Bella Blvd Studio Blog: On-Going Guest Designers: Brook Stewart, Jodi Wilton, Juliana Michaels, Ebony van der Starre, Ann-Christin Larsen

When we were choosing our 2012-2013 Design Team back in September, we had a few additional designers that we just weren't ready to pass up. So just like last year, we decided to invite these designers to join our team this year as On-Going Guest Designers. They will be sharing projects with us every other month, and we are excited to share their work with you.

“Crazy Morning Hair”, by Brook Stewart.

I just love how my daughter’s polka dot pj's coordinated perfectly with the Kiss Me line. I knew I wanted to use the pics with the line right away! I had a lot of fun tucking bits of paper, journaling tags and stickers here and there for a layered look!

Supplies:
Kiss Me: Mustache Love, Bouquet Kisses, Flutter, Borders & Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Stickers; High Five Alpha Stickers: Piggy-Punch, Blue; Miniatures Stickers: Card Sentiments, Sunshine & Happiness

"I Wuv You Baby Ister" by Brook Stewart.

I really just cannot get enough of the color combination in the Kiss Me line! Definitely one of my favorites of all time! I love the small hint of yellow in the Love Notes chevron paper, so I pulled out a bit more with the yellow chevron Designer Tape! The hearts on the Love Notes paper were just begging to be cut out. I used 2 different sized hole punches on some small scraps of the papers I had cut and sprinkled them on until I liked the look and glued them down!

Supplies:
Kiss Me: True Love, Love Notes, Borders & Cute Cuts; High Five Alpha Stickers: Piggy-Punch; Family Dynamics: Quadrants; Baby Girl: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Designer Tape: Yellow Chevron

“I {Heart} Winter”, by Jodi Wilton.

I couldn't resist playing with the Winter Wonder collection, after our first big snow fall in Canada! I loved the “I {HEART} Winter” card from the Cute Cuts sheet, and decided to use that as my title. To make it stand out more, I stitched around the heart with embroidery thread. I also wanted to incorporate lots of the blue buttons, and decided to make a patter at the bottom of my main photo!

Supplies:
Winter Wonder: Borders, Ski Slopes, Cute Cuts, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Miniatures; Button Market: Blues

“8 Months Luvable”, by Jodi Wilton.

I absolutely love the colors in the Kiss Me Collection, and thought I would play it up with a cute picture of my daughter when she was 8 months old. I used my Silhouette SD to cut up the chevron circles and backed them with a white die-cut doily. I then layered lots of fun die cut hearts as well as cute stickers from the Alpha+Bits sticker sheet.

Supplies:
Kiss Me: Flutter, Love Notes, True Love, Borders & Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Ice; Sienna Chipboard Alphas: Punch; High Five Alphabet Stickers: Blue

“Party Time”, by Jodi Wilton.

I was excited to finally play with the Birthday Boy line! I once again, loved the colors in this line, and they matched perfectly for my son's 6th birthday. The chipboard Icons are super cute and provided the perfect embellishment to stick the Birthday Boy Flags. I used some Button Market Blues Buttons, but I decided to punch little cupcakes from the Eat Cake paper and fit them on top of the button!

Supplies:
Birthday Boy: About A Boy, Borders, Toadilly Cool, Eat Cake, Chipboard Icons, Birthday Boy Flags 1, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Button Market: Pickle Squares, Blues; Sienna Chipboard Alphas: Blueberry; Simply Simona Chipboard Numbers: White

“Celebrating With Friends”, by Juliana Michaels.

My husband had a surprise birthday party for me and this is a group photo of our guests. I love how some of us went all out when Danny asked us to make crazy faces for the camera! The layout came together easily using some strips of patterned paper and tape. I especially enjoyed fussy cutting the frog from the Cute Cuts paper to add as a decorative element.

Supplies:
Birthday Boy: About A Boy, Toadilly Cool, Eat Cake, Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Thankful: Alpha+Bits Stickers; High Five Alpha Stickers: Gulf; Designer Tape: Orange Stripe, Pickle Juice

“Eat More Cake”, by Juliana Michaels.

No birthday party is complete without a birthday cake. For this layout, I again did some fussy cutting and used the cake image from the Cute Cuts paper as a decorative element on the layout. I created the flower elements by punching images from the All About You patterned paper and layering them with double sided foam tape for more dimension.

Supplies:
Birthday Boy: All For You, About A Boy, Just A Note, Eat Cake, Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Birthday Girl: Miles Of Smiles, Party Dress; Thankful: Perfect Day

“Sand Castles”, by Ebony van der Starre.

As it is summer here in Australia and I wanted to create a fun, bright summery layout! One of my all-time favorite Bella Blvd products are the Alpha+Bits sticker sheets. On this layout I have used a variety of these to create the majority of my layout. I often cut them up, use them as frames and journaling spots, or just great layering pieces for my layout. I love mixing up new and past collections too.

Supplies:
Sunny Happy Skies: Alpha+Bits Stickers, Blurb Stickers; Birthday Boy: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Family Dynamix: Just Write Journaling Stickers; Hello Beautiful: Blurb Stickers; Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Surf & Turf; Simply Simona Chipboard Alphas: Saltwater, McIntosh, Oyster; High Five Alpha Stickers: Black-White; Designer Tape: Yellow Chevron, Jailbird; Button Market: Gulf Squared

“You Are My Favorite Little Lady”, by Ebony van der Starre.

I am a scrapper who loves to use whatever I can place my hands on! I love working with various scraps of patterned papers all varying in color and patterns. This layout is a collective of scraps of my favorite papers, stickers and embellishments.

Supplies:
Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Chlorine, Sprinkles & Lace Apricot; Hello Beautiful: Borders & Blocks, Thanks A Bunch; Birthday Girl: Miles Of Smiles, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Birthday Boy: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Kiss Me: Bouquet Kisses, Mustache Love; High Five Alpha Stickers: Gulf, Pink-Red, Green; Baby Blooms A Bella: Azzini; Ciao Chip Elements: Trees; Designer Tape: Pink Stripe, Orange Stripe, Pickle Juice Dot, Yellow Chevron

"Please Don’t Grow Up", by Ann-Christin Larsen.

I actually love wigs! I have a bunch of them, in different shapes and colors. This is my son, Ludvik, who had to try on one of my red haired wigs. We had a good laugh. I also love summer layouts and all those bright colors in the Birthday Boy collection.

Supplies:
Birthday Boy: Streamers, Eat Cake; Sunshine & Happiness: Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Quattrofina Alpha Stickers: Milk & Oreo

"Fresh", by Ann-Christin Larsen.

In January I became an aunt for the first time! She is just devine and I love to catch the moments when she is so tiny and fresh. This is a clean and simple layout, and I think it brings out the picture in a soft way using only some small details.

Supplies:
Sunshine & Happiness: Miniatures Stickers; Birthday Girl: Party Dress ; Ciao Chip Elements: Borders, Stars & Hearts; Quattrofina Alpha Stickers: Mustard & Apricot

"Life", by Ann-Christin Larsen.

I am a daydreamer. When I was little I was dreaming about living in the middle age, with all the dresses, queens and drama:) I still daydream, but now it’s about life and memories that I have shared with family and friends.

Supplies:
Birthday Boy: Eat Cake, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Oyster, Calendars; Ciao Chip Elements: Trees, Stars & Hearts; Birthday Girl: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sunshine & Happiness: Miniatures Stickers