Sketches On Saturdays & Inspiration Day

First up, we have another round of Saturday Sketches. Twice a month, we'll be bringing you a new sketch, and showing you a few takes on the sketch by our designers. Today, we have our second sketch of the month. 

"Winter Wonderful", by Sue Mylde.

A fun sketch and a great way to put in multiple photos in one layout. With this layout, I wanted to add more embellishments and a stronger paint and mist base. I love playing with paints and mists and I wanted to create a more interesting background on the white cardstock base. Winter Wonder is PERFECT for all these fun snowy photos!

Supplies:
Winter Wonder: Borders, Blizzard, Toasty, Icy, Alpha+Bits, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Simply Simona: Brownie, Saltwater Ciao Chip

"I Love Winter", by Vivian Masket.

I love how easy it was to work with this sketch! I rotated the design 90 degrees to the left, which put the scalloped border at the bottom of the photos. I used two photos instead of three and added my journaling below the scalloped border. I used a patterned paper block for the title and additional patterned paper in place of the journaling. I used one of my favorite quick and easy techniques with the tag stickers: I switched the tiny circles in the tag holes and used them for pops of color instead of brads.

Supplies:
Winter Wonder: Blizzard, Cute Cuts, Miniatures Stickers, Alpha + Bits stickers

"Cupcake Cutie", by Allyson Meinholz.

I love working with sketches - makes it easy to scrapbook and I feel accomplished. I decided to add a larger photo in place of the journaling block and to use the focus as the 5x7 photo in color. This layout is of Alivia Jo's 1st birthday (cupckae themed) - usually I do multiple layouts for birthdays especially the first birthday, so it is nice to slip a few sketches in the mix.

We hope you will take some creative time for yourself, and try out our sketch! Whether it's a card, or a layout, we would love to see what you come up with. You can link them here in the comment section, or share them on our Facebook page!

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Next up, we have what is called Tuesday Inspiration day, here on the Bella blog. That's because most of the time, you will find this up on Tuesdays. We have so much planned for you next week, that we had to move this up a few days. Inspiration is all around us, and it's so interesting to see how a group of designers can all start with the same image, and be inspired by it in so many different ways.

{Photo Credit / Photo Card Boutique}

"Eight Today", by Katherine McElvain.

For Delaney's eighth birthday I made dirt cups for each child at the party and decorated them with Bella Blvd product to personalize them. When I saw the inspiration for this assignment I knew it was a great opportunity to match up some Bella Blvd product with this photo. Looking at the photo, right away I thought circles, so I made a circle pattern on half the layout using the grid paper (unexpectedly made it easy to line things up) from Family Dynamics and some older heart paper from Sweet Celebrations. I mimicked the the sorbet cups and strawberries with stitched red circles and little chipboard flowers from Family Dynamics. Maybe I should include some Bella products in more of my photos, it makes it easy to make it all come together:)

Supplies:
Sweet Celebration: Label Additions, Party Hearty; Family Dynamics: Cute Cuts, Quadrants, The Littlest Things, Alpha & Bits, Icons; Sophisticates: Quattrofina Peep & Saffron, Simply Simona Saltwater

"2011", by Lynn Ghahary.

I love the idea of looking back at the past year 'at a glance' so I decided to create a year in review layout for this assignment. I die cut a really large title using my Silhouette using different Bella Blvd papers in colors from the inspiration image. I also added some stickers in the same color scheme - I just love those Miniatures Stickers!

Supplies:
Sophisticates: Miniatures Family Stickers; Spring Flings & Easter Things: A Tisket A Tasket; Winter Wonder: Icy, Ski Slopes; Too Cute To Spook: Miniatures Stickers; Family Dynamix: Quadrants

"Popcorn Love", by Nancy Damiano.

I love bold color schemes, so I was excited to work with this beautiful palette. The icy blue and white make it crisp and clean. The golden yellow and red reminded me of these pictures of my son at his first baseball game. I remember how he loved the popcorn almost more than the game!  One of the things that I love about Bella, is the ability to mix and match their patterned papers. I mixed paper and embellishments from 5 different lines to come up with this page. I also created a shadow effect by cutting out a star from the red paper, backing it with pop dots and filling it with stickers. This added a fun element and some texture to the page.

Supplies:
Making the Team: Borders, Miniatures, Alpha+Bits, Ciao Chip; Finally Fall: Bliss; Winter Wonder: Toasty; Spring Flings & Easter Things: Tisket a Tasket, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Christmas Wishes: Just Write Journaling Stickers; Mr Boy: Alpha+Bits; Ciao Chip: Saltwater and Oyster Simply Simona

"Joyful", by Jamie Harper.

I LOVE the inspiration for this month. The color combo is so fresh and full of life. I knew I wanted to match the energy of the colors with an action photo, so I chose this photo from Disneyland. I asked my son to give me a quote to put on the layout, and I added lots of description words. I love how so many lines can be mixed and matched, it makes pulling together products so easy, and it turn makes for fast and easy scrapbooking.

Supplies:
Spring Flings and Easter Things: Mom's Bouquet, Alpha+Bits, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Sophisticates: Miniatures Family Stickers; Simply Simona Chipboard Alphas: Saltwater

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We hope you can find some inspiration by this image as well, or even by one of the projects that our designers have shared today. We would also love it, if you shared your inspired-by projects with us. It's always fun for us to see what you're creating! Feel free to leave a comment here, with a link to your project. Or share it with everyone over on our Facebook Page.

Comments

[Julie Tucker-Wolek]

Love love love all of these!!! GORGEOUS lo's and so much inspo!! And loving the way Jamie did a little photo with a quote about the layout in the corner of her page!! Very unique!! :):):):):):):):):):):)

[Kathy Martin]

Wowza! So many great pages! Thanks for the weekend inspiration as I get ready to craft! :)

[Sue]

Love the pages. Did some 'show and tell' with the paint on my layout on my blog too! :).

LOVE WINTER WONDER!

[Diana Waite]

ABSOLUTELY love all of this!

[meredemaison]

All these LOs show what I love most about Bella Blvd - lots of fun and lots of wonderful colors! TFS!

[Cynthia B.]

Tons of inspiration today! Thanks to all your designers for their fabulous work.
And since you're talking about next week, I can't wait to see what you have up your sleeve. :)

[Yvonne DeWater]

It is so inspiring to see how different sketches are interpreted and expanded on.