Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Time to Travel, Puffies & Acrylics Week- Day 1

Hi friends! Emilie here to share my project I created using the Time to Travel collection as well as the "Explore" acrylic word!

Sophia goes though some very heavy phases of "no photos". This can make it hard, when mixed with me forgetting to take photos due to being too engrossed in the moment, to have plenty of new pictures to scrapbook... With Covid lock-down and my photography problems mentioned above, I do not have tones of travelling images. Here is why I love the fact that Bella BLVD products can be super versatile! Instead of recording an adventure taking us hundreds of miles away, I recorded one taking place on our doorstep, literally!

Sophia has a true love for the services: police, firemen, ambulance... you name it. At Christmas she was offered an electric motorbike and we took it for a spin straight away. She was so proud on her bike! It was a perfect photo opportunity!

I had the perfect photo to scrapbook but now I needed to find a way to make it work with a travelling collection... Well I must admit it was easy! My first step was to chose my colors. I wanted to use the black and white stripes as it reminded me of the services and the blue was a perfect match for her police bike. I settled on the green as my third color simply as I felt it kept the layout fresh and original.

I started by fussy cutting some tags from the patterned paper and then use some die-cuts to cut even more tickets from the patterned papers. I alternated the patterns on my background, creating layers, until I was happy with my "base".

Once that was done, I matted my photograph onto the green patterned paper and attached it to my layout. I glued my acrylic title onto the green stripe of the multicolored striped patterned paper to then fussy cut around it. This technique really helps the title stand-out!