Bella Blvd Studio Blog

Tiny Tots 2.0 - Day 1 | Laura Alberts

Hello friends! Laura Alberts here with a fun multi-photo grid layout! I wanted to challenge myself to think outside the theme with the Tiny Tots 2.0 collection, so I'm scrapbooking a trip to the Safari Park instead! It's a perfect match with these adorable little animals.

I started with the lovely Be Brave patterned paper, layered it with the My #1 patterned paper, and then added white card stock. Then, my 2x2 inch photos are alternated with 2x2 inch squares of Watch Out patterned paper. I also matted my larger 4x4 inch photo with that beautiful stripe as well.

I used a pen to outline all of the squares and the grid's mat. This gave each square a little bit of definition. On the blue squares, I layered the Play Date patterned paper and mixed Ciao Chip critters with ephemera icon animals to create these adorable clusters. 

To add a little bit of interest, I added some Cuteness epoxy stars to my critter clusters as well. One of my favorite parts of this layout though is that I used a picture of the sign for the Safari Park as my title! Such a cool detail!

To finish it off, I added some tiny stars cut from the border strips on the Doohickey stickers. Love that tiny detailing on the squares with clusters! With a few little drops of black Nuvo Drops around my clusters, this layout was complete. Such a fun design to squeeze in seven photos!

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you found some inspiration for stepping outside the theme with this fantastic collection. You don't have to scrap baby photos with Tiny Tots 2.0!

Supplies

Tiny Tots 2.0 Be Brave Paper

Tiny Tots 2.0 My #1 Paper

Tiny Tots 2.0 Watch Out Paper

Tiny Tots 2.0 Play Date Paper

Tiny Tots 2.0 Doohickey Stickers

Tiny Tots 2.0 Ephemera Icons

Tiny Tots 2.0 Ciao Chip

Cuteness Epoxy 

Time To Travel + Cut Outs Week | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today sharing a layout using the brand new Time To Travel collection!  I am seriously LOVING this collection!  There are so many great pieces in it and as I continue working with it, I keep finding new things that I absolutely love!  Working with a new collection and being able to go through all of its elements several times, always keeps me inspired and ready to create the next layout.  

This week we are working with Cut Outs and if you're not familiar with them, they are pre-cut cut files that come several to a pack, complete with templates and instructions.  They are super convenient and perfect to take to crops, on the go or if you just want to create something pretty quickly!  Here's my layout: 

I chose the new I Love Travel Cut Out pack and went with the "Family Trip" piece.  I backed it with several different patterned papers from the collection by tracing and cutting each letter out.  If you're new to backing a cut out, when you go to cut your traced lines, make sure to cut around the lines so that your piece is large enough to back each letter.  

Once the Cut Out was fully backed, I popped the entire piece up on foam tape.  I then took the In The Clouds 12x12 patterned paper and tore a large piece on both ends.  I love the look of a torn edge!  I adhered it down to a piece of textured white cardstock and then adhered my Cut Out right in the center.  

Here's another look at the pretty patterns in the Cut Out: 

Next, I matted my photo with vellum and created a fun embellishment cluster to the bottom left of the photo using the Ephemera Icons and Ephemera Words and Tags.  The photo is of me and my Mom in the car at the Santa Barbara airport back home.  In March, I flew back to spend the week with my family and had the best time.  

I found a really fun postcard in the Ephemera Words and Tags pack and adhered it down to the top right of the Cut Out.  I added my journaling to it and embellished using more Ephemera Icons, Ciao Chip Chipboard stickers and a few Trinket Puffy stickers.  

Here's one more embellishment cluster, I even added a few of the Puffy Star stickers in Blueberry: 

This page came together pretty quickly for me because the large Cut Out became my title.  If you're short on time and want to create something in a pinch, I would highly recommend picking up a few Cut Outs packs.  There are so many different varieties, perfect for any occasion.  

One more shot: 

Thank you so much for being here and I hope that I've inspired you in some way today!  If you've had a chance to pickup this collection, what's your favorite piece(s) from it?  See you next time friends!

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Time To Travel: 12x12 Patterned Papers, Ciao Chip Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words & Tags, I Love Travel Cut Out Pack, Trinkets Puffy Stickers; Bella Besties: Puffy Star Stickers in Blueberry Mix.  

 

Time to Travel + Bella Besties Day 6| Rachel

Hi friends! I'm back with another layout using the Time to Travel collection from Bella Blvd. This time the assignment was to use Bella Besties paper along with the collection. I instantly grabbed for the Graph & Dot pack of 12" x 12" patterned paper. Who doesn't love a pack of paper in all the fabulous Bella colors? I know I do! I set out to use the graph side of the paper in four colors - Bell Pepper, Guacamole, Ice, and McIntosh. These colors coordinate perfectly with Time to Travel. I used my Cricut machine and cut out a 2.5 inch hexagon with a smaller hexagon inside it. I also cut out my two pictures from the same larger hexagon so they would be the same size as the Bella Besties hexagons.

I then arranged the hexagons (including the photos) along the white cardstock. I let some of them lay off the edge of the paper. Once I got a pattern I liked, I adhered them to the cardstock with tape runner and trimmed off the excess hexagons that were hanging over the edge of the cardstock. Next, I took my favorite mini ruler and black pen and drew lines in the blank edges between each hexagon. I love to add doodling to almost all my layouts to tie in the black and contrast the bright colors.

Now it was time to start digging through the packs of ephemera and chipboard. I knew I wanted to align the ephemera to match up with the colors of each hexagon. There are plenty to choose from! These photos are from a road trip my husband and I took through San Antonio, Austin, and Waco, Texas in December. Time to Travel is perfect for road tripping. Besides the Time to Travel Ephemera and Ciao Chip, I also added some matching Trinkets Puffy hearts in McIntosh, Bell Pepper, and Guacamole.

I finished the layout with probably my most beloved Bella accessory - the Florence Alpha! I used them in black for my title. If you don't have these yet you definitely need them in your life - in all the colors, of course. Thank you so much for stopping by today to check out my layout. I hope you love it! Here's a list of all the items I used! 

Items Used:

Bella Besties Graph & Dot pack (Bell Pepper, Guacamole, Ice, and McIntosh)

Time to Travel Ciao Chip

Time to Travel Ephemera Words & Tags 

Time to Travel Ephemera Icons

Trinkets Puffy Stickers (McIntosh, Bell Pepper, and Guacamole)

Florence Alphas (Black)

Time to Travel & Bella Besties Week Day 5 | Jennifer Davis

Hello friends! Jen here sharing a layout with you today featuring the vibrant Time to Travel collection from Bella BLVD. I had so much fun putting this layout together sharing photos from a recent work trip that I took! I used the "I Love Travel" Cut-Out and backed the letters using several different colors and patterns of the Bella Besties patterned papers and popped it up on my layout using three dimensional adhesive for a bit extra "oomph". 

Adding chipboard Ciao Chip pieces, Bella-Pops, and Doohickey cardstock stickers provided a bit more fun elements to help share my story. 

I also added some simple sewing machine stitching along the border between my two patterned papers for a bit more dimension. I am in love with that little airplane that's flying away from my heart too! It's one of BB's Bella-Pops and it's oh so cute don't you think?! 

I hope this inspires you to create with the Time to Travel collection soon! If you do, be sure to tag us on Facebook or Instagram so that we can see it and give you some love! 

Supplies Used: Bella BLVD Time to Travel Ciao Chip, Bella BLVD Time to Travel Doohickey, Bella BLVD Time to Travel Cut-Outs, Bella BLVD Time to Travel Bella-Pops (airplane and postage stamp earth), Bella BLVD Besties (Freehand Graph & Dot - Ice, Gulf, and Guacamole), Bella Besties (Hearts & Ombre - McIntosch, Blueberry and Bell Pepper)

 

Bella Besties & Time to Travel Week Day 4 | Inessa

Hi friends, Inessa on the blog today sharing my latest layout using Bella Besties and Time to Travel. I'm continuing to use this collection to document our family trip to Florida and wanted to get multiple photos on one page. This one captured some of our adventures from the trip and the chip board title and icons were perfect!

 

 

I create a grid layout and color blocked the squares using elements from Ciao Chip, Puffy Stickers, Ephemera Words & Tags and Ephemera Icons.

The large polka dot paper brought it all together.

If you're wanting to create something similar, the squares are sized about 2 and 7/8 inches. I use the free Project Life app on my iphone to print this size on a 4x6 (the have multiple templates). 

 

What fun or crazy things have you or your kiddos done on travel adventures? Do you spy my spider monkey? Have a great day and see you next time!

-Inessa

Time To Travel + Bella Besties | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today and I'm so excited to share a new layout with y'all! This is my first project featuring the brand new Time To Travel collection and I had SO much fun creating it.  I love traveling even if it's just a quick road trip! There's something exciting about picking up and going on a fun adventure.  This collection has so many great elements that are perfect for all of your traveling memories.  Here's my page and make sure to check out my process video that's linked at the end of this post: 

Today, I'm documenting a photo of me on a recent trip to Illinois, where I taught at the Erica Rose Creates Creative Spring Weekend.  The photo is of me on a plane and I'm definitely smiling behind my mask!  I was super inspired to turn the geotags from the I Love Travel Cut Outs pack into shakers.  I backed each one with acetate, applied my foam around the perimeter and poured in some seed beads.  I love how they turned out!  

Next, I took the planes from that same Cut Outs pack and backed them with the Graph and Dot in Oyster.  I also added in some shading using a gray ink pad to give it more interest.  On each geotag, I took matching Florence Alphas in Ice, Peep and Bell Pepper and spelled out the airports that I stopped at along my trip.  

I used each geotag as a placement for all of my embellishment clusters and added ephemera, chipboard stickers and puffy stickers to each of them.  I wanted to create somewhat of a “globe” type background so I traced a paper plate on the Love This Place 12x12 patterned paper and trimmed it out.  I backed it with the Graph & Dot patterned paper in Bell Pepper and cut around it so that I had a bit of that yellow popping out.  Next, I adhered it down to the Blueberry ombré side from Hearts & Ombre using some foam tape for extra dimension.

 

For my title, I chose a phrase from the Ciao Chip chipboard stickers and finished the layout off with some white paint splatters.  

Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope that I’ve inspired you in some way!  Have you had a chance to pick up this amazing collection yet?  There’s an unboxing video over on the Bella YT channel, so make sure to check it out!  See you next time friends!

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Time To Travel Collection: 12x12 Patterned Papers, Cut Outs, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, Ciao Chip Chipboard Stickers, Doohickey Cardstock Stickers, Puffy Stickers, Epoxy Stickers; Bella Besties: Graph & Dot 12x12 Patterned Paper in Oyster and Bell Pepper; Hearts & Ombre 12x12 Patterned Paper in Blueberry; Florence Alphas in Ice, Peep and Bell Pepper.  

 

Time to Travel + Bella Besties | Sarah

Happy Monday, Bella friends. Hope you're having a great start to the week. It's me, Sarah (@redoaklines) on the blog today, and I have a new layout to share using the latest Time to Travel Collection coupled with some Bella Besties products.

Like I mentioned earlier this month, I recently came back from a family trip to Hawaii, and these papers and embellishments are perfect for all of my photos. Here's your warning - expect a lot of vacation photos from me in the near future! *wink*

Here's what I created:

When we go on vacation, I'm guilty of taking 129048312 photos. Anyone else have this problem?! Hah! One can never have too many photos and memories documented. Anyway, I wanted to fit in four photos onto this layout. I matted each of them with patterned paper and cut out file tabs to add to the tops of the photos; this helped separate each photo.

I love that Ciao Chips always come with piece(s) that help create a title for your page. Here, I combined the "Born To" and the "Travel" to make "Born to Travel". And that my kids are! I also added the cute little globe to give the title more dimension.

Did you happen to notice my background 12x12 sheet? It's part of the Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre Rainbow collection. I especially love the ombre sides because it makes for great backgrounds. 

Lastly, did you notice that I added some Bella Besties puffy white star stickers. I know I've said it many times before, but these Besties are my go to Bella embellishment. No joke! They come in every color to match just about anything! There are stars, arrows, hearts, and even flowers on each sticker sheet. You can use it on all types of projects! 

And that's all I have for today! Isn't the Time to Travel collection awesome?! It makes me want to go on vacation, and it for sure is giving me the travel bug.

Anyway, hopefully I have inspired you to create something fun today. As always, thanks for letting me share my work with you today, and thanks for following along. Use #bellablvd or #bellablvdllc to tag us on social media if you use Bella products.

Until next time,

Sarah.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Time to Travel: Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Ciao Chipboard Stickers, Bella Pops; Bella Besties: Hearts and Ombre Rainbow Collection Kit, Puffy Stickers

 

Time to Travel- Spring Break Edition! Day 1 | Rachel

Hi friends! Rachel here and I'm so excited to be sharing with you my first layout for the Bella Blvd Design Team. This month we are playing with the newest collection - Time to Travel. I love the bright primary colors in this line and all the thoughtfulness that went into designing a collection for all kinds of travel - flying, road trip, vacation, etc!

I started with a piece of white cardstock which is cut down to 11"x11" inches. Then I took the Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide pad and slid the pad face down on the white cardstock creating a streak of gorgeous light blue ink. I repeated this several times down the page. Sliding distress oxides down the page is so easy and a fun way to play with mixed media. My goal was to create a background that looked like the sky. I sat that aside to dry. Once it was dry, I came back and doodled and stamped around the edge of the white cardstock. The final touch to the stamping was some hearts from the Trinkets Puffy stickers in the color McIntosh. I like to add black pen and stamping to a lot of my layouts to contrast the white of the cardstock. Next, I mounted this to the Road Trip 12"x12" patterned paper from this collection. I always gravitate toward a classic black and white stripe.

My next step was to start working on the clouds. I used the cut outs from the Over the Rainbow collection. The Bella Blvd cut outs are great for those who want to add an element that looks like a cut file, but don't have a cutting machine (Cricut, Silhouette, etc). The cloud cut out comes in the set along with a pattern and directions to easily cut out and back the clouds.

Once I added the clouds to my page, it was time to add my photo and all the embellishments! I used the too cute Sunny Bella Pop, the Icons Ephemera, the Words and Tags Ephemera, along with the Ciao Chip from the Time to Travel Collection. I love how each pack of embellishments has so many options to choose from. This photo was taken in the airport, and I was able to find the perfect pieces - airplane, luggage, boarding ticket, etc.

The final touch was adding the title which is in the Ciao Chip set and document the date with a date stamp. Thank you so much for stopping by today! You can view the list of supplies I used below.

Bella Blvd Products Used:

12"x12" patterned paper - Road Trip

Over The Rainbow Cut Outs

Bella Pops - Sunny

Ciao Chip - Time to Travel

Trinkets Puffy Stickers - McIntosh

Icons Ephemera - Time to Travel

Words and Tags Ephemera - Time to Travel

 

Easter Sunday | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today and I wanted to wish you and your family a Happy Easter!  I created this layout in celebration of Easter and I hope that you like it!  I used both Bella Besties as well as the Home Sweet Home collection.  Here's my layout: 

To start, I went through all of the amazing Bella Blvd cut files in the Silhouette Design store and chose both the Decorative Egg and Easter Sunday cut files.  I cut them both out on textured white cardstock and sized the egg cut file a few different times.  The egg cut file comes in two different pieces, the solid egg back piece and the decorative piece with the fun designs.  To decorate the eggs, I ink blended the decorative piece and also used one of them as a stencil to add some ink to one of the solid egg pieces.  I even pulled a few stencils from my stash and ink blended the remaining solid egg pieces.  I love how they turned out!

Here's another shot of the eggs: 

For my base, I used the Hearts & Ombre Bella Besties paper in Ice.  To create some grass for my Easter eggs to sit in, I took 2.5" inch strips of both the Pickle Juice and Guacamole Hearts & Ombre paper and cut them using my fringe scissors.  I layered them together and adhered it to my base.  For my title, I took the Easter Sunday cut file and adhered it right on top of the grass.  

 

Next, I popped a couple of the eggs up on foam tape and layered them into the grass.  Then, I pulled out a few of the floral pieces from the Home Sweet Home ephemera and adhered them around my page.  I matted my photo with some patterned paper from the collection and added a tab to the right of the photo.  

Next, I added a Ciao Chip Chipboard cloud sticker to the top of my page and also added in some ephemera clouds as well.  As a finishing touch, I sprinkled in a few of the Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Ice & Gulf, Punch, Peep & Cotton Candy and Bell Pepper. 

Here's one more final shot: 

Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope that I've inspired you in some way!  I love creating scene pages, have you given it a try?  It's so fun!  I hope you all have a great day with your family and I'll see you in my next post friends.  

Brianna

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Home Sweet Home Collection: 12x12 Patterned Paper, Ciao Chip Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera; Bella Besties: Hearts & Ombre 12x12 Patterned Papers in Ice, Guacamole and Pickle Juice; Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Ice & Gulf, Punch, Peep & Cotton Candy and Bell Pepper.  Bella Blvd Cut Files: Easter Sunday and Decorative Egg.  

 

Time to Travel Week Day 4 | Jennifer

Greetings creative friends! This is Jen here sharing a layout that I created using the Time to Travel collection from Bella Blvd. I had some fun playing with the Ciao Chipboard Stickers as well as stickers from the 12x12 Doohickey Sticker Sheet and some bits from the Ephemera Words & Tags for this particular layout. 

The photos and journaling share about a road trip that we took a few summers back. We stumbled on The Cave of the Mounds and decided to make it a pit stop along the way to visit grandma and grandpa. So glad that we did! It ended up being a highlight from this particular adventure. One thing that I love about this collection is that you don't need to be a "jet-setter" to use this collection for your memory projects. We didn't fly anywhere on this particular adventure...we just were on a little road trip and this was perfect for documenting it!

I love, love, love chipboard! The pieces included in the Time to Travel 12x12 Ciao Chip set are amazing! I pulled a few pieces and used them for my title as well as used several other pieces to add some bits of interest and dimension here and there on my page. 

You can see that I had some fun layering some of the chipboard pieces too...just adds a bit more texture and dimension to the page. 

I also had fun incorporating some of the tags from the Ephemera Words & Tags onto my page. You can see that I used one of the orange, patterned ones to actually mat one of my photos (near the bottom of my page) and then used another that reads "Road Trip" along the top of my page above some of my photos. I thought it helped tell a bit about the story that I was trying to tell...so awesome when you can use supplies to help support your journaling! 

Thank you so much for visiting today! Wishing you an exceptionally creative day! 

Supplies:

Time to Travel 12x12 Collection Kit

Time to Travel Doohickey Cardstock Stickers

Time to Travel Chipboard Icons - Ciao Chip

Time to Travel Ephemera Words & Tags

 

Time to Travel Week Day 2 | Sarah

Happy Tuesday, Bella friends. Hope your week has been well thus far. It's me, Sarah (@redoaklines) on the blog today, and I have a new layout to share using the latest Time to Travel Collection. Have you seen it?! It's super cute; it makes me want to travel. No kidding! 

I recently came back from a family trip to Hawaii, so these papers did the trick!

Here's what I came up with:

I felt inspired to make little shaker tags by using one of the patterned papers in this collection.

I cut up some of the tags, punched out little confetti, and then added some of the clear packaging from a Bella embellishment. Here's what the little tags look like as an embellishment on the page:

To embellish my layout, I embellished around my photos by adding some Ephemera Icons. There are die-cuts for traveling anywhere in the world. There's planes, cars, palm trees, cacti, cameras, flowers, just to name a few. So yeah, this collection can be used on any type of travel related project!

Lastly, I added some Bella Besties Puffy star stickers. These Besties are my go to Bella embellishment. They come in every color to match just about anything! There are stars, arrows, hearts, and even flowers on each sticker sheet. You can use it to design all types of projects.

Sooooo... what do you all think? How can you not love this Time to Travel collection?! Doesn't it make you want to go on vacation someplace fun?! It gives me the travel bug.

Anyway, hopefully I have inspired you to create something fun today. As always, thanks for letting me share my work with you today, and thanks for following along. Use #bellablvd or #bellablvdllc to tag us on social media if you use Bella products.

Until next time,

Sarah.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Time to Travel: Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Ciao Chipboard Stickers; Bella Besties: Puffy Stickers