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GUEST DESIGNER: Maryám Pérez Back Again!

Hello Friends! I hope you are having a great week. This is Maryám and today I’m here to share two more projects using the wonderful Splash Zone Collection.

For my first project, I created an 8 ½” x 11” inches layout.  I don’t usually use two photos in a layout, but this time I thought it was a great opportunity to document those photos by the pool in just one layout.

I positioned the photos in the center of my page and used some of the Ciao Chip^TM Chipboard words along with some ephemera icons to create the title. To embellish my page, I fussy cut some of the cute flowers from the Flower Garden paper and put them around the page. In the end, I adhered a chipboard piece which was like a sea wave just to complete the design.

For my last project, I created something completely different, a shaker card. Who doesn’t love shaker cards?! I’m a huge fan of them and I love making them. That’s why I couldn’t resist creating one using this collection. I went ahead and pull out some sequins from my stash, choose the ones that coordinated with the Flower Garden paper and made this fun card.

This card is really simple, and you are not going to spend a lot of time on it, but I’m pretty sure everyone is going to love it!

I hope these projects have inspired you to create something new. Thank you so much Bella Blvd for having me, it’s been such an honor for me to be here at the Bella blog!

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have a wonderful day!

Maryám

Card with Die Cuts

Hi eveyone! Corri here today share a couple for quick cards I made with of the fun cut files from the Silhouette Store.  For my first card, I cut the two little pears. I used paper from the Bella Besties Collection and from the Squeeze the Day collection.

 

I created the sentiment using the print and cut feature in the Silhouette Studio software. This is a fun way to customize your sentiment and there are so many fonts to choose from! 

For my second card, I cut the rainbow and used the print and cut feature to add my sentiment. I backed my cut file with some perfectly coordinated paper from the Squeeze the Day Collection.  

I hope you like these quick cards. Check out all the cute cut files being added to the Silhouette store. They are perfect for cards for any occasion. 

 

The Best Is Yet To Come

Raise your hand if you have a stash of Washi Tape that you have been collecting (hoarding)! It's OK, I'm right here raising my hand with you! The good news is that there are so many things you can do with Washi Tape! 

On this card, I used FOUR different Washi Tapes, can you spot them? I used the black & white polka dot tape to make a background to tuck behind the sentiment. I also used a thin yellow to create the yellow/white stripes, added a strip of the teal polka dot tape and a little piece of the black & white stripes to attach the sentiment to the card. You can take a closer look below...

 

As we round out the week featuring Washi Tape, I challenge you to dig into your stash and use some on your next project! 

Home Sweet Home Collection: Pattern Paper - Welcome Home, and Daily Details.

Washi Tape:

Illustrated Faith Highlight It Washi Tape

Make Your Mark - Break Rules

Dotty

Ice Dot

Back to School Cards

Hello Bella Blvd Friends! Welcome to Back to School Week! Today I am sharing easy to make cards to welcome back that special teacher or amazing friend! Such an awesome way to start the school year.

With a cute patchwork style, these cards can be made in a snap. And why not have some fun with scissors and glue yourself?!

Let's get started by gathering our supplies. You will need the new Bella Blvd Squeeze the Day & Freehand Graph and Dot 6"x6" mini paper pads; Florence Alphabet Stickers; Squeeze the Day Ephemera Icons; & white cardstock.

step 1. Cut two (2) strips of patterned paper from the mini paper pads at 1" wide. Cut the paper strips into 1" squares. Cut each square on the diagonal to create triangles. Use coordinating colours to create your apples.

step 2. Take four (4) triangles and trim 1/2 cm off the top angle (see image below). Leave the right angle intact. Overlap the middle two triangles to create a gap for the stem to "grow" from.

step 3. Align the triangles (as shown below) to form the patchwork apple shape. Use a set square ruler for even placement on your base cardstock.

step 4. Add a leaf to the top of the apple using a heart shaped ephemera icon and layer it with an enamel heart or Florence Alphabet heart sticker.

step 5. Use a cute phrase or school pun for your sentiment. The Florence Alphabet Stickers and Tiny Text alphabets are perfect for this!

step 6. Back your cardstock base with patterned paper from the mini paper pad.

step 7. Finally attach your patchwork apple to a white cardstock 4"x6" card.

Here's hoping your student or favorite teacher has a fabulous first day back at school. Thanks for visiting!

 

Squeeze the Day: 6"x6" mini paper pad, Ephemera icons, Heart Epoxy; Bella Besties: Freehand Graph & Dot 6"x6" mini paper pad; Florence Alphabet Stickers: McIntosh Florence, Bell Pepper Florence, Pickle Juice Florence, Guacamole Florence, Pony Florence, Black Florence; Tiny Text Alphabet Stickers: Pumpkin Spice Tiny Text.

 

 

Back to School card and box

Hi everyone! It's hard to believe it's time for the kids to head back to school! My youngest daughter will be making the big transition from private school to a public middle school. I made this cute gift set to give her on the first day. 

I used the new Bella Besties Collection to cut the pencil. I plan to fill this with some cute planner stickers and maybe a little candy. 

For my card, I used some more Bella Besties for the background and then added some ephemera from the Pop Quiz Collection. This card would also be cute for a new teacher.  

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Bella Besties Collection, Pop Quiz Ephemera Pack,  Chipboard Stickers and Sticky Mix, Puffy Stars

 

 

Birthday Cards

Hi everyone! Corri here today sharing a couple of birthday cards that I made with some bits and pieces from the Wish Big - Girl Collection. I used some strips of pattern paper and some paper punches to create some fun backgrounds for my cards. 

For my "celebrate" card, I used a hexagon punch to several shapes and then created a background for the celebrate chipboard piece. Then I added a couple of chipboard hearts and piece from the ephemera.

 

For this card, I used a large banner punch to create another background.

I added a sentiment from the Daily Details sheet along with a few chipboard candles. 

Using punches or dies is a great way to take advantage of all your leftover paper strips! I love how both of these cards turned out. 

Perfect to have on hand for all my daughters' friends birthday parties. 

 

Wish Big Girl Pattern Paper, Wish Big Girl Chipboard stickers, Wish Big - Girl Ephemera Pack Words, Cute Clips



 

Spring Cards with Kelly

Hello everyone! Today I am sharing four spring cards...Two of them are graduation cards, and the other two are for Teacher Appreciation.

I always try to make graduation cards using the graduate's school colors. For this one, I used a combination of Plaids & Dotty, Let's Go on an Adventure, and Pop Quiz.

For this next one, I made a window using Blue Chevron from the Invisibles line. I positioned the clear patterned paper with a tiny bit of double stick tape before I secured it in place with stitching.

The next to cards are Teacher Appreciation cards made with the Home Sweet Home collection. This collection is probably my new favorite...so feminine and perfect for so many occasions. The inside of this first one says "for helping us GROW."

The inside of this card says "for helping us BLOOM."

So many celebrations happen at the end of the school year... graduations, recitals, spring programs...and there's nothing quite like a handmade card to make every occasion feel special.

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Home Sweet Home: Ephemera Icons, DooHickey, Mosaic Tile, Borders; Let's Go on an Adventure: Morning Meadow; Plaids&Dotty: Blueberry; Pop Quiz: Sticky Mix; Heart Hugs: Black&White; Florence Alphas: Blueberry, Ice, Cotton Candy; Invisibles: Chevies Blueberry; Delight in His Day: Fundamentals; Cute Clips: Festive; Acrylic Shapes: Star Mix; Designer Washi: Rainbow, Ice Dot; Puffy Stars: Milk White; Tiny Text: Faithful; Word Salad

Graduation Cards with Corri

Hi everyone! This week we are focusing on the Florence alphabet stickers. Graduation is quickly approaching and we are invited to several parties so I thought I'd make a couple of cute cards using some of the new cute files along with the alphas. 

For my first card, I used this cute hot air balloon from the Let's Go on an Adventure collection. You can file the cut file at the Silhouette Store or in Lori Whitlock's Shop. 

I used some McIntosh Florence alphas to add a quote to my card. I love the whimsical look of this cute font. I used paper from the Let's go on an Adventure collection for my balloon and the background is a paper from the Splash Zone Collection. 

 

For my second card, I used another cute quote created with Black Florence alphas paired with the mountain cut file (Silhouette, SVG). 

The Florence Alphabet stickers are perfect for creating sentiments on card and layouts. You can see the full collections of stickers here. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

 

Splash Zone - Sunny Days, Let's go on an Adventure - Wildflowers, In the Woods, Borders, White Cardstock, 

Florence Alphabet Stickers - McIntosh, Black,  Heart Mix Acrylic Shapes, Silhouette Cameo, Cut files

 

 

Life is good cards

Good morning everyone!

I made some cards with the Home Sweet Some collection to share with you today and I lost them!!! I'm in the process of moving and have other people helping me and someone packed my scrappy goodness! So I was frantically going through boxes trying to find them and I finally did!!

I have to say I'm not a huge card maker, so most of mine are pretty simple, but I still think they're pretty. I actually made them for people that have been helping me fix up my new house and helping me move in. That made it much easier for me to make them too.

  

I made all three of these using one sheet of paper and some of the embellishments that go along with the Home Sweet Home collection, with a few heart hugs added in.

 

I started with this card, I loved the teal color so I chose that as my background. It actually said Friends are our chosen family, but I covered that up with the opposite side of the patterned paper. I grabbed both the ephemera words and the ephemera icons, pilled out the hearts and layered them on. I ruffled up the edge of the paper the hearts were on, drew some lines to make it look like stitching and then grabbed that AMAZING rainbow washi tape and added some to the top and bottom of the card for some more color and moved on to my next card.

I thought the trees on here were already cute, but wanted to add some of the mini heart hugs and the regular heart hugs, so I layered two of the hearts, after peeling the sentiments off, and turned them in to some trees and added some of the enamel dots to the other tree for some more color.

I thought the trees on here were already cute, but wanted to add some of the mini heart hugs and the regular heart hugs, so I layered two of the hearts, after peeling the sentiments off, and turned them in to some trees and added some of the enamel dots to the other tree for some more color.

Then onto my last card for this week. I layered some of the papers together, I love all of the patterns in this collection so much by the way and I hope you do too!! There so bright and playful so are some many of the other new collection!!

After layering the papers I pulled some of the houses out of the ephemera icons and the ciao chip icons, wanting to keep with the house theme and hearts. So I added two of the houses, one was a chipboard piece, a little dimension, and ephemera piece. I found the so thankful piece in the ephemera words and cut the ends to look like pennants, popped it up on some foam adhesive. Layered two hearts behind it, I loved that the yellow heart had a little heart on it too, made it feel like I was adding a third heart. I stuck them down and started to ruffle up the edges like I did on the other cards and added the lines to look like stitching and was done, nothing left to do but add my writing on the inside and send them to the people I made them for! 

Thanks for stopping by to see what I came up with today. If cards aren't really your thing, try to push yourself and see what you can come up with, even if there something easy like this. There still hand made and the people that receive them will love them and know you took the time to make it just for them!

Home Sweet Home Collection: Daily Details patterned paper, Ephemera words, Ephemera Icons, Ciao Chip Icons, Doohicky sticker sheet

Designer washi tape: Raindow

Mini Heart Hugs: Sentiments

Heart Hugs: Sunshine

Knot-so Dull Cards

Hello, Bella Blvd. friends! Tessa Buys here with a trio of "knot-so" dull cards. In fact, they're downright cheerful with their primary color palette and stitched details. If you're a clean and simple card maker like myself, you'll enjoy the techniques I'm sharing with you today. All you'll need is your favorite Bella Blvd papers and coordinating embroidery floss.

First, do you know how to create French knots? Here is a great little tutorial for a quick how-to. I like to add French knots to the center of flowers in tiny floral prints. Here I used yellow embroidery floss on all the flowers that had yellow centers.

I love the texture the little knots add to the card. Pop up the patterned paper on foam adhesive to make room for your backside knots and to add even more dimension to your card.

Second, a running stitch is my go-to when I want to add some texture and color, so this diagonal stripe card was quick work with exactly the result I wanted. I decided to stitch two parallel lines in contrasting colors.

Another take on a running stitch is to work in a circle. I used an anywhere punch to make a circle cut-out in my card base, then stitched around the circle to create a frame. I alternated four different colors of thread.

Next, I backed the open circle with a piece of cardstock that I had layered strips of washi tape onto. I love a lot of white space on cards!

The new Florence alphas made great sentiments in all the colors I needed, and the Let's Go on an Adventure collection provided the bright papers.

If you're looking for just the right handmade touch to add to your cards, you can't go wrong with a little simple stitching. And, of course, Bella Blvd.! Happy creating!

Let's Go on an Adventure patterned papers: Morning Meadow, Wildflowers; Florence alphabet stickers: Orange, Gulf, Cotton Candy, Punch, McIntosh; Cute Clips: Pumpkin Spice; Washi Tape: Rainbow