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Bella Besties & Chloe Week Day 3 | Niki Rowland

Hi everyone, this is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) and I have a new Spring layout and process video to share today using Bella Besties as well as the Chloe collection.

I started with the Springtime Title cut file available from the Silhouette Design Store. I re-arranged the letters so that ‘Spring’ was all on one line and I added an extra flower. I then cut this from a sheet of white cardstock which left me with a background with letters cut out of it. I backfilled all the letters using Bella Besties, the Freehand Graph & Dot pack. I picked out five colours that went well with the spring theme: Cotton Candy, Bell Pepper, Orange, Pickle Juice and Ice. I backfilled the cut file title with those colours, mixing up the graph sides and dot sides. I even did the tiny bits of the flowers in different colours too and they are all raised on foam pads so there is good depth to the cut file.

I fussy cut lots of hearts from a Chloe paper. I folded each one and added them to places on my layout where there were similar colours. I also arranged five together in a circle shape: with the hearts folded and arranged in this way they look like a flower.

I then went through the Chloe collection and used the Ephemera Icons, specifically the beautiful flowers in this pack. I added these to my layout too all raised on foam pads. I also used some Bella Pops the ‘Cat House’ set. I just used the two clouds from this set at the top of my layout.

I then added lots of Trinkets puffy stickers, again colour-on-colour style. I love these so much, I think they may be my favourite Bella Blvd product! I added the word ‘walk’ to extend my title using Florence alphabet stickers in Bell Pepper.

I finished off by handwriting my journaling and adding a few Matte Enamels also from the Chloe Collection. Here's another look at the finished layout:

 

Thank you so much for joining me today, I hope you have enjoyed the layout. Happy scrapping and enjoy the video below.

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Products used: Bella Besties Freehand Graph and Dot paper: Cotton Candy, Bell Pepper, Orange, Pickle Juice, Ice

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: Punch Peep & Cotton Candy, Ice & Gulf, Pickle Juice & Guacamole, Orange, Bell Pepper

Chloe Collection: 12x12 papers, Ephemera Icons, Cat House Bella Pops, Matte Enamels 

Florence Alphas: Bell Pepper 

Cut Files: Springtime Title

 

Beautiful Layout | Yarelys

Hey Bella friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys here to share with you my new layout. To make this layout I used the collection My Candy Girl, as well as two cut files.

I started my layout by cutting my cut files. I cut the Seeing Stars Background cut file out of white cardstock and painted it with the Vicki Boutin Art Crayons in light blue, then I backed it with the Sprinkled With Love paper. For the Shooting Star cut file I used the Bubble Beauty paper; I cut just the star indifferent sizes to layer them and add dimension.

 I also cut a big star out of white cardstock, then I cut strips of several papers from the collection, cut a border with a punch and cover the star with them.

It’s time to build my layout! I glued the stars and my photo with adhesive foam to give them dimension. To finish my layout I added Ephemera, Doohickey, Bella-Pops, Washi Tape and Epoxy.

I love how this layout tuned out. Hope you all like it and get the inspiration to create beautiful things. You can find the link for the process video of this layout below. Thank so much for stopping by!

Have a lovely day!

Yarelys xx

@dreamsandpapers

https://youtu.be/GDNHU9Xw8_M

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

My Candy Girl Collection: Sprinkled With Love, Bubble Beauty, Unicorn Girl, Cookie Dough, Sweet As Sugar, Sugar Baby, Stay Cool, All Girl and Candy Crazy papers.

Doohickey: My Candy Girl

Ephemera: My Candy Girl

Cardstock Stickers: Bella-Pops

Epoxy: Sprinkles

Washi Tape: Rainbow

Cut Files: Shooting Star and Seeing Stars Background

Catching Up With Stars & Stripes Week - Day 4 | Melissa

Hello everyone and happy Saturday! 

Since we had You Are My Sunshine reveals during Stars & Stripes week, we were unable to share Melissa's awesome project! So today we're playing catch up because we wouldn't want you to miss out on her hard work and creativity!

Here is what Melissa had to say in her post...

Good Morning, Bella friends! This is Melissa here today with you and I have loved all the fun projects we have shared on the blog this week. I really loved working on my project for this week since it was all out red, white, and blue!

I started my project by using the "Seeing Stars" digital cut file that is available in the Silhouette Design Store HERE. I cut this out on white card stock and then layered that over a piece of dark blue pattern paper from the Fireworks and Freedom Paper Collection. 

This created the background for my project and added a bunch of already cut out stars that worked perfectly with the design of my project. Next, I spritzed some red and blue ink across the white card stock and let it dry. While it was drying, I cut out a large circle on a piece of scrap paper and once the ink was dried on my card stock, I used the circle as my template to get the first circle stitched on my paper with my sewing machine. I sewed multiple times in white thread and then placed some of the die-cut stars on my layout and then stitched those down with some blue thread. Lastly, I stitched around a few more times with red thread. 

Next, I layered my pattern papers and photos in a block and adhered down in the lower right hand corner. I knew I wanted to use the acrylic word "SPARKLE" and came up with the title "She Puts A Sparkle In Our Eye" which was layered above and below my pictures. I typed a single strip of journaling and glued that down underneath my title. 

Lastly, I used the acrylic patriotic stars, ciao chip, and doohickey stickers to fill in my stitched circle. 

Here is a picture of the full layout:

SUPPLIES USED:

1. Bella Blvd Cut File "Seeing Stars"
2. Bella Blvd Fireworks and Freedom Paper Collection
3. Bella Besties Freehand Graph & Dot - Ice
4. Red Stripe Washi Tape
5. Sparkle Acrylic Word
6. Fireworks and Freedom Ephemera Words
7. Fireworks and Freedom Ciao Chip
8. Fireworks and Freedom Doohickey Stickers
9. Acrylic Patriotic Stars
10. Florence Alphabet Stickers - Blueberry

To the Moon & Besties Meet Summer Day 4 | Yarelys

Hey Bella Friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys here to share with you my new layout. To make this layout I used the collection To The Moon as well as the Bella Besties and one of the cut files.

To start my layout cut the cut file, I used the Lattice Background cut file. Then I cut squares from several papers of the collection and the Graph & Dot papers. I cut squares in different sizes to layer them and create dimension.

After cutting the squares and the cut file, I drew three squares in a white cardstock and painted them using the cut file as a stencil. I also hand stitched around the three squares.

To build my layout, I glued the squares and my photo with adhesive foam to give them dimension. To finish my layout I added Ephemera, Ciao Chip, Doohickey Stickers, Epoxy, Bella-Pops and Puffy stickers.

I love how this layout tuned out. Hope you all like it and get the inspiration to create beautiful things. You can find the link for the process video of this layout below. Thank so much for stopping by!

Have a lovely day!

Yarelys xx

@dreamsandpapers

https://youtu.be/x9Ag3Wc9a-8

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

To The Moon Collection: Out Of This World, Outer Space, Rocket Growth and The Sky’s The Limit papers.

Bella Besties: Graph & Dot in Pickle Juice, Ice, Blueberry, McIntosh, Bell Pepper and Orange.

Ciao Chip: To The Moon

Ephemera: To The Moon

Doohickey: To The Moon

Bella-Pops: Shine On

Puffy Stickers: A Boy’s World

Epoxy: Spaced Out

Cut File: Lattice Background

To the Moon & Besties Meet Summer Day 3 | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It's Tarrah back with you today to share a new Summer themed scrapbook layout featuring the awesome To the Moon collection together with Bella Besties!

I took the My Whole Universe paper and got my Silhouette Cameo to cut out the i LOVE Summer cut file from the different colors in the paper. I love how the title turned out! I trimmed down the Bella Bestie white heart and ombre paper and adhered it slightly on a slant to the Out of This World paper turning over the top left corner. I then trimmed off the excess paper as needed.

In the title, I decided to take the heart out that represented Love and I replaced it with the die-cut sun from the ephemera icon pack. I then layered the chipboard sun from the chipboard sticker icons over the top of the die-cut one. I then adhered the super small epoxy sticker sun from the Spaced Out epoxy sticker pack on top of the chipboard one. Also from the chipboard icons, I added 2 of the cute clouds above the title. I also added the chipboard arrow below the title and also added a strip of thin blue washi tape.

I adhered my photo using foam tape on the left of the 'M' in the Summer title, here I tucked in a tab die-cut on the left of the photo and trimmed down the dark blue scalloped border sticker from the Doohickey Sticker sheet and added the short piece at the bottom of the photo. I took the remainder of the scalloped sticker and added it to the top of the heart/ombre paper. On top of the photo, I added a tiny epoxy cloud and in the middle of the 'R' letter, I added a sun sticker popped up with foam tape and another sun epoxy sticker on top of the regular sticker. I took the 'I Heart U' from the Mr. Robot Bella Pop and the cloud from the Soar High Bella Pop and added them to the right of the photo. I love the dimension that the Bella Pops bring to a layout!

A few last things I added were some heart die-cuts, the flag die-cut on the left of the photo to look like my son is holding the flag and some of the puffy enamel dots from the Boy's World puffy stickers pack Lastly I stamped the date stamp.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Bella Blog today! I hope you enjoyed my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it!

Bella products used:

To The Moon collection pack

To The Moon Doohickey Sticker sheet

To The Moon chipboard icons

To The Moon Ephemera icons

To The Moon puffy stickers

To The Moon Bella Pops

To The Moon Epoxy stickers

Bella Besties White Heart and Ombre paper

Bella Blvd I Love Summer cut file

 

 

Stars & Stripes Week Day 6 - Tegan

Hi Bella friends! It has been an amazing week of stars & stripes hasn't it?! For my project,  I immediately reached for the Bella Besties patterned papers when I decided that I wanted to create a rainbow striped background to document a day at the pool. Come take a look! 

I first created my background by adhering 1 1/2" strips of the Bella Besties Plaids & Dotty Patterned Papers.  I used Gulf, McIntosh, Orange, the purple bonus paper from the collection kit, and Pickle Juice. I then cut out a star using the Freehand Graph & Dot Patterned Paper in Punch. I used elements from the Home Sweet Home and Splash Zone collections to embellish the star. 

I then cut out a star using the Blueberry Freehand Graph & Dot Patterned Paper. I embellished it with die cuts from the Splash Zone collection and cute little Puffy Stickers in McIntosh. I love all of the color that can created using Bella collections!

For the last star, I used the Freehand Graph & Dot Patterned Paper in Bell Pepper. I embellished it with a chipboard cloud and an adorable die cut camera piece. A green corrugated Heart Hug sticker adds some texture. And who else has some of these adorable Bella Blvd felt paper clips left in their stash? 

Did you notice the adorable cut out waves at the bottom of the page? I used the Bella Blvd Waves cut file and the Freehand Graph & Dot Patterned Papers in Gulf and Blueberry to create them. I think they are so cool and I love the 'motion' they create on the page. I had a blast mixing and matching the Bella Besties Patterned Papers with the Home Sweet Home and Splash Zone collections! 

Thanks for joining us this week! I hope we have inspired you to use stars and stripes on your next project! Have a great weekend everyone!

Bella Blvd Products Used: 

Freehand Graph & Dot Patterned Papers: Punch, Blueberry, Bell Pepper, Gulf

Plaids & Dotty Patterned Papers: Gulf, McIntosh, Orange, Purple from Collection Kit, Pickle Juice

Home Sweet Home Collection: Ephemera, Chipboard Stickers

Splash Zone Collection: Ephemera Die Cuts

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: McIntosh, Blueberry

Bella Blvd Cut File: Waves

Stars and Stripes Week Day 2 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper back with you today sharing a super festive July 4th layout using the Fireworks & Freedom  collection!  I also paired it with the Time For Fireworks Bella Blvd cut file.  Did you know that Bella is always releasing new cut files?  Make sure to visit the Bella Blvd section here to view all of them!  Let's get to my layout, I had soooo much fun creating this page.  I love this collection and who doesn't love documenting such a great holiday!  

 

 

To start, I cut the cut file out on white textured cardstock.  While I was still in my Silhouette software, I went ahead and offset the backing pieces to the letters and cut them out using the Love The USA, Daily Details and Borders 12x12 patterned papers.  This made backing the cut file so much easier for me in the end.  

 

 

I wanted to create some stripes for my background and for the cut file to sit on, so I cut 2" strips out of the Land That I Love, Patriotic, Truck Parade and Love The USA 12x12 patterned papers, roughed up the edges and adhered them down.   I then popped the entire cut file up on foam tape and adhered it right to the middle of my page.  

 

 

The cut file had the perfect place for me to set my photo into and I ended up tucking it right in that empty space!  But first, I matted it using some scraps and then added my journaling to one of the ephemera word bubble pieces and tucked it right under my photo layers.  Next, I added a Ciao Chip sticker and one of the Epoxy Icons stickers to the corner of my photo.  

 

There is this super cute American Flag heart on the Daily Details cut apart sheet, so I fussy cut it out and used it as an embellishment.  I popped it up on some foam tape, added some red and white tangled thread and found the cutest red truck ephemera piece to adhere down next to it.  

 

 

I felt like the bottom right of the page needed a little something, so I adhered one of the firework ephemera pieces down and layered a chipboard star right on top.  To add a circular element, I pulled in one of the epoxy stickers and finished that cluster off with some blue tangled thread.  Super simple!

 

 

To finish off my layout, I added one more firework ephemera piece to the top left of the cut file and then got out my Trinkets Puffy Stickers in McIntosh and scattered some of the stars around the clusters.  

 

 

This layout is super patriotic and so fun and totally matches my boys shirts in the photo.  I had a lot of fun creating it and hope that you like it!  Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope that I've inspired you in some way!  I'll see you in my next post friends!

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Fireworks & Freedom: 12×12 Patterned Papers, Ciao Chip Stickers, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, Epoxy Icons; Bella Besties: Trinkets Puffy Stickers in McIntosh; Bella Blvd Cut File: Time For Fireworks

 

 

 

 

To The Moon Week Day 6 | Karlla

Hello Bella BLVD friends,

Karlla here and I'm very happy to share my new layout with you!

 I'm so in love with the "To the Moon" collection!

For this project I decided to use the beautiful "Rocket" cut file from the collection.

You can find at the Silhouette Design Store.

As soon as I had the idea to use a super rocket on the layout,

I wanted to put this photo as the window

. I think this photo is so fun, it matched the style of the project. SO Happy!

I made the rocket well stamped and concentrated the main details on it.

I like to put dimension in my projects. Highlights every detail.

I made a border to the right of the layout with this BEAUTIFUL astronaut paper and sticker.

I sewed between them to give a special detail and applied the "Explore" chipboard.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope I inspired you.

Have a wonderful day!

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

To The Moon Collection

12x12 kit

Ephemera 

Chipboard Stickers Icons

Spaced Out Epoxy Stickers

 

 

 

 

My Candy Girl Meets Summer Time! Day 6 | Niki Rowland with Process Video

Hi everyone, this is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) and I have a new layout and process video to share today using the new My Candy Girl collection. I wanted to create a summer themed layout today so went looking for a suitable cut file and paper colors that remind me of a sizzling hot summers day!

I picked out three papers from the My Candy Girl collection: a yellow one, a red one and a pink one. These three colors together are perfect for summer.

I then found the Splash Zone cut file in Silhouette Design Store. I opened this up in my software, ungrouped and cut the different pieces in different colors. I Cut Splash in yellow along with three splashes, Zone in red along with three splashes, and I also cut three more splashes in pink.

I arranged all the elements onto the layout together with six little square photos and a large strip of pink My Candy Girl paper. I positioned the cut file title under the torn piece of pink paper and then arranged my splashes all around the layout. I raised all the splashes up on foam pads to give them extra dimension and I also drew bubble shines onto each to make them appear more 3D. I like the effect a lot.

Once I’d added my title, splashes and six photos there wasn’t much room for anything else! I added a few My Candy Girl embellishments: a few fussy cut hearts, a red flower, an ice cream and some machine stitching at the top of the layout.

I finished off with my journaling and some splatters of white paint. Here's another look at the finished layout:

Thank you so much for joining me today and happy scrapping. Enjoy the process video below.

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

My Candy Girl Meets Summer Time! Day 2 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna here today sharing a super fun Summery layout using the beautiful My Candy Girl collection!  I absolutely LOVE Summer and thought it would be fun to document this photo of me and son with our boba drinks.  It was definitely a nice cool treat on a super hot Summer day!  

 

 

To start, I cut the Bella Blvd Sunshine cut file out on some textured white cardstock.  I then took two different yellow Distress Oxide ink pads from my stash and ink blended them on to give the cut file some color.  I popped the entire thing up on foam tape and even added foam dots to a few of the sun rays to give them some lift and interest.  Since I wanted to create a Summer sky, I chose the 12x12 Hearts and Ombre in Ice as my background paper.  I added some white doodle borders around the edge just to add a little something to it.  

 

 

Here's another shot of the cut file: 

 

 

I matted my photo with a few of the patterned papers from the collection and distressed the edges.  For my title, I used the Aria Alphas in Punch and also added a subtitle using the Florence Alphas in Gulf.  

 

 

I created a few embellishment clusters using the Ciao Chip Chipboard stickers, Ephemera and the super cute Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Ice & Gulf and Sugar Coating.  I layered some tangled thread in different colors in the clusters to add some texture.  

 

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The adorable Bella Pop piggie was too cute not to add on! 

 

 

 I also adhered a Heart Hug and some border stickers to the left of my layout to help draw your eye around the page.  

 

 

That about wraps up this layout!  I hope I've inspired you in some way today and thank you so much for being here!  Make sure to check out my process down below and let me know if you have any questions.  See you next time friends!

 

 

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

My Candy Girl Collection: 12×12 Patterned Papers, Ciao Chip Stickers, Doohickey Cardstock Stickers, Ephemera, Bella Pops, Sugar Coating Puffy Stickers, Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Ice & Gulf;  Bella Besties: Hearts & Ombre 12x12 Patterned Paper in Ice, Florence Alphas in Gulf, Aria Alphas in Punch, Heart Hugs;  Bella Blvd Cut File: Sunshine

 

 

Father's Day Week Day 3 | Yarelys

Hey Bella friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys here with a new layout featuring the To The Moon collection. For this layout I also used one of the Bella Blvd cut files.

I went through the papers of the collection and picked the My Hole Universe paper to cut my cut file. I used the You’re The Best cut file from the Silhouette Design Store by Bella Blvd. I also picked the Imagine paper for my background and the Out Of This World paper to make a frame for my layout.

Now it’s time to build my layout! I did lots of splatters in my background. Once the splatters dried, I glued the cut file and my photo.

For my title I used the Aria Alphabet in Blueberry to add the word Dad, so my title is Dad You’re The Best. To finish my layout I added some Ciao Chip, Doohickey and Puffy Stickers.

I love how this layout tuned out. Hope you all like it and get the inspiration to create beautiful things. You can find the link for the process video of this layout below. Thanks for stopping by!

Have a lovely day!

Yarelys xx

@dreamsandpapers

Dad You're The Best Layout Process Video

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

To The Moon Collection: Out Of This World, My Hole Universe and Imagine papers.

Ciao Chip: To The Moon

Doohickei: To The Moon

Puffy Stickers: A Boy’s World

Aria Alphabet: Blueberry

Cut File: You’re The Best