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Spring Cards with Kelly

Hello everyone! Today I am sharing four spring cards...Two of them are graduation cards, and the other two are for Teacher Appreciation.

I always try to make graduation cards using the graduate's school colors. For this one, I used a combination of Plaids & Dotty, Let's Go on an Adventure, and Pop Quiz.

For this next one, I made a window using Blue Chevron from the Invisibles line. I positioned the clear patterned paper with a tiny bit of double stick tape before I secured it in place with stitching.

The next to cards are Teacher Appreciation cards made with the Home Sweet Home collection. This collection is probably my new favorite...so feminine and perfect for so many occasions. The inside of this first one says "for helping us GROW."

The inside of this card says "for helping us BLOOM."

So many celebrations happen at the end of the school year... graduations, recitals, spring programs...and there's nothing quite like a handmade card to make every occasion feel special.

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Home Sweet Home: Ephemera Icons, DooHickey, Mosaic Tile, Borders; Let's Go on an Adventure: Morning Meadow; Plaids&Dotty: Blueberry; Pop Quiz: Sticky Mix; Heart Hugs: Black&White; Florence Alphas: Blueberry, Ice, Cotton Candy; Invisibles: Chevies Blueberry; Delight in His Day: Fundamentals; Cute Clips: Festive; Acrylic Shapes: Star Mix; Designer Washi: Rainbow, Ice Dot; Puffy Stars: Milk White; Tiny Text: Faithful; Word Salad

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. 

 

 

Awesome Vibes by Kim Watson

Hello Bella Blvd friends, Kim Watson here with a new page using the Home Sweet Home collection.

My theme today is 'spring concerts'....bring on the vibes ya'll!! 

Awesome Vibes by Kim Watson

 

The beauty of this collection, is even though the theme is pretty & very family orientated, I was still able to find enough suitable product to put this page together. 

 

 

Now because my images were taken inside, I needed to balance out the dark photos with dark paper yet keeping the page fun & vibey at the same time. I solved the design by creating 'light rays' in dark paper with rows of white machine stitching. 

 

 

Dimension in the way of a variety of tags & foam adhesive, lift my photo off the background.

 

 

To create tension within the design, I clustered more little tags and sentiments in the top left corner of the photo. 

 

 

A little turquoise mixed media onto the white panel, under the photo cluster creates interest & gives the title more punch! Using the acrylic word 'AWESOME' teamed with black color-way of the newly released Florence alpha stickers as my title; balances out the photo cluster perfectly. 

 

 

Journaling on a tag included in the ephemera pack in all I needed to complete the page. So as you can see another fabulous collection from Bella Blvd, perfectly crafted to make our memory-keeping a cinch!

 

Patterned Papers: Home Sweet Home; Doohickey Stickers: Home Sweet Home; Ephemera Icons: Home Sweet Home; Acrylic Shapes: Hearts; Acrylic Word: Awesome; Acrylic Shapes: Stars; Oh My Stars: Gift Tags; Oh My Stars: Doohickey Stickers; Washi Tape: Black & White dot & Black & White Stripe 

Splash Pad Fun

Good morning everyone! Kat popping in to share my newest layout made with the Splash Zone collection...which is one of my favorite Bella collections to date! I love the bright, happy colors. They complement those happy summertime photos so well!

Since I love these colors and patterns so much, I decided to get a bunch of them on the page...I cut out a bunch of squares, stitched a few down and then built my layout on top of it.

Here is the end result:

Fun and easy!

Don't forget to share your Splash Zone creations with us using the hashtag #BellaBlvd!!

Patterned Papers: Splash Zone: Sunny Days, Borders, Splashing Around, Summer Scramble; Florence Alphas: Black; Acrylic Stars: Splash Zone; Word Salad Stickers

Beach Days with Splash Zone

Hello Bella Blvd. friends! Tessa Buys here with a layout featuring the new Splash Zone collection. I love when a summer-themed collection works for various waterways. We frequent the beach, lake and pool throughout summer, so it's great to have one collection with a little something for each of those kinds of water fun. For this layout I scrapped a couple beach photos from last summer:

To play off the black and white stripes of my rash guard, I decided to lay one of the Calendar Invisibles on white cardstock to create my background. Before attaching the calendar with tiny staples, I sprayed yellow and orange mist in three places (where the suns were going to be once the layout was assembled). I also wrote my journaling on the cardstock, underneath the calendar.

I usually fussy cut florals, which are darling in this collection, but the clouds and suns called to me instead! It didn't take long to cut out five cloud/sun images from the Sunny Days paper and arrange them around my photos. I embellished one with a heart sticker from the McIntosh Florence alphas sheet, and layered another with a die-cut speech bubble. Speaking of die-cuts, the striped heart from the ephemera pack is my favorite!

I used a chipboard wave to ground my photos and tie in the blue, then placed my title below. I also embellished a few squares of the calendar with a cardstock sticker trimmed to fit and an acrylic heart.

I barely scratched the surface of the Splash Zone collection and cannot wait to make more memories this summer to scrapbook! If you need a summery and fun stash of supplies for your water adventures, be sure to pick up Splash Zone. Happy creating!

Splash Zone patterned papers: Sunny Days, Borders; Florence Alphas: McIntosh; Acrylic Shapes - Heart Mix; Ephemera Words; Ciao Chip - Icons; Invisibles - Calendar.

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

 

 

Big Titles Pack a Punch in Your Bible

I'm sure you guys have been around long enough to realize that big titles are my thing, and I jumped at joy that they were this week's theme at the Bella headquarters!

My Bible is absolutely filled with big titles, and I let them do most of the talking for me. I love being able to flip through my Bible and see the synopsis of the scriptures already written out for me.  This page was no exception!

I love nestling in my big titles with fun pieces of ephemera or dimensional pieces, so the title gets an even bigger punch on the page! The paper pieces from the Splash Zone collection were the perfect thing to fill that space!

Thanks so much for stopping by to check out another page in my Bible; I hope you have been inspired by all the big titles happening around here this week!

Splash Zone Collection: Ephemera, Puffy Wonky Alphas, Florence Alphas

Adding Song Lyrics to a Layout

Ever since I first watched The Greatest Showman and heard the music, I was inspired by one song.  The song A Million Dreams felt a little bit like he was singing words that were describing how I think. From that first moment, I knew I was going to have to make a layout about myself using the song.  But I needed the right products and such to make it happen. When I got my box with all the Florence Alphas, I knew that time had arrived! Let's take a look at this layout!

The Florence Alphas are the PERFECT size for creating long titles and doing text heavy layouts like this one! I tend to like layouts with lots of color and lots of text, so I'm kind of smitten ;)!

To get started I picked out which colors I wanted to use. Then I wrote out the lyrics and divided them up by color. I cut my colorful photos into circles to add some movement to the layout.

I used a ruler to keep a line that I was following but allowed the letters to go slightly above and below that. Because the letters are of varying heights, shifting their landing makes sense and adds to the whimsy.

Washi Tape, Heart Hugs, Acrylic Hearts, and Enamel Dots (from the Heart Hugs sheet) all helped add finishing touches. The Washi Tape allowed me to add an extra pop of black at the top and bottom of the layout. Stripes created using Watercolors helped stretch each row of colors. All the hearts created a visual descent down and across the page along with the lyrics. Finally the whole layout is pulled together with the gorgeous "Fairy"patterned paper from the Let's Go On An Adventure collection that I used as a base. 

You can check out the entire process for this layout in my process video here:

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Hope your day is filled with color!

Acrylic Shapes Heart Mix, Heart Hugs, Let's Go On An Adventure Patterned Paper, Florence Alphas, Washi Tape

Colorful Adventure | Carnival Scrapbooking Layout

Hi everyone! Heather Leopard is here with a layout that is most definitely NOT lacking color. Not even sure I can consider the bits of white as white space and you know what?!?! It sums up our colorful rodeo / carnival day just perfectly. Come take a look to see just what I'm talking about.  

The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo is a 3-week long adventure of which we usually just partake in just one day but it's one really long, fun, colorful day! Colorful because of the culture, the people, the actual carnival, the list goes on and on. I thought a colorful background would be the only way to document it and do it justice. 

To get started, I honed in one one specific patterned paper. This rainbow inspired paper. The only thing is I thought it needed more color so I looked through my threads and was elated to find that I had matching colors already in my stash. I gave my sewing machine a workout with a mix of wonky stitched lines and zig zags. I went crazy and it was fun!

Then, I turned to the new Florence Alphabet Stickers and found a lovely rainbow of coordinating colors!

Next, I highlighted 15 of the many activities that we did that day. I used the Florence Alphabet Stickers to write these out, placing the stickers on color coordinating lines. I added an acrylic word because it was the perfect word in the right shade and honestly I think it helps the flow of the layout.

Then, I used various sized photos that show many of the activities listed on the page.

I kept embellishments to a minimum since there's so much going on with the background. There's obviously no space to journal directly to the page so I will be going back and adding some journal strips.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you have a great day!

Splash Zone Daily Details Patterned Paper, Florence Alphabet Stickers - Cotton Candy, Peep, Punch McIntosh, Plum, Orange, Bell Pepper, Ice, Gulf Blueberry; Puffy Stars Stickers - Orange Mix, Punch Mix, Cotton Candy Mix, Ice Mix; Puffy Heart Stickers - Orange Mix, Punch Mix

 

 

Bible Journaling with Home Sweet Home

I am so blessed to be able to call myself a mother, and there is no love quite like it! I knew I wanted to do a tribute to that in my Bible with the gorgeous new Home Sweet Home collection. Those beautiful floral illustrations and happy colors were the perfect addition!

For this page in my Bible, I really wanted to do something with triangle shapes. I decided on doing parallel triangle strips, that I could stitch on for lots of dimension.

I began nestling in those beautiful florals, both fussy-cut and paper pieces. I love the way the triangle strips gave those florals life, by popping them off the page in such a pretty way.

This was such a simple but impactful page for me, but I knew I wanted my title to do the talking as well. I layered on a piece of the Home Sweet Home ephemera that read "Love," and I filled in the rest with the brand new Florence Alphas. They are my favorite new alpha; I can't get enough!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I can't wait to see how everyone is using the amazing new Home Sweet Home collection!

Home Sweet Home Collection, Florence Alphas, Word Salad Booklet, Illustrating Bible