Bella Blvd Studio Blog: CHA Summer Releases Shipping Now

I heard some fabulous news from the Bella office yesterday. All of the new CHA Summer products have arrived, and are starting to be packed up and shipped out to your favorite local scrapbook stores and online retailers!!! It won't be long before you can get a hold of our new collections and products! Keep your eyes out for them ;)

"Birthday Party Time", by Laura Vegas.

There are so many great patterned papers in this collection, and I wanted to use so many of them. So I pulled out a banner punch and punched out lots and lots of little banner pieces. I adhered them all across the very top of the page, and machine stitched along the tops to secure them. I also used lots of the chipboard pieces on this layout. I combined the "Party" letters and the "Birthday" banner piece from the Ciao Chip Icons, and some of the new Blueberry Sienna chipboard alphas, to create my title. I added in the chipboard asterisk sign from the Ciao Chip Icons, and added one of the new orange star buttons to the center. And lastly, I used the cake from the Ciao Chip Icons as well, adhering it with pop dots and adding one of the new flags.

Supplies:
Birthday Boy: About A Boy, Toadilly Cool, Just A Note, Eat Cake, Streamers, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Chipboard Icons; Sienna Chipboard Alphas: Blueberry; Flags: Birthday Boy 2; Designer Tape: Pickle Juice Chevron; Button Market: Orange Stars

“Birthday Love”, by Sarah Klemish.

I had fun mixing the Birthday Girl bright flower paper with the pretty purple graph paper. After adding a piece of 8x8 cardstock to the center of the layout I used the Designer Tape around the border (and sewed it down). A couple of scallop borders, the pictures added (with Designer Tape to hold them down) and my simple title complete the layout. Super-fast and easy (and girly)!

Supplies:
Birthday Girl: Alpha+Bits Stickers, Party Dress, Borders, Sugar Rush; Designer Tapes: Piggy Pink, Pickle Juice Chevron; Sienna Chipboard Alphas: Pony; Ciao Chips Elements: Stars & Hearts

“Double Digits”, by Sarah Klemish.

I started with a white cardstock background. I cut several size circles out of the Birthday Boy patterned papers and placed them randomly at the top of my page. I also added strips of patterned paper at the top and bottom of the layout. After embellishing in some of the circles I used a small hole punch to create confetti that I sprinkled across the top of the page. Lastly I added two pictures (my son on his 10th birthday), title, photo corner and journaling strips.

Supplies:
Birthday Boy: Borders, About A Boy, Just a Note, Eat Cake, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Icons Ciao Chips; Sienna Chipboard Alpha: Blueberry; High Five Alpha Stickers: Yellow; Button Market: Wood Mix, Orange Stars

“Eat Cake”, by Katherine McElvain.

The new Bella Blvd Birthday Girl collection is so colorful! As I was exploring the papers I noticed that many of the patterns have white backgrounds. Because of the colorful cake photo that I took at my daughter’s birthday, I wanted to use the white background patterns to create a white tonal layout that would make the photo of the cake pop! I also added some dimensional pops of color using the Birthday Girl Chipboard Icons. I wanted to keep the look clean and simple, so I color blocked four squares in the middle, and stitched four patterns around the edge to add a subtle frame to finish it off.

Supplies:
Birthday Girl: Icons, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Borders, Cut Cuts, Sugar Rush, Celebrate, Miles of Smiles, Dancing Queen; Sienna Chipboard Alpha: Punch; Simply Simona Chipboard Alpha: Pickle Juice; Button Market: Orange Stars

"Have An Amazing Birthday" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

I used the orange and yellow patterned papers from the Birthday Boy line along with border stickers from the Alpha+Bits sheet to make the background for this birthday card. Then i added stickers, flags, and buttons toward the bottom of the card to embellish it festively! Thanks for looking!

Supplies:
Birthday Boy: About a Boy, Cute Cuts, Just a Note, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Flags; Button Market: Outdoors

"Friends Forever" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

How cute are these flowery buttons?! I used one button as the "cherry" on top of the cupcake. Then I used 2 more to accent toward the bottom right and left sides of the card. I don't always feel the need to add thread/string through the holes every time I use buttons but I did on this card. And I thought tying the string into a bow through the top button would be a cute touch!

{inside of card}

Supplies:
Button Market: Merlot Flowers; Birthday Girl: Cute Cuts, Borders, Sugar Rush, Alpha+Bits Stickers

"It's Your Birthday" card, by Laura Vegas.

I wanted to have a bit of a confetti look to my card, so I used a small circle punch along with a regular hole punch, and punched out a ton of circles from the polka dot patterned paper. Punching out the polka dots is a great way to get solid colors that will perfectly match your other pieces from the collection. There is also a sticker on just about every Just Write Journaling sticker sheet, that goes with each collection, that is the perfect width for the front of a card. I used a scalloped edged border punch along some patterned paper, to frame the sticker. Such an easy card.

Supplies:
Birthday Boy: About A Boy, Toadilly Cool, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Designer Tape: Pickle Juice Chevron, Orange Stripe; Button Market: Orange Stars, Gulf Squares