Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Celebrating iNSD with Nathalie

Well Bella Friends, we have reached the end of our iNSD celebration, but boy has it been a blast! We hope that you've spend the day crafting away and doing what you love. Thank you for spending the day with us, we've enjoyed it!

Make sure that you check in on our Instagram feed for two iNSD challenges, giveaways, digital sale info, and all the beautiful projects our creative team worked so hard on to share with you today.

We leave you for the day with this final iNSD post by Nathalie, thank again for sharing your day with us, and for being the #1 reason we love what we do!

Here is Nathalie's post...

Hello Bella Blvd friends! Happy National Scrapbooking Day to you all! It is nice to have a day to celebrate this beautiful hobby even amidst this unprecedented time. I hope you all are enjoying all the projects we have prepared for you. One of the reasons i am drawn to scrapbooking is the need to tie my daily stories to pictures and feelings. I keep a daily journal routine, and use a lot of the stories to create keepsakes for my family. Here is one of the entries in my family album ( COVID documenting/gratitude journal).

I wanted something really colorful to lighten up the feeling of the page, so i pulled the Truck Parade paper from the Fireworks and Freedom collection to use as the background for my layout.

Unfortunately this was supposed to be my daughter's last year of High School, and since the pandemic was declared, she has seen all the milestone slowly disappear. We always talk about God, his blessing and finding rainbows after the storm. So, i decided to give this page a shower of rainbows. For this, I used the Rainy Clouds cut file to cut all the clouds and raindrops from Bellas Besties papers. Once i glued them on the page, i used a white gel pen to add the small white lines that give a more 3-d look to each piece.

I am a journaler above all, so i decided to write all about our conversation and printed this on vellum. I cut the journal to fit within the page, then added the picture of my daughter and a few embellishments from the Mom Life, Splash Zone and Wish Big collection.

The last thing i added was a title to the page. For this i mixed alphas from the Florence Alpha Stickers in Black, Oyster and White; then added a simple phrase sticker from the Word Salad sticker tablet - Legacy collection-.