Bella Blvd Studio Blog: On-Going Guest Designers: Sarah Klemish & Kryssi Ng

Back in September, when we were choosing our new Design Team, we had a group of talented designers that we just couldn't pass up. So we added a special team of On-going Guest Designers, that will joining us here on the blog throughout the year, along with the rest of our Design Team. Each month, we will feature two of these designers, which means they'll each be joining us three times over the next year. I'm excited to introduce you to our next set of fabulous designers, Sarah Klemish and Kryssi Ng.

In the scrapbook world I am known as “Sarahak”, in the real world I am Sarah Klemish (wife, mother, daughter, sister). I still remember the first Creative Memories class I took 10 years ago – cardstock and pictures cut in funky shapes! I still treasure those layouts but since then my style has changed. I am typically what is known as a “simple” scrapper. Straight lines, white space and sewing, that sums it up. I am currently designing for Creative Memories (talk about coming full circle)! I have been published in Scrapbook Trends and was on the Better Homes and Gardens Scrapbook Etc. team for a year. I still do work for Scrapbooks Etc. and get published with them regularly. Love the hobby, love the people and love being asked to participate on fun projects! Thanks Bella Blvd!

"Max Lovely", by Sarah Klemish.

My oldest son Max was thrilled to have to put on a suit for his Aunt’s wedding (and I am not being sarcastic – he WAS excited). Of course I had to get some shots of him looking so handsome and grown up! I am totally obsessed with black cardstock these days. I love how it makes the Bella colors pop and it works great with all the lines. Here I started with the black background and then center a piece of white cardstock on that. Then I pulled out the Lovey Dovey collection and got to work.

I then covered half of the white cardstock with a piece of the Bear Hugs paper – the fun word search graph side! After adding the picture I cut a corner out of the Love Is In The Air paper and sewed it to the corner. I added a heart sticker to the corner.

I then ran a border of the Borders N Blocks paper across the bottom of the center papers, overlapping the picture. I pop dotted a border sticker directly under my photo. I added 3 of the Cute Cuts flowers to the left of my picture. I used pop dots to add the Cute cuts heart. I added the title using Simply Simona Chipboard Letters (Oyster). Buttons, journaling strips…done.

Supplies:
Lovey Dovey: Bear Hugs, Borders N Blocks, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Cute Cuts, Love Is In The Air; Simply Simona Chipboard Alphas: Oyster

"Raindrops", by Sarah Klemish.

I really have been taking a walk down memory lane and scrapping some older pictures of my kids. In these pictures my son Max (who is now almost 14) was enjoying a late summer rain at his cousins. You know at this age (4) any reason to get out the umbrella is a good thing! The Spring Flings & Easter Things collection was perfect for this layout! I started with a neutral background and basically centered my layout on that. After adding a block of graph paper I added two 4x6 photos (cutting one down slightly and overlapping on the full size picture). I then added a thick strip of the Mom’s Bouquet paper (rounding the top left corner only), overlapping the two pictures. Up top I pop dotted a turquoise scallop sticker running the length of the graph paper. I then added a red heart (with pop dots) from the Cute Cuts paper on to the border.

After cutting a circle from the Sunny Sunday paper and adhering it to the left side of my main picture, I added (with pop dots) the cute frog from the Cute Cuts paper. Using pop dots (can you tell I love them!) I added the “Raindrops falling on my head” sticker from the Alpha + Bits Stickers. To complete the layout I added a few journaling strips and some clear buttons!

Supplies:
Spring Flings and Easter Things: Mom’s Bouquet; Alpha+Bits Stickers; Cute Cuts; Sunny Sunday; Quattrofino Alpha Stickers: Milk and Oreo

"It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas", by Sarah Klemish.

I love this older picture of my son visiting our local Santa house with his preschool class - notice not one of the kids is looking at the camera! Typical and so funny. I love the fun whimsical feel of the Christmas Wishes line! I really wanted the focus to be on the picture so I made it extra large! Above the picture I sewed two blue strips cut from the stripe. I then added the “December 25” sticker tab with pop dots. Under the picture I used the “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” sticker from the Alpha + Bits Stickers (cutting the word “Christmas” from the sticker and adding pop dots).

I used the chipboard “Christmas” letters from the Chipboard Icons to complete the title (pop dotting the chipboard heart to dot the “I”). After adding a pop dotted yellow scalloped sticker (Spring Flings and Easter Things Alpha + Bits Stickers) and red stripe sticker (Winter Wonderland Alpha + Bits Stickers) under my title I added a pop dotted chipboard Christmas tree! Super fast and easy (and I love that I was able to use 2 non-Christmas Bella lines on a Christmas layout)!

Supplies:
Christmas Wishes: Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Chipboard Icons; Spring Flings and Easter Things: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Winter Wonder: Alpha+Bits Stickers

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I live in NYC with my husband and two little girls. I started doodling and drawing at a young age and pursued an education in fine arts. That lifelong passion eventually led me into the world of paper crafting and graphic designing. Most of my waking hours are dedicated to tending to my family but on the small window of free time on some days -- you can find me in my room making cards (and sometimes scrapbooking a layout) or tinkering around with Photoshop/Illustrator. Anything but cleaning!

"Birthday Wishes" card, Kryssi Ng.

I love pretty much all the Cute Cuts in the Bella Blvd lines. As a cardmaker primarily, it's a quick and easy solution when I'm in a rut or in a rush. The images are all ready to use, just snip and adhere onto a card base. I love the bright, happy colors against a plain white card. Simple and charming! I added a bit of twine on the handle to give it a bit of deptth of texture.

Supplies:
Spring Flings and Easter Things: Cute Cuts; Miniatures

"Get Well Soon" card, by Kryssi Ng.

For this card, I focused on making a more masculine card. There are so many beautiful browns and blues in the Winter Wonderland line, piecing together the coordinating papers was simple enough. I just had to throw in a red twine to finish off the card! Brown, aqua and red is one of my favorite go-to color combinations!

Supplies:
Winter Wonderland: Alpha+Bits, Just Write, Miniatures, Toasty, Ski Slopes

"Happy Winter" card, by Kryssi Ng.

I'm not much of a layer-er. I like my cards clean and simple, and a little graphic. Love the graphic geometric patterns found in this collection -- works really well in backgrounds for cards! The trees were cut out and adhered. Red bling finished off this card.

Supplies:
Winter Wonderland: Cute Cuts, Miniatures, Ski Slopes

"Remember", by Kryssi Ng.

Layouts are always a challenge for me, I admit! But still, I make a huge attempt at it anyway! :) I tried to go messy, but the OCD in me ended up aligning things and making sure every splatter was perfect. In the end, I kinda like it -- and I love the bright colors that the Winter Wonderland lines added to my muted photo.

Supplies:
Winter Wonderland: Alpha+Bits, Blizzard, Borders, Just Write, Miniatures, Ski Slopes