Hi Bella fans! The last week and a half have been so much fun sharing with you all the latest Bella Blvd and Illustrated Faith products designed to help you document your life beautifully and meaningfully! This week we are sharing those products in projects straight from our Creativation trade show booth as well as our new catalog! So get ready to be inspired! We are starting off our week featuring our Make Your Mark and Acrylic Words assortments, followed by an interview with Meghan Coleman, the lettering artist behind all the handwritten words in these gorgeous collections! So sit back and enjoy!
Inspired by the makers movement comes Make Your Mark, an abstract electric, hand-painted collection that truly makes messy beautiful! As creative souls we need to make time for the things we love; let’s celebrate the makers and their passion for creativity! Collaborating with hand-letterer Meghan Coleman, who loves creating letters with heart, Bella Blvd debuts gold foil in a beautiful and inspirational way. Collection available February 2017.
Make Your Mark Clipboards, by Jamie Pate
Make Your Mark Peonies by Jamie Pate
Make Your Mark Canvas by Missy Whidden
Love You Sweetie layout by Missy Whidden
Be You, Be Brave, Believe in Yourself layout by Amy Heller
How much fun was that? Want to see more? Check out our Make Your Mark collection video below and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the latest on new products and Creative Team process videos!
Add the perfect title and touch to your layouts and projects with these high quality, solid white acrylic words! Available in 10 skus, each offering two different words in the beautiful hand-written script of artist Meghan Coleman. There’s no other font treatment out there like Meghan’s letters from the heart!
Acrylic Words layout by Amy Heller
Acrylic Words layout by Stephanie Buice
Aren't these acrylic words fantastic? Want to see more? Check out our Acrylic Words new product video below and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the latest on new products and Creative Team process videos!
Our Acrylic Words embellishments start shipping to retailers in February!
We are finishing today's inspiration post by getting to know Meghan Coleman of Jules + Henry, the talented hand-lettering artist behind all of the lettering for our new Acrylic Words as well as the writing for the Make Your Mark collection. Here's a little more about Meghan and the part she played in designing the lettering for these beautiful lines.
Words are powerful. One seemingly small word can be packed full of inspiration or emotion. As a letterer, creating beautiful words is my passion. I find such joy in playing around with different styles and pen (or brush) strokes because each choice, each medium I work with, elicits something different. And of course, being in the creative world as well as being my family’s memory-keeper, the words I choose when I document our stories matter.
One of my very favorite parts of the in creating for these collections was lettering all of the acrylic words. I was in awe of the list of words that Bella Blvd’s team came up with because to me, they weren’t just words; they’re hope, inspiration, and love. And knowing this is perhaps the most exciting part of all: to know that these words will play a role in you creating and sharing your story.
With Make Your Mark, I love how inspiring this collection is as a whole. The bright colors, the pops of gold foil, the simple, yet powerful words and phrases sprinkled throughout; this speaks to embracing yourself, to living life in a big and bold way, to seek adventure in everyday moments and to proudly share your gifts with the world.
I hope you find so much inspiration + joy in this collection (I mean, just the colors alone should be enough!) and I’m so excited to follow along and see how these words come to life in documenting your own stories! Oh happy day, friends. Cheers to powerful, inspirational words + making our stories beautiful. - Meghan Coleman
Jules + Henry, Meghan's petite lettering studio, is named after her two children: Grace Juliet + Henry William. Meghan is a self-taught letterer, something she started during a time of great transition. Since she first began lettering nearly two years ago, she's launched a business she never thought possible and has worked hard at spreading love into the world through her letters. Meghan lives in Minneapolis, MN with her husband John, Grace, Henry, and two sweet dogs, Hayley + Sophie.
Find Meghan online at http://www.julesandhenry.com, and on Instagram here.
This is such a beautifully bold collection. Love it!
Posted by: AmberS | January 23, 2017 at 11:43 AM
Oh wow! These new Acrylic Words and Phrases are absolutely FABULOLUS!!! I love them so much and will have to add them to my stash as soon as humanly possible!!! I see myself using them on countless projects and creations!! Thank you Meghan, for your unique and beautiful artistic talents and thank you Bella Blvd for teaming with another great artist to bring us more innovative and fun products!! xox
Posted by: Linsey | January 23, 2017 at 12:03 PM
Wow - such wonderful inspiratioN! Wonderful collection!
Posted by: Jean Marmo | January 23, 2017 at 12:18 PM
Loving all the happy colors and project today you have brighten my day and added a little sunshine to my world!
Posted by: Michelle Salazar | January 23, 2017 at 01:35 PM
Thank you for sharing such loveliness!
Posted by: Paula Gentry | January 23, 2017 at 10:33 PM