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Sketch Week & Monsters and Friends | Sarah

Happy Friday, Bella friends! It's me Sarah (@redoaklines), here today on the blog, and I'm closing out October's sketch week with my take on it using the super cute Monsters & Friends collection.

As a reference and a reminder, here's the sketch that I used for inspiration:

Here's the layout I created with the sketch provided above:

I love that this sketch was geared for three photos! I'm always on the lookout for layout designs that have multiple photos. As you can see, I didn't want to stray too much from the original sketch because I just love the look of it. 

With the provided sketch, it was pretty easy to crank this layout out. I picked out three photos from Halloween last year, and I started creating embellishment clusters around them. 

I used a handful of the die cuts from the Monsters & Friends Ephemera Icons. I also added some of the Halloween Heart Hugs and some Bella Pops to these embellishment clusters.

Last but not least, I added some of the Star Epoxy Stickers from the Monsters & Friends collection to add more color and dimension to my layout. I tend to add them off to the sides of my embellishment clusters, but honestly, these stars can be added anywhere on your projects. They're so versatile! I also love the epoxy look to them - so shiny! 

And that's all I have for now! Hopefully, I've inspired you to create something awesome with this sketch! So, how about it?! I'd love to see your interpretation. It could be using Monsters & Friends or whatever you feel like creating with! Either way, feel free to share what you make with us on all of Bella's socials by tagging us! 

As always, thanks for joining me today!

Until next time,

Sarah.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Monsters & Friends: Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Epoxy Stickers- Stars Halloween Mix, Bella Pops, Heart Hugs; Bella Besties: Hearts and Ombre Rainbow 12x12 Collection Kit, Graph and Dot Rainbow 12x12 Collection Kit

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

Father's Day Week 2 |Nathalie

Hello there Bella Blvd friends!

Nathalie here to continue with our Father's Day week.  We are drawing inspiration from Bella Besties and To The Moon collections for our projects.  I have been blessed with a loving husband who is amazing at parenting our teenage kids, especially our -now- 20 year old son.   So, what better way to celebrate them than with a clean, colorful and dimensional page.

 

 

The new patterns in the To The Moon collection are gorgeous, and the  best way to use many of  them is with a grid design!   For this, I cut 2" strips of the My Whole Universe paper , then trimmed each strip to 2x2 squares, and thus created the solid squares in the grid.   I used these to draw my grid on a Bella Besties  Ombre/Hearts Ice paper, and use some white embroidery floss to hand stitch it.

 

 

To complete my grid design, I went back to the papers, and cut 2x2" squares from a few of the papers that match the color of the solid squares.   I used foam adhesive to attach the squares to the grid, making sure that the patterned squares formed a zig zag through the page.  

 

 

There is plenty of pattern and color in the background; so, I opted for a piece of Blueberry Chevies Clear Cut paper to back the picture.  A few pieces of ephemera and stickers adorn the corners of the picture.

 

 

For the title, I am using Aria Puffy Stickers in Orange, and placed them in the solid orange squares. A few enamel stickers and trinkets help to  make the title pop from the squares.

 

I added a few embellishment clusters through the page, always making sure that each piece coordinates with the color of the square they sit on.     To finish the page, I sprinkled a few more enamel dots around each of the clusters.

 

 

I love how this turned out.  The grid, the colors, dimension and patterns are perfect for this memory of my boys. Remember to come back tomorrow for more inspiration!

 

XO

 

 

Supplies:

TO THE MOON  Collection:  Patterned Paper, Ciao Chips, Doohickey sticker, Ephemera, Epoxy Stickers, Puffy Stickers

CLEAR CUTS :  Blueberry Chevies

BELLA BESTIES Collection:  Ombre/Hearts - Ice

BELLA BOWS: Baby Girl

HEART HUGS:  Boy

TRINKETS : Blueberry

ARIA PUFFY STICKERS: Orange

 

My Candy Girl & Bella Besties Week Day 3 | Nathalie DeSousa

Hello everyone!

Welcome to a new day of MY CANDY GIRL & BELLA BESTIES week.  Nathalie with you today to share some inspiration using this amazing combination of collections.   I just love the colors of the collection; so, my project is just an ode to the color palette, and that awesome cupcake cart ephemera!

 

 

I started the page with the Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre ICE paper for the base.  I had a series of photos of my little one ( Goddaughter) with a new cupcake cart toy ( this was a present from us after finishing her first school year).   My choice was to keep the pictures as a film strip and just play with color around it

 

 

I used a few of My Candy GIrl patterned paper to create a few layers of paper behind the picture ( I am using lots of red and pink to contrast with the blue background).  I fussy cut a few donut images from the NOT SHARING paper.  I mixed these with ephemera icons and stickers to create a cluster at the top left corner of the pictures ( the Bella bows are perfect to add texture and a finishing touch to tags).

 

 

I pulled the Girl Pennant set, to bring more of the felt texture to the page.  This time, I colored the small wood sticks with white acrylic paint, then glued them to the bottom right of the photo strip.  The small bow ephemera is just perfect to keep these together.

 

 

Once, I set the picture on the  background, I added the scalloped edge chipboard, as well as one of the border stickers from the Doohickey stickers to anchor my page.   I used the top line of  the piece to add my title -a combination of stickers and chipboard stickers).  I added a bit of foam adhesive behind the cupcake cart ephemera and capped my title with it!  A few more of the fussy cut donut images, complete this page!

 

 

I love how this turned out!  Lots of color to celebrate my little one.  Make sure you check the collections, you are going to love all you can create with them!

 

XO

 

BELLA BLVD SUPPLIES:

MY CANDY GIRL COLLECTION:  patterned paper, ephemera, doohickey stickers, chipboard stickers

BELLA BESTIES Hearts & Ombre:  ICE

BELLA BOWS:  Baby Girl

BELLA PENNANTS:  Girl

BELLA TRINKETS: White

 

 

 

My Candy Girl Week Day 4 | Nathalie DeSousa

Hello Bella Blvd friends!

Nathalie with you today to share my first layout featuring the new MY CANDY GIRL Collection.   This collection is perfect to document all those sweet girls and moments in our lives.  The color palette and designs are just so cute!  Here is my first project with the collection:

 

 

I wanted to bring all the colors of the collection to the page.  The best way was to create layered heart die cuts for the background of the page.

 

 

I used a metal die to cut all the hearts.  I played with all the die cuts to create a cascade look on the left hand side of a white cardstock.   I held them in place with a drop of glue, then hand stitched through the center of them.  This helps to lift the edges creating the soft dimension on the page.

 

 

I used the left over pieces of the papers to back the picture.  All the layers just add interest to the photo; however, I still added a bit of foam adhesive to make sure the photo pops from the page.  I used some of the Doohickey stickers and Daily Details paper to add interest to the picture.   The small Bella clip just adds interest to the picture.

 

 

For my title, I used some of the Ciao chips and used some teal ink to add a small ombre effect to white surface.  I paired this with a few Aria puffy stickers and those cute little elements from the My Candy Girl collection. I need more of the little pigs in my life!

 

 

I love how this turned out, and I love the collection.  It was perfect for this picture of my little ones, and I have plans for others, already.  Be sure to check it out!  You will love it, too!

XO

 

Materials Used:

My Candy Girl - collection, Doohickey sticker, chipboard sticker, ephemera

Aria Puffy Stickers - Punch

Bella Bows - Baby Girl

Ciao Chips - hello there

Heart Hugs - Pretty in Pink

Bella Besties & Chloe Week Day 1 | Nathalie

Hello Bella Blvd. friends!

Nathalie with you today to share a new project all about our cat-nephew Chico!  I am sure many of you have a furry friend in the family.  We love our little Boston Terrier, Poochie, but my niece adores her little one, a cat named Chico!  Unfortunately, most of us are not cat-people, but this little one has made a dent in our heart.   So, I pulled the Bella Besties Ombre/Hearts and Chloe collection to create this layout:

He is quite cute, in his feline way, and I used two of the latest pictures to create this page that will go in my niece's album.  For this, I started by adding a bit of white paint to the b side of the Cat Crazy paper from the Chloe collection.  This creates a sort of ghosting effect on the page, think of it as a way to softly cover the background.

While the background dried, I used a font from the Silhouette shop to cut the letters of Chico's name using papers from the Chloe and Bella Besties Ombre/Heart collections.  I glued these to white cardstock, and then handstitched the edges.  I simply fussy cut the letters and attached them to the background with a bit of foam adhesive.

I used the left over pieces from the letter cuts to create layers behind the pictures.  I pulled embellishments from the Chloe collection ( stickers, chipboard, ephemera) and created clusters around the page.  I added my lines of journal at the bottom of the page, right below the title work.

 

 

I hope this inspires you to document your furry friends !  Remember to share with us your finished projects; we love seeing what you create, too!

Until next time,

 

 

Bella Blvd.  SUPPLIES

CHLOE COLLECTION:  12x12 kit, 6x6 paper pad, Bella pops, Ephemera icons, Ephemera Phrases, Chipboard stickers, Doohickey Stickers

BELLA BESTIES Ombre/Heart: Orange, Guacamole, Bell Pepper, Gulf

BELLA BOWS: Little Boy

LEGACY COLLECTION:  Word Salad Sticker Tablet

 

Holiday Cards & Gifting Week Day 6 | Patricia

Merry Christmas from Scrapbook.com Friends!  I am joining many talented designers as we come together with Scrapbook.com sharing videos of Holiday Inspiration.  My project will be a holiday favorite to continue to build on, and it uses the Blush Heidi Swapp Rolodex and the wonderful new Bella Blvd FaLaLa Collection using old family photos.The reason I chose this project is because both sets of our parents are gone, and I realize how important it is to help my daughter to remember her grandparents.

Sharing all the photos here and the video on the Scrapbook.com YouTube Channel here with more inspiration from guests for Scrapbook.com here.

Merry Christmas and happy creating!!!

Fall & Winter Themed Week Day 4 | Lisa Fonseca

Hi friends,

it's Lisa back on the blog and I'm really excited to share my first layout using the new Falala collection. :)

The assignment this week was to use the Falala collection combined with the Hearts&Ombré Bella Besties. As I already said in previous posts, I LOVE the new Besties. I need hearts on every layout and the ombre papers are AMAZING to use as backgrounds!!! 

So to start, I went through the papers from the Falala collection. The striped one immediately caught my eye, I just love papers like that. I had a hard time though, deciding if I wanted to use it as a background or to create my reindeer with... :) The collection has this cute little reindeer and I was inspired to recreate it on a larger scale. I finally went with using the paper for the reindeer and I think it turned out really cool. 

I drew my deer onto the paper, cut it out and adhered it to white paper to create that white border around, that I like so much. Since I wasn't really in the mood for hand-stitching, I used a dauber and my Distress Oxides to add a faded border around my dear and then traced a black scribbly line all around the different parts. 

To add more interest to my reindeer, I added chipboard flowers from the Ciao Chip sticker sheet on its head and added some tangled thread in matching colors behind each flower. I also placed an enamel dot in each of the centers. The enamel dots were also great to create the illusion of twinkly lights on the deer's antlers. :)

Before adhering my deer to the background, I chose one of the green and pink Bella Besties papers. I cut them in the middle with an angle and attached them to one another. Then I did some mixed media. Using my finger, I painted white circles in different sizes, going from the center to the sides of the paper. Then I did the same with pink and green paint. To finish, I splattered white paint all around... as always... :) I think the background looks very cool. I enjoy creating these bokeh kind of backgrounds very much lately!! 

When the background was dry, I attached my deer and also the photo that I matted with some scraps of patterned paper, to it. The photo is one I took six years ago, when we spent Christmas in Honolulu. :)

For my title, I used four different fonts and alphas. "Merry" is an enamel sticker, "Christmas" is from the Ciao Chip sticker sheet, "in" is from the collections's cardstock sticker sheet and "Hawaii", I wrote using the Aria puffy alphas. I really like how it turned out.:)

To finish, I added some enamel stars, a Christmas tree Bella-Pop, a Cute Clips bow and some stickers. 

I hope you like that layout and are inspired to create something super cute to document your Christmas days or just some amazing Winter or family days. 

Thank you so much for stopping by,

see you soon,

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

 

 

ARIA ALPHA Inspiration with Nathalie

Hello Bella Blvd friends!

Nathalie here to share a bit of inspiration using the new and super beautiful Aria Alpha puffy stickers.  These alphas come in a rainbow of colors/ Bella Blvd palette, and are the perfect size to embellish your layouts.   Today, i am pairing these alphas with the fun Cooper collection in this colorful page...

 

As you can see my baby boy has a love for our bed! I set a few of the pictures in a film strip and decided to surround them by the story of the day.   

I drew two circles on a piece of heavy cardstock, and added a bit of mixed media to the background.  I chose a color that will bring some of the morning colors and make the pictures stand out. Once the background dried, i used the drawn lines to handstitch the circles on the page.

I used papers from the Cooper, Chloe and Bella Besties to back the pictures.  I created a small cluster of embellishments at the top left corner of the pictures, and then set in place on top of the watercolor background.

I used the stitched circles as a guide for my title work.  Here i used a few of the new Aria Alphas in different colors.  I added a few embellishments from the Cooper and Chloe collection to help me complete the circle.

To finish the page, i added a large of cluster of embellishments at the bottom of the page. I tried to follow the curvature of the title, but instead ended with a large horizontal line of embellishments.  

All that was left were a few lines of journal and matte enamel dots around the page.  I love how this turned out.  The new alpha stickers are just so perfect to create all sorts of titles and embellishments, be sure to check them out!

XO

 

BELLA BLVD. SUPPLIES:

ARIA  PUFFY ALPHAS: Bell Pepper, Guacamole, Pony, Ice, Blueberry

COOPER collection: Collection kit, 6x6 paper pad, chipboard stickers, ephemera words, ephemera icons, Cardstock sticker, Epoxy Stickers, Matte Enamel stickers

CHLOE collection : Patterned paper, Bella Pops - Cat House

BELLA BESTIES : Dot/Freehand grid in ICE

BELLA CLIPS: Cute Boy mix