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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

 

Flower Jar Card Tutorial | Traci

Happy Thursday friends!  Today seemed like a fun day for a tutorial, so I wanted to share how I used a pretty Bella cutting file to create a really fun card.

First, you can find this cutting file in Lori Whitlock's SVG shop here: Fireworks & Freedom Flower Jar or in the Silhouette Design Store. 

 

Steps for creating this card in Silhouette Studio:

 

1.  Create an offset of the design and then highlight and right click to release compound path. This will separate all of those tiny little cuts in the middle of the offset so that you can delete them.

2.  Next, create an offset of the jar portion of the design and overlap the two offsets slightly so that you can weld them together.

3. Once you've welded the shapes together, cut the piece out of white card stock for the base of your card.

 

4. Cut out the layering stems, jar, and flowers.  I used Bella Besties and patterns from the Fireworks and Freedom collection.  To adhere the thin green stems, I used a Zig Squeeze and Roll glue pen to apply tiny dots of adhesive.

I also used tweezers to help adhere the stems in place. 

5. Once I had each of the pieces adhered to the front, I had some fun with embellishments.  I used matte enamel dots from the Chloe collection, an enamel heart from the Cooper collection, an adorable bow clip (minus the clip) and two white flowers from the Doghouse BellaPop.

Although it's hard to see in the photo, I also covered the jar portion of the card front with glossy accents to give it the look of glass!

I plan to stamp a birthday sentiment inside and give it to a friend in an A10 size envelope :). I think she'll love it!  If you have any questions about how I created this card, please leave a comment or visit my blog at Artsy Albums to message me. Thanks for joining me today! 

Flower Jar Cutting file, Bella Besties (Guacamole & Pickle juice)

Freedom and Fireworks 12x12 pattern paper, Chloe Matte dots, Cooper Enamel Hearts,

Cute Bow Clips, Doghouse Bella Pop

Mood Board Inspired with Nathalie

Hello Bella Blvd. friends!

Nathalie with you today with a new layout that is inspired on the new August Mood Board.  I hope that you all are safe and enjoying the glorious Summer days ( for all of us who are in the Northern Hemisphere).  This month's mood board is all about sunshine, summer and color

I just love all about it, and was inspired to create this new layout:

 

 

The floaties in the lower left square made me think of these pictures of my niece while on vacation, so I made sure to bring the water feel to the page by adding a few strips of the Daily Ideas paper (Let's Go On An Adventure collection) to recreate water waves at the bottom of the layout.  I gave the strips of paper a bit of texture (just like in the moodboard's top center square)

 

One of the more prominent colors in the moodboard is pink, so i pull the Fairy Garden paper (Let's Go On An Adventure collection) for the background of the page.  Once i added the paper strips, i used some epoxy stickers and chipboard (Splash Zone) to bring the floatie and water images from the mood board.

 

 

All the words in the rocks and quote on the moodboard brought the idea of mixing fonts and color to create the title.  I used the Hello Summer cut file to cut the words from Bella Bestie papers, then cut an offset of the title from white cardstock.  A bit of foam adhesive helps to add dimension to the page!

 

 

I backed the pictures of my niece with papers from the Splash Zone collection, and then placed on the page.  I created embellishment clusters at the corners of the pictures using pieces from different Bella Blvd collections.   Just to balance the page, i added a small cluster at the very top of the page.  Then added pops of color using some matte enamel dots.

 

Now, it is time for you to be inspired by this month's Mood Board for a project of your own!  cannot wait to see what you create!

 

XO

 

Bella Blvd. Supplies:

SPLASH ZONE COLLECTION: 

Borders paper, Chipboard icons, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words

LET's GO ON AN ADVENTURE COLLECTION:

Daily Details Paper, Fairy Garden Paper

BELLA BESTIES COLLECTION:

Bell Pepper  Graph-Dot paper, Ice Graph-Dot paper,

SQUEEZE THE DAY COLLECTION:

Ephemera- Icons; Fruity Mix Matte Enamel Dots

SANTA SQUAD:

Epoxy Heart Stickers

CUTE CLIPS:

Baby Girl

DIGITAL CUT FILE:

Hello Summer