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May Guest Designer: Roree Rumph

We are so excited to introduce our May Guest Designer to you today. Roree Rumph is an extremely talented designer in the industry, and we knew she would come up with some gorgeous projects using our Kiss Me collection and our Love and Marriage collection. 

Hi, everyone! Let me just start off by saying that I am so excited to be guesting on the Bella Blvd blog this month! Here is a little bit about me:

I live in Daphne, Alabama with my husband David, our two daughters Grace and Harper, our dogs Hank and Phoenix, and our cat Ninja. I started paper crafting in 2005, when I decided to make my daughter's 5th birthday invitations instead of buying them, and my love for this hobby took off like a rocket from there.

Most people know me as a card maker, but every once and a while I do a little altering or put together a page or two. I consider my style clean & cutesy (which seems to work so well with Bella Blvd products!) I love adding lots of little details and some form of hand or machine stitching to most of my projects. (I actually learned to sew because of paper crafting!)

I have been pretty blessed with this hobby. I have worked for a handful of manufacturers and had my work featured in a number of publications. It has ultimately led to a new career with Northridge Publishing. I am the editor of Cricut Magazine^® and Cricut Magazine^® Idea Books. (So to all of you Cricut crafters—submit, submit, submit! ;) )

I received the super-cute Kiss Me and Love and Marriage collections, along with some Freestyle Sophisticates products, and got right to work!

"Love This Girl" by Roree Rumph.

Since I am not much of a scrapbooker, I tackled the layout first. I absolutely fell in love with the B side of Bouquet Kisses from the Kiss Me collection, so I used it for the background of my layout about my daughter, Harper. I then added paper strips from Borders & Cute Cuts, mixed and matched chipboard and cardstock letter stickers for my title, and added a few extra details with hand-cut flowers, cardstock stickers, some white twill ribbon, and a couple of jewels, brads, and a button. I am just crazy about the color combo of this collection!

"I Love You" by Roree Rumph.

Again, I used the Border & Cute Cuts strips from the Kiss Me collection for the background of my card, along with a strip of green Chevron Tape. I added a a cardstock label and letter stickers for the sentiment, along with a brad, jewel, and pink baker's twine to finish. The images in this collection are so fun and playful, and I absolutely love them!

"Hello Beautiful" by Roree Rumph.

For this card, I used the Love and Marriage collection. The colors in this collection are so soft and pretty. I used the B side of the Turner Hall Ballroom paper for the background and layered cardstock stickers and a strip from the Borders paper on the center of the card. I was dying to create a flower using the Crochet Hearts, so I did that and finished it by layering a flower cut from the Cute Cuts paper, a button and jewel, and some strips of ribbon for the leaves. Aren't those Crochet Hearts the cutest?!

"Bride & Groom" by Roree Rumph.

For this card, I got out my Cricut Expression^® machine and Sweethearts cartridge to create this cute little car and couple silhouette with the Love and Marriage collection. I used the B sides of the Cute Cuts and Borders papers for the car. And instead of cutting out the bumper, I used a cardstock sticker from the Alpha+Bits sheet. I took the pin off "Bride&Groom" flag to use it as the license plate on the car, and added the "Love" pennant stickers from the Alpha+Bits sheet in place of the cans. I placed it over a May Eighteenth paper panel, doubled up strips of green Chevron Tape, and a scalloped cardstock border sticker. I think this would be such a cute card for any couple getting married!

"Flower Jar Favor" by Roree Rumph.

I have been totally obsessed with jelly jars lately. So for my last project, I decided to create a cute little favor with the Love and Marriage and Freestyle Sophisticates collections. I found this cute little wide-mouth jelly jar at my local home improvement store. I used my Cricut Expression^® 2 and Sweet Treats cartridge to create a layered flower for the top of the jar. I added a cardstock sticker and button to the center and two green Crochet Hearts underneath the flower to finish. I then hand cut a tag from the Smokeys In Love paper, added initials in the heart, and tied the tag to the jar with some green ribbon. It would be perfect for a wedding favor or for any number of other special occasion (birthdays, picnics, etc.)

I hope you enjoyed the projects I shared with you today as much as I enjoyed creating them with these beautiful Bella Blvd products. Thanks so much to everyone at Bella Blvd for having me!

Wedding Celebration Week: Day One

This coming weekend is going to be a very exciting time for Stephanie, as her big wedding day is finally just days away! We thought we would spend the days leading up to her special wedding day sharing wedding layouts from out entire design team. And not just any wedding layouts, but layouts using photos from our own weddings. I think we have all enjoyed traveling down memory lane as we dug out photos for these layouts. Each designer is also sharing a few tidbits of marriage advice from our own personal experience.

“Our Wedding Day”, by Sheri Reguly.

After nearly 18 years of marriage, the best piece of advice that I can offer you is not to sweat the small stuff, and to look at the “big picture.” Focus on the positive, and all the wonderful things that you share together. Don’t allow your little disagreements, or the pet peeves that you have about the other person to become a bigger deal than they actually are. It’s kinda like raising a child...you have to pick your battles. You can’t always get upset about the crayon on the wall or the spilled milk on the floor. I guess what I’m trying to say is, don’t waste your energy arguing about the silly things. Save it for when he really peeves you off!!!

Supplies:
Love and Marriage: Vows, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Wedding Day Miniatures; Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Saltwater; Kiss Me: Flutter, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Birthday Boy: Streamers; Baby Boy: Momma’s Boy; High Five Alpbabet Stickers: Gulf, Piggy-Punch; Flags: Love & Marriage

“Wedding”, by Yohko Takiguchi.

Congratulations for your marriage, Stephanie! As a proverb in Japan says, “Children are a link between husband and wife.” I do believe sharing something common as topics between husband and wife is a key point for happy married life. Anyway, please enjoy your marital life. 

Supplies: 
Love and Marriage: Vows, Turner Hall Ballroom, Smokeys In Love, Esther Fleming Floral, Cake Tasting, Borders, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Wedding Chipboard Icons; Engaged At Last: Alpha+Bits Stickers, Miniatures; Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Cotton Candy

“I Love You”, by Carina Lindholm.

My best advice for a good marriage and relationship is to make time for each other. Have fun and laugh often.

Supplies:
Love and Marriage: Smokeys In Love, Cute Cuts, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Crochet Hearts: Punch; Designer Tape: Cotton Candy Chevron, Blue Chevron, Pickle Juice Stripe, Grey Chevron, Polka Dot Combo, Grey Dot, Pickle Juice Dot

"The Reveal", by Jenny Evans.

Always, always communicate. I couldn't imagine going a day without talking to my husband! Be it serious discussions or joking and laughing all day, you have to talk to your partner!! I am lucky enough to be married to my best friend, and he can make me laugh to tears today just as he did when we first met! So, communication and laughter are 2 key factors to staying happy for a very long time.

Supplies:
Love and Marriage: Cute Cuts, Esther Fleming Floral, Vows, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Wedding Day Miniatures, Chipboard Icons; Sienna Chipboard Alphas: Frosting; Designer Tape: Cotton Candy Chevron; Button Market: Aqua Flowers, Neutral Mix; Flags: Love & Marriage

"On This Day", by Leanne Allinson.

My Grandmother told me never to go to bed angry with your husband. Always resolve your differences before the day ends and if you can't do that at least be on speaking terms. After fourteen years of marriage this year, I must have held that piece of advice in my heart because my husband and I have never had an argument that we couldn't settle. Take turns listening to each other especially if and when children are welcomed into your family. All the very best Stephanie, for a long and happy marriage!

Supplies:
Love and Marriage: Esther Fleming Floral, May Eighteenth, Vows, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Wedding Day Miniatures, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Pickle Juice; Crochet Hearts: Pickle Juice 

Cards On Thursdays

It's all about cards here on the Bella blog today. I happen to come across all of these cards in my files that we hadn't gotten around to sharing yet. It's a shame they were just waiting around, considering how cute they all are!

"Mine 2 Love" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

I would like to pat myself on the back for using 3 different Bella Blvd lines with the crochet flowers on this card! Yep! I used a little paper from the "Kiss Me" line, stickers from "Engaged at Last", and the background paper is from the "Sand and Surf" line. Go me! Thanks for looking!

Supplies:
Kiss Me: Mustache Love, Bouquet Kisses, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sand & Surf: GPS; Engaged at Last: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Crochet Flowers: Poppy

 

"Love" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

Shame on me for not realizing how well the poppy crochet flowers go with the "Kiss Me" line! The pink in the flowers matches perfectly with the pinks in the "Kiss Me" line. I love that! Thanks for looking!

Supplies: 
Kiss Me: Bouquet Kisses, Love Notes, Flutter, Borders & Cute Cuts, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Crochet Flowers: Poppy

"You're My Fave" card, by Jenny Evans.

I knew immediately that I wanted to do an all red and pink card when I opened my Crochet Flower packs. I went straight to the Kiss Me collection and pulled out the Flutter and Cute Cuts papers. I accented with some of the new Designer Tapes from the 12mm Combo Pack. A great card to have on hand.

Supplies:
Kiss Me: Flutter, Borders and Cute Cuts; Designer Tape: 12mm Combo Pack; Crochet Flowers: Poppy

“Congrats” card, by Carina Lindholm.

On this card I have mixed the pink and blue papers from the Kiss me collection with the grey paper from the Sophisticates collection, I really love the color combination. I punched out a few stars in all the different papers and adhered then to my card mixing them with white star buttons. The grey stars are adhered using foam adhesive to make them pop of the card.

Supplies:
Kiss Me: Flutter, Borders; Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Oyster, Miniatures Card Sentiments Stickers; Button Market: Stars

“Celebrate card”, by Carina Lindholm.

I went a little crazy with my butterfly punch when I was making this card. I punched out butterflies in different colors and sizes, using papers from the Birthday Boy collection. And then I adhered them all over my card. And to make my card just a tad more festive, I adhered a gold pearl on all the butterflies.

Supplies:
Birthday Boy: Just A Note, Borders, Chipboard Icons; Designer Tape: Orange Stripe; Button Market: Orange Stars; Flags: Birthday Boy 1

“Eat Cake” card, by Kathy Martin.

This card was an experiment in mixing tags of different sizes and zigzag stitching. I like the way the tags are arranged together and thought small accents like Bella Blvd’s Flags, a button and sticker would complement them well.

Supplies:
Birthday Boy: About A Boy, Toadilly Cool, Eat Cake, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Flags: Birthday Boy 1; Button Market: Pickle Squares

Layouts On Wednesdays

Today we have not only a few free-for-all layouts to share with you, but also a short little tutorial from one of our layout designers as well. Enjoy!

“A Little Bit Of Heaven”, by Sheri Reguly.

I love summer, and everything wonderful associated with it! We’ve been experiencing a very chilly spring in my parts of the woods, so I can’t help but dream of warmer temperatures, and sunshiny days. I couldn’t resist scrapbooking this sweet beach photo of my daughter that was taken a few years back. I choose my papers and embellishments based on the colors in my photo, as well as to reflect on the topic of my journaling.

Supplies:
Love And Marriage: May Eighteenth; Sand & Surf: Borders, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Engaged At Last: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sunshine & Happiness: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sophisticates: Short Stories; Flags: Summer

“Cherry Berry Love”, by Malika Kelly.

This layout started out as an 8.5x11 layout (sometimes I like to mix things up in my albums). I had 3 small photos, all of the same image, but just with different finishes and I didn't think I need that much space to scrap them. As I was creating my layout, I felt a little cramped and that I needed to expand a bit. I pulled out a 12x12 sheet of the Sophisticates line in a coordinating color, added some ink drops and let my journaling strips spill over the edge and easily turned this in to a 12x12 layout. Sometimes it is easy to start small and turn it in to something bigger as you go!

Supplies:
Kiss Me: Love Notes, Borders & Cute Cuts; Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle McIntosh; Baby Boy: Momma's Boy; Sienna Chipboard Alphas: Pickle Juice; High Five Alpha Stickers: Pink-Red, Green; Designer Tape: Gray Dot; Button Market: Red Flowers, Pickle Squares 

"Love That Awesome Hair", by Becki Adams.

I love the new collections from Bella because once again they are so versatile. Even though these collections are centered around engagement and marriage they also have great "b" sides that can be used in so many different ways. I chose to use them for a baby layout.

Supplies:
Love and Marriage: May Eighteenth, Smokeys in Love, Turner Hall Ballroom, Esther Fleming Floral, Chipboard Icons; Kiss Me: Alpha+Bits Stickers; High Five Alpha Stickers: Gulf, Pink-Red; Designer Tape: 12 mm Combo, Chevron Combo; Feathers: Cotton Candy 

“So Many of My Smiles”, by Gina Lideros.

I had these bright cheerful photos that I took of my daughter at a park several years ago and I wanted to create a colorful background to match. I love Bella's new designer tapes, the palette is so happy & bright and looks great paired with the new feathers. I also created a fun colorful title out of designer tapes by first cutting my title using my Silhouette Cameo, and then layering strips of designer tapes on strips of paper and adhering behind the title.

Step 1:  To create the clouds for this page I first trimmed several pieces of white cardstock just a little bit larger than the punch that I intended on using.

Step 2: I layered strips of Bella Blvd designer tapes on my cut pieces.

Step 3: Then I punched out the clouds and layered them on my page. I even save one of the cloud negatives and adhered it to my page. These make such cute embellishments.

Supplies:
Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Banana; Designer Tapes: Polka Dot Combo, Chevron Combo, Gray Dot, Hot Pink Dot, Yellow Chevron; Feathers: Gulf, Ice; Button Market: Stars, Orange Stars, Masculine Mix

Bella Blvd & Hampton Art Stamps

This past January, at Winter CHA, we were excited to announce that our new cling stamps would be licensed and manufactuered thru Hampton Art Stamps. The first three sets to be released coordinate with the Love and Marriage collection, Sand & Surf collection, and the Kiss Me collection.

Our Card Designers have had some time to get creative with these new stamps. We shared some cards with you yesterday and today we have another handful to share. 

“Thinking Of You” card, by Shellye McDaniel.

The inspiration for this card was brought about from looking out my kitchen window. I love to see the blue sky, bright green grass and wildflowers dotting the landscape. To create my vision, I used designer tape as a pretty outline for my window; framing the blue sky. Next, I stamped two of the flower motifs from the "Sand & Surf" stamps onto a white cardstock. I used Colorbox's Very Berry and Squash and then colored in the petals and centers with watercolor pencils and then cut out. When using a clear stamp, I like to place a thin foam mat under the paper that I'm stamping on. This really does help to ensure a nice, crisp image. 

Supplies:  
Love And Marriage: May Eighteenth; Sand & Surf: Paradise; Designer Tape: Combo; Hampton Art Stamps: Sand & Surf

“Thinking of You” card, by Laurie Schmidlin.

I am so glad the new Sand & Surf collection now has stamps. They work great as the focal image of a project or in addition to the other great elements in the collection (like Stickers and Ciao Chip pieces). For my card, I started with a couple different papers for the background. I layered on some Ciao Chip pieces and then embellished with two stamped images (the flower and arrow) as well as two different sentiments (all from the new Sand & Surf stamp set).

Supplies:
Sand & Surf: Borders, Surfs Up, Ciao Chip Icons; Button Market: Pink Flowers; Hampton Art Stamps: Sand & Surf

“Your Love Is Better Than Ice Cream” card, by Carina Lindholm.

One of my favourite songs is “Ice cream” with Sarah McLachlan. And when I saw this cute little ice cream stamp I just knew I wanted to make a card with this quote. And I used the ice cream and a scallop circle to make the O in love.

Supplies:
Love and Marriage: Turner Hall Ballroom, May Eighteenth, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Engaged At Last: Chipboard Icons; High Five Alpha Stickers: Blue; Hampton Art Stamps: Kiss Me

“I Mustache You A Question” card, by Carina Lindholm.

This quote always cracks me up! It’s just so funny and I wanted to use it on a card when I saw these cute mustache stamps. I stamped the mustaches in different colors and cut them out. I also stamped and cut out a bunch of speech bubbles. I adhered the mustaches to the speech bubbles by using pop dots to give the card some dimension.

Supplies:
High Five Alpha Stickers: Black-White; Hampton Art Stamps: Kiss Me

“Bride to Be" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

On this next card, I stamped the wedding dress image from the "Love and Marriage" set onto a sheet of patterned paper and then cut it out. I used it as an embellishment for this card by adhering it with foam adhesive to a scalloped sticker and adhering the scalloped sticker to the card also with foam adhesive. I dressed up the card a little bit by adding a few pieces of bling to the stamped dress, to dot the "i", and along the scalloped border sticker. 

Supplies:
Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Cotton Candy; Love and Marriage: Cute Cuts; Engaged at Last: Bachelorette Extras, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Engagement Chipboard Icons; Kiss Me: Flutter; Hampton Art Stamps: Love and Marriage

 

Bella Blvd & Hampton Art Stamps

This past January, at Winter CHA, we were excited to announce that our new cling stamps would be licensed and manufactuered thru Hampton Art Stamps. The first three sets to be released coordinate with the Love and Marriage collection, Sand & Surf collection, and the Kiss Me collection.

Our Card Designers have had some time to get creative with these new stamps, and we will be sharing some of those cards with you, both today and tomorrow.

“Jar Of Hearts” card, by Laurie Schmidlin.

I am so loving the new Bella stamps! For this card, I chose the new Kiss Me stamps. I stamped the four different conversation hearts in colors that coordinate with the Kiss Me collection (I adore those colors together)! I embellished the card with some Designer Tape and a White Crochet Heart.

Supplies:
Love And Marriage: Cute Cuts; Designer Tape: Cotton Candy, Polka Dot Combo; Crochet Hearts: White Hearts; Hampton Art Stamps: Kiss Me

“So Glad We’re Friends” card, by Carina Lindholm.

I have said this before but I LOVE clouds. So I was jumping up and down with joy when I saw that there are two cloud stamps in Bella Blvd’s new stamp collections. On this card I stamped the smaller cloud directly on the card and the bigger cloud I stamped on patterned paper and cut out. I adhered the clouds to the card by using pop dots.

Supplies:
Sand & Surf: GPS, Cute Cuts, Borders, Surfs Up, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Feathers: Pickle Juice; Hampton Art Stamps: Sand & Surf, Love And Marriage

“Wish You Were Here” card, by Carina Lindholm.

On this card I stamped a bunch of arrows from the sand & surf stamp set on different patterned papers. I cut them out and adhered them to the card pointing down on my sentiment.

Supplies:
Love and Marriage: May Eighteenth, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Freestyle Sophisticates: Cotton Candy, Pickle Juice, Scallop, Gulf; Designer Tape: Polka Dot Combo, Pickle Juice Stripe; Buttons Market: Checkers; Hampton Art Stamps: Sand & Surf

“Congratulations” card, by Shellye McDaniel.

After I completed this card, the idea came to me to use the dress stamp for bridesmaid's Thank You cards. That's the beauty of stamps. That you can modify the colors to suit! I stamped the dress, first, onto the patterned paper. Next, I stamped the image again onto a canvas cardstock with Staz-On ink. I used a grey watercolor pencil to shadow in the left side of the dress. I also colored in a couple of the ruffles and then trimmed out the image and attached over the first stamped image. I just got this new embossing folder that has an inset in the center. I cut the patterned paper to that size and machine-stitched in place.

Supplies:
Love And Marriage: May Eighteenth, Smokeys In Love, Cute Cuts; Engaged At Last: Miniatures Stickers; Button Market: Aqua Flowers; Hampton Art Stamps: Love and Marriage

"Congrats" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

I have to admit that I am not an experienced stamper and the new Bella Blvd "clings" stamps from Hampton Art kind of scared me at first. How the heck are things supposed to work??! After a little help from "Google" I quickly learned that they work just like acrylic stamps (you use a clear block and they "cling" to it!) but have that good ole rubber stamp quality. Very cool! On this card I used the heart stamp from the "Love & Marriage" set. I stamped the heart on a couple different patterned papers and then cut out the hearts to make a fun border across the card. Thanks for looking!

Supplies:
Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Cotton Candy; Sophisticates: Miniature Sentiments; Love and Marriage: Borders, Esther Fleming Floral; Engaged at Last: Just Write Journaling Stickers, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Kiss Me: Flutter; Hampton Art Stamps: Love And Marriage

Cards On Thursday: St Patrick's Day

St Patricks Day is this coming Sunday, so we thought we would make today's card shares all about some fun and unique St Patricks Day cards.

“Smile Friend” card, by Laurie Schmidlin.

Bella's new Crochet Hearts make such cute Shamrocks, don't you think? I used three of the Pickle Juice Crochet Hearts and cut out a little "stem" using some coordinating patterned paper. I embellished it with some Button Market buttons, a Ciao Chip Star, and a couple of sentiment stickers.

Supplies: 
Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Saltwater; Birthday Girl: Party Dress; Birthday Boy: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Super Stud: Label Additions; Ciao Chip Elements: Stars & Hearts; Button Market: Stars, Blues; Crochet Hearts: Pickle Juice Hearts

“Lucky To Know You” card, by Laurie Schmidlin.

I am so smitten with the new Freestyle Sophisticates collection! So many of the colors will work for many different holiday cards! I used the new Freestyle Pickle Juice paper to create a Shamrock shaped card. For the sentiment, I chose to use two of the Sophisticates Green High Five Alphabet stickers.

Supplies:
Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Pickle Juice; High Five Alpha Stickers: Green; Button Market: Blues

"Good Luck" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

I used a heart punch to make the 4 leaf clover on this card. I punched 4 hearts out of the same patterned paper and arranged them to look like a clover. Easy! I started to make this card entirely green but, believe it or not, it seemed a bit too green! So I threw in a little yellow and I like the contrast! Thanks for looking!

Supplies:
Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Pickle Juice; High Five Alpha Stickers: Green; Sand & Surf: Paradise, Beach Balls, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Button Market: Bursts; Flags: Floral, Sunshine & Happiness

"Don't Forget your Green" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

I wanted to use a lot of green on this St. Patty's Day card. I dug around in my Bella Blvd stash and found this green flag from the "Camping" flags, the Green High Five Alphabets, and the "Outdoors" buttons. I used the new Pickle Juice Freestyle patterned paper as the base of the card and I grabbed the green patterned paper and the Just Write Journaling Stickers from the new Sand & Surf line. All these different green items coordinated so well together! I love that! Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 

Supplies:
Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Pickle Juice; High Five Alpha Stickers: Green; Sand & Surf: Paradise, Beach Balls, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Engaged at Last: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Flags: Camping; Button Market: Outdoors

“Kiss Me I’m Irish” card, by Kathy Martin.

Bella Blvd’s Pickle Juice green is a favorite color of mine! I love the shade of green and the name is adorable, don’t you think? When I was asked to make a couple of St. Patrick’s Day cards for you, I jumped at the chance to create with the beautiful Pickle Juice papers and accents! What do you think? Do you think Pickle Juice green is perfect for St. Patrick’s Day?

 

Supplies:
Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Pickle Juice; Crochet Hearts: Pickle Juice; Button Market: Pickle Squares

 

“Kiss Me” card, by Kathy Martin.

When I don’t have an occasion specific collection for a project, like this St. Patrick’s Day card, I find that keeping the design clean and simple makes it a snap to create. For this card I focused on the sentiment using these Sienna Chip alphabets. I also love buttons and thought a trio of them would make the perfect accent. The final addition was the big red lips, which add an element of fun.

 

Supplies:
Sienna Chipboard Alphas: Pickle Juice; Button Market: Neutrals Mix, Pickle Squares; Designer Tape: Pony Dot; Engaged at Last: Ciao Chip

“Good Luck” card, by Sheri Feypel.

Rather than making a normal sized card, I went with a 5x5 this time. I really needed to accommodate my hexagons, so I felt this was a good size to fit them. I arranged my hexagons and added several different pink patterns to the middles of each one. I topped it off with a shamrock, a few buttons and some twine to bring it all together. Now I think I need a Shamrock Shake!

Supplies:
Sophisticates: Sprinkles and Lace Punch; Birthday Girl: Celebrate; Birthday Boy: Eat Cake; Kiss Me: Love Notes, Flutter; Love And Marriage: Esther Flemming Floral; Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Pickle Juice, Freestyle Cotton Candy; High Five Alpha Stickers: Green

“Happy Lucky Day” card, by Sheri Feypel.

Originally my sentiment on this card was going to be "Get Lucky" but I decided it might not be appropriate? I still think it would have been cute though. Anyhow, I went with a Rainbow of colors of the Designer Tapes from Bella Blvd instead of patterned papers. I used a dark grey background to make the tape colors pop. I cut the little flag out of tape as well. I love that there are so many different uses for this tape! Happy St. Patty's Day!

Supplies:
Designer Tapes: Red Dot, Orange Stripe, Yellow Chevron, Ice Stripe and Purple Dot; High Five Alpha Stickers: Green

Layouts On Wednesdays

We are back with more fabulous free-for-all layouts from our Layout Designers to share with you today.

“Disney Memories”, by Sheri Reguly.

I have to admit that I’ve been holding off on scrapbooking our Disney vacation for nearly an entire year now. I’ve been just waiting for the perfect product collection, and Sand & Surf is it! The fun, bright colors perfectly compliment the happiness in both my photos and my journaling, making it the ideal choice.

 

Supplies:
Sand & Surf: Under The Coconuts, Cute Cuts, Borders, GPS, Miniatures, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Engaged At Last: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Love And Marriage: May Eighteenth

"Happy Snow", by Becky Williams.

Here in west Texas we don't get a whole lot of snow so when we do we make sure to take advantage of it. I opted to use black and white pictures of my kids for this snow page and set that off with lots of color using Designer Tapes and lots of stickers. I overlapped the chipboard letters in my title a bit to help the title stand out more and give dimension to the page. 

Supplies: 
Sand & Surf: Miniatures, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Winter Wonder: Miniatures; Sophisticates: Calendars; Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Scallop; Engaged At Last: Bachelorette; Birthday Girl: Chipboard Icons; High Five Alpha Stickers: Yellow, Brown-Cream; Designer Tapes: Cotton Candy Chevron, Blue Chevron, 12mm Combo, Chevron Combo

“Silly, Giggly Girls”, by Becki Adams.

Girly, girly, girly is how I wanted this layout to turn out. It's about my daughter and her best friend. They are so silly when they get together. I couldn't wait to use my new Bella Goodies! I wanted to use feathers and lots of designer tapes. I punched out some pinked circles and backed them with Designer Tape to make my background extra colorful. I added banners, crochet hearts, for the finishing touches. The journaling on this layout is hidden behind the photo on a tag. I love how this project turned out and so does my daughter. She wants it hung on her bedroom wall :)

Supplies:
Love and Marriage: Cake Testing; Engaged At Last: Bachelor/ette Chipboard Icons; Designer Tapes: Hot Pink Dot Tape, Ice Stripe Tape, 12mm Combo, Polka Dot Combo, Chevron Combo, Pickle Juice Stripe; Feathers: Punch; Sienna Chipboard Alphas: Punch; High Five Alpha Stickers: Piggy-Punch; Crochet Hearts: Punch; Flags: Bachelorette

“Stylin' In Your Shades”, by Jaclyn Rench.

The cat's eye glasses from the Kiss Me collection Cute Cuts sheet look so similar to the glasses that my daughter is wearing in this photo, that I couldn't help but to pair them together on a page. While I loved the sentiment that was originally on the glasses, I decided to alter the lenses with a bit of patterned paper, to make them look even more like those that my daughter is sporting! The next step was to dream up a fun title and to pull out some bright and sunny papers from the Sand & Surf collection to complete the page. 

Supplies:
Sand & Surf: Beach Balls,  Borders, Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Miniatures; Love and Marriage: Cute Cuts; Engaged at Last: Bachelorette Party; Kiss Me: Borders & Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Saltwater; Designer Tape: Ice Stripe; High Five Alphabet Stickers: Piggy-Punch

On-Going Guest Designers: Jodi Wilton & Juliana Michaels

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.

“Cool Shades”, by Jodi Wilton.

I fell in love with the cute pair of sunglasses on the cute cuts page, and knew I had to do a layout about my daughter's obsession with sunglasses. I love how girlie this collection can be and decided to keep pink as main color, and compliment it with the other colors in the collection.

Supplies:  
Sand & Surf: Borders, Flying High, Paradise, Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Miniatures; Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Hot Pink; Flags: Girl, Sand & Surf; Sienna Chipboard Alphabets: Punch; Button Market: Pink Flowers

“Buried At The Beach”, by Jodi Wilton.

After creating a very girly layout, I wanted to show the versatility of this line, and created a layout about my son on the beach (or should I say in the sand). I love all the browns, oranges, and yellows in this line! I layered some chipboard for the embellishments, and added a sticker to one of the photos to really draw your eye to the photos.

Supplies:
Sand & Surf: Under the Coconuts, GPS, Borders, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Miniatures, Chipboard Icons; Flags: Sand & Surf; Simply Simona Chipboard Alphas: Orange

“Vacation Time”, by Jodi Wilton.

This line is perfect for using your beach photos from vacation or the summer time! I focused on using the surf's up paper, to really bring out the blue in my daughter's swimsuit!

Supplies:
Sand & Surf: Surf's Up, GPS, Paradise, Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Chipboard Icons, Miniatures, Just Write Journaling Stickers 

“Let's Ride”, by Juliana Michaels.

I was inspired by the Design Teams recent Designer Tape projects so I wanted to incorporate more than one or two tapes into my layout. Each strip of tape was backed with white cardstock to make the colors more bold since the tapes tend to be slightly transparent.

Supplies:
Birthday Girl: Celebrate, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Birthday Boy: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Surf N Turf; Kiss Me: Love Notes, Flutter, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sienna Chipboard Alphas: Blueberry; High Five Alpha Stickers: Blue; Designer Tape: Punch Chevron, Pickle Juice Chevron, Piggy Pink Stripe, Teal Stripe, Pickle Juice Dot; Crochet Flowers: Dahlia

Designer Tape Easter Eggs, by Juliana Michaels.

I was again inspired to create something using the Designer Tapes. These are paper mache eggs from my local craft store. I painted them with acrylic paint and allowed them to dry. Once dry I attached a strip of punched patterned paper around each egg. I applied the Designer Tape to thin white cardstock to make the colors more bold and attached the strip around the center of the punched strip. The flowers were created using my die cut machine and punches. I tied embroidery floss around each egg and then hot glued the flower to the egg. 

Supplies:
Birthday Girl: Sugar Rush; Birthday Boy: About A Boy, Eat Cake; Kiss Me: Bouquet; Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Chlorine; Sunshine & Happiness: Sunny Side Up; Designer Tape: Punch Chevron, Pickle Juice Chevron, Pink Stripe, Teal Stripe, Gulf Dot, Orange Stripe

Card Inspiration

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you had a relaxing and fun weekend ... maybe even finding a little time to scrap. I thought we would share another full day of cards with you today, as our card designers were super busy creating so many little works of art the past month.

“I Love You” card, by Gretchen McElveen.

This card is a little combination of the Kiss Me, Sand & Surf, and Engaged at Last lines. These lines really do go well together. You might not think it, but trust me! J I did a little fussy cutting of the Paradise patterned paper in the Sand & Surf line to get all the small flowers on this card. And all the “I love you” strips came from the Kiss Me Borders & Cute Cuts sheet.

Supplies:
Kiss Me: Borders & Cute Cuts Sheet, Bouquet Kisses; Engaged at Last: Bachelorette Extras; Sand and Surf: Paradise, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Alpha+Bits Stickers

“Spend Your Life…” card, by Gretchen McElveen.

I am digging 5”x 5” cards lately! I didn’t do this on purpose but this card has a very Spring-y feel to it to me. Everything here is from the Engaged at Last line! I pulled out my butterfly punch to add a few butterflies and put the finishing touches on this card.

Supplies:
Engaged at Last: He Proposed!, Bachelor Extras, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Button Market: Pink Flowers; Flags: Wedding Shower, Engagement

“Cheer Up” card, by Gretchen McElveen.

This card is almost entirely using the Kiss Me collection with some Sophisticates chipboard and Miniature Sentiment stickers thrown in for good measure! I wanted a soft, cheery card to send to a friend and all the pink in the Kiss Me line was perfect. And the chipboard sun helped add just enough variety too! Thanks for looking!

Supplies:
Kiss Me: Borders & Cute Cuts, Bouquet Kisses, Love Notes, Flutter; Sophisticates: Miniature Sentiments; Ciao Chip Elements: Clouds

“Happy Birthday” card, by Carina Lindholm.

When I sat down to make this card I was in the mood for making a colourful and festive card. So I dug out the “Birthday girl” collection. I really love the colors and cute patterns in this collection. I knew right away that I wanted to use these big colourful chipboard letters on my card. So I made them my focal point and then added tape, buttons and flags to decorate my card.

Supplies:
Birthday Girl: Borders, Chipboard Icons; Designer Tape: Pickle Juice; Button Market: Stars; Flags: Birthday Girl 1

 

“I Love You” card, by Carina Lindholm.

I must admit, I LOVE the chevron pattern. I hope this is a trend that never goes away. On this card I used the yellow chevron paper that you can find in the “birthday girl” collection. I also used some brown designers tape, chipboard borders and a chipboard heart to complete this card.

Supplies:
Birthday Girl: Miles Of Smiles; Ciao Chip Elements: Borders, Stars & Hearts; Designer Tape: Pony Dot

“Together 4 Ever” card, by Laurie Schmidlin.

Along with all of the fun elements included in the Kiss Me collection, I find that many of the Sophisticates embellishments and papers are great additions to the Kiss Me collection! For my card, I added a chipboard heart form the Sophisticates line, as well as a Star button and Dahlia Crochet Heart. 

Supplies:
Kiss Me: Just Write Journaling Stickers, Bouquet Kisses, Love Notes, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sophisticates: Ciao Chip Stars & Hearts; Button Market: Feminine Mix; Crochet Flowers: Dahlia

“Thanks For Everything” card, by Laurie Schmidlin.

Oh how I love the Ciao Chip Trees! I think they're perfect for all year round, not just in the Fall! For my card, I combined the chipboard tree (along with a chipboard heart from the Ciao Chip Stars & Hearts) with lots of items from the Sophisticates collection. For embellishment, I added a Crochet Flower, and two buttons.

Supplies:
Sophisticates: Short Stories, Tall Tags, Oyster, Ciao Chip Stars & Hearts, Ciao Chip Trees, Miniatures Card Sentiments; Button Market: Stars, Outdoors; Crochet Flowers: Daisies