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Sketch Week | Sarah Millerhouse

I love the challenge of using a great sketch! When I first saw this sketch by Niki Rowland, I immediately thought it wasn’t my style. There was just so much white space. Once I decided I could make it my own and use beautiful patterned paper to fill up all that space, I immediately got into it. This layout ended up being one of my most favorite I’ve made, and it started with challenging me to move out of my comfort zone. 

I used the You Are My Sunshine collection for this layout. The stripes on the background the Shine Bright patterned paper that I cut apart, distressed the edges, and put in back down with the stripes in rainbow order. I love the pop of color it gives to the layout. I then added just a little mixed media on the background to subtly connect the top photo and clusters with the cluster at the bottom. I did this using white gesso and Shimmerz sprays that I applied with a brush. When it was almost dry, I added splatters of white acrylic paint behind all the areas where I knew my elements would go. 

I added my sweet photo at the top with several layers of patterned paper behind it to make it more substantial. I then added clusters on either side of the photo, like in the sketch, with the one on the right set just slightly higher.  

I added the cluster at the bottom using phrases that I distressed the edges of and pretty enamel stickers and ephemera. Everything is popped up with adhesive foam. 

I finished the layout by adding the Bella Blvd Sunshine cutfile that I cut in three layers and my strips of journaling just below that, just like in the sketch. 

I love how this layout turned out, and I hope it inspires you in some way! 

Products Used:

You Are My Sunshine: patterned paper, ephemera, enamel dots and stars

 

Tiny Tots + Bella Besties Week, Day 1 | Ashley Neu

Hello friends! It's Ashley back to share another Bella Blvd Creative Team layout and this week will be all about the Tiny Tots collection paired with Bella Bestie papers! For my layout, I used a Bella Blvd cut file called Ornate Frame to create a place for my photo and title!

 

 

To start off this layout, I cut the cut file from some white yardstick as well as the black Hearts and Ombre Bella Besties paper to create a pretty shadow behind the white frames. I added my photo to one of the frames, making sure that the photo was perfectly inside the circle of the frame. Additionally, I used some of the black hearts Bella Besties paper to create some photo corners to add to two of the corners of my layout at a later time.

 

 

For the next step, I grabbed the patterned paper named Sidekick from the Tiny Tots collection. It is this gorgeous rainbow striped paper. I cut out each strip and used a border punch to punch out this beautiful and intricate design so that I could layer the strips on top of each other on some white cardstock. I added the frames next to the strips in a vertical fashion to help your eye move down the page.

 

 

Finally, I added my title from the puffy stickers to one of the frames along with a flower and tiny heart die cut. I created a cluster of embellishments on the open frame at the top to showcase how adorable my little girls looked sitting next to each other. Lastly, I added tone on tone embellishments on top of and tucked underneath the strips. I used ephemera pieces and some puffy hearts and flowers from the Trinkets Puffy Stickers. 

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed this process to creating this layout. It was a lot of fun to make! Hope you have a wonderful Monday!

Supplies Used: Tiny Tots Collection- 12x12 Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons and Puffy Stickers; Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Pickle Juice + Guacamole, Ice + Gulf and Plum; Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre paper in Black; Cut file- Ornate Frame

 

Time to Travel Cut Outs | Erica Thompson

Hello friends! Erica here with you today to share a layout using the Time to Travel collection and the new I Love Travel Cut Out!

Cut Outs are made from thick smooth white cardstock and come with a cutting template. They are perfect if you love cut files but do not have an electronic cutting machine or if you are going to a crop! I backed the Family Trip title cut out included in the I Love Travel pack. 

I used different pattern papers from the collection and one of the Bella Besties papers to back the file and adhered it in the center of a piece of white cardstock. 

My photos are from one of our trips to Texas when the kids were younger and I printed them out in black and white. I placed the photos above the cut file and matted them onto some Bella Besties pattern paper in Cotton Candy.

I had some leftover fussy cut flowers from my previous layout that I wanted to use on this layout so I created a few different embellishment clusters around the page. The cactus die cuts were perfect for this layout since we were in Texas and we saw it everywhere! 

To help frame my layout I added strips of pattern paper to the top and bottom of my layout that I had ran through a border punch. 

I love creating with this collection! I had so much fun putting this layout together and working with the new I Love Travel Cut Outs! The last thing I did was create a cluster in the bottom right corner of my layout using die cuts, puffy stickers and epoxy from the Time to Travel collection. 

Thank you so much for stopping by the Bella blog today and I hope I have inspired you to create using the new I Love Travel Cut Outs! 

Bella Blvd Time to Travel Collection | I Love Travel Cut Outs

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 3 | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you on the blog today and I am super excited to share my first layout using the Time To Travel collection! 

I started with a Bella Blvd cut file from the Silhouette Design Store! I cut it out on some Doodlebug Design Lily White textured cardstock and backed it with different pattern papers from the Time To Travel collection. 

For my background I trimmed down a piece of Lily White cardstock to 11.50x11.50 and matted it onto the beautiful Back Roads 12x12 paper. 

For my photo I placed it behind the center E in Remember! I used the Time To Travel Ephemera and Doo Hickey Stickers to embellish around the cut file and create some fun clusters.

The colors and icons in this collection are so bright and cheerful and are perfect to document so many different adventures!

To finish off my layout I added some typed journaling and added a couple epoxy hearts! 

You can check out my process video HERE on my YouTube channel! 

Time To Travel Collection | Remember Cut File

To The Moon + Hearts & Ombre | Tegan

Good day crafty friends! Tegan here with you to share my layout today! I had so much fun combining the To The Moon Bella Besties Patterned Papers and Molecule Cut File with some Hearts & Ombre Patterned Papers to create this love-themed layout. Come take a look!  :)

First of all, let's talk about this super fun To The Moon Molecule Cut File! I sized the molecules to about 3" tall and cut them out using the Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper in Black so they would have a little bit of a pattern to them. I then used some enamel dots from the Heart Hugs pack to embellish them. How fun! And I think they look super cool on the Orange Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper!

Here I used the Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper in Guacamole to anchor my photo. I used the 'love' portion of the Bella Blvd 'God Loves You' Cut File to cut 'love' out using white cardstock. 

I used the adorable Florence Alphabet Stickers in Blueberry to complete the title. I adhered the red heart sticker from the Cooper collection on top of the chipboard globe from the Pop Quiz collection. I added some Ephemera pieces from the Cooper collection inside of the molecules to add some interest to the page. I love how all of the Bella Blvd collections mix and match so effortlessly! I 

I used a mix of the To The Moon Bella Besties Patterned Papers to create a colorful anchor spot for my photo. I love that the Bella Besties Papers have fun little patterns on them... I love all of the mini polka dots, graph design, and hearts on this page! 

Thanks for joining us all this week! I hope we have inspired you to grab some of the amazing Hearts & Ombre Patterned Papers and the To The Moon collection (and cut files!) for your next crafty day! 

Bella Blvd Products Used:

To The Moon Collection: Bella Besties Patterned Paper Combo Pack, Molecule Cut File

Hearts & Ombre Patterned Papers: Black 

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Blueberry

Heart Hugs Pack: Give Thanks, Black & White, Pretty in Pink

Cooper Collection Ephemera and Stickers, Pop Quiz Chipboard Stickers, Let Us Adore Him Collection Kit, God Loves You Cut File

Designer's Choice Week | Erica Thompson

Hey friends Erica here with you today to share a 12x12 scrapbook layout featuring the To The Moon collection! 

To The Moon is such a fun boy collection but does have a bit of a theme to it! One think I love about Bella Blvd. products is that the B sides of the papers are great for just about anything and you can make the collections work for your photos! 

I have so many wrestling photos of Grant from High School and wanted to use this fun collection to document one of them from his Senior Year! I printed my photo in black in white since the color photo had a lot of purple from the school colors. I matted the photo using some pattern papers from the collection and created a design on some white cardstock with the Daily Details paper.

I used one of the Bella Blvd cut files from the Silhouette Design Store and backed it with papers from the To The Moon collection! I placed it in the middle of the page and placed my photo right above it. For the left and right of my page I used the To The Moon puffy stickers and Matte Enamel dots to fill in all the white space!

For a sub title I used the alpha stickers from the DooHickey sticker sheet to spell out Senior Year! I love how easy it was to put this layout together using the To The Moon collection! 

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today! I hope I have inspired you to create with the To The Moon collection! 

To The Moon Collection | You Rock Cut File 

You Are My Sunshine + Bella Besties Week Day 3 | Tarrah

Hi creative friends!

It's Tarrah back with you today to share a new scrapbook layout featuring the You Are My Sunshine collection and Bella Besties.

I started by choosing one of the gorgeous Bella Blvd Rainbow cut files from the Silhouette Store and cut each piece out from some of the Bella Besties Freehand Graph and Dot papers. 

Once the pieces of the cut file were all cut out I adhered them to recreate the rainbow to a plain piece of white cardstock. I placed them so the dots were showing on the pink one and then alternating with the plaid for the red and so on. As I glued each strip down, I bent up the edges on the top of each of them so I could add some mixed media. I took out some Distress Oxide inks in coordinating colors and lightly painted under the tops of the curves of the sections of rainbow. I also added some splatters in the same colors. I trimmed down the white cardstock and adhered the cardstock to the colorful side of the My Only Sunshine paper, I just love all of the color on this layout! 

Once the inks were all dry and the rainbow was in place, I added my photo which is a black and white Snapchat selfie of myself looking slightly up to the sky, the Keep Looking Up There May Be A Rainbow die-cut piece was the perfect piece to add to my page so I placed this directly under my photo. I also added a few Doohickey stickers from the You Are My Sunshine collection here. To the left of my photo there was a space in the main rainbow so I added a die-cut one and then layered some puffy stickers also in rainbows over the top. At the base of the rainbow sections at either end, I added the 2 super cute chipboard clouds. Around the top of the rainbow cut file, I decided to add some of the chipboard dots, spreading them out to create a sense of movement on the page. I also had to add the super cute sun chipboard piece and layered a Doohickey sticker on top too.

Next it was time to add some embellishments, I decided to add them tone on tone, choosing die-cuts, chipboard, puffy stickers, epoxy stickers and Doohickey stickers. I placed the embellishments scattered on the rainbow in their matching or as close to their matching colors. When I attach small embellishments to my pages, I use liquid glue and I will even add extra glue to things that I think might need some extra. The chipboard pieces I usually find will need an extra helping hand.

Lastly I stamped the date stamp of when the photo was taken and I added the black photo corners from the Doohickey sticker sheet to each corner of the layout.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Bella Blvd blog today! I absolutely LOVE how my layout turned out and hope you love it as much as I do!

Bella Blvd products used:

You Are My Sunshine collection - My Only Sunshine paper

Bella Besties Freehand Graph and Dot papers

You Are My Sunshine Chipboard

You Are My Sunshine Doohickey stickers

You Are My Sunshine Ephemera Icons

You Are My Sunshine Puffy Stickers

You Are My Sunshine Epoxy Stickers

Happy creating!

The Perfect Day, 12x12 Layout | Melissa Mann

Good Morning, Bella friends!

This is Melissa with you this morning and I'm sharing a new project that uses a little bit of stuff from several collections :-)

The first thing I did was to layer a piece of white card stock on top of a piece of pattern paper from the Let's Go On An Adventure paper collection. I placed another panel of paper down the length of the layout on the right hand side and the used my sewing machine to stitch the diagonal lines. This created a bit of subtle movement on my project.

Next, I layered my three photos with two different pattern papers and layered them down the right hand side on the panel of pattern paper. I cut out part of my title using a digital die cut file from the Silhouette shop:  HERE. 

I combined the digital die cut phrase, an acrylic word, and some puffy alphabet stickers to create my title! Once I had my title in place, I further embellished the layout with die cuts, puffy stickers, and chipboard.

Here's a peek at the full project:

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

1. Let's Go On An Adventure Pattern Paper Collection
2. Day at the Park Digital Die Cut
3. You Are My Sunshine Ephemera
4. You Are My Sunshine Ciao Chip
5. Aria Alphabet Stickers - Oyster
6. "Perfect" Acrylic Word
7. Squeeze the Day DooHickey Stickers
8. Matte Enamels - Dog Mix

To The Moon Week Day 4 | Sarah K

Happy Thursday, Bella friends. Hope your week has been going well thus far. It's me, Sarah (@redoaklines) on the blog today, and I have a new layout to share using the To The Moon Collection. I can't get enough of how adorable and *out of this world* this collection truly is.

Here's what I came up with:

To create my title, I used a Bella cut file. All of the Bella cut files can be found in the Silhouette Design Store. For this specific layout, I used the The Sky is the Limit cut file. I left out "The Sky" part of the cut file because I thought it would be neat to use two different fonts in my title. I used some alphabet stickers from the To The Moon Doohickey sticker sheet to get "the sky". 

To embellish around my photo, I added a variety of fun embellishments from the To The Moon collection to complete the look of my layout. That would include various puffy stickers, Doohickey stickers, Ephemera Icons, and Ciao Chips.

I even added some red Bella Heart Hugs to my layout because hearts on a layout is always a sure win!

Lastly, how cute is this robot Bella Pop?! It's adorable, no?! I couldn't resist adding it right below my title. I love how easy Bella Pops make embellishments "pop" on your projects!

That's all I have for now! Don't you just love this To The Moon collection?! It's such a fun one to use for any type of project.

Anyway, hopefully I have inspired you to create something beautiful 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: 

To The Moon Collection: Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Ciao Chipboard Stickers, Puffy Stickers, Bella Pops; Legacy Collection: Heart Hugs; Bella Cut Files: The Sky Is The Limit

 

My Candy Girl Week - Day 3 | Melissa Mann

Good Morning, friends!

This is Melissa here with you this morning with one of my favorite projects that I have created for the Bella blog to date :-) I just love all the fun bright candy colors in this collection!

To start my project off, I layered two pieces of pattern paper from the My Candy Girl paper stack with a piece of white card stock sandwiched in between. I think my favorite sheet of paper in that collection is the multi color striped paper that I used for my background! I cut out the I *HEART* U digital file with my Silhouette. This fun file is available for purchase in the Silhouette store HERE. I backed the die cut with some other pattern papers from the My Candy Girl collection. 

I printed up two 4"x4" photos of my nieces that I edited to be black and white - I knew I was going to be using a lot of color in my project and didn't want the pictures to clash with my embellishments and paper. I layered a couple of pieces of pattern paper and vellum behind my photos and adhered down. My title went directly below my photos and I used foam tabs to adhere down. I typed my journaling on white card stock and then glued the journaling strips down across the heart in my title.

I used some of the flower die-cuts from the Live Love Meow Cut-outs and placed around my photos. I backed these with more paper from the My Candy Girl collection. Lastly, I sprinkled some epoxy stickers, puffy stickers, and chipboard stickers around my layout creating some embellishment clusters.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

1. My Candy Girl Paper Collection
2. I *HEART* You Digital File
3. Live Love Meow Cut-outs
4. My Candy Girl Doohickey Stickers
5. Puffy Stickers - Sugar Coating
6. Epoxy Sprinkles
7. My Candy Girl Ciao Chipboard

Thanks for stopping by and joining us on the blog today!