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She She | My Candy Girl & Bella Besties | Niki Rowland with Process Video

Hey everyone, Niki here today and I have another layout and process video to share for Bella Blvd. My assignment today was to use the new collection My Candy Girl and mix it with Bella Besties.

I really loved the chevron paper from the My Candy Girl collection and was totally inspired to use this colour scheme today. It contains light pink, turquoise and teal, which in Bella Blvd colours translate to Cotton Candy, Ice & Gulf. So I pulled out three sheets of the Hearts & Ombre paper in those colours and set about making a grid design on a white background.

 

I started off cutting a strip of Cotton Candy which I trimmed into four squares. I distressed the edges of each and placed them on the layout. I did the same with the chevron paper. I carried on with the Ice and Gulf papers too. The Cotton Candy and Gulf squares were placed heart side up whilst the Ice paper was placed ombre side up. This was so I had a mix of patterns on my little squares.

I machine stitched around a few of the squares and I also popped some up on foam pads.

I then added my photo together with a cluster of embellishments on the right side of the layout. I used lots of chipboard and ephemera from the My Candy Girl collection. I was careful to only use the colours in my colour scheme. I had an area of empty space on my photo so I added my title using Florence Alphabet stickers in Ice colour to this part of the photo. My little boy who is 2 and my daughter who is 10 are really the best of friends – he adores her and this photo is of them walking home after school pick up, him in the stroller and her walking beside him, and they are holding hands. This melts my heart! He can’t say her same Sophie properly yet, and calls her ‘She She’ instead which is completely adorable and I’m really pleased to have finally documented this story on this layout.

I decided my squares needed a little something extra so punch hearts using a heart punch out of the same papers for each row. I punched two hearts per square and layered them up. I stuck the together, fanned up the sides and also stitched through them on my sewing machine.

I finished off with puffy stickers from the Trinkets sets and also added some enamel hearts and some splatters of white paint. Here's another look at the finished layout:

Thank you so much for joining me today, enjoy the video above and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Products used: My Candy Girl collection: 12x12 papers, Chipboard, Ephemera

Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre: Cotton Candy, Ice & Gulf

Trinkets: Ice & Gulf, Cotton Candy, Peep & Punch

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Ice

Enamel Hearts

Pennants: Girl 

Monster & Friends & Large Title Day 4 | Melissa Mann

Good Morning, Bella friends!

I'm happy to be with you all today on the blog and I have a brand new Halloween project to share with you using the Monster and Friends collection! 

I don't really celebrate this holiday so I was glad I had some cute pictures of my niece from a couple of years ago that I was able to scrap using this adorable paper collection! I loved the color palette of this collection: purples, greens, yellows, and oranges. So much fun! 

I cut out my BIG title word "HALLOWEEN" using the digital cut file found in the Silhouette shop. I cut it out in black cardstock and then backed all the letters with various pattern papers. As you can see, for three of the letters, I used photos of my niece and I used one for my journaling "block".

I layered the big word on top of white cardstock that I had spritzed with ink. The white cardstock was layered on top of the purple star pattern paper from the Monster & Friend collection. I layered a cardstock sticker strip down both sides of the layout and then distressed a couple of spots and used my sewing machine to stitch it all down. 

Once I had everything stitched down, I embellished with die-cuts, stickers, and washi tape. I really loved how the BIG word popped against the white cardstock! 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:
1. Monsters & Friends Paper Collection
2. Halloween Cut File
3. Monsters & Friends Doohickey Stickers
4. Florence Alphabet Stickers - Plum & Pickle Juice
5. Break Rules Washi Tape
6. Monsters & Friends Ephemera
7. Stars Halloween Mix
8. Matte Enamels Halloween Mix

Thanks for stopping by!

Fall & Cut File Week | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you today sharing a colorful fall layout using one of the Bella Blvd cut files and some Bella Besties!

You can check out all the Bella Blvd cut files at the Silhouette Design Store or at Lori Whitlock! Today I am using the Autumn Leaf cut file I picked up in the Silhouette Design Store. I wanted to create a fun colorful fall wreath and this cut file was perfect! 

I cut the file out on some of the Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre papers. These are perfect to create a colorful rainbow in all different shapes and sizes! Once I had all my leaves cut out I created a wreath will al the cuts. I made it nice and full and I just love all the texture! 

To add a little bit of interest I took some white paint and splattered it all over the leaves. 

The photo I am using today is of my daughter Alyssa and Sofia who is my son's girlfriend! They went out to the apple orchard for apple cider donuts and snapped this super cute photo! 

For a little bit of texture and detail I used some of the Bella Blvd Puffy Trinkets and sprinkled them around the wreath. I added in some different stickers from my Bella Blvd stash that matched with the colors in the wreath! To finish off the layout I matted the trimmed down white cardstock onto some black cardstock and an older Bella Blvd pattern paper from the Panda's and Popsicles collection. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Make sure to stop by the Silhouette Design Store and check out all the fun Bella Blvd cut files!

Autumn Leaf Cut File | Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre | Puffy Trinkets | Aria Alpha |

 

 

To The Moon Fall Projects Day 3 - Tegan

Good day Bella Blvd friends! On today's layout I used the adorable To The Moon collection to create this fun fall layout! I made sure to focus on the red, orange, aqua, white, and navy coloring in the To The Moon Besties Patterned Paper kit. I had SO MUCH FUN using this astronaut/boy themed collection to document some fall pics of my nieces! I call it 'Out of This World Fall Fun'! Come take a look! 

I used the super pretty Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre Ice Patterned Paper for my background paper. All of the ombre papers make amazing backgrounds! I then blended some of my favorite To The Moon chipboard stickers and patterned papers with the coordinating Bella Besties patterned papers. I used the darling Florence Alphabet Stickers in Guacamole to start the title!

Here I used the Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre Blueberry Patterned Paper and the Bella Besties Graph & Dot Patterned Paper in McIntosh layered with some To The Moon papers. The Bella Besties papers make great layering pieces! I then embellished this photo with adorable robot and astronaut chipboard pieces and a black corrugated Heart Hug sticker. Isn't that robot just the cutest?!

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I then used the super fun Aria Puffy Sticker in Orange to finish the title. I then finished off the page by using clusters of the Trinkets Puffy Stickers in McIntosh around the page. I love dimension they add! What is your favorite part of the To The Moon collection?! 

Thanks for joining me today! I hope I inspired you to grab some of the adorable To The Moon collection and some Bella Besties Patterned Papers for your next fall project! 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

To The Moon Collection: Borders Patterned Paper, Chipboard Icons Stickers, Doohickey Stickers, A Boy's World Puffy Stickers

Bella Besties Patterned Papers (To The Moon 12 x 12 Bella Besties Kit): Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper-Ice, Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper-Blueberry, Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper-Guacamole, Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper-Orange, Graph & Dot Patterned Paper-McIntosh

Alphabet Stickers: Florence Alphabet Stickers-Guacamole, Aria Puffy Alphabet Stickers-Orange

Heart Hugs: Black & White Heart Hugs Stickers

Trinkets Puffy Stickers in McIntosh

You are my Sunshine Alphas Week Day 5 | Niki Rowland

Hey everyone! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) back with you today and I'm using the You are My Sunshine Collection. It’s so bright and happy, I love it so much! I have also made a process video for this layout which can be viewed below.

I really wanted to use the rainbow paper but it is a little tricky to use as a background because it has lots of small repeating rainbows on a white background. I was determined to use it as a background though so in order to do that I had to create some white space.

I cut a large circle in the middle of the paper. I distressed the edges and planned to mount it on white. This provided with me a large white aperture in the middle of the layout. It didn’t quite work because the white background of the rainbow paper blended too much with the white circle. So I took it apart again and added a pink circle layer too – this was perfect!

I then made a few colourful rosettes using You Are My Sunshine papers. I simply cut different width strips, used a border punch along one long edge of some, then scored every quarter inch. I concertina folded and glued the ends together. I then flattened them into rosettes and glued them with a paper circle on the back. I arranged these around my layout and stuck them in place.

I cut my photo to a circle too and layered this on top of the rosettes. On the middle of each rosettes I added flowers from the ephemera. I added my title using beautiful Aria puffy stickers in rainbow colours! I also used Florence alphabet stickers too.

I added two Bella Pops: the sun and the rainbow. The rainbow is extra special as it comes with enamel detailing on the rainbow and two enamel clouds!

I finished off by stitching through my title with machine stitching and I also added a few of the cute puffy hearts from the Aria stickers.

Thank you so much for joining me today and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Products used: 

You are my Sunshine Collection: 12x12 patterned papers, Bella Pops Chasing Rainbows & Sunshine, Ephemera

Aria Puffy Alphabet Stickers: Peep, Cotton Candy, Orange, Bell Pepper, Gulf, Ice, Plum

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Orange 

Other products: white card 

You Are My Sunshine & Alphas Week Day 4 | Erica

Hey friends! Erica here with you today with a colorful layout using the You Are My Sunshine collection.

This week we are mixing in some of the Aria and Florence Bella Blvd Alphas and I had fun creating a colorful title for my layout! If you follow me you know I typically use a white background but I decided to try something different. 

I started with the 12x12 Feeling Sunny and trimmed it down to 7.50x12 and adhere to the top of a piece of white cardstock. I added some borders from the You Are My Sunshine Borders paper along with some other pattern paper strips from the collection. For a little bit of interest I used the colorful stripe scallop border from the 12x12 Doohickey sheet. 

I used my We R Memory Keepers circle cutter to cut out some circles to layer behind my photo that I also cut out in a circle and placed in the center of the page. For my title I used the Aria Puffy Alphas in Punch, Orange, Bell Pepper and Guacamole! The Aria alphas were perfect to add to the yellow polka dot strip for a sub title! I had so much fun on my birthday in Chicago and this layout was so much fun to create! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you have been inspired to create using the Aria and Florence Alpha Stickers! Have a great day!

Aria Puffy Stickers in Punch, Orange, Bell Pepper and Guacamole | You Are My Sunshine Collection 

You Are My Sunshine Alphas Week Day 3 | Yarelys Rodriguez

Hey there Bella Friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys here to share with you my new layout using the You Are My Sunshine collection and focusing in the Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers and the Florence Alphabet Stickers. I also used two of the Bella Blvd cut files.

I started my layout by drawing hearts for my background, using the Heart and Arrow cut file. Once the hearts were drawn, I painted and hand stitched around them. Then, I filled them with the Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers and the Florence Alphabet Stickers.

I went through the papers of the collection and picked the Happy Thoughts, Ray Of Sunshine, Rise & Shine, Sunshine and What A Day, and used them to cut the Daffodil cut file. I cut the flowers in different sizes to layer them and create dimension.

To build my layout, I glued my photo and the flowers. For my title I used one of the ephemera pieces of the collection, and to finish my layout, I added Bella-Pops 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. Thanks for stopping by!

Have a lovely day!

Yarelys xx

@dreamsandpapers

https://youtu.be/wX_I8T7BGl0

Bella Blvd Supplies Used

You Are My Sunshine Collection: Happy Thoughts, Ray Of Sunshine, Rise & Shine, Sunshine and What A Day papers.

Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers: Guacamole, Ice, Blueberry, Cotton Candy, Peep, Punch and Bell Pepper.

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Pickle Juice, Ice, Blueberry, Cotton Candy, Peep, Punch and Bell Pepper.

Ephemera: You Are My Sunshine.

Bella-Pops: Fly Away.

Epoxy: Hello Summer.

Cut Files: Daffodil and Heart and Arrow.

You Are My Sunshine + Alphas Week Day 2 | Sarah

Hello to all Bella friends! It's me Sarah (@redoaklines) back on the blog, and today I'm bringing you some scrappy, crafty goodness featuring the latest Bella collection You Are My Sunshine coupled with some Bella necessities. When I say "necessities", I'm talking Aria Puffies and Florence Alphas, hehe!

Here's what I came up with:

 

 

I honestly can't quit using all of the Florence alpha stickers (on all my projects!). I love that they come in an assortment of colors, and they always match up so perfectly with any of the Bella collections. Using it with the You Are My Sunshine collection is no exception.

For this layout, I turned my title into a rainbow of Florence alphas stickers. How?! I literally just repeated my title "Me Myself" in an assortment of colors. I love how it turned out!

 

 

Then, I used some fun Aria puffy stickers to complete my title "This Is Me".

 

 

By using two different fonts for your title, it adds so much dimension to your project. If you haven't tried it yet, give it a go! I bet you'll love how it turns out.

 

 

Lastly, I just wanted to add how much I really love this bright, colorful collection. The cute little bees in the You Are My Sunshine collection are definitely a favorite.

Have you gotten your hands on any of it?! Make sure to check with your local scrapbook stores, or check your favorite online stories! I know you'll love it as much as I do. 

 

That's all I've got for today. So what'd you think?!

Hopefully, I inspired you to create something beautiful! Or maybe you're now inspired to create something cute with the You Are My Sunshine collection?! Either way, feel free to share with us on all of Bella's socials by tagging us. We'd love to see what you make.

As always, thanks for letting me share my work with you today, and thanks for following along.

Until next time,

Sarah.

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

You Are My Sunshine: Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons, Ciao Chip, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Puffy Stickers, Epoxy Stickers, Bella Pops; Besties Collection: Aria Alpha Puffy Stickers; Legacy Collection: Florence Alphas

You Are My Sunshine and Bella Besties Day 2 | Tegan

Good Day, Bella Besties (pun intended)! It's Tegan here with you today and I am excited to share today's layout with you all. I had so much fun mixing the amazing You Are My Sunshine collection with some Bella Besties elements. Here I mixed in some Bella Besties Patterned Papers and Trinkets Puffy Stickers. Come take a look!

I started out by using the Freehand Graph & Dot Patterned Paper in Cotton Candy as my background page. I love that it is soft enough that it allows the rest of the page elements to pop... and it definitely reminds me of real cotton candy! And I can't get over how stinkin' darling the graphic elements are in this collection. I mean, isn't that the cutest little bee you have ever seen?! Did you notice the piece of Peep Freehand Graph & Dot Patterned Paper tucked under the heart cut outs too!?

While laying all of my paper and pieces that anchor my pics, I added some of the cool Freehand Graph & Dot Patterned Paper in Pickle Juice. The Bella Blvd Ephemera pieces are some of my favorite pieces of each collection. Here I embellished the adorable butterfly with a couple heart shaped Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Black. I love the dimension that these add. I then sprinkled some of the Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Punch, Peep, and Cotton Candy around my page. 

I created the title using the chipboard word 'SUN' stickers and the cool Florence Alphabet Stickers in Blueberry. I embellished the sun shaped sticker with an Epoxy Butterfly Sticker and more Trinkets stickers! 

I can't get enough of the You Are My Sunshine collection, Bella Besties Patterned Papers, and Trinkets Stickers! I had so much fun layering them with the heart shaped Cut-Outs from the Love You Lots Pack! 

Thanks for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to grab some of the Bella Besties and the You Are My Sunshine collection for your next project! 

Bella Blvd Products Used:

You Are My Sunshine Collection: Young and Free Patterned Paper, My Only Sunshine Patterned Paper, Shine Bright Patterned Paper, Oh Happy Day Puffy Stickers, Ephemera Icons, Chipboard Stickers, Doohickey Stickers

Bella Besties Freehand Graph & Dot Patterned Papers: Cotton Candy, Pickle Juice, Peep

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: Black, Punch Peep & Cotton Candy

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Blueberry

Cut-Outs: Love You Lots

Sketch Week Day 4 | Yarelys Rodriguez

Hey there 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 new collection, You Are My Sunshine, as well as one of the Bella Blvd cut files.

I start my layout by cutting the Rainbow cut file and backing it with different papers from the collection. Then I made two rosettes using the Feeling Sunny and What A Day papers.

Now it’s time to build my layout! I glued the rosettes, then I glued my photo with adhesive foam to give it dimension.

For my title I used the word summer from the Ciao Chip and the Florence Alphabet Stickers in Ice. To finish my layout I added Ephemera, Doohickey, Epoxy, Puffy Stickers and more Ciao Chip.

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

https://youtu.be/jx4u4h1mekw

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

You Are My Sunshine Collection: Everyday Magic, Happy Thoughts, Feeling Sunny, What A Day, Sunshine and Rise & Shine papers

Ephemera: You Are My Sunshine

Ciao Chip: You Are My Sunshine

Doohickey: You Are My Sunshine

Epoxy: Hello Summer

Puffy Stickers: Oh Happy Day

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Ice

Cut File: Rainbow

Sketch Week Day 3 | Sarah

Hi, Bella friends! It's me Sarah (@redoaklines) back on the blog today. Today, I'm excited to share my take on this month's sketch. Have you seen it yet? It's a fun one that I know you're going to love!

If you haven't seen it yet, I'll drop it below:

Aren't those circles awesome!? I love the look of this one, so you know I had a blast creating with it. Here's what I came up with:

It's the circles for me! I really love how I was able to use three different photos for this design. 

I wanted to focus on using the bright You Are My Sunshine collection for this one. I knew that the colors would be perfect around those circles.

Even with just a handful of products used here, this collection really brought out this sketch design. I used various patterned papers to back my photos, scattered some ephemera icons and a few stickers, and that's pretty much it!

For my title, I just added that "Sunshine" Ciao chip! Easy peasy, right?! And then, I finished it off with some journaling. 

And that's all I have for today! I hope that I've inspired you to use this month's sketch because it's definitely a fun one to use with all of those circles. If you do end up using this sketch, we'd love to see it! Please feel free to share with us on all of Bella's socials by tagging us.

As always, thanks for letting me share my work with you today, and thanks for following along.

Until next time,

Sarah.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

You Are My Sunshine Collection: Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons, Ciao Chip, Doohickey Sticker Sheet; Legacy Collection: Florence Alphabet Stickers; Stars Puffy Stickers