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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!

National Thank You Note Day | Traci

Hi everyone! National Thank You Note Day is always on December 26th and reminds us of thanking people for their gifts, hospitality and generosity. It is a day to get some note cards, scrapbook supplies, stamps, and envelopes and send out some special handmade thank yous!

 

For my project, I made four easy cards using various Bella supplies.  I had so much fun mixing and matching the different paper collections!

 

 

My first card was super easy!  I just took a 4x6 card from the Squeeze the Day collection and adhered it to the front of my card base with some striped paper.  I also lined my envelope with a cute heart print from the collection.  Can't get much easier than that ... but so cute! 

 

For my next card, I used paper and ephemera from the Fa La La collection.  I used a circle die from Gina Marie Designs to cut out a half-circle on the right side of my white card base.  Then I used a scallop circle die from Echo Park to cut out the pretty blue pattern. I stamped the Thank You sentiment with a Doodle Stamp from the Many Thanks set. I think this card would be super cute to give to a neighbor!

 

For card #3, I used those same nesting scallop circle dies from Echo Park, and my favorite colors of Bella Besties to add some fun circles on the card base.  I cut the "thanks" word using the Doodle Cuts Many Thanks die set and a simple tree die cut finished up this colorful card nicely.

For my fourth card, I pulled out an older collection that is still one of my favorites, Cooper!  I know my dog loving friends will love to get this card.  I used an orange print from the 6x6 paper pad, a strip of flowers from a 6x6 sheet, some puppy and flower die cuts, and a 3 1/2" scallop circle punch.  The cute Thank You sentiment also came from the Doodlebug Many Thanks stamp set.

So if you have a few minutes today, pull out some of your favorite Bella supplies and make a card for someone!  Not only will you enjoy some crafty time, but the recipient of your handmade card will be blessed by your kindness.  Links to supplies are over on my blog at Artsy Albums.  Have a wonderful Saturday everyone!

Bella Besties Graph / Dot in Punch, Pickle Juice and Ice

Fa La La Ephemera and 12x12 pattern paper

Cooper Ephemera and 6x6 paper pad

Squeeze the Day 12x12 pattern paper

Epoxy Hearts

Holiday Cards & Gifting Week Day 4 | Nathalie

Hi there Bella Blvd. friends!

Nathalie with you today to share a few ideas on how to create simple and colorful cards in a breeze.   We are all getting everything ready to celebrate Christmas (even when it might be a little be different this year).  For us, it means just the five of us, no extended family at all, but we will be taking the time to drop of presents the day before.   I am sure that I will be going through a few cards to complete  our deliveries, so I prefer handmaking them  in a quick way.

 

For my first card, I am using scraps.   Last week, I was part of the mood board inspiration week.  I took advantage of the garland idea of the layout to stitch together as many circles as I could into a garland for future projects, or to decorate around the house.

 

 

I used a few of the stitched circles to create the vertical design of the card. I used colors and papers from the FALALA , CHLOE, BELLA BESTIES collections for the circles.  All the texture and dimension on the circles is already adding a lot to the card; so, I chose a few of the HEART HUGS to add the sentiment to the card.

 

For the next two cards, I followed the same formula.  Patterned paper, paper trim, and ephemera.  This formula helps me to speed up the card making process and  mass production of cards.   I always have a box of A2 cards in my stash ( a rainbow of card bases), it makes it easier to work when you have a color base.  This time, I cut the b side of the Daily Details paper as the base, and added a piece of the sticker trim from the Doohickey sticker sheet.  I used a vellum circle to make the Reindeer Bella Pop stand out, then used a piece of ephemera as the card sentiment.

I used the same recipe for this card, but used the Candy Striper patterned paper as the paper trim, too. Here I layered one of the large Doohickey stickers with a kraft mini envelope, and then used another sticker for the sentiment. In all cards, I added  enamel and epoxy stickers to pop the colors of the elements.

 

 

I hope these inspire you to create your own handmade cards using Bella Blvd goodies.  I cannot wait to see what you create

 

Have a Merry Christmas and let's hope 2021 is filled with love!

XO

 

Materials Used:

FALALA Collection:12x12 paper, Doohickey stickers, ephemera, Bella Pops, epoxy stickers, matte enamel dots

HEART HUGS:  Christmas

CHLOE: 6x6 paper pad

BELLA BESTIES:  Ombre/heart collection

Holiday Cards & Gifting Week Day 2 | Dorymar

Hi Bella fans, it is Dorymar today with beautiful Christmas Cards inspiration!  The assignment for this week for the Design team is to create Holiday and Winter card with the New Falala Collection. 

I created 4 cute Christmas cards in different sizes 5”x5”, 4.5”x4.5”, 4”x4”, 3.5”x3.5”, I created all the bases with white cardstock. Next, I used different patterned papers to create the layers and decorate them with the gorgeous embellishments of the collection.

The base of this card is 4.5”x4.5”, I cut a piece that measures 4.25”x4.25” from the Dear Santa Patterned Paper and adhered to the base, then I cut a piece that measures 4”x4” from the Daily Details and adhere to it in the top and then I cut a strip from the Borders Paper that measures 1.25x4 and I adhered in top of both pieces. For the finishing touches, I added the gorgeous St. Nick Bella Pop and the Joy Acrylic Word mixed with some chipboards, die cuts, epoxy stars, and enamel dots.

The base of this card is 5”x5”, I adhered a piece that measures 4.75”x4.75” from the Tree Trimmer patterned paper, then two strips one from the Candy Striper and the other from the Borders paper then cut another piece that measures 3.5”x3.5” from the Daily Details paper and I adhered it in the top, the next step was adhering with foam tape the pines tree, the chipboard flower, and the cute Reindeer Bella Pop. The card looks so cute! I love it!

For these two cards, I followed the pattern of the previous ones, I used various paper patterns to make them look colorful, and then, I decorated them with the WONDERFUL embellishments that the collection includes. You have so many to choose from, all are fantastic!

I hope my cards inspire you to create some beautiful cards with the new fantastic FALALA collection from Bella Blvd, it is perfect to carry messages of love to your friends and family. I invite you to look for it and to work with it! Happy Holidays!

Falala Collection Kit, Falala St. Nick Bella Pop. Falala Reindeer Bella Pop,

Falala Chipboard Icons, Falala Ephemera Words, Christmas Epoxy Words,

Joy Acrylic Word, Festive Mix Matte Enamels, Christmas Mix Epoxy

Holiday Gifting Week Day 1 | Traci

Happy December friends! I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season.  I always love giving handmade gifts, and using my scrapbook supplies to create fun and unique packaging. So for today's project I wanted to share a couple fun ideas for this year's gift giving.

For my card, I cut a piece of white card stock to create a 5x7 base.  Then I layered Fa La La pattern paper on the front, punched out a 4" circle, and started adding all of those cute epoxy shapes.  

I started with the larger epoxy pieces from the Wonderland and Christmas Words sets, then I filled in with matte enamels, Christmas Mix hearts, and stars.

To finish up my card, I backed that cute tree (from the Wreath Cut-Outs) with pretty holly and red patterns and used foam adhesive to give it a little dimension.  I love the way this card turned out so much, I may not be able to give it away!

 

For my gift bag, I used a cutting file by Lori Whitlock called Bag with Window.  I enlarged the file so that it took up most of the cute 12x12 red paper.  After cutting and adhering it together, I added a piece of acetate behind the window. Isn't that reindeer adorable?  He has a red gem for his nose, and he's surrounded by a few more of those cute epoxy stars. 

Finally, I had fun adding strips of paper, a border sticker, adhesive ribbon and twine to dress up this jelly jar.  The die cut tag from the ephemera package was the perfect size to hang off the side, and the cute little Snow In Love Bella Pop snowman looks cute up on the lid.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today friends!  I hope I've inspired you with a few fun card and gift wrap ideas!  All the best to you and your family this holiday season!

Fa La La 12x12 pattern paper & ephemera

Wonderland Epoxy Shapes

Christmas Word Epoxy Shapes

Epoxy Stars and Hearts

Matte Enamels

Snow In Love Bella Pop

Wreath Cut Outs

Slimline Cards with Monsters & Friends Collection | Maryam

Hey Everyone! This is Maryam and I am so excited to be back on the Bella Studio Blog. For today’s post, I am going to be sharing three slimline cards I made using the new Monsters & Friends Halloween collection.

You might have heard about slimline cards or seen them on social media before because they seem to be trending in the industry nowadays. But what are slimline cards? Slimline cards are long and narrow cards that fit into a #10 American letter-sized envelope. The most popular size is 3 5/8” x 8 5/8” inches but people usually round that down to 3 1/2″ x 8 1/2″to make the cutting process easier. For my cards today, I went with the most used size, 3 5/8” x 8 5/8” inches, and cut the front panels to 3 3/8” x 8 3/8” inches.

For my first card, I decided to have some extra fun and create a shaker card. I started by cutting a piece of 3 3/8” x 8 3/8” inches of the Scary Cute Pattern Paper. Following up, I grabbed a metal die to cut out three circles which will serve as windows. I then back them with acetate, put some foam adhesive on the back, add the sequins, and then close the shaker windows with some white cardstock on the back. Next, to embellish the card, I used some cute little monsters from the Monsters & Friends Ephemera pack and popped them up with foam dots. For the sentiment, I stamped the word “hello” and finished up by adding some enamel dots and sequins.

For my second card, I decided to make something a little bit simpler. I started out by cutting some leaves out of Lil’ Pumpkins Pattern Paper with my silhouette cameo. Since the Lil’ Pumpkins Pattern Paper comes with a bunch of colored strips, it actually worked as if it was cardstock which allowed me to cut a bunch of different leaves all at once. Last but not least, to finish my card, I added my sentiment in a big white circle and then some sequins and enamel dots as a final touch.

In case you are wondering these are the cut files I used- 332244 Leafy Set, 332734 Fall Leaves.

For my last card, I used the Monster Party Pattern Paper and cut the front panel at the same size I did on my previous cards. Then, using my silhouette cameo, I cut the word “celebrate” from the 288174 Celebrate Word cut file on black cardstock and then a white outline to help the word stand out. To add some fun, I added “You did it” which I heat embossed on white and also some lilac thread on the back and a bunch of sequins and enamel dots around.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you liked the projects I shared and inspired you to create something new. Also, don’t forget that if you have any questions just leave me a comment or send me an email. I’ll be happy to help you.

Have an awesome day!