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To the Moon + Hearts & Ombre Collection Week- Day 1 | Sarah K

Happy Monday, Bella friends. Hope your weekend was swell. It's me Sarah (@redoaklines) on the blog today, and I have a new layout to share using the To The Moon Collection. I wanted to share how I used it with the Hearts & Ombre collection and stick with a love themed project.

Here's what I came up with:

It's not a traditional Valentine-ish project with lots of pinks and reds, but I still wanted to document the love I have for one of our dogs! I added some Bella Heart Hugs, so it totally passes as a lovey dovey layout, right?! Hah!

I used Bella cut files and coordinating lots of Hearts & Ombre papers to create this layout. All of the Bella cut files can be found in the Silhouette Design Store. The first cut file I used was the Lanterns cut file to cut out the green and blue circles.

Then, with another ombre paper, I cut out the You Color My World cut file. The play on words, "You Color My World" goes along with the To the Moon collection so perfectly, and I love that this cut file has two different fonts in its design.

Next, I cut out the I Love You cut file using the same ombre paper that I used for the "You Color My World" die cut. I used the backside of the heart cut out to bring out more of that reddish color.

I added a variety of other fun embellishments from the To the Moon collection to complete the look of my layout. That would include various puffy stickers, Doohickey stickers, and Ciao Chips.

Lastly, to create more of that starry look, I stamped stars all over my white cardstock paper. 

That's all I have for now! Don't you just love this To The Moon collection. It's such a fun one to use, even those pet layouts. Let's be real - documenting the love you have with your pets is a must! Also, can I just reiterate how much I adore the Hearts & Ombre collection. The papers will always coordinate with all of the Bella collections, so there is no need to color match when creating! Talk about convenience!

Anyway, hopefully I have inspired you to create something beautiful today. As always, thanks for letting me share my work with you today, and thanks for following along. Use #bellablvd or #bellablvdllc to tag us on social media if you use Bella products.

Until next time,

Sarah.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

To The Moon Collection: Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Ciao Chipboard Stickers, Puffy Stickers, Bella Besties: Hearts & Ombre Rainbow Collection Kit; Legacy Collection: Heart Hugs; Bella Cut Files: Lanterns, You Color My World, I Love You

 

Sketch Week - Day 6 | Nathalie DeSousa

Hi there!

Nathalie with you today to continue with this week's sketch inspiration.   A sketch is an easy and fast way to put a layout together, as it works as a blueprint for your imagination.   Let's check the sketch (provided by Brianna) one more time:

I just love the shapes she has used in the sketch, and decided to shrink it for my layout, featuring To the Moon collection:

I wanted to bring the elements of the sketch as the focus of the layout, so I decided to shrink the sketch so that it fits inside a 8.5x11 white cardstock page.  This just makes anything that is inside the large circle of the page the focus of the layout, while giving me space to play with paper.

I started by cutting out a 6" circle from the top of the white cardstock, and hand stitched a small frame around it. I chose a color of embroidery floss that matches the color of my nephew's suit.   Once I was done with the stitching, I backed the space with the Daily Details paper.

I glued the entire page then to the center of the Imagine paper. I left the edge of the white paper clean so that it pops from the background, but considered adding a handstitched edge, too.  Simplicity won this time around, though!

I used two 2x3 photos (I layered pieces of paper from To The Moon collection behind them), and placed them as per the sketch.  Here, I cut a 4" circle from Little Explorer paper, and a 3.5" circle from the Out Of This World paper. I handstitched around each circle with matching embroidery floss.   I follow the sketch, and tucked the circles under the photos, then proceeded to embellish it all

I used the puffy stars, and doohickey stars and hearts from the collection to add the stars around the photos and circles.  I am using Heart Hugs to bring in more texture and tie all the clusters together.  The To the Moon Chipboard stickers had the perfect sentiment for my title.   All that was left was to add a few drops of black ink, and the journaling.

I hope this inspires you to take a chance with the sketch. You are going to be amazed at how easy your layout will come together using the sketch as inspiration!

 

XO

 

BELLA BLVD supplies:

TO THE MOON collection: Patterned paper, puffy stickers, Doohickey stickers, chipboard stickers

Heart Hugs collection: Big Boy

 

Off The Page Projects Week- Day 2 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today sharing some fun gift tags that I created using the Let Us Adore Him collection.  I was originally going to make cards but I opted for gift tags since I'll be wrapping and sending out quite a few boxes in the mail and thought they would be fun additions to some of the gifts.  Here's what I made: 

 

 

I had so much fun creating all of these!  For my circle tags, I used a 3" inch circle punch and for the regular tags, I used a tag from my stash as a template.  Before embellishing, I ran most of them through my sewing machine to add some fun stitching and on a few of the other ones, I added faux stitching using my white gel pen.  For the tags below, I punched them both out of the Light of the World patterned paper and added some of the ephemera as embellishments.  I also pulled in my snowflake punch to add an extra layer.  As finishing touches, I added a few hearts from the Epoxy sticker sheet and the Doohickey stickers.  I love adding different types of ribbon/twine to my tags for extra color.  

 

 

 

For the next tags, I used the cute Mary Bella Pop as a main element on one and a large ephemera piece for the other tag.  I layered in a few of the Doohickey cardstock stickers, more ephemera and added a Cute Clip to one. The enamel dots were a great final detail.  Don't have a sewing machine?  Try adding faux stitching to your tags!

 

 

I pulled out several of my circle punches for these next tags and punched them out using a few different patterned papers.  I added a Heart Hug to one and punched out one of the sentiments from the Daily Details paper and layered it up on the other.  I added a bit of tangled thread for some interest and also pulled in a few of the crosses from the Joy Puffy Stickers.

 

 

For these tags I used more of my punches, Heart Hugs, Ciao Chip Chipboard stickers, ephemera and puffy stickers.  

 

 

Here's the last tag where I layered a bunch of different elements from the collection all together.  

 

 

An overview of these fun tags:

 

 

Last one: 

 

 

These tags were a lot of fun to make, I hope that I've inspired you in some way today!  I can't wait to add these onto my gifts!  Do you enjoy making tags?  Thank you so much for stopping by and I'll see you in my next post!

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Let Us Adore Him Collection: 12x12 Patterned Papers, Ephemera Words and Icons, Doohickey Cardstock Stickers, Ciao Chip Chipboard Stickers, Epoxy Stickers, Puffy Stickers, Bella Pops.  Bella Besties: Heart Hugs and Cute Clips.

 

 

Sketch Week & Monsters and Friends | Sarah

Happy Friday, Bella friends! It's me Sarah (@redoaklines), here today on the blog, and I'm closing out October's sketch week with my take on it using the super cute Monsters & Friends collection.

As a reference and a reminder, here's the sketch that I used for inspiration:

Here's the layout I created with the sketch provided above:

I love that this sketch was geared for three photos! I'm always on the lookout for layout designs that have multiple photos. As you can see, I didn't want to stray too much from the original sketch because I just love the look of it. 

With the provided sketch, it was pretty easy to crank this layout out. I picked out three photos from Halloween last year, and I started creating embellishment clusters around them. 

I used a handful of the die cuts from the Monsters & Friends Ephemera Icons. I also added some of the Halloween Heart Hugs and some Bella Pops to these embellishment clusters.

Last but not least, I added some of the Star Epoxy Stickers from the Monsters & Friends collection to add more color and dimension to my layout. I tend to add them off to the sides of my embellishment clusters, but honestly, these stars can be added anywhere on your projects. They're so versatile! I also love the epoxy look to them - so shiny! 

And that's all I have for now! Hopefully, I've inspired you to create something awesome with this sketch! So, how about it?! I'd love to see your interpretation. It could be using Monsters & Friends or whatever you feel like creating with! Either way, feel free to share what you make with us on all of Bella's socials by tagging us! 

As always, thanks for joining me today!

Until next time,

Sarah.

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Monsters & Friends: Patterned Papers, Ephemera Icons, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Epoxy Stickers- Stars Halloween Mix, Bella Pops, Heart Hugs; Bella Besties: Hearts and Ombre Rainbow 12x12 Collection Kit, Graph and Dot Rainbow 12x12 Collection Kit

Fall And Bella Blvd Cut Files | 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 fall layout I used the collection, You Are My Sunshine as well as the Bella Besties and four of the Bella Blvd cut files.

To start my layout, I drew circles in a white cardstock and hand stitched around them. Then, I cut my cut files. To cut the Pumpkin Patch and the Maple Leaf cut files I used the Bella Besties, for the Autumn Leaf cut file I used the What a Day paper from the You are My Sunshine collection, and for the Thankful cut file I used whit cardstock.

It’s time to build my layout! I glued my photo with adhesive foam to give it dimension. Then, I did three clusters using the pumpkins and the leaves and added Ephemera and Heart Hugs.

For my title I used the Thankful cut file. I backed the cut file with the Feeling Sunny paper and glued it with adhesive foam. To finish my layout I added Trinkets in Pickle Juice & Guacamole, Ice & Gulf, Blueberry, McIntosh and Orange.

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/S_FKAghGmG8

Bella Blvd Supplies Used

You Are My Sunshine Collection: What A Day, Ray Of Sunshine and Feeling Sunny papers.

Bella Besties: Heart & Ombré in Orange and Pickle Juice.

Bella Besties: Graph & Dot in Orange.

Ephemera: You Are My Sunshine.

Doohickey: You Are My Sunshine.

Heart Hugs: Give Thanks.

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: Pickle Juice & Guacamole, Ice & Gulf, Blueberry, McIntosh and Orange.

Cut Files: Autumn Leaf, Maple Leaf, Pumpkin Patch and Thankful.

Mood Board Week - Day 5 | Nathalie D.

Hello Bella Blvd friends!

Nathalie with you today to share a bit more of inspiration using our Mood Board.   As Fall has started, we are all wrapped up by the coziness of the season.   Thick and chunky knits, saturated colors, texture, and of course leaves.  These are  the themes that repeat in our Mood board, too.   Let me  show you 

 

 

I love Mood Boards ( sketches are not my thing!), and this one just sums up Fall.  So, I chose a bit from each square to create my layout

 

 

As soon as I saw the painted squares and the pastel paint pots, I knew that I had to start my layout with a bit of mixed media on the background.   I simply used acrylic paint mixed with gel medium to create the overlapping brushstrokes in the background.   I added lots of color splatters all around the strokes, and set is aside to dry.

 

 

In the mean time, I used two cut files and Bella Besties to cut a few leaves.  I picked the colors of the leaves based on the colors of the leaves in the mood board, and also a bit of red to match the apples in the picture.

 

 

I love the arrangement of the leaves in the mood board. I am borrowing that setting to place all the leaves in my background ( I trimmed the painted cardstock to 8 x11.5" ).   A bit of foam adhesive helped to create levels and dimension between the leaves.  I nestled the picture inside the curve of the leaf arrangement.   The mood board also shows a bit of knitting/knitted texture,  I choose to bring a bit of the stitched look to the leaves by drawing small vein lines with gel pens in each leaf.

 

 

I decided to place the bulk of my leaves at the top of the page.  Then chose the scalloped edges of the My Candy girl to soften the edges of the painted background before attaching it to a Blueberry Besties background.  The contrast of the colors just brought all the painted backgrounds together.

 

 

For the title, I am mixing an acrylic word with Aria Puffy stickers.   Once again, I am playing with textures, and also the slim lines of the words in the phrase square of the mood board.   I added a extra embellishments, then added a few drops of gold and white ink to finish my page!

 

 

I love how this turned out, it was so much fun to take a few ideas from the mood board and transform them into this page.   Remember to share your projects, inspired by the board, with us!

 

XO

 

BELLA BLVD Supplies

BELLA BESTIES Collection:  Ombre/Heart in Blueberry, Bell Pepper, Mckintosh,  Orange, Oyster

MY CANDY GIRL Collection: Patterned papers, Doohickey Stickers

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE Collection:  Puffy Stickers, Patterned paper, Doohickey stickers

HEART HUGS: Boy

ARIA PUFFY Stickers : Blueberry

ACRYLIC WORDS:  Adventure

 

 

Fall Mood Board Week by Tarrah

Hi creative friends!

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am excited to be sharing a new Fall inspired layout, this week we are creating projects using the gorgeous mood board below as inspiration. 

From the mood board I was immediately drawn to the leaves/feathers in the top centre rectangle. I decided to cut out some of the leaf cut files from the Silhouette Store in a variety of sizes using mostly the 'B' side of the Daily Details paper from the To the Moon collection. I like how the leaves look 'dipped'. Once the leaves were all cut out I backed them all with vellum and then added machine stitching with white thread to the centres, I like how this adds some texture to the leaves.

I chose the Pickle Juice Heart and Ombre paper as my background paper, I trimmed it down slightly to back it onto the Pony Heart and Ombre paper, I then machine stitched around the outer edge to add some more texture. I arranged the leaves in a falling pattern and once happy with the arrangement, I adhered them by just adding glue to the very centre of the back so that I could bend up the edges of them. 

I placed my photo on the right of the leaf arrangement, tucking it into the leaves so that it was connected. My title I placed on the left amongst the leaves, the title is made up of the Ciao Chipboard Hello word and the orange Aria puffy alphabet stickers. Once the main elements were adhered it was time to add some smaller embellishments. I pulled out various things that went with the colour scheme like the acrylic hearts, some puffy shapes, puffy hearts, corrugated heart hugs and some die-cuts.

I placed the larger scallop die-cut to the centre of one of the bigger leaves and layered a speech bubble die-cut over the top. I love how it says 'Let's Play'. The photo was taken while doing a photo shoot with some friends amongst heaps of fallen autumn leaves. We were throwing them in the air and having heaps of fun and laughing heaps too! I added a cute Bella Bow to the left of the photo. Once I had added some of the smaller embellishments, I sprinkled some white mist around the page and stamped the date stamp.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Bella blog today!

I hope you enjoyed my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it?! 

Happy creating!

Bella products used:

Bella Blvd cut files

Pickle Juice Heart and Ombre paper

Pony Heart and Ombre paper

To the Moon Daily Details paper 

Orange Aria Puffy alphabet

Orange puffy shapes

My Candy Girl puffy shapes

Acrylic Hearts

Squeeze the Day ephemera

Fall Projects & To the Moon Day 4 | Niki Rowland

Hey everyone! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) back today with a fall layout and video using the To the Moon collection.

I have mainly focused on the To The Moon Bella Besties Collection Pack. I pulled out papers in Orange, Bell Pepper (yellow) and Pickle Juice (green). I also pulled out papers from the To the Moon collection that would also work: the wide striped paper, a green polka dot paper and a yellow paper with orange circles.

I cut up the striped paper and selected the stripes I wanted. I distressed the edges of each and stuck these to my background which is the Orange ombre paper. I also trimmed down my background, distressed the edges of that too and stuck this to a piece of white cardstock.

I wanted to make some origami corn embellishments as my photo is of my children eating corn at a recent trip to a sunflower farm. I found a great tutorial on YouTube which is here if you would like to watch it too.  I made these from green paper and yellow paper. For the green leaves I used the plain side but for the yellow side I used the hearts – they reminded me of the kernels on the corn! I made three of these, two big ones and one small.

I then used some cut files leaves, which I cut using my Silhouette Machine. I used the remaining part of the ombre green and yellow papers to cut leaves in varying sizes and shapes, and apples and pears too. All the cut files I used are by Bella Blvd and are linked below.

I stitched through all the leaves using gold thread and my sewing machine. I arranged these onto the layout around my photo together with the apples, pears and three corn embellishments that I made. I then added Heart Hugs in greens and kraft. I finished off with Trinkets Puffy Stickers and an acrylic title ‘perfect’ and a few splatters of paint.

Thank you very much for joining me today, I hope you have enjoyed this layout, and enjoy watching the video below.

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Products used

To the Moon Collection: 12 x 12 papers, 12x12 Bella Besties Collection Pack, Ephemera

Heart Hugs: Give Thanks, Sunshine.

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: Bell Pepper

Acrylic Title Perfect 

Cut Files: Leaves, Fall Leaves, Pear, Apple.

 

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

To The Moon & Besties Meet Summer Day 1 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here with you today and I hope y'all had a great weekend!!  It's To The Moon + Bella Besties this week and we are creating some Summer layouts!  I had the perfect photo for this week!  It's of my youngest son jumping into the pool and I snapped it at the perfect moment where it looks like he's tip toeing on the surface of the water.  So of course, my title played off of it a bit and had to be "Walking on Sunshine".  Here's my layout:

To start, I created some paper rosettes in a few different sizes using the Hearts & Ombre papers in Black, Gulf and Blueberry.  I ended up putting the ombre sides face up since they kind of look like planets to me and went with the whole To The Moon collection vibe.  

For the foundation of my page, I used the hearts side of the Hearts & Ombre paper in white and adhered all of my rosettes down.  I matted my photo using patterned papers from the collection and adhered it to the largest rosette.  I also added in the "play" acrylic piece from the Explore & Play set.  It fit perfectly in the white space of my photo and made a great subtitle.  

Next, I started working on my title.  I pulled the Aria Alphas in Orange, Blueberry and Bell Pepper and created my title with them.  I thought it would be fun to have the words go along the perimeter of the rosettes and it turned out super cute!

For my embellishments, I added them straight onto each of the rosettes and created little clusters on each one.  I used the Heart Hugs in Rainy Day and Black & White, I also pulled out the Sun Bella Pop from the collection and adhered that down and tucked a Ciao Chip cloud sticker right underneath it.

Here's one with one of the Rainy Day Heart Hugs: 

I also pulled in some of the Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Blueberry and White and added those into a few clusters.  I added in a few of the stickers from the Word Salad Booklet and tucked in some tangled thread in matching colors around the page.  

I love how this page turned out!  The rosettes give a lot of interest and they also are a perfect way to add different embellishments to your layout.  Have you tried making them before?  They're super simple and so fun!

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope that I've inspired you in some way today!  The To The Moon collection is so fun and I really enjoyed creating a Summer layout with it!  Have a great week friends and I'll see you in my next post!

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

To The Moon Collection: 12x12 patterned papers, Bella Pops, Ciao Chip Stickers, Epoxy Stickers and Ephemera; Bella Besties: Heart Hugs in Rainy Day and Black & White, Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Blueberry and White, Hearts & Ombre 12x12 Patterned Papers in White, Black, Gulf and Blueberry, Aria Alphas in Bell Pepper, Blueberry and Orange, Acrylic Words and Word Salad Booklet.