Bella Blvd Studio Blog

"Always There"

By: Ebony Van Der Starre

One of the reasons Ebony was chosen to be a new Bella Arista for 2010 was because of her unique style and use of textures and different mediums. Check out this awesome layout (but seriously, how can you go wrong with a photo as perfect as that!?)....Love how Ebony used the newest Bella Blurbs Journaling stickers; By matting and layering them, then creating her title with various Alpha+Bits stickers. The different mediums layered together create a masculine touch to the page. Ebony used paint, doodling, rub-ons and also roughened the edges of the patterns! Here's a closer look!Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: From the Man of the House Collection: Distinguished, Cuff Links, Wide Tie, Bits A Bella

Cardstock Stickers: Blurbs Journaling stickers, Alpha+Bits

And the Winner is......

Cindy,

"My kids use LOL, IDK, CU soon, K instead of typing out the long "ok"! High school stuff, cars, clothes, shopping, music, prom, homecoming, jobs, dance (as in ballet, etc.), computers, textin', of course. College-greek life, tailgating, bar crawls (can't imagine paper for that but they sure take a lot of pictures of it!, homecoming activities, finals, jobs, internships, dorms, roommates..."

Congratulations Cindy! Please send us your addy asap so we can send out your Scrapbookdeals4you.com kit! Thank you again Martha for sponsoring this fabulous giveaway!

We had a great time trying to decipher some of your text message lingo! Some great suggestions coming from everyone, I love reading all the comments and reminsicing my high school and college days! Thanks to everyone for participating!

We have plenty of fabulous giveaways this month including some Bella jewelry, more kits, Bella attire and even some from our infamous Artist, Heidi Bohn!

Some inspiration for your Friday comes from Artista, Allyson Meinholz. She created this adorable mini album using everything from the Estate Sale collection. 

 

 

 

Retailer Spotlight & Giveaway!

Have you heard of them? During March, Martha chose our Estate Sale Collection for one of her three kits! It's gorgeous and filled with trims, prima flowers, buttons and a whole bunch of matching Bella Blvd! The kit was so popular on initial orders that Martha ordered a second set of product for another set of kits! Wow!

Martha and Jennifer have so graciously donated a kit for us to giveaway to a lucky winner today! Here's how to play along: Leave a comment below, tell us some of your favorite text message phrases/acronyms (i.e LOL!), and some pastimes of high school kids and/or college students! We need your input!

A winner will be selected and posted tomorrow!

 

Martha created some beautiful pages using the kit!  

The kits are on sale for $28.95, you can find them here in shop. There's an even better price if you are a subscriber to the kit club or buy 2-3 monthly kits. 

Thank you to Martha and everyone at Scrapbook Deals 4 You for sponsoring the Bella Blvd Studio blog and being such a loyal customer of ours!

"You & Me = Us"

 

By: Elizabeth Carney

Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: From the Man of the House Collection: Distinguished, Cuff Links, Bits A Bella

Cardstock Stickers: Blurbs Journaling stickers, Alpha+Bits 

Happy Monday Bella fans! Hope your Easter was bright and beautiful! Today we'd like to kick-off April by introducing you to Ebony and Elizabeth,

 

If you could trade places with any other person for a week who would it be?  PINK! I love her and            would love to be a rock-star for a week!

I am not... a good singer or dancer.

Three words that best describe me... friendly, chatty, creative.

Tell us about one of your worst habits. I bite my nails!!

If you were a type of food, what type of food would you be? Something that was both sweet and sour!!My favorite place to shop is... JCPenny. I know nothing fancy but I love that store. Then after that, I am a thrift store kind of girl. I love getting a bargain or turning something old into something new! Oh! This little shop in England called Terrington where all these antique collectors brought their goods to sell. It was all in one place and the best place to shop and find the greatest stuff!

I could live without... people who drive on my tail in the car and think that I'll go faster because they are riding my tail!

If you could trade places with any other person for a week, who would it be? Peter. I want to walk on water.

Tell us about one of your worst habits. I am a talker. I have a tendency to talk it and talk it over. You get the drift...sometimes I just need to let it go instead of beating it to death by talking about it. 

Beyond the Page with Kim Arledge + Chat!

Check out this super cute mini tin Kim created using Bella's All Inclusive collection! I love the texture of the Burlap and the Ciao Chip^tm tags!!

 

And oh, before I forget! Something fabulous is happening tonight!!! I will be here for an online chat (and maybe a giveaway ;)

 

 

Hope you have some free-time to join us, can't wait to sign in the Cherry loft at 8pm CST and meet more new peeps!

Beyond the Page with Michelle Lanning

It's officially April! Wha-hoo! We're kicking off April with a new feature. For each of our new Artistas we have given them a "Beyond the Page" challenge. March's was to create a mini album. (Yes, we will be featuring Michelle Lanning and Kim Arledge through Friday of this week!)

Michelle created this super cute mini album with a chipboard book that she found in the dollar section at Michael's and Bella's All Inclusive Collection. She plans to give it to her sister that is getting married and will be going on a honeymoon to a tropical place!