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Sweet Family Folio | Traci

Happy Spring everyone!  Despite the uncertain world we are living in these days, I'm hoping most of you are able to see/talk with family, and able to get outside in the fresh air, even for just a little bit.  The pollen on my car is always my sign to beware of itchy eyes and stuffy allergies, but I love the sunshine and being outside with my family.  If you are unable to be with those you love, or the weather is still a bit gloomy where you are, I hope my bright, cheerful project cheers you up a bit today!

 

This cute little 'family folio' is full of adorable Squeeze the Day and Bella Besties product.  Am I the only one who is SO excited that Bella created Besties??  I always have these adorable solids on hand because they go with every Bella collection ... #makesmylifeeasier !  Love them!

 

 

I LOVE pink! Pinks and reds have always been my favorite colors (my poor bridesmaids had to wear bright "cranberry" in my wedding).  So that Punch paper above, and that adorable little strawberry make me so happy!

 

For this page, I decided to leave the pocket white so you could really see the cute little fruit die cuts.  

And for this page, adding a layered tag into the pocket really draws your eye to the cute chipboard scallop border.  Anyone determined to make lemonade out of lemons these days??  Me !!!!

 

How pretty are all of these Bella colors!!?  This is why I love mini albums .... so much color, interaction, and adorable product :). See those precious "Pearfect" Bella Pops?  Yep, I'm hoarding those.

 

So this little folio had lots of pockets and pull-outs and fun stuff that was hard to show in a few photos.  If I get some time (LOL) in the next couple days, I'd like to post a video flip-through over on my You Tube channel at Artsy Albums.   Until then Bella friends, stay healthy and try to get out in the sunshine! 

Squeeze the Day Collection: 12x12 papers, Ciao Chip, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons

Bella Besties:  Punch, Gulf, and Bell Pepper

Other: PhotoPlay Folio

 

Sweet Photo Crate for National Let's Laugh Day | Traci

Hi everyone! Traci here, and I'm SO excited to be sharing my first creative team project with all of you!  Did you know that today is National Let's Laugh Day?  How fun!  So when I was thinking about my project I knew I had to include lots of pictures of my granddaughter.  She's three years old now, and makes me laugh every single day!  In addition to being funny, she's also very sweet, so I used Squeeze the Day to create a photo crate full of fun pictures of her.

 

 

I found a black crate in my craft stash and covered the front with Ciao Chip pieces and ephemera words and icons. (This is a 7 Gypsies photo crate, but a box would work for this too)!

 

For the inside "pages" I used cutting files from the Squeeze the Day collection (which you can find here) to cut out fruit shapes.  I created offsets for each piece to create the white mats, and then added the photos and fun embellishments.

 

I also made some 4x6 file folders.  I love how the cute bow clips hold the folders closed while they're stored in the crate.

 

 

When opened, the folders reveal a few more silly photos.

 

The Follow the Rainbow Bella Pop was perfect for the inside of this folder.  Ha ha ... seems like yesterday that the guy in the photo above was 3 years old! 

 

I hope you all find opportunities to laugh today!  and hopefully I've inspired you to think outside the box (or crate) to create fun new projects with Squeeze the Day! 

 

Squeeze The Day collection; Bella Besties; Cute Clips; Cutting Files

 

Other:

Doodlebug Chunky Twine; 7 Gypsies Photo Crate

 

Slice of Life Flip Book | Dorymar

Hello everyone, thanks for stopping by the Bella Blvd blog today! My name is Dorymar Perez and today I am sharing with you my first project as a 2020 Creative Team Member.  I’m so happy to be invited to be part of this wonderful team for another term. Today I present a Flip Box, this project is a mix between a box and a flipbook, to create it I used one of my favorite Bella Blvd Collection, Squeeze the Day.

For the cover, I created a slide closure for the box and decorated it with my own embellishment piece created with a mix of goodies from the collection. To cover the outside of the box, I selected the beautiful Sweet Berry Paper. 

By sliding the closure, you will find several flaps, all full of beautiful designs and wonderful pieces from the collection. I love incorporating all the pieces from the collection into my designs, but one of the pieces that I like the most is the Bella Pops, these beautiful pieces full of color and dimension are fantastic and they look beautiful wherever you put them.

You can see that this beautiful surprise box is full of pockets and flaps that open on the side and up and down. All with space for photos and journaling.

In my projects I love to incorporate threads and ribbons, I think they give a special touch to the project.

Here I used a 3x4 card to create a flap and made a closure with one of the tags included in the ephemera pack, I loved how all the elements look perfectly coordinated.

The album is very easy to create! the ephemeral packs have a ton of beautiful pieces, which are perfect to decorate every interactive surface of the mini-album.

See more details below!

I hope you have enjoyed my project and it will inspire you to create your own with this wonderful collection. I Love all the flowers, fruits, and lovely sentiments included in every piece. I was so excited to get playing and creating! I love how it turned out!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Crafting! 

Squeeze the Day Collection, Squeeze the Day Besties, Squeeze the Day Ephemera Icons, 

Squeeze the Day Words, I Pick You Bella Pop, Dotty Washi Tape, 

Fruity Mix Matte Enamels, Epoxy Icons

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day | Patricia

Happy St. Patrick's Day, Bella Blvd Friends!  I love all things Irish, and even though my family recently found out we have more Scottish in us than Irish, I'm still full-blown Irish on this day!  For several years now, my family has gotten together with another very special adoptive family for the New Orleans St. Patrick's Parade in the Irish Channel.  In my first post, I shared how the March Mood Board inspired my Traveler's Notebook documenting.  For today's post, I will use the Squeeze the Day and Besties collection again, but in my 6-ring Traveler's Notebook or Life Crafted album bringing in all things Irish!

I knew I wanted to use small 4-2x2 photos in my pockets for the right and picked out the Pickle Juice Chevies Clear Cut to fill in the other 2x2 pockets.  I left that as is and then focused my attention to the left side for more color, texture, my title and journaling.

Loving the rainbows from both sides of the Squeeze the Day Sweet Skies pattern paper, I trimmed it to about 1" wide, then cut those pieces to about an 1.5" long.  Going with the curve of the rainbow, I used my 1/4" corner punch to one end of my strips, adhered them going up the left side of a piece of white cardstock background and did a horizontal machine stitching on each strip in white thread.  Once that was is place, I used the Happy Acrylic Word to build my title using the Florence Stickers in Pickle Juice, Guacamole, and Gulf.  To add more color, I backed the Happy Acrylic Word with the orange side of Squeeze the Day Borders.  Before I adhered my title though, I penciled in where I could fit my journaling and typed on my typewriter.

Once my title was in place, I adhered this page to a trimmed piece of Zesty using the green side.  I love the smaller size of the white background with the rows of pattern paper and my title against that green pattern paper!  

Next, I added the Squeeze the Day Chipboard 'DAY' and stamped a sentiment.  Then working off of the left side, I went back to the right side, adding both color and texture to create balance with the left.

I used a combination of Squeeze the Day Ephemera Words, Chipboard Icons, and punched Hearts to form a clover from Zesty pattern paper.  All of these were adhered or stapled to the Clear Cut, except form the trimmed Ephemera 'Follow the Rainbow.'  For the trimmed 'The Rainbow,' I slipped my stapler in between the pocket to staple directly to the outside of the pocket.

Even though we think just 'GREEN' for St. Patrick's Day, don't forget all those wonderful rainbows and especially orange as part of your next project.  Orange is part of the Irish flag!  And to bring a little 'lucky charms' feel, use the pattern papers with rainbows and icons or the Squeeze the Day Epoxy Icons to bring in some 'lucky charms' to your next project!  Happy Creating and Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Fabulous | Patricia

Hello Bella Blvd Fans and Friends!  This is Patricia to share my first post with you as a Creative Team Member!  I have been a fan of Stephanie's designs and use of color in her products.  The Bella Blvd products work perfectly with my eclectic and sometimes clean and simple style!  Although I love cards, mixed media, Bible Journaling, etc, my heart is memory keeper, and my most favorite ways to document have been in smaller formats.  I'm excited to share how the March Mood Board inspired this page in my Traveler's Notebook.  

Gorgeous and ready for Spring! The March Mood board inspired me in several ways:  color, repetition of texture and color, layers, Spring feel, and monochromatic.  I translated that inspiration in using watercolors, fringing pattern paper in shades of yellow, using tone on tone of layers of pattern papers and die cuts, and cutting up the Clear Cuts!  There really isn't a limit to working in a Traveler's Notebook.

I first punched 1" squares from Squeeze the Day Bananas For You and Fruit Salad pattern papers in yellow, cut them with fringe scissors, staggered four squares together and stitched together. I work both in and off of the pages in my Traveler's Notebook.  For this project, my pages in the album are thick enough that I applied watercolors directly to my white page using one of the negative squares from the pattern papers as a stencil to apply watercolors with a paint brush.

I typed my journaling on a separate piece of white cardstock, added more of the same black machine stitching to build on that reception from the stitched, fringed squares, then trimmed into strips.  I really love the Calendar Invisibles Clear Cut, so I used the same 1" square punch to punch out along the border, and then trimmed out the days of the week.  Once the watercoloring was dry, I adhered the fringes to the page, added a strip of Dotty Washi Tape, my journaling, one of the Clear Cut punched borders, and then added in Squeeze the Day Ephemera Words, icons, and Epoxy stickers.

With my left side having a lot of texture as well as color, I balanced it by keeping the right side more simplistic by using the Ice Besties pattern paper trimmed to fit inside my album, and then the reverse side of that same pattern paper as my photo mat.  I used more of the trimmed and punched pieces from the Clear Cuts at the top with Squeeze the Day Ephemera Words and Icons.  I trimmed just Thursday Friday Saturday from the Clear cuts and added stitching before adhering to my page.

And then balanced the yellow from the top and left side with just two layers of punched and fringed pattern paper, added the Dotty Washi tape and Squeeze the Day Ephemera Icon to finish at the bottom.

Whether you are new to Traveler's Notebook or not, I hope this gives you ideas and inspiration to see how creative you can get with your Bella Blvd products in a smaller format or to apply punching and fringing, watercoloring, cutting up those Clear Cuts, adding washi tape, stitching, tone on tone techniques to your next layout!  Thank you so much for letting me share my first project with you on the Bella Blvd blog!  Happy Creating and please tag #bellablvd on social medial so we can see your creations!

Adventure Mini Album | Erica

Hey friends! Erica here with you today to share a super cute and chunky mini album! I love to create mini albums filled with pretty papers, textures and of coarse stories! 

I used the Bella Blvd. Let's go on an Adventure collection to create my album. I cut the papers out using some dies from my stash and also cutting some down with my paper trimmer in different sizes. 

I love adding shaped pages to my album as well! When purchasing dies I always look for ones that can be used for cards but also work well for mini albums. This heart page was created using one of my dies! I added my photo and some pattern paper and stickers!

The Clear Cuts are so fun to add to mini albums as well. They add a great texture and a pop of fun to your pages!

One thing I always do is use some of the bigger die cuts in my albums for journaling spots! I thought this tent was perfect to add our camp ground name! I just punch a hole in the top left corner and add to my album!

Adding stitching with my sewing machine adds the perfect touch of handmade to the pages! I like to leave the ends longer so they peek out from the pages. I hope you enjoyed my mini album today using the Let's go on an Adventure collection! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Let's go on an Adventure collection | Adventure Acrylic word | Clear Cuts

 

Love Home Mini Album| Dorymar

Hi Bella Friends! It’s Dorymar here, for this adorable mini scrapbook, I used the Home Sweet Home paper collection it's an amazing mix of bright colors and playful patterns. There are plenty of dots, hearts, flowers and fun elements for every page along with lots of charming home-inspired sentiments!

This collection is all about home and will document your happy home story in the brightest way!

Bella Blvd offers you TONS of beautiful elements to use in projects. In this album, I used several that made my album a spectacular one. On the cover, I used the Blueberry Clear Cut Chevies as a base, the Home Acrylic Word as my Title and many chipboards and stickers of the collections.

I covered each page with a piece of patterned paper and decorated each page spread with photo mats, ephemera, and stickers.

It was a lot of fun to create this one!

I always enjoyed adding flaps and pockets into my albums to give a fun interactive way and to add more space for photos.

With each turn of a page, the revelations keep coming and are made even better with this adorable collection that screams “happy home” in each element!

The following are some of my favorite sections of the album but to really see all of the stunning details!

I hope you enjoyed this colorful and fun project and inspired you to create your own one!

 Happy Scrapping!

Home Sweet Home Collection, Home Sweet Home Ephemera Icons,

Home Sweet Home Ephemera Words, Home Acrylic Word, 

Home Sweet Home Epoxy Icons, Home Sweet Home Chipboard Icons, 

Home Sweet Home Doohickey Stickers, Heart Mix Acrylic Shapes, 

Blueberry Clear Cuts Chevies.

 

Rolodex Memory Cards with Allie (And Santa Squad!)

Have you fallen in love with the "Rolodex" style memory keeping lately? I know I have for sure! These cards are so fun and easy to whip up to create a fun, simple December memory project! 

I wanted to create a fun little project for December memory keeping that was low key and EASY-- so these little cards called my name!  They came together so quickly, and it was so easy to just layer on bits and pieces-- no photos needed if you don't have any! The best part? I used some of the scraps on my desk from other Santa Squad projects! Don't waste a single bit of this adorable collection! 

To create these cards, I cut down some of my extra papers to approximately 4 in x 3 in and used my MemoryDex punch to make it so I could put it in my MemoryDex box! After I created the card, I started decorating! I typed up some of my favorite December song lyrics, as well as some December memories so far, and cut out the strips and glued them on. I love the "collage" look it creates! 

I also had a lot of fun adding in some washi and some Christmas themed "Heart Hugs" from Bella Blvd to add some fun dimension and interest. 

Are you into the Rolodex/MemoryDex memory keeping projects? Have you used up all of your Santa Squad scraps yet? Or are you hoarding all of the pieces because they are so cute? ;) 

Santa Squad paper collection   • Christmas Heart Hugs •  Dotty Designer Washi Tape

Happy, Thankful, Blessed Thanksgiving Mini Album

Hi everyone.  Heather Leopard here and I'm getting ready to host Thanksgiving here in the US. I thought it would be neat to create a mini album that has space to feature everyone we celebrated with. Let's take a look at what I put together and how I plan to complete it, or rather let the guests complete it while they're here for a few days.

 

I created the background leaf template using the Bella Blvd 'leaves' cut file.  I just supersized it to a size that would work for what I needed then cut. I cut 10 of these leaves out of coordinating patterned paper from the Bella Besties collection.

I plan to feature one side with a photo and then ask each guest to write a note or a collection of words/sentiments that tell us what they are thankful for this year. I went ahead and added a photo frame to each leaf. This measures 2.25" x 3.5". I'll snap a photo and print them out either using my Sprocket or my mini Epson printer. Quick and instant!

This is where I will relinquish my control and let each guest decorate around their photo however they'd like.  I thought this little twist on things would be something fun for them to do, and would show their individual personalities. 

They can also choose to decorate the leaf opposite their photo or leave it blank but I will ask them to note something about them...anything they want as long as it's in their handwriting.

Once everyone has had a chance to complete their pages, we'll have a fun mini album to commemorate this special year together. I think it would be fun to pull this out again every Thanksgiving (and any others we make in the coming years).

Bella Besties Freehand Graph & Dot collection; Squeeze the Day Chipboard Icons, Matte Enamels, Doohickey Stickers, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons, Florence Alphabet - McIntosh, Orange, Bell Pepper, Pickle Juice, Ice, Blueberry, Pony, White; Acrylic Words - Happy; Heart Hugs - Sunshine

 

Merry, Merry Christmas Mini Album

Hello everyone! It’s Dorymar here today with a cute 6"x6" mini album. I used the new Santa Squad Collection when I see all the details of this lovely collection I felt in love! All the bright colors and the designs are AMAZING!

This mini album was made from scratch and I created the cover using 2 pieces of 6"x6" chipboard. Front and back pieces are covered with the patterned papers from the 6"x6" paper pad. For the binder I used the 12"x12" Graph & Dot Pickle Juice from Bella Besties and cut the paper in half, then I fold the two pieces in every 3/4 inches. I reduce one of the pieces at 6"x10.5" and adhered it together with the other 6"x12” piece.

To create the inside of the album, I used the 6"x6" patterned papers from the 6"x6" paper pad and some cards from the Daily Details 12"x12" paper to create the pages.  Incorporating these cards allows me to create different sizes of pages to give a fun touch to the project.

I want to use all the beautiful elements of this collection. I used the stickers, die cuts, chipboard, Bella Icons, washi tape, etc. to decorate the pages, also I incorporated some buttons and ribbons and the results were amazing! 

All the designs of these papers are beautiful and match perfectly, this allows me to make the process of creating much fun and easier.

Adding pockets, flap and tags is something you shouldn't miss! In the photos above I show you how to create this, it makes the project look super beautiful and it also provides more space for journaling and photos.

I’m in love with Bella’s Pops, all of them in this collection are awesome! For this project, I used the Dachshund Through The Snow.

It's so cute!

I love everything about Santa Squad collection, and I hope you felt in love too!!! Thanks for stopping by and Get Inspired!!!

Santa Squad: Santa Squad 6"x6" Paper Pad, Santa Squad Besties,

Santa Squad Doohikey, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, 

Santa Squad Chipboard Icons, Christmas Words, 

Red Stripe Designer Washi Tap, Bella Pops-Dachshund Through The Snow