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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 2 Tuesday | Melissa Mann

Good Morning, everyone!

I'm sharing a brand new project for this week that was made with the new To the Moon paper collection and the Bella Besties paper collections. I love how all of these paper collections work together seamlessly for any project you may be working on.

To start my layout, I backed a piece of Kraft card stock against a pattern paper from the To the Moon collection. I then layered a piece of vellum over the Kraft card stock. I cut a large circle out of a piece of scrap paper and then cut it apart like slices of pie. I pulled a selection of eight different patterned papers and cut a piece of the "pie" from each one and then layered that on the base of my layout. I stitched the edges of each piece of pattern paper down with my sewing machine. I layered my photo over another piece of Bella Bestie's paper and more vellum. 

The next step was to get my title and subtitle down. I used the Aria Alphabet Stickers and the Florence Alphabet Stickers to create my title around the upper half of my circle. To continue the fluidity of movement and enhance the circles, I punched more circles out of pattern paper and place them around the large circle I created with the pie shaped pieces of pattern paper. I used chipboard, stickers, matte dots, and die-cuts to complete the project.

I loved how this project turned out! Full of fun and color :-)

 

Supplies Used:

1. Bella Blvd To The Moon Paper Collection
2. Bella Besties Graph and Dot Paper Collection
3. Aria Alphabet Stickers - Blueberry
4. Florence Alphabet Stickers - Gulf
5. Blue and White Dotted Washi Tape
6. Bella Pops - Shine On
7. To The Moon Ephemera Pack
8. To The Moon Doohickey Stickers
9. Matte Enamels - Dog Mix
10. To The Moon - Ciao Chip

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

Father's Day Week Day 6 | Tegan

Happy Saturday Bella Blvd friends! I hope you are enjoying all of the amazing Father's Day creations this week! I couldn't wait to create with the To The Moon collection - is it packed with so many fun colors and graphics! For today's layout, I documented some old family photos I had of my dad and I love how this page turned out! 

I used the gray outerspace print Shoot For the Moon patterned paper as my main background. I then added strips of the Bella Besties Freehand Graph & Dot patterned papers to create a bold, colorful background. I think having the Bella Besties patterned papers on hand make it so easy to create fun and cool backgrounds! Here I also added some chipboard space pieces. Aren't the chipboard elements in this collection just so cool?! 

I then used some of my favorite patterned papers from To the Moon to cut out banners so I could create a bold graphic design on the page. I used the The Sky's The Limit, Rocket Growth, Reach For The Stars, Out Of This World, and the Little Explorer patterned papers. I had fun embellishing the banners with some To The Moon Chipboard stickers and Doohickey stickers and Bella Blvd felt pennant stickers.

I used the awesome Aria Puffy Stickers in McIntosh to create my simple title - dad. And how cute is that little astronaut ephemera piece! 

What is your favorite part of the To The Moon collection?! Is it the awesome colors or the adorable graphics?! Or is it the adorable patterned papers? I love so much about this collection I can't choose a single favorite thing! 

Thanks for stopping in today! I hope I have inspired you to use the awesome To The Moon collection for your next project documenting dad! And I hope all of the fathers out there have an amazing Father's Day! 

Bella Blvd Products Used:

To The Moon Collection: Shoot For The Moon patterned paper, Out Of This World patterned paper, Reach For The Stars patterned paper, Rocket Growth patterned paper, The Sky's The Limit patterned paper, A Boy's World Puffy Stickers, Chipboard Stickers, Doohickey Stickers, Ephemera 

Bella Besties Freehand Graph & Dot patterned papers: Ice, Orange, McIntosh, Pickle Juice, Bell Pepper

Aria Puffy Alphabet Stickers in McIntosh

 

My Candy Girl & Bella Besties Week Day 2 | Melissa Mann

Good Morning, everyone! This is Melissa here with you today sharing another new project made with the new My Candy Girl collection and the Bella Besties paper collection. 

My brother shared a couple of new photos of my niece, Sage, enjoying a yummy donut this past week on a trip they made to Texas. As soon as I saw the photos, I new I had to use them with the My Candy Girl collection that has a fun donut patterned paper! I layered my white card stock on the Bella Besties Heart & Ombre and stitched down strips of pattern paper from the My Candy Girl paper collection. 

After stitching the strips of paper down, I layered my photos on top of vellum and a piece of Orange Hearts Clear Cuts and placed it on top of the strips of paper. I layered chipboard stickers, puffy stickers, and Bella Pops around my photos. 

I used the "Sweet" acrylic word as part of my title along with the alphabet stickers from the Doohickey sticker sheet. My typed journaling went underneath this. I love how sweet and girly this layout turned out!

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

 - Bella Besties Heart & Ombre Paper Collection
- My Candy Girl Paper Collection
- Bella Besties Graph & Dot Paper Collection
- Clear Cuts - Orange Hearts
- "Sweet" Acrylic Word
- My Candy Girl Ciao Chips
- My Candy Girl Doohickey Stickers
- My Candy Girl Bella Pops

To the Moon Week Day 4 | Melissa Mann

Hey Bella friends! It's Melissa here with you again today with a new layout using the fantastic new release of "To The Moon"! This line has the best color palette - I just love all the shades of blue and green and orange in this new release.

I was struggling with this project at first because I just could not figure out what picture(s) to use for this project. I finally ran across this old school picture of my husband from around 1978 and inspiration struck! I scanned this old picture in and cleaned it up a little bit and then changed it to a black and white photo since the original had really yellowed from age. I printed two 3x4 sized photos and got to work! 

I layered a white piece of card stock on top of two pattern papers: one was from the To The Moon collection and one was a sheet from Bella Besties Graph and Dot collection. I stitched these all down together and distressed the edges of the white card stock and the inner pattern paper.  I spritzed some ink blots on the white card stock and let that dry. I layered another piece of Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre paper with two other pieces from the To The Moon collection and used my notebook edge punch on several of those blocks of paper. These were all stitched down and then my photos were adhered on top. 

I placed my title in the lower right hand corner underneath the picture and my strips of journaling underneath that. I then used washi tape, Doohickey stickers, and puffy stickers to complete my embellishment clusters. I really loved how this layout turned out!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at the new projects the team has been sharing this week with this brand new collection! We can't wait to see how you are using it for your projects :-)

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

-To the Moon Collection
- Bella Besties Graph and Dot - Gulf
- Bella Besties Heart and Ombre - Oyster
- Florence Alphabet Stickers - Blueberry
- Washi Tape - Ice Dot 
- To the Moon Doohickey Stickers
- Puffy Stickers - A Boy's World

Bella Besties & Acrylics Week Day 6 | Melissa Mann

Good Morning! This is Melissa here today with you and I have a brand new project using the Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre paper pack. 

I adhered a block of Kraft card stock to the pink Bella Besties Ombre paper. I wanted to find a way to subtly use the Aria alphabet stickers so I layered three separate pieces of pattern paper from Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre paper pack and a piece from the Let's Go On An Adventure paper pack. Once these three were layered down and the bottom edge had been distressed, I stitched all of these down at the top of the block. Afterwards, I layered the top piece of the pattern paper with the Aria Alphabet stickers. I LOVED how it turned out!

On the lower half of the layout, I placed a digital cut file that I had cut out of white card stock. This is the "Day At the Park" cut file and it can be found HERE. I layered more pattern paper behind the word PARK and then glued this down on the bottom half of this project. 

My pictures were layered on top of some tags and other die-cuts from the Squeeze the Day Ephemera Icons pack. Other embellishments were layered that included Doohickey stickers, Acrylic Hearts, and Ciao Chip.

This is the finished result! I loved the big impact of that BIG title and the subtle mono layer at the top of the layout. 

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

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

    Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre Paper Collection
- Day At The Park Digital Cut File
- Let's Go On An Adventure Paper Collection
- Bella Besties Graph and Dot Paper Collection
- Squeeze The Day 6x6 Paper Pad
- Aria Alphabet Stickers (Punch)
 - Squeeze The Day Ephemera Icons
- Acrylic Shapes Heart Mix
- Home Sweet Home Doohickey Stickers
- Squeeze The Day Ciao Chips

 

Fun With Acrylics Week Day 1 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today with a fun layout focusing on the Bella Blvd acrylic words and shapes embellishments. I absolutely LOVE these pieces as titles and they add dimension and interest to your projects.  For this layout, I combined both the Squeeze The Day and Chloe collections.  The photo I used is of my two boys using a cat filter and I thought it would be fun to combine the two collections.  Here's what I made: 

 

 

I was completely inspired by both the "Adorable" and "Sweet" acrylic words and based a lot of my layout off of those two pieces.  I made them my title and added onto it using the Florence Alphas in Punch.

 

 

Then, I took the Hearts & Ombre paper in Punch and used the ombre side to blend on a few Distress Oxide ink pads with a stencil from my stash.  While this mixed media is fairly subtle, it still gives my page a little something in the background.  I trimmed the paper down and adhered it to the graph side of the Freehand Graph and Dot paper in Oyster and ran it through my sewing machine to create a fun border.  

 

 

Next, I matted my photo using a few of the 6x6 papers from the Chloe collection and distressed the edges of each layer.  Then I trimmed a few strips of paper from the Squeeze The Day collection and folded them in a messy accordion style and ran them through my sewing machine.  I layered the pieces right under my photo and used them as a shelf for my other embellishments.  

 

 

Squeeze The Day has the cutest strawberry and heart acrylic shapes so I layered those up with a few different ephemera die cuts and a Ciao Chip sticker from Chloe.

 

 

Lastly, I added in some epoxy heart stickers, matte enamels and white acrylic paint splatters to finish the page off.  I think this step may be one of my favorites!

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by the blog today and I hope that I've inspired you in some way today!  Do you have any of the Bella acrylics in your stash?  Make sure to tag me in your social media posts, I'd love to see what you create with them!  Have a great week and I'll see you in my next post!

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Squeeze The Day: 12×12 Patterned Papers, Acrylic Words and Shapes, Ephemera Icons, Epoxy Stickers, Matte Enamels and Ephemera Words; Chloe: 6x6 Paper Pad, Ciao Chip Sticker;  Bella Besties: Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper in Punch; Freehand Graph and Dot Paper in Oyster; Word Salad Booklet; Acrylic Shapes; Florence Alphas in Punch

 

 

Spring Week Day 6 | Nathalie

Hi there Bella Blvd friends!

Nathalie with you today to continue sharing more Spring inspiration using the beautiful Bella Blvd products.   Unfortunately, we are in lockdown here in Toronto, Canada which means we are not able to fully enjoy our Spring, instead, I am dipping into past memories to relive those glorious days.   I just love when you find the perfect photo and have an idea in mind...

 

 

As soon as I saw the new Spring Break cut file, I rapidly formed this layout in my head... It all started by copying and welding the cut file 4 times to create the cut out for my page from white cardstock.  I cut it twice, glued the cut outs together, and then backed the empty word with papers from  Home Sweet Home and Chloe collections.

 

 

I trimmed a paper from the Fireworks and Freedom collection  to about 11.5"x11.25" and framed it with Bella Besties Dot/Graph in blueberry.  Using a bit of foam adhesive, I attached the cut out to the background right at the center line of the page.

 

When I copied the cut file, I made sure to leave spaces for my photos.  So, after framing them with a paper from Home Sweet Home, I glued them to the top right and bottom left corners of the cut out.

 

 

I used ephemera pieces, chipboard stickers and fussy cut flowers and butterflies all from Home Sweet Home to create  two large clusters, one for each photo.  Then scattered some of the small flowers around the cut out.

 

 

All that was left to do was add my lines of journal and enamel dots for the "i"s.   I love how this turned out. All the colors and flowers bring a sense of the outdoors -in all its glory- to my page.

I hope that you are inspired by this week's projects, and use your Bella Blvd. goodies to document your Spring memories.

XO

 

 

SUPPLIES:

Digital Cut File:  SPRING BREAK ( # 346835) - Silhouette store

FIREWORKS and FREEDOM:  Patterned Paper

HOME SWEET HOME Collection: Patterned Paper,  Ephemera, Chipboard Stickers, Doohickey Stickers

CHLOE Collection: 6x6 Paper Pad

BELLA BESTIES Collection: Dot/graph - Blueberry

BELLA HEART HUGS - Mini Thank you

Spring & Easter Week Day 5 | Tarrah McLean

Hi Bella friends and Happy Easter!

It's Tarrah McLean back with you and this week on the Bella blog we are sharing Spring/Easter projects using Bella cut files! The Silhouette Design store has AMAZING Bella cut files - you need to check them out!

I decided to cut out the super cute Easter Egg basket cut file from the brown colour in the Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre paper pack. I enlarged the Happy cut file title and cut this out 3 times from the yellow paper in the Bella Besties Graph and Dot pack. I adhered them all together so the title had some dimension and looked a similar depth to chipboard.  

I separated all the pieces of the Easter basket and cut them all with different coloured papers from the Bella Besties graph and dot paper. 

I added craft foam underneath the basket cut file and adhered it to a plain white cardstock background. I then added craft foam underneath the eggs and my photo and arranged them in the basket. My photo is of my 2 sons cuddling a life sized Easter Bunny! Super cute! I adhered the Happy cut file title at the base of the basket and took the Aria Alphabet puffy stickers in Punch and spelt out Easter to make up the rest of my title. At the top of my photo, I added a tab die-cut and below the title I added a pennant die-cut and on the Easter basket cut file I added some of the sweet small flowers all from the Squeeze the Day ephemera pack. 

I also scattered and arranged some florals, foliage and a pink heart around the outside of the Easter basket from the Home Sweet Home ephemera pack. I took some of the Blueberry puffy sticker shapes and added them scattered around my page. I adhered a die-cut heart to the centre of the 'a' in Happy and layered a red puffy heart in the middle also. I just love how bright and bold Bella products look on a layout! Everything co-ordinated so perfectly too!   

I typed some journaling onto my laptop, printed it out and then cut it up into strips. I adhered them above the title to help link the title with the journaling. I am loving strip journaling at the moment! Down the left side of the page, I trimmed a small strip of the Blueberry paper from the Bella Besties Graph and Dot paper  and adhered it down flush with the edge of the cardstock. I also place a scalloped border next to the paper strip from the Squeeze the Day Doohickey sticker sheet.    

Thanks so much for stopping by the Bella blog today! I hope you enjoyed my layout and that you are inspired in some way to create a Spring or Easter project using Bella products!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Bella Blvd products used:

Bella cut files

Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre paper pack

Bella Besties Graph and Dot pack

Aria Alphabet puffy stickers in Punch

Squeeze the Day ephemera pack

Home Sweet Home ephemera pack

Blueberry puffy sticker shapes

Squeeze the Day Doohickey sticker sheet