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!

“Celebrate Today”, by Stephanie Buice.

HI everyone! I hope you are loving the new collections as much as I am, I’m totally crushing on Color Chaos, the colors and patterns make me so happy! My sister and her husband recently bought their first home and they couldn’t be happier. This picture is of them when they first got their new keys, I can just see the excitement on their faces. For this layout I mostly used Color Chaos and some pieces from here and there. I took the Clouds Clear Cuts from the Simply Spring collection and added a strip to the bottom and top of my page to finish it off. I used some of the new Enamel Dots and a Bella Bow to add a little more detail, this pages was a fun one and my sister will love it for her album.

Supplies:
Color Chaos: Oreo Black Strandz, Bell Pepper Strandz, Orange Strandz, Punch Strandz, Daily Details, Treasures & Text, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Symbols Ciao Chips; Simply Spring: Gingham, Daily Details, Spring Patchwork, Clouds Clear Cuts; Family Forever: Candid Cards; High Five Alphabets: Colorwheel, Green, Gulf, Piggy Punch, Black-White; Enamel Dots: Bell Pepper, Ice, Punch, Guacamole; Bella Bows: Saltwater Bows

"Shine", by Katherine McElvain.

When I chose this picture of my daughter, I planned on creating a school layout using the Star Student line, but when I wrote out my journaling the theme for the layout morphed from a school theme into a shiny star theme. That was easy to do because the Bella Chipboard Icons and Sunshine paper form the Simply Spring line displayed that message and combined well with the Star Student line. I also wanted to create some cutouts in the paper backed by an invisible, so I traced and cut out a large star from the cardstock and adhered my “A Day At a Time” Invisible behind it. The Daily Details from Color Chaos had the negative image of the invisible so I traced a star on that as well and used part of it on the top of the layout. To jazz up the layout a bit more I sprinkled some gold ink and scattered some DooDad stars on the page. Those little stars are so fun!

Supplies:
Color Chaos: Trinkets, Treasures & Text, Daily Details, Words of Wisdom, Peep Strandz; Invisibles: A Day At A Time; Simply Spring: Chipboard Icons, Sunshine; Star Student: Chipboard Icons, Daily Details; Enamel DooDads: Ice

“Be The Best Version Of You”, by Sheri Feypel.

I love trying new products that take me out of my comfort zone so to speak. I started with the Invisibles Calendar sheet, creating my layout on top of the page. Then I got comfy and added a few patterns from the Color Chaos collection to the back of the Invisible sheet as well. I love how all of the patterns work so well together, and really compliment my photo. Even the hearts! I couldn't finish this page without adding some of the new Enamel Dots, which are one of my favorite embellishments to use right now.

Supplies:
Color Chaos: Bell Pepper Strandz, Gulf Strandz, Peep Strandz, Scallop Strandz, Treasures & Text, Trinkets; Invisibles: Calendar; Enamel Dots: Guacamole

“Good Times” card, by Laurie Schmidlin.

I am smitten with the bright colors in the Color Chaos collection! I chose some coordinating patterned papers for the background. The flowers are from the Flowers & Clouds Ciao Chip pack. For the sentiments, I added a couple of stickers from the Color Chaos collection. To embellish the card, I added some Cotton Candy Enamel Dots and a matching ribbon treatment.

Supplies:
Color Chaos: Orange Strandz, Ice Strandz, Treasures & Text, Trinkets; Ciao Chipboard: Flowers & Clouds; Enamel Dots: Cotton Candy

“You=Awesome” card, by Ashley Marcu.

The fun artistic feel throughout the Color Chaos collection inspired me to layer colored patterns mixed with black and whites. I also clustered several embellishments in a fun way, allowing them to overlap and work together.

Supplies:
Color Chaos: Daily Details, Orange Strandz, Bell Pepper Strandz, Treasures & Texts, Trinkets; Clear Cuts: Metallic Gold Confetti; Ciao Chipboard: Hearts & Stars; Bella Bows: Bell Pepper; Enamel Dots: Guacamole