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Merry Little Christmas and Letter Scramble with Maree Crozier

Hi Bella friends,

I had so much fun making this cute Christmas layout with the new Merry Little Christmas collection and personalizing the title with some fabulous Letter Scramble alphas.

I started with a cream card stock base as the ephemera from this collection has a cream undertone. I just adore the pinks and teals in this collection, they are so pretty.

As soon as I saw the paper called 'Filled with Joy' I knew I wanted to fussy cute those ornaments and make them a feature on this layout. I also fussy the holly from the 'Borders' paper to make a little mantel for them to hang from. I dug into my stash for a holly stamp to add a little more detail under the holly border.

After mounting my picture of my daughter and our two kitties I added my title using the 'Merry' from the words ephemera and the Catsmas (is that even a word?) using the Letter Scramble alphas in the color Guacamole. It is so fun to create titles with these gorgeous alphas.

Next I worked on positioning and mounting the fussy cut ornaments. I mounted them on foam squares and attached some bakers twine so they appear hanging. I tucked the top of the twine up under the holly border.

Next I added some trees from the ephemera icons pack and added some detail to them using the beautiful epoxy stickers. I just love the shine they add to the layout.

Finally I added the sweet sleigh from the icon ephemera pack and the Bella Pop called 'Christmas Cheer'. I just adore this little Santa, is he not he cutest you have ever seen? The gifts and pink snowflakes from the Bella Pop gave the perfect finishing touch. I am so happy with how this layout turned out and am excited to see what you make with the new collection.

Happy holiday season everyone!

Maree

Merry Little Christmas Collection

Papers: From the heart, Filled with Joy, Borders

Ephemera Titles & Icons

Epoxy Stickers

Bella Pops: Christmas Cheer

Letter Scramble Alphas in Guacamole

 

 

 

 

The North Pole + Bella Besties | Rachel O'Neal

Hello Bella Blvd friends! It's Rachel on the blog today and I've got the cutest sweater wreath to show you. My boys have a few Christmas sweaters and in the month of December they wear them as much as possible. When I saw all the sweaters in The North Pole collection, I knew I needed to make a layout with as many of them as possible. I actually think I may have managed to use them all. 

I started by creating my wreath with the Bella Besties Heart paper in Pickle Juice. I used this free cut file Holiday Berry Wreath from the Paper Issues shop. Click on the link to download. I cut it out twice to give an extra layer of fullness. I stamped some black lines on the branches of the wreath to give it some dimension. Then I adhered them both to a piece of white 12" x 12" cardstock.

 

Now it was time to start embellishing the wreath. I got out all the sweaters, mittens, and knitted hats from the Ephemera Icons and added them around the wreath with some foam tape. I also added some red flowers from the Ciao Chip, Puffy Stickers, and Epoxy Stickers.

Before adding my photo to the wreath, I backed it with some patterned paper layers from the Jammies paper as well as the Daily Details paper. In the middle of the wreath, I added my title using the Bella Besties Florence Alphas in Black. These are my all-time favorite alphas in the whole world! Underneath the title I stamped some stiches along with the date. 

To finish the layout, I stamped a few more little bits scattered around the wreath and added some tiny stickers from the epoxy sheet. These little details make it look complete! 

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope I've inspired you to document your winter weather photos - especially if it's a crazy Christmas sweater. Here's the product that I used:

• 12" x 12" white cardstock
• Bella Blvd Besties Heart paper in Pickle Juice (2)
• The North Pole Jammies paper
• The North Pole Daily Details paper
• The North Pole Ephemera Icons
• The North Pole Ciao Chip
• The North Pole Puffy Stickers
• The North Pole Epoxy Stickers
• Florence Alphas in Black

The North Pole + Cut Outs | Rachel O'Neal

Happy New Year friends! January may be here, but I'm still working through all our Christmas photos and getting the fun moments documented. Today, I'm showing you how I used The North Pole collection with one of the Christmas themed Cut Outs. I love my Cricut, but nothing is easier to use than the Bella Blvd Cut Outs to get that cutting machine look on your layouts. Here's the layout I created:

 

 

Santa!!! We love our yearly visit to see Santa at Bass Pro. As I flipped through the papers in the collection, I stopped as soon as I saw the Here Comes Santa patterned paper! It's absolutely adorable and perfect for my background. I choose the December Cut Out and used the back side of another sheet of the Here Comes Santa to get red with white dots for the Cut Out. After I cut out each letter and added it to the Cut Out, I used foam tape to adhere the Cut Out to the layout. Then I stamped some x's around the straight parts of some of the letters.

Behind my photo, I added a couple layers of patterned paper cut to size - The Perfect Tree and Jammies. Now it was time to embellish. I got the "traditions" title from the Ephemera Words pack. For the rest of my title above and below the photo, I used my very favorite Florence Alphas in black.

 

I added little clusters of embellishments focusing on Santa and his reindeer along with some Christmas trees, presents and holly. All of these came from the Ciao Chipboard and the Ephemera Icons set. They are just adorable and you can't help but smile when you see them! 

 

To finish the layout, I stamped the date and added a few more stitches around my title. I couldn't love this collection more! I hope you feel inspired to use it and get your Christmas memories documented. Thanks for stopping by!

Items Used in This Layout:

• Here Comes Santa 12" x 12" Patterned Paper - A side for background paper
• Here Comes Santa 12" x 12" Patterned Paper - B side for Cut Out
• Jammies 12" x 12" Patterned Paper
• The Perfect Tree 12" x 12" Patterned Paper
• December Cut Outs
• The North Pole Ephemera Icons
• The North Pole Ephemera Words
• The North Pole Ciao Chip
• Florence Alphas in Black

 

The North Pole | Rachel O'Neal

Hi friends! It's Rachel and I'm back with another layout using The North Pole collection again! As I was looking through the ephemera pieces, I was inspired to create a snow globe scene. Here's my layout:

I started with the Snowglobe Wishes cut file and cut it out with my Cricut using white cardstock. You can find it here! I made it large so it would be the focus. To make the snow globe come to life I started adding layers of paper and ephemera. For the base, I cut into the You Warm My Heart patterned paper. I love the mix of pink and red together with that paper. I used white cardstock again for the snow layer and then the Jammies patterned paper for the blue sky with snowflake background.

I added the snow globe to the December 25 patterned paper using foam tape so it would stand out and add depth. It was the perfect background for such a bold cut file. Now I added all the ephemera pieces I was admiring. In the front, I used the snowman and a little forest of colorful trees. Tucked behind the snowy hill, I added a little village. Above it all, I added my title from the Ephemera Words pack.

To the right of the globe, I added my selfie of me and my husband from Christmas day last year. I used a tag and frame from the Ephemera Words pack to add more layers and tied a little bow to the top of the tag.

Then what is a snow globe without a little snow?! There are lots of pieces of snowflakes to choose from in this collection. I used ephemera, chipboard, and even stamped some snowflakes! And that is how I made this layout. I hope you love it as much as I do. Here's a list of all the items I used:

• December 25 Patterned Paper
• Jammies Patterned Paper
• You Warm My Heart Patterned Paper
• The North Pole Ephemera Icons
• The North Pole Ephemera Words
• The North Pole Ciao Chip
• Snowglobe Wish Cut File

The North Pole | Conny Craig

Hi crafty friends!

Wishing you all the hope, wonder and joy that the season can bring, Happy Holidays!  Today I am sharing this December mini album using The North Pole Collection. The North Pole Collection is full of wonderful, assorted pieces to help you document this holiday season. 
My mini album was created for me to document 12 days of Christmas, I started by covering two chipboard pieces for the cover pages. For the inside of the album, you will need twelve pages - I choose patterned paper from the collection, Bella's Besties paper or white pages for fillers to create mini layouts or add journaling of my days. 

The cover is covered with a Bella's Besties paper and snowflakes acetate. That cute polar bear skating is from the Bella Pop's, the title December is from the Chipboard stickers. The pages are held together with a Metal hinge binding and added string but definitely don't have to do that. I like it both ways with or without the ribbon.
For the inside pages I used different embellishment and different layers to complete the album.

Let us know how you plan on using the collection, we can't wait to see what you create with it!

 

The North Pole | Rachel O'Neal

Hello Bella friends! What an awesome scrappy year it has been, and so hard to believe we have entered the Christmas season! How is this even possible? I'm so excited to be on the blog today showing you my first layout using the new The North Pole collection. Check it out:

It's just so festive, isn't it?! So, let's talk! I started with a white piece of 12" x 12" cardstock. I used the Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide pad to create a messy background. The pretty light blue color let's all the bright colors of the collection really stand out. While that dried, I took the 12" x 12" Borders paper from the collection and cut several of the borders into strips. I used these strips to create the scallops for the layout. To do this, I used my circle punches (1/2" and 1 1/2"). The strips are smaller than these punches, but I was able to cut out half circles with them. Once I punched them all out, I connected them together to make scallop borders. I needed to use both of the Borders papers to create all eight of them. Next, I added them to the layout in a zig-zag pattern. 

Next, I backed my photo with white cardstock and then cut up some of the 3" x 4" cards from the Daily Details paper to add more layers behind my photo. I wanted to arrange my title along the scallops so I did that before adding any embellishments. I used the black Florence alphas, of course! I also stamped some fun stitches too.

As for embellishments - the more the merrier! I used several pieces from the Ephemera Icons. I just love the snow globe! Around the edge of the layout, I used pieces from the Puffy Stickers and the Epoxy Stickers. To finish the layout, I stamped a few hearts and of course - the date. 

I can't wait to show you more. Just creating this layout has me wanting to create more with this adorable collection. Here's a list of the supplies I used:

• Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Pad
• The North Pole Borders 12" x 12" Paper
• The North Pole Daily Details 12" x 12" Paper
• The North Pole Ephemera Icons
• The North Pole Puffy Stickers
• The North Pole Epoxy Stickers
• Florence Alphas in Black

 

Let Us Adore Him + Cut Files Week- Day 2 | Sarah Millerhouse

Happy, Happy New Year! I am excited to share this layout with you today! I was inspired by all the love I feel at this time of year, and I loved using the Let us Adore Him collection, along with Bella Blvd cut files, to help bring this message forward in my layout. 

I started by blending distress oxides on the background in colors that coordinate with this collection (picked raspberry, candied apple, mustard seed, mowed lawn, salvaged patina, & prize ribbon). I then added splatters of these same colors using distress ink. I added the striped pattern paper on the far right side of the layout. I distressed the edges of that before I glued it down. 

I then used the Scattered Hearts Background cut file to anchor my layout. I cut this out of the striped paper with an offset layer in white. The white layer helps the cut file stand out from the background. 

I added my sweet photos capturing a couple of our favorite Christmas Eve traditions. Above the photos, I added a cluster of hearts. I cut three hearts out of patterned paper and distressed the edges of those. I also cut one heart from the background cut file and sliced it out on my Cricut. I enlarged that to turn it into a shaker pocket. I filled it with lots of sequins and shiny bits that coordinate with the colors in this collection. 

Above the photos, I also added a few phrases from the collection. Two are stickers from the Doohickey sheet and one is cut out of the Borders patterned paper. I placed a few enamel dots and a Cute Clip Festive bow to finish off that section. 

Below the photos, I used two cut files to create the title. The Merry Word cut file I cut in two layers of white. I left the back layer white and used distress oxides (in the same colors as the background) to blend across the top. I love how happy this merry word looks! I also cut the Memories cut file and used the contour tool in Cricut to back it. I added a few more phrases from the Borders patterned paper, enamel dots, and my journaling to finish up this layout. 

As an added bonus for my Christmas album, I made this tree by cutting a giant triangle and covered it in phrases, capturing our favorite Christmas Eve traditions, to coordinate with the layout above! I made the phrases using a combination of Let Us Adore Him ephemera, Doohickey stickers, words I typed up to match, puffy stickers, patterned paper, and Florence Alphas. I popped each phrase up using a little bit of foam. At the top, I created a cluster of stars using Trinkets Puffy Stickers. The insert is just over 8 in. wide. I simply used a 12 x 12 plastic sleeve, put my page in it, all the way to the left, and trimmed off the excess part of the sleeve. I used the red trim and some hand-stitching to close up the side. On the back, I added a few more photos of our traditions. 

I hope these pages have inspired you in some way! Happy creating! 

Let Us Adore Him + Cut Files Week- Day 1 | Tarrah

Hi creative friends and Happy New Year!

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new layout featuring the gorgeous Let Us Adore Him collection together with a Bella Blvd co-ordinating cut file from the Silhouette Store. I chose the super cute Santa cut file, enlarged him slightly, had my Silhouette Cameo machine cut out each piece and then pieced him together. Isn't he gorgeous?

I then adhered him using foam tape to the left of a plain sheet of white cardstock. I love how he pops against the plain white background. I trimmed down the cardstock and matted the entire page on the Rebirth paper. I adhered my photo to the right of Santa, covering up his arm and so it looked as though he was cuddling us all! I tucked in a square die-cut piece at the top of the photo to add a pop of green to the page. As I was creating this page the colour scheme of red, white and green just came to me.

The photo I have documented is of my husband, 2 sons, our dog and my parents taken right before Christmas at a family get together. The green Christmas Family die-cut piece from the ephemera icons pack just had to go on my page, I added this piece to the bottom of my photo. I also placed the large December die-cut, tucked slightly under the photo at the bottom. I placed a sticker from the Doohickey Stickers and an enamel dot from the enamel dots pack.

 Overlapping Santa, I placed the 'Joy' acrylic word and finished the title placing the die-cut piece that says 'To The World' on top of the Joy word. I added the Family sticker from the Doohickey Stickers just above the Joy word and took some Christmas tree puffy stickers, adding these near Santa's arm. Beside Santa's head I placed a cut file piece from a previous project and a chipboard flower. I love how cute the holly die-cut looks added to Santa's hat too. To the right of my photo, I added a few chipboard pieces including the red heart and a Christmas tree. A few more small pieces of ephemera, stickers and enamel dots were added to finish the page. I also stamped the date stamp.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Bella Blvd blog today! I love how my layout turned out and I hope you can take some inspiration from it in some way?! 

Best wishes for a safe, happy and healthy new year.

Happy creating!

Bella products used:

Let Us Adore Him collection pack

Let Us Adore Him Doohickey stickers

Let Us Adore Him chipboard stickers

Bella Blvd Let Us Adore Him Santa cut file

Let Us Adore Him ephemera pack 

Let Us Adore Him puffy stickers 

Bella Blvd Christmas enamel dots

Joy Acrylic Word

 

Let Us Adore Him and Bella Besties Day 2 | Tarrah

Hi creative friends and Merry Christmas!!

I hope you are all coping with the craziness of the silly season?! 

It's Tarrah back with you today to share a new scrapbook layout featuring the gorgeous Let Us Adore Him collection. This week my assignment was to create a project using the Let Us Adore Him collection together with Bella Besties. 

I decided to pull out my Silhouette Cameo machine and cut out some of the gorgeous bauble cut files by Bella Blvd using different colours of the Freehand Graph and Dot Bella Besties papers. Once I got these all cut, I assembled the baubles using foam and regular adhesive. I arranged these on a plain sheet of white cardstock and and adhered them at all different lengths on the page. I added a ripped piece of the gorgeous Purity paper to the top half of the page. I just love how every colour co-ordinates with Bella Blvd products. I documented a photo of my cutie pie niece and placed this amongst the baubles towards the right slightly.

At the bottom of the page I added the striped scalloped border sticker from the Doohickey sticker sheet and a few phrase and word stickers also to help tell my story. I added some enamel dots to the centres of 2 of the baubles and some star puffy stickers to another 2 baubles.   

On the left of my photo I placed the green Merry acrylic word that formed part of my title. The other half of my title is the circle die-cut Christmas piece from the ephemera pack, I placed this piece using foam tape just below the acrylic word. I added a few more circle die-cuts scattered around the page to compliment the baubles. Some of the smaller embellishments I added were the Christmas tree puffy stickers. Lastly I stamped the date stamp. 

I just love how my layout turned out and hope you are inspired in some way to pull out your Let Us Adore Him collection or perhaps you are inspired to purchase the collection?!

Happy creating and Merry Christmas!

Bella products used: 

Let Us Adore Him collection

Bella Besties Freehand Graph and Dot papers

Let Us Adore Him Doohickey stickers

Let Us Adore Him puffy stickers

Let Us Adore Him ephemera icons

 

Off The Page Projects | Christmas Cards | Yarelys Rodriguez

Hey there Bella Friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys he to share with you a new project! This time I made three Christmas cards using the Let Us Adore Him collection.

To start my cards, I cut three pieces of white cardstock and folded it in half. Then, I went through the papers of the collection and picked the Humble, Oh Holy Night and Rebirth, and cut a piece of each paper.

Now it’s time to build my cards! For the Joy card, I glued a piece of the Humble paper. Then, I cut a piece of white cardstock, hand stitched around it and glued it. Then, I glued the word Joy with adhesive foam to give it dimension.

For the Holy card, I glued a piece of the Oh Holy Night paper and a piece of white cardstock on top. Then, I glued ephemera and the Holy, Holy, Holy die cut.

And for the Merry Christmas card, I glued two pieces of the Rebirth paper. Then, I glued some of the Christmas trees from the ephemera and the Merry Christmas die cut.

To finish my cards, I added Puffy Stickers, Enamels and Epoxy.

I like how these cards turned out! Hope you all like them and get inspired to create beautiful things! You can find the link for the process video below. Thanks for stopping by!

Have a lovely day!

Yarelys xx

@dreamsandpapers

https://youtu.be/6VrI6QBK6nQ

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Let Us Adore Him Collection: Humble, Oh Holy Night and Rebirth papers.

Ephemera: Let Us Adore Him.

Puffy Stickers: Joy.

Epoxy: Nativity.

Enamels: Christmas Mix.

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.