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Our Love Song Focus on Borders & Daily Details | Inessa

Hi friends,

I'm happy to be back to share my first project using Our Love Song collection! This week we are focused on Daily Details and Borders and I love these papers. They can be used in so many ways. 

I started with the borders paper and trimmed off the red, black/white polka dots, rainbow stripes and pink polka dots strips. I also trimmed 1inch strips from the XOXO and Our Mix papers. I randomly trimmed each strip of paper to various lengths and cut each end to create banners. Once done, I adhered them to white textured cardstock, slightly overlapping each other. 

The next step was to layer my picture on the Crazy for You (red/pink polka dot) paper to create a border. I cut out two of the 3x4 cards from Daily Details- pink graph and the yellow top hits cards and distressed all around. I used these behind my photo as well as a square from the Love Notes paper. 

For title and embellishments, I pulled hearts and zig zags from the Ephemera Icons pack, heart stickers from the Doohickey sheet and the guitar and red heart from Ciao Chip. The "you" is from Ciao Chip as well and the "rock" is from the Doohickey sticker sheet. 

The finishing touch is the torn paper at the top and bottom backed with torn pieces from XOXO and Love Notes. 

Thanks for looking and I hope it inspires you to create!

Inessa 

Our Love Song | Borders & Daily Details | Rachel O'Neal

Hi friends! I hope you have been loving all the new layouts showcasing the Our Love Song collection that Bella Blvd released. I know I've personally had so many people tell me how excited they are for this new collection. And I am just as excited as they are to sit down and show you my second layout. This week we are showing the collection with an emphasis on the Borders and/or Daily Details 12" x 12" papers. The Borders paper is filled with several strips of that can but cut up and used a variety of ways. Some have sayings on them and others are filled with great patterns. I chose to showcase as many of them as I could get on the layout. Here it is:

I managed to get seven of the borders on my layout! I started by cutting out the strips and then arranging them in a cross pattern on my white cardstock to the left side of my paper. I also added a black scallop border that I created myself with black cardstock. The giant "I LOVE YOU FOREVER" has to be my favorite one of the bunch and works perfectly as my title.

I backed my photo with white cardstock and then added another layer with the black and white grid paper called Soundtrack. Before adding my photo to the layout, I stamped several black clusters of plus signs around the layout. With such a colorful collection, I like to balance out the bright colors with black which I can achieve through stamping and doodling. Next, I added the photo to the layout with foam tape. The fact that this collection has roller skates makes my heart so happy! 

I added all the pizzaz to the layout with those bright colored zig zag ephemera. The design is perfectly reminiscent of the 80's! You can find them in the Ephemera Icons pack. That's where I also got the set of roller skates and boom box. I added some more tiny details (hearts, lightening bolts, and musical notes) from some of the Bella-pops sets and enamel stickers.

I finished the layout by journaling the details from the photo. 

Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout! I've got on more to show you later this month. Can't wait!

Here's a list of the supplies I used today:

• 12" x 12" white cardstock
• 12" x 12" black cardstock
• Our Love Song Borders 12" x 12" paper
• Our Love Song Soundtrack 12" x 12" paper
• Our Love Song Ephemera Icons
• Our Love Song Bella-pops
• Our Love Song Enamel Stickers

Our Love Song Borders & Daily Details | Laura Alberts

Hello friends! I am so excited to dive into the new Our Love Song collection! The bright, happy colors and musical icons are perfect for my musically inclined kids. These photos from a visit to my Grandma's house are precious, so the musical notes gave this layout the perfect touch!

I started this layout with border strips from the Borders Paper and tags from the Daily Details cut-a-part. Layering both the strips with fishtailed ends and the tags with twine added inside the holes gave this background a pop of color with high contrast black and white.

I added a sprinkling of fussy cut florals, puffy stickers, musical notes, and enamel shapes along the sides of my photos for a whimsical look. Also, layering a long border sticker from the Doohickey sticker sheet really helped make the subtitle from the Borders paper pop!

To give the title a little extra punch, I layered leftover strips from the Borders paper with border stickers and chose a chipboard title. Such a fun and versatile collection! 

Our Love Song Collection Kit

Our Love Song Ciao Chip

Love You More puffy stickers

You're My Jam enamel shapes

Graph & Dot Blueberry Bella Besties

 

Our Love Song | Erica Thompson

Hello friends! Erica here with you today to share a layout using the Our Love Song collection! 

This collection is one of my all time favorites! I love the punch of black and white and all of the adorable icons! For this layout I wanted to pull in one of the new Bella Cut Outs from the You & Me pack! The Bella Cut Outs are pre cut cut files that are ready to be backed with pattern papers or you can leave them as is! They also come with a template that makes tracing and cutting your pieces easy to do!

I started by picking out pattern papers from the Our Love Song collection to back the cut out and then added foam adhesive all over the back of the file. I adhered the cut out to the center of a pieces of white textured cardstock. Since I did not mat the white cardstock onto a piece of pattern paper I wanted to add something to the top and bottom to help frame out my layout. I pulled out a decorative punch from my stash and punched through two different pattern papers in the Our Love Song collection. 

Once they were punched out I adhered them to the top and bottom of the page and it gives the layout a more finished look. I added a few layers of pattern paper behind my photo and adhered down to the layout above the Bella Cut Out. I used the Our Love Song Ephemera Words and Icons to embellish around the layout. I used lots of the floral pieces from the Our Love Song Ephemera Words pack to create clusters around the page. 

To add to the title cut out and fill in some of the white space at the bottom of the layout I added two of the ephemera words so the finished title is You & Me Together 4Ever! To finish off the layout I added some twine to the tag I added to the left of my photo and this twine helps fill in the white space on the left side of my photo and brings in a fun texture. 

I love how this layout turned out and the Bella Cut out makes it easy to put a page together! Thanks so much for stopping by the Bella Blog today! I hope you enjoyed my layout today and you are inspired to create with the Bella Cut Outs! Have a great day!

Our Love Song | You & Me Cut Outs

Our Love Song Debut Week | Sarah

Hello, Bella friends! It's me, Sarah, hosting today's blog post. I can't believe that Valentine's Day is right around the corner?! I could have sworn that we just celebrated the New Year, hehe. Time flies when you're busy having fun and creating.

Anyway, today I'm sharing a layout using some of the fun, new Love Song collection!

Here's how I felt inspired:

As most of you already know, I love scrapping about my dogs. So why not use the Love Song collection to document these pet photos?!

"You're My Jam" really stood out in the icons pack, so I decided to use it for my title. Following the musical theme, I used the stereo Bella Pop to create a focal point on my layout. The musical notes come with the stereo, so I just sprinkled the notes around the stero to add more splashes of color.

Around my title, I added more die-cuts from the icons pack. There are a handful of bright flowers to choose from in the pack; I also love that there are more musical themed die-cuts such as guitars and records.

Lastly, I used Florence Alphabet stickers to add more color. I love that these stickers come in an assortment of colors that coordinate with all of the Bella Blvd collections. I repeated "WOOF" on my layout to emphasize the idea of a dog layout.

Anyway, that's all I have for today. As always, thanks for following along.

Until next time,

Sarah.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Love Song: Patterned Papers, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, Bella Pops; Legacy: Florence Alphabet Stickers

Our Love Song Debut Week | Ashley Neu

Hello, hello! Have you seen the new Our Love Song collection from Bella Blvd?! It's absolutely amazing! So many bright colors and icons. I love the roller-skates, music notes and the 90's vibes I'm getting from this collection! I'm sharing my very first layout I've created using this collection and it's of a picture of my 3 daughters at their choir concert. Seemed appropriate for the music theme in this collection!

 

 

To begin this layout, I started with the patterned paper 'I Love You', which is the adorable hearts paper and tore it across, exposing a white edge. I wanted to create an opening between the torn paper to add in ephemera! I grabbed a piece of white cardstock and cut it in half to adhere the torn patterned paper onto. I then used another piece of white cardstock to adhere each halves using foam adhesive so that I had that opening for the ephemera bits. The 'XOXO' patterned paper was perfect to add as strips between the white cardstock and the hearts patterned paper. I then added a simple stitch to give some texture.

 

 

I wanted a large title to span across the hearts background so I used the "You Make My Heart Sing" Cut Out from the 'You + Me' Cut Out pack. I simply backed the open letters with vellum so the heart pattern could shine through! I added my photo slightly tucked in behind the Cut Out and I was ready to embellish the layout!

 

 

To embellish the opening I created earlier, I grabbed the Ephemera Icons pack from the collection and laid out several pieces. I added in music notes, a microphone, a boom box, a cassette tape, a keyboard and many, many hearts. To help fill in the empty spaces, I used black Nuvo drops. I wanted to create a fun texture to the plain white cardstock that was above and below the patterned papers so I used a hearts punch and punched out so many hearts from the same white cardstock. I absolutely love this technique because it doesn't add more color to an already busy layout but gives the perfect touch! 

 

 

This collection is plum full of amazing pieces and patterns. I hope I've inspired you to look into purchasing at least a few pieces from the collection (or possibly the entire thing!). Thank you for stopping by the blog today and have a wonderful day!

 

Supplies Used: Our Love Song collection- Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons, DooHickey Stickers; You + Me Cut Out; White Cardstock; White Embroidery Floss