This week the Bella Blvd design team is focusing on creating monochromatic projects focusing on their favorite color and keeping the emphasis on the Let's Scrapbook collection and combining some Bella Besties. I created a graduation layout and customized the Congratulations Cut Out and used all the teal I could round up. Teal is one of my daughters' high school colors and it was only fitting that that be the monochrome of a graduation layout.
Let's Scrapbook is a collection that is all about color, all the colors. The patterned papers are either tone on tone color or the gamut of the rainbow. I used the obvious teal B side and combined it with the Gulf Bella Besties from the two 6x6 Paper Pads to fill the openings of the Cut Outs. Each Cut Outs comes with directions and a template. As per the template, I put the template letter on top of the patterned paper I wanted and loosely cut out the letter.Next I used liquid adhesive with a fine tip applicator on the backside of the Cut Outs and then adhered the letter that I just cut out. With the letter that are duplicate, I saved myself time by cutting both as the same time. TIPS: Be sure to use details scissors for clean cuts, move the paper as you close your scissors and temporary adhesive helps from sliding as you're cutting.
As I used the white Cut Outs on a white background, I needed black for some contrast to all the white. A few of the ephemera pieces from the Let's Scrapbook collection along with Gulf Besties Collection Puffy Stickers were the perfect compliments for sprinkles of visual interest through out the layout.
Letter stickers from the Let's Scrapbook Doohickey sticker sheet mixed well with Gulf Letter Scramble stickers to indicate the high school my daughter graduated from and her class. Again, I kept the color palette monochrome with the black for accent. I had a random scallop border left over from a previous layout that I up along the top in order to fill the space.
White space is something that I strive to include with my creations, it produces a visually appealing design and gives the viewer some calm, a space to breathe in all the elements. This is quite a busy layout, but there is white space, lots of little bits of white space. The spaces between the letters. I have intentionally left many of them without ephemera in order to provide bits and pieces of calm among the chaos of letters.
I hope you are inspired to pull out some of your Besties Collection bits and coordinate them with your Bella Blvd collections! They are great timeless accents to any collection!
Thanks for stopping in today! See you next time!
Suzanna
Bella Blvd Supplies Used;
Let's Scrapbook Collection: 12x12 collection kit, Ephemera-Words, Doohickey
Bella Besties Collection; 6x6 Paper Pads; Gingham and Stripes, Graph and Dot, Gulf and Black Puffy Stickers, Gulf and Black Letter Scramble
Congratulations Cut Outs
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