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Thanksgiving Week Day 3 | Melissa Mann

Good morning!

This is Melissa here with you today on the blog and I have a new Thanksgiving themed layout. Those of us here in the United States are celebrating Thanksgiving this week and I dug back in the photo archives and found some photos from Thanksgiving of 2019 to scrap and share with you all here :-)

I knew two things about this layout: I wanted to use a big title and I wanted to use several photos. I downloaded and cut out a digital cut file from the Bella Blvd Silhouette store that said "TURKEY DAY" and cut this out using Kraft card stock. 

I also knew that I wanted to use some earthy, darker toned papers for this project. I used a piece of rust colored card stock and a piece of brown Bella Besties pattern paper in Pony. I backed my card stock with the pattern paper and used a lighter piece of pattern paper from the Home Sweet Home paper collection to layer down the length of my layout. I found four photos I wanted to use and converted them to black and white. I placed these in a grid and backed it with the yellow pattern paper from Home Sweet Home.

I created a couple of embellishment clusters on either side of my grid using stickers, puffy stickers, chipboard, and die-cuts. Once I had all of this situated, I figured out where to place my title but I needed something to anchor my title down. I decided to take a strip of the same yellow pattern paper from Home Sweet Home and stitch the title to it with my sewing machine. I notched one end of the strip of paper and adhered it down at the top of my layout. I typed and placed my journaling underneath it. 

SUPPLIES USED:

1. Bella Besties Graph & Dot - Pony
2. Home Sweet Home - Daily Details, Mosaic Tile, & Houseplants
3. Home Sweet Home Doohickey Stickers
4. You Are My Sunshine Ephemera 
5. Home Sweet Home Ciao Chip
6. Trinkets Puffy Stickers - Bell Pepper
7. Florence Alphabet Stickers - Pickle Juice

Sketch Week Day 6 | Melissa Mann

Good Morning!

I was so excited that I got to work with this month's sketch and it is such a GOOD ONE!! 

I loved the multiple photo option and the big title option on this sketch. I stuck pretty closely to the sketch but ended up moving my title just a bit to have the layout flow a little better to my liking.

I started by backing a piece of white card stock to a piece of pattern paper from the You Are My Sunshine paper collection. I used a piece of leftover flower cut-out on the white card stock and layered my pattern paper boxes on top. I stitched the pattern paper boxes together with my sewing machine. I ended up using three photos that were wider rather than longer and layered them cross the bottom of the more vertical boxes. 

Once I had the photos secured, I punched a bunch of hearts out of various papers from the You Are My Sunshine collection and used them in conjunction with a bunch of chipboard hearts from the Home Sweet Home and You Are My Sunshine Ciao Chip. I popped up a few of the hearts using foam dots. 

I filled up the boxes above my photos with journaling, my chipboard title word and ephemera from the You Are My Sunshine collection. I really loved how this project turned out :-)

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:
1. You Are My Sunshine Paper Collection
2. Flower Cut-Out
3. Home Sweet Home Ciao Chip
4. You Are My Sunshine Ciao Chip
5. You Are My Sunshine Ephemera
6. Bella Pops
7. You Are My Sunshine Doohickey Stickers
8. Oh Happy Day Puffy Stickers

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

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

 

Bella Besties & Acrylics Week - Day 3 | Nathalie DeSousa

Hi there!

Nathalie with you today to share a bit of inspiration with this week's theme: BELLA BESTIES, ARIA PUFFY STICKERS, and ACRYLIC WORDS.   I have to say that I love (aka hoard) Bella  Acrylic Words,  I have pretty much every single one that has been released ( in multiples), so this was an easy/hard project for me! However, I had an idea on how I could combine them all the goodies in a page in a simple but impactful way...

 

The key to  making the acrylic words stand out was to bring color behind them.  So, I chose this deconstructed-layered-rainbow design using Bella Besties Ombre/Heart for my page.

 

 

I started with Bella Besties Oyster for the background, and then played with layers of paper ( Plum, Orange, Bell Pepper, Gulf, Ice, & Cotton Candy) so that they show on the page as a cascade of color layers.

 

 

Once the papers were secured on the page,  I started to build my title using Aria Puffy Stickers (that match the paper layer) and acrylic words.  I love the change in dimension and texture between the layers.

 

 

I transformed the picture of my kids and littles to black and white - this makes it pop from the page-, and attached it to the top of the paper cascade.  I used a few pieces of ephemera to create a cluster at the top of the picture; and used Trinkets and epoxy shapes to add small pops of color to the corner of each paper layer.

 

I love how this turned out, and I am happy to see my beloved acrylic words perfectly displayed in a layout.   Remember to come back tomorrow for more inspiration.

XO

 

SUPPLY LIST:

BELLA BESTIES -Ombre/Heart collection : Gulf, Oyster, Bell Pepper, Orange, Plum, Cotton Candy, Ice

BELLA BESTIES  - Trinkets collection: Bell Pepper, Ice, Peep, Gulf, Plum, Orange, Ice

ARIA PUFFY STICKERS - Gulf, Ice, Orange, Peep

SQUEEZE THE DAY collection - Epoxy Heart, Ephemera

HOME SWEET HOME Collection - Ephemera

Celebrating Mom Week Day 6 - Tegan

Happy Mother's Day week everyone! Do you need a fun and easy card for mom still?! Here are a few ideas for you using the happy and colorful Home Sweet Home collection, which was perfect for celebrating mom! 

For this card, I first used a piece of the Bella Besties Graph & Dot Patterned Paper in Pool to create a background. I then used fun patterned papers and embellishments from the Home Sweet Home collection to embellish the card. The oregano and mint embellishments are perfect for moms who love herbs! I completed the card by adding a green corrugated Heart Hugs sticker and a couple orange enamel dots. I just love the little butterflies too, don't you?!

For the second card, I used the Bella Besties Graph & Dot patterned paper in Punch for the background. I then used some Home Sweet Home patterned papers, chipboard stickers, and die cut pieces to embellish the card. I finished it off with a yellow corrugated cardboard Heart Hugs sticker, enamel dots, and Trinkets puffy stickers. I used the adorable Florence Alphabet Stickers in Blueberry to spell 'MOM'.  :) 

For this last card, I used the Blueberry patterned paper from the Bella Besties 6x6 Paper Pad for the background. The green leaf patterned paper is from the Home Sweet Home collection and the pink paper is the Bella Besties Graph & Dot patterned paper in Punch. I again used the chipboard stickers, ephemera pieces, and die cuts from the Home Sweet Home collection. I finished it off with a darling white Heart Hugs sticker and orange Trinkets puffy stickers. 

Thanks for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to grab some of your Home Sweet Home collection to craft a card (or two?!) for mom if you need one. Have a great day!

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Home Sweet Home Collection: Always Welcome Patterned Paper, Borders Patterned Paper, All My Love Patterned Papers, Mosaic Tile Patterned Papers, Houseplants Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons, Doohickey Stickers

Heart Hugs: Mini Heart Hugs, Sunshine

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Blueberry

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: Orange

Celebrating Mom Week Day 5 | Yarelys

Hey Bella friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys here with you a new layout. To make this layout I used the Home Sweet Home collection, I also used the Bella Besties and three of the Bella Blvd cut files.

I start by cutting the Scattered Hearts Background cut file, I used only the half of it, and backed it with vellum. Then I cut the Heart Arrow cut file, I used the hearts to make my flowers. Finally, I cut the leaves of the Flowers cut file out of white cardstock and paint them with two different tones of green.

Now it’s time to paint my background, for this I used the Vicki Boutin Art Crayons in blue, purple and green. Oh! Love How this background turned out!

Once I finished my background, I started building my layout. I glued the cut file, my photo, the flowers I created with the hearts and the leaves. Then I fussy cut and glued some flowers from the Welcome Home paper.

For my title I used the Florence Alphabet Stickers in Peep and the Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers in Ice. To finish my layout, I added some of the Acrylic Shapes Heart Mix and Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Plum and White.

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. Thank so much for stopping by!

Have a lovely day!

Yarelys xx

@dreamsandpapers

They Call Me Mom Layout Process Video

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Bella Besties: Graph & Dot in Ice, Blueberry and Plum. Hearts & Ombre in Ice, Blueberry and Plum.

Home Sweet Home Collection: Welcome Home paper and Ephemera Words

Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers: Ice

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Peep

Acrylic Shapes: Heart Mix

Trinkets: Plum and White

Celebrating Mom Week Day 4 | Karlla

Hello Bella BLVD friends,

 Karlla here and I’m so happy to share my new layout with you.

I can't wait for Sunday, a new feeling for me, my son is only 2 years old.

I think Mother's Day is a celebration full of meaning and love.

I created a very cheerful and bright layout.

What I love most on Bella Blvd are these AMAZING colors. I love it!

I made some frames with the Bella Besties collection and sewed them.

I thought it was so beautiful with this pink background.

I cut some flowers from the Home Sweet Homme collection

and made an arrangement in the center of the layout.

I decorated it with some stickers and ephemera from

the Home Sweet Home collection.

I am simply in love with this project, the colors, the prints and the details.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope I inspired you.

Have a wonderful day!

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Home Sweet Home Collection 

Ephemera - Icons

12 x 12 Collection Kit

Bella Blvd - Besties Collection 

12 x 12 Collection Kit - Hearts & Ombre Rainbow

Puffy Stickers

 Ice and Gulf Trinkets

 

Celebrating Mom Week Day 2 | Tarrah McLean

Hi Bella friends!

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout with a Mum feel! 

I decided to take the gorgeous Heart Attack Cut Outs and backed the spaces with all the different colored patterned papers in the Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre paper collection. I decided to back each row with the same color and I love how it turned out!

Once I completed the backing of the Cut Outs, I added craft foam underneath the Cut Outs and adhered it to a plain white cardstock background. I then trimmed down the white cardstock and matted the entire layout with a black piece of cardstock. I love how all of the colors pop against the white and the black. My photo is of myself with my 2 sons, oh how I love these boys and being their Mum! Under my photo, I layered a piece of vellum and a colorful patterned paper from 6' x 6' paper pad in the Squeeze the Day collection. I needed something to be able to separate the photo from the colorful background, the vellum was perfect to do this.

I placed my photo slightly on the right side of the page and then added my title on the left of the photo. I chose the pretty 'Blessed' acrylic piece and then added 'Mum Life' to complete my title in the Florence alpha stickers in Punch underneath the acrylic word.

To embellish the layout I chose the Trinket puffy shape stickers in various colors and added them in a tone on tone fashion. I also added some of the acrylic hearts from the Home Sweet Home collection in the same manner. I chose a few die-cuts from the Home Sweet Home collection including the pink heart that says 'Family' on the bottom right corner of the photo. The Home Sweet Home collection has some fabulous pieces for family and Mum themed projects.

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 Mum themed project! Happy Mother's Day to all of the beautiful Mum's for the weekend!

Happy creating!

Bella products used on this layout:

Bella Besties Heart Attack Cut Outs

Bella Besties Heart and Ombre rainbow papers

Bella Besties Trinket Puffy Stickers - various colours

Home Sweet Home die-cut ephemera

Home Sweet Home acrylic heart shapes

Squeeze the Day 6'x 6' paper pad

Squeeze the Day die-cut ephemera

'Blessed' Acrylic word

Florence Alphabet stickers in Punch

Bella Besties & Chloe Week Day 1 | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you today sharing a 12x12 scrapbook layout using some products from the Chloe collection and some stitched heart dies from my stash! 

Steel dies are great tools to use on your scrapbook layouts! I am slowing building up my stash of shapes and hearts are one of my favorites! You could also achieve a similar look with punches! I love that the dies I am using today have stitch marks on them for that added texture! 

I pulled out the Bella Blvd Chloe collection and die cut a bunch of different hearts in different colors and sizes! I layered them up and ran them through my sewing machine for even more texture. This will also help the hearts pop up and I just love the way that it looks. 

The photo I am documenting is from a girls scrappy weekend! I was the last one to arrive a day later and as I was pulling in all the ladies came out to the balcony to welcome me! I had to snap a photo real quick! I die cut the photo out into a heart shape and placed it right in the middle of the layout. 

I trimmed down a piece of white textured cardstock to 11.50x11.50 and matted it onto the Smitten 12x12 pattern paper. I glued down all the hearts onto the white textured cardstock and created a grid style layout using all these layered hearts! I went through the Chloe embellishments and added a few different banners, flowers and die cuts to the center of the hearts! I also pulled in a few pieces from the Home Sweet Home collection and a few Trinkets. 

You can check out my process video HERE on my YouTube channel! Thank you so much for stopping by! The next time you are stuck for inspiration try pulling out some of your steel dies to create! Have a wonderful day! 

Chloe collection: Ephemera, Matte Enamel Dots, Doohickey Stickers, 6x6 paper pad, bella pop | Home Sweet Home collection: Ephemera | Bella Blvd Trinkets