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Alphabets Week Day 1 | Niki

Hey everyone! Niki Rowland here with you today and I'm so happy to have recently joined the Bella Blvd Creative Team and I am excited to share my first layout and process video.  I was challenged to use the Aria and Florence alphabet stickers in a creative way, so I decided to turn them into a rainbow of words!

I attempted to draw the rainbow onto a sheet of white card but failed, and basically ended up eyeballing it. I started with the middle word 'spirited' and went from there. I was aiming to go in rainbow order and to use all seven colours of the rainbow but I ran out of room! So I only used five colors but I still love how it turned out.

I choose words that I would use to describe my little boy who is two and a half - he certainly is spirited and masterful! In between some of the words I added little hearts from the Aria and Florence alphabet stickers. I also stitched through all the words using white thread on my sewing machine.

I cut clouds from a Bella Besties white paper and I used the 'Rainbow with Cloud' cut file from the Silhouette Design Store by Bella Blvd. It was just the cloud I used which I cut twice. I stuck the clouds onto a piece of white cardstock and pierced holes around the edges. I then stitched around these using hot pink embroidery thread. I trimmed them closely and added them to my layout, at the ends of the rainbow of words.

I added my photo to one of the clouds and added embellishments here too. I have used Squeeze the Day hearts, phrases and acrylic shapes. I also added a couple of flowers from the same collection and a tag behind my photo that I tied through with gold thread.

I finished off by adding a few color-on-color splatters over my rainbow arcs using Shimmerz Paints and a paintbrush which I kept very close to the layout so I didn't end up with splatters in the wrong places!

Thank you so much for joining me today. I hope you have enjoyed my first Creative Team layout for Bella Blvd, I'm so happy to have joined such an awesome team! You can view the process video for today's layout below.

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Aria Puffy Alphabet Stickers: Cotton Candy; Plum; Ice; Guacamole; Bell Pepper. Florence Alphabet Stickers: Plum; Ice; Pickle Juice; Bell Pepper. Squeeze the Day: So Berry Sweet Paper, 6x6 Paper Pad, Acrylic Shapes; Ephemera Icons; Ephemera Words. Bella Besties: Freehand Graph & Dot White paper.

Spring Week Day 5 | Niki Rowland

 

Hi everyone, this is Niki @nikiclairecreates and I have a new layout and video to share for Bella Blvd today! My assignment today was to have a Spring theme for my layout. 

I’ve used two cut files. One is a cute bunny shape called ‘bunny silhouette’ and the other is a title called ‘bunny hop'.

I wanted to focus on color for this layout and to use traditional Easter colors: light yellow, light pink, light green and light blue so I chose papers from the Bella Besties Freehand Graph & Dot pack in Bell Pepper, Cotton Candy, Pickle Juice and Ice. I also picked out a sheet of hearts from the Chloe collection because they were perfect for fussy cutting!

 

I played around with a few different options for this layout before deciding on the final design! Once I’d made a decision I cut the Bunny Silhouette five times in the four colors (cutting two from the Ice color). I then stuck them all on to a piece of white card. I pierced holes around the outside of all the bunnies and then took some time to stitch around each one with a coordinating thread. I then cut them out leaving a narrow white border and they look so cute!

 

 

I added a very light pink spray (Shimmerz Paints ‘Sweet Baby Girl’) to my white cardstock background just to add a little bit of color. Once this was dry I arranged my bunnies on the background together with my two photos. I mounted the photos onto a bright pink journaling card from the Chloe collection – the bright pink just gave the layout a burst of bright color amongst the pastels and gave the layout the perfect lift.

I added tails to my bunnies using white pom poms – these look adorable!

 

 

I cut the title ‘bunny hop’ from Cotton Candy paper too and backed it with white card. I actually ended up using just the word ‘hop’ instead of the full title. It was very easy to snip off and the single word worked better for my layout. I extended the title with Aria alphas in Cotton Candy with the word ‘on’ so the title reads ‘hop on’.

I fussy cut lots of hearts from a paper from the Chloe collection. I chose all the hearts in the same colours of my bunnies, folded the slightly and stuck them around and amongst the bunnies. I then stitched through each one on my sewing machine with white thread. I trimmed the ends but left them dangling a little.

I then got out my stash of Trinkets in the same four colors and stuck the flower shapes in between the bunnies and hearts.

 

 

I totally love how this layout turned out, it’s super cut with those gorgeous bunnies and perfect for Easter photos of me and my lovely girlie. Enjoy the process video below.

Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Supplies used:

Bella Besties Freehand Graph & Dot: Ice, Pickle Juice, Cotton Candy, Bell Pepper.

Squeeze the Day: Ephemera Words

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: Ice & Gulf, Pickle Juice & Guacamole, Punch, Peep & Cotton Candy, Bell Pepper

Aria Alphabet: Cotton Candy 

Cut Files: Bunny Silhouette, Bunny Hop

Other Supplies: white pom poms, Shimmerz Paint 'Sweet Baby Girl'

Spring Week Day 2 | Yarelys

Hey Bella friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys here to share with you a new layout featuring the Home sweet Home collection as well as one of the Bella Blvd cut files.

I used the Spring Florals cut file from the Silhouette Design Store by Bella Blvd. I went through the papers of the collection and picked the Home Sweet Home, Welcome Home and Mosaic to cut the flowers. I also picked the Hearts & Ombre Guacamole paper to cut the leaves. I cut the flowers in different sizes and layered them to give them dimension. Oh, love these flowers!

Back to the layout! I painted my background with the Vicki Boutin Art Crayons. Then I glued my photo and the flowers, and added flowers and butterflies from the Home Sweet Home Ephemera Icons.

For my title I used the Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers in Peep. To finish my layout, I added some of the Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Orange and Punch, Peep & Cotton Candy.

I love how this layout turned out. Hope you all like it and get the inspiration to create beautiful things. You can find the link for the process video of this layout below. Thank so much for stopping by!

Have a lovely day!

Yarelys xx

@dreamsandpapers

https://youtu.be/63Ukr2GFLs8

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Home Sweet Home: Home Sweet Home, Welcome Home and Mosaic papers

Hearts & Ombre: Guacamole

Aria Alphabet: Peep

Home Sweet Home: Ephemera Icons

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: Punch, Peep & Cotton Candy, and Orange

Spring & Easter Week Day 5 | Tarrah McLean

Hi Bella friends and Happy Easter!

It's Tarrah McLean back with you and this week on the Bella blog we are sharing Spring/Easter projects using Bella cut files! The Silhouette Design store has AMAZING Bella cut files - you need to check them out!

I decided to cut out the super cute Easter Egg basket cut file from the brown colour in the Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre paper pack. I enlarged the Happy cut file title and cut this out 3 times from the yellow paper in the Bella Besties Graph and Dot pack. I adhered them all together so the title had some dimension and looked a similar depth to chipboard.  

I separated all the pieces of the Easter basket and cut them all with different coloured papers from the Bella Besties graph and dot paper. 

I added craft foam underneath the basket cut file and adhered it to a plain white cardstock background. I then added craft foam underneath the eggs and my photo and arranged them in the basket. My photo is of my 2 sons cuddling a life sized Easter Bunny! Super cute! I adhered the Happy cut file title at the base of the basket and took the Aria Alphabet puffy stickers in Punch and spelt out Easter to make up the rest of my title. At the top of my photo, I added a tab die-cut and below the title I added a pennant die-cut and on the Easter basket cut file I added some of the sweet small flowers all from the Squeeze the Day ephemera pack. 

I also scattered and arranged some florals, foliage and a pink heart around the outside of the Easter basket from the Home Sweet Home ephemera pack. I took some of the Blueberry puffy sticker shapes and added them scattered around my page. I adhered a die-cut heart to the centre of the 'a' in Happy and layered a red puffy heart in the middle also. I just love how bright and bold Bella products look on a layout! Everything co-ordinated so perfectly too!   

I typed some journaling onto my laptop, printed it out and then cut it up into strips. I adhered them above the title to help link the title with the journaling. I am loving strip journaling at the moment! Down the left side of the page, I trimmed a small strip of the Blueberry paper from the Bella Besties Graph and Dot paper  and adhered it down flush with the edge of the cardstock. I also place a scalloped border next to the paper strip from the Squeeze the Day Doohickey sticker sheet.    

Thanks so much for stopping by the Bella blog today! I hope you enjoyed my layout and that you are inspired in some way to create a Spring or Easter project using Bella products!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Bella Blvd products used:

Bella cut files

Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre paper pack

Bella Besties Graph and Dot pack

Aria Alphabet puffy stickers in Punch

Squeeze the Day ephemera pack

Home Sweet Home ephemera pack

Blueberry puffy sticker shapes

Squeeze the Day Doohickey sticker sheet

Spring Has Sprung Week Day 4 | Tarrah McLean

Hi Bella friends!

It's Tarrah McLean here today and I am so super excited to share my very first scrapbook layout as part of the Bella team/family! I am so so lucky to create with such AMAZING and gorgeous products!! I created this layout for the Spring theme for this week featuring Bella Besties! 

I started out by taking my trusty butterfly paper punch and punched out 2x butterflies from each of the coloured Graph/ Dotted papers in the Squeeze the Day Bella Besties paper pack. I then arranged and adhered them in a rainbow shape on a sheet of plain white cardstock, I applied the glue just to the bodies of the butterflies so that I could bend up the wings for some added texture.

I adhered the photo of my niece with some craft foam over to the right of the page and under the butterflies, layering a piece of the teal colour, dotted side Bella Bestie paper underneath my photo also. I then adhered some of the floral die-cuts from the Home Sweet Home ephemera icon pack and some Ciao Chipboard from the same around my photo. I also adhered the sun from the Squeeze the Day Ciao Chipboard sheet above my photo. 

Above the butterflies I popped up 2 of the cloud die-cuts from the Home Sweet Home ephemera icon pack, I also layered some of the cute butterfly die-cuts over the top of the paper punched ones. On each paper punched butterfly I also added small shaped puffy stickers, I love how these look! My title is made up of the Florence alphabet stickers in Blueberry and the Aria puffy alphabet stickers in Bell Pepper. I love a mixed font title! Under my photo and title I added a chipboard scalloped border from the Squeeze the Day Ciao Chipboard set.

Some of the last things that were added to my page were a few more shaped puffy stickers, some small chipboard pieces, a word sticker and I added my typed journling strips. The font I use is called 'Remington Noiseless', I love it as it looks like a typewriter font. You can see in my detail photos the shadows created when I have bent up the wings of the butterflies, I love how this looks and gives some dimension to my page! Once I had embellished and completed my layout, I trimmed down the white cardstock and backed the entire layout onto the red Ombre/Heart Bella Bestie paper, I then machine stitched around the outside edge.

Thanks so much for stopping by the a blog today! Be sure to check out all the gorgeous inspiration coming your way this week from the creative team! 

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Bella Blvd products used:

Bella Besties Ombre/Heart paper

Squeeze the Day collection: Bella Besties Graph/Dotted paper pack in each colour, Stickers, Chipboard

Home Sweet Home collection: Chipboard, ephemera icons

Florence Alphabet stickers: Blueberry

Aria Puffy Alphabet stickers: Bell Pepper

Puffy Shape stickers: Orange, Black, Bell Pepper, Gulf, Guacamole, Punch and Ice

Spring Has Sprung Day 3 | Melissa

Hello, everyone! I'm so happy to be on the Bella Blvd design team for the next year and I'm sharing my first project with you all today. 

I created a new spring project using the Bella Blvd Besties paper pack. I love, love, love layers of paper so to start with I layered the pretty floral pattern paper from the Let's Go On An Adventure collection with a piece of white card stock. On top of the white card stock, I layered a square of the Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre paper. I stitched all three of these pieces of paper down using my sewing machine around the very outer edge of the card stock.

I had printed two pictures of my niece smelling some flowers in a Boston garden and wanted to find a way to "frame" these photos. I found a great frame cut file in the Bella Blvd Silhouette shop. I cut this file out on the Bella Besties Freehand Graph and Dot pattern paper. I layered this on top of my other paper and stitched it down as well. I also backed this cut file with the Mood Buster Cut Out to add a little dimension and texture. 

My title was created down the length of my project on the right hand side using a variety of Aria and Florence Alphabet stickers in Plum, Oyster, White, and Guacamole. My journaling was typed up on a strip of white card stock and adhered to the bottom of the lower picture. Then came the fun part of adding all of my embellishments!

I used the Let's Go On An Adventure Ciao Chip, the Trinket Puffy Stickers in Plum, and the Fruity Mix Matte Enamels. 

Thanks so much for stopping by the Bella blog today and taking a peek at my project!

Bella Blvd Supplies:

Let's Go On An Adventure Paper and Ciao Chip
Bella Besties 
Mood Buster Cut Out
Aria Alphabet Stickers
Florence Alphabet Stickers
Trinkets Puffy Stickers
Matte Enamels

Spring Has Sprung Week Day 1 | Yarelys

Hey friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys here to share with you a new layout featuring the Bella Besties, as well as one of the Bella Cut–Outs. Spring is here, so I want my layout to look like a flower field!

I started my layout by tearing two pieces of the Hearts & Ombre paper in Pickle Juice. Then I glued them and did some mixed media in between the two pieces of paper.

The Cut–Out I chose was “Mood Booster” and backed it with the Graph & Dot papers in Gulf, Bell Pepper, Orange and Punch. After I finished backing all the flowers, I added adhesive foam on the back to create dimension and then glued the Cut–Out and my photo.

For my title I used the Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers in Punch and the Florence Alphabet Stickers in Orange. To finish my layout, I added some of the Squeeze The Day Ephemera Words, Ciao Chip, Epoxy Hearts, Epoxy Icons and Mate Enamels.

I love how this layout turned out and had a lot of fun playing along with this amazing Cut–Out. Hope you all like it and get the inspiration to create beautiful things. You can find the process video for this layout below. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a lovely day!

Yarelys xx

@dreamsandpapers

https://youtu.be/SkbKbGYkKw0

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Bella Besties – Graph & Dot in Gulf, Bel Pepper, Orange and Punch. Hearts & Ombre Pickle Juice.

Aria Alphabet – Punch

Florence Alphabet – Orange

Home Sweet Home – Ephemera Words, Ciao Chip

Epoxy – Icons, Hearts

Matte Enamels – Fruity Mix

Alphabets Layout | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here and I'm so excited to be back with Bella Blvd for another term!  I absolutely LOVE being a part of this team/family and being able to design with beautiful and amazing products makes me so happy!  This layout's main focus is  Alphas, including both the Aria and Florence Alphabet stickers!  Here's my layout, I had so much fun with it!  

 

To start, I went to the Bella Blvd cut files section in the Silhouette Design Store and chose the Hip Skull cut file.  I had the perfect photo for it and I wanted to create a boy themed layout using some Bella Besties.  So, I cut the cut file out on a piece of 12x12 white cardstock and popped the entire page up on foam tape.  I wanted to add alphas to the positive pieces of the cut file, but wanted it to stand out more so I created a little depth with the foam.  I was still somewhat backing my cut file using the alphas, I was just adding a bit more interest to it.  

The photo I chose for my layout is of my youngest son, Elijah, playing Xbox on his bed.  I thought it would be fun to add some usual phrases he says while he's playing.  "Ahh!", "Bro!" and "Let's Go" are just a few of the words he usually yells into his mic.. It makes me crack up just typing it!  Do you have any gamers in your household? Quite entertaining I must say!  So anywho.. I pulled my Florence Alphas in Oyster, Black, Ice and Blueberry and adhered them down on the positive pieces of my cut file.  So fun!!

I also added in a few of the hearts from each sticker sheet to help fill in any gaps/holes.  I just love how it turned out!  Next, I took my original 12x12 negative piece and applied a few splatters using some Shimmerz Paints in similar colors. 

Next, I took another piece of 12x12 white cardstock and carefully adhered the popped up cut file to it.  This gave me a place to adhere in the positive pieces with the alphas on them.  To help the skull pop out even more, I added some faux stitching using a black paint pen.

I matted my photo using the Bella Besties Freehand Graph & Dot patterned papers in the same colors, Black, Oyster, Ice and Blueberry.  

I used the Aria Alphas in Oyster and Ice to create my title and also added in a few phrase stickers from the Bella Besties Word Salad Booklet. 

I felt like my page needed a bit more, so I pulled out several of my star shaped paper punches and punched a bunch of stars using the same patterned papers that I matted my photo with.  I added faux stitching to all of them using my white gel pen.  This really made the stars stand out!

To finish off my page, I sprinkled in a few Matte Enamels and a few of the black enamel stickers from a Heart Hugs pack.  I also add in a few stars from the Trinkets Puffy stickers in Black.

I had so much fun with this boy layout and I hope that I've inspired you in some way today!  Do you have the Florence or Aria Alphas in your stash?  You should totally back a cut file using some of them or create a layout using lots of them!  Our team has created and shared some great layouts this week, so there's tons of inspiration.  Thank you so much for being here and I'll see you in my next post!

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Bella Besties: Freehand Graph & Dot Pattern Papers in Black, Oyster, Ice and Blueberry; Florence Alphas: Black, Oyster, Ice and Blueberry; Aria Alphas: Black, Oyster, Ice and Blueberry; Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Black; Word Salad Booklet, Heart Hugs and Matte Enamels;  Cut File: Hip Skull

 

Rainbow of Love | Yarelys

Hey friends! Yarelys here sharing my first layout for the Bella Blvd Creative Team! OMG, I’m so happy and excited to be here! I’ve been asked to do a free for all project. I love rainbows, so I instantly though to make one.

I started by painting my background. I wanted it to look like a sky, so I created a cloud border to use as a stencil. Then I took the different shades of blue included in the Vicki Boutin Art Crayons and painted the clouds. Ohhh! Love how this “sky” turned out!

Now it’s time to make my rainbow! For this I cut a strip from the Graph & Dot papers in Plum, Ice, Pickle Juice, Bell Pepper, Orange, Peep and McIntosh, and glued them to the background. Then I glued my photo at the end of the rainbow and cut clouds from the Hearts & Ombre White paper. I used the Cloudy cut file from the Silhouette Design Store by Bella Blvd. I cut only one of the clouds in different sizes and layered them using adhesive foam to give them dimension.

For my title I used the Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers in Bell Pepper. To finish my layout, I added some of the Home Sweet Home Stickers, Ciao Chip, Acrylic Shapes and Epoxy Icons.

I love how this layout turned out and had a lot of fun creating it. Hope you all like it and get the inspiration to create beautiful things. Thanks for stopping by! You can find the process video for this layout below.

 

Have a lovely day!

Yarelys xx

@dreamsandpapers

https://youtu.be/UrUrt3XP6yM

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Bella Besties – Graph & Dot in Plum, Ice, Pickle Juice, Bell Pepper, Orange, Peep and McIntosh. Hearts & Ombre White.

Aria Alphabet – Bell Pepper

Home Sweet Home – Stickers, Ciao Chip

Acrylic Shapes – Heart Mix

Epoxy - Icons

Alphabets Week Day 4 | Nathalie

Hello Bella Blvd. friends!

Nathalie here, so excited and grateful to be back for another term working with all the beautiful Bella Blvd products.   We are starting the new term with projects and inspiration featuring our latest alpha stickers.   If you have seen my work before then, you know I love journal, and black and white with a hint of rainbow, therefore this project was a fun one to put together...

 

I love my family, and the best memories always happen when we are together.  So the best way to bring the story to the page was using a large title, hearts and a bit of color.

 

I started by drawing a heart in the center of the White Bella Besties Ombre/Hearts.  Using a paper piercing tool, I created a stitching guide on the drawn heart, and then used a chain stitch to define the heart on the page.   Here, I used a combination of the Oyster Florence Alpha Stickers and Aria Puffy Stickers to fill the heart with my title ( a piece of wax paper helps to align everything in place before gluing it permanently to the paper).

 

 

I reserved the top right quadrant of the heart to place my photo (these are all my cousins from my dad's side of the family).  I framed the picture with a few papers so that it will stand out from the heart.   A bit of foam adhesive helps to make it pop from the page!  Since I did not want to take away from the title work, I chose to keep my embellishments to a repeating element -hearts- in rainbow clusters.

 

 

I placed the clusters at the corner of the picture, bottom of the heart, and the left side of the heart.  Most of the hearts come from the Home Sweet Home collection along with some Bella Hugs. To finish the page, I added a few lines of journal, then added matte enamel shapes from different collection around each cluster.

 

 

I love how this turned out, and how the alphas just bring the story and sentiment of the page together in a nice and colorful way.  Remember to come back tomorrow for more inspiration using alpha stickers.  Cannot wait to see what you create with them, too!

XO

 

 

Materials Used:

FLORENCE ALPHA STICKERS - Oyster

ARIA PUFFY ALPHA STICKERS - White, Bell Pepper, Orange, Plum, Gulf, Pickle Juice, Ice, Cotton Candy, Black

BELLA BESTIES Ombre/Heart collection - White

CHLOE Collection - 6x6 paper pad, Matte Enamel shapes

COOPER Collection - Matte Enamel Shapes

BELLA BESTIES Dot/Graph - Oyster

MONSTER & FRIENDS Collection - Matte Enamel Shapes

HOME SWEET HOME Collection - Doohickey Stickers, Enamel shape stickers, Ephemera- Icons

BELLA HEART  HUGS Collection - Sunshine

Alphabets Week Day 3 | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you today and I am super excited to be sharing a layout for Alphas Week! I love all the Bella Blvd alpha stickers but I always struggle with coming up with a title to use them! Pinterest is one of my favorite places to find great titles or quotes to use on my pages when I am stuck.

I wanted to create a fun layout with a big title to document our sweet Pitbull Lola. I pulled out the Chole & Cooper collection and some Aria alpha stickers. We do not have a cat but the Chloe collection has some great florals and pinks that I really want to pull in with the Cooper collection to put my layout together. Our pittie is a girl so I wanted to bring in lots of pinks and florals! 

For my title I wanted to add it to the center of a large stitched heart in the center of my layout! I used the Smitten 12x12 pattern paper from the Chloe collection as my base. I cut out a large heart with my Silhouette Cameo to use as a template to punch my holes. I used some pink embroidery floss that was a pretty close match to the Bella Blvd Punch color and stitched around the heart shape. I added my title using the Aria alphas in Punch and Ice.

I filled in the rest of the heart using the Bella Blvd Trinkets in black and some of the Cooper Matte Enamel Dots. I added two photos of our sweet Lola in the bottom right section of the heart and matted them on a pink pattern paper from the Chloe 6x6 paper pad. I used the floral die cuts from both the Cooper and Chloe collection to embellish around the layout! I also pulled out a few of the puppy die cuts from the Cooper collection to add to the layout!

To finish off my layout I added border stickers to the top and bottom of the page to help frame the layout and I love how it turned out! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed my layout! I would love to see you create using some of the Bella Blvd alpha stickers! Remember to tag Bella Blvd when sharing your projects on Instagram of Facebook! Have a great day!

Cooper Collection

Chloe Collection

Aria Alphabets Punch

Aria Alphabets Ice

Trinkets Black