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Sweet Spring Layout | Nathalie DeSousa

Hi there!

Nathalie with you today bringing you a bit of color in this dark times.   We are all facing a hard time, and crafting is a great way to bring a bit of a silver lining to your days.  So, what better way to add a bit of color to your Spring memories using the beautiful Squeeze the Day and Bella Besties collections.

 

I started by adding a bit of white paint on the White Graph/dot Bella Besties paper.  This will create a blank space for my background without losing all the paper designs.  While the paint dried, i used a cut file from HANDIPAPER to create the cut out.   This was cut twice from white cardstock, then staked and glued together to create a bit of dimension on the cut out.

 

 

The cut out was backed with papers from the 6x6 paper pads from both collections.  I chose to create a rainbow of flowers cascading on my page.  Trimming the edge of the background and then gluing it to the b-side of the Orange You Glad paper makes everything pop nicely on the layout.

 

 

I layered papers from the Squeeze the Day collection behind the pictures before setting them on  the layout.  A few pieces of ephemera and enamel stickers and acrylic shapes help to create the clusters at the corners of the pictures.

 

 

For the layout's title, i combined the So Sweet Acrylic word with a few Wonky Alpha puffy stickers and a piece of ephemera at the bottom of the pictures.  Just love the combination of textures in this little cluster.

 

Along the way, i added a few small clusters of ephemera, enamel shapes and sitckers  so that they help create the soft diagonal design on the page, and also guide your eye throughout the page.

 

 

I hope this inspires you to add a bit of rainbow magic to your next memory documenting.  The Squeeze the Day and Bella Besties do sure provide the color you need for your silver lining!

 

'Til next time,

 

FEATURED BELLA BLVD. SUPPLIES:

SQUEEZE THE DAY COLLECTION:  6x6 paper pad; Orange You Glad, Zesty, I Picked You papers; Ephemera: Icons, words; So Sweet Acrylic word; Bella Pops: Pearfect,  I Pick You; Epoxy shapes: Icons ; Acrylic pieces: Rainbow

WONKY ALPHA Punch

BELLA BESTIES: White Graph/dot paper, 6x6 paper pad

 

 

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day | Patricia

Happy St. Patrick's Day, Bella Blvd Friends!  I love all things Irish, and even though my family recently found out we have more Scottish in us than Irish, I'm still full-blown Irish on this day!  For several years now, my family has gotten together with another very special adoptive family for the New Orleans St. Patrick's Parade in the Irish Channel.  In my first post, I shared how the March Mood Board inspired my Traveler's Notebook documenting.  For today's post, I will use the Squeeze the Day and Besties collection again, but in my 6-ring Traveler's Notebook or Life Crafted album bringing in all things Irish!

I knew I wanted to use small 4-2x2 photos in my pockets for the right and picked out the Pickle Juice Chevies Clear Cut to fill in the other 2x2 pockets.  I left that as is and then focused my attention to the left side for more color, texture, my title and journaling.

Loving the rainbows from both sides of the Squeeze the Day Sweet Skies pattern paper, I trimmed it to about 1" wide, then cut those pieces to about an 1.5" long.  Going with the curve of the rainbow, I used my 1/4" corner punch to one end of my strips, adhered them going up the left side of a piece of white cardstock background and did a horizontal machine stitching on each strip in white thread.  Once that was is place, I used the Happy Acrylic Word to build my title using the Florence Stickers in Pickle Juice, Guacamole, and Gulf.  To add more color, I backed the Happy Acrylic Word with the orange side of Squeeze the Day Borders.  Before I adhered my title though, I penciled in where I could fit my journaling and typed on my typewriter.

Once my title was in place, I adhered this page to a trimmed piece of Zesty using the green side.  I love the smaller size of the white background with the rows of pattern paper and my title against that green pattern paper!  

Next, I added the Squeeze the Day Chipboard 'DAY' and stamped a sentiment.  Then working off of the left side, I went back to the right side, adding both color and texture to create balance with the left.

I used a combination of Squeeze the Day Ephemera Words, Chipboard Icons, and punched Hearts to form a clover from Zesty pattern paper.  All of these were adhered or stapled to the Clear Cut, except form the trimmed Ephemera 'Follow the Rainbow.'  For the trimmed 'The Rainbow,' I slipped my stapler in between the pocket to staple directly to the outside of the pocket.

Even though we think just 'GREEN' for St. Patrick's Day, don't forget all those wonderful rainbows and especially orange as part of your next project.  Orange is part of the Irish flag!  And to bring a little 'lucky charms' feel, use the pattern papers with rainbows and icons or the Squeeze the Day Epoxy Icons to bring in some 'lucky charms' to your next project!  Happy Creating and Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

March Mood Board Inspired | Nathalie DeSousa

Hi there, 

Nathalie with you today with my first post as a Bella Blvd  Design Team member.  I am so blessed to be here, and want to thank Stephanie for the invitation.  I am a huge Bella Blvd fan, so it is an honor and privilege to work with their products.   

This week our projects are all inspired  by the  beautiful March Moodboard.  There are so many textures, colors and designs that caught my eye, but i was immediately drawn to the paint brushes, all the yellow and flowers (cause you never have enough flowers!).    So i mixed them all in one single page...

I started by adding a bit of teal acrylic paint to a piece of heavy cardstock -I used similar strokes to the ones in the moodboard-.  While the paint dried, i pulled papers from the Bella Besties collection and used the Sizzix Pretty Flower Thinlits die to cut flowers from the papers, focusing mostly on the White, Bell Pepper, Guacamole and Cotton Candy shades.

I used a knitting needle to lightly curl the edges of the flowers before gluing them together, and then added on of the Matte Enamel Stickers to the center of each flower.   These were all glued -to the background- around the paint application forming a crescent shape, and creating the perfect spot for the picture and embellishments.

My favorite color combination is black and white with a hint of rainbow, so i tend to use lots of black and white photography on my pages.  This helped with bringing all the colors together.  I pulled papers from the Squeeze the Day collection to back and layer behind the picture.  Before placing the picture on the page, i added a few pieces of the words and Icons ephemera into clusters around at the corners of the page.   The small cute clips are just so darling holding the tags together.

 

 

To finish the page, i first trimmed the left and right edges of the layout and backed it with the Fruity Hearts paper, and a small strip of Dotty Washi tape.   One of my favorite thing from each Bella collection are the acrylic words; this time i combined the "Adventure" and "Fabulous" ones to form the title for the page.  A few extra embellishments from the Squeeze the Day collection complete my page.

 

I hope this inspires you to pull your Bella Blvd. goodies and create a project of your own inspired by the mood board.   Remember to share the project, we love seeing how you use the collections. 

'Til next time!

 

 

Bella Blvd.SUPPLIES: 

Acrylic Words:  Fabulous, Adventure

Squeeze the Day collection: 6x6 paper pad, Matte Enamel Stickers - Fruity Mix, Epoxy Stickers - Heart icons, Washi Tape - Sweetness, Chipboard Stickers - Icons, Ephemera icons, Ephemera words, Patterned paper - Bananas for you, Fruity Heart, Daily Details.

Bella Besties collection: 6x6 paper pad, Patterned Paper: White, Guacamole, Cotton Candy, Bell Pepper

Cute clips:  baby girl 

Adventure Mini Album | Erica

Hey friends! Erica here with you today to share a super cute and chunky mini album! I love to create mini albums filled with pretty papers, textures and of coarse stories! 

I used the Bella Blvd. Let's go on an Adventure collection to create my album. I cut the papers out using some dies from my stash and also cutting some down with my paper trimmer in different sizes. 

I love adding shaped pages to my album as well! When purchasing dies I always look for ones that can be used for cards but also work well for mini albums. This heart page was created using one of my dies! I added my photo and some pattern paper and stickers!

The Clear Cuts are so fun to add to mini albums as well. They add a great texture and a pop of fun to your pages!

One thing I always do is use some of the bigger die cuts in my albums for journaling spots! I thought this tent was perfect to add our camp ground name! I just punch a hole in the top left corner and add to my album!

Adding stitching with my sewing machine adds the perfect touch of handmade to the pages! I like to leave the ends longer so they peek out from the pages. I hope you enjoyed my mini album today using the Let's go on an Adventure collection! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Let's go on an Adventure collection | Adventure Acrylic word | Clear Cuts

 

My Heart Layout | Dorymar

The task for this week was SCRAPLIFT YOURSELF! I must confess that this is the first time I do this and I LOVED it because scraplifting allows you to recreate one of your favorite designs with new Scrapbook candy and even when you scraplift one of your layouts, you still have a unique page because of the different products you are using.

As we continue in February, we celebrate the love and friendship, I decided to create a Love theme Layout. As inspiration, I used a layout that I created at Christmas 2017.

I used the Home Sweet Home collection to create this beautiful project. This collection is full of beautiful colors, has many hearts and many phrases related to love, so I think it was the perfect selection to create my Layout.

I used several patterned papers to create the background and used My Heart Acrylic Word as a title. I started using stickers and chipboard to create clusters around the pictures. All of them are glued with foam tape to create a wonderful dimension and give me the opportunity to add many elements as I can.

There are so many beautiful elements that this collection has, I loved looking between each of the pieces and it was very fun! The stickers, the chipboards, the die cuts, and the epoxy icons, being able to incorporate all of them, was wonderful. They are fantastic!

I really loved the scraplift, I know this will be the first of many and I hope you can use any of my designs or your designs to do it. It is super fun and fast.

Now it's your turn to create. I dare you to do it!

Happy Scrapping!

 

Home Sweet Home Collection, Home Sweet Home Epoxy Icons, Home Sweet Home Chipboard

Home Sweet Home Ephemera Words, Home Sweet Home Stickers, My Heart Acrylic Word

My Heart | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you today to share a Valentine layout using one of my favorite collections from Bella Blvd Valentina! Fingers crossed Bella Blvd. comes out with a new Valentine collection next year! I had bits and pieces of this collection and it was time to use it up! 

Since I had smaller scraps left I went for a layered up design which I haven't done in a long time! I really enjoyed creating this layout and using up what I had left of this collection.

I pulled out some of the Bella Blvd. Heart Hugs and scattered them around my page.

I found the sweetest acrylic title that matches my layout perfectly! I added a few word stickers from the Valentine sticker sheet and added some black splatter.

I tucked in this cut epoxy flair from Scrappin Happy Studio for another pop of black! Here is a look at my completed layout.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed my layout today and I hope you come back tomorrow for more Valentines inspiration. 

Valentina Collection | Heart Hugs | My Heart Acrylic Word | Enamel Hearts

Big Titles Layout | Kelly

Hello everyone! It's Kelly here today sharing a layout featuring a large title:

 

Seeing as I scrap 8.5x11, it's not hard for titles to be large :)  But, I love layouts like this...because the rest of the project always comes together rather quickly with less space to fill up.

 

 

For this layout, I combined an acrylic word with some Ciao Chip to create my over sized title. I kept the background simple, so that I could emphasize the title even more with a few embellishments.

 

The Wish Big collections are some of my all time Bella favorites, and I just love how this turned out...

Thanks for stopping by today!

Wish Big Boy: Borders, Make a Wish, Cardstock Stickers, Ciao Chip, Ephemera, Ephemera Words; Clear Cuts: Stars Ice; Puffy Star Stickers: Pickle Juice; Heart Hugs: Rainy Day; Designer Washi Tape: Red Stripe; Acrylic Word: Birhday

SNOW Awesome Large Titles Scrapbooking Layout| Heather

I like big titles and I cannot lie! Hey everyone, Heather Leopard here with a large title scrapbooking layout. There's something about large titles that I just love. I guess they just grab your attention and are a really fun design element.

I searched through my photos for something wintery. I knew I wanted to scrap about winter because I was being drawn to snowflakes, specifically the snowflakes paper in the Santa Squad collection. I also discovered that Bella Blvd has some fun snowflake cut files so my mind was made up.

To get started on this layout, I mocked up the layout in my Silhouette software. I knew I was going to be using a supersized title - a simple "SNOW" would do but I wanted to make sure I didn't make it too big or too little.  Mocking it up first didn't take much time at all and I got the perfect fir.  It also allowed me to right size the snowflakes.  As I was adding them to the page I was designing in the software, I kept making them bigger and bigger. I decided they should help frame the title so I super sized them as well. FYI, my designed changed once I got everything cut out but the size of the elements remained the same.

While the title and snowflakes were cutting, I added a subtle patterned paper to the top 1/3 of the page as well as a border at the top, middle and bottom. I then added some mist / color including some white shimmer mist that you may not be able to see well but looks gorgeous in person, and some pops of pink and teal using the Illustrated Faith paints.

Once everything was cut and the background was dry, I added the snowflakes (also with white shimmer mist) and the large title.  

Once I had the border that consisted of snowflake patterned paper and the white misted snowflakes, I added the word "SNOW" on top.

Lastly, I added some patterned paper and embellishments around the photo and around the page as well as journaling strips to tell the story of the day.  

So tell me, do you ever use such a prominent feature, such as a supersized title? I LOVE using this design element on my pages!

Santa Squad Ho Ho Ho, Blizzard patterned papers, 6x6 paper pad, ephemera words, ephemera icons, Acrylic Shapes Tree Mix; Squeeze the Day So Berry Sweet patterned paper; Epoxy stickers: Snow Fun, Hearts Christmas mix; Bella besties, Silhouette cut files: Snowflakes, Snowflake, Florence alphabet; Enamels: Christmas Mix, Ice Dots; Illustrated Faith acrylic paint, Oh My Heavens Mix Enamel Hearts; Heart Hugs Black & White

Winter Cards | Kelly Holbrook

Hello everyone! It's Kelly here today sharing a few more cards made with the Santa Squad collection:

I also used bits and pieces from the brand new Cut-Outs. I used Wonderland Cut Outs for this one, and the inside reads "Warm Winter Wishes from our house to yours."

 

For this one, I used the Christmas Cut Outs, and trimmed off of few of the tags to fit nicely on this card. The inside reads "Very Merry Winter Blessings."

On this last one I used the Little Helpers Cut Outs, I trimmed off the Santa for the house to stand alone. I also used a piece of Clear Cut patterned paper to make the middle of the card see - through. The inside reads "Merry and Bright."

I hope you all are getting your holiday cards done...thanks for stopping by today!

Santa Squad: 6x6 pad, DooHickey Cardstock Stickers, Ephemera Words; Cut - Outs: Wonderland, Christmas, Little Helpers; Acrylic Words: Merry; Epoxy Hearts: Christmas Mix; Matte Enamels: Fruity Mix

Mixing and Matching Collections| Tegan

This week's mission to create a layout with 2 or more Bella Blvd collections was a piece of cake because they all mix and match so easily! I starting by grabbing a large stack of different collections and then sorted through them for winter or non-themed items. It was actually fun...kind of like a treasure hunt! I think I ended up using 6 collections (7 if you count the Acrylic Word from the Bug Explorer collection)! Do you spy a little bit of Santa Squad, Let's Go On An Adventure, Wish Big Girl, Santa Stops Here, Squeeze the Day, or the Merry Christmas collection?! 

I started by using the Bella Blvd Snowflake Cut File and electronic die cut machine to cut five 3" tall snowflakes out of white cardstock. I then backed them with different colors of patterned paper. I had pulled out a combination of Acrylic Words and die cut pieces that could be used to describe winter, so I adhered those to the different snowflakes. Sure, winter can be such a bummer! But it really is a fascinating thing if you stop and think about it! 

I embellished the snowflakes with enamel dots from the Heart Hugs packs and Christmas Mix Enamel Dots from the Santa Squad collection. I really wanted to mix and match the colors to create a colorful layout!

The penguin Santa Squad Epoxy Sticker was perfect for adding a touch of winter. I also added Word Salad stickers on the snowflakes to add color around the page. And of course I used Word Salad stickers that could be used to describe winter!

I had so much fun mixing and matching the collections to create a fun and colorful winter layout! I can't decide which snowflake is my favorite, can you?

Thanks for joining us today! I hope I have inspired you to have fun mixing and matching your Bella Blvd collections! 

Santa Squad Collection: Ho! Ho! Ho! Patterned Paper, Christmas Mix Enamel Stickers, Squad Epoxy Stickers

Squeeze the Day Collection: Bananas For You Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers

Let's Go On An Adventure Collection: Mountain Peaks Patterned Paper, Fairy Garden Patterned Paper

Wish Big Girl Collection: Ephemera Words

Santa Stops Here Collection: Chipboard Stickers

Merry Christmas Collection: Daily Details Patterned Paper, Light It Up Patterned Paper, Acrylic Word 'Joy'

Bug Explorer: Acrylic Word 'fascinating' 

Bella Blvd Snowflake Cut File 

Heart Hugs (Enamel Dots): Sunshine, Give Thanks 

Puffy Star Stickers: Guacamole