Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Endless Inspiration Week: Embellishments

Today we want to share some projects with you that really showcase our new embellishments. Designer Tapes, Button Market, Flags, Crochet Flowers, and our chipboard alphas. All of these products are perfect for embellishing your layouts, cards, and altered projects!

“Good Morning Ella”, by Megan Klauer.

For this layout I used a combination of the Designer Tapes. I started by stacking the actual rolls next to each other until I came up with a combination of colors that I liked for my layout. I then applied them to my kraft card stock in that order. I tore them roughly at the ends because I like that sort of "imperfect" look. I used the negative portion of the Punch Sienna Chipboard Alphabet sheet on top of the Designer Tapes to create a fun & unique base to my page.

Supplies:
Sunshine & Happiness: Chipboard Icons, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Miniatures Stickers; Sienna Chipboard Alphas: Punch, Pony; High Five Alphabet Stickers: Pink & Red, Blue; Designer Tapes: Gulf Dot, Punch Chevron, Orange Stripe, Piggy Pink Stripe, Pink Stripe, Yellow Chevron, Pickle Juice Chevron

"Prettied Up", by Laura Vegas.

I wanted to really feature the Designer Tapes on this layout, so I picked out a fun assortment of colors that matched my photo. I started with a graph paper background (from the Family Dynamix collection), so that the tapes would really stand out against the white. A bonus to using the graph paper, is that it made it super easy to line up the tapes in straight rows. I like how the tapes give the illusion of patterned paper!

Supplies:
Sunshine & Happiness: Happy Clouds; Family Dynamix: Quadrants; Ciao Chip Elements: Borders; Simply Simona Chipboard Alphas: Peep, Oreo; Designer Tape: Yellow Chevron, Piggy Pink Stripe, Jail Bird, Punch Chevron, Teal Stripe; Crochet Flowers: Daisies, Juniper, Dahlia; Button Market: Pink Flowers, Aqua Flowers, Fruit Punch, Neutrals Mix

"So Many Smiles" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

I used a few different tapes on this card to basically create the background for the card. All the designer tapes are great to coordinate and mix with the different Bella Blvd lines! Like on this card, I cut the flowers out of sheet of paper from the Birthday Girl line and the sentiment is a sticker from the Birthday Boy line. Cool, huh?!

Supplies:
Designer Tapes: Orange Stripe, Pony Dot, Gulf Dot; Birthday Girl: Party Dress; Birthday Boy: Just Write Journaling Stickers

Altered Tag Tree, by Stephanie Hunt.

My goal in creating these gift tags was to embellish, embellish, embellish. I wanted to show how great all of Bella's embellishments can work together.

I just love all the different textures that the Crochet Flowers, wooden buttons and pearl-topped Stick Pin Flags create against the various patterned papers.

I hand cut several leaves from the green polkadot paper and tucked them in and around the Crochet Flowers for more dimension.

A couple of the tags are actually strips and strips of Designer Tape, all overlapping to create their own background pattern.

When displaying the Tag Tree at CHA, brown twine from The Twinery all cut at different lengths suspended the double-sided tags from the jewelry necklace holder.

I'm hoping to use them in the future as sweet little gift tags to embellish presents and thank yous for my friends. I'm sharing a bit more information and pictures over at my blog today as well----be sure to visit!

Supplies:
Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace assorted papers; Thankful: Homey, Burlap; Birthday Girl: Miles of Smiles, Party Dress, Dancing Queen, Sugar Rush, Celebrate; Crochet Flowers: Poppy, Daisies, Juniper, Dahlia; Designer Tapes: Yellow Chevron, Jail Bird; Button Market: Masculine Mix, Checkers, Green Bursts; Flags: Spring Flings, Thank You, Love, Patriotic, Bugs

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Today is the last day of our two-week long Endless Inspiration feature, showcasing booth projects from CHA, using our new collections and products. We hope you have enjoyed all of the layouts, cards, and altered projects that our designers have whipped up, and we hope that you are inspired and ready to create with these new products. They will be available before you know it!