Bella Blvd Studio Blog: You Are My Sunshine & Summer Week Day 5 with Process Video

Hi everyone, this is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) and here is a new layout and process video using the brand new You Are My Sunshine collection! This is my first layout with this cute new collection and I love all the happy colors!

I’m focusing on Summer today and particularly bees! My little boy loves bees and there are super cute bees in the You Are My Sunshine collection so I decided to go with that as my theme. I choose my background paper first: a yellow paper with sunshines all over it. I trimmed it down, distressed the edges and stuck it to a sheet of white card. I added machine stitching around the edge three times.

I had two photos which I mounted onto a journaling card from the cut-apart sheet. I also cut out a card from the same sheet that has a bee on and reads ‘just be yourself and do your own sting’ I thought this was so fun and decided to feature it on my layout.

I arranged my two photos and the journaling card horizontally across the layout. I added a strip of patterned paper with bees on across the bottom together with a piece of black pom pom trim. I also added another journaling card tucked behind my photos, with hexagons all over it – of course this goes very well with my bee theme!

I then added lots of fun embellishments! In particular the bee Bella Pop. Bella Pops are layered stickers and the bee has acetate wings, so cute! I also added the sun Bella Pop too and then added all the bees I could find! I have stickers, ephemera, and puffy stickers. I love that they are all different sizes and textures and flying in different directions, they are so adorable!

I finished off with a title ‘buzz…’ in black Aria Puffy alphabet stickers and wrote my journaling onto the journaling card.