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Cutest Monster Mini Album with Traci

Hello Bella friends!!  I have a new mini to share with you today and I hope this one reminds you of all the cute little "monsters" in your life.  

I just can't get enough of this one-eyed guy!  Of all the monsters in the Monsters & Friends collection, he is my favorite!  Maybe it's the tooth ... or his little hands on his hips (does he even have hips?) ... LOL.  I used his cut file that you can find in Lori Whitlock's SVG shop HERE, or in the Silhouette Online store, HERE, and made him center stage on my 5"x9" cover.

 

All of his not-so-spooky little friends show up throughout the rest of the chipboard album.

 

The word embellishments are part of the ephemera package also, and with 112 pieces,  you will surely find lots of cute pieces for your crafty projects.  And this collection will work for more than just Halloween ... think birthdays, general kid pictures, pet pictures ... !

In addition to the Monsters & Friends collection, I used the new Hearts and Ombre print papers.  I used gulf and pickle juice ombre sides to cut out my monster's head and horns, and the plum heart side for his body.  Then I added these new prints throughout the album for some bright page backgrounds.  

 

 

I'll be back in November to share some new albums with you, but until then have fun with these collections and happy crafting!

 

Monsters & Friends Collection

Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre -- Pickle Juice, Plum, Gulf and White

A Halloween Birthday Party with Patricia

Hello Bella Blvd Friends!  I'm back to share a priceless memory I came across.  How fitting is the Monsters & Friends collection for a plush ghost toy's birthday celebration!  This plush toy was my daughter's everything, and he has been lost at Hobby Lobby, Michael's, Disney World, or forgotten at home.  We had to 'find' another one, he is retired, as a backup for our sanity.  Halloween is a ghosts time of year, so here is how I used the collection to document this Halloween memory.

I started with the red Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre trimmed to fit on the left side.  That ombre gives me a gorgeous backdrop for my photos, and journaling.  I used the reverse side of the paper to show the hearts to matte my typed journaling.  I left a little room on the inside to be able to stitch (before adhering this page) a die cut ghost tag, and then used the large October die cut and the Florence red alpha stickers for the date of my daughter's little friend's birthday.  I finished this page with a few of the collections stickers and a heart hug.

My photos from the left start with my daughter 'lighting' the candles with a chopstick, Ghostie blowing out the candies, and her wishing him a Happy Birthday, so this right side needed to really be fun and festive.  The Monsters & Friends coordinates perfectly with the Hearts and Ombre on the left.  I started by using a background Bella Blvd cut file with hexagons and diagonal stripes to stencil red ink onto my background.  Then I cut hexagons from more of the red Hearts and Ombre pattern paper and definitely made sure to use the little ghosts pattern paper from Monsters & Friends.  Red and Aqua are a gorgeous combination.

Once that and my photo was in place, I started having friends join the party.  I pulled out almost all of the ghost die cuts from Monsters & Friends.  I placed all the grey ghosts together and the white all together, this helps to bring some repetition to my busy background.  Next, I used the Aria and the Monsters & Friends alpha stickers for my title.

The last thing to do was give each ghost a treat to bring to the part, so I foam adhered more die cuts to each one, added epoxy stars, and also added the epoxy tiny ghosts to fill in.  The more the merrier, right?!

Halloween with kids can bring so many amazing memories, not just from the 31st.  Hope this gives you an idea of how to use Monsters & Friends and the Hearts and Ombre to document your stories.

Happy Girl Layout Featuring New Monsters & Friends Collection + Bella Besties | Maryam Perez

Hello Friends! This is Maryam and I’m so excited to be back on the Bella Studio Blog. For today’s post, I have a 12x12 layout to share I created using the new Monster & Friends Collection along with the new Hearts & Ombré Bella Besties papers.

To create my layout, I started by cutting the cut file. Then I chose Scary Cute and Hey Boo Pattern Papers both from Monsters & Friends Collection to back the cut file. In addition, I also used some little pieces from the Hearts & Ombré Bell Pepper Pattern Paper.

Once I finished backing my cut file, I added a bunch of little foam squares in the back to help it stand out a little bit more. Then I took the B side of Hearts & Ombré Pony Pattern Paper to use it as my background and adhered the cut file over it.

Next, I added my photo, title, and journaling. For the title, I used the word “Happy” from the Happy & Smile Acrylic Words Set and then added the word “girl” for which I used the new alphabet stickers included in the Monsters & Friends Doohickey sheet.

Since I spent so much time backing the cut file, I decided not to add many embellishments. So what I did was to add a couple of little flowers from the Monster & Friends Ephemera Pack and also one of the cute monsters. Last but not least, I added some black stars from the Stars Halloween Mix, and with that, I finished up my layout!

That's it for today! I hope you enjoyed this post and inspired you to create something new. If you have any questions just leave a comment below, and I’ll be happy to help you.

Have a wonderful day!

Mood Board inspired with Nathalie

Hello Bella Blvd. friends!

Nathalie with you today bringing you a new layout that is all inspired on this month's colorful mood board.  I love working with mood boards as they provide an infinite number of possibilities.   This month's board is filled with some of my favorite things: black and white, a rainbow and Fall.   Here is this month's mood board:

All the color, texture and pumpkins are some of the things that caught my eye. So, I used all this images as inspiration for my page:

I love all the color with a hint of black and white in this page :) .   I just love how the moodboard fit the pictures of our baby's costume for Halloween 2019.  

 

One of the things that caught my eye are all the pumpkin shapes in the moodboard, especially the ones in the top left corner of the moodboard. In addition three of the squares also feature party decorations and feel which made me think of rosettes ( just like a party wall background). 

 

I pulled papers from different collections to create rosettes so that they matched the colors in the board.  I cut strips of paper at 0.5", 0.75",and 1" wide and crimpled them to create the rosettes.  I used my hot glue gun to keep them in place.

I chose the Spooky and Sweet patterned papers for the background of the page, as it had the polka dot look that is in the mood board.  Once all the rosettes were set in place, I used cardstock stickers and enamel dots to cover the center of the rosettes.

 

I trimmed the left side of the background by about a 3/4 of an inch and backed the space with another paper from the Sweet and Spooky collection.   I added a few papers and embellishments from the same collection behind the picture.  Then clustered Ciao Chips at the bottom of the pictures to create the title of my page.

I hope you are also inspire to use images of the mood board to create a project of your own. Remember to tag Bella Blvd, so we can also be inspired by your projects.

XO,

 

SUPPLIES:

SWEET & SPOOKY Collection: Paper, Ciao Chips, Ephemera, Cardstock Stickers

CHLOE COLLECTION: Matte Enamel dots, Enamel hearts, paper

BELLA BESTIES Collection: Grid/dot in Bubble Gum, Ombre/Heart in Ice

BELLA BOWS: Cute Boy

LET's GO ON AN ADVENTURE: Paper

PLAIDS & DOTTY COLLECTION: black

 

 

Lil' Monster | Dorymar

Hey Bella Fans! It's Dorymar, this week I was inspired by the October Mood Board.  I'm excited to share a new layout using the Monsters & Friends collection mixed with the Bella Besties.

Please take a look at the Mood Board.  This Mood Board has many beautiful bright colors and patterns popping out in black and white.

For this layout, I decided to work with the beautiful color palette and the balloons included in the pictures.   First, I decided to use the picture in the center as my page map.

I tried to pick papers from the 6x6 Bella Besties paper pad that matched with the colors of the mood board and with a few sizes of circle punches, I cut many circles to create the top of my layout. I love the dimension and to add it, I created many pieces of origami circles. This brings a fun look and adorable dimension. To finish it I added the beautiful matte enamel dots included in the collection in the center of my circles. They look fantastic!

As the layout is full of bright colors, I decided to use my photos in black and white, this makes them stand out even more and allows me to continue with the pattern of the Mood Board. As a background for my photo, I used the Lil' Pumpkins patterned paper and the Fun Facts patterned paper, then I added a few of the coolest monsters from the collection to create a fun cluster on the right side of my page.

To create my title, I used the Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers (Peep) and I underlined it using the chevron pattern that includes one of the Bella Black Chevies Clear Cuts, this gave the perfect touch to highlight the title.

I love using the mood board as inspiration and the result of this beautiful page.  I hope you enjoyed it and that this inspires you to use it with the fantastic Bella BLVD papers.

Thanks for stopping by!

Monsters & Friends Lil' Pumpkins, Monsters & Friends Scary Cute, Monsters & Friends Batty,

Monsters & Friends Fun Facts, Monsters & Friends Ephemera,

Monsters & Friends Goblins Epoxy, Monsters & Friends Bella-Pops Little Monster,

Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers (peep), Bella Besties 6x6 Paper Pad, Black Chevies Clear Cut

Happy Halloween layout - Lisa Fonseca

Hey scrappy friends, 

it's Lisa back on the blog today and I'm sharing a super fun layout, using the new Monsters & Friends collection combined with the AMAZINGLY beautiful new Hearts & Ombré Bella Besties. 

I was so excited to start using the Halloween collection... I love Halloween collections and colors and all the cute little spooky things that come with them. As for the Bella Besties... I already loved the dotted and striped ones... but the new ones are AMAZING!!! :) 

As you can see, I used a purple Bella Bestie as a background. It's so fun and easy to use and it looks like you did mixed media on your background. When I went through all the papers of the collection, I immediately was in love with this cool colorful striped one and knew I wanted to use it somehow. I cut the stripes apart and then I cut each one of them into wonky and irregular shapes. I arranged them on the paper and adhered them with a bit of tape. Then I went to my sewing machine and stitched messy stitches in different styles over each stripe, using matching thread.

I think the stitches match the theme and style of the layout so good and give a lot of dimension.

Then I went through all of the embellishments of the collection and chose all the things that I wanted to use. I went color-coordinated, so I used matching colors over each stripe. The Bella Pops are so cool because they have fun designs and give a pop of dimension right away. I also chose Hello Chips, enamel shapes, die-cuts, a few little strips of washi tape and an acrylic word.

For my photo, I used one I took at Disneyland Paris two years ago. I had a super amazing day and of course I loved taking pictures with the Halloween decoration. I matted it with two different patterned papers and adhered it to the layout using foam tape.

To finish I had to splatter white paint all over, of course... :)

I hope you like the layout and are inspired to use the new collections. It's totally worth to have it all, it's really fun to use the fun and colorful things.

See you soon, 

Trick Or Treat | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!! Brianna Lepper here and I'm so excited to share a new layout using the Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre patterned papers along with the adorable Monsters and Friends collection!!  I've been itching to use the Monsters and Friends collection and I knew it would pair so perfectly with the Hearts & Ombre papers!!  Here's what I came up with, I hope you like it!

 

 

When I first saw the Hearts & Ombre paper in black, I was immediately inspired to add some Distress Oxide Ink blending to it to create a spooky night sky.  I pulled my inks out in Wilted Violet, Black Soot and Carved Pumpkin.  I started blending on the Wilted Violet first and then worked on the Carved Pumpkin.  I wanted to keep the original black that was already on the paper but I needed to blend the purple out a bit, so that's when I added in a bit of Black Soot.  This ombre paper would be perfect as is, I just thought adding the purple and orange would help tie in with the colors of the collection and it would make my background a little more spooky!

 

 

Once I was done blending the inks, I added paint splatters in white and trimmed 1" off of the top and side of the paper.  I adhered that piece to the Candy Monster patterned paper and ran it threw my sewing machine using black thread.  To pull in even more of the Hearts & Ombre papers, I took out my circle punches and punched different sizes using Cotton Candy, Bell Pepper, Orange and Plum.  I drew on some faux stitching using one of my black gel pens.  

 

 

I decided to somewhat build a scene on my layout so I grounded my photo and embellishment clusters with some border stickers from the Doohickey Cardstock sticker sheet.  I then added an acrylic word for my title and layered up the Hey Boo and Scary Cute patterned papers under my photo as well.  

 

 

I couldn't wait to use the adorable purple monster Bella Pop so I stuck him down close to my photo.  I also used a few other monsters from the Ciao Chip sticker sheet and the Ephemera pack.  All of the monsters are so cute!!

 

 

Using the punched out circles from earlier, I adhered those down as a base to create more clusters.

 

 

On this cluster, I used a few Doohickey Cardstock stickers and added in a few Matte Enamel Dots to finish it off. 

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by!! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, I just love spooky season!  What about you?  Do you love to decorate and document fun days in October?  

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Monsters and Friends:  Patterned Papers, Ciao Chip Stickers, Doohickey Stickers, Matte Enamel Dots, Bella Pops, Acrylic Word; Bella Besties: Hearts & Ombre Papers in Black, Plum, Bell Pepper, Orange and Cotton Candy.  

Eek! Layout - Tegan Skwiat

Eek! Who else is excited that Halloween will be here before we know it?! I am and I could NOT wait to create a project with the super cute new Monsters & Friends Collection! I love all of the fun colors and the little monsters are just beyond adorable. Here I paired the collection with the beautiful new Hearts & Ombre Bella Besties Patterned Papers and I love how my layout turned out! I simply used 3 inch strips of 4 different Ombre papers to create a simple, colorful, and amazing background!

I added a piece of the black chevron Bella Blvd Clear Cuts to the top of the page. I then used the Black Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper to cut out multiple 4 inch webs using the Bella Blvd Spider Web Cut File. I then backed the webs with some of my favorite patterned papers from the collection. Here I used the Party Time Patterned Paper. I then embellished this first web with Monsters & Friends chipboard shapes and die cut ephemera pieces. 

I backed the second web with the Batty Patterned Paper. I then embellished this web with the Door To Door Bella-Pops 3D Sticker and Ephemera Icons pieces. I love that each web gives me a 'blank slate' to embellish and create a little scene. And Isn't the ombre background just so pretty?!

I then used the Party Time, L'il Pumpkins, and Fun Facts Patterned Papers to back the rest of the cut out webs. I used these webs for an anchoring spot for my photo. I then embellished the webs with Ephemera Icons shapes, chipboard shapes, and Stars Mix Halloween Epoxy Stickers. 

I completed the layout with a large ephemera piece of cute monsters at the bottom of the page. Aren't they just adorable?  

Thanks for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to grab some of the adorable Monsters & Friends collection and the Hearts & Ombre Patterned Papers for your next project. You won't be disappointed! 

Monsters & Friends Collection: Party Time Patterned Paper, L'il Pumpkins Patterned Paper, Batty Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers, Stars Halloween Mix Epoxy Stickers, Ephemera Icons, Door To Door Bella-Pops

Hearts & Ombre Patterned Papers: Punch, Pickle Juice, Gulf, Orange, Black

Cut File: Spider Web

World Card Making Day | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today sharing two cards that I created using some of the new Bella Besties products mixed in with some older Bella Besties products.  They all match so nicely together so let's mix it up!  Here are the cards that I made, I hope you like them!

 

I had so much fun creating these two cards.  I love how Bella Blvd uses the same colors in all of their collections so that you can mix and match and everything coordinates together.  When I first saw the new Hearts & Ombre patterned papers, I immediately fell in love and knew that they would look perfect with the Freehand Dot & Graph patterned papers.  And, boy was I right!!  Let's get into my first card: 

 

 

Pink is one of my favorite colors and I was so excited to get to use the Hearts & Ombre paper in Cotton Candy for this card!  Paired with the Freehand Graph & Dot paper in Punch as my base, it looks so pretty!  I wanted to create a fun girl birthday card to keep on hand so I pulled out the Wish Big Girl collection and used the adorable hippo chipboard sticker as the main focal point of my card.  

 

 

I created a tag using a piece of the Freehand Graph & Dot paper in Cotton Candy and tied on a piece of white pom pom trim.  To give my card even more interest, I stitched around a few of the layers.  

 

I created my own sentiment using the Aria Puffy Alpha stickers in Gulf and added a few hearts from the new Trinkets Puffy Stickers.  They're a perfect finishing touch to any project and I love them!!  Such a simple and fun card to make!

 

 

My next card is a fun sequin shaker card that I made using the Hearts & Ombre patterned paper in Ice as the frame and the Freehand Graph & Dot paper in Bell Pepper as my base. 

 

 

I thought it would be fun to create a scene on the inside of my shaker using the Home Sweet Home collection.  I created a little hill using the Freehand Graph & Dot paper in Pickle Juice and fussy cut some clouds from the White paper.  I added a house chipboard sticker and a tree from the ephemera icons.  Next, I took a text sticker from the Word Salad Booklet and adhered it right onto the hill.  To complete my scene, I added some of the White Trinket Puffy stickers!

 

 

To create the window of my shaker, I glued a piece of acetate to the frame I created and stuck down some foam tape around the border.  Then, I added some SpiegelMom Scraps sequins from my stash and sealed everything up.

 

 

For my sentiment, I used the Aria Puffy Alphas in Bell Pepper and spelled out 'Congrats'.  I plan on using this card as closing gift for my clients.  Who doesn't love receiving a handmade card?!  Especially one that shakes!  

 

 

That wraps up my cards!! I hope that I've inspired you to create some cards by mixing your Bella Besties products! They  were so simple to make and I hope that you give it a try!  See you in my next post!

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Needed:

Home Sweet Home: Ephemera Icons and Ciao Chip Stickers; Wish Big Girl: Ciao Chip Stickers; Bella Besties: Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper in Cotton Candy and Ice, Freehand Dot & Graph Patterned Paper in Bell Pepper, White, Pickle Juice and Punch; Word Salad Booklet; Trinkets Puffy Stickers in White; Aria Puffy Alphas in Bell Pepper and Gulf.

 

World Card Making Day with Traci

Happy World Card Making Day friends!  I created two birthday cards to share with you today but they are a lot more fun to see in action so I made a little video for you.  Take a peek! 

 

Here are the links I referenced in the video ... 

Lori Whitlock Twist Pop Card Eat Cake

Lori Whitlock Twist Pop Card Make A Wish

Lori Whitlock Card Tutorial

 

Bella Blvd Products Used

Make A Wish Boy

Make A Wish Girl

Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre -- Gulf and Punch

Bella Besties Graph & Dot -- Gulf and Punch

Matte Enamel