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Monsters & Friends + LARGE Titles Day 1 | Sarah

Happy Monday! I’m excited to share this layout using the Monster & Friends collection! 

I started by using the Pumpkins cutfile. I cut it extra large to fill the page! I then picked patterned papers from the collection to add to the pumpkin. I cut them in 1.5 inch squares and distressed the edges. I folded the corners into the center of the square. I then glued them to the pumpkin on the diagonal, making sure to mix the patterns.

I then created the background. I started with the black and white print paper from the collection. I added distress oxides using a foam ink applicator to make a glow around where I knew the pumpkin would go. I added splatters of distress inks and black and white acrylic paint. 

I glued the pumpkin to the page. I dressed up the black stem with hand-stitching using black embroidery floss. I added the leaf and swirls from the cutfile. I then coated them with glimmer paste to give them some extra sparkle. 

I finished the page by adding the “Happy” and “Halloween” acrylic words and embellishments from the collection!

 

 

I hope this layout inspires you in some way!! Have a great week!
Bella Blvd Products Used:

Monsters & Friends : paper and ephemera

Sweet & Spooky: acrylic word - "Halloween"

Wish Big: acrylic word - "Happy"

 

Mood Board Week - Day 5 | Nathalie D.

Hello Bella Blvd friends!

Nathalie with you today to share a bit more of inspiration using our Mood Board.   As Fall has started, we are all wrapped up by the coziness of the season.   Thick and chunky knits, saturated colors, texture, and of course leaves.  These are  the themes that repeat in our Mood board, too.   Let me  show you 

 

 

I love Mood Boards ( sketches are not my thing!), and this one just sums up Fall.  So, I chose a bit from each square to create my layout

 

 

As soon as I saw the painted squares and the pastel paint pots, I knew that I had to start my layout with a bit of mixed media on the background.   I simply used acrylic paint mixed with gel medium to create the overlapping brushstrokes in the background.   I added lots of color splatters all around the strokes, and set is aside to dry.

 

 

In the mean time, I used two cut files and Bella Besties to cut a few leaves.  I picked the colors of the leaves based on the colors of the leaves in the mood board, and also a bit of red to match the apples in the picture.

 

 

I love the arrangement of the leaves in the mood board. I am borrowing that setting to place all the leaves in my background ( I trimmed the painted cardstock to 8 x11.5" ).   A bit of foam adhesive helped to create levels and dimension between the leaves.  I nestled the picture inside the curve of the leaf arrangement.   The mood board also shows a bit of knitting/knitted texture,  I choose to bring a bit of the stitched look to the leaves by drawing small vein lines with gel pens in each leaf.

 

 

I decided to place the bulk of my leaves at the top of the page.  Then chose the scalloped edges of the My Candy girl to soften the edges of the painted background before attaching it to a Blueberry Besties background.  The contrast of the colors just brought all the painted backgrounds together.

 

 

For the title, I am mixing an acrylic word with Aria Puffy stickers.   Once again, I am playing with textures, and also the slim lines of the words in the phrase square of the mood board.   I added a extra embellishments, then added a few drops of gold and white ink to finish my page!

 

 

I love how this turned out, it was so much fun to take a few ideas from the mood board and transform them into this page.   Remember to share your projects, inspired by the board, with us!

 

XO

 

BELLA BLVD Supplies

BELLA BESTIES Collection:  Ombre/Heart in Blueberry, Bell Pepper, Mckintosh,  Orange, Oyster

MY CANDY GIRL Collection: Patterned papers, Doohickey Stickers

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE Collection:  Puffy Stickers, Patterned paper, Doohickey stickers

HEART HUGS: Boy

ARIA PUFFY Stickers : Blueberry

ACRYLIC WORDS:  Adventure

 

 

Mood Board Week Day 3 | Sarah

Happy Wednesday, Bella friends. I can't believe we are already at the end of September. How is it that October is just around the corner?! Are you ready for those cool, crisp autumn days?! I know I am, hehe! Anyway, Sarah (@redoaklines) here today on the blog, and I'm continuing Mood Board week!

Have you seen this gorgeous mood board?

 

Check out the photo of the aerial view of the paint cans in the second row. I loved the circles lined up and the color combination.

Here's how I was inspired:

 

Who would have though that a simple circle punch could do the trick for this design? I just punched out a bunch of circles from coordinating papers from the My Candy Girl collection and from Bella Bestie paper packs, and then I lined them up!

 

Next, I used a Bella cut file called "Fall Leaves Outline", which can be found here. Did you know that Bella offers an assortment of cut files in the Silhouette store?! If you haven't already, make sure to check it out; you won't be disappointed. Anyway, I wanted to add a touch of autumn to my layout via these fun leave cut outs.

 

 

Also, did you know Bella has a ton of Acrylic words that work perfectly for adding a title to your layout? I love using them on lots of my projects! This "Gratitude" one went well here, so I layered it right on top of my circles.

 

 

Lastly, I added some coordinating puffy trinket stickers to some of my circles to make my layout stand out more. I love that the trinkets come with flowers, hearts, stars, and even arrows. So many options to choose from! I went with a handful of flowers and hearts. 

 

 

That's all I've got for today! So, what'd you think? Did this mood board inspire you? If so, we'd love to see it! Feel free to share it with us, and don't forget to tag us on any of the Bella socials.

As always, thanks for following along. It's always a pleasure to be sharing my latest work with you all.

Until next time,

Sarah.

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

My Candy Girl: Patterned Papers, Bella Besties 12x12 Paper Pack, Doohickey Sticker Sheet; Besties: Puffy Trinkets; Monsters and Friends: Matte Enamels; Cooper: Doohickey Sticker Sheet; Hello Autumn: Silhouette Fall Leaves Outline Cut File; Acrylic Words

 

 

Fall Projects & To the Moon Day 4 | Niki Rowland

Hey everyone! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) back today with a fall layout and video using the To the Moon collection.

I have mainly focused on the To The Moon Bella Besties Collection Pack. I pulled out papers in Orange, Bell Pepper (yellow) and Pickle Juice (green). I also pulled out papers from the To the Moon collection that would also work: the wide striped paper, a green polka dot paper and a yellow paper with orange circles.

I cut up the striped paper and selected the stripes I wanted. I distressed the edges of each and stuck these to my background which is the Orange ombre paper. I also trimmed down my background, distressed the edges of that too and stuck this to a piece of white cardstock.

I wanted to make some origami corn embellishments as my photo is of my children eating corn at a recent trip to a sunflower farm. I found a great tutorial on YouTube which is here if you would like to watch it too.  I made these from green paper and yellow paper. For the green leaves I used the plain side but for the yellow side I used the hearts – they reminded me of the kernels on the corn! I made three of these, two big ones and one small.

I then used some cut files leaves, which I cut using my Silhouette Machine. I used the remaining part of the ombre green and yellow papers to cut leaves in varying sizes and shapes, and apples and pears too. All the cut files I used are by Bella Blvd and are linked below.

I stitched through all the leaves using gold thread and my sewing machine. I arranged these onto the layout around my photo together with the apples, pears and three corn embellishments that I made. I then added Heart Hugs in greens and kraft. I finished off with Trinkets Puffy Stickers and an acrylic title ‘perfect’ and a few splatters of paint.

Thank you very much for joining me today, I hope you have enjoyed this layout, and enjoy watching the video below.

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Products used

To the Moon Collection: 12 x 12 papers, 12x12 Bella Besties Collection Pack, Ephemera

Heart Hugs: Give Thanks, Sunshine.

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: Bell Pepper

Acrylic Title Perfect 

Cut Files: Leaves, Fall Leaves, Pear, Apple.

 

Sketch Week Day 3 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today sharing a new layout using the gorgeous September Sketch and the You Are My Sunshine collection.  Do you like to create with sketches?  They really take a lot of the work out for you and it's fun to take a sketch and alter it to fit your design/style as well.  Here's what I came up with!

 

 

Here's the gorgeous September Sketch created by my fellow CT member, Niki Rowland. It's fabulous!

 

 

When I looked at the sketch, I noticed a fun mixed media background using a stencil.  So I took a stencil from my stash and ink blended on a few different Distress Oxide ink pads in pink, orange and yellow. It was super simple and quick!  You could even add stitching in place of the mixed media.  It would add some great texture.  

 

 

I usually add only one photo to my layouts but this sketch called for several and I really wanted to stick as close to the sketch as possible.  I had a bunch of photos that I had taken of my boys playing basketball in the pool and I thought it would be fun to arrange them frame by frame.  I matted them using the Everyday Magic 12x12 patterned paper and popped them all up on foam tape to give them all a little bit of lift.  The photos and the mattes are all in blue tones so they really popped on top of my background. 

 

 

I wanted to add more color and without using additional patterned papers, I thought it would be neat to add washi tape to the top and bottom of the page.  I used both a polka dot washi and skinny stripe washi and really like how it pulled everything together. For my title, I used the "Memories" acrylic piece and added onto it using the Aria Alphas in Gulf.  

 

 

Next, I pulled in some ephemera, puffy stickers and chipboard and cardstock stickers.  I created embellishment clusters around my page and added some tangled thread to them as well.  

 

 

Here's a close up shot of one of the clusters.  All of these bright colors make me so happy.  

 

 

One more shot of this fun layout!

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I really appreciate you being here!  If you do end up using this sketch to create a page, please make sure to tag me in your social media posts.  I would love to see your take on it!  I'd also love it  if you checked out my process video down below to see how this layout came together.  See you next time friends!

 

 

 

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

You Are My Sunshine Collection: 12x12 Patterned Papers, Ciao Chip Stickers, Doohickey Cardstock Stickers, Ephemera, Puffy Stickers; Bella Besties: Aria Alphas in Gulf, Memories Acrylic Piece.  

 

 

Sketch Week Day 5 | Karlla Dauer

Hello Bella BLVD friends,

Karlla here and I'm very happy to share my new layout with you!

I love having fun creating with sketch and how the possibilities are endless.

I'm suspicious to say, but I love making layouts with multiple layers.

They're not good for albums, but they look great in frames.

I'm in love with "Squeeze The Day" and "Besties" collections together.

The colors and prints are amazing.

I loved this sketch and as I like to explore the roles, it was a good opportunity to do the detail I love.

I like to make this turn on paper.

I make this turn and sew the edge.

You can glue, it has the same effect.

I made all the decoration details with Ephemeras, Chipboards and Acrylic Word.

I love it so much and I hope you love too.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Have a wonderful day!

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Squeeze The Day 12X12 Collection

Squeeze The Day Bella Besties 

Ephemera Icons 

Ephemera Words 

 

Catching Up With Stars & Stripes Week - Day 4 | Melissa

Hello everyone and happy Saturday! 

Since we had You Are My Sunshine reveals during Stars & Stripes week, we were unable to share Melissa's awesome project! So today we're playing catch up because we wouldn't want you to miss out on her hard work and creativity!

Here is what Melissa had to say in her post...

Good Morning, Bella friends! This is Melissa here today with you and I have loved all the fun projects we have shared on the blog this week. I really loved working on my project for this week since it was all out red, white, and blue!

I started my project by using the "Seeing Stars" digital cut file that is available in the Silhouette Design Store HERE. I cut this out on white card stock and then layered that over a piece of dark blue pattern paper from the Fireworks and Freedom Paper Collection. 

This created the background for my project and added a bunch of already cut out stars that worked perfectly with the design of my project. Next, I spritzed some red and blue ink across the white card stock and let it dry. While it was drying, I cut out a large circle on a piece of scrap paper and once the ink was dried on my card stock, I used the circle as my template to get the first circle stitched on my paper with my sewing machine. I sewed multiple times in white thread and then placed some of the die-cut stars on my layout and then stitched those down with some blue thread. Lastly, I stitched around a few more times with red thread. 

Next, I layered my pattern papers and photos in a block and adhered down in the lower right hand corner. I knew I wanted to use the acrylic word "SPARKLE" and came up with the title "She Puts A Sparkle In Our Eye" which was layered above and below my pictures. I typed a single strip of journaling and glued that down underneath my title. 

Lastly, I used the acrylic patriotic stars, ciao chip, and doohickey stickers to fill in my stitched circle. 

Here is a picture of the full layout:

SUPPLIES USED:

1. Bella Blvd Cut File "Seeing Stars"
2. Bella Blvd Fireworks and Freedom Paper Collection
3. Bella Besties Freehand Graph & Dot - Ice
4. Red Stripe Washi Tape
5. Sparkle Acrylic Word
6. Fireworks and Freedom Ephemera Words
7. Fireworks and Freedom Ciao Chip
8. Fireworks and Freedom Doohickey Stickers
9. Acrylic Patriotic Stars
10. Florence Alphabet Stickers - Blueberry

To The Moon & Besties Meet Summer Day 1 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here with you today and I hope y'all had a great weekend!!  It's To The Moon + Bella Besties this week and we are creating some Summer layouts!  I had the perfect photo for this week!  It's of my youngest son jumping into the pool and I snapped it at the perfect moment where it looks like he's tip toeing on the surface of the water.  So of course, my title played off of it a bit and had to be "Walking on Sunshine".  Here's my layout:

To start, I created some paper rosettes in a few different sizes using the Hearts & Ombre papers in Black, Gulf and Blueberry.  I ended up putting the ombre sides face up since they kind of look like planets to me and went with the whole To The Moon collection vibe.  

For the foundation of my page, I used the hearts side of the Hearts & Ombre paper in white and adhered all of my rosettes down.  I matted my photo using patterned papers from the collection and adhered it to the largest rosette.  I also added in the "play" acrylic piece from the Explore & Play set.  It fit perfectly in the white space of my photo and made a great subtitle.  

Next, I started working on my title.  I pulled the Aria Alphas in Orange, Blueberry and Bell Pepper and created my title with them.  I thought it would be fun to have the words go along the perimeter of the rosettes and it turned out super cute!

For my embellishments, I added them straight onto each of the rosettes and created little clusters on each one.  I used the Heart Hugs in Rainy Day and Black & White, I also pulled out the Sun Bella Pop from the collection and adhered that down and tucked a Ciao Chip cloud sticker right underneath it.

Here's one with one of the Rainy Day Heart Hugs: 

I also pulled in some of the Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Blueberry and White and added those into a few clusters.  I added in a few of the stickers from the Word Salad Booklet and tucked in some tangled thread in matching colors around the page.  

I love how this page turned out!  The rosettes give a lot of interest and they also are a perfect way to add different embellishments to your layout.  Have you tried making them before?  They're super simple and so fun!

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope that I've inspired you in some way today!  The To The Moon collection is so fun and I really enjoyed creating a Summer layout with it!  Have a great week friends and I'll see you in my next post!

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

To The Moon Collection: 12x12 patterned papers, Bella Pops, Ciao Chip Stickers, Epoxy Stickers and Ephemera; Bella Besties: Heart Hugs in Rainy Day and Black & White, Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Blueberry and White, Hearts & Ombre 12x12 Patterned Papers in White, Black, Gulf and Blueberry, Aria Alphas in Bell Pepper, Blueberry and Orange, Acrylic Words and Word Salad Booklet.

 

Puffies Week Day 1 Process Video | Niki Rowland

Hey everyone! This is Niki @nikiclairecreates and here is a new layout and process video using the To the Moon collection and I have also focused on using the Trinkets, which are puffy stickers in all the Bella Besties colors.

Instead of using the space themed items from the To the Moon collection, I have focused on the B side prints and make an outdoorsy layout. I choose three papers: a blue check, orange arrows and green dot. All are from the To the Moon collection.

I cut my paper into large diagonal shards to create a diagonal star-burst design. This gives my layout a natural focal point for my photo. I’ve got a landscape photo today which is unusual for me. I positioned it towards the bottom of the layout and considered placing it at the same angle as the diagonal lines but actually decided to follow the horizontal lines the arrows in the orange print were following.

 

I added a few ephemera pieces from the To the Moon collection around my photo and then set about incorporating the Trinkets. I pulled out four sets to match my papers: Ice & Gulf, Blueberry, orange, and Pickle Juice & Guacamole. I love the Trinkets because they contain lots of different shapes: hearts, flowers, stars, and arrows! I wanted to use the arrows because of the arrow print paper. So I started layering them onto the colored areas of the layout. I didn’t have enough arrows to fill all the spaces, so filled in with some stars also from the Trinkets packs. For the orange section I just added a few orange arrow Trinkets layered over the white arrows on the paper. I added white machine stitching to the edges of the diagonal shards of patterned paper.

I added some border stickers from the To the Moon Stickers, a few punched stars from Bella Besties paper and an acrylic title ‘adventure’.

I finished off with some splatters of Shimmerz Paint in blue and green and handwrote in a few lines of journaling. Here's another look at the finished layout:

Thank you so much for joining me today and happy scrapping. Enjoy the process video below.

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates 

Products used:

To the Moon Collection: 12x12 Papers, Cardstock Stickers,  Ephemera, Chipboard

Adventure Acrylic Word

Trinkets: Orange, Pickle Juice & Guacamole, Ice & Gulf, Blueberry

My Candy Girl & Bella Besties Week Day 2 | Melissa Mann

Good Morning, everyone! This is Melissa here with you today sharing another new project made with the new My Candy Girl collection and the Bella Besties paper collection. 

My brother shared a couple of new photos of my niece, Sage, enjoying a yummy donut this past week on a trip they made to Texas. As soon as I saw the photos, I new I had to use them with the My Candy Girl collection that has a fun donut patterned paper! I layered my white card stock on the Bella Besties Heart & Ombre and stitched down strips of pattern paper from the My Candy Girl paper collection. 

After stitching the strips of paper down, I layered my photos on top of vellum and a piece of Orange Hearts Clear Cuts and placed it on top of the strips of paper. I layered chipboard stickers, puffy stickers, and Bella Pops around my photos. 

I used the "Sweet" acrylic word as part of my title along with the alphabet stickers from the Doohickey sticker sheet. My typed journaling went underneath this. I love how sweet and girly this layout turned out!

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

 - Bella Besties Heart & Ombre Paper Collection
- My Candy Girl Paper Collection
- Bella Besties Graph & Dot Paper Collection
- Clear Cuts - Orange Hearts
- "Sweet" Acrylic Word
- My Candy Girl Ciao Chips
- My Candy Girl Doohickey Stickers
- My Candy Girl Bella Pops