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Ho Ho Ho Christmas Cut-outs scrapbooking layout

Hello and Merry Christmas, everyone!  I hope you made some joyous memories this holiday season.  Now it's time to document them and Bella Blvd's Santa Squad is so festive and fun but do you know what makes it even better? The new cut-outs!  I used the Christmas Cut-Out for this layout and it made a huge impact.  Let's take a look.

I knew I wanted to use the large CHRISTMAS cut-out as the secondary star of the page after my photo.  I then designed the rest of the page around these two elements.

The great thing about these Cut-Outs is well...they are already cut-out and ready to go, and they are made from nice heavy cardstock.  I SUPER love them!

I backed each letter with different patterned paper from the 6x6 paper pad. I find the smaller patterns look better with these type of cut files for the most part. I added some enamel dots and snowflakes to each letter and then popped the entire cut-out with foam dots to add some dimension. I then added some snowflakes and ink splatters and once dried, I tucked the photo under the "T".

I love adding layers of patterned paper under my photos, and I always add a white border around the photo. These layers really help the photo stand out. Next, it called for a few embellishments and since my girls are older and the magic of Santa has changed a bit, I thought it was quite appropriate that I add the still believes ephemera.  

I still had some white space to fill on the upper left of the page so I added a border sticker and some washi. Then I added "merry" acrylic word to complete the title, Merry Christmas.  I also added a few "ho. ho. ho" chipboards. This is a Santa layout afterall!

I hope you have enjoyed this Christmas Cut-Outs scrapbooking layout and have a wonderful new year!

Santa Squad 6x6 paper pad, Doohickey, Caio Chip, Bella Besties; Designer Washi Tape: Snowflakes, Red Stripe; Cut-outs: Christmas, Little Helpers; Acrylic words: Merry; Acrylic shapes: Tree Mix; Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words; Bella Pops; Epoxy: Hearts Christmas Mix, Squad, Snow Fun; Enamels Christmas Mix

Cut-Outs for smaller Layouts

Hey Bella Friends! It's Leanne here today sharing a fun and festive layout using the awesome new Bella Blvd Cut-Outs! I have used the Christmas Cut-Out as inspiration for my page. And did you know, that these cut-out pieces can also work perfectly on a smaller 8.5"x11" layout? Check out how the larger piece from this design pack, can still fit on my smaller page, below.

To add you own flavour to the design of your page, simply reverse the cut-out and trace the inside of the letters with a pencil on your choice of patterned papers. I have used the Bella Blvd Santa Squad 6x6 Paper Pad as the images on the papers have been designed on a smaller scale, more so than their counterpart 12x12 papers.

I have also added layers to my page, using the S is For Santa Bella-Pops and some Festive Cute Clips.

I love how the Bella-Pops add the perfect amount of dimension to my page. For a little more whimsy, which I feel is totally appropriate for scrapping at this time of year, I have included some of the Santa Squad Chipboard Icons trees. The chaos of the photos is anchored to the page with these overlapping embellishments.

Finally, add your journaling, a cute handmade gift tag and a few splashes of paint for texture.

Thanks for visiting the Bella blog today! Hopefully you've found some inspiration to help get you through the festive season. Merry Christmas!

 

Santa Squad: 6x6 Paper Pad, Ho! Ho! Ho! patterned paper, 12x12 Chipboard Icons, S is For Santa Bella Pop; Freehand Graph and Dot Peep patterned paper; Festive Cute Clips; McIntosh Mix Puffy Heart Stickers; Heart Hugs enamel dots.

Fun Christmas Layout | Dorymar

Hello friends, It's Dorymar here today to share a fun Christmas Layout.  I hope you are enjoying the Holiday season and all its splendor. This is one of my favorite seasons!  For my Layout, I used the colorful Santa Squad Collection.

All the colors and designs in the Santa Squad Collection are perfect to document our Christmas memories.  For this Layout I am using the new Bella Blvd Cut-Outs, they are very practical and beautiful, with excellent material and sizes. They are done for you and ready to apply to your projects.

All those gift boxes and the fun Christmas words are the perfect backgrounds to document the pictures of my girls last Christmas.

I mixed up one of Santa's chipboards with the beautiful Bella Pops and they gave a spectacular look to the title of my page!

I love to create clusters on my pages, this time I used a few chipboards pieces from the collection with some paint spatters and sewing, they added a fantastic touch!

To bring a bit more fun and playfulness to the page. Small clusters of chipboards were added around the title, and the gifts in clusters around the picture of my girls while in front of our Christmas tree on December 25, 2018. 

Gotta love all those fun elements in the Santa Squad collection!

I hope this inspires you to check the Santa Squad Collection and the super fun new Bella Blvd Cut-Outs.  

The fun and colorful designs from this collection will bring happiness to those Christmas Days.

Happy Holidays!

Santa Squad Collection,  Santa Squad Chipboards Icons, Nutty or Nice Bella Pops, 

Santa Squad Doohickey Cardstock Stickers, Christmas Cut-Outs,

 

 

S is for Santa | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you today to share a holiday layout using one of the new Bella Blvd Cut Outs! There are four different packs of Cut Outs available perfect for all your holiday projects! Today I am using the Christmas pack of Cut-Outs and it comes with 6 designs!

I started with one of the pattern papers from the Santa Squad collection and then picked two of the smaller cut outs from the Christmas pack. I backed them with papers in the Santa Squad 6x6 paper pad. 

The Cut-Outs are on smooth thick white cardstock and are perfect if you do not have a cutting machine! They can be used on layouts, cards, project life and so much more! I popped up both of the Cut-Outs with some foam adhesive and adhered down to my layout. The photo is of Eli at the downtown Christmas walk and he locked eyes with Santa and gave him a wave! He was so excited! 

I added a couple of Bella-Pops around the page along with some of the Doohickey stickers! I love the dimension of the super cute Bella-Pops! I typed out my journaling using my typewriter and cut it into strips. Here is a look at my completed layout!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you will check out all the new Bella Blvd Cut-Outs! 

Santa Squad Collection | Cut Outs Christmas | Bella Pop Home for Christmas | Bella Pop S is for Santa | Enamel stickers Christmas mix | Doohickey stickers | Santa Squad Ephemera Icons & Words | Santa Squad 6x6 paper pad

Mixed Media & Bella Cuts by Kim Watson

Friends...! Are you as excited as I am for Christmas next week??

I thought I'd get into the holiday mood by scrapping a photo of my DD from when she was young....& what better way to do it than with some of the NEW Bella Cut Outs, Santa Squad & some mixed media mayhem LOL.

This is the result.

It's Christmas by Kim Watson

I was desperate to use the super, cute, blue-snowflake paper but being so bright, I thought a mixed media 'mat', might make the layering of the other goodies easier.

This was my process:

1. White Gesso
2. Dry time
3. Lime green & Forest green glimmer mist
4. Almost dry
5. Pink, Red & Magenta color powder....spritz with water
6. Dab, mix, smoosh, swirl & get messy until it looks right
7. Dry
8. Splatter with Magenta, Gold, Forest Green inks
9. Dry
10. White splatter
11. Dry
12. Add ALL other fun bits

The resulting color-chaos is exactly what I was aiming for. 

By selecting patterned papers that worked within my a narrow color palette to back the 'gifts' Bella Cut Outs; helped diminish the business of the page. I love how the large felt bow adds great dimension & ties the blue of the background into the central cluster; as does the chipboard tree & acrylic gingerbread man. 

The title, 'Christmas', another of the NEW Bella Cut Outs, was backed in red dot paper, again to reduce the business of the overall design, yet adding much needed color punch!

The photo backed with layers of tissue paper, a tab & holly die-cut, nestles in-between the x2 Bella cuts, adding balance to the top right corner of the page. 

Magenta thread clusters help with color balance & add simple texture, for visual interest. 

Ok...so I have a secret to share.

You can clearly see the torn paper section edged in gold paint & backed with pink patterned paper, right? Well what if I were to say, it wasn't planned like that hahaha!!

Seriously, it wasn't. It was a cover job for the large, gold paint puddle that happened when I knocked a bottle of gold mist over. The paper was so wet, it tore when I was trying to mop up the paint...now bear in mind the page was 90% finished, so I wasn't about to start all over again. So the best thing to do in a situation like this, is to improvise & make it part of the design.

Voila! One interesting tear, edged in gold, with pink hearts peeking through. 

Do you know what?! 

I absolutely love the result. Sometimes happy accidents can take you by surprise & this was one of those times :D

So allow me to finish off by saying how much I love the Santa Squad & Bella Cut Outs. They are the perfect go-to supply when you can't be bothered to die-cut anything or if you don't have access to a cutting machine. I urge you to look at the other designs, you are going to want them all.

Follow the links below to the Bella online store for all the supplies I used. Have an awesome week friends...until next time. X

Santa Squad Collection ,Bella Cut Outs

Festive Christmas Tags Perfect for Gift Giving

Hello everyone.  Heather Leopard here with a project I had so much fun working on...festive Christmas tags perfect for gift giving. Take a look at these cuties below and then I'll walk you through how I created them.  Seriously so easy...

There's two things I especially love about these. One, these are personalized. I had the gift recipient in mind when I was creating these so I added elements that I knew that person would particularly love. Two, I got to be creative. Need I say more?

To get started, I used a tag template I had to hand cut the white tag. At the time, I had no idea I would be backing the tags so this white tag became my base. I picked Rudolph from the Caio chipboard and found this adorable reindeer games die cut so I just knew these had to become my first tag.  I then layered a die cut present with dimensional sticker presents to fill in the empty space on the tag.  As I was looking at creating a more colorful base for the next tag, I ran across the reindeer patterned paper in the 6x6" paper pad so I cut that out slightly wider than the white tag and adhered them with glue only at the top of the tag.

Next up was Mr. Gingerbread Man.  He is just too adorable with his little blue bow tie and I know someone super special who loves these guys so this one was an easy choice.  I cut a tag from blue snowflake patterned paper and backed it with red patterned paper since I am now layering these cuties. I added a strip of washi tape Christmas trees, then the gingerbread man and his cupcakes.  To fill the void above him, I added a sentiment die cut.

Last but not least is this fun tag that reminds me of an old truck filled bursting with presents. As you can see I found die cut sentiments to match each of these and this was no exception.  I found this die cut that matches the license plate perfectly. The presents are part of the dimensional sticker so this was the easiest one to assemble.  I just added the snowflake to the top and it was complete.

I can't wait to gift these to my special people but in the meantime, I hope I showed you just how easy peasy it is to create your own tags.  And once you have the idea for all the tags, you just replicate the backgrounds using the same templates and then change out the stickers with what you have in your stash.

Santa Squad: Candy Canes patterned paper, Bella Besties, 6" x 6" paper pad, Caio Chip, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, Bella-Pops cardstock stickers, Christmas tree designer washi tape

12 Days of Christmas Books | Kat Benjamin

Good morning, everyone!  Kat here today to share a fun little project that I'm really excited about.  This is my daughter's first year where she kind of understands what is happening with Christmas.  She knows who Santa is and she's so excited about trees and lights and we're trying to educate her all about the reason for the season.  I also really want her to be excited about the big day, so I decided we'd do a fun little countdown to Christmas once there were 12 days left. 

I found a cute little set of books at Target that had a fun variety of all different subject matter, from the 12 Days of Christmas, to baby Jesus, to Santa's reindeer.  I wrapped each of them and put a number tag on them so we can countdown to Christmas Day.  

I broke out the Santa Squad collection to make all my tags and it coordinates so well with a bunch of other great Bella products.  I think I used a little bit of everything from my stash to create these and I had the best time!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Does your family do anything fun to count down the days until your favorite holiday?

6x6 Paper Pad: Santa Squad; Doohickey Stickers: Santa Squad; Ciao Chip: Santa Squad; Bella Besties: Freehand Graph & Dot Pickle Juice; Clear Cuts: Hearts McIntosh; Florence Alphas: Pickle Juice, White, McIntosh, Guacamole, Ice; Designer Washi Tape: Red Stripe, Oh Christmas Tree, Snow; Ephemera Icons: Santa Squad; Ephemera Words: Santa Squad; Bella Pops: Hedge Hugs, Spread Some Cheer; Epoxy Stickers: Snow Fun; Heart Hugs: Christmas, Wild Berry; Acrylic Shapes: Gingerbreads; Enamels: Christmas Mix; Bella Bows: Guacamole