Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Stars and Stripes Week Day 3

Hi Bella friends, hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend?

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout featuring

the gorgeous Fireworks and Freedom collection for Stars and Stripes Week!

I started by cutting out the awesome Seeing Stars background cut file found in the Silhouette Design store on white cardstock, I then backed the white cardstock with the 'B' side of the Juicy Fruits paper (the red floral side) and I trimmed it all down so that I could mat the entire layout with the 'B' side of the Love the USA paper (the blue star side). I love how the stars in the background give subtle detail to my page.

As I am Australian, I don't celebrate 4th of July however we celebrate Australia Day and I have SO many photos of red, white and blue as these are also our flag colors! This photo is of my youngest son a few years ago down at the water on Australia Day, we have our day in Summer also so it's always hot and perfect weather for swimming and boating.

Next I took the red and white stripe washi tape and added a strip to the top and bottom of the white cardstock edges. From the Doohickey sticker sheet, I took the small blue scalloped sticker and placed it at the top under the washi tape. I also took part of the large blue star and red stripe scalloped sticker and placed it under my photo. I did pop up this scalloped sticker as I wanted to place my title, the Memories acrylic word underneath the scallops.

Under my photo I layered a piece of the 'B' side of the Daily Details paper (the red plaid side) and also some of the ephemera too. At the top of my photo, I added the Fun die-cut banner from the ephemera words pack overlapping it on the photo. I also pulled out the Red, white and blue phrase and the Celebrate word and added these to the bottom left of my photo. I pulled out many of the die-cuts from the Ephemera Icons pack including the glasses and a few of the stars, the glasses I placed at the bottom right of my photo and the stars are scattered around and popped up with foam dots for dimension.

To further embellish my page I added one of the large epoxy stickers to the right of my photo and placed some more smaller Doohickey stickers around. I also wanted to add some more stars in blue so I grabbed the Blueberry Trinket Puffy stickers and the Mcintosh Trinket Puffy stickers and added a few of the small stars and arrows around the page. Lastly I took 2 of the blue photo corner stickers from the Doohickey sticker sheet and added one at the top right of my photo and the other at the bottom left of the title and finally I stamped the date stamp under the title.