Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Alphabets Week Day 4

Hello Bella Blvd. friends!

Nathalie here, so excited and grateful to be back for another term working with all the beautiful Bella Blvd products. We are starting the new term with projects and inspiration featuring our latest alpha stickers. If you have seen my work before then, you know I love journal, and black and white with a hint of rainbow, therefore this project was a fun one to put together...

I love my family, and the best memories always happen when we are together. So the best way to bring the story to the page was using a large title, hearts and a bit of color.

I started by drawing a heart in the center of the White Bella Besties Ombre/Hearts. Using a paper piercing tool, I created a stitching guide on the drawn heart, and then used a chain stitch to define the heart on the page. Here, I used a combination of the Oyster Florence Alpha Stickers and Aria Puffy Stickers to fill the heart with my title ( a piece of wax paper helps to align everything in place before gluing it permanently to the paper).

I reserved the top right quadrant of the heart to place my photo (these are all my cousins from my dad's side of the family). I framed the picture with a few papers so that it will stand out from the heart. A bit of foam adhesive helps to make it pop from the page! Since I did not want to take away from the title work, I chose to keep my embellishments to a repeating element -hearts- in rainbow clusters.

I placed the clusters at the corner of the picture, bottom of the heart, and the left side of the heart. Most of the hearts come from the Home Sweet Home collection along with some Bella Hugs. To finish the page, I added a few lines of journal, then added matte enamel shapes from different collection around each cluster.

I love how this turned out, and how the alphas just bring the story and sentiment of the page together in a nice and colorful way. Remember to come back tomorrow for more inspiration using alpha stickers. Cannot wait to see what you create with them, too!