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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.

Fall Themed Mood Board Week | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today sharing a new layout using the gorgeous September Mood Board!  There are so many things that inspired me on this board and I had a lot of fun creating this page.  Here's my layout: 

 

Here's the beautiful mood board: 

 

 

I was so inspired by color palette on this mood board as well as the plaid in the center and the circles in the right square, middle row. So, that's where I started!  I pulled out my Bella Plaids & Dotty Papers as well as my circle punches and punched a few circles out of the Bell Pepper, Ice, Orange and Cotton Candy papers.  I also pulled in the "Let's Go On An Adventure" collection and a punched several more circles from the "No Wifi Script" patterned paper.  I set those aside and created an ink blended background using a few ink pads from my stash.  I really loved the colors in the mood board, so I made sure to pull some inks that matched it.  

 

 

After I finished my background, I arranged my circles in three different clusters.  I had one at the top and the bottom and then put one right in the center where I would eventually add my photo to.  I distressed the edges of my circles and popped a few up on some foam tape.  I fussy cut some floral pieces from the Wild Flowers 12x12 patterned papers and layered them in all three clusters making sure to pop some up on foam tape for more interest.  

 

 

Next, I added in a few fussy cut foxes from the Shy Foxes patterned paper and also pulled in a couple of Ephemera Icons to add to each cluster.  I layered some of the floral Trinket Puffy stickers and then tucked in a few bundles of tangled thread.  

 

 

I matted my photo using both sides of the Morning Meadow patterned paper and used the Oyster Aria Alphas to create my title.  Since it's a Fall themed week, I thought this photo of my son in his baseball uniform (with my pumpkins in the background), would be perfect!  

 

 

Here's another look at the inked up background and all of the pretty layers:  

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by the blog today!  Have you started scrapbooking your favorite Fall photos?  You should definitely use this pretty mood board as some inspiration, it's so fun!  Make sure to tag me in your social media posts so that I can see what you create using this months board!  See you next time friends!

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Let's Go An Adventure Collection:  12x12 patterned papers, ephemera icons, ephemera words; Bella Besties: Plaid & Dotty papers in Orange, Bell Pepper, Cotton Candy and Gulf; Aria Alphas in Oyster and Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Bell Pepper

Mood Board Week - Day 5 | Nathalie D.

Hello Bella Blvd friends!

Nathalie with you today to share a bit more of inspiration using our Mood Board.   As Fall has started, we are all wrapped up by the coziness of the season.   Thick and chunky knits, saturated colors, texture, and of course leaves.  These are  the themes that repeat in our Mood board, too.   Let me  show you 

 

 

I love Mood Boards ( sketches are not my thing!), and this one just sums up Fall.  So, I chose a bit from each square to create my layout

 

 

As soon as I saw the painted squares and the pastel paint pots, I knew that I had to start my layout with a bit of mixed media on the background.   I simply used acrylic paint mixed with gel medium to create the overlapping brushstrokes in the background.   I added lots of color splatters all around the strokes, and set is aside to dry.

 

 

In the mean time, I used two cut files and Bella Besties to cut a few leaves.  I picked the colors of the leaves based on the colors of the leaves in the mood board, and also a bit of red to match the apples in the picture.

 

 

I love the arrangement of the leaves in the mood board. I am borrowing that setting to place all the leaves in my background ( I trimmed the painted cardstock to 8 x11.5" ).   A bit of foam adhesive helped to create levels and dimension between the leaves.  I nestled the picture inside the curve of the leaf arrangement.   The mood board also shows a bit of knitting/knitted texture,  I choose to bring a bit of the stitched look to the leaves by drawing small vein lines with gel pens in each leaf.

 

 

I decided to place the bulk of my leaves at the top of the page.  Then chose the scalloped edges of the My Candy girl to soften the edges of the painted background before attaching it to a Blueberry Besties background.  The contrast of the colors just brought all the painted backgrounds together.

 

 

For the title, I am mixing an acrylic word with Aria Puffy stickers.   Once again, I am playing with textures, and also the slim lines of the words in the phrase square of the mood board.   I added a extra embellishments, then added a few drops of gold and white ink to finish my page!

 

 

I love how this turned out, it was so much fun to take a few ideas from the mood board and transform them into this page.   Remember to share your projects, inspired by the board, with us!

 

XO

 

BELLA BLVD Supplies

BELLA BESTIES Collection:  Ombre/Heart in Blueberry, Bell Pepper, Mckintosh,  Orange, Oyster

MY CANDY GIRL Collection: Patterned papers, Doohickey Stickers

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE Collection:  Puffy Stickers, Patterned paper, Doohickey stickers

HEART HUGS: Boy

ARIA PUFFY Stickers : Blueberry

ACRYLIC WORDS:  Adventure

 

 

Mood Board Fall Week Day 4 | Karlla Dauer

Hello Bella Blvd Friends.

Karlla Here and I'm so happy to share a new layout with you!

This week is from the Mood Board, and I love playing with it.

Makes our creativity work.

I loved the color combination of this mood board,

so I took advantage of the Bella Besties Collection to make these beautiful and colorful leaves.

You can find this Cut File on the Silhouette Design website as "LEAVES" from Bella Blvd.

To highlight the colors of the entire project, I chose to use the "Oyster Hearts & Ombré Bella Besties".

I LOVED!

 

I made the same title on both ends of the layout using "Orange Florence Alphabet Stickers"

"Peep Florence Alphabet Stickers" and "Aria Alpha - Gulf".

I added some details with the hearts "Besties Collection - Puffy Stickers" matching the colors of the leaves.

To finish and make the project delicate, I splashed white acrylic paint.

I loved the delicacy of this layout, and I hope you like it too.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope I inspired you.

Have a wonderful day!

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Bella Besties Collection

Hearts & Ombré Bella Besties

Aria Alpha

Alphabet Stickers

Besties Collection - Puffy Stickers

Cut File Leaves 

 

 

 

Fall Mood Board Week by Tarrah

Hi creative friends!

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am excited to be sharing a new Fall inspired layout, this week we are creating projects using the gorgeous mood board below as inspiration. 

From the mood board I was immediately drawn to the leaves/feathers in the top centre rectangle. I decided to cut out some of the leaf cut files from the Silhouette Store in a variety of sizes using mostly the 'B' side of the Daily Details paper from the To the Moon collection. I like how the leaves look 'dipped'. Once the leaves were all cut out I backed them all with vellum and then added machine stitching with white thread to the centres, I like how this adds some texture to the leaves.

I chose the Pickle Juice Heart and Ombre paper as my background paper, I trimmed it down slightly to back it onto the Pony Heart and Ombre paper, I then machine stitched around the outer edge to add some more texture. I arranged the leaves in a falling pattern and once happy with the arrangement, I adhered them by just adding glue to the very centre of the back so that I could bend up the edges of them. 

I placed my photo on the right of the leaf arrangement, tucking it into the leaves so that it was connected. My title I placed on the left amongst the leaves, the title is made up of the Ciao Chipboard Hello word and the orange Aria puffy alphabet stickers. Once the main elements were adhered it was time to add some smaller embellishments. I pulled out various things that went with the colour scheme like the acrylic hearts, some puffy shapes, puffy hearts, corrugated heart hugs and some die-cuts.

I placed the larger scallop die-cut to the centre of one of the bigger leaves and layered a speech bubble die-cut over the top. I love how it says 'Let's Play'. The photo was taken while doing a photo shoot with some friends amongst heaps of fallen autumn leaves. We were throwing them in the air and having heaps of fun and laughing heaps too! I added a cute Bella Bow to the left of the photo. Once I had added some of the smaller embellishments, I sprinkled some white mist around the page and stamped the date stamp.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Bella blog today!

I hope you enjoyed my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it?! 

Happy creating!

Bella products used:

Bella Blvd cut files

Pickle Juice Heart and Ombre paper

Pony Heart and Ombre paper

To the Moon Daily Details paper 

Orange Aria Puffy alphabet

Orange puffy shapes

My Candy Girl puffy shapes

Acrylic Hearts

Squeeze the Day ephemera

To The Moon Fall Projects Day 3 - Tegan

Good day Bella Blvd friends! On today's layout I used the adorable To The Moon collection to create this fun fall layout! I made sure to focus on the red, orange, aqua, white, and navy coloring in the To The Moon Besties Patterned Paper kit. I had SO MUCH FUN using this astronaut/boy themed collection to document some fall pics of my nieces! I call it 'Out of This World Fall Fun'! Come take a look! 

I used the super pretty Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre Ice Patterned Paper for my background paper. All of the ombre papers make amazing backgrounds! I then blended some of my favorite To The Moon chipboard stickers and patterned papers with the coordinating Bella Besties patterned papers. I used the darling Florence Alphabet Stickers in Guacamole to start the title!

Here I used the Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre Blueberry Patterned Paper and the Bella Besties Graph & Dot Patterned Paper in McIntosh layered with some To The Moon papers. The Bella Besties papers make great layering pieces! I then embellished this photo with adorable robot and astronaut chipboard pieces and a black corrugated Heart Hug sticker. Isn't that robot just the cutest?!

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I then used the super fun Aria Puffy Sticker in Orange to finish the title. I then finished off the page by using clusters of the Trinkets Puffy Stickers in McIntosh around the page. I love dimension they add! What is your favorite part of the To The Moon collection?! 

Thanks for joining me today! I hope I inspired you to grab some of the adorable To The Moon collection and some Bella Besties Patterned Papers for your next fall project! 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

To The Moon Collection: Borders Patterned Paper, Chipboard Icons Stickers, Doohickey Stickers, A Boy's World Puffy Stickers

Bella Besties Patterned Papers (To The Moon 12 x 12 Bella Besties Kit): Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper-Ice, Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper-Blueberry, Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper-Guacamole, Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper-Orange, Graph & Dot Patterned Paper-McIntosh

Alphabet Stickers: Florence Alphabet Stickers-Guacamole, Aria Puffy Alphabet Stickers-Orange

Heart Hugs: Black & White Heart Hugs Stickers

Trinkets Puffy Stickers in McIntosh

Sketch Week Day 4 | Tegan

Good day Bella Blvd friends! Tegan with you here today sharing my take on September's super fun sketch! I am obsessed with the brand new You Are My Sunshine collection, so of course I used that as well! Come take a look! 

First, here is the sketch...What ideas do you get from it right away?

And here is my take! I tried to keep the main elements (photos, title, etc) in the same areas as the sketch. I had so much fun using the sketch to create today's layout! 

Did you catch the cool grid pattern background on the original sketch? At first, I wanted to get out my stencils and paints to create a grid pattern but I recently moved and those supplies are still nowhere to be found. So I decided since I did have the Bella Blvd Heart Attack Cut-Outs I would try to do something with them that I haven't done before!  I layered the bottoms of the hearts behind some of the patterned papers so that just the top scallops stick out. I love that it gives the page a little bit more detail here! I embellished the top of the page here with You Are My Sunshine Chipboard Stickers and Ephemera Die-Cuts. I love the little Bella enamel dots too.

I made sure to include the embellishment cluster underneath the photos section even though I didn't use stars. Here I used a mix of the You Are My Sunshine Chipboard Stickers and Ephemera Die-Cuts. I absolutely LOVE all of the colors and graphics in this collection!

And the AMAZING Aria Puffy Stickers in a rainbow of colors were absolutely perfect for making my large title! And they pop so well against the tiny black polka dot Daily Details Patterned Paper!

What part of the You Are My Sunshine collection is your favorite? Is it the colors? The flowers and adorable bees? Or the darling butterflies?!

Thank you for joining us today! I hope I have inspired you to grab the awesome September sketch for your next layout! It was so much fun! 

Bella Blvd Products Used:

You Are My Sunshine Collection: Daily Details Patterned Paper, Happy Thoughts Patterned Paper, My Only Sunshine Patterned Paper, Ray of Sunshine Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera Die-Cuts, Doohickey Stickers

Bella Blvd Cut-Outs: Heart Attack

Aria Alphabet Stickers: Orange, Ice, Gulf, Punch, Guacamole, Blueberry, Pickle Juice

 

Sketch Week Day 3 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today sharing a new layout using the gorgeous September Sketch and the You Are My Sunshine collection.  Do you like to create with sketches?  They really take a lot of the work out for you and it's fun to take a sketch and alter it to fit your design/style as well.  Here's what I came up with!

 

 

Here's the gorgeous September Sketch created by my fellow CT member, Niki Rowland. It's fabulous!

 

 

When I looked at the sketch, I noticed a fun mixed media background using a stencil.  So I took a stencil from my stash and ink blended on a few different Distress Oxide ink pads in pink, orange and yellow. It was super simple and quick!  You could even add stitching in place of the mixed media.  It would add some great texture.  

 

 

I usually add only one photo to my layouts but this sketch called for several and I really wanted to stick as close to the sketch as possible.  I had a bunch of photos that I had taken of my boys playing basketball in the pool and I thought it would be fun to arrange them frame by frame.  I matted them using the Everyday Magic 12x12 patterned paper and popped them all up on foam tape to give them all a little bit of lift.  The photos and the mattes are all in blue tones so they really popped on top of my background. 

 

 

I wanted to add more color and without using additional patterned papers, I thought it would be neat to add washi tape to the top and bottom of the page.  I used both a polka dot washi and skinny stripe washi and really like how it pulled everything together. For my title, I used the "Memories" acrylic piece and added onto it using the Aria Alphas in Gulf.  

 

 

Next, I pulled in some ephemera, puffy stickers and chipboard and cardstock stickers.  I created embellishment clusters around my page and added some tangled thread to them as well.  

 

 

Here's a close up shot of one of the clusters.  All of these bright colors make me so happy.  

 

 

One more shot of this fun layout!

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I really appreciate you being here!  If you do end up using this sketch to create a page, please make sure to tag me in your social media posts.  I would love to see your take on it!  I'd also love it  if you checked out my process video down below to see how this layout came together.  See you next time friends!

 

 

 

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

You Are My Sunshine Collection: 12x12 Patterned Papers, Ciao Chip Stickers, Doohickey Cardstock Stickers, Ephemera, Puffy Stickers; Bella Besties: Aria Alphas in Gulf, Memories Acrylic Piece.  

 

 

Sketch Week - Day 2 | Nathalie DeSousa

Hello Bella Blvd.friends!

Nathalie here to continue sharing more inspiration with this month's sketch.   We love sketches, they are one of the  best ways to get a project done in a short amount of time with great results. Let's take a look at this week's sketch

Just love all the small picture  spots, and the large title.   Now here is my project:

 

 

I started by creating the background for my page.   The sketch shows a broken grid print in the background; I am replacing that with a bit of mixed media.  A bit of ink blending, then followed by a stencil application just adds a bit of color to the white cardstock.

 

 

Next, it was all about working with the photos.  I chose to back my 4 photos with papers from TO THE MOON Collection, and glued them as per the sketch.  However, I replaced the center photo with part of  my title.   I used Aria puffy alphas to spell the word, "DAD", in the center of the page in vertical formation.  

 

 

I used a circle stencil for the background, so I used a set of dies to cut some of the TO THE MOON collection and BELLA BESTIES Ombre/hearts into circles.  These are scattered at the bottom of the photos, along with  chipboard  stars and puffy star stickers from To The Moon collection.   I added a few extra accents atop the word "DAD", and a few extra embellishments at the outer edges of the pictures at both ends of the page.

 

 

I love the font in the Doohickey sticker page.  I used the ones from TO THE MOON collection for my title work.   I followed the placement for the journal lines, but decided to bring a bit of extra embellishment to the bottom edge of the page.

 

 

The sketch also shows a bit of embellishing on the top edge of the layout.  I chose to trim the top edge, and distress it a bit. Then backed the empty space with one of the papers used in the circle die cuts. I repeated this look at the bottom of the page, too.

 

 

I love how this turned out, and how easy it came together using the sketch as inspiration for the page. Remember to share your projects -inspired by the sketch- with us, too.  We would love to see your take on the sketch!

 

XO

 

 

Supply List

TO THE MOON Collection:  Patterned papers, Doohickey Stickers, Ephemera, Puffy Stickers, Chipboard Stickers

BELLA BESTIES Ombre/Heart Collection - Blueberry

ARIA PUFFY Stickers - Blueberry

Others:  Stencil - Vicki Boutin exclusive; Distress Ink - Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers; Dies - Freckled Fawn

You are my Sunshine Alphas Week Day 5 | Niki Rowland

Hey everyone! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) back with you today and I'm using the You are My Sunshine Collection. It’s so bright and happy, I love it so much! I have also made a process video for this layout which can be viewed below.

I really wanted to use the rainbow paper but it is a little tricky to use as a background because it has lots of small repeating rainbows on a white background. I was determined to use it as a background though so in order to do that I had to create some white space.

I cut a large circle in the middle of the paper. I distressed the edges and planned to mount it on white. This provided with me a large white aperture in the middle of the layout. It didn’t quite work because the white background of the rainbow paper blended too much with the white circle. So I took it apart again and added a pink circle layer too – this was perfect!

I then made a few colourful rosettes using You Are My Sunshine papers. I simply cut different width strips, used a border punch along one long edge of some, then scored every quarter inch. I concertina folded and glued the ends together. I then flattened them into rosettes and glued them with a paper circle on the back. I arranged these around my layout and stuck them in place.

I cut my photo to a circle too and layered this on top of the rosettes. On the middle of each rosettes I added flowers from the ephemera. I added my title using beautiful Aria puffy stickers in rainbow colours! I also used Florence alphabet stickers too.

I added two Bella Pops: the sun and the rainbow. The rainbow is extra special as it comes with enamel detailing on the rainbow and two enamel clouds!

I finished off by stitching through my title with machine stitching and I also added a few of the cute puffy hearts from the Aria stickers.

Thank you so much for joining me today and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Products used: 

You are my Sunshine Collection: 12x12 patterned papers, Bella Pops Chasing Rainbows & Sunshine, Ephemera

Aria Puffy Alphabet Stickers: Peep, Cotton Candy, Orange, Bell Pepper, Gulf, Ice, Plum

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Orange 

Other products: white card 

You Are My Sunshine & Alphas Week Day 4 | Erica

Hey friends! Erica here with you today with a colorful layout using the You Are My Sunshine collection.

This week we are mixing in some of the Aria and Florence Bella Blvd Alphas and I had fun creating a colorful title for my layout! If you follow me you know I typically use a white background but I decided to try something different. 

I started with the 12x12 Feeling Sunny and trimmed it down to 7.50x12 and adhere to the top of a piece of white cardstock. I added some borders from the You Are My Sunshine Borders paper along with some other pattern paper strips from the collection. For a little bit of interest I used the colorful stripe scallop border from the 12x12 Doohickey sheet. 

I used my We R Memory Keepers circle cutter to cut out some circles to layer behind my photo that I also cut out in a circle and placed in the center of the page. For my title I used the Aria Puffy Alphas in Punch, Orange, Bell Pepper and Guacamole! The Aria alphas were perfect to add to the yellow polka dot strip for a sub title! I had so much fun on my birthday in Chicago and this layout was so much fun to create! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you have been inspired to create using the Aria and Florence Alpha Stickers! Have a great day!

Aria Puffy Stickers in Punch, Orange, Bell Pepper and Guacamole | You Are My Sunshine Collection