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Teacher Appreciation Week | The Graduate

In our household, we love teachers! And this is long before I decided to follow a particular career in the teaching field as well! It has always been important for my children to fully appreciate and respect each teacher that crosses their path in life. So when my daughter graduated high school in 2017, I wanted to honour these amazing people by documenting each teacher's name and the Grade in which they taught her.

When I think of teachers, the apple becomes quite symbolic. I really wanted it to feature on my layout, so I found a free "apple" cut file on Pinterest and modified it to my needs.

I added a fold line to the centre of the cut file then deleted one half. The detached leaf and extra stem were easily removed once the shape was folded. The image below is the reverse side of the cut file. I've used the All My Love patterned paper from the Home Sweet Home collection.

I've resized the apples to make a background of sixteen. But I really only wanted to show twelve. Each apple is to represent Grades One through Twelve. The four apples in the bottom right corner is the perfect area for my photo placement.

My journaling or the list of Teachers has been typed onto a cardstock tag and embellished with a cute clip and a Thank Yous Heart Hugs.

A generic black tassel and bakers twine complete the embellishment of the tag.

The tag then slips behind the layers of the photo for easy access.

For the title stand out, I chose to use the new Florence Alphabet Stickers. However, before I added the stickers, I muted the background patterned paper slightly by applying a thin layer of white paint.

To complete the layout, McIntosh Mix Puffy Stars were added, along with Paper Pieces from Oh My Stars Tabbies and Illustrated Faith Basics.

I also plan to create similar lists for each of my sons when they graduate. Hopefully this layout has helped to inspire a different way to document and appreciate all the teachers in your or your child's life. Thanks for visiting.

Home Sweet Home: All My Love, Borders, Ephemera Icons; Florence Alphabet Stickers: Black Florence; Oh My Stars: Tabbies; McIntosh Mix Puffy Star Stickers; Cute Clips; Heart Hugs: Thank Yous; Illustrated Faith Basics: Paper Pieces. 

 

 

GUEST DESIGNER: Maryám Pérez Back Again!

Hello Friends! How are you today? It’s Maryám Pérez here to share two more projects using the amazing Let’s Go On an Adventure Collection!

For my first project, I have created a layout using one of the Bella Blvd cut files. The one I used is called Mountains (ID #291770) and you can find it here. What I did was cut the part of the mountain only and then add some hand stitching around it. Once I have that done, I created a kind of a scene at the top part of my layout. I wanted to recreate the background of the photo I was using so I put some trees, a sun, and some clouds.

For the title, I used one of the die-cuts that says “Going for a walk” that matched the theme of my page perfectly. In the end, I added my journaling telling the story about that day and also put some puffy stars and enamel dots.

The finished page:

 

For my second project, I created another layout, and this time I used a big panoramic photo and created a cluster of embellishments vertically. I included some stickers hearts, little felt bows, some words sticker, and in the end, added some pink ink splatters.

For the title, I used an acrylic word that says “At the lake” that went totally perfect with this photo! Seriously, this collection was perfect for each and every one of my photos!!

Here is my finished page:

 

I hope these projects have inspired you to create something new. Thank you so much Bella Blvd for having me! I really enjoyed creating with this collection. Make sure you pick up these Bella Blvd pieces so you can document your own adventures - you just plain need it!

Thank you for reading this post and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Maryám

Hello Pool Vibes layout

Who else is ready for summer? Since it's not here yet, creating with the bright and sunny new Splash Zone collection was the next best thing! It was the perfect collection to document my niece at the pool last year. I love all of the colorful fish, leaves, and pool toys! How fun! And did you know that Bella Blvd has cut files now?! I used the sun from the Bella Blvd sun & clouds cut file set to easily create my fun sun design! 

As soon as I saw the amazingly fun striped Daily Details patterned paper, I knew it had to be the background for this layout. I then used the Make A Wish patterned paper from the Wish Big Boy collection to cut out the main sun part. Word stickers from the Splash Zone collection Doohickey sticker sheet and ephemera pieces of fish add a fun design to the sun's rays. Enamel dots from the Heart Hugs pack add a cute little detail. I then used lots of adorable ephemera pieces to embellish the top of my page! 

I am in love with the graphics in this collection! How cute is that floatie ephemera and chipboard fish and waves?! 

I backed my photo with the red Splash Zone Flower Garden patterned paper so my picture would stand out. I used the cool 'Pool Vibes' ephemera piece as part of the title. I then finished my page with some fun Puffy Star Stickers and Splash Zone Acrylic stars!

Thank you for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to use the new Splash Zone collection on your next project! 

Splash Zone - Daily Details Patterned Paper

Splash Zone - Flower Garden Patterned Paper

Splash Zone - Sunny Days Patterned Paper

Splash Zone - Doohickey 12x12 Stickers

Splash Zone - Ephemera Icons

Splash Zone - Icons Chipboard Stickers

Splash Zone - Star Mix Acrylic Shapes

Heart Hugs - Pretty in Pink

Puffy Stickers - Orange Mix

Bella Blvd Sun & Clouds cut file 

 

 

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

 

 

Ain't No Tia Like The One I Got | Erica Thompson

Happy Saturday everyone! Erica with you today sharing a fun and colorful layout using the new Home Sweet Home collection. I started out with a cut file from The Cut Shoppe and backed it with some of the papers in the Home Sweet Home collection. I used one of my small circle punches to punch out all the pieces I needed so this made it super easy to back. 

This week the team has been sharing projects focusing on important women in our life! I wanted to create a layout about my Tia Janie! She is like a bonus mom to me. I spent so much time with her from when I was really young until a few years ago. She has always lived close to me but recently moved down to Texas. I miss her so much but we still get to text and have coffee chats over the phone. 

This collection was perfect to document one of my favorite photos of the two of us! I love how colorful this cut file frame turned out! I printed my photo out in black and white and popped it up in the center of the frame. I pulled out the beautiful acrylic hearts and added them all around the photo. These are the perfect little embellishment. 

I added a little strip of journaling to the frame as well and added a few embellishments from the die cut packs. I popped these up on some foam adhesive for a little dimension. The Home Sweet Home collection is perfect to document so many moments! It is a must have collection for sure! Here is a look at my completed layout featuring the Home Sweet Home collection.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed my layout and are inspired to use some pattern papers to back a cut file! Have a wonderful day!

Home Sweet Home pattern Papers, Home Sweet Home Ephemera Icons, Acrylic Word Family, Acrylic Shapes Heart Mix

 

Canoeing Fun Scrapbooking Layout

Hi everyone. Heather Leopard is here and I don't know about you but I am loving the gorgeous weather. It's like it's calling me to the great outdoors and that's just what my youngest daughter and I did. We went canoeing and we had so much fun exploring. Let's take a look at how I captured this mini adventure.

So what do you think of the large scale photo? This was actually an excursion with my daughter's Girl Scouts' troop so we could all get canoeing trained. This layout features only my daughter but I think I might make a coordinating pocket page that has photos of the actual training and all the canoers putting what they learned to practice.

I started by choosing a background paper and i had a hard time choosing between all the fun Life is an Adventure papers. There's two great ones with waves and a canoe oars one. You can see what I ended up going with. I chose the canoe oars because the papers with the waves were very blue and our water was not. I didn't want it to clash. Then, I added the large photo and added a border above and below it to bring it all together. There were two large open spaces on the photo so I filled one of them with layers of tags, banners and embellishments.

Then I filled the other section with die cut embellishments. I will also had some journaling strips to tell the story.

Lastly, I added the title using a large "explore" acrylic word. I made sure to put it on the right side to achieve the visual triangle.

So that's the story of my great adventure with my little cutie. I can't wait for the many more adventures with the family and will be sure to document them with this great Let's Go On An Adventure collection. What will YOUR next adventure be?

Let's Go On An Adventure Cotton Candy, Border, Fairy Garden, Mountain Peaks Patterned Papers, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons, Acrylic Shapes Tree Mix, Acrylic Words Explore & Play; Heart Hugs Earth

 

 

Beary Fun Memories layout

When I first saw the adorable Let's Go on an Adventure collection, I couldn't wait to create with it! I also couldn't wait to share my Let's Go on an Adventure creation with you! I love that this collection has lots of outdoor and woodsy accents but also is so colorful and fun. And of course I just had to use a couple of the new Bella Blvd cut files! 

I used the Bella Blvd sun cut file to make this cute large sun for my title. I used a couple yellow papers from the Wish Big Boy and Island Escape collections. I am in love with the brand new Florence alphabet stickers I used for part of the title. They are my new favorite alphabet stickers! I am happy that they come in tons of different Bella Blvd colors because I love the font so much.

I used the Bella Blvd Memories cut file to make a large cut out for my title. I then used all of my favorite patterned papers from the collection (which is a lot!) to back the openings. How cool is this collection with it's eclectic mix of polka dots, florals, stripes, and trees?

I completed the page with some adorable die cut ephemera shapes and chipboard stickers. I then embellished around the page with Pickle Juice puffy star stickers. Isn't that black floral patterned paper just amazing? 

Thank you for joining me today. I hope I have inspired you to use the brand new Bella Blvd cut files and Let's Go on an Adventure on your next layout!

Let's Go on an Adventure collection: Borders Patterned Paper, Daily Details Patterned Paper, Fairy Garden Patterned Paper, In the Woods Patterned Paper, Morning Meadow Patterned Paper, Mountain Peaks Patterned Paper, Wildflowers Patterned Paper, Wood Stump Patterned Paper, Doohickey 12x12 Stickers, Ephemera Icons, Chipboard Stickers

Puffy Stars: Pickle Juice

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Guacamole, McIntosh

Wild One Layout with Corri

Hi everyone!  I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday! Today I'm sharing a layout that I made using the new Let's Go on an Adventure Collection. This is such a fun collection with adorable icons, embellishments and CUT files!  

My daughter has a tree on our property that she has always called her "happy place" so I knew right away that I wanted to incorporate that chipboard piece into a layout for her. I used the No Wifi Script sheet and then framed it with the back side of the Borders sheet to create my page and then added some ephemera pieces.  

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut this Wild One title (SVG, Silhouette) from black cardstock. To make it easier to glue this delicate cut, I applied a sheet of adhesive behind the cardstock before cutting. The adhesive sheets basically turn the die cut piece into a sticker making is simple to apply to your project. 

Let's go on an Adventure

Borders, No Wifi Script, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, Icons Chipboard Stickers, Black card stock, Silhouette Cameo 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

  

Unicorns & Spring Road Trips

Hey Bella Blvd Friends! It's Leanne here today sharing a fun and flowery layout just in time for Spring! This week I have used the brand new Bella Blvd silhouette cut files on my page, creating a quirky little unicorn from the zebra design. Check it out below!

I have also pulled out the Plaids and Dotty collection, as well as the Wish Big (Girl). The colours in these patterned papers evoke images of all things Spring. Perfect for documenting those seasonal memories!

The first thing I did was cut out my unicorn. I downloaded the Zebra file from the Silhouette store and added an offset outside image to produce the black cardstock shadow.

Patterned paper, white cardstock and glitter cardstock made up the rest of the cut out embellishment. The party hat conveniently becomes the glitter horn and at this stage adding glitter cardstock to the toes is just a bit of fun! The mane and tail are cut from several pieces of colour blocked patterned paper. For extra detail, fringe cut the mane before adding it between the layers of cardstock. Mount the face and nose onto foam tape for dimension.

For the flowers, I downloaded the Pink Flower from the Wish Big cut file collection and cut several of varying sizes out, to layer upon each other. The flowers were finished with an enamel dot in the center. The leaves were also cut from this cut file download.

Once the unicorn and flowers have been created I started to build my layout.

step 1. Trim white cardstock to size and hand stitch a rainbow directly to the back ground. Place the unicorn and flowers into position.

step 2. Add a 4"x4" photo to the other end of the stitched rainbow. Include some extra silhouette flowers and leaves above the photo.

 

step 3. Include dimension on the page with foam tape adhered to Wish Big (Girl) Words and Heart Hugs among the layers.

step 4. My title work follows the line of the rainbow curve. Using different fonts and colours draws attention to this focus point. A mix of Wonky Alphabets and Tiny Text coordinates beautifully with the Spring colours already displayed.

step 5. Allow your unicorn to be a little more quirky by including a small bow that has been removed from a Cute Clip paperclip.

step 6. At this point in creating the layout, I felt like I need to ground the cardstock rather than leaving it as is. An 8.5"x11" piece of Black Plaids and Dotty patterned paper has been machine stitched below the white cardstock layer, defining the edges of my page.

step 7. Finally, include journaling below the subtitle, using strips of cardstock and a typewriter.

If you are keen to see more of the amazing cut files created for Bella Blvd, don't forget to check out the Silhouette Design Store. Hopefully I have inspired you to play along and create some fun new cut file projects. Thanks for visiting the blog today.

 

Wish Big (Girl): Words, Sticky Mix, Daily Details, Borders, Party Animal; Wish Big (Boy): Cake Time, Happy Birthday; Wonky Alphabets: Punch; Tiny Text Alphabet: White, Bold & Beautiful; Heart Hugs: Thank Yous; Cut Files: Zebra, Red Flower, Pink Flower; Enamel Dots: Bell Pepper, Punch; Cute Clips: Festive.

 

 

 

Easter Cut Files Scrapbook Layout

Hi there Bella Blvd fans! Today's project was my first chance to play with our all new cut files! One of the things I love about cut files is how versatile they can be! Christine joining you today with an Easter layout that I made using the Wish Big Collection and the Wish Big Cut Files!

As I was considering an Easter layout, I knew that I really wanted to have some Easter Eggs. Knowing full well how easy it is to manipulate the shape of a cut file, I thought maybe just maybe I could make it happen!

The lanterns cut files come with multiple circular shaped lanterns. But when you stretch a circle vertically, it easily becomes an oval or in this case an egg shape! So I narrowed down which patterned lanterns I wanted to include. I knew that I wanted to be able to include a good pop of color behind the lanterns. Once I narrowed them down, I overlapped them and then welded them to create a wreath look. To simplify things I used the same patterned paper behind the same design egg - so all the star ones had yellow, all the hearts had pink, etc. 

I backed the wreath with white cardstock and then set the whole thing on the simple patterned paper. I combined Wonky Alphabet Puffy Letter Stickers with a Ciao Chip word to create my title.

Finally the whole thing is embellished combining ephemera and Ciao Chip pieces from Wish Big as well as puffy crosses and enamel dots. The colors all combined perfectly to create a light and springy layout!

Here's the process video to accompany this layout:

 

Thanks so much for joining me today and be sure to check out our new cut files!

Illustrated Faith Puffy Cross Stickers, Wish Big - Birthday Girl Ephermera, Patterned Papers, Ciao Chip, Wish Big - Birthday Boy Patterned Papers, Wish Big Lanterns Cut Files, Wonky Alphabet Pickle Juice Letter STickers