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Tuesday Inspiration

Welcome to another Tuesday Inspiration day, here on the Bella blog. Inspiration is all around us, and it's so interesting to see how a group of designers can all start with the same image, and be inspired by it in so many different ways.

{Image Source HERE, Etsy Seller HERE}

“She's A Swingin”, by Kimberly Neddo.

I was so inspired by this photograph of garland and color, so I decided to mimic it with paper and design on a layout. I LOVE the colors! If you want to make a garland like this, you can make one easily too. Just punch out random circles with papers of your choice. Then feed them one at a time through your sewing machine. You can space them apart as much as you want also. A fun technique for a fun look. Thanks for looking!

Supplies:
Making the Team: Volleyball, Cute Cuts, Borders, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Tail Waggers and Cat Naps: Cute Cuts; Hello Beautiful: Cute Cuts; Midterm: Borders and Blocks; Spring Flings and Easter Things: Mom's Bouquet; Hello Beautiful: Cute Cuts; Lovey Dovey: Borders and Blocks

"Spring Spectacular", by Nancy Damiano.

I love the clean, crisp look of a white ground and especially when it's paired with a bold color pattern. To make these pictures pop, I added some texture to the background with the Silhouette postage stamp cut. Then I layered stickers, color photos and a row of black and whites. My favorite part of the layout is the garland. I love how the inspiration piece is sewn together and emphasizes the circular shape. Instead of sewing the garland, I strung them on white string and attached them to the layout with a tiny stapler. I like how they add a splash of color and pattern to the page.

Supplies: 
Spring Fling and Easter Things: Borders, Mom's Bouquet, A Tisket-a-Tasket, Alpha+Bits, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Winter Wonder: Blizzard; Making the Team: Wall of Fame

"Luv U" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

What a fun piece of inspiration! I was inspired by the colors and all the circles. I used a very neutral background and then punched circles out of a variety of green and blue scraps of patterned paper. On this first card I created a scalloped border out of the punched circles and then cut the border of hearts out of the Baby Boy Border sheet to add above the scalloped border. The alphabet stickers are from the Winter Wonder Alpha + Bits sheet!

Supplies:
Estate Sale: Fresh Linens; Baby Boy: Borders, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sophisticates: Surf N Turf; Winter Wonder: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sunshine & Happiness: Borders, Happy Clouds

"Thanks For Everything" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

On this next card I still used a neutral background and punched a bunch of circles out of green and blue patterned papers. Then I lined up the punched circles over the neutral background. I cut out the heart from the Winter Wonder Cute Cuts sheet and substituted it for one of the circles. Then I adhered the heart and the sentiment with foam adhesive to add some dimension to the card.

Supplies:
Estate Sale: Fresh Linens; Winter Wonder: Cute Cuts; Sophisticates: Surf N Turf, Miniatures Card Sentiments; Baby Boy: Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sunshine & Happiness: Happy Clouds, Petal Power

“It’s a Boy” card, by Kathy Martin.

I used the ultra adorable new Baby Boy collection for this card full of circles to match our inspiration photo. This little lion head sticker from the Alpha+Bits stickers is a favorite and looks so sweet as a focal point for my card. To create my sentiment flag, I cut a piece of the borders paper and attached it to a stick pin.

Supplies:
Bay Boy: Baby Blue, Wild About You, Borders, Alpha+Bits Stickers

“Thanks” card, by Kathy Martin.

All the paper circles of our inspiration photo inspired me to create a card with circle cut-outs and I this floral Flirty paper was perfect peaking through, don’t you think? And wherever there are flowers, there are usually bees like this adorable Ciao chip bee.

Supplies:
Flirty: He Loves Me; Spring Flings & Easter Things: Ciao Chip; Sophisticates: Miniature Card Sentiments Family

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We hope you can find some inspiration by this image as well, or even by one of the projects that our designers have shared today. We would also love it, if you shared your inspired-by projects with us. It's always fun for us to see what you're creating! Feel free to leave a comment here, with a link to your project. Or share it with everyone over on our Facebook Page.

Tuesday Inspiration

Welcome to another Tuesday Inspiration day, here on the Bella blog. Inspiration is all around us, and it's so interesting to see how a group of designers can all start with the same image, and be inspired by it in so many different ways.

{Image Source: Photo Card Boutique}

"Cutie", by Becky Williams.

When I got the assignment to work with this color challenge I knew EXACTLY which picture I would use- this cute one of my baby girl in our funny green wig! What a fun, happy color scheme! I was able to use some older papers with some of the brand new CHA releases to make this page. I used a lot of punched shapes, stickers and handcut elements and amazingly enough didn't use one single strip of paper besides the background, which is so unusual for me but I love the way the page turned out. 

Supplies:
Baby Girl: It's a Girl, Pretty in Pink, Miniatures, Alpha+Bits; Spring Flings and Easter Things: Sunny Sunday, Alpha+Bits; Sunny Happy Skies: Borders N' Blocks, Magic in the Sky; Too Cute to Spook: Just Write Journaling Stickers; Christmas Wishes: Alpha+Bits; Finally Fall: Alpha+Bits; Family Dynamix: Alpha+Bits; Designer Tape: Pickle Juice Dot, Pink Stripe; Simply Simona Chipboard Alphas: Orange, Pickle Juice

"Car Twins", by Melissa Stinson.

I love taking inspiration for layouts from color palettes, so I picked papers that coordinated with the juicy pinks, yellows, and greens in the inspiration image. I ended up using a lot of the new Sunshine and Happiness collection in the process. It even has some cute fruit paper and stickers and also fit with the inspiration theme!

Supplies:
Sunshine and Happiness: Journaling Stickers, Miniatures, Alpha+Bits, Cute Cuts, Popsicle Kisses, Play Date, Petal Power; High Five Alpha Stickers: Yellow

"Girls", by Loredana Bucaria.

Hi everyone! How are you? Spring is coming and this photo inspiration is perfect for a spring page! Don't you think? I used it for a very colorful page with a B&W photo. I love this contrast. So a very simple and easy page, but one that was a lot of fun to create. I started from a sketch and I thought I would use lots of different strips of papers to create a background for my picture. Sometimes I love to use the same color embellishments and I am completely crazy for the words and phrases stickers! Simple to add, and cool to have on your page! This is a layout about my sister, Pamela. I love to go out with her, we have such a great time together! So try, it's your time to try a page like this! Have a lot of fun!

Supplies:
Spring Flings & Easter Things: Cute cuts, Alpha+Bits, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Mom's Bouquet, Egg Hunt; Winter Wonder: Icy; Sunshine & Happiness: Popsicle Kisses; Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Peep; Plastino: Bermudas; Baby Blooms a Bella: Azzini; Clear Stamps: Flirty; Family Dynamix: Alpha+Bits

"Thanks" card, by Deanna Misner.

With the weather starting to feel like Spring and this bright color combo as inspiration, I thought I'd make a card featuring some fun spiral flowers. These are super simple to make. In fact, I'd forgotten exactly how to roll them, so I just googled "spiral paper flowers", and found a YouTube tutorial to refresh my memory. If you DO make these flowers though, remember that they probably won't fit in a normal envelope. That's why I made it a "Thanks" card. I'll hand-deliver it or simply slide it into a little present.

Supplies:
Spring Flings and Easter Things: A Tisket A Tasket, Mom's Bouquet, Borders, Alpha+Bits, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Sunshine & Happiness: Popsicle Kisses

"Wishing You Sunshine & Happiness" card, by Deanna Misner.

This card's style is a little on the modern/graphic side with more white space than what I normally create. But you know what? It's fun to mix up styles a bit and try something a little different.  I hand-cut the sun from the Cute Cuts paper, then hid it behind the sentiment. I also added a little detail at the bottom with the green buttons. Buttons are such a great way to add visual interest to card, and they're not too bulky either! I absolutely LOVE the new buttons that come in the Button Market!

Supplies:
Sunshine & Happiness: Play Date, Cute Cuts; High Five Alphabet Stickers: Green; Button Market: Green Squares

"Love Pieces Of You" card, by Alice Carman.

I know Valentine’s Day is over, but we can still celebrate love regardless. Today’s card is bright and simple using the miniatures from the Baby Boy collection. The miniatures have a variety of different shapes to play with and add great texture to your project. I love that you can use the greens in the collection and turn it into something totally different. I just love it!

Supplies:
Sunshine Happiness collection: Popsicle Kisses, Miniatures, Play Date; Baby Boy collection: Miniatures; Baby Girl collection: Miniatures

"100% Joy" card, by Alice Carman.

It’s a happy yea so far! We celebrated love, a President’s birthday and leap year. What more can you ask for? It’s a joyous day and what a better way to celebrate than to be joyful of today. Here’s another great use on Bella Blvd’s papers. I’ve mixed up the collections and the simple bright patterns make it so easy to use.

Supplies:
Sunshine Happiness collection: Miniatures, Popsicle Kisses; Baby Boy: Heaven Scent, Wild About You; Baby Girl: Miniatures; Sophisticates collection: Pink-Red High Five Alphabets; Baby Blooms a Bella: Rossini

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We hope you can find some inspiration by this image as well, or even by one of the projects that our designers have shared today. We would also love it, if you shared your inspired-by projects with us. It's always fun for us to see what you're creating! Feel free to leave a comment here, with a link to your project. Or share it with everyone over on our Facebook Page.

Sketches On Saturdays & Inspiration Day

First up, we have another round of Saturday Sketches. Twice a month, we'll be bringing you a new sketch, and showing you a few takes on the sketch by our designers. Today, we have our second sketch of the month. 

"Winter Wonderful", by Sue Mylde.

A fun sketch and a great way to put in multiple photos in one layout. With this layout, I wanted to add more embellishments and a stronger paint and mist base. I love playing with paints and mists and I wanted to create a more interesting background on the white cardstock base. Winter Wonder is PERFECT for all these fun snowy photos!

Supplies:
Winter Wonder: Borders, Blizzard, Toasty, Icy, Alpha+Bits, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Simply Simona: Brownie, Saltwater Ciao Chip

"I Love Winter", by Vivian Masket.

I love how easy it was to work with this sketch! I rotated the design 90 degrees to the left, which put the scalloped border at the bottom of the photos. I used two photos instead of three and added my journaling below the scalloped border. I used a patterned paper block for the title and additional patterned paper in place of the journaling. I used one of my favorite quick and easy techniques with the tag stickers: I switched the tiny circles in the tag holes and used them for pops of color instead of brads.

Supplies:
Winter Wonder: Blizzard, Cute Cuts, Miniatures Stickers, Alpha + Bits stickers

"Cupcake Cutie", by Allyson Meinholz.

I love working with sketches - makes it easy to scrapbook and I feel accomplished. I decided to add a larger photo in place of the journaling block and to use the focus as the 5x7 photo in color. This layout is of Alivia Jo's 1st birthday (cupckae themed) - usually I do multiple layouts for birthdays especially the first birthday, so it is nice to slip a few sketches in the mix.

We hope you will take some creative time for yourself, and try out our sketch! Whether it's a card, or a layout, we would love to see what you come up with. You can link them here in the comment section, or share them on our Facebook page!

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Next up, we have what is called Tuesday Inspiration day, here on the Bella blog. That's because most of the time, you will find this up on Tuesdays. We have so much planned for you next week, that we had to move this up a few days. Inspiration is all around us, and it's so interesting to see how a group of designers can all start with the same image, and be inspired by it in so many different ways.

{Photo Credit / Photo Card Boutique}

"Eight Today", by Katherine McElvain.

For Delaney's eighth birthday I made dirt cups for each child at the party and decorated them with Bella Blvd product to personalize them. When I saw the inspiration for this assignment I knew it was a great opportunity to match up some Bella Blvd product with this photo. Looking at the photo, right away I thought circles, so I made a circle pattern on half the layout using the grid paper (unexpectedly made it easy to line things up) from Family Dynamics and some older heart paper from Sweet Celebrations. I mimicked the the sorbet cups and strawberries with stitched red circles and little chipboard flowers from Family Dynamics. Maybe I should include some Bella products in more of my photos, it makes it easy to make it all come together:)

Supplies:
Sweet Celebration: Label Additions, Party Hearty; Family Dynamics: Cute Cuts, Quadrants, The Littlest Things, Alpha & Bits, Icons; Sophisticates: Quattrofina Peep & Saffron, Simply Simona Saltwater

"2011", by Lynn Ghahary.

I love the idea of looking back at the past year 'at a glance' so I decided to create a year in review layout for this assignment. I die cut a really large title using my Silhouette using different Bella Blvd papers in colors from the inspiration image. I also added some stickers in the same color scheme - I just love those Miniatures Stickers!

Supplies:
Sophisticates: Miniatures Family Stickers; Spring Flings & Easter Things: A Tisket A Tasket; Winter Wonder: Icy, Ski Slopes; Too Cute To Spook: Miniatures Stickers; Family Dynamix: Quadrants

"Popcorn Love", by Nancy Damiano.

I love bold color schemes, so I was excited to work with this beautiful palette. The icy blue and white make it crisp and clean. The golden yellow and red reminded me of these pictures of my son at his first baseball game. I remember how he loved the popcorn almost more than the game!  One of the things that I love about Bella, is the ability to mix and match their patterned papers. I mixed paper and embellishments from 5 different lines to come up with this page. I also created a shadow effect by cutting out a star from the red paper, backing it with pop dots and filling it with stickers. This added a fun element and some texture to the page.

Supplies:
Making the Team: Borders, Miniatures, Alpha+Bits, Ciao Chip; Finally Fall: Bliss; Winter Wonder: Toasty; Spring Flings & Easter Things: Tisket a Tasket, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Christmas Wishes: Just Write Journaling Stickers; Mr Boy: Alpha+Bits; Ciao Chip: Saltwater and Oyster Simply Simona

"Joyful", by Jamie Harper.

I LOVE the inspiration for this month. The color combo is so fresh and full of life. I knew I wanted to match the energy of the colors with an action photo, so I chose this photo from Disneyland. I asked my son to give me a quote to put on the layout, and I added lots of description words. I love how so many lines can be mixed and matched, it makes pulling together products so easy, and it turn makes for fast and easy scrapbooking.

Supplies:
Spring Flings and Easter Things: Mom's Bouquet, Alpha+Bits, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Sophisticates: Miniatures Family Stickers; Simply Simona Chipboard Alphas: Saltwater

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We hope you can find some inspiration by this image as well, or even by one of the projects that our designers have shared today. We would also love it, if you shared your inspired-by projects with us. It's always fun for us to see what you're creating! Feel free to leave a comment here, with a link to your project. Or share it with everyone over on our Facebook Page.

Tuesday Inspiration

Welcome to another Tuesday Inspiration day, here on the Bella blog. Inspiration is all around us, and it's so interesting to see how a group of designers can all start with the same image, and be inspired by it in so many different ways.

{Image Credit: Photo Card Boutique}

"Our Not-So Merry Temperamental Elf", by Becky Williams.

I got so excited when I saw this month's color inspiration challenge. I love the blue and pink together and had fun searching through the current and older Bella collections to find papers to go along with this color scheme. I was able to incorporate the circles from the mug into my page through the use of the base of my layout and punched circles. I just love the Lovey Dovey grid paper so I punched out a circle including the " I ♥ U" and did some doodling around that circle to bring emphasis to it. I think that the pink and blue are such fun colors and brought out the blue of my baby girl's mood and the pink in her jammies. 

Supplies: 
Family Dynamix: Quadrants; Finally Fall: Apple Holler; Midterm: Text Me; Christmas Wishes: Trees for Sale, Alpha+Bits; Sweet Celebration: Stardust; Estate Sale: Nana's Apron; Winter Wonderland: Ski Slopes, Blizzard, Miniatures; Spring Flings and Easter Things: Egg Hunt, Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits, Miniatures; Lovey Dovey: Bear Hugs, Sweetheart; All Inclusive: Ocean View; Sophisticates: Miniatures Card Sentiments, Quattrofina Saltwater and Pacific; Tail Waggers & Cat Naps: Alpha + Bits

"A Bond Stronger Than Glue", by Kimberly Neddo.

I'm really having fun with my IPhone and different apps. Lately I've been playing around with photographs I take on my phone in photoshop, and then printing them out. I LOVE this picture my daughter took of her and her brother and sister ... I can see using it over and over! :) For this layout I decided to choose a collection that went with the color pallet for this inspiration. The Platino line worked perfectly with this photograph. Can you see how it pulls out each of my children's eye colors? I like to add dimension to my layouts, so I simply added some pop dots and curled up the scalloped edge to draw interest around the page and keep it simple.

Supplies:
Plastino: Gardinia, Forget-Me-Nots, Label Additions; Sunny Happy Skies: Alpha+Bits

"Pure Beauty", by Julie Johnson.

When I first looked at inspiration photo, I immediately thought of a cold winter day. Here is California where I live we don't get too many chilly days, but I have spent many chilly hours in the ice skating rink watching my daughter practice. I can remember plenty of cups of hot cocoa or hot apple cider, so I decided to use a photo of my daughter on the ice. I also liked the simplicity of the photo so I wanted to keep my layout simple as well. My eye was drawn to the polka dots which I love, but to keep with the "chilly" feel, I decided to use snowflakes. I wouldn't have thought of this color scheme on my own, but I think it's beautiful, don't you? The photo I chose would not have matched in color so I decided to develop it in black and white and add to the overall beauty of the page. 

Supplies:
Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Oyster and Ice, Quattrofina Salt Water & Pacific, Tall Tags; Winter Wonder: Miniatures, Alpha+Bits, Blizzard

"Loads Of Love" card, by Alice Carman.

From the Inspiration Image I used the colors to create a card. Don’t you just love this color combo? I used the blues, pink and the browns to create my card. I know my blues are a bit deeper in tone, but it still works. To create my card I used Bella Blvd’s Estate Sale and Lovey Dovey collection to tie it all together. Have you tried mixing two Bella Blvd collections together? That’s the great part about Bella Blvd’s product, you can mix and match across all the collections. I just love it!

Supplies:
Estate Sale: Hat Box, Linens; Lovey Dovey: Alpha+Bits, Bear Hugs, Circle of Love, Love is in the Air, Sweetheart, Boarders N Blocks

"Keeping Warm & Cozy" card, by Deanna Misner.

One trend I've noticed lately is incorporating negative space or shapes into projects, so I used my Cricut Expression to cut out the shape of a snowflake. Then, instead of using the actual snowflake, I used its negative shape as the focal point of my card. It's popped up with foam adhesive and outlined with clear Stickles. Then I hand-cut the pink snowflake from the Cute Cuts paper and added it to the center so that it would looked framed. Since my card still looked a little plain, I added brown velvet trim and the 2 stickers as a sentiment.

Supplies:
Winter Wonder: Blizzard, Borders, Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits, Miniatures

We hope you can find some inspiration by this image as well, or even by one of the projects that our designers have shared today. We would also love it, if you shared your inspired-by projects with us. It's always fun for us to see what you're creating! Feel free to leave a comment here, with a link to your project. Or share it with everyone over on our Facebook Page.

Tuesday Inspiration

Welcome to another Tuesday Inspiration day, here on the Bella blog. Inspiration is all around us, and it's so interesting to see how a group of designers can all start with the same image, and be inspired by it in so many different ways.

Image credit: Country Living.

I was immediatly drawn to a few things in this photo. I love the simple, manilla tags hanging from the ribbon, with the fun little ornamental pieces dangling from each tag. Banners are so popular these days, and the tags reminded me of a banner. I love the clean and simple Christmas colors of cream, red, and green. And I also love the cute little white and silver tinsel tree, which is such a fun twist on the regular, full, green trees most of us have for the holidays.

"Eating Christmas Paper", by Brook Stewart.

So many things about this image inspired me! I love the simplicity with the touch of whimsy, so I tried to keep the color palate fairly simple, yet fun. I mimic'd the rectangle shape of the hanging banner in the cuts I made with the patterned papers and my photo. I also LOVE that cute little tree with the tinsel, so I made one of my own from sparkly silver pipe cleaners! And of course, I carried over the Christmas theme from the image into my layout as well. I really used a mix of old and new Bella for this layout and I enjoyed the process of just choosing the simple colors and patterns!

Supplies:
Christmas Wishes: Gifts Galore, Ciao Chip Icons, Miniatures; Spring Flings & Easter Things: Mom's Bouquet; Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Oyster, Petite Pieces, Calendars, Quattrofina Milk & Oreo, Quattrofina Spinach & Pickle Juice, Ciao Chip Essentials Asparagus & Pickle Juice

"It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas", by Lynn Ghahary.

I loved the image for this week's inspiration assignment! Banners and tags are so on trend right now in scrapbooking. I decided to cut several different strips of paper from the Chrismtas Wishes collection and create a border of banner shapes along the bottom of my layout under my photos. These banners are so easy to create - just a few snips of my scissors and voila!

Supplies:
Christmas Wishes: Icons Chipboard Stickers, Alpha + Bits Stickers, Quadrants Paper, Borders Paper, Cute Cuts Paper, Gifts Galore Paper, Candlelight Paper, North Pole Paper, Christmas Love Paper

"Wishlist Favorites", by Vivian Masket.

I focused on the advent banner in the inspiration image, using a similar design to showcase several key items from my 6-year-old daughter's holiday gift wishlist. I loved the little ornaments hanging from the tags in the inspiration piece and replicated that by placing Ciao Chip Icons below each of the tags in my layout.

Supplies:
Christmas Wishes: Ciao Chip Icons, Miniatures Stickers, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Winter Wonder: Borders; Finally Fall: Ciao Chip Icons; Family Dynamix: Ciao Chip Icons; Mr. Boy: Ciao Chip Icons

"Playful N' Curious", by Sue Mylde.

I love the banners and I know we're all in a Christmassy mood, which is cool, but I wanted to record my thoughts about my little boy who's really developing a personality these days. I simply cut out a number of vanilla cardstock to the same size and edged them differently. It was fun to play and put up different embellishment on each of the banners. Different stickers, and chipboard, a button and masked out a star! Really fun. I also edged the pieces with some grey ink.

The alphas from the Bella collection are always fun to use as titles, and this one is no different! Love the happy page! Happy Christmas and Season's Greetings lovelies!!!

Supplies:
Honey I'm Home: Block Party; Mr Boy: Icons Chipboard, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Chit Chat Chipboard; Spring Flings & Easter Things: A Tisket A Tasket

"Oh Little Trees", by Allyson Meinholz.

I was inspired by the lil tree, the ribbon and the tag banner. I decided to use the photos of the little trees we put up every year in each one of my daughters' rooms during the Christmas Season. I incorporated the title into the tag banner and used the border stickers as my ribbon.

Supplies:
Winter Wonder, Christmas Wishes, Ciao Chip

"Christmas Greetings" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

I was really inspired by the fun hanging banner in the picture. I used the fun Christmas Wishes line and tried to recreate something similar on this Christmas card!

Supplies:
Christmas Wishes: North Pole, Borders, Alpha + Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Miniature Stickers

"Joy" card, by Kathy Martin.

This inspiration photo is quite festive and I love the banner so I wanted my card to have a banner too and bright happy colors; that’s not hard to achieve with the Christmas Wishes collection!

Supplies:
Christmas Wishes: Joy paper, Star Stripe paper, Candlelight paper, Borders paper, Miniatures stickers

We hope you can find some inspiration by this image as well, or even by one of the projects that our designers have shared today. We would also love it, if you shared your inspired-by projects with us. It's always fun for us to see what you're creating! Feel free to leave a comment here, with a link to your project. Or share it with everyone over on our Facebook Page.

Tuesday Inspiration

Welcome to our second Tuesday Inspiration day for November. Inspiration is all around us, and it's so interesting to see how a group of designers can all start with the same image, and be inspired by it in so many different ways.

image credit: pottery barn teen

Our second inspiration piece is one that can be used in so many different ways. Whether you choose to pull from the colors in the image, or the vertical bookends, the large chunky letters, or even the stacked books. I put this image out to some of our layout and card designers, and I love what they came up with.

"Thinking Of You" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

This is such a fun inspiration piece! I was inspired by the soft colors. I also like how the "text" enclosed the other items and I tried to do something similiar on my card. I even dug dug deep into my stash of Bella products to find the cool text paper from the Estate Sale line. It is such a cool piece of paper (I almost hated to use it! ha!)!

Supplies:
Spring Flings and Easter Things: Sunny Sunday, Egg Hunt, Cute Cuts, Alpha + Bits; Sophisticates: Miniatures Card Sentiments; Estate Sale: Linens

"Love" card, by Alice Carman.

Love is in the air for card making! For today’s inspiration image I pulled the colors to create my card. I love the yellow, blue and pink! What an adorable color palate and perfect for using the Lovey Dovey collection.  I also used the color placement from the image to create my design. What do you think?

Supplies:
Lovey Dovey: Alpha+Bits, Circle of Love, Cute Cuts, Love is in the Air, Border N’ Blocks; Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Banana

"Sweet", by Jamie Harper.

I loved this inspiration!! Everything from the color combination to the words going vertical, so I decided to follow the inspiration pretty closley. I loved the mix of greens and pinks, they just make me happy and scream baby girl. I followed the inspiration by doing my title vertical up the side of the photo.

Supplies:
Lovey Dovey: Love is in the Air, Bear Hugs; Sophisticates: Petite Pieces, Ciao Chips; Simply Simona Chipboard Alphas: Pickle Juice

"Live Today", by Megan Klauer.

When I first saw the inspiration piece this month I knew right away that I wanted to do a vertical title. I love to play with my title work and this was a great excuse! I continued with the vertical design by using strips of paper to mimic the books shown in the original piece. I finished it off with just a few horizontal pieces to balance it all out and to keep the eye flowing.

Supplies:
Finally Fall: Quadrants, Cute Cuts, Leaf Pile, Borders, Bliss, At the Patch, Alpha + Bits, Journaling Stickers, & Icons; Sophisticates: Chipboard Simona #s White, Chipboard Simona Salt Water

"Little Pumpkin At The Patch", by Nancy Damiano.

The first thing that really caught my eye in the inspiration photo were the bookends. I love the big huge words and how clean and simple they look. I used the Simply Simona chipboard alphabet to "bookend" my layout in the center. I like how they border the entire layout, add splashes of color, and draw the eye straight to the photos.

Supplies:
Finally Fall: At the Patch Paper, Border Paper, Ciao Chip Icons, Miniatures Stickers, Alpha+Bits; Winter Wonder: Toasty Paper; Simply Simona Chipboard Alphas: Orange and Saltwater

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We hope you can find some inspiration by these colors as well, or even by one of the projects that our designers have shared today. We would also love it, if you shared your inspired-by projects with us. It's always fun for us to see what you're creating! Feel free to leave a comment here, with a link to your project. Or share it with everyone over on our Facebook Page.