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Sweet Beautiful Mama Love by Kim Watson

Competing with a Mama's love has no rival right? Well neither does the BB Heart Hugs when creating a page about love.

Hello friends, Kim Watson here with my first blog post for Bella Blvd for 2019! I am so excited to be here & look forward to playing with their fabulous products! Today I am thrilled to share a page perfect for the month of love. It tells the story of the deep, unbreakable love between my BFF & her delightful daughter.

Sweet Beautiful Mama Love by Kim Watson

This design was totally inspired by the rainbow colors of the corrugated card, BB Heart Hugs. The idea was so create a ombre effect using different colors. 

Using a hand drawn heart shape as a guide, I filled it with different colors & sizes, being sure to maintain the heart shape. I used Heart Hugs from many different collections, so there were times when the sentiments weren't appropriate; I just removed them. Initially I was hesitant to use so many but do you know what, I justified it as a great 'Stash Busting' technique to justify buying more hahaha!

And the effect is awesome don't you think?

A cluster of tiny felt bows to reinforce the rainbow-ombre effect, also doubles as a photo corner. Using layers of patterned papers & stickers, help balance colors. 

The rest of the heart was completed using hand stitching & a scattering of white hearts for interest & texture. Notice how great the color coordinated stickers look layered over the hearts & photo? 

The title is the word 'Sweet', from the BB Acrylic word range, mixed with stickers & alphas, the effect is really three dimensional and eye catching. This page turned out so well, I am beyond excited to gift it to my BFF for Valentines day. 

So, thank you for joining me today! I have loved sharing with you. Be sure to go shopping for BB Heart Hugs, you can never have too many :D 

Plaids & Dotty: Orange; Heart Hugs: ALL colors :) ; Word Salad: Cardstock Sticker Booklet; Wish Big (Girl): Paper; Mom Life: Paper & Sticky Mix; Oh My Stars: Fundamentals; Cute Clips: Baby Girl; Acrylic words: Sweet. 

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day Bella Blvd Fans! How would you describe your relationship with your Valentine? How does that translate to a scrapbook layout? Christine joining you today to show how I captured my marriage in a Scrapbook Layout!

For lots of people they want a legacy to leave behind.  In our house part of our legacy, is caring for each other in a loving marriage through the good and bad! So what better products to use to showcase that legacy than our Legacy products? Within our Legacy products you can find - lots of color, lots of words, and lots of versatile products!

To kick things off I picked an non-traditional piece of patterned paper for my layout - I used the front page from the Plaids & Dotty Collection. You know, the one that comes in the paper pack and has the exclusive patterned paper on the back. I cut off all the branding details and just used the plaids and dots! I loved that it had all the colors included in it and was all lined up. It made a really nice backdrop for my colorful picture!

My title was a little trickier to come up with - so many great choices available! In the end I opted for combining the acrylic "Sweet" with letter stickers from Illustrated Faith.

Seeing as I couldn't resist pulling in all the colors of the rainbow for my patterned paper, I had to follow that up with Heart Hugs in all the colors of the rainbow (and more)! I used the Heart Hugs from a variety of packages, incorporating different sizes, to create a border between my plaids and dots!

Finally I couldn't resist the chance to really dig into the Word Salad Stickers! The phrases and words within it provide so many options for ready made journaling and can work for just about any topic you can come up with! I pulled different phrases from as many colors as I could to tell our story!

I created a process video for you so that you can take a closer-up look at how I pulled together this clean & simple layout!

Thanks so much for joining me today - hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Plaids & Dotty Patterned Paper, Heart Hugs - Sentiments, Christmas, Black and White, Sunshine, Rainy Day, Pretty in Pink, Halloween

Word Salad Stickers, Wish Big - Birthday Girl Borders, Acrylic Words - Sweet & New

 

Sweet Stuffy Love

Hi everyone. Heather Leopard is here rounding out Love week. Today, I'm putting a twist on the theme and focusing on my daughter's love, or rather obsession, with stuffed animals. Let's take a look...

I always know that any trip to my favorite craft stores will result in a quick photo session of my littlest showing me which stuffies she likes. She says "take a picture so you know what I want for [insert reason why here]." This most definitely needed to be documented.   

I started out by misting my background and then cutting six patterned papers into 2.5" x 2.5" squares. I then trimmed 2 photos and my intention was to make them both 2.5" x 2.5" but one of them just couldn't be trimmed any further and I'm so glad it worked out that way. It's still fits in the space I had allocated but it's not so symmetrical and that's the type of scrapper I am. I also cut one paper down to accommodate the change.

Next, I added the large acrylic words, Sweet Love, and left space there to add Stuffy to be a little more descriptive.  

I was then left with a bit too much white space at the top so I filled it in with a sprinkling of felt banner, heart hugs and puffy stars. The only thing I have left to do is add my journaling to tell the story. I'll either do that in the pink square or under the three hearts at the bottom.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope I've inspired you and you have a great day.

Mom Life collection: 12" x 12" patterned paper and pennants, Oh My Stars 4x6s patterned paper, Acrylic Words - Love & Promise and New & Sweet, Wonky Alpha Puffy Stickers - Ice, Mini Heart Hugs: Sentiments, Thank you, Heart Hugs in Pretty in Pink, Earth and Sushine, Puffy Star Stickers in Ice Mix and Cotton Candy Mix, Cute Clips - Pumpkin Spice

Love This Face

Hello, Bella Blvd friends! Tessa Buys here with another layout featuring my sweet and silly little girl, as well as oodles of Bella Blvd Heart Hugs.

Aspen just recently celebrated her first birthday, so with birthday balloons on the brain, I decided to create a bouquet of heart-shaped balloons as a major accent on the page. I hand-cut and punched several hearts from tissue paper, vellum and patterned paper then began layering the papers with Heart Hugs and puffy heart stickers.

I altered a few of the Heart Hugs by removing some of the tags and replacing rhinestone accents with enamel dots. I stapled the layered hearts together and adhered them to my page with just a strip of adhesive down the center back so that I could lift the edges, creating more dimension.

I adhered the hearts and my photos on a background that I created with acrylic paint and splatters of red watercolor. I love these colors together. A non-traditional color (teal) with traditional pink and red makes me so happy! I was glad to easily find Heart Hugs and puffy stickers in my chosen color palette. And since I can't help making a layout without a Bella bow, I gathered all my "balloons" with hand-drawn string and a big teal bow. The cute factor is undeniable! 

So scoop up some Heart Hugs, layer them up with your favorite patterned papers and make a bouquet of your own! Happy creating!

Seeds of Faith Collection Kit, Bella Bows in Gulf, Heart Hugs in Pretty in Pink and Wild Berry, Puffy Heart Stickers in Ice Mix and McIntosh Mix, Acrylic Words in Love & Promise, Homespun Cardstock Stickers in Apple of My Eye

Heart Hug Puppies with Kelly

Hello! It's Kelly here today sharing a layout using Heart Hugs:

I once came across a puppy card on Pinterest made entirely out of hearts. With all of the amazing heart embellishments from Bella...I was sure I could recreate a mini version to make a super cute background.

I used a mix of Heart Hugs, Puffy Hearts, and Enamel Hearts to make my mini puppy faces.

The Puppies' faces are made using upside down hearts. One of the puffy hearts cut in half works perfect for the ears. Enamel Hearts are used for the nose and tongue.

I just used little jewels that I had on hand for the eyes, although some of the enamel dots from the Heart Hugs would probably work fine, too.

I alternated the Happy Birthday Mini Heart Hugs with the little puppy faces to complete my background.

This was such a fun project...How are you using Heart Hugs?

Thanks for stopping by today!

Heart Hugs: Happy Birthdays, Give Thanks, Black&White; Puffy Heart Stickers: Milk White, Oreo Black; Enamel Hearts: Apple of My Eye, Black Eyed Pea, Bless Her Heart Mix; Acrylic Words: Love&Promise; Cute Clips: Rainy Day; Wonky Alphas: McIntosh; Plaids & Dotty: McIntosh, Scallop; Oh My Stars: Cotton Candy Stars, Fundamentals, Gift Tags, Tabbies; Word Salad Cardstock Sticker Booklet

 

Pinterest Inspired Birthday Layout with Kelly

Hello everyone! It's Kelly here today sharing a Pinterest Inspired Layout featuring the Wish Big Boy collection. While browsing, I came across this flat lay image on Pinterest:

I loved the arrangement so much, I decided to use it kind of like a sketch. I thought that the flag placement was a perfect position for one of the adorable Pennants, and used a variety of patterned papers and tags to mimic the rest of the elements on the page.

I stayed pretty true to the "sketch", but I added a header and footer + title...and a few random embellishments here and there to finish the look.

...And of course, an acrylic word is always a fast and easy cute title option.

 

Have you been inspired by Pinterest lately? 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Wish Big Boy: Blow Them Out, Daily Details, Borders, Cardstock Stickers, Ephemera, Ephemera Words; Plaids & Dotty: Bell Pepper; Acrylic Words: Wish Big; Pennants: Mom Life; Heart Hugs: Happy Birthdays; Puffy Stars: Pickle Juice, Bell Pepper, Blueberry; Cute Clips: Pretty Boy

Happy Birthday

This week over on the Bella Blvd blog it's Birthday week, so today I'm here playing with the Wish Big collection and documenting my youngest daughter's 2nd birthday!!

I am working with the girly Wish Big collection and I just have to say that I love all the beautiful colors and patterns that are in this collection, and oh so many things that can be fussy cut!!

Honestly, starting this layout I had a pieces of white cardstock sitting on my desk that I had cut a circle out of before. I just picked it up to set it to the side to go through some of my Bella goodies and sat it on top of some of the items I had already pulled out and liked the way it looked. So I decided to use it for my background and build from there.

I knew I was making a birthday layout, and I loved the happy birthday paper that I had placed the cardstock on so I used it. I don't usually start my layouts this way but this one started that way, lol. After I had placed those two pieces together, I started layering behind my photo. I do love to add layers!!

After layering a bunch of pretty papers behind my photo and getting it the way I wanted, I sat my photo where I thought I might want it and moved on to playing with embellishments. I pulled a few acrylic words out, one from this collection and then another from Bella. 

I laid the Happy Birthday up to the right of the photo, grabbed my ephemera packs and started pulling things I thought I might wanna use, knowing that a lot of them would make their way onto this layout.

As I went, I tucked more little pieces here and there in my photo mats and around the title. I added chipboard pieces, along with paper ones.

I also used some of the stickers from the Sticky mix that goes along with this collection, snipped some and tucked them here and there.

I don't usually add things on top of my photos, but I seem to be doing it more and more recently, so I created a little embellishment cluster to go on the bottom left of my photo. I wanted to use two of the cute little chipboard candles, since she was turning two, and I loved the little Hip Hip Hooray paper piece, and the fact that doing this also allowed me to add a few more pops of color down there that I wanted. 

I thought I was done at this point but I felt like my layout was missing something so I sat it down, stood up and looked at it. To me, it needed a little color at the top, since my layout already had quite a bit at the top. So I went through and cut a few strips of some of my favorites and added them to the bottom. This also gave me another place to add another embellishment cluster! I finished my layout by adding some of the oh so cute puffy hearts and some gold splatters. 

Wish Big Collection: Boarders, Let's Celebrate, Cakes&Crowns, Party Animals, Daily Details, Ciao Chips, Ephemera Words, Sticky Mix Cardstock Stickers, Acrylic Word-Birthday

Acrylic Words-Happy&Smile, Puffy Heart Stickers; Cotton Candy Mix, Pickle Juice Mix

Happy Birthday Adventure Layout with Christine

Happy is the word for the day with this layout.  Between the cheery colors and patterns and ALL the HAPPY options, it just makes you smile. The Wish Big Boy collection is packed with products to capture happy moments and as I was creating, I knew I wanted to really highlight the HAPPY!  Here's the birthday layout!

Because my pictures had a really bright green and orange in them, I knew i needed a base that would balance the colors a little bit.  White would have been too bright.  I opted for that dark blue background with just enough color to carry on the outdoors feel but not so much that the whole layout just screamed bright!  I was able to accent the brightness with the green patterned paper and orange accents throughout!  

Although you can't tell just from the pictures, these are actual birthday pictures!  Each year my kids go on a set of surprise adventures that coordinate with their age.  This little guy was 8 and one of his 8 adventures was a fishing stop!  I needed to be able to tie in the birthday part to the layout and did that using a variety of words.

In this first set of words you can see I used an acrylic "happy" and then boy on top of a speech bubble from the ephemera pack.

The second set of words included a chipboard "happy" and then the acrylic "birthday.  I love the way the red brings an extra pop of brightness to the layout.

Finally I added two more acrylic pieces for my "Happy Adventure" phrase.  Puffy stars, Ephemera hearts, and some mist splatters help pull the whole thing together.  With a multi-photo layout, multi-patterned background, and a title with lots of words; there was little need for a lot of embellishing!

Let's take a look at the whole process in this video:

 

Thanks for stopping by today!  Hope your day is packed with HAPPY!

-Christine

Wish Big Boy: Ephemera, Ephemera Words, Patterned Papers, Chipboard; Green Puffy Stars, Orange Puffy Stars

Happy Acrylic Word, Birthday Acrylic Word, Happy Birthday Acrylic Word

 

Birthday Week: Birthday Girl Loves Ice Cream!

Hello, Bella Blvd. friends! Tessa Buys here. It's birthday week and I am excited to share this layout featuring the Wish Big collection and my little girl's third birthday.

I pulled all but teal from the ice cream parlor photos - don't you love that blue and white checkered floor? I used the B-side of "Party Animal" as my background. The pink perfectly matches the strawberry ice cream!

I printed three photos to show off her range of facial expressions: the smile for mama look, her admiring her birthday clown ice cream dish, and the third - of course - eating the ice cream. I didn't want to take too much away from these busy photos, so I decided to keep the rest of my background white and paint a large ice cream cone as an accent. I used the Illustrated Faith watercolors to paint a scoop, then used more IF watercolors to paint the edges of a cherry and a cone that I cut from more Wish Big patterned paper.

I embellished the page with heart and sayings die cuts from the ephemera pack, as well as a few sticker hearts. And I can't seem to make a Bella Blvd. project without a bow, so a pink bitty bow adorns my focal photo. The title is a combination of an acrylic "birthday" and alpha stickers.To draw more attention to the title portion of the page, I added sticker edges to the bottom right corner.

If you've got a birthday celebration to document, you aren't going to find a cuter line than Wish Big. And if you're like me and like to get a little paint-y, the IF watercolors will help you get the job done. Happy creating!

Layout Featuring Acrylic Words with Erica

Hello everyone! Erica here with you today and I am so excited to be sharing my very first layout for Bella Blvd Creative Team. This week we are working with the fabulous Bella Acrylic Words! The possibilities are endless with this embellishment! Today I wanted to use one of the acrylic words as part of my title.

I started with a piece of white American Crafts smooth cardstock for my background. I pulled out the Wish Big Boy collection from Bella Blvd and a cut file alpha from The Cut Shoppe. I cut out the word Happy in white card stock and backed with papers in the Wish Big collection. I just love to use cut files on my layouts and using big cut file words is one of my favorite things to do. It is so easy and I love the look on a piece of white card stock!

The photos I am documenting are of our youngest son Liam Jay on his first birthday! He fell asleep on the way to the party and slept for the first half of his party. When he woke up he was not in a very party mood so most of his photos from the day he is either sleeping or crying. Of coarse I documented it all with my camera so one day he can look back on them! I used some of the strips from the Boarders paper and added them to the center of the layout. I added foam squares to my cut file words and placed them on the boarder strips with my photo off to the right side.

I pulled out some Wish Big Ephemera and Ephemera words to embellish around my layout. To finish of my layout I pulled out my WRMK Typecast Typewriter to add my journaling. Here is a look at my completed layout! You can see my process over on my YouTube Channel! Have a wonderful day!