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Mixing & Matching Two Page Layout

Hi there Bella Blvd Fans! Christine joining you today with a two-page scrapbook layout that combines several different Bella Blvd Collections. I originally set out to create it with just one, but alas, I went with way more than one! Let's take a look!

I've set a goal for myself to try and do at least one two-page spread each month. I especially enjoy two pagers when I have a lot of pictures from one event and don't want to have to create multiple spreads! In this case, it was my teenage son's birthday.

For his birthday we went and tested out a bunch of different ice cream places with his best friend. I started off with the idea of using the Home Sweet Home Collection and picked out a base page that would work. I then started laying out different monochromatic papers from the collection. I ended up pulling in one Patterned Paper from Oh My Stars because I just liked the way it blended with the others.

I opted to attach those papers at a slant to add to the whimsy of the layout. Then I cut all my pictures into circles and matted them in the same patterned papers. Then it was time to embellish!

This is where I really started to mix and match. I pulled border stickers from multiple collections. I used flowers and hearts from both the Home Sweet Home and Let's Go on an Adventure collections, pulling from the Ciao Chip and the Ephemera packs. 

One of my favorite things about Bella Blvd is how nicely everything coordinates. This layout is the perfect example of that - despite going into multiple collections it all looks like it belongs together! To check out more details on how this layout came together you can take a look at this process video:

 

Thanks so much for joining me today!

Home Sweet Home Patterned Paper, Ciao Chip, Stickers, and Ephemera; Let's Go on an Adventure Ciao Chip and Ephemera, Oh My Stars Patterned Paper, Acrylic Words

 

 

My Heart, My Man

Hello friends, Wendy Antenucci here today with a layout about My Man. I chose to use the Fireworks & Freedom collection to document my hubby for two reasons: to document the fireworks that sometimes go off in a relationship and his heart that is for our country.  

I began this page with the firework cut file from the Silhouette store, unfortunately my plan backfired when my Cameo would not connect to the computer... So I chose to print out the firework pattern and fussy cut the firework "bangs" to use on my page as a stencil with my ColorBox inks.

Once my background was prepped with the fun cut file I chose my pictures and placed them in a pleasing configuration. I wanted to use the acrylic "My Heart" piece as my title and to house the picture of our family. I chose to build this area up with ephemera and a chipboard piece to tell about my husbands love of America.

A few well placed stickers and ephemera were my next touches to the page, I chose items that would further tell the story of our life, even though the items were made to tell the story of our country.

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I love that the firework ephemera easily added to my background and adding another pop of fun to my page.

My Heart tells about my husband, but I wanted to also tell about My Man which I added to my page using the new Florence alphabets in McIntosh also giving my pictures a place to rest and be anchored to the page.

And finally I chose to journal along the fireworks in the background so that I wouldn't distract from the page itself.  A few gems from the Heart Hugs added to the explosion and finished the page.

Thanks so much for joining me today, I hope you've been inspired to use your collections to tell your story even if they were created for another theme! How far can you stretch your supplies to create your memories?

Fireworks & Freedom:  Juicy Fruits, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, Ciao Chips

Acrylic Word:  My Heart; Acrylic Shapes:  Patriotic Stars; Heart Hugs:  Christmas

Florence Alphabet Stickers:  McIntosh

Veterans Day Layout with Corri

Hi everyone! Corri here today sharing a cute layout using the new Fireworks and Freedom Collection. This collection was a perfect match for these photos of my daughter at her schools Veterans Day ceremony. Each year, students from our school walk with Veterans from our local American Legion to the town square where they perform songs and listen to stories. It's always a beautiful ceremony!

 

I used the backside of the Truck Parade sheet for the background of my layout. I used the borders sheet behind my photos and trimmed piece from the Daily Details to separate them. I used the "America" Acrylic Word and Florence Alphas to create a title and then added some embellishments from the Ephemera Icons and Ephemera Words. Finally, I added a few acrylic stars.

 

 

Fireworks & Freedom Collection

Truck Parade, Borders, Daily Details, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons, Florence Alphas, America Acrylic Word, Acrylic Starts. 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

 

GUEST DESIGNER: Maryám Pérez Back Again!

Hello Friends! How are you today? It’s Maryám Pérez here to share two more projects using the amazing Let’s Go On an Adventure Collection!

For my first project, I have created a layout using one of the Bella Blvd cut files. The one I used is called Mountains (ID #291770) and you can find it here. What I did was cut the part of the mountain only and then add some hand stitching around it. Once I have that done, I created a kind of a scene at the top part of my layout. I wanted to recreate the background of the photo I was using so I put some trees, a sun, and some clouds.

For the title, I used one of the die-cuts that says “Going for a walk” that matched the theme of my page perfectly. In the end, I added my journaling telling the story about that day and also put some puffy stars and enamel dots.

The finished page:

 

For my second project, I created another layout, and this time I used a big panoramic photo and created a cluster of embellishments vertically. I included some stickers hearts, little felt bows, some words sticker, and in the end, added some pink ink splatters.

For the title, I used an acrylic word that says “At the lake” that went totally perfect with this photo! Seriously, this collection was perfect for each and every one of my photos!!

Here is my finished page:

 

I hope these projects have inspired you to create something new. Thank you so much Bella Blvd for having me! I really enjoyed creating with this collection. Make sure you pick up these Bella Blvd pieces so you can document your own adventures - you just plain need it!

Thank you for reading this post and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Maryám

Awesome Vibes by Kim Watson

Hello Bella Blvd friends, Kim Watson here with a new page using the Home Sweet Home collection.

My theme today is 'spring concerts'....bring on the vibes ya'll!! 

Awesome Vibes by Kim Watson

 

The beauty of this collection, is even though the theme is pretty & very family orientated, I was still able to find enough suitable product to put this page together. 

 

 

Now because my images were taken inside, I needed to balance out the dark photos with dark paper yet keeping the page fun & vibey at the same time. I solved the design by creating 'light rays' in dark paper with rows of white machine stitching. 

 

 

Dimension in the way of a variety of tags & foam adhesive, lift my photo off the background.

 

 

To create tension within the design, I clustered more little tags and sentiments in the top left corner of the photo. 

 

 

A little turquoise mixed media onto the white panel, under the photo cluster creates interest & gives the title more punch! Using the acrylic word 'AWESOME' teamed with black color-way of the newly released Florence alpha stickers as my title; balances out the photo cluster perfectly. 

 

 

Journaling on a tag included in the ephemera pack in all I needed to complete the page. So as you can see another fabulous collection from Bella Blvd, perfectly crafted to make our memory-keeping a cinch!

 

Patterned Papers: Home Sweet Home; Doohickey Stickers: Home Sweet Home; Ephemera Icons: Home Sweet Home; Acrylic Shapes: Hearts; Acrylic Word: Awesome; Acrylic Shapes: Stars; Oh My Stars: Gift Tags; Oh My Stars: Doohickey Stickers; Washi Tape: Black & White dot & Black & White Stripe 

Splish Splash Layout

Good morning everyone!!

I'm here playing with the new Splash Zone collection. I love everything about this collection, it is amazing!!

I know I used a large photo on this layout but I really wanted to. It has been forever since I have used one. I pulled pieces that I knew I wanted to use on this layout, knowing that I didn't have a lot of room for papers and stuff, I grabbed the boarders patterned paper and cut the strips down till I got the ones I wanted.

I layered two of them along the top of the photo and then went to adding tabs, even making one of my own with the beautiful rainbow washi tape. I tucked them in here and there along with ephemera leaves. I pulled the Splish Splash acrylic piece and chose where I wanted it. These acrylic words are just, yeah, again another thing with these new collections that I love.

I wanted to add some more to the layout so I went a head and jumped to the bottom right of the layout and layered a scalloped strip I made with some more of the gorgeous rainbow washi tape, along with a few stickers from the doohickey sticker sheet and the freaking cute flamingo floatie. 

I also went in and pulled some of the chipboard pieces that looked like splashes and added them to the layout as well.

If you haven't gotten your hands on the new collections yet, make sure to grab them! They are going to be perfect for this summer and all of the great pictures you will be taking!!!

Splash zone collection:

Boarders paper, Doohickey stickers, Ephemera, Rainbow washi tape, Acrylic word-Splish Splash, Word salad cardstock sticker booklet

 

 

Splish Splash into Splash Zone

Hi Bella Blvd Friends, Wendy here today sharing a new layout with the Splash Zone collection! I was so excited to receive this collection as we live in FL and do A LOT of swimming. My boys have been doing a lot of jumping lately and so I decided to make a page of this fun adventure.

After using some ink/paint to create my background, I started the focus of my page by using a cut file from Page Evans for my cute pool float. I used the pool floats in the collection as my inspiration for my float; I even used an enamel dot from the Heart Hugs for the eye of my pool float.

I didn't want my pool float to float away so I used some of the "palm leaves" to anchor my float to the page and using foam adhesive I popped up my beach ball for a fun look.

To give my float water to float in I used one of the border strips and chipboard pieces, I added in the black strip for a pop of color!

My title acrylic fit perfectly above the "water" with the addition of a Doohickey to form a yellow visual triangle.

The arrow ephemera helped to lead your eyes into the page and gave my pictures motion into the pool float. I had tried to get a picture of them jumping all together, but as moms we know that didn't go well! I ended up blowing up each individual picture to a 4x6 size and then fussy cutting each child out to get my pictures.

And finally the chipboard sun and some clouds to provide a roof to the page and again the yellow sun finishes the visual triangle.

Thanks so much for joining me today, I hope you've been inspired to have some fun and play with the new Splash Zone collection!

Splash Zone:  Borders, Flower Garden, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, Ciao Chip, Doohickey

Acrylic Word:  Splish Splash

Colorful Adventure | Carnival Scrapbooking Layout

Hi everyone! Heather Leopard is here with a layout that is most definitely NOT lacking color. Not even sure I can consider the bits of white as white space and you know what?!?! It sums up our colorful rodeo / carnival day just perfectly. Come take a look to see just what I'm talking about.  

The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo is a 3-week long adventure of which we usually just partake in just one day but it's one really long, fun, colorful day! Colorful because of the culture, the people, the actual carnival, the list goes on and on. I thought a colorful background would be the only way to document it and do it justice. 

To get started, I honed in one one specific patterned paper. This rainbow inspired paper. The only thing is I thought it needed more color so I looked through my threads and was elated to find that I had matching colors already in my stash. I gave my sewing machine a workout with a mix of wonky stitched lines and zig zags. I went crazy and it was fun!

Then, I turned to the new Florence Alphabet Stickers and found a lovely rainbow of coordinating colors!

Next, I highlighted 15 of the many activities that we did that day. I used the Florence Alphabet Stickers to write these out, placing the stickers on color coordinating lines. I added an acrylic word because it was the perfect word in the right shade and honestly I think it helps the flow of the layout.

Then, I used various sized photos that show many of the activities listed on the page.

I kept embellishments to a minimum since there's so much going on with the background. There's obviously no space to journal directly to the page so I will be going back and adding some journal strips.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you have a great day!

Splash Zone Daily Details Patterned Paper, Florence Alphabet Stickers - Cotton Candy, Peep, Punch McIntosh, Plum, Orange, Bell Pepper, Ice, Gulf Blueberry; Puffy Stars Stickers - Orange Mix, Punch Mix, Cotton Candy Mix, Ice Mix; Puffy Heart Stickers - Orange Mix, Punch Mix

 

 

Ain't No Tia Like The One I Got | Erica Thompson

Happy Saturday everyone! Erica with you today sharing a fun and colorful layout using the new Home Sweet Home collection. I started out with a cut file from The Cut Shoppe and backed it with some of the papers in the Home Sweet Home collection. I used one of my small circle punches to punch out all the pieces I needed so this made it super easy to back. 

This week the team has been sharing projects focusing on important women in our life! I wanted to create a layout about my Tia Janie! She is like a bonus mom to me. I spent so much time with her from when I was really young until a few years ago. She has always lived close to me but recently moved down to Texas. I miss her so much but we still get to text and have coffee chats over the phone. 

This collection was perfect to document one of my favorite photos of the two of us! I love how colorful this cut file frame turned out! I printed my photo out in black and white and popped it up in the center of the frame. I pulled out the beautiful acrylic hearts and added them all around the photo. These are the perfect little embellishment. 

I added a little strip of journaling to the frame as well and added a few embellishments from the die cut packs. I popped these up on some foam adhesive for a little dimension. The Home Sweet Home collection is perfect to document so many moments! It is a must have collection for sure! Here is a look at my completed layout featuring the Home Sweet Home collection.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed my layout and are inspired to use some pattern papers to back a cut file! Have a wonderful day!

Home Sweet Home pattern Papers, Home Sweet Home Ephemera Icons, Acrylic Word Family, Acrylic Shapes Heart Mix

 

Blessed

Good morning everyone! Kat here today to share my newest creation made with the gorgeous Home Sweet Home collection. 

This collection is so beautiful that I wanted to try to incorporate a few of the fun patterns. I decided the best way to do this was to cut out a bunch of circles and bunch them together on my layout.

When I decided on this design, the layout came together pretty quickly. I used the "blessed" acrylic word to add in my title...I love the pretty font of that one!

Here is the final layout:

Quick and simple!

Have a wonderful week!

Patterned Papers: Home Sweet Home: Home Sweet Home, All My Love, Welcome Home, Always Welcome; Doohickey Stickers: Home Sweet Home; Ephemera Icons: Home Sweet Home; Acrylic Word: Blessed; Puffy Stars Stickers: Orange Mix