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Lunchbox of Love | Dorymar

Hi Bella fans, It’s Dorymar here today to share a fun project with you using the Squeeze the Day Collection and Bella Besties Pack.

 

To make my lunch box, I use the Summer Holiday digital set from SVGS cut.  I began by creating a box from Pink Graph and Dot Punch paper. The top lid was made with the Orange we Glad paper and for the trim, I used the “Bananas for You” paper. I decorated the outside of the box with chipboard, matte enamel dots, acrylic shapes, Bella pops and die cuts.  Also, I incorporate three beautiful flowers cut out form the Graph and Dot Bell Paper using the Bella Blvd Daisy Digital File at Silhouette Store.  

 

 

The box that holds three interactive cards with flaps and pocket, perfect to document lovely moments with you love one.

 

 

I created interactive cards from scratch.  Everyone holds space for journaling and photos. I decided to create fun titles with the Alpha puffy stickers and the Florence alphabet stickers. I covered the interactive cards mixed up the Bella Besties and the Squeeze the Day papers and decorated with the epoxy icons, Bella pops and many fun goodies of the collection.

 

 

Because this collection is so fabulous, I wanted to show it off and all the beautiful embellishments she has.  Each card has multi flip-out and pockets and every turn and flip are a magical surprise that conveys the pure joy and love! Below I show you some close-up shots so you can appreciate every element.

 

 

This adorable box would be a special gift that your loved one will fondly remember.

I hope this colorful project inspires you to express that great love you feel for your love.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today! 

 

 

Bella Besties, Squeeze the Day Collection, Squeeze the Day Ephemera Words, 

Squeeze the Day Ephemera Icons, Squeeze the day  Epoxy, Fruity Mix Matte Enamels, 

Bella Pops (Pearfect, Juicy), Squeeze the Day Doohickey Sticker Sheet, 

Squeeze the Day Ciao Chip, Dotty Washi Tape, Wonky Alpha Stickers-Pickle Juice,

Florence Alphabet Sticker-Punch, Acrylic Shapes-Berry

Happy St. Patrick's Day | Patricia

Happy St. Patrick's Day, Bella Blvd Friends!  I love all things Irish, and even though my family recently found out we have more Scottish in us than Irish, I'm still full-blown Irish on this day!  For several years now, my family has gotten together with another very special adoptive family for the New Orleans St. Patrick's Parade in the Irish Channel.  In my first post, I shared how the March Mood Board inspired my Traveler's Notebook documenting.  For today's post, I will use the Squeeze the Day and Besties collection again, but in my 6-ring Traveler's Notebook or Life Crafted album bringing in all things Irish!

I knew I wanted to use small 4-2x2 photos in my pockets for the right and picked out the Pickle Juice Chevies Clear Cut to fill in the other 2x2 pockets.  I left that as is and then focused my attention to the left side for more color, texture, my title and journaling.

Loving the rainbows from both sides of the Squeeze the Day Sweet Skies pattern paper, I trimmed it to about 1" wide, then cut those pieces to about an 1.5" long.  Going with the curve of the rainbow, I used my 1/4" corner punch to one end of my strips, adhered them going up the left side of a piece of white cardstock background and did a horizontal machine stitching on each strip in white thread.  Once that was is place, I used the Happy Acrylic Word to build my title using the Florence Stickers in Pickle Juice, Guacamole, and Gulf.  To add more color, I backed the Happy Acrylic Word with the orange side of Squeeze the Day Borders.  Before I adhered my title though, I penciled in where I could fit my journaling and typed on my typewriter.

Once my title was in place, I adhered this page to a trimmed piece of Zesty using the green side.  I love the smaller size of the white background with the rows of pattern paper and my title against that green pattern paper!  

Next, I added the Squeeze the Day Chipboard 'DAY' and stamped a sentiment.  Then working off of the left side, I went back to the right side, adding both color and texture to create balance with the left.

I used a combination of Squeeze the Day Ephemera Words, Chipboard Icons, and punched Hearts to form a clover from Zesty pattern paper.  All of these were adhered or stapled to the Clear Cut, except form the trimmed Ephemera 'Follow the Rainbow.'  For the trimmed 'The Rainbow,' I slipped my stapler in between the pocket to staple directly to the outside of the pocket.

Even though we think just 'GREEN' for St. Patrick's Day, don't forget all those wonderful rainbows and especially orange as part of your next project.  Orange is part of the Irish flag!  And to bring a little 'lucky charms' feel, use the pattern papers with rainbows and icons or the Squeeze the Day Epoxy Icons to bring in some 'lucky charms' to your next project!  Happy Creating and Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

I must have flowers- mood board inspired layout | Lisa Fonseca

Hey scrappy friends,

it's Lisa Fonseca here on the Bella blog today. I'm so excited to share my very first Bella project with you and I'm so happy to start on this new design team. I hope you like what I came up with :)

The layout is inspired by this month's mooboard.

I chose to go with the vertical paint strokes and the flowers. :) 

To start, I chose four colors that would match the colors on the moodboard but also in the SQUEEZE THE DAY collection. I used some acrylics and mixed them with white paint to make them really pastel. Then I painted my four strokes and splattered some paint all over each stroke. 

While the background was drying, I chose a fun flower shape on google and used it as a cutfile to cut out a lot of flowers from four different patterned papers that matched the colors of my paint stripes and also some white ones. I used three patterned papers from the SQUEEZE THE DAY collection and one from the Bella Besties. Those Bella Besties papers are really the BEST. The colors are so pretty and I love simple but fun designs on both sides. :)

When the background was dry and the flowers were all cut, I started placing them on the layout, trying to find the perfect placement and create a cool design. I also matted my picture with a black and white patterned paper. The picture I chose I took in Tuscany last year and with all the sunflowers, it matched the layout perfectly.

I started gluing down all the flowers the way I liked it. I only glued the middle part though, because, I wanted the flowers to have dimension and to be able to play with the petals. I placed a matte enamel dot in the center of almost every flower. I also used heart stickers and enamel fruit and flower shapes, which I think look so cute!

As my title, I used some of the Florence alpha stickers and I hand-cut the letters to write the word "flower", out from a Bella Besties pink paper. 

I really hope you like the layout and are inspired to use the fun and bright colors from the amazing SQUEEZE THE DAY collection.

Thank you for stopping by,

Lisa

Fun with the March Mood Board!

I had so much fun using the amazing March Mood Board for inspiration! Isn't it just beautiful?

I was instantly inspired by this mood board's clean, fresh, and flowery vibes! I decided to start with white cardstock as my base and added a large piece of Plaids and Dotty patterned paper in Bell Pepper. This paper choice was definitely inspired by the plaid shirts and all of the yellow in the board! 

I then used the Bella Blvd Halloween Flowers cut file to cut out lots of patterned paper flowers. I used the Bella Besties Graph/Dot 6x6 Paper Pad, the Squeeze the Day So Berry Sweet Patterned Paper, and the Wish Big Boy Borders Patterned Paper. I mixed in a Squeeze the Day rainbow ephemera piece to the flower clusters for fun. I love how these colors pop against the white and yellow plaid!

The 'Hello" in my title was inspired by the board as well! I thought 'Hello' worked perfectly in my title here because it was our first time seeing the flowers at the Epcot Flower & Garden Festival! And of course I used my favorite Florence Alphabet Stickers to complete the title. I then added a couple fluttering butterflies from the Home Sweet Home collection to the page. The adorable heart stickers on the butterflies came from the Florence Alphabet sheet as well.

I used the Halloween Flowers Cut File and the Squeeze the Day Zesty Patterned Paper to cut out all the greenery accent pieces. I again mixed in ephemera pieces and word phrase stickers to my floral clusters. I then sprinkled some fun orange Puffy Stars and Fruity Mix Matte Enamel Shapes around the page. 

I hope you decide to play along with the March Mood Board! I think you will really enjoy it as much as I did. Mood Boards are also great if you are in a scrappy rut and need a little inspiration!

Thank you for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to use the March Mood Board on your next papercrafting project! 

Squeeze the Day collection: So Berry Sweet Patterned Paper, Zesty Patterned Paper, Bananas For You Patterned Paper, Ephemera, Chipboard, 12x12 Cardstock Stickers, Fruity Mix Matte Enamel Stickers

Bella Besties: Plaids and Dotty Patterned Paper in Bell Pepper, Graph & Dot 6x6 Paper Pad

Home Sweet Home collection: Ephemera

Wish Big Boy collection: Borders Patterned Paper

Florence Alphabet Stickers in Gulf, Florence Alphabet Stickers in Punch, Orange Puffy Star Stickers

Bella Blvd Halloween Flowers Cut File

Other: Embroidery Floss in a Sky Blue color 

 

Scrap Lifting Yourself | Leanne

Hey Bella Blvd Friends! It's Leanne sharing today. This week is all about taking inspiration from where you've been before! That's right.. scrap lifting layouts you've already created! And what is a better way to find a little mojo, than to copy a layout from your personal creations, ones that you already love? If you have a tried and true formula or a particular style, you probably find that you already do this self consciously any way. Let's have a look into my archives!

In June, 2017 I created a layout for Bella Blvd using the gorgeous Make Your Mark collection. As you may guess from the title of my layout, "The Dab" was all the rage with my boys! *grin*

The main feature on the layout however, is the layered fringe heart. These layers were trimmed from the clear cuts Gold Foil 6x8 pad.

Fast forward to February 2020..

The layered fringe heart makes a come back!

It's a simple concept but it certainly makes a statement on your page. I love how the gradients of orange and navy bring this boy layout together. Even though it has a tonne of fussy cut flowers on the page too!

My scrap lift layout has essentially all the same features of the original page and in the same positions. The difference being that there's more color bouncing around on the new layout.

Extra bits and pieces have been included as storytelling elements on my Happy Trails layout. The Word Salad sticker booklet is an ideal embellishment pack to help out in this situation. The sticker phrases inject dot points into the journaling.

Keeping my process true to the original, allowed my new page to come together very quickly. Perhaps the next time you need some inspiration, try looking towards yourself. You might never know what previous creation will spark new ideas. Thanks for visiting the blog today..x

Let's Go On An Adventure: No Wifi, Shy Foxes, Wildflowers, Doohickey 12x12 Stickers; Mind Your Manners: Be A Good Guest, Be Kind To Animals, Borders; Freehand Graph & Dot: Orange Graph & Dot; Heart hugs: Halloween; Florence Alphabet Stickers: Orange Florence; Word Salad: Cardstock Sticker Booklet. 

 

My Favorite Band | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you today and this week the team has been sharing all about FAVORITES! I wanted to document my favorite band on this layout! I have a huge and I mean huge love for Dave Matthews Band that started when I was in High School! I have been hooked ever since and they are always at the top of my playlist! I have been lucky enough to see them many times live and it is one of the best shows I have ever seen and I have seen a lot! I love all types of music but DMB will always be my favorite!

I always take a lot of photos at the shows and I am sharing a few of my favorites in this layout! I remember the photo of Mike and I at the top right photo in Chicago! I was about 6 months pregnant with our son Gavin and I was happily drinking lots of water and having the best time dancing and enjoying the music! It was a great show and my pregnant belly enjoyed every minute of it!

I thought this speech bubble cut file was perfect for my photos and then I backed some of the spots with different pattern papers from Bella Blvd Squeeze the Day, Bella Besties and Wish Big.  I also added in some of my favorite Dave Matthews song titles using the Florence Alphas.

When my oldest son was in middle school he really wanted to go to a DMB show so we purchased him a ticket and invited his dad and girlfriend to come along! Drake loved it and they even played his favorite song that night!

I added a few heart hugs around the page and some die cuts from the Wish Big collection. To add some fun to my background I used some acrylic paints and splattered around the page with my paint brush. I added some machine stitching all around the page using some pink thread and then distressed the edges of my layout. Here is a look at my completed layout!

I hope you are have been inspired this week to create a project documenting some of your favorites! Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you have a great weekend!

Wish Big Girl Ephemera Words & Icons | Wish Big Girl Pattern Paper | Squeeze the Day 6x6 Paper Pad | Bella Besties 6x6 Paper Pad | Bella Blvd Heart Hugs | Bella Blvd Puffy Hearts | Florence Alpha Sets

 

My Favorite Room in the House Layout

This week is all about our favorite things, so I thought it would be cool to document my love of crafting! I started with the adorable Home Sweet Home collection but I had fun mixing and matching in a couple other collections too. I love that the Bella Blvd collections easily work together so well! 

I used the light pink side of the Wish Big Girl Party Animal patterned paper as my background because I wanted my houses to really stand out. I used the background image of the Bella Blvd Happy House cut file and my electronic die cut machine to cut out the houses in different fun colors. (I did widen the house in my design software to accommodate all of the words in my title.) And I love the whimsical feel that the Florence Alphabet stickers give to the page!

My goal was to make the houses as colorful as I could! I used more simple patterns for the front of the houses so the alpha stickers could be easily read. I used the more involved patterned papers as a background to each house to add more color. I adorned the houses with ephemera pieces and chipboard stickers from the Home Sweet Home collection and some Puffy Stars stickers.

Since the Florence Alphabet Stickers come in so many awesome colors, I was able to create a very colorful title! And the Word Salad Stickers are prefect for adding little phrases and pops of color around a page. 

I used the tree image from the Bella Blvd Family Frenzy House 1 Cut File and the green Splash Zone Summer Scramble patterned paper to make a couple of greenery pieces. I tucked these behind the yellow house and my photo. Isn't that little ephemera butterfly fluttering around outside the houses just the cutest?!

Thank you for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to grab your favorite Bella Blvd collections and document your crafty space! 

Home Sweet Home Collection: Mosaic Tile Patterned Paper, Welcome Home Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera Icons, Doohickey Stikcers

Splash Zone Collection: Summer Scramble Patterned Paper, Sunny Days Patterned Paper

Wish Big Girl Collection: Party Animal Patterned Paper

Wish Big Boy Collection: Borders Patterned Paper

Squeeze the Day Collection: Borders Patterned Paper, So Berry Sweet Patterned Paper, Ephemera Words

Let's Go On An Adventure Collection: Borders Patterned Paper, Wildflowers Patterned Paper

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Ice, Bell Pepper, McIntosh, Blueberry, Cotton Candy

Orange Mix Puffy Stars Stickers, Pickle Juice Mix Puffy Star Stickers, Word Salad Stickers

Bella Blvd Cut Files: Happy House, Family Frenzy House 1

 

The one with my favorite TV show | Friends

Hi everyone.  Heather here with one of my favorite things...FRIENDS!  Everyone around me knows I'm a Friends fanatic and this past year, I finally let my teenager watch it with me.  Let's just say the rest is history and now we have even more to relate to and talk about.  I love it.  

When I found out Lego had a special edition Friends set, my girl put it on her Christmas wish list.  We had a blast building it together and re-enacting our favorite scenes. Of course this was the first thing I wanted to document when I was assigned Favorite Things week - my daughter and Friends!

To create this layout, I knew I needed to recreate the famous yellow peep hole frame. Then I realized a page full of frames would be super cool. 

I pulled in various cut files from Bella Blvd and others and designed the page. To make sure everything would fit, I sized everything in my Silhouette Studio software first.

Once all the files were cut, I glued some down and stitched the others with my sewing machine. Next, I added the title.  Every episode of Friends is named with "The one with..." so I only thought it'd be appropriate to to my page title the same.

I have three photos in three yellow frames on this page. Two are from the building of the set and the third is of my daughter's completed set that now sits on her shelf in her bedroom.  We get it down occasionally and to "play" with.

I left three frames empty so I can add journaling to them.  I just need to find the right words. The great news is that when I do, I can use the inside cut-outs to make sure everything I want to say will fit in the available space.

Squeeze the Day 6x6 paper pad, Doohickey stickers, Caio Chip, ephemera icons, ephemera words, matte enamels; Heart Hugs, Bella Bows, Designer washi - red stripe, dotty, black white stripe, red hearts; Bella Besties Graph & Dot Bell Pepper


 

Fun with the February Mood Board!

I had so much fun using the February Mood Board as inspiration for today's layout! Isn't the board just gorgeous?! 

I decided to use the 9 square design as my main page design. I then used the heart from the Bella Blvd Tree Hearts Cut File to cut out hearts from different red, pink, white, and black patterned papers. All of the different hearts allowed me to play with all of the ideas I had from the mood board! 

I pulled a lot of the products, like this Acrylic Strawberry piece, from the yummy Squeeze the Day collection. For the bottom heart, I used the pink heart Sweetness Washi tape over a Bella Besties patterned paper to create my own pink and dark pink striped look like in the mood board. A red Heart Hug adds dimension.

The 'Love' ephemera piece and the hearts I fussy cut out of patterned paper are both from the Squeeze the Day collection too. I only adhered down the middle of the hearts so I could bend the sides upwards. Again, this look was inspired by the mood board!

The X's and O's were in the mood board too and I surely couldn't leave those out! I used the adorable Florence alphabet in Cotton Candy! The Puffy Star Stickers and Word Salad Stickers make great little embellishment pieces!

I also pulled the ombre inspiration from the mood board. When I came across these Squeeze the Day chipboard  flower stickers, I knew I had to include them as well! So simple, but so cool! 

I was very much inspired by the painted X's and O's look in the mood board, but I wasn't sure if I could paint the letters small enough on a heart this small. Here I used a Sharpie pen to hand write on this plain cardstock heart and I love how it turned out! I embellished it with a cherry Squeeze the Day ephemera piece.

I love each and every one of these little hearts and I can't decide which one is my favorite! I can't wait to use a mood board for a project again!

Thanks for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to use the February Mood Board for your next project!

Squeeze the Day collection: 6x6 Paper Pad, So Berry Patterned Paper, Fruity Hearts Patterned Paper, Doohickey Stickers, Chipboard, Sweetness Washi, Ephemera Words, Acrylic Berries

Bella Besties: Peep Graph Patterned Paper, Cotton Candy Patterned Paper, Graph & Dot Rainbow 6x6 Paper Pad

Extras: Word Salad Stickers, Wild Berry Mini Heart Hugs, Cotton Candy Florence Alphabet, Punch Puffy Starts, McIntosh Puffy Stars, Plaids & Dotty Patterned Paper Pack, Oh my Stars Ephemera, 6x6 Merry Christmas Paper Pad, Dad Style 12x12 Patterned Paper Pack

Bella Blvd Tree Hearts Cut File

 

Sweet Sisters Scrapbooking Layout | February Mood Board

Hi everyone.  Heather Leopard here, taking on another Mood Board challenge and I especially "love" this one because it's inspired by all the fun February lovey dovey things. I chose to do a layout about my sweet girls.

So here's my layout.  Let's take a look at how the mood board inspired me.

The things that stood out to me were the X's and O's and the images in the bottom row. I'd also say the garland of hearts is what inspired the banner. 

To get started, I sketch the layout out in my Silhouette software. I like to do this to make sure everything will fit.  It really takes guesswork out of the process and helps reduce waste too.

I started out by creating the background.  I cut the pink patterned paper to 3.5" x 12". I then cut the grey graph paper to 9" x 12" and adhered the grey graph paper over the pink, so that the pink would take up 1/4" of the page measuring 3". I used the 0.5" inch to glue the papers together.  I then added a small black strip of torn patterned paper to the border and stitched over it with a sewing machine (not shown). I also added mist splatters.

Next, I placed my banner up at the top of the page and then filled in the bottom of the page with a tic tac toe grid. I cut the white squares 2.2" x 2.25" and then just trimmed different patterned papers behind it. The only exception is the red heart clear cut; I put that one on top. Then I used the Florence alphabet digital cut file to create my "i", "u" and "X"'s. I then cut "O"s  at 2.25" x 2.25" to use as frames for my photos.

I used the same Florence alphabet cut file to cut the letters for "sisters" and used the offset feature in Silhouette them to create a black border around them to help them stand out on the page. 

I added a combo of stickers, Heart Hugs, Caio Chip, Bella Bows, etc. for the banner as well as around the page and title on the left.  I hope you can see just how inspired I was with this month's mood board.  I find these mood boards help me frame up my design while still allowing my creativity to flow.

Bella Besties Graph & Dot Gulf, Graph & Dot White patterned paper; Plaids & Dotty Ice patterned paper; Clear Cuts Hearts McIntosh; Squeeze the Day Caio Chip, Doohickey stickers, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words; Epoxy Hearts Christmas Mix, Matte Enamels; Heart Hugs Black & White; Bella Bows; Illustrated Faith Oh My Heavens Mix; Silhouette Cut Files: Florence Alphabet