Hi Bella friends! It's Rachel here and we've got an exciting lineup this week on the Bella Blvd blog. This week it's Designer's Choice Week - meaning each designer could pick which collection they'd like to create with. I had a hard time picking, but finally settled on School Is Cool! It's been a while since I picked up this collection and so I was pumped to used it again. Here's what I created:
I started with the patterned paper called Supply List. I love the black paper with subtle white school details printed on it. I used a free cut file to cut several different size circles. You can find it here. I only used every other circle from the cut file so that I would have space between the circles to journal and use my favorite Florence Alphas - more about that later! I added the three circles using tape runner to a piece of white 12" x 12" white cardstock.
I set that aside and started working on the giant title - SCHOOL IS COOL. It looks like I used a cut file, but it's actually from the Cut-Outs set called Smarty Pants. I used the template included to fill in the word "school." I chose to use the pattered paper called Coloring. It's a striped paper and I divided two stripes per each letter. I love how that captures all the colors in this super fun collection. Before I added the Cut- Out to the paper I put my photo in the middle of the circles.
Next, I went to work with the black Florence alphas. I angled them around the circle to show case my boy's favorite class in school. After that, I got out the Ciao Chipboard and the Ephemera Icons pack and got to work creating little clusters of embellishments along with some stamping. One of my favorite parts about this collection is that it's filled with plenty of pieces that work to document your "bigger" kids as well as those in elementary school.
I finished the layout with some journaling around the inner circle and stamped the date. Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you enjoy this layout. Here's a list of the supplies I used:
- 12" x 12" White cardstock
- School Is Cool patterned paper - Supply List and Coloring
- Cut-Outs - Smarty Pants
- School Is Cool Ephemera Icons
- School Is Cool Ciao Chip
- Florence Alphas in black
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