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Home Is Wherever My Bunch of Crazies Are | Patricia

Hello Bella Blvd Friends!  I am so happy to get to play with the Home Sweet Home collection in my traveler's notebook.  With the lockdown and being home more in general until school finally starts, there's so much to document about the family.  I've had to jot things down to not forgot!  Since these have been unusual days and we all tend to get a little crazy, I decided on this cut file title Home is Wherever My Bunch of Crazies Are.  I used the Home Sweet Home 12x12 papers to cut my colorful title, and then used stickers and die cuts to coordinate with the colors to add more texture and detail to my title.

For the right side, once I had a general idea of where I wanted everything, I penciled those items, then sent my white cardstock background through the typewriter to add my journaling.  Once that was typed, I added Home Sweet Home pattern paper with the houses because it really added to the family theme, and it adds more color as well as being so cute! That added color helps to balance my colorful title as well.

Then to add more color and texture, I added the Blueberry Mix Puffy Heart Stickers to bullet my journaling, and finished with more stickers and chipboard from the collection.  The little red and blue house at the bottom is trimmed pattern paper.  It was the right touch next to the large house chipboard, and gave me a little more bolder color to balance those same colors in my cut file and with the puffy hearts.

Pick a photo of your family, your routines, traditions, and document with the Home Sweet Home collection about these crazy people you love.  I think more than ever is the time to document what is going on with you and your family!  

Family -- A digital layout by Allie

Hey friends!  Allie here for another digital layout! This one is all about FAMILY and is using bits from the "Mind Your Manners" digital collection! 

I love the patterns and colors in this collection, and I really wanted to highlight several papers... so I did my favorite "stash busting" kind of layouts, and did a grid of 9 papers! One of my other favorite things to do is to use journaling cards with fun sentiments instead of journaling-- sometimes the cards say it even better than I could, and they look extra cute too! 

Do you like to create layouts with lots of different papers, or do you like to keep it simple? 

 

Home is... layout - Lisa Fonseca

Hi friends,

it's Lisa back on the blog and today I'm sharing a family themed layout I created using the Home Sweet Home collection. 

To start, I went through all of the patterned papers to see what I was going to use as my background and which colors I wanted to go with. I chose a patterned paper with a very fine, light blue grid design.

The collection has a paper with a yellow tile design and I thought it would be cool to cut out circles and use them on the layout. So I punched out a few circles and painted them in colors that were matching the collection. Then I also used the patterned paper with the flowers and fussy-cut out a few flowers. 

I did some mixed media on the background paper that I chose, using gelatos and a wet baby wipe. I love that technique when I don't want the whole thing to get too messy. Then I tried out a few designs, deciding how I was going to use my circles and flowers. I decided to cut a slit into the circles and to glue them in a way that would create this sort of bottomless cone. I put an enamel dot in the middle, to turn them into abstract flowers.

Before glueing everything down, I placed all the elements on my page to see how I wanted my design to be. I used tangled thread behind each cone flower and popped some of my fussy-cut flowers up with foam dots.

I used a piece of acetate with white hearts, on the left side of the layout and adhered my photo on top, after matting it with some scraps of paper.

To embellish a bit more, I chose a pink chipboard house and placed it on the left side of the photo. Then I created a little cluster of flowers around it. I also used some acrylic hearts in some spots to make it even more fun. For my title, I used ephemera letters, spelling HOME and added some Florence and some Aria alphas to complete the title.

I hope you like the layout and are inspired to create some abstract little flowers... :)

Thank you for stopping by,

Back to School Digital Layout by Tya Smith

 Hi there Bella Blvd fans! It's Tya up on the blog today sharing my latest digital scrapbooking layout with you today. Well, it's Back to School time! And while it may look a little different this year, you still can take those traditional first-day photos like I am showcasing on my layout today! 

I used the super fun "Pop Quiz" digital collection and also a bit of the "Let's Go" digital collections. The colors of these two collections coordinate really well together. I love the bright happy colors along with the cool muted gray colors as well. They play off each other so well. I am a very linear scrapbooker and as you can see in this layout I used lots of rectangles in this layout and then placed those rectangles inside a big square. I added a few stitched lines as well for some texture. 

 

I had a lot of fun using this cute collection to make this back to school layout and I hope that I have inspired you to pick up this collection for all of your back to school scrapbook layouts! 

Have a great week and Happy Crafting Friends! 

 

 

Pop Quiz Complete Digital Collection

Let's Go ABC's and 123's

Let's Go Embellishments

 

 

School Time | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you today to share a new layout using the Pop Quiz collection and a newer cut file Bella Blvd available in the Silhouette Design Store. 

I pulled out the Goofing Off pattern paper from the collection to use as my background. I added some clear gesso from Finnabair to the pattern paper because I knew I was going to be using some color and water to create a watercolor background. 

Once my gesso was dry I took some Speckled Egg Distress Oxide and ran it across the center of the Goofing Off pattern paper a few times. Next I used my water bottle to mist some water on the ink so that the color would run together create a big puddle of color. I took the paper and moved it around so the color would move around on the page until I got the look I wanted. I used my heat tool to help speed up the drying time. Once it was dry I went back in and added some ink splatters using the same Speckled Egg color ink. 

I backed the cut file with different pattern papers from the collection making sure that I used some red because my photos have red in them. I really wanted the red to stand out and I think I was able to accomplish that with my layout. I popped up the cut file using some foam adhesive and tucked in my photo strips. 

I used the Pop Quiz ephemera and 6x12 Sticker Mix to embellish around my page. I used foam adhesive to pop up some of the die cuts and stickers. The last think I did was use my We R Memory Keepers typewriter to type up my journaling. I used some wet adhesive to stick it down to my page. Here is a look at my completed layout. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you are inspired to use some new Bella cut files and get your memories documented!

Pop Quiz collection | Sticky Mix | Ephemera

School Days-Cut File Layout

Hi everyone, Lauren Seals here today sharing a fun back to school layout featuring a few different fun cut files that go with this fun Bella school line! I know this school year is anything but ordinary for many but that just means it’s even more fun to document and what better way than with a fun 12x12 layout! 
Here is my Back to school layout:

To begin this layout I first chose which silhouette Bella cut files I wanted to use to create my layout. I ended up choosing the book stack, glasses, Apple, as well as the word school that came from the school time cut file.

I knew I wanted a focal point to be my book stack so I made them big enough that I would be able to add my Florence alphas on there for some added color and dimension on the spines of the books. These fun books I think are my favorite cut file used the this page, although that Apple is awfully cute! 

Once I stacked my layers for my different sized books I wanted to apple to be a another focus point so I made the scale slightly larger than my books. I did this as well with the glasses. 
I then began adding all my school themed words and then adhered my photo may before added the rest of my pieces.

I then added my fun little embellishment cluster to my bottom right hand corner. Adding my glasses cut file along with some fun stickers and chipboard pieces.

i finished off the layout by add my School cut file piece to the top that I use one of the fun patterned papers from this school like to give some more dimension as well as those fun school icons and elements. 
For those families out there struggling with all the changes to this school year I wish you the best and hope maybe documenting and creating your school memories in such a cut way could bring some joy to the situation! Thank you for checking out my latest project and I look forward to sharing again soon. 

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