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Time to Travel Week - Day 5 | Inessa

Hi friends, Inessa here with my first creative team member layout…woo hoo! I’m currently working with the Time to Travel collection and decided to document our recent family Spring Break trip with it. I love the bold colors and all of the icons. The best part is that you can use it for any type of travel, near and far, road trip or air or just a local outing. And I can see plenty of layouts to document all of the moments with kids, going on adventures to the park.

I love a good cut file so I decided to use the Family Trip cut out, backed with the following patterned papers: Let’s Get Lost (A and B sides), Freeway, Daily Details, and Back Roads. I then built a cluster of photos and ephemera to center the layout with the title at the bottom of the page. I used the Aria and Florence alphas in white to complete my title. 

With red and black as the standout colors in my photo, I used the backsides of Photo Op and Road Trip papers for my background. I love the bold stripe of the black and white as the border. 

The last step for me was to add all of clusters of embellishments to fill out the page. I used pieces from the Doohickey sheet, Ephemera Icons and Ephemera Words and Tags. I used my banner punch to punch out 2 flags in shades of blue and layered the travel banner stickers on top with pop dots.

I love adding little surprises to my layouts so for this one I wrote the actual flight number from our trip on the tag. Hope you enjoyed this and see you next time! 

-Inessa

Designer's Choice Week | Nathalie

Hello Bella Blvd friends!

Nathalie here with my last post as part of the Bella Blvd Design Team.   The past two years as part of the team have been a huge honor, but my choice to step down from the team was a hard one, but a necessary one.   I am forever thankful to Stephanie S. for inviting me, and to my friend Stephanie Buice for being awesome as CT coordinator, and all around amazing!  And what better way to finish than with a project of my choice.

 

 

I love butterflies, and  the ones in the You Are My Sunshine collection were just perfect for this layout about my little cousins. 

 

I started by adding a bit of mixed media to my background, making sure to pick the color of the sash in my cousins' dresses.   I added a faded impression of a flutter of butterflies on the page.   To anchor the design and mixed media to the page, I ripped pieces of the background (right at the edge of the page), and backed the spaces with patterned paper from the You Are My Sunshine collection

 

 

I added a few layers of patterned paper behind the photo, and attached it to the center of the page.  I used pieces of ephemera, chipboard stickers, and enamel shapes to create two large clusters at corner of the photos.  I fussy cut a few butterflies and added them here to help add movement and direction through the page.

 

 

For the title of page I am mixing an acrylic word with Aria puff alphas.  I am using the last of my Bella Pops to bring more butterflies to the page, and tie all the clusters together,

 

 

I love how this turned out, and I hope that it inspires you to document your memories.  Thank you Bella Blvd for having as part of the team for the past two years, and to you all for always being there

 

XO

 

Bella Blvd. Supplies

 YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE COLLECTION:  Patterned Paper, Doohickey Stickers, Ephemera, Enamel shapes, Chipboard Stickers

Bella Pops

 

ARIA PUFFY STICKERS

ACRYLIC WORDS

Sketch Week | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna here today sharing a new layout using the beautiful March Sketch designed by fellow CT Member Niki Rowland.  I love working with sketches and had so much fun creating with this one.  This week, we were free to choose any collection to work with and I chose the My Candy Girl collection.  While on vacation back in December, we had ice cream on the Santa Barbara pier and this collection was perfect to document such a great trip.  I have a process video down at the end of this post, so if you'd like to see how this page came together, make sure to check it out!

Here's this months sketch: 

The sketch has a bit of a mixed media background at the top so I took out a stencil from my stash and used it to stamp on some ink.  I smooshed a couple of ink pads to my glass mat, sprayed some water into it and dipped each stencil into the ink.  I lightly kissed the stencil to my cardstock to create a fun grid look, similar to the sketch.  I added it to the top and also added a bit to the bottom.  I trimmed off an inch from the top and side of my white cardstock and adhered it to one of the 12x12 patterned papers to create a colorful border.  

The sketch calls for a photo and embellishments at the top of the page with a smaller cluster right under it at the bottom of the page.  I matted my photo with a few patterned papers and built embellishment clusters to the left and right of it.  I took out the ice cream cone from the Sweet Girl Cut Out and backed it with some of the patterned papers.  

Here are the embellishments on the right side of my photo.  The ice cream and treats in this collection are so adorable.

I created my title using a phrase from the Ciao Chip Chipboard Stickers, Aria Alphas in Punch and the Florence Alphas in Bell Pepper.

 

I added a fun cluster on the bottom of my page using some of the border stickers from the Doohickey Cardstock Stickers as well as a few Ephemera pieces.  

As a finishing detail, I added in some of the super cute Epoxy Sprinkles stickers.  

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope that I've inspired you in some way today.  I hope you love creating with this sketch, it's a great one!  See you in my next post friends.  

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

My Candy Girl Collection: 12x12 Patterned Papers, Doohickey Cardstock Stickers, Ciao Chipboard Stickers, Epoxy, Cute Clips, Ephemera and Cut Outs; Bella Besties: Florence Alphas in Bell Pepper and Aria Alphas in Punch.  

 

The Perfect Day, 12x12 Layout | Melissa Mann

Good Morning, Bella friends!

This is Melissa with you this morning and I'm sharing a new project that uses a little bit of stuff from several collections :-)

The first thing I did was to layer a piece of white card stock on top of a piece of pattern paper from the Let's Go On An Adventure paper collection. I placed another panel of paper down the length of the layout on the right hand side and the used my sewing machine to stitch the diagonal lines. This created a bit of subtle movement on my project.

Next, I layered my three photos with two different pattern papers and layered them down the right hand side on the panel of pattern paper. I cut out part of my title using a digital die cut file from the Silhouette shop:  HERE. 

I combined the digital die cut phrase, an acrylic word, and some puffy alphabet stickers to create my title! Once I had my title in place, I further embellished the layout with die cuts, puffy stickers, and chipboard.

Here's a peek at the full project:

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

1. Let's Go On An Adventure Pattern Paper Collection
2. Day at the Park Digital Die Cut
3. You Are My Sunshine Ephemera
4. You Are My Sunshine Ciao Chip
5. Aria Alphabet Stickers - Oyster
6. "Perfect" Acrylic Word
7. Squeeze the Day DooHickey Stickers
8. Matte Enamels - Dog Mix

Heart Attack Week Day 5 - Tegan

Hello everyone, Tegan with you here today! Who else is swooning over all of the heart projects this week?! I know I sure am! On today's layout, I gathered up the adorable Cooper collection and Heart Hug corrugated cardboard stickers so I could document a pic of my sweet pooch. I love how it turned out! 

I used the darling red mini heart Dog Talk Patterned Paper for my background. I then used the Aria Puffy Alphabet Stickers in black for my title. I anchored the title on two bone cut outs from the Bella Blvd Faithful Friend Cut-Outs pack. I love the little detail that this adds! I then accented it with a little bird and tennis ball chipboard stickers from the Cooper collection.

I then used some Cooper Patterned Papers (Puppers and Playtime) and a striped paper from the Chloe collection 6x6 paper pad to create a layered anchoring spot for my photo and design. I then used Cooper die cut ephemera pieces and stickers layered on top of the Heart Hug stickers to list reasons why I love my pooch. I love all of the color and dimension this adds! The chipboard house is from the Home Sweet Home collection. 

I absolutely LOVE the dog themed Cooper collection!! Here I layered my photo on a piece of the black dotted Puppers Patterned Paper. The white paw is another piece from the Faithful Friends Die-Cuts Pack. I usually love to back the Bella Blvd Cut-Outs with patterned papers but on this layout I love them used just as little accents. 

What is your favorite part of the Cooper Collection? Is it the adorable puppy faces or the paw prints or all of the amazing patterned papers? I love that using it makes it so easy to document photos of my adorable little terrier mix! 

Thanks for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to grab some of the Cooper Collection, Heart Hugs, and heart themed supplies to document your favorite pup! 

Bella Blvd Products Used:

Cooper Collection: Faithful Friend Cut-Outs, Puppers Patterned Paper, Play Time Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera, Doohickey Stickers

Heart Hugs: Sunshine, Christmas, Give Thanks, Black & White, Earth

Home Sweet Home Collection: Chipboard Stickers

Chloe Collection: 6x6 Paper Pad

Aria Puffy Stickers in Black

 

My Candy Girl + Hearts & Ombre Week, Day 5 | Tarrah

Hi creative friends,

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new layout for My Candy Girl/Hearts and Ombre Love theme week!

I just love February because its Love month and I can create projects using all the hearts and lots of pink too!

I started out by choosing one of the Heart/Ombre papers in pink for my background. I turned it over to show the pink Ombre side and ripped two of the papers from the My Candy Girl collection to place at the top of my layout. I ripped the red and pink polka dot paper slightly larger as I knew this would be the paper on the bottom. I then layered the blue piece with the hearts on the top and bent up the edges on both pieces at the top and bottom.  

I took two of the scallop border strip stickers from the Doohickey stickers and placed these at the bottom of my layout. I took a light pink and a red paper from the heart and ombre papers, cut them into 4' x 4' squares and made these into 2x origami hearts. They turned out super cute, I adhered one either side of my photo and layered some embellishments on top of them. One a chipboard flower and another, a die-cut flower and puffy heart sticker. I love how my black and white photo really pops against the gorgeous pink, red and blue colours on my page. 

My title is made up of Aria Puffy Alphabet stickers, Florence Alphabet stickers and the chipboard words from the My Candy Girl chipboard. I placed the title to the right of my photo and at the bottom of the photo also. I added one of the cute Bella Bows to the top left of my photo and added a die-cut heart to the top right of my photo. Above my photo, I added the sticker that says Sprinkled with Love, so cute I just love it!

I continued embellishing using puffy stickers, die-cuts, Doohickey stickers and chipboard icons. You will notice on my layout that the top half is heavy with papers and my photo, I have added elements to the bottom of the page to balance the heaviness out and to tie the layout together. I did use 2 different types of adhesive, some things I used regular double sided tape to adhere things and other things have foam tape underneath to add some dimension to my layout. Lastly I stamped the date stamp and sprinkled some white mist around my page.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Bella Blvd blog today! I hope you enjoyed my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it?!

Happy creating!

Bella products used:

Bella Besties - Hearts and Ombre papers

Aria Puffy Alphabet stickers in McIntosh

Florence Alphabet stickers in Punch 

My Candy Girl collection

My Candy Girl chipboard icons

My Candy Girl Doohickey stickers

My Candy Girl Ephemera Icons

My Candy Girl puffy stickers

Winter Projects Week- Day 4 | Erica Thompson

Hello friends! Erica here with you today to share a scrapbook layout using the Let Us Adore Him collection and Bella Besties! 

For this page I went with an 8.5x11 page and matted a piece of white textured cardstock to another piece of white cardstock. I distressed the edges and added some silver splatters all over the page. 

I pulled out the new Bella Cuts and decided to use all the stars. I backed them using some Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre and the King Of Kings pattern paper!

My photos are of Liam Jay out in the snow all bundled up and I printed them in black and white. I matted them on some Punch Bella Besties and layered them in on some foam adhesive. I placed the cut out stars down the left of my page and then adhered my photos down. 

I wanted to add another texture and more stars so I pulled out the Bella Blvd Trinkets and sprinkled them around the page. I used some of the florals from the Let Us Adore Him collection to embellish to the right of my photo and added a few word stickers. 

To finish my layout I added a title using the Aria Alphas and tucked in one of the scallop stickers under my photos.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed my layout and are inspired to create using the Let Us Adore Him collection. 

Let Us Adore Him Collection | Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre | Bella Blvd Trinket Puffy Stickers 

Let Us Adore Him - Sketch Week Dy 2 | Melissa Mann

Good Morning, friends! 

This is Melissa here today and I have a new project using the Let Us Adore Him collection and the fabulous sketch for this month!

I used a digital cut file for my white card stock background from the Bella Blvd Silhouette shop to create the stars and circles. I layered the white cardstock over a piece of pattern paper from the Let Us Adore Him paper collection. I love the multi-colored striped sheets that are in each collection and this made the perfect background to get a different peek of color through the the cut-out stars and circles on my background.

I splattered some ink in shades of red and black on my background and let that dry. While the ink was drying, I cut out three trees using the Evergreen Forest digital cut file from the Bella Blvd Silhouette shop and then distressed the edges of them with a sanding block. These were then stitched down on my layout using my sewing machine.

On each of my trees, I "decorated" them with small punched out shapes from more pattern papers from the Let Us Adore Him papers. I also used a couple of die-cut trees from the Ephemera pack.

Once my background was completed, I layered my photo with a couple of pieces of pattern paper and vellum. These were adhered down and then I furthered layered some more die-cut pieces and punched out stars around it. I placed my title above my photo using the Florence and Aria alphabet stickers. My journaling was typed out and placed in the upper left hand corner.

Supplies Used:

1. Let Us Adore Him Paper Collection
2. Starry Night Background Digital Cut File
3. Evergreen Forest Digital Cut File
4. Let Us Adore Him Doohickey Stickers
5. Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers - Guacamole
6. Florence Alphabet Stickers - McIntosh
7. Let Us Adore Him Ephemera
8. Joy Puffy Stickers
9. Christmas Mix Enamels

Let Us Adore Him and Puffy Stickers - Tegan

Good day Bella Blvd friends! I am sure you are loving the Let Us Adore Him collection as much as I am. I couldn't wait to create another layout with it...come take a look! It was perfect for documenting a photo from Christmastime at Disney World a couple years back!

I used the heart die cut piece from the Let Us Adore Him The Reason Cut Outs as the anchoring piece for my photo. I backed it with the red and green Grace and Humble Patterned Papers. I then embellished my photo with the super cute Chipboard Stickers and Ephemera die cuts. Isn't that camel die cut just the cutest?! I also focused on using the coordinating Let Us Adore Him Puffy Stickers. I decorated the heart cut out and finished my photo embellishment cluster with them. I love the little details they add! 

Here I layered the darling Ephemera tree die cut, aqua floral chipboard sticker, and navy floral puffy sticker. I used some more Let Us Adore Him Puffy Stickers and the Blueberry Aria Puffy Stickers to create this part of the title.

I then used the Punch Aria Puffy Stickers to spell out 'Merry' again. I embellished this section with a yellow chipboard flower and Puffy Stickers. I love the whimsical feel the Aria Puffy Stickers adds, don't you?

I used the aqua tiny dot Prince of Peace Patterned Paper for the background. It makes a great soft base for the layout so the rest of the elements pop!

What is your favorite part of the Let Us Adore Him collection?! It is all so cute - I don't think I can pick a favorite part although I do love all of the Puffy Stickers ALOT! 

Thanks for joining us today! I hope you are inspired to grab some of the Let Us Adore Him and the coordinating Puffy Stickers for your next project! 

Bella Blvd Products Used:

Let Us Adore Him Collection: Grace Patterned Paper, Humble Patterned Paper, Noel Patterned Paper, Prince of Peace Patterned Paper, Doohickey Stickers, Ephemera, Chipboard Stickers, Puffy Stickers

Aria Puffy Stickers: Punch, Blueberry

THANKGIVING week | Nathalie

Hello there!

Nathalie with you today to kick off Thanksgiving week here, in the Bella Blvd Blog.   I have to say that my favorite project of the year is my Gratitude Journal, it totally has made me focus on all the small blessings. So, i pulled one of my entries from the journal to crate this page using a few goodies from Bella Blvd.

 

I started this page with the photo  and  a few Aria Puffy stickers.  I just put the picture on the layout (Bella Besties), and used a ruler to add my large title using a rainbow of colors.

 

I wanted the title to be one of  the highlights of the page, so I pulled Aria puffy stickers, and glued them on the page in rainbow-colors order.   I made sure that   there was plenty of space available for the photo.

 

 

I chose the YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE collection to complete the page.  I created two tags from the papers and layered them behind the photo.  

 

 

In order to frame the title, I used a few papers from the YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE collection to create the paper strips and  glued them at an angle at the corners of the page.   I made sure that the paper strips meet at specific spots on the layout, so that I can add interest to the page.

 

 

To finish the page, I changed the last word to an acrylic piece.  This brings texture to the page, and breaks the monotony of the puffy stickers.   I added a few butterflies to add movement to the page, and make the viewer eye move through the page.

 

 

I love how this turned out, and I hope this inspires you to create a project that documents your gratitude using Bella Blvd. products

 

XO

 

 

Bella BLVD Supplies

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE COLLECTION:  patterned papers, chipboard stickers, trinkets, ephemera, Doohickey stickers

HOME SWEET HOME collection:  Doohickey Stickers

BELLA BESTIES (dot/grid)  White

ARIA PUFFY STICKERS:  Bell Pepper, Orange, Punch, Plum, Ice, Gulf

TRINKETS - White

ACRYLIC WORDS - Love