Suzanna here as Guest Designer to share with you my second blog post. Today I’m sharing with you two projects created with the Island Escapes collection! Both layouts are very different and reflect the diversity of my style. They also show you how diverse Bella Blvd products really are; your style can be clean and simple or mixed media “messy” and these products are ready to shine, no matter what!
Doesn’t layout make you feel like you are someplace warm and tropical with your toes in the sand and a frozen beverage with an umbrella in your hand?! This has got to be one of my favorite projects that I have ever created! Inspired by Island Escape!
You can see the resist technique that I used here to mimic the large palm leaves that are in both the patterned paper and the die cuts. I used a digital cut file to impress VersaMark ink onto watercolor paper, sprinkled that with clear embossing powder which I heat set, then layered watercolor over the resist. The process video will be up on my YouTube channel which is a better way of seeing the mixed media component of the layout come together
The mix of both chipboard icons and ephemera die cuts with stickers from this collection were so fun to layer and create depth on the layout! I even sprinkled in a few of the puffy stars from Bella Blvd for a little added texture and depth to the layout.
Then on the other end of the design spectrum is this cleaner, grid based layout. The clean, graphic feel of Stephanie’s designs make these types of layouts so easy, they just come together. The bright colors are perfect for those fun, happy beach memories!
There were so many endless possible color combinations and different ways you can take this collection! It was really fun layering all the different embellishment options made available to me! I really feel as though I’m on a tropical island with my toes in the sand when I look at this layout!
With the Winter release are acrylic words, one of which (adventure) I used in the title work for this layout! It is the perfect color match to the collection and finishes off the title suscinctly! What an adventure it has been to guest design for Bella Blvd! I hope you have enjoyed my projects as much as I enjoyed creating them!
Thank you Bella Blvd for inviting me to guest design and work with yet more stunning collections!
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These turned out amazing Suzanna! :)
Posted by: Mendi Yoshikawa | March 02, 2018 at 06:39 PM