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The North Pole Borders & Daily Details | Laura

Hi friends! Laura here with some Christmas card inspiration! I absolutely love the Borders and Daily Details patterned papers in every collection, so I made them the focus for these cards! Using those border strips and cut-aparts extends the life of your collections when mixed with fussy cut embellishments!

This first card uses the Borders paper for these background strips, then a cut-apart piece from the Daily Details paper for the sentiment in the middle. To add a little bit of interest, I've added puffy stickers on top of the snowflake pattern and epoxy stickers on top of the trees in the middle!

The same technique for this super quick and easy card using a 4x6 cut-apart from the Daily Details page, a sticker sentiment along the bottom from the Doohickey stickers with a bit of patterned paper for the flag ends, as well as epoxies and puffy stickers for special details!

This card uses the Borders paper for the strips at the top and bottom, as well as the fussy cut sweaters in each panel. I love these little elements that can be easily turned into embellishments! With puffy stickers on some of the sweaters for an added bit of fun and epoxies alongside the ephemera sentiment, it was a fun card to make!

The North Pole Collection Kit

The North Pole Words Ephemera

Cheerful Puffy Stickers

Magic Epoxy Stickers

Squeeze the Day: Cards from Daily Details & Borders Papers

I created a couple cards inspired by Squeeze the Day Daily Details and Borders papers! I love all the versatile options to fussy-cut images and to use bits of the Borders patterns on my crafty projects. The challenge of DIY'ing embellishment groupings with just patterned papers stretches my creative mind.

 

On the first card, I fussy cut out the letters on the LOVE card for the title element and the added in a few pairs of pears to play up the fun message.

For the second card, I fussy-cut all the strawberries from one card to support the "love you bunches" sentiment (Daily Details paper).

I hope this gives you a few ideas on ways to create with cut apart cards! Have a great day!

Bella Blvd Supplies: Squeeze the day collection: Daily Details paper, Borders paper, Fruity Enamel Dots

Off The Page Projects | Christmas Cards | Yarelys Rodriguez

Hey there Bella Friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys he to share with you a new project! This time I made three Christmas cards using the Let Us Adore Him collection.

To start my cards, I cut three pieces of white cardstock and folded it in half. Then, I went through the papers of the collection and picked the Humble, Oh Holy Night and Rebirth, and cut a piece of each paper.

Now it’s time to build my cards! For the Joy card, I glued a piece of the Humble paper. Then, I cut a piece of white cardstock, hand stitched around it and glued it. Then, I glued the word Joy with adhesive foam to give it dimension.

For the Holy card, I glued a piece of the Oh Holy Night paper and a piece of white cardstock on top. Then, I glued ephemera and the Holy, Holy, Holy die cut.

And for the Merry Christmas card, I glued two pieces of the Rebirth paper. Then, I glued some of the Christmas trees from the ephemera and the Merry Christmas die cut.

To finish my cards, I added Puffy Stickers, Enamels and Epoxy.

I like how these cards turned out! Hope you all like them and get inspired to create beautiful things! You can find the link for the process video below. Thanks for stopping by!

Have a lovely day!

Yarelys xx

@dreamsandpapers

https://youtu.be/6VrI6QBK6nQ

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Let Us Adore Him Collection: Humble, Oh Holy Night and Rebirth papers.

Ephemera: Let Us Adore Him.

Puffy Stickers: Joy.

Epoxy: Nativity.

Enamels: Christmas Mix.

Monsters & Friends Week Day 3 | Tegan

Good day Bella friends! Aren't you just loving all of the adorable Monsters & Friends projects the last two weeks?! I know I sure am!! I love Halloween and I was so excited to create some spooky season cards to send out! I hope you are all ready for Halloween - and if you aren't, these cards are super easy to make! 

On the first card, I used the sweet little 2x2 inch square cut out from the Monsters & Friends Daily Details Patterned Paper as my feature sentiment. I then layered it over a strip of the floral Scary Cute Patterned Paper and the fun Lil' Pumpkins Patterned Papers! I backed the card with the black and white striped side of the Scary Cute Paper! I finished the card with Monsters & Friends Chipboard Stickers and Trinkets Puffy Stickers! 

For my second card I used another 2x2 inch cut out square from the Daily Details Patterned Paper - this time it was the creepy spider one. I added an Ice & Gulf Trinkets Puffy Sticker Heart to give it dimension. I layered it over some fun Monsters & Friends Chipboard Stickers, a strip of the Borders Patterned Paper, and a rectangle of the purple star Batty Patterned Paper. I then adhered this to a card base made from the thick rainbow striped side of the Lil' Pumpkins Patterned Paper!  

I featured the 3 x 4 inch monster cut out from the Daily Details Patterned Paper on this last card. This fun monster with the little lone snaggle tooth might be my favorite! I added a black Trinkets Puffy Heart Sticker as his eye for some fun dimension! I layered this card with some Monsters & Friends Chipboard Stickers and Trinkets Puffy Stickers. I then anchored it on the black/orange swirled paper from the Daily Details Patterned Paper. So fun!

Thanks for joining us today! I hope I have inspired you to create some fun cards using the spook-tacular Monsters & Friends Collection! 

Bella Blvd Products Used:

Monsters & Friends Collection: Daily Details Patterned Paper, Borders Patterned Paper, Scary Cute Patterned Paper, Lil' Pumpkins Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera

Trinkets Puffy Heart & Star Stickers: Black, Ice & Gulf, Pickle Juice & Guacamole

 

You Are My Sunshine Summer Week Day 4 - Tegan

Greetings Bella Blvd friends! Tegan with you here today and I am so excited to share my You Are My Sunshine cards with you today. The cards were a cinch to make because every little thing in this collection is just so stinkin' cute! 

I was obsessed with the rainbow striped Shine Bright patterned paper as you will see! It made for an easy and awesome background for each of my cards. I then embellished it with a strip of the darling Young and Free butterfly print patterned paper and a Doohickey Stickers scalloped sticker. Some adorable chipboard elements finished it off! 

Here I used a strip of the small striped My Only Sunshine patterned paper over the large stripe patterned paper. I love all of the rainbow color!  I embellished the card with cute chipboard flowers, bumble bee, and scalloped edge. I then added an ephemera die cut butterfly, Doohickey sentiment sticker, and Hello Summer epoxy stickers. Isn't that little bee just the cutest?! 

I created this card with the What A Day patterned paper and rainbow and scalloped edge Doohickey Stickers. I then finished it off with the sun and hello chipboard stickers and a couple Hello Summer epoxy stickers. I used the fun red Ray of Sunshine patterned paper as the card base for all of the cards. Which card is your favorite?! I love them all so much that I can't pick a favorite! 

Thanks so much for stopping in today! I hope you are enjoying all of these summer projects using the amazing You Are My Sunshine collection! 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

You Are My Sunshine Collection: Shine Bright Patterned Paper, What A Day Patterned Paper, Ray of Sunshine Patterned Paper, My Only Sunshine Patterned Paper, Young and Free Patterned Paper, Hello Summer Epoxy Stickers, Chipboard Icons Stickers, Ephemera

 

 

To The Moon Week Day 1 - Tegan

Greetings Bella friends! Who is ready for an out of this world week of To The Moon Collection inspiration?! I know I sure am! I had an absolute blast (pun intended!) creating this card trio using the adorable To The Moon products. I am in love with all of the little astronaut kids, robots, and rocket ships.

I started this card off by using the light blue sentiment card from the To The Moon Daily Details patterned paper as my focal point. I then adhered it to a piece of the Borders patterned paper. I love that this one sheet of paper makes it look like I worked hard to create a patterned paper background (wink wink!) I the embellished the card with darling chipboard rocket and astronaut stickers and Doohickey cardstock stickers. So cute but also super easy to make! 

On my second card, I also used another cut apart card from the Daily Details patterned paper. I then layered a chipboard star sticker and a black Heart Hug sticker over the cute world sticker. I anchored the card with the adorable robot chipboard sticker and a Doohickey sentiment sticker. I also love the dimension that the A Boy's World Puffy Stickers add too! 

I used the You Are My Sun, Moon, and Stars cut out card as my feature element. I then adhered the astronaut chipboard sticker over the stars. I then added more chipboard stickers on top of the astronaut and added some of the Puffy star stickers as well. Eeek! I am head over heals over all of the cuteness in this collection, how about you?! 

Thanks for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to grab some of the darling To The Moon collection for your next set of cards!

Bella Blvd Products:

To The Moon Collection: Daily Details Patterned Paper, Borders Patterned Paper, Doohickey Stickers, Chipboard Stickers, A Boy's World Puffy Stickers, Spaced Out Epoxy Stickers

 

To the Moon and Hearts & Ombre Week Day 4 | Victoria Calvin

Hello friends! Its Victoria and I am back with three fun card projects using the To The Moon and the Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre Collections. Both of these collections pair perfectly together to create super awesome card and scrapbook projects. Let's take a look!

For the first card project, I created an A2 size card panel (4.25 x 5.5) using the Blueberry pattern paper from the Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre Collection. The ombre adds a cool effect to this space themed card! Next, I adhered a piece a patter paper from the To The Moon Collection that serves as an anchor for the die cut embellishments, also from the To The Moon Collection. To finish this card, I adhered three A Boy's World puffy star stickers to the panel for added dimension and interest. 

For the next card, I used the Bella Besties McIntosch Hearts and Ombre pattern paper to create an A2 size card panel. To the panel I added a To The Moon die cut rocket ship and two phrase die cuts that say "wow" and "amazing". Foam adhesive was added to the back of the die cut embellishments for a pop of height and dimension. Lastly, I added puffy star stickers from the A Boy's World sticker sheet. 

For the last card, I created an A2 size card panel using the heart side of the Oyster Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre pattern paper. Next, I trimmed a piece of the My Whole Universe pattern paper and adhered it to the bottom of the card panel. For a bit of contrast, I added a piece of the black and white striped Make Your Mark Washi Tape to the top of the pattern paper strip. Die cuts and puffy elements from the To The Moon Collection and the A Boy's World puffy sticker sheet were added to create a whimsical, space-themed composition. 

These three cards came together fast and are ready to be sent to the space loving kiddos in my life! I hope you are inspired to the use the To The Moon and the Hearts and Ombre Collections for your next card or scrapbook project! Thanks so much for stopping by! 

 

 

Supplies:

To The Moon Collection: Pattern Paper - Outer Space, The Sky's the Limit, My Whole Universe; To The Moon Ephemera, A Boys World Puffy Stickers, Make Your Mark Washi Tape, Belle Besties Hearts and Ombre Collection: McIntosch, Blueberry, Oyster

 

Celebrating Mom Week Day 6 - Tegan

Happy Mother's Day week everyone! Do you need a fun and easy card for mom still?! Here are a few ideas for you using the happy and colorful Home Sweet Home collection, which was perfect for celebrating mom! 

For this card, I first used a piece of the Bella Besties Graph & Dot Patterned Paper in Pool to create a background. I then used fun patterned papers and embellishments from the Home Sweet Home collection to embellish the card. The oregano and mint embellishments are perfect for moms who love herbs! I completed the card by adding a green corrugated Heart Hugs sticker and a couple orange enamel dots. I just love the little butterflies too, don't you?!

For the second card, I used the Bella Besties Graph & Dot patterned paper in Punch for the background. I then used some Home Sweet Home patterned papers, chipboard stickers, and die cut pieces to embellish the card. I finished it off with a yellow corrugated cardboard Heart Hugs sticker, enamel dots, and Trinkets puffy stickers. I used the adorable Florence Alphabet Stickers in Blueberry to spell 'MOM'.  :) 

For this last card, I used the Blueberry patterned paper from the Bella Besties 6x6 Paper Pad for the background. The green leaf patterned paper is from the Home Sweet Home collection and the pink paper is the Bella Besties Graph & Dot patterned paper in Punch. I again used the chipboard stickers, ephemera pieces, and die cuts from the Home Sweet Home collection. I finished it off with a darling white Heart Hugs sticker and orange Trinkets puffy stickers. 

Thanks for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to grab some of your Home Sweet Home collection to craft a card (or two?!) for mom if you need one. Have a great day!

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Home Sweet Home Collection: Always Welcome Patterned Paper, Borders Patterned Paper, All My Love Patterned Papers, Mosaic Tile Patterned Papers, Houseplants Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons, Doohickey Stickers

Heart Hugs: Mini Heart Hugs, Sunshine

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Blueberry

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: Orange

Valentine's Week Day 3 | Maryam

Hello Bella Friends! This is Maryam, and I'm so excited to be back here today with a new project. This week it's all about Love and Valentine's Day so I'm going to be sharing some fun shaped cards I created using some Bella Cut Files and Bella Besties, perfect to be gifted to your loved ones on this special day.

For my first two shaped cards, I decided to create some donuts so I went to the Bella BLVD Silhouette Design Store and downloaded 314819 Donuts Cut File. This cut file comes with three sweet donuts but I only cut two. Since I wanted to cut each one of the pieces of the cut files into a different pattern paper, the first thing I did was to ungroup all the pieces. I spread them across my mat and then cut papers to size and let the machine do its thing.

I cut both donuts at the same time or in one pass, so the next step was to put together all the pieces. To add some dimension to the donuts, I adhered some of the pieces with foam dots. In addition, I also grabbed some matte enamel dots and added them around as if they were sprinkles. To finish up the donuts, I added some sentiments from the Word Salad Booklet.

For my third card, I did something a little bit different and used the 326903 Cupcake Cut File. Just like I did before, once I opened the file on Silhouette Studio I ungrouped all the pieces and cut them out of different Bella Besties Patterned Papers. To embellish the card, I added the word "love" from Squeeze the Day Ephemera Words and right below it, "you make my life great" from the must-have Word Salad Booklet.

Once my three cards were done, I decided to also create some coordinating envelopes, and again, I used the incredible versatile Bella Besties Patterned Paters in three colors- McIntosh, Peep, and Cotton Candy.

Let's take one more look at the finished cards!

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 Happy Valentine's Day!

Supplies: Squeeze the Day: Ephemera Words, Fruity Mix Matte Enamels, Fruit Salad 12 x 12 Patterned Paper. | Bella Besties: Hearts & Ombré Patterned Papers (Peep, Cotton Candy, Pickle Juice), Freehand Graph & Dot Pattern Papers (Peep, McIntosh), Graph & Dot Rainbow Bella Besties 6 x 6 Paper Pad, Word Salad Booklet. | Cut Files: 326903 Cupcake, 314819 Donuts, 310907 Penguins.

Valentine's Week Day 2 | Patricia

I always make Valentine's Day cards to give to my family.  I love pink, purple, and all the beautiful colors associated with Valentine's, but I wanted richer and non-gender cards this year.  The Cooper collection has so many wonderful patterns, textures, and designs all to work great with my idea of using the Playing Cards cut file in the Silhouette Design Studio.

I picked tight patterns as well as contrasting patterns from Daily Details, Dog Park, Play Time, Dog Talk, Paws, and Borders.  I kept the Play Cards cut file sized as is, except for the bottom or first layer of the cards.  For that layer, I made it a little bit larger to see the edge of that color under the top layer.  

The cut file cuts the numbers, the hearts, and the corners.  I used corners on all the cards and used the numbers as well.  For playing cards, that bottom number should be upside down, but I honestly forgot about it, so only my 6 of hearts card shows the correct way.  They are still adorable no matter which way.

For the hearts though, I decided to use the Heart Hugs and Pickle Juice Mix to replace them to not only give my cards dimension but the Heart Hugs have sentiments on them that are perfect for my Valentine's cards.

I created a card panel for each card that would be a contrast, and then die cut a border of another contrasting pattern paper color.  

From the Heart Hugs, I added the enamel dots to the corners of each card.  I used twine from my stash to finish.

Grab the Playing Cards cut files, the Cooper collection, and Heart Hugs to create your own non-gender Valentine's Day cards.  Happy Valentine's!