Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Cut files Week Day 5

Hi there!

Nathalie with you today to share a bit more of inspiration for our Bella Besties and Cut files week. If there is something, I learned from 2020 was to be be grateful for all the little things. In year's past, I have created gratitude journals around Thanksgiving. This year, however, I am extending my journal to a year long project. I have chosen a larger format style Traveler's Notebook for this ( Heidi Swapp Chapters album). I love the size and all the notes and stories I can document in them. So, I took advantage of this week to document one of my most favorite ( and one of the things I am mostly grateful for), COFFEE...

As soon as I saw the, "Have A Latte", #329125 cut file, the idea formed in my head for this page. So, I used Bella Besties Ombre/Hearts and Bella Besties Dot/Graph to cut the pieces of the cup.

I wanted to give the image some dimension. For this, I added stitching to the coffee cup sleeve and lid of the cup. The small handstitched lines make the image pop from the page. Since my idea was to focus the page on the cup, I am using a piece of the Bella Besties Black Ombre & Hearts as the background for the page. I even hand stitched the small plumes of smoke that come in the cut file design straight onto the background.

I wanted to bring the look of my cup of coffee to the title page; so, I used cut file # 290364 , "PERFECT", to cut the word three times from the Bella Besties Pony Ombre & Heart paper. I glued this as an offset layer, so that the three colors will show as in the coffee layers of the cup. I brought matte enamel dots from the Cat Mix and Christmas Mix to the page. Then finished the cup with a cardstock sticker from the FA LA LA collection.

For my journal page, I am using a piece of the patterned paper from the POP QUIZ collection. I used vellum to print my story, and placed it on the left of the page. The picture was backed with a piece of Bella Besties Pony Ombre & Heart paper. Here, I mixed a variety of collections to add just a few more embellishments to the page ( ephemera - Squeeze the Day collection, Alphas - Monsters and Friends collection, Bella Besties Trinkets in Ice, Bubble Gum, Florence Alpha in Oyster, Word Salad - sticker tablet).