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Bella Blossoms T-Shirt Tutorial

We always love to hear from our fans, and we especially love when you share with us the fun layouts and projects that you have created using Bella Blvd products. Last week, we got an email from designer Emily Pitts, who wanted to share with us a super cute project that her daughter created.

 

While Emily was at Summer CHA, in Chicago, she was given a few packs of the Baby Blooms-A-Bella to take home and play with. Before Emily had a chance to use them on any layouts, her teenage daughter saw them and was inspired to use them on a T-shirt she had just purchased. We have invited her to join us on the blog today, to share her idea with everyone.  

 

We want to give a warm welcome to Annie! She is almost 17 years old, a junior in high school, an accomplished pianist, she loves Pinterest and doing her hair. Here is her fun tutorial, in her own words:

This shirt was so easy to put together. All it requires is a plain t-shirt, some Bella Baby Blooms-A-Bella, glue dots, and a needle and thread. All I did was lay out the flowers in a pattern I liked.

 

Then I transfered them carefully to the side. 

With a glue dot on the back to hold it in place, I stitched each flower to the t-shirt, a couple of stitches through the button. I removed the glue dot and move onto the next flower in the pattern. 

When I washed it. Turn it inside out and wash on gentle to reduce the fraying that naturally happens.

 

It was so easy to make this trendy shirt and I did for half the price that I'd pay at the store!

Thanks Annie, for sharing your fabulous idea! I love to see teenagers being inspired to do things creative and unique! And remember, we welcome you all to share your creations, using Bella products, with us. You can email us, with "Inbox Inspiration" in the subject line, to lauravegas.bellablvd@yahoo.com. You can also share you idea with us on the Bella Blvd Facebook page. You never know when we might email you, asking to share your idea with all of our readers and fans ;)

Cricut Circle Feature Week: Tuesday Tutorial

 

 

Today's Tuesday Tutorial is brought to us by Katherine McElvain.

 

The assignment was to use the Embossing Plus Tags, for the Cuttlebug machine. I made a group of tags to reference my inks and mists. Today I have a tutorial on making a set of tags as a reference index for your mists and inks. 

 

All you need in order to make a set of color wheel tags is your basic scrapbook supplies, inks, mists, some coordinating Bella Blvd paper,  Bella Fiori stamps, a Cuttlebug and the Cuttlebug Tags Embossing Plates/Shapes.

 

The Cuttlebug tags plate is perfect for this project because it not only lets you cut out a variety of tags, but embosses them at the same time. The first step was to choose the tag I wanted to use. I chose one of the larger tags that allowed enough room for me to write a label describing the color of each ink or mist. Then I ran flat white cardstock through the Cuttlebug using the plate.

 

After the tag is cut I did not remove it, but instead left it pinched in between the metal plates and pealed back the top clear layer to reveal my embossed tag and the plate which is now a screen to color my tag.

 

Holding the plate in place I sprayed my tag with glimmer mist.

 

After spraying the plate I lifted it up to reveal my pretty little tag! 

 

I cut a coordinating paper for the back side of the tag (the tab folds over to the front side) and sanded it to reveal the embossed pattern. I also cut out some tiny flowers form the Bella Blvd Family Dynamics Quadrants paper.

 

I adhered all the pieces together, and wrote the name of my mist on the tag to make a fancy little sample of my glimmer mist.

 

For the inks I chose a different tag to use, and sponged the ink through the template. Because sponged ink can appear as a different color than stamped ink, I used the Bella Fiori stamps to make a stamped sample on my tag as well. I again labeled it with the ink name and backed it with a Bella paper.

 

I put all my colorized tags on a ring and hooked them to my tote bag. With all the cut Bella paper they look good dangling from the back side as well as the front!

 

And now I have a cute little color reference to go to when I need to choose a mist or ink.

Thanks, Katherine, for a fabulous tutorial! We hope you'll stop back by later this afternoon, and then again this evening, for two more posts that are full of card inspiration!