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Sketch Week- Day 5 | Tegan

Good day everyone, Tegan here! I hope you all are enjoying sketch week! I know I sure am! Seeing different takes on the same sketch is so fun! I love that this sketch involves circles, which is something I sometimes forget about when I create my layouts. Here's the amazing sketch again for reference...

I have been wanting to document photos of my new recue pooch, so I pulled out the darling Cooper collection!  I stuck to the basic sketch design, but I wanted to create a fun design with the main circle. I first cut a large 8" circle into the Bella Besties Freehand Graph & Dot White Patterned Paper. I then made a rainbow striped background with 2-inch strips of Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre Patterned Papers in Orange, Pickle Juice, McIntosh, and Blueberry. I then added Puffy Heart Stickers around the design. I used the Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Orange, Pickle Juice & Guacamole, McIntosh, and Blueberry. I love that all of the Bella Blvd products coordinate so well! 

I wanted to incorporate a little more interest to my rainbow circle, so I added a piece of the dog print cut outs from the Faithful Friends Cut-Outs pack. I then backed some of the paws with the spotted Cooper Puppers Patterned Paper so it would stand out a little bit more. I love how this design turned out! I then embellished the layout with little die cut pieces from the Ephemera pack. 

I used some more Ephemera pieces to create a fast fun title and accents on the page. I then added Bella Blvd Puffy Star Stickers... an oldie but definitely still a goodie! 

I did even include the two smaller circle design elements but they got covered up by the pictures a little. But I love the little bit of pattern that they add underneath the photos. I absolutely love working with sketches.... do you?! I love them for when I get stuck or just want to try something different! What is your favorite thing about this sketch?! 

Thank you for joining us today! I hope you find some time to create a layout from this sketch. I know you will have a blast like I did! And if you have a pooch, the Cooper collection is perfect! 

Bella Blvd Products Used:

Cooper Collection: Puppers Patterned Paper, Ephemera Pack

Bella Besties Patterned Papers: Freehand Graph & Dot White, Hearts & Ombre Orange, Hearts & Ombre Pickle Juice, Hearts & Ombre McIntosh, Hearts & Ombre Blueberry

Cut-Outs: Faithful Friend

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: Orange, Pickle Juice & Guacamole, McIntosh, Blueberry

 

Sketch Week Day 4 | To the Moon Collection | Niki Rowland

Hi everyone! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) and I have a new layout and process video to share using the fabulous To the Moon collection and I’m also playing along with this month’s wonderful sketch by Brianna.

I completely adore the sketch and stuck to it pretty closely. I love circles and I love stars so this was pretty much perfect for me!

My photo is of my little boy dressed as Superman, so I picked out the colors from the collection that were Superman colors: red, blue and yellow. I then cut the large circle from red heart paper using old school methods: a compass, pencil and scissors! I distressed the edges (to cover up my wobbly cutting!) and stitched around the edge with black machine stitching.

I cut more circles and stars from the other papers using metal dies. I positioned the shapes on the layout and turned the stars into 3D stars by scoring and folding them.

I added my photo and a journaling card too and got all of my shapes stuck in place. I also punched more stars from black card and added those to the clusters too.

I used the black Florence Alphabet Stickers to create my title. I stuck them onto some white card first and trimmed around them leaving a narrow white border which makes them stand out well against the busy paper behind it.

 

I finished off by adding a few little ephemera pieces and then I handwrote my journaling around the edge of the large circle. I also added a few splatters of white paint to the clusters. I have prepared a process video for this layout which can be viewed below - enjoy!

Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

 

Products Used

To the Moon Collection: 12x12 Papers, Ephemera, Cardstock Stickers

Florence Alphabet Stickers Black

Other: White card, Metal Dies Circles & Stars, white acrylic paint

Sketch Week- Day 3 | Sarah K

Hello, Bella friends! Happy Wednesday! It's me Sarah (@redoaklines) back on the blog, and today I'm bringing you another awesome 12x12 layout inspired by this month's sketch. Have you seen it yet?! If not, here it is again for reference:

 

 

See! I told you it was a fun one! I love the circular design on this one and the use of two photos. I felt inspired to use the You Are My Sunshine collection for this layout.

Here's what I came up with:

 

I knew right away after seeing the big circle on the sketch that I wanted to use a big, bright sun, so I found the Sun cut file in the Silhouette Design store. To use the same sun that I used in this layout, find it here.

 

Like I mentioned before, I focused on using the You Are My Sunshine papers and embellishments because I knew that the bright, color palette in this collection would be perfect for that sun cut file. The name of the collection is "You Are My Sunshine" after all, hehe.

With a handful of products, this collection really brought out this sketch design. I used various patterned papers to back my photos, scattered some ephemera icons and a few stickers, and ta-da! 

 

However, instead of using the smaller circles shown in the sketch, I opted to use some ephemera icons to embellish my layout.

 

That's all for today! I hope that I've inspired you to use this month's sketch because it's definitely an awesome one to use. If you do end up using this sketch, we'd love to see it! Please feel free to share with us on all of Bella's socials by tagging us - #bellablvd or #bellablvdllc

As always, thanks for letting me share my work with you today. Thanks for following along!

Until next time,

Sarah.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

You Are My Sunshine Collection: Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons, Ciao Chip, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Bella Pops Fly Away, Epoxy Stickers, Puffy Stickers; Acrylic Words Fabulous; Cute Clips

Sketch Week Day 2 | Sarah Millerhouse

I absolutely love working with a great sketch! I would love to say it makes my process faster, but that wouldn’t necessarily be true…nothing can make me a fast scrapper! I think the reason I love it so much is that the sketch helps get my creativity going and takes the pressure off of deciding where I’m going with the layout. This sketch by Brianna Lepper is just perfect! 

I stuck pretty close the general composition of the sketch and used all the best elements of it. 

For my large circle, I wanted that to stand out because I knew it was where my photos would be. I created this by cutting small strips (1 in. by 3 in.) of the Bella Besties patterned papers in rainbow order, folding them over (without creasing them), and adhering those to the outer edge a 6.5 in. circle. I created a second layer by repeating the process with smaller strips (3/4 in. by 2 in.). I then cut another piece of patterned paper into a 6 in. circle and layered that on top to cover all the edges.

The other circles I created using a couple of patterned papers from You Are My Sunshine and distressing the edges. Behind each of the circles, I used distress oxides to give a subtle glow and a little bit of splattering. Around each circle, I added some hand-stitching, like the stitching in the sketch. For the larger circle I incorporated sequins as I went. For the other two circles, I did a simple straight stitch around the circle and then went back and added a French knot to each hole in a contrasting color. I LOVE the texture that hand-stitching adds to a layout! 

Once all of that was finished, I added my sweet photos that I snapped on some of our daily quarantine walks that we took to keep our sanity in check during the months we had to stay home. I embellished around the photos with lots of heart stickers from the Puffy Stickers and Trinkets sheets in all the colors, a few pieces of ephemera from the You Are My Sunshine collection, and a couple phrases from the Word Salad sticker book. I used the “So Sweet” acrylic word as my title and finished the layout with my journaling! 

I had a blast creating this layout and hope it inspires you in some way! 

Sketch Week- Day 1 | Tarrah

Hi creative friends!

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout inspired by the awesome January 2022 sketch designed by my fellow design team member Brianna. For this assignment we could choose whatever products we wanted to so I chose the gorgeous To The Moon collection.

Below is the awesome January 2022 sketch designed by Brianna. You can join in too, we would love to see your take on the sketch! The great thing with sketches is that you can use it as a starting point and go in your own direction. You will notice that I loosely used the sketch as inspiration, you do not have to place everything exactly as the sketch shows, do your own thing, there is no right or wrong!

I started by choosing the 'B' side of the Daily Details paper, tracing a dinner plate on to the paper and cutting it out using my craft knife, I used a craft knife and not my scissors because I wanted to keep the outside of the paper intact to use as a border around the entire layout. I adhered the circle to a plain piece of white cardstock and then trimmed down the cardstock and adhered it to the remaining Daily Details paper making sure that the colours lined up together in the circle and the background. I also bent up the edges of the white cardstock slightly to add some dimension to the page. As the sketch has some stitching elements, I decided to poke some holes around the large circle and then chose some corresponding cottons and hand stitched each section to match. I love how the hand stitching adds a very 'handmade' look to my page.

Once the stitching was complete (this took a little time) it was time to add my photo, title and embellishments. The photo is of my 16 year old son looking very handsome after he had a haircut. I chose to add just the one photo and popped it up on foam tape, for the other 'photo' part of the sketch I decided to add the large rocket die-cut from the ephemera icons beside the photo. I adhered this piece down using regular adhesive however I took one of the cute alien faces and popped it up using pop dots on top of the rocket. The sketch has 2 smaller circles to the bottom right of the larger one, I decided to add 3 smaller ones here that are significantly smaller than the sketch, as I said before, you do not have to do exactly as the sketch suggests. I used ephemera icons, chipboard stickers, puffy stickers and cardstock stickers here all to add some interest to this bottom corner. I also added my title here which is 'The Sky Is the Limit'.

To balance the bottom corner cluster of embellishments, I created another cluster at the top opposite corner using some chipboard stickers, epoxy stickers, ephemera icons, cardstock stickers and puffy stickers. You will notice I have used a variety of adhesives on this layout including regular double sided tape, craft foam and pop dots, all to help add interest and give the page some dimension. I added a few more embellishments near the rocket also and added the stocker that says 'You Mean the World to Me' above the photo. Lastly I stamped the date stamp and sprinkled some black mist around and my page was complete.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Bella Blvd blog today! I hope you enjoyed my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it?! I love how it turned out! Make sure to check out the gorgeous Bella Blvd goodies in store so you can create super fun pages too!

Bella Blvd products used:

To the Moon Daily Details paper

To the Moon Chipboard Stickers

To the Moon Doohickey Cardstock Stickers

To the Moon Ephemera Icons 

To the Moon A Boy's World Puffy Stickers

To the Moon Spaced Out Epoxy Stickers

Happy creating!

Winter Week- Day 5 | Melissa Mann

Good Morning, Bella friends!

This is Melissa with you today on the blog and I'm sharing a new project using the Let Us Adore Him paper collection and the Bella Besties paper collection. Here on the Gulf Coast of Florida, we are very lucky to enjoy pretty mild temperatures all winter long. This was the case on the day after Christmas! We all headed out to Pensacola Beach to get some family photos since all of the immediate family was in town and it was a super gorgeous day on the Gulf!

I documented this on the project I'm sharing with you today :-) I started with a piece of white card stock and layered two torn/distressed pieces of pattern paper to the top of the project. This was stitched down with my sewing machine. Then I gathered a bunch of tags from the Let Us Adore Him Ephemera pack and cut out a couple of tags using the Bella Besties paper. I layered these down the center of the layout and stitched them down.

Once the tags were in place, I used some water colors and lightly fanned out some pink, orange, and yellow swipes of paint around the sides of the tags - just a little pop of color. My photos were then layered on top of some vellum and layered at the top of the descending group of tags. 

I placed my title using the Florence and Aria alphabet stickers underneath my photos and my journaling was typed on white card stock and glued in the lower right hand corner. 

To finish my project off, I layered a few chipboard flowers and enamel dots around my project. Here's a peek at the full project!

What winter themed projects have you been creating? We would love to see them!

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

1. Let Us Adore Him Paper Collection
2. Bella Besties Dot & Graph - Gulf
3. Bella Besties Ombre - Red
4. Let Us Adore Him Ephemera
5. Aria Alphabet Stickers - White
6. Florence Alphabet Stickers - Black
7. Let Us Adore Him Ciao Chip
8. Let Us Adore Him Doohickey Stickers
9. Enamels - Christmas Mix