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School Is Cool 3 + Photo Challenge | Ashley Neu

Hello scrappy friends! Ashley here on the Bella Blvd blog to share another school layout using the brand new and awesome School Is Cool collection! The challenge for this week is to use at least 3 photos on a layout. I used 4 photos of my two little girls getting on the school bus. It's a series of photos showing my kindergartener helping my preschooler get on the bus for the first time! It sure was adorable to watch!

 

 

I found the School Bus cut file from Bella Blvd and knew it was the perfect thing to use to document these photos! In Silhouette Studio, I used the 'release compound path' feature to break apart each piece of the cut file. I wanted to just use the basic outline of the bus along with the wheels. After cutting the bus from the Bella Besties Graph + Dot paper in the color Bell Pepper and the wheels from the Daily Details paper, I added some stitching using tone-on-tone embroidery thread. This gives so much more dimension to a very flat looking cut file!

 

 

After adhering my photos in the positions that would be the bus windows, I worked on the background scene. I grabbed the Bella Besties Graph + Dot paper in the color Guacamole and the No. 2 Pencil paper to create a grass and road border. I used a Martha Stewart punch to create the grass. I cut a small strip of the No.2 Pencil paper, using the reverse side with the words 'i love school', and sandwiched that between the 2 grass pieces. I used a piece of the Bella Bestites Hearts + Ombre paper in the color Ice and cut out a large piece to use as the sky. The paper Math Facts was so adorable and I thought they would make some very interesting-looking clouds that would be perfect for a school layout! I hand cut these and adhered them straight onto the background.

 

 

The main title of the layout is the 'Be Brave' sentiment that I created using the Be You, Be Brave Acrylic Words set. I also added the sentiment 'Back to School' using the Florence Alpha stickers in the color black as well as a school word banner from the Ephemera Words set. To embellish, I used two Epoxy Stars on the center of the wheels, a tiny school bus and 'Bus Stop' sign from the Puffy Stickers set and an 'Early Bird' sign from the Ephemera Words set. I added some stitching all the way around the layout using a white gel pen and adhered some journaling strips at the bottom of my layout along with the date! 

 

 

That's all friends! I hope you enjoyed this school bus scene layout. It was a lot of fun to make, adding the tone-on-tone stitching and creating the grass and road border! Thank you for stopping by the blog and have a wonderful day!

Supplies Used: School Is Cool collection- 12x12 Patterned Paper, Ephemera Words, Puffy Stickers, Epoxy Stars; Cut File- School Bus; Florence Alpha Stickers in Black; Bella Besties Graph + Dot papers in Bell Pepper and Guacamole; Bella Besties Hearts + Ombre paper in Ice; Be You, Be Brave Acrylic Words; White Gel Pen; Embroidery Floss

 

Spell on You | Sarah

Hello, Bella friends! It's me Sarah back on the blog today, and I can't believe fall is in full force. It's our favorite season in our house, and we are all super excited and pumped for Halloween. Anyone else?! Anyway, with the anticipation of Halloween around the corner, I wanted to create a layout using the Spell on You collection.

Here's how I felt inspired:

I felt inspired to focus on using a repetition of circular shapes on my layout. I started off by doodling circles onto patterned papers from the Spell on You collection. I cut them out and added them to my page.

I used some of the stickers from the Doohickey Stickers. Both the circle and scalloped circles worked perfectly on this layout.

Bella Pops fit right in with the rest of the circular shapes too. The pumpkin Bella Pop from the Spell on You collection is just fab-BOO-lous; I love it!

For my title, I used pieces from the Ephemera Word Icons. Adding a little bit of foam adhesive to the backs of these die-cut pieces gave it that extra dimension to make them pop off the page. I added my journaling snippet below the title; I felt that it fit perfectly in that empty space. 

Last but not least, I couldn't help myself. I had to share how adorable these little Bella Pop stickers are! The bat is just too spook-tacular with that little face.

Okay, that's all I have for today! I hope that I've inspired you to create something today, and maybe it'll even be a spooky, Halloween project. Anyway, thanks for joining me today, and thanks for letting me share my work with all of you.

Until next time,

Sarah.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Spell on You: Patterned Papers, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Ephemera Icons, Epoxy Stickers, Bella Pops; Bella Besties: Hearts & Ombre Rainbow 12x12 Paper Pack

Spell On You | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today and I'm so excited to share my new layout with y'all!  This is my first layout using the new Spell On You collection and I had so much fun creating it!  This collection has so many fabulous elements to it and I can't wait to be able to use it again soon.  Here's my layout: 

To start, I trimmed four 4"x4" inch squares using the Candy Dots, Broomsticks and All Tricks No Treats 12x12 patterned papers.  They are the cutest patterns and I really wanted to highlight them. I adhered them to a piece of white cardstock that I trimmed down to 11x11 and backed with the Wee Witches 12x12 patterned paper.  I love how the stars really pop on that black.  

I started to decorate my first square by using a few Doohickey Cardstock Border Stickers and layered the really cute Witching Hour Bella Pop right on top.  I also adhered a few Ephemera Words and a few of the Fright Night Puffy Stickers. How adorable is that little witch??!

I created a fun little scene on the next square by using a haunted house and witch piece from the Ephemera Icons pack.  

On the next square, I added my title using an Ephemera Word and the Aria Alphas in Plum.  I added a few Puffy Stickers and these really cute witch shoes from the Ephemera Pieces.  

My last square held my photo that I matted with a tag and frame from the Ephemera Words pack.  I added a few phrase stickers from the Doohickey Cardstock Stickers and popped the entire thing up on foam tape.  The photo is of me and my best friend at a Halloween party.  I was Peach from Mario Kart and she was Sarah Sanderson from Hocus Pocus.  Such a perfect photo for this collection!

Here's one last shot of this fun grid layout: 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope that I've inspired you in some way!  Do you like to make grid layouts?  They're so fun to make, especially when you make your pieces quite large.  They're like their own separate little layouts!  See you next time friends!

xo Brianna

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Spell On You Collection: 12x12 Patterned Papers, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons, Fright Night Puffy Stickers, Witching Hour Bella Pop, Epoxy Stickers and Doohickey Cardstock Stickers.  Bella Besties: Aria Alphas in Plum.  

School Is Cool - Rachel O'Neal

Hi friends! I'm back with another School Is Cool layout. I mentioned before how much I loved the pennant flags that come in the Ephemera Icons pack. There are ones for each grade Kindergarten - 6th! So I thought it would be fun to go back and reprint "First Day" photos for my Carter and create a layout that had all of them on one page using those pennants. Can't believe how fast the years are flying by! Here's what I came up with:

 

 

I started with a white 12" x 12" cardstock background and used my Distress Oxide pad in Fossilized Amber to create a yellow background. While it was drying, I worked on the Smarty Pants Cut Out set that comes with this collection. It has several great titles, but I chose to go with "the Best Day ever" cut out. I actually removed the word "the" and backed the rest with the Supply List patterned paper. Each Cut Out set comes with a pattern that you can use on your paper of choice to get just the correct size for backing the cutouts. They are so easy to use. Once my background was dry, I added the cutout to the bottom of the layout with foam tape. 

 

 

Next, I took each of my photos and layered them with white cardstock, Bella Blvd Besties paper in McIntosh Graph, and also the 12" x 12" School Supplies patterned paper. Once the papers were secured, I went ahead and added them to the layout with foam tape as well. 

 

 

Now it was time to add the embellishments and those cute pennants. I wanted to be intentional about which embellishments I used for each grade. I wanted them to be grade appropriate. I love how there are a variety of choices in both the Ephemera Icons and the Ephemera Words packs. The math flash cards are a perfect example of that. There is a piece with a basic combination (9+7) and one for older grades as well (23+5). So many to choose from.

 

 

I finished the layout by stamping a little including the dates for each of the photos, and then added a few black hearts from the Florence Alpha sticker sheet. This is such a fun and special layout. I hope you like it. Here's a list of everything I used:

• 12" x 12" White Cardstock
• Distress Oxide Pad: Fossilized Amber
• Cut Outs: Smarty Pants
• 12" x 12" Supply List Pattern Paper
• 12" x 12" School Supplies Pattern Paper
• Bella Blvd Besties Graph & Dot in McIntosh
• School Is Cool Ephemera Icons
• Bella Blvd Florence hearts in black.

 

School is Cool + Chipboard Week, Day 4 | Sarah

Hi, everyone! It's me Sarah (@redoaklines) hosting today's blog post, and I'm excited to be back on the Bella Blvd blog to share one of my latest layouts using the School is Cool collection with a focus on the coordinating Ciao Chips.

Here's what I created:

I'm now just getting around to scrapbooking my kids' school photos from last year, ha! Anyway, I knew that this School is Cool collection was going to be perfect for these photos.

I started off by backing the photos with patterned papers. Using some Ciao Chips, I started working on my title using.

I wanted it to be the main focus of my layout, so I cut out strips of patterned paper and rolled them. I tucked the rolled strips underneath the ruler Ciao Chip piece. Lastly, I added the "SCHOOL" Ciao Chips on top of the rainbow colored papers. I felt like the rainbow gave the title dimension.

Around my title, I added more star chipboard pieces, as well as various ephermera icons. 

Also, how adorable is that chipboard apple?! I couldn't resist; I had to add to my layout!

Off to the side of my left photo, I added more Ciao Chip pieces and stars from the ephemera icons pack. Sometimes adding an embellishment cluster to a photo will do just the trick!

So, what do you think of the School is Cool collection?! I'm so into the coordinating Ciao Chips in this collection. I love that words/titles are built into the pieces, but there are also other pieces to embellish your scrap projects.

As always, thanks for letting me share my work with you today, and thanks for following along. Use #bellablvd or #bellablvdllc to tag us on social media if you use Bella products. We'd all love to see it.

Until next time,

Sarah.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

School Is Cool: Patterned Papers, Ciao Chips, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words; Besties Collection: Hearts & Ombre Rainbow Collection Kit

School is cool | Emilie Chamel

Hello friends! The summer is coming to an end here in the UK and days in the sunshine are getting fewer. As a result, I am keeping my little one busy indoors during the last few days of the summer break with craft activities. Let me show you how the School is Cool collection is perfect for it!

 

Sophia's attention span has come leaps and bounds over the summer holidays. I know three year olds tend to jump between activities but crafting has seen a real increase in interest and attention. Our last art session lasted a whole two and half hours so I knew I had to document it!

Although these are home activities and not school related, it was super easy for me to pair my story with the "School is cool" collection. I found tones of painting themed ephemeras and some of the wording elements worked perfectly with my photographs.

At the end of our session, Sophia was covered in paint so I felt that the "You do you" ephemera worked particularly well with this story.

She loved to say "I've got an idea!" when she creates so the lightbulb as well as the "Big ideas" ephemera just had their place on this page!

The cut-out was such a great and easy way to create my title! She was so independent during our craft session that Smarty pants was super appropriate.

I love to pair the Bella Besties papers with the collections. They make for a colorful yet more subtle background than a heavy pattern.

All the elements went to well together! I hope that you enjoyed this layout. Don't hesitate to check out the School is Cool collection at your local scrapbook store.

 

Emilie xxx

Material used:

School is cool paper collection

School is cool Ephemera Icons

School is cool Ephemera words

School is cool cut-outs

Bella Besties Collection 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper Black Graph and Dot

School is Cool | Rachel O'Neal

Hi friends! It's Rachel today! I'm here to talk about my first layout with Bella Blvd's newest collection - School Is Cool! You know what also is cool? This collection! When it arrived at my doorstep, I couldn't wait to flip through every piece of paper and pack of ephemera. Once we finished school for the day, I sat right down at my desk and started playing! For this layout, I wanted to create a black and white background so that the colors in the embellishments could really pop.

I started by making a background with my Distress Oxide pad in the color - Black Soot. My goal was to create a background similar to an old school black chalkboard. Once I did that, I set it aside to dry and started cutting up patterned paper from the collection into strips. I used different sizes and widths, but most of them around 6 inches in length. I definitely wanted the background to peak out from behind. The papers I cut into strips are: Borders, Supply List, No 2 Pencil, and Math Facts. I also threw in some Bella Besties Graph paper in white! 

 

 

Once my background was dry, I arranged the patterned paper strips on top of it and secured them to the white cardstock with foam tape. Next, I added Carter's first day of school photo. Time to start embellishing!  I have to say right away that one of my favorite pieces has to be the pennant flags with the grade on them. How cute is that?! 

 

 

For my embellishments, I started at the top left corner and worked my way across the page. I used a lot of pieces from the School Is Cool Ciao Chip, the Ephemera Icons, and the cutest puffy sticker pack. The giant title {SCHOOL} is from the Ciao Chip as well. I love how every letter of the word is a different color. I finished the layout with a little stamping and some tiny heart stickers from the Florence Alpha set.

Thank you for stopping by today! I'll be back next week with another layout using many of the same papers just in a different way! 

Products Used:

• White Cardstock
• Distress Oxide is Black Soot
• School is Cool 12" x 12" patterned papers (Borders, Supply List, No 2 Pencil. and Math Facts)
• Bella Besties Graph & Dot in White
• School Is Cool Ciao Chip
• School is Cool Ephemera Icons
• School is Cool Puffy Stickers: Ready For School
• Florence Alphas in Black (stickers hearts)

 

 

 

School is Cool | Sarah

Hello to all Bella friends! Hope your week is going well. It's me Sarah (@redoaklines) hosting today's blog post, and I'm excited to share my latest layout using the School is Cool collection coupled with some of the awesome embellishments that coordinate with it.

Here's how I felt inspired:

The "School is Cool" Cut-Out steals the show! I love that it is a big and bold statement.

Have you used any of the Bella Blvd Cut-Outs before?! I love using them! They're a quick and easy alternative to fussy cutting or using a die cutting machine. How do you use them? You just have to add paper behind the Cut Out and viola! It's as simple as that. With all of the colorful, patterned papers from the School is Cool collection, it's a perfect match.

After adding patterned papers behind the "SCHOOL" letters, I embellished with various ephemera icons and stickers.

I felt like the little flowers included in the ephemera icons pack would add some dimension to my title. I love how they look on the title!

I especially loved adding that apple Bella Pop to the letter "O". To fill the space in the other "O", I used one of the owl puffy stickers. Isn't it adorable?!

To the side of my photo, I added the math flash cards! I love that this collection included these as part of the ephemera icons pack. It's a "back to school" must, especially for my elementary school-aged kiddos.

That's all I have for today. Ain't this collection adorable?! Doesn't it inspire you to scrap those back to school photos?! Heck, you could even use the bright colorful papers and embellishments for photos that aren't "back to school" related!

As always, thanks for letting me share my work with you today, and thanks for following along. Use #bellablvd or #bellablvdllc to tag us on social media if you use Bella products. We'd all love to see it.

Until next time,

Sarah.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

School Is Cool: Patterned Papers, Cut-Outs, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Puffy Stickers, Bella Pops; Besties Collection: Hearts & Ombre Rainbow Collection Kit

School Is Cool | Rachel O'Neal

 

Hello friends! I'm back again with my second School Is Cool layout! It has been so fun to play with this collection. The colors, the patterns, and so many embellishments make the possibilities endless. For this layout, I was really drawn to several of the black and white patterned papers in the collection. I decided to showcase my favorites (and throw in some yellow too) by using them in a pie shaped cut fie. You can find the cut file here. The papers I used from the collection include the 12" x 12" Borders, Daily Details, Supply List, Math Facts, and No 2 Pencil. I also choose some of my favorite Bella Besties papers from the Graph & Dot collection - I used three colors: white, black, and bell pepper. I always love how so many of Bella's products coordinate perfectly with each other.

After I used my Cricut to cut out several of the circles, I backed each one with the patterned papers and then used tape runner to adhere them to my 12" x 12" white cardstock base. I also cut out my photo to be a circle so it fit right in.

 

Around my photo, I used my go to Florence alphas in black to create my title. Now I pulled out all the embellishments to add to my layout. I used several pieces from the Ciao Chip, but my favorite pack of all is definitely the Ephemera Icons.

 

 

I finished the layout with some journaling and stamped the date. I love including journaling on my layout - even if it's just a couple sentences to leave behind my thoughts. Thank you for stopping by today. Here's my supply list:

Products Used:

Slice of Life Cut File

School Is Cool 12" x 12" Patterned Papers (Math Facts, Supply List, Daily Details, Borders, No. 2 Pencil)

Bella Besties Graph & Dot (White, Black, and Bell Pepper)

School Is Cool Ciao Chip

School Is Cool Ephemera Icons

Florence Alphas in Black

 

School Is Cool Week, Day 1 | Brianna Lepper

Hi friends! Brianna Lepper here and I'm so excited to share my first layout with y'all today using the new School Is Cool collection.  I am in love with this collection and all of the cute bits and pieces make me so happy!  Here's my page, make sure to check out my process video at the end of this post:

To start, I took the Smarty Pants Cut Out from the Smarty Pants Cut Outs pack and started backing the letters.  I chose to back a couple of them with a few different washi tapes.  I used both the Dotty and Ice Dot washi tapes and also pulled in a few patterned papers from the collection to back the remaining letters with.

I love getting creative with Cut Outs and for this one, instead of ink blending the "Smarty" portion of it, I added some black polka dots with a gel pen.  I popped the entire thing up on foam tape and worked on the next step.  

I wanted even more color on my page so I took the 12x12 Coloring patterned paper and tore about 1"inch off of both sides.  I then adhered it to a piece of textured white cardstock and stuck the cut out down in the middle of my page.  Next, I matted my photo and layered it under the bottom right of the cut out.  

There's a super cute chalkboard piece in the Ephemera Icon pack and I thought it would be fun to add my subtitle in it using the Florence Alphas in white.  I wanted it to look like it was written in chalk and even rubbed a bit of a white gelato in a few spots to make it look a bit more authentic. 

I created a few more embellishment clusters by adding more Ephemera Icons and Ephemera Words pieces.  I also incorporated a few Ciao Chip chipboard stickers as well.  

I love layering and tucking things into my clusters so I pulled in the Ready For School Puffy Stickers and the Doohickey Cardstock Stickers.  I even added a few bits of tangled thread in coordinating colors.  

Here's one final look at this colorful page: 

Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope that I've inspired you in some way!  I had a fun time creating this page and documenting the first day of my oldest sons Senior year.  It's such a special memory and this collection was perfect for it.  I'll see you in my next post friends!

Process Video:

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

School Is Cool Collection: 12x12 Patterned Paper, Smarty Pants Cut Outs, Puffy Stickers, Epoxy Stickers, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons, Doohickey Cardstock Stickers and Ciao Chip Stickers; Bella Besties: Florence Alphas in White.  

Tiny Tots 2.0 & Time to Travel week - Day 1 - Emilie Chamel

Hello friends! I hope you are enjoying this summer! Here with the school holidays, we are keeping the kids busy the best we can which means the occasional dress-up day. And who says dress-up says mummy has her camera to the ready! In this post I am showing how versatile Tiny Tots 2.0 can be, let's have a look!

I love my little Sophia in her Belle's dress. She is so cute! And I was so lucky that she agreed to play along to a photoshoot while wearing her dress. I knew I wanted to use these photos for my Tiny Tots 2.0 project. The collections has a few florals and it also has yellow, red and green papers which I knew I would want to use.

You can't think of the Beauty and the Beast without thinking of the rose. I therefor decided to create a 3D rose out of the ABC's papers. I then cut out some leaves out of the You're A Star paper to accompany the rose. To mat my photographs, I used the yellow side of the Be Brave paper. The yellow matting really helps to link the layout with the color of her dress.

I then used a Bella BLVD cut-file from the Silhouette shop to create my title. With my Cricut I was able to add an offset layer underneath the title which I cut-out of the Bella Besties Heart and Ombre in Pink. The main cut-out was made out of plain white cardstock but I re-cut the center letter from the Ombre side of the Yellow Heart and Ombre paper. This helped to repeat again the yellow from the dress.

For my background I settled on the green Heart and Ombre paper. I felt that it was best fitting for the rose to rest on. If you see my process video though you will know that this was not my first choice and after sleeping on my original idea this was changed to this beautiful green!

The finishing touch came in the shape of some ladybirds as well as some flowers to create cluster around the rose and the photograph. A few extra words to add to my title and I was happy with the final result! The date stamped above the photographs balanced the only bit of black in the shape of my subtitle.

And there it is! We are far away from a baby or toddler layout and yet I was able to use several elements from the Tiny Tots 2.0 collection. I love to use the colours of the papers to pull the story in a different direction than first intended! 

You can find my process video here: https://youtu.be/LzdCvy1z5xE

 

Products used: 

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 Play date paper

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 Be brave paper

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 ABC paper

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 You're a Star paper

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 Ephemeras

-Bella BLVD Tiny Tots 2.0 Chipboard stickers

-Bella BLVD Bella Besties Puffy Stickers

-Bella BLVD Florence Alphabet Black

-Bella BLVD Aria Alphabet