Bella Blvd Studio Blog

What's New Wednesday

Welcome to "What's New Wednesday"! Every Wednesday, our designers will be sharing projects using the latest and greatest products from Bella Blvd. Especially our newest collections, which our designers are having so much fun creating with!

“Hey Dude”, by Nicole Nowosad.

My oldest gets a little neglected in the scrapping department, so I was very excited to work on a fun project using lots of the new Bella Blvd CHA releases! I love the various star papers in the new lines and mixed a couple lines together to use make a masculine page. I mixed a lot of fun colors from the lines into one pie chart shape and then repeated the circular idea across my page, using some stitching to create pie charts out of the rest of the circles. I love all the new collections and their versatility to mix together to create whatever kind of project you are working on.

Supplies:
Lucky Starz: Oreo Starz, Bell Pepper Starz, McIntosh Starz, Gulf Starz, Carrot Starz, Treasure & Text, Trinkets, Color Wheel High-Five Alpha; Family Forever: Mom & Dad, Family Game Night, Sunday Brunch, Borders; Molly: Unlimited Text; Max: Treasures & Text, Candid Cards, Trinkets; Designer Tape: Chevron Combo

“Beautiful You”, by Jodi Wilton.

I was so excited to get to play with the new collections, but I found it hard to pick one to play with first, because they are all fantastic! I decided to go with what I was drawn too first- which was the pink Doodle page- Sketch with Style from the Molly Collection! I absolutely LOVE the doodling on here, and it reminds me of my oldest daughter who loves to doodle and draw! I decided to accent the Beautiful by very carefully outlining the word beautiful and then adding the YOU underneath.  I then started to build my layout from there, and added photos stacking up from the left side to the right side. I then added some paper strips and stickers on a diagonal to finish off the layout. 

Supplies:
Molly: Sketch with Style, Refuse to Sink, Selfie, Borders Molly, Treasures & Text, Trinkets, Paper Pieces; Sienna Chipboard Alphas: Ice; Designer Tape: Chevron Combo Pack, Gray Dot 

“My Guy” card, by Shellye McDaniel.

It was pretty easy to be inspired by all of those adorable, hand-drawn robots on the Science Fair Paper! I pulled one of the squares from the Candid Cards' pack, die cut and punched a few circles and set out to make my own original robot guy. The arms and legs are just strips of paper; the arms, I attached with brads so that it's actually interactive! So fun for any little guy on your list!

Supplies:
Max: Text Me, Science Fair, Rock Star, Treasures & Text, Trinkets; Lucky Starz: Carrot Starz; Crochet Hearts: White

“Smile” card, by Shellye McDaniel.

I used a mixture of stars and hearts for this clean and simple card. I started with some basics from the Molly Collection: Candid Cards, Paper Pieces and a few stickers and then added all sorts of stars from other new collections. I love how they all can mix and match together!

Supplies:
Molly: Paper Pieces, Candid Cards, Treasures & Text, Trinkets; Max: Treasures & Text; Family Forever: Treasures & Text; Lucky Starz: Color Crazy Starz Paper; Button Market: Pickle Squares

Project Life: Bella Style

Project Life is everywhere these days, in many shapes and forms. Whether you create full Project Life albums, a few Project Life inspired layouts/spreads here and there, or even simply working Project Life style products (such as Bella's new Daily Details papers) onto your everyday layouts, there are so many ways to incorporate this popular style into your designs. We are asking our designers to be inspired by Project Life, and show us how they work that inspiration onto their own pages.

“Love, Love, Love You”, By Stephanie Buice.

I remember the day we brought our dog Chevy home. He was a tiny black ball of fur and my heart was stolen. Chevy was my baby and my best friend, my everywhere companion. Then Brady came along. These pictures are of them beginning their awesome relationship, as soon as Brady was old enough to throw that ball, Chevy's world changed. They are now best friends, Chevy is now Brady's everywhere companion and they are always excited to see each other. You should see them give high-fives, it pretty much melts my heart. 

Supplies:
Max: Candid Cards; Lucky Stars: Candid Cards, Trinkets; Family Forever: Trinkets; Tail Waggers & Cat Naps: Alpha+Bits; Super Stud: Label Additions; Molly: Trinkets; Engaged At Last: Alpha+Bits; Trick or Treat: Captions; Designer Tapes: Gray Dot, Navy Dot, Chevron Combo

“Sleepover”, by Jennifer Chapin.

I love using Project Life as an inspiration for a regular layout. I took some cues from this style of page protector and designed my layout in a grid fashion. For extra texture I stitched around my paper pieces and Candid Cards before adhering them to the background. I added black and white photos so they wouldn't compete with the bright colors in the Molly collection. Try this for your next layout! It's a great way to grab some new inspiration and put together a page in a snap!

Supplies:
Molly: Sketch with Style, Sparkle & Shine, Peace, Paper Pieces, Candid Cards, Treasures & Text, Trinkets; Max: Treasures & Text; Crochet Hearts: Gulf

Monday Morning Challenge: Long Title/Sentiment

Welcome to Monday Morning Challenge, where we offer up a challenge, and share with you our designers take on that challenge. Today we asked our designers to incorporate a long title/sentiment into their projects.

"Right Now We Have Mango To Eat!", by Leanne Allinson.

This was such a fun challenge for me, as I wanted to try and tell the story, in the title alone. The whole concept of this layout started with the Lucky Starz phrase sticker "Look on the Bright Side of Life". I immediately had the "Monty Python" song, stuck in my head and thought of my youngest. He is always cheerful and at the age of four, looking for the positive in things. The "Right Now" hash tag, also in the title, was an ideal addition to my story telling attempt, as one of his current favorite things to do, is eat mango! All I had to do next, was combine the two thoughts together with the awesome new product from the Max, Family Forever and Lucky Starz collections! My final touch on the layout, was to create some mangoes from the orange crochet hearts and green Pickle Juice arrow stickers.

Supplies:
Lucky Starz: Surf N Turf Starz, Pickle Juice Starz, Treasures & Text; Family Forever: Mom & Dad; Max: Borders, Trinkets; Crochet Hearts: Orange; Sienna Chipboard Alpha: Pickle Juice; High Five Alpha Stickers: Blue, Green, Yellow; Daily Chevies: Arrows Pickle Juice

“She Is”, by Katie Rose.

I saw this quote on Pinterest and knew I wanted to use it for a page about my daughter. I cut out the sentiment on the Silhouette and backed each line with a different patterned paper. I adhered the card stock with the sentiment with pop dots to lift it off the page. This allowed me to tuck a couple of embellishments under it on both sides. I finished up by adding my photos on the bottom and a few more stickers.

Supplies:
Molly: Sketch with Style, Sparkle & Shine, Refuse to Sink, Selfie, Peace, Borders, Treasures & Text, Trinkets, Paper Pieces; Lucky Stars: Ice Starz; Flags: Sunshine & Happiness

“Sweet & Beautiful” card, by Ashley Marcu.

I love all of the fun and encouraging words found throughout the Bella Blvd collections. Building a title or long sentiment is fun and easy with all the word choices. For this card I trimmed the "sweet" tab in to a label shape to fit my card. The ampersand helped join my sentiment together and the fun Treasures & Texts letters allowed me to personalize my message.

Supplies:
Molly: Treasures & Texts, Paper Pieces, Candid Cards; Lucky Starz: Punch Starz, Candid Cards, Trinkets; Designer Tape: Ice Stripe

“Be You” card, by Ashley Marcu.

I loved pulling out all of the fun phrases for this boy card. I paired up the alphas and phrases so the margins would be roughly the same going down the card. This allows the card to be fun and balanced.

Supplies:
Max: Shark Attack, Treasures & Texts; Family Forever: Mom & Dad; Lucky Starz: Color Wheel High Five