Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Guest Designer

Hello everyone! I am super excited to join the Bella Blvd blog as a Guest Designer this month!

My name is Dorymar Pérez, I am from "La Bella Isla del Encanto”, Puerto Rico! and I live in Connecticut. I have 2 beautiful young girls, Adriana and Andrea, and have been happily married to the love of my life for 15 years, Eddie.

Since I was a child, my favorite hobbies were drawing and making crafts. I discovered the wonderful world of scrapbooking 10 years ago and fell in love with it instantly! Since that day, I can't stop designing and creating! I love to design very detailed projects, with many interactive elements. I always try to use all the items from a collection and I love to create 3D projects with lots of dimension, mini albums, layouts, mixed media projects, cards, etc. Bella Blvd products are perfect for all of these projects and so much more!

Spring is such a joyful and colorful season and that is what I want to share with you this week as a guest designer: colors and fun! For my projects I used the colorful Fruit of the Spirit Collection, Seeds of Faith collection, both from Illustrated Faith from Bella BLVD.

My first project is this fun 12x12 layout.

For this layout, I used one of the collection’s papers as a base and sewed it around the edges on the pink pattern paper that I placed on top of the blue paper.

To create the tree, I used a cut file from my Silhouette. In each one of the leaves I combined the beautiful patterned papers from Bella BLVD’s collections.

I love fussy cutting so, to give the dimension that I love to bring to my projects, I cut several elements of the papers like butterflies, birds, flowers and combined them with puffy stickers and letters. The result was wonderful!

At the bottom of my page, I added some strips from the paper and a cute clip bella bow with some fundamentals stickers; they all look gorgeous!

The Fruit of the Spirit collection is so versatile! I created a fun card with it!! For the background, I used several cuts with the different patterns of the papers. As a main message I used the shapes, and on the side, I placed a beautiful Bella Bow.

Easter is also a time to enjoy outdoor activities with our families and kids. For my last project, I wanted to make a bundle of a card, a treat box, and an Easter basket. For this project, I used a Silhouette cut file and a basket that I bought at a craft store.

To create the card, I used a combination of the Sweet, Sweet Spring Collection with the Seeds of Faith Collection.

To cover the basket, I used a 1.5 "circle cutter and cut several circles out of the different paper patterns.

This was so much fun! Hope you liked all my projects and that they inspired you to create! Thank you again to the Bella Blvd team for inviting me to play with their beautiful collections this month! I had a blast!

If you like to see more of my work, you can find me on:

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Enjoy this Easter with your loved ones! Happy Crafting!

Dorymar Pérez