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Cut Files + Time To Travel Week Day 2 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna here today sharing a new layout focusing on some fabulous Bella cut files as well as the Time To Travel collection.  I've traveled quite a bit recently and have some great photos to document.  This one was from my recent trip back home to CA and I found the perfect cut files to use with it.  Here's my layout: 

 

 

The cut files I chose for my layout are the following: All Who Wander, Cloud Outline I, Cloud Outline II and Clouds.  I cut them all out on textured white cardstock.  For the 'All Who Wander' cut file, I did some ombre ink blending using the Wild Honey Distress Oxide ink pad and added some sparkle by brushing on some Nuvo Glimmer Paste.  I popped the whole thing up on foam tape and adhered it down to a piece of the Hearts & Ombre paper in Ice.

 

 

Next, I took some strips of the 12x12 Freeway paper from the collection and adhered them down to both sides.  I distressed the edges before I stuck them down.  I arranged a few of the cloud cut files around my page, making sure to only add glue to certain spots of each one, so that they could somewhat pop up and add some interest to the page.  

 

 

I built some embellishment clusters using some Ciao Chip Chipboard stickers and some Ephemera Icons.  

 

 

I matted my photo using the B side of the same Freeway paper and built some clusters on both sides of my photos.   I used more Ephemera Icons pieces and even added in a few Trinkets Puffy stickers.  

 

 

Here's another cluster and I also made sure to add some tangled thread in coordinating colors.  

 

 

One more shot of this super colorful layout: 

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope that I've inspired you in some way!  Do you love working with cut files?  Have you tried ink blending on them before? It's so fun and can really brighten and jazz them up!  See you next time friends!

 

 

 

Time to Travel & Cut Files Week, Day 1 | Karlla Dauer

Hello Bella Blvd Friends.

Karlla here to share a new layout with you. "Time to Travel" reminds me of so many beautiful memories. Being able to work with this incredible collection and cut files, made me excited.

For this project I chose to use "And so the Adventure Begins" as a large title at the bottom of the project.

After cutting the cut file, I made an ombre painting in shades of blue, bringing a highlight to the bottom. I left the edges loose to give a dimension and made an irregular seam between the last words.

Besides all the painting and stitching, I added some splash of the same paints in the background and embellishments like "Chipboard Icons, Scenic Route Puffy Stickers and Doohickey".

At the top of the layout, I layered the "Let's Get Lost and Back Roads" papers, I love this tear effect on the edges!  I love that this layout has a mix of embellishments and many dimensions.

Thanks for stopping by today and hope I inspired you with this project.

See you Soon,

Xx Karlla.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Time To Travel Collection

Back Roads Paper, Let's Get Lost Paper, Doohickey, Epoxy Stickers - Getaway, Puffy Stickers - Scenic Route, Ephemera - Words, Ephemera - Icons, Chipboard, And so the Adventure Begins Cut File

 

 

Mood Board Week, Day 5 | Ashley Neu

Hello all! It's Ashley back again for another Bella Blvd Creative Team project and this week is all about finding inspiration in the June mood board! I loved the ice cream scoops photo so that is where I am starting off my layout. 

 

 

 

In Silhouette Design Studio, I created a grid of circles that each measured 2.75-inch. After cutting the circles from white cardstock, I added foam adhesive and adhered it onto another sheet of white cardstock. This gives a great base for the next step in the process!

 

 

I had 4 photos that I was documenting on this layout so I tucked each of them behind a circle and used a white gel pen to add some stitching lines around them. This gives the perfect finishing touch to the photos!  Next, I used some of the Florence Alphabet stickers to create my title 'Jumping Fun In the Sun' because my girls were enjoying their tiny trampoline in the hot summer sun!

 

 

For the embellishing process, I used a combination of embellishments. I used the cute bees from the Puffy Stickers on top of some yellow embroidery floss, the Trinket Puffy Heart Stickers in the colors McIntosh and Bell Pepper to create heart clusters and some chipboard pieces from the Ciao Chip set included in the Tiny Tots 2.0 collection. I used so many embellishment on this layout so you can find the list at the bottom of this blog post!

 

 

And that's a wrap on this layout! I hope you enjoyed hearing about the process. Come back again for some more inspiration using the Bella Blvd collections! Have an awesome day!

 

Supplies Used: Tiny Tots 2.0 collection- 12x12 patterned papers, Epoxy Stickers, DooHickey Stickers, Ciao Chips, Puffy Stickers, Ephemera Icons; Florence Alphabet in McIntosh, Peep, Bell Pepper, Gulf and Blueberry; Trinket Puffy Stickers in McIntosh, Punch, Peep + Cotton Candy, Bell Pepper, Pickle Juice + Guacamole, Ice + Gulf and Blueberry

Mood Board Week, Day 4 | Rachel

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Hi friends! I've got a gorgeous mood board to show you today. Check it out:

All these stunning colors to spark you're creativity with the Tiny Tots 2.0 collection! I chose the middle square and created a similar yellow background with Distress Oxides on a 12" x 12" piece of white cardstock. While that dried, I took out the Bella Blvd Cut Outs from the Happiness set. The word "SMILE" was a perfect start for this layout. I picked out five colors from the Bella Blvd Hearts & Ombre 12" x 12" patterned paper to back each one of the letters. I used these colors: McIntosh, Orange, Bell Pepper, Pickle Juice, and Blueberry. Once I had backed the Cut Out, I used foam tape to adhere it to the yellow background. 

Next, I grabbed the Tiny Tots 2.0 Ciao Chip to add on to my title. I wanted to create a giant title along with the Cut Out to really make a statement. Underneath the "SMILE", I stamped some stitches and added a striped scallop chipboard piece. I used a few more items from the Tiny Tots 2.0 Ephemera Icons set and my title was complete.

I tucked my photo in right above the Cut Out. I love that this collection had several ice cream cone pieces because they went perfectly with my photo. I added a couple cones along with some stamping and hearts. The Trinkets Puffy Stickers are some of my favorite for embellishing. I pulled hearts from the Blueberry and Orange sets for this layout. I got a few more embellishments from the Tiny Tots 2.0 Epoxy Stickers and the 12" x 12" DooHickey sheet.

Thanks for stopping by and reading my post. Here's a list of the items I used today:

• Bella Blvd Cut Outs - Happiness Set (SMILE)
• Bella Blvd Hearts & Ombre 12" x 12" Patterned Paper (Hearts) (McIntosh, Orange, Bell Pepper, Pickle Juice, and Blueberry)
• Bella Blvd Ciao Chip from Tiny Tots 2.0
• Bella Blvd Trinkets Puffy Stickers (Blueberry and Orange)
• Bella Blvd Tiny Tots 2.0 Epoxy Stickers - Cuteness
• Bella Blvd Tiny Tots 2.0 Ephemera Icons

 

Mood Board Week, Day 3 | Virginia

Crafty greetings! Loving the bright and freshness of this month's mood board, I zoned in on the middle photo in the top row, those scoops of ice cream flavors called out to me! My page combines some sweet Tiny Tots 2.0 icons along with some Bella Besties hearts/ombre papers to record my memory of these sweet (and delicious) little donut treats. 

I took inspiration from the photo, a repeating theme of 12 similar (but different in their own individual way) items, to create my page foundation. I made 6 similar tag clusters (constructed in the same but embellished differently) and grouped them down the center of my page leading your eye through the page stopping at each tag to tell the story and fresh vibe of the page.  

I stamped and ink blended some splashes of color behind the tags to bring the rainbow of happiness of the mood board together.  Thanks for droopy by and have a sweet day!

 

Supplies:

Bella Blvd Tiny Tots 2.0 collection; patterned paper, stickers, ephemera icons, chao-chips, bella-pop, epoxy

Bella Blvd Hearts/Ombre papers

Tools: EK Success punches, Pink Fresh inks

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mood Board Week, Day 2 | Emilie Chamel

Hello friends! Emilie here to share with you another take on this month's mood board. I love how sunny and warm it looks and it is perfect to get you insured to use the Tiny Tots 2.0 collection. Let's dive in!

 

It would be hard not to be inspired by such a gorgeous board! The hardest part for me was actually to choose which parts I would use to focus my inspiration. In the end I decided to use three elements. To start with I chose the color scheme of the board: pink, orange, yellow, aqua with a touch of red. Then I was inspired by the ombre picture and decided to use the Ombre besties paper in Ice. My last inspiration was the photograph of ice-cream and I reproduced the look of the balls by using circles on my layout. 

As I decided to use the ice-cream photograph as a start to inspire me the overall look of my layout, I used circle dies to cut out 9 circles in the patterned papers which matched the color scheme of the mood board.

 

I then went on to decorate each circle individually as if they had to "stand-alone" however I made sure before sticking anything down that two circles next to each other wouldn't be too similar or clashing.

 

My photograph is of Sophia playing in our little garden pool so I chose the "Play" acrylic for my title. I used it to decorate one of the circles in itself as I didn't feel it would look right if it was to be placed floating anywhere else on my page.

I went to town on the Bella Pops as I felt this layout was a great way to feature them and make them stand-out. They matched perfectly with the mood-board as well as with my photograph and worked amazingly to decorate some of my circles.

I was also spoiled for choice with the Ephemera Icons. They are super cute and here for example the image of the house with the car were perfect as the photo was taken at home. I also had to add lots of texture and did it by adding plenty of threads underneath my circles just to add a touch of peek-a-boo.

 

Overall this layout is one of the least dimensional I have created and yet I love it! It is so full of details and things to discover, and, it all point to the story that goes with my photograph!

I can't wait to see what you all create by using our mood-board and I hope you will do so while playing with Tiny tots 2.0!

 

Lots of love,

 

Emilie xx

 

Products used:

 

Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre Ice

Tiny Tots 2.0 Collection Pack

Tiny Tots 2.0 Ephemeras icons

Tiny Tots 2.0 chipboards stickers

Tiny Tots 2.0 Puffy stickers - playtime

Tiny Tots 2.0 Bella pops - yummy

Tiny Tots 2.0 Bella pops - cute bugs

Tiny Tots 2.0 Epoxy stickers

Acrylic word - Play