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Time to Travel | Stephanie Buice

Hi everyone, happy weekend!

Steph Buice here sharing a colorful layout I recently completed about my son Brady's new love of photography!

Now you may be asking yourself why I chose to use our new Time to Travel collection to document a new hobby, and my answer to that is...because it's PERFECT! From all of the camera ephemera, papers, puffy stickers, and even Bella Pops, I couldn't help but pull them all together to capture his latest love!

I had lots of fun creating this one too! I even managed to use a technique I don't put on my pages regularly, but adding rolled up papers gives a nice touch...see what I did there?..."Passion Unrolling"...papers that are unrolling, feels like a bad dad joke, but I'm a mom so here we are. Ha!

Once I had the ends of my papers rolled and secured using super glue, my layout came together rather quickly. I adhered everything to my layout base, added my title, a few embellishments, photos, and called it good to go! 

 

Thanks for joining me today, I hope I inspired you to use your Time to Travel goodies for more than your summer adventures!

All supplies used are from the Time To Travel collection, Bella Besties, and Trinkets.

 

 

Tiny Tots 2.0 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today sharing a new layout using the Tiny Tots 2.0 collection.  I love this collection so much and it's given me the opportunity to go back and document older photos of my boys that I haven't scrapbooked yet.  These photos are of me and the boys riding a train ride at a local fair in my hometown.  I can't believe how much they've grown, and I miss their toddler days so much!  Here's my layout: 

I haven't had a chance to use any of the Cut Outs from the collection, so I pulled out the Adorbs Cut Out pack and ended up choosing the Adorbs cut out.  I backed it using several different patterned papers from the collection and popped it up on foam tape. Before I adhered it down, I decided to add some mixed media to my background.  I took out some Shimmerz Paints sprays from my stash using only blues, greens and yellows and sprayed/painted each one on.  I wanted a little something peeking out from underneath the cut out.  

Here's another look at the backed Cut Out and the mixed media.  

I wanted more patterned paper on my layout, so I cut triangles from the ABC's paper and adhered them down on the bottom left and top right corners.  Next, I matted my photos and adhered them at the top and bottom of the Cut Out.  Using the Ellie and Stand Tall Bella Pops as embellishment cluster placements, I layered in some floral Ciao Chip stickers and a few floral Ephemera pieces.  

I am in love with the Playtime Trinkets Puffy stickers as well as the Cuteness Epoxy stickers, so I had to make sure to sprinkle some in.  

 

One more shot of this bright and happy layout: 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope that I've inspired you in some way!  I'll see you in my next post friends!

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Tiny Tots 2.0 Collection: 12x12 Patterned Papers, Ciao Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera, Doohickey Cardstock Stickers, Epoxy Stickers and Trinkets Puffy Stickers.  Cut Outs: Adorbs

Fireworks + Freedom | Ashley Neu

Hello everyone! Hope you are having an awesome week. Today I am sharing a Fireworks & Freedom layout that I put together documenting a photo of my 3 girls on the 4th back in 2017.

 

To make the background, I grabbed a cut file named Seeing Stars Cut File from Bella Blvd. I cut it out from the patterned paper named "Juicy Fruits" and adhered it onto some white cardstock, leaving a white boarder around the edges. 

I decided to that I wanted a representation of the United States so I found this USA Map cut file from Bella Blvd that would work perfectly. I simply omitted the 'USA' title on the cut file and cut the rest out. I grabbed the patterned paper "Borders" and adhered it onto of the cut file. I trimmed around the edges and used my distress tool to give a fun finish to the cut file.  I also added some stitching around the cut file using some white embroidery floss. This really helped the cut file pop off of the page.

Next, I worked on the title and photo placement. I added my photo on the right side of the cut file and created a cluster to the left of my photo. I used an ephemera piece that said 'Happy Birthday America' as my title and added 2 stars and another USA map ephemera piece to the cluster. I also added the year the photo was taken from the Florence Alphabet Stickers in the color white on top of the photo itself. I kept the rest of the embellishing very simple as I already had a lot going on with the patterned paper on top of the USA map cut file. I only used some of the Acrylic Shapes from the 'Patriotic Stars' pack to add next to some of the stars on the background paper. This gave the perfect finishing touch to a fun and patriotic layout!

Thank you all for stopping by the Bella Blvd blog today. I hope you love this layout as much as I do. See you next time!

Supplies Needed: Fireworks + Freedom collection- 12x12 patterned paper, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons, Acrylic Shapes- Patriotic Stars; Seeing Stars Cut File; USA Map Cut File; Florence Alphabet Stickers in White

 

Tiny Tots 2.0 & Time to Travel week - Day 1 - Emilie Chamel

Hello friends! I hope you are enjoying this summer! Here with the school holidays, we are keeping the kids busy the best we can which means the occasional dress-up day. And who says dress-up says mummy has her camera to the ready! In this post I am showing how versatile Tiny Tots 2.0 can be, let's have a look!

I love my little Sophia in her Belle's dress. She is so cute! And I was so lucky that she agreed to play along to a photoshoot while wearing her dress. I knew I wanted to use these photos for my Tiny Tots 2.0 project. The collections has a few florals and it also has yellow, red and green papers which I knew I would want to use.

You can't think of the Beauty and the Beast without thinking of the rose. I therefor decided to create a 3D rose out of the ABC's papers. I then cut out some leaves out of the You're A Star paper to accompany the rose. To mat my photographs, I used the yellow side of the Be Brave paper. The yellow matting really helps to link the layout with the color of her dress.

I then used a Bella BLVD cut-file from the Silhouette shop to create my title. With my Cricut I was able to add an offset layer underneath the title which I cut-out of the Bella Besties Heart and Ombre in Pink. The main cut-out was made out of plain white cardstock but I re-cut the center letter from the Ombre side of the Yellow Heart and Ombre paper. This helped to repeat again the yellow from the dress.

For my background I settled on the green Heart and Ombre paper. I felt that it was best fitting for the rose to rest on. If you see my process video though you will know that this was not my first choice and after sleeping on my original idea this was changed to this beautiful green!

The finishing touch came in the shape of some ladybirds as well as some flowers to create cluster around the rose and the photograph. A few extra words to add to my title and I was happy with the final result! The date stamped above the photographs balanced the only bit of black in the shape of my subtitle.

And there it is! We are far away from a baby or toddler layout and yet I was able to use several elements from the Tiny Tots 2.0 collection. I love to use the colours of the papers to pull the story in a different direction than first intended! 

You can find my process video here: https://youtu.be/LzdCvy1z5xE

 

Products used: 

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 Play date paper

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 Be brave paper

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 ABC paper

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 You're a Star paper

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 Ephemeras

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 Chipboard stickers

-Bella BLVD Bella Besties Puffy Stickers

-Bella BLVD Florence Alphabet Black

-Bella BLVD Aria Alphabet

Fireworks & Freedom | Laura Alberts

Hello friends! Welcome to a fun Fireworks & Freedom layout featuring my adorable twins in a 4th of July parade of their own making. My girls piled into a wagon and cruised around the backyard.

Using a large title mixed between a large Ciao Chip 'Parade' with Aria puffy alphas, the focus is on my larger 4x4 inch photo of my twins' adorable stars and stripes outfits. The banner underneath is a combination of a Ciao Chip and a cut apart banner from the Borders patterned paper from Fireworks & Freedom.

The photo strip I created on the right side of the layout is a layer of Bella Besties in Blueberry, then a layer of Borders from Fireworks & Freedom. I added three 2x2 photos and two 2x2 cardstock squares to fill the photo strip. On the two cardstock squares I created clusters with ephemera icons and words and puffy stickers for a bit of fun!

One of my favorite ways to make my photos and layers pop is to hand draw borders along the perimeter. It gives the impression of depth and really makes them stand out.

To finish off this layout, I used the Juicy Fruits patterned paper to add a bright border around the outside perimeter. 

Fireworks & Freedom 12x12 Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons and Words,

Ciao Chip Chipboard Stickers, Bella Besties Blueberry, Aria Puffy Alphas

You Are my Sunshine - Light of my life | Conny

Hey, crafty Bella's! 

It's Conny here today sharing a layout using the You Are my sunshine Collection! I started by backing up the sunshine cut file from the Summer Sun Cut-Outs. I love that it includes a template to fill in the letters, it makes it so much quicker to get a layout done. 
After backing up the cut file I added foam adhesive to the back of the cut file for dimension. 

Next, Adhere to the center of the 12x12 sheet- cotton candy hearts and Ombre! I chose a 3x4 photo of Savanna playing at the park- I matted the photo with a few papers from the You are my sunshine collection. On the photo, I added a tab at the top with the good vibes cardstock sticker, Smile at the bottom of the photo and adhere to the left of the layout. 




You are my sunshine has a lot of cute embellishments, I added a few to each letter. 
At the top by the S- I added the chipboard Sun with ephemera pieces, the light of my life. 
bee Happy to the U and on the side, I added a cluster of chipboard flowers and those cute Bella pops -Fly away! 
The butterflies and flowers add a little dimension. 



Between the N, S, H, and I, I added more Bella pops, cardstock, and puffy stickers. That little sun fit perfectly on the I -Super cute!
At the bottom of the cut file, I added another little cluster with butterflies and so on. 


Look at those cute acrylic hearts I added around the layout- I love acrylic pieces. 
on the last step, I trimmed off half of an inch on both sides and added a strip of shine bright paper, love the colors. I feel like 
it just brings everything together from the middle. Sprinkled a little bit of black paint all over to complete the layout. 



Thank you so much for stopping by, we can't wait to see what you create with the You are my sunshine Collection! 
XOXO Conny!