Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Thanksgiving Week Day 3

Good morning!

This is Melissa here with you today on the blog and I have a new Thanksgiving themed layout. Those of us here in the United States are celebrating Thanksgiving this week and I dug back in the photo archives and found some photos from Thanksgiving of 2019 to scrap and share with you all here :-)

I knew two things about this layout: I wanted to use a big title and I wanted to use several photos. I downloaded and cut out a digital cut file from the Bella Blvd Silhouette store that said "TURKEY DAY" and cut this out using Kraft card stock.

I also knew that I wanted to use some earthy, darker toned papers for this project. I used a piece of rust colored card stock and a piece of brown Bella Besties pattern paper in Pony. I backed my card stock with the pattern paper and used a lighter piece of pattern paper from the Home Sweet Home paper collection to layer down the length of my layout. I found four photos I wanted to use and converted them to black and white. I placed these in a grid and backed it with the yellow pattern paper from Home Sweet Home.

I created a couple of embellishment clusters on either side of my grid using stickers, puffy stickers, chipboard, and die-cuts. Once I had all of this situated, I figured out where to place my title but I needed something to anchor my title down. I decided to take a strip of the same yellow pattern paper from Home Sweet Home and stitch the title to it with my sewing machine. I notched one end of the strip of paper and adhered it down at the top of my layout. I typed and placed my journaling underneath it.