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A Halloween Birthday Party with Patricia

Hello Bella Blvd Friends!  I'm back to share a priceless memory I came across.  How fitting is the Monsters & Friends collection for a plush ghost toy's birthday celebration!  This plush toy was my daughter's everything, and he has been lost at Hobby Lobby, Michael's, Disney World, or forgotten at home.  We had to 'find' another one, he is retired, as a backup for our sanity.  Halloween is a ghosts time of year, so here is how I used the collection to document this Halloween memory.

I started with the red Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre trimmed to fit on the left side.  That ombre gives me a gorgeous backdrop for my photos, and journaling.  I used the reverse side of the paper to show the hearts to matte my typed journaling.  I left a little room on the inside to be able to stitch (before adhering this page) a die cut ghost tag, and then used the large October die cut and the Florence red alpha stickers for the date of my daughter's little friend's birthday.  I finished this page with a few of the collections stickers and a heart hug.

My photos from the left start with my daughter 'lighting' the candles with a chopstick, Ghostie blowing out the candies, and her wishing him a Happy Birthday, so this right side needed to really be fun and festive.  The Monsters & Friends coordinates perfectly with the Hearts and Ombre on the left.  I started by using a background Bella Blvd cut file with hexagons and diagonal stripes to stencil red ink onto my background.  Then I cut hexagons from more of the red Hearts and Ombre pattern paper and definitely made sure to use the little ghosts pattern paper from Monsters & Friends.  Red and Aqua are a gorgeous combination.

Once that and my photo was in place, I started having friends join the party.  I pulled out almost all of the ghost die cuts from Monsters & Friends.  I placed all the grey ghosts together and the white all together, this helps to bring some repetition to my busy background.  Next, I used the Aria and the Monsters & Friends alpha stickers for my title.

The last thing to do was give each ghost a treat to bring to the part, so I foam adhered more die cuts to each one, added epoxy stars, and also added the epoxy tiny ghosts to fill in.  The more the merrier, right?!

Halloween with kids can bring so many amazing memories, not just from the 31st.  Hope this gives you an idea of how to use Monsters & Friends and the Hearts and Ombre to document your stories.

Happy Girl Layout Featuring New Monsters & Friends Collection + Bella Besties | Maryam Perez

Hello Friends! This is Maryam and I’m so excited to be back on the Bella Studio Blog. For today’s post, I have a 12x12 layout to share I created using the new Monster & Friends Collection along with the new Hearts & Ombré Bella Besties papers.

To create my layout, I started by cutting the cut file. Then I chose Scary Cute and Hey Boo Pattern Papers both from Monsters & Friends Collection to back the cut file. In addition, I also used some little pieces from the Hearts & Ombré Bell Pepper Pattern Paper.

Once I finished backing my cut file, I added a bunch of little foam squares in the back to help it stand out a little bit more. Then I took the B side of Hearts & Ombré Pony Pattern Paper to use it as my background and adhered the cut file over it.

Next, I added my photo, title, and journaling. For the title, I used the word “Happy” from the Happy & Smile Acrylic Words Set and then added the word “girl” for which I used the new alphabet stickers included in the Monsters & Friends Doohickey sheet.

Since I spent so much time backing the cut file, I decided not to add many embellishments. So what I did was to add a couple of little flowers from the Monster & Friends Ephemera Pack and also one of the cute monsters. Last but not least, I added some black stars from the Stars Halloween Mix, and with that, I finished up my layout!

That's it for today! I hope you enjoyed this post and inspired you to create something new. If you have any questions just leave a comment below, and I’ll be happy to help you.

Have a wonderful day!

Boo Gang! October Mood Board Challenge with Tya

 Hey there! Tya here! Isn't this time of year so much fun? When they were little, all three of my kids LOVED Halloween! It was a holiday months in the making, planning just the right costume and just who they were going to go trick or treating with and where! I loved looking back and remembering this fun and festive time of year with my kiddos! 

For this layout, I was challenged to use our mood board for this month and I took the grid look and a few of the icons and colors on the board to create my digital layout. I loved this month's challenge as I am such a sucker for bright colors paired with black. I used the super cute "Sweet and Spooky" digital collection.  It was so fun to put this together! 

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by the blog today! I hope that my layout has inspired you to get out a few of your Halloween photos and create a fun digi layout so you can record those precious memories! This grid layout is a great way to get a lot of photos on your layout, and still have some room to decorate as well! Thanks again - Happy Crafting Friends! 

Sweet and Spooky Collection Bundle

October Mood Board with Patricia

Gorgeous Fall and Halloween Mood Board this month!  I love the Orange and the black, but there are so many more possibilities and inspiration from this piece, with the Fall patterns and the pops of color!  Here is how I used the Mood Board.

I love documenting in my traveler's notebooks, but I also love pocket pages and 6x8 layouts.  So for today, I'm using the Heidi Swapp scrapbook insert book which I feel gives me the best of both of those sizes and gives me more room for creativity and documenting!  I treated the left side as if it were a pocket page with a trimmed out card from the Monster & Friends pattern paper and my photo I found on the Internet for the movie Home.  The Monster & Friends collection inspired me to document about our love of this movie, and we still love to watch it over and over as well as listen to the soundtrack! 

The quote on the card from the collection 'Put your hands in the air if you just don't scare' instantly made me think of the Movie.  I used the Florence, Aria, and the Monsters & Friends Alphabet Stickers along the far left for quotes from the movie.  These colors are inspired by the Mood Board.

The right side, I documented like I would a 6x8 layout.  I used a 3x4 photo, and then trimmed the diagonal black and white pattern paper from the collection to create an intersection of the lines.  I cut out Bowtie and Nighttime cut files from Bella Blvd on the Silhouette Design Store, and used some of the clouds cut from black and white polka dot pattern paper over the black diagonal paper, added machine stitching, then used my circle punch to punch circles from my altered pattern paper, as well as black cardstock, and the Clear Cuts with the orange hearts. 

Had to put the name of the main character from the movie, which is 'Oh,' so I used the same color Aria alphas and placed on my photo.  I finished with a few more cut files, stickers, dots, and journaling to finish.

Hope you are inspired to create a colorful, patterned filled project using the October Mood Board and please share on Instagram and tag @bellablvd #bellablvd so we can all see!

Mood Board inspired with Nathalie

Hello Bella Blvd. friends!

Nathalie with you today bringing you a new layout that is all inspired on this month's colorful mood board.  I love working with mood boards as they provide an infinite number of possibilities.   This month's board is filled with some of my favorite things: black and white, a rainbow and Fall.   Here is this month's mood board:

All the color, texture and pumpkins are some of the things that caught my eye. So, I used all this images as inspiration for my page:

I love all the color with a hint of black and white in this page :) .   I just love how the moodboard fit the pictures of our baby's costume for Halloween 2019.  

 

One of the things that caught my eye are all the pumpkin shapes in the moodboard, especially the ones in the top left corner of the moodboard. In addition three of the squares also feature party decorations and feel which made me think of rosettes ( just like a party wall background). 

 

I pulled papers from different collections to create rosettes so that they matched the colors in the board.  I cut strips of paper at 0.5", 0.75",and 1" wide and crimpled them to create the rosettes.  I used my hot glue gun to keep them in place.

I chose the Spooky and Sweet patterned papers for the background of the page, as it had the polka dot look that is in the mood board.  Once all the rosettes were set in place, I used cardstock stickers and enamel dots to cover the center of the rosettes.

 

I trimmed the left side of the background by about a 3/4 of an inch and backed the space with another paper from the Sweet and Spooky collection.   I added a few papers and embellishments from the same collection behind the picture.  Then clustered Ciao Chips at the bottom of the pictures to create the title of my page.

I hope you are also inspire to use images of the mood board to create a project of your own. Remember to tag Bella Blvd, so we can also be inspired by your projects.

XO,

 

SUPPLIES:

SWEET & SPOOKY Collection: Paper, Ciao Chips, Ephemera, Cardstock Stickers

CHLOE COLLECTION: Matte Enamel dots, Enamel hearts, paper

BELLA BESTIES Collection: Grid/dot in Bubble Gum, Ombre/Heart in Ice

BELLA BOWS: Cute Boy

LET's GO ON AN ADVENTURE: Paper

PLAIDS & DOTTY COLLECTION: black

 

 

Lil' Monster | Dorymar

Hey Bella Fans! It's Dorymar, this week I was inspired by the October Mood Board.  I'm excited to share a new layout using the Monsters & Friends collection mixed with the Bella Besties.

Please take a look at the Mood Board.  This Mood Board has many beautiful bright colors and patterns popping out in black and white.

For this layout, I decided to work with the beautiful color palette and the balloons included in the pictures.   First, I decided to use the picture in the center as my page map.

I tried to pick papers from the 6x6 Bella Besties paper pad that matched with the colors of the mood board and with a few sizes of circle punches, I cut many circles to create the top of my layout. I love the dimension and to add it, I created many pieces of origami circles. This brings a fun look and adorable dimension. To finish it I added the beautiful matte enamel dots included in the collection in the center of my circles. They look fantastic!

As the layout is full of bright colors, I decided to use my photos in black and white, this makes them stand out even more and allows me to continue with the pattern of the Mood Board. As a background for my photo, I used the Lil' Pumpkins patterned paper and the Fun Facts patterned paper, then I added a few of the coolest monsters from the collection to create a fun cluster on the right side of my page.

To create my title, I used the Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers (Peep) and I underlined it using the chevron pattern that includes one of the Bella Black Chevies Clear Cuts, this gave the perfect touch to highlight the title.

I love using the mood board as inspiration and the result of this beautiful page.  I hope you enjoyed it and that this inspires you to use it with the fantastic Bella BLVD papers.

Thanks for stopping by!

Monsters & Friends Lil' Pumpkins, Monsters & Friends Scary Cute, Monsters & Friends Batty,

Monsters & Friends Fun Facts, Monsters & Friends Ephemera,

Monsters & Friends Goblins Epoxy, Monsters & Friends Bella-Pops Little Monster,

Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers (peep), Bella Besties 6x6 Paper Pad, Black Chevies Clear Cut

Newest Pumpkin Coming to the Patch! October Mood Board Digital Page

Hi friends! Allie from AllieScraps here to share a digital layout inspired by the October Mood Board! For the mood board, I was really inspired by the black and white patterns, all of the polka dots, as well as the pumpkin and Halloween themes.  Since my family just announced that we are adding a new "pumpkin" to our patch, I thought those photos and this theme worked perfectly together! My favorite part of it are the 3 little cut out pumpkins, with the pumpkin sticker right on top ;) 

What inspired you about the mood board? 

Monsters & Friends • Spooktacular • Illustrated Faith "You Are Loved" elements 

 

 

thankful: a fall digital layout by Allie

Hey friends! Allie from Allie Scraps here for another DIGITAL layout! 

I'm loving how the leaves are changing right now, because so often that means FAMILY PICTURES! And family pictures means more to scrap! For this page, I used the Illustrated Faith Gratitude Documented digital collection. Because, seriously-- those chipboard leaves and the acorn stickers? To die for. And do you want to know a secret? You can totally use them for projects OUTSIDE of your November gratitude documentation! 

How do you like to document fall? 

Illustrated Faith Gratitude Documented digital collection

 

Fall Love Digital Layout | with Tya

 Hello there! I'm so happy to be here with you today up on the Bella Blvd blog! I hope wherever you are, you are getting the chance to enjoy the new season. I love fall so much- it truly makes my heart so happy - so of course, I had to record the memory in my scrapbook. 

I used the lovely "Gratitude Documented" collection to create my layout. It was the perfect collection to use with my yellow leaf photo. The colors and the feel of the collection matched what I wanted to convey so well. The pops of teal really add a lot to the layout. I did add a few paint splatters and some sewing from my digital embellishment stash to add to the rustic feel of the layout.

 

I hope I have inspired you to get out and snap some photos with nature to celebrate this glorious time of year. Sometimes nature is the best subject to photograph when talking about how you love that certain season. Have a great week and Happy Crafting Friends!

 

Gratitude Documented Collection Bundle

School Time! Digital Layout with Allie

Hey friends! Are you as scared AND excited for back to school as I am? It's so nerve wracking sending my kiddo back to school with all of these new procedures and risks, but man, we both needed some space after 6+ months together! 

I had so much fun putting together this digital layout for back to school--- I used the fun digital collection "Pop Quiz" with a few Addison elements thrown in for good measure. And best of all, I used the "School Time" cut file as my title! Did you know that you can use cut files on your digital layouts as well? They aren't JUST for cutting machines! Be sure to download the SVG files as well, and you can pull them into photoshop and use them just like any digital element! 

Pop Quiz Digital Kit • Addison Digital Kit • "School Time" digital cut file