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Monsters & Friends + Bella Besties Day 3 | Yarelys Rodriguez

Hey there Bella Friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys here to share with you a Halloween layout using the Monsters & Friends collection, the Bella Besties, and one of the Bella Blvd cut files.

I started my layout by painting the background. For this I used Distress Oxide in colors that match the collection. I also used Distress Oxide to paint my cut file.

Once the background dried, I started to build my layout. I backed the Happy Halloween cut file with the Bella Besties. Then, I glued my photo and the cut file with adhesive foam to create dimension.

To finish my layout, I added Bella-Pops, Ephemera, Doohickey, Ciao Chip, Epoxy and Matte Enamels.

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/tCRuvcOyQ2s

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Monsters & Friends Collection: Scary Cute paper.

Bella Besties: Graph & Dot in Pickle Juice, Ice, Plum and Orange.

Ephemera: Monsters & Friends.

Doohickey: Monsters & Friends.

Ciao Chip: Monsters & Friends.

Bella-Pops: Candy Bandit, Little Monster and Pumpkins.

Epoxy: Goblins and Stars Halloween Mix.

Matte Enamels: Halloween Mix.

Cut File: Happy Halloween.

HALLOWEEN | Sketch Week with Monsters & Friends Day 3 | Niki Rowland

 

Hi everyone! I have a new layout and process video to share using Monsters & Friends – I love this collection and Halloween is my favourite thing to scrap! It is also Sketch Week so I'm using the sketch below.

The sketch has three photo blocks on it. I had two photos so for the third one I went looking for items from the Monsters & Friends Cut Apart sheets to use. I found a great square which contains three monsters and the phrase ‘night squad’. This was perfect for my third block.

I used an orange print paper from Monsters & Friends for my background, it has tone-on-tone stars on it and is just fabulous! I trimmed it down and distressed the edges and stuck it to a black background. I added my photo blocks and a strip of black & white polka dot paper, as represented by the sketch.

I then went looking for items to add to the embellishment clusters. I used two 2” squares from the cut-apart sheet and then added embellishments, for example a chipboard ghost and several flowers from the Ephemera.

For my title I wanted to use the Halloween chipboard title but it got lost in the dots of the background paper. To get around this I mounted it first onto a sheet of white Freehand Graph Bella Besties paper from the Monsters & Friends coordinating Bella Besties pack. I trimmed around it so it had a border and this helped it to stand out against the dots perfectly.

I added machine stitching through my title and around the edge of the layout. I also added black splatters of paint and handwrote my journaling. I finished off with some enamel stars.

 

Thanks so much for joining me today and I hope you have enjoyed this super spooky layout! There is a process video below, enjoy watching along!

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Products used: Monsters & Friends Collection: 12x12 Papers, Cardstock Stickers, Monsters & Friends Bella Besties Paper Pack, Chipboard, Enamel Stars, Ephemera.

Black card, black acrylic paint 

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 + Bella Besties Week Day 5 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today sharing a new layout for the You Are My Sunshine + Bella Besties Week!  I love the Freehand Graph and Dot 12x12 patterned papers, so I thought it would be fun to highlight a bunch of the colors in rainbow order and create a fun background for my photo and embellishments to sit on.  Here's my layout: 

 

 

To start, I cut 1/2" inch strips of the following colors:  Plum, Blueberry, Gulf, Ice, Guacamole, Pickle Juice, Bell Pepper, Orange, Peep, Punch and McIntosh.  I distressed the edges of each strip and popped them all up on foam tape for some dimension.  I adhered them down to the B side of the Daily Details patterned paper.  The colors really pop on top of the black and white polka dots.  

 

 

Next, I matted my photo using the Young and Free patterned paper and adhered it directly to the rainbow strips.  For my title, I chose the "You Are My Sunshine" phrase from the Ciao Chip sticker sheet added some liquid adhesive to make sure everything would stick and not move later on.  

 

 

Then I started going through the Ephemera and pulled out a few florals and a large rainbow piece.  It fit perfectly right above my title, so I added some foam tape along with a bit of tangled thread under it.  

 

 

I've been itching to use the Fly Away Bella Pops set so I adhered the two butterflies on the bottom left and top right of my layout.  They're so fun and pretty!

 

 

I felt like my rainbow strips could use some highlighting so I took my white gel pen and added in some sketchy lines and also added some to the 'sunshine' chipboard sticker.  

 

 

 

I wanted to add a few more Bella Besties embellishments, so I took out the Trinkets Puffy Stickers in the same coordinating colors as my paper strips and added a floral onto each one.

 

 

Here's a final look at this bright and happy layout!

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope that I've inspired you in some way today!  Bella Besties coordinates with every Bella collection and I love working with both and seeing what fun layouts I can make.  Check out my process video below to see how it came together.  See you in my next post friends!

 

 

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

You Are My Sunshine Collection:  12x12 Patterned Papers, Bella Pops, Ephemera, Ciao Chip and Doohickey Cardstock Stickers; Bella Besties:  Freehand Graph and Dot Patterned Papers and Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Plum, Blueberry, Gulf, Ice, Guacamole, Pickle Juice, Bell Pepper, Orange, Peep, Punch and McIntosh; Word Salad Booklet.  

 

 

 

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 1 - Tegan

Good day Bella Blvd fans! Are you completely in love with the amazing new You Are My Sunshine collection yet?! I sure am! I had so much fun combining it with this cool week's sketch! Come take a look! 

I love that this sketch contains circles because sometimes I just plain forget to incorporate this shape into my layouts! I right away grabbed the Bella Blvd Pie Charts Cut-Outs paper! I trimmed off a piece that would take up about as much space as the original sketch circles did. I then layered it over some of my favorite patterned papers in the You Are My Sunshine collection! 

I started the layout by using the Freehand Graph & Dot Patterned Paper in Oyster as the base page. I then layered pieces of What A Day, Happy Thoughts, and My Only Sunshine Patterned Papers. Here I added a chipboard cloud, ephemera rainbow die cut, and super cute epoxy stickers.

How cute are the butterfly ephemera piece and Shine On sun shaped 3D Bella-Pop layered over the cut out?! So fun! 

The You Are My Sunshine collection was perfect for documenting back to school pics of my nieces! 

I created the title here using the adorable Florence Alphabet Stickers in Bell Pepper and the Sunshine chipboard piece. And how cute is that little epoxy pink butterfly?! 

Eeeek! I just LOVE the rainbow of colors in the You Are My Sunshine collection! Do you have a favorite part of this collection?! Is it the butterflies? The rainbows? The colors?! 

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

Bella Blvd Products Used:

You Are My Sunshine Collection: Happy Thoughts Patterned Paper, What A Day Patterned Paper, My Only Sunshine Patterned Paper, Ray of Sunshine Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers, Puffy Stickers, Ephemera, Shine On Bella-Pop

Florence Alphabet Stickers in Bell Pepper

Pie Charts Cut-Outs 

 

 

 

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