Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Bella Besties week Day 6

Hi there!

Nathalie here with another fun day of our Bella Besties week. Our theme this week is Love, and there is nothing ( well, maybe my husband) that I love more than my three children (and, yes! one is a furry kind). We are so blessed to be entrusted these souls for us to shape and then let go to the world. So, even though motherhood can be challenging, I wanted to focus on the good and documented it as I see it, in a rainbow!

What better way to capture love than with hearts. I used a metal die set and cut hearts from Bella Besties Dot/Graph and Bella Besties Ombre/Heart. I made sure that the patterns changed so that there is interest in the background.

Since the design is pretty simple, I chose to add texture to the hearts. For this, I used a paper piercing tool to create a stitching guide (poked holes around the outter perimeter of the shapes), then hand stitched each heart with matching embroidery floss.

Once all the hearts were stitched, I placed them on the cardstock in a rainbow order. A bit of foam adhesive helps to create dimension on the hearts and also gives movement to the layout. I did not want to overcrowd the hearts with decorations; so, I used stickers and ephemera words from Mom Life, Home Sweet Home, and Fa La La collection, and tried to place them following the color of the hearts.

I kept the layers behind the picture fairly simple and added a few pieces of paper from Squeeze the Day collection. I continued adding just simple word stickers and embellishments to finish the page.

I kept the title pretty simple so that it will not take away from the rainbow hearts. I mixed an acrylic word, with Florence Alpha stickers, and Alpha Stickers from Monsters and Friends Doohickey sticker. I added a few Matte Enamel Dots from different collections to match the hearts and called it done!