, Art Journal Clear Cut, Treasures & Text, Chipboard Icons

Star Student Tag Book, by Laurie Schmidlin.

I wanted to create a little fold out card that contained several tags. I thought that the tags could be used for bookmarks. I started by adhering two pieces of black cardstock together. I created pockets by stitching on pieces of Typewriter Clear Cut paper. With so many coordinating Star Student products available, embellishing was super easy!  I also added some Enamel Dots for embellishment.

Supplies:
Star Student: Daily Details, Chemistry, Geek Chic, Brainiac, Art Journal, Treasures & Text, Chipboard Icons, Typewriter Clear Cut, Trinkets; Enamel Dots: Oreo Black, Milk White

Unlimited Inspiration: More Clear Cuts & Invisibles

We hope you're ready to be inspired! We are back this week, providing you with endless inspiration with never-before-seen projects that were featured in our CHA Winter booth display. Our Design Team has been very busy creating oodles of project ideas with all of the new collections and products, and we are excited to finally share them with you!

“Super Star”, by Lisa Dickinson.

Because there were so many great patterns in this collection, I wanted to include as many as possible! To do that, I used white borders around the star shapes to help separate the patterns and keep the look clean and crisp. I also used vellum circles under the star clusters to unify the groupings. The alphabet Clear Cut layered over the blue background adds another layer of texture and helps reinforce my school theme.

Supplies:
Star Student: International Studies, Art Journal, Brainiac, Schoolyard, Daily Details, Treasures & Text, Chipboard Icons, Typewriter Clear Cut; Ciao Chip: Hearts & Stars

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“Adventure”, by Brook Stewart.

We just started camping with some friends this last summer, so I was thrilled to see a camping line in the new Bella Blvd line-up! I love the new invisibles and wanted to do something fun with this cute tree patterned one. I traced the outline of the invisible shape onto the green paper and cut it out. Then I cut off a section from both pieces, leaving the green side a little larger. I attached them with my regular adhesive so that they lined up evenly and added a border strip over the seam so it doesn’t show. Then I just layered everything else on top!

Supplies:
Campout: Woodlands Invisible, Let’s Go Camping, Daily Details, Borders, Treasures & Text, Trinkets, Chipboard Icons; Enamel Dots: Blueberry, Ice, Bell Pepper; Enamel DooDads: Bell Pepper

“Seriously Cute”, by Brook Stewart.

I ADORE the new Clear Cuts Transparencies. Especially because they are polka dots and come in SO many colors! I love the different combinations you can make just making strips side by side. I found 5 colors that matched these photos of my girl in her winter gear out in the snow, cut them into 2 inch strips and instantly had an amazing background. Paired with the basic colors of the Color Chaos line, you cannot go wrong!

Supplies:
Clear Cuts: Punch Confetti, Pickle Juice Confetti, Gulf Confetti, Oreo Confetti, White Confetti; Color Chaos: Oreo Black Strandz, Peep Strandz, Treasures & Text, Just Write Journaling, Trinkets; Ciao Chip: Borders; Enamel Dots: Punch, Ice, Milk White; Enamel DooDads: Guacamole; Bella Bows: Punch

“Keep the Wild In You” treat box, by Laurie Schmidlin.

For this treat box, I die cut the box shape using a metal die and the new Oreo Confetti Clear Cut sheet. I decorated it using a piece of Gulf Strandz (from the Color Chaos Collection) and a coordinating Just Write Journaling Sticker.

Supplies:
Clear Cut: Oreo Confetti; Color Chaos: Gulf Strandz, Just Write Journaling Stickers

Pink Flower treat box, by Laurie Schmidlin.

The new Clear Cuts are so easy to work with! They cut like butter and crease so easily, making them perfect for creating treat boxes! I die cut the box shape out of the Punch Confetti Clear Cut sheet and then used a clear, strong adhesive to glue it together. I decorated it using a piece of Punch Strands paper (from the new Color Chaos collection) and a Just Write Journaling Sticker.

Supplies:
Clear Cuts: Punch Confetti; Color Chaos: Peep Strandz, Just Write Journaling Stickers

Spring Carrot treat box, by Laurie Schmidlin.

Nothing says spring like Jelly beans! And what cuter way to package them than with some of the new Clear Cuts sheets, giving everyone a peek at what’s inside? I cut out the carrot shaped box and adhered it together using some strong, clear glue. I added a piece of white cardstock to the bottom of the carrot box. I found that it helped the pretty orange dots stand out a bit more. I decorated the box using items from the Simply Spring collection.

Supplies:
Clear Cuts: Orange Confetti; Simply Spring: Gingham, Treasures & Text, Trinkets, Chipboard Icons