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Smile My Lucky Charm | Lake Life + Bella Besties and Letter Scramble

Hello Bella friends, Gloria Parra here with a new layout focusing on green using the “Lake Life” collection + Bella Besties. This kind of challenges are an awesome way to stretch those themed collections and create something totally unexpected!

For this layout, I started with 2 green patterned papers from the Lake Life collection. I loved the idea of incorporating some light blue and yellow to my page. I had the perfect photos of my little one looking all cute ready to go to her “husbands” birthday party, LOL! The color combo was perfect for my photos!

I started cutting the plaid patterned paper from the Lake Life collection at 6 inches tall by 9 inches wide and used a green Bella Bestie paper for the bottom part. Making my patterned background 10”x9”.

For my middle band I used green polka dot patterned paper from the Lake Life collection. I cut it at 11” x 3”. For my two 3x4 vertical photos I used the sunflower patterned paper and a Bella Bestie yellow grid paper to create the frames for my photos. I love how these patterned papers make my photos pop and take center stage.

I then cut a 3x4 tag from a light blue grid patterned paper and used it to create  my first embellishment cluster and to add my title on top of it. I love how the Letter Scrambles look when you mix the fonts and colors. For my embellishments I used a bunch of daisies and different color flowers. I love the little from that’s jumping on top of my letters and is wearing sunglasses just like my girl is on the photos!

I then created 2 other embellishment clusters, adding more florals, vines, flies and some enamel leaves. To finish my layout, I sprinkled some enamel dots and added some cute flies floating around my page!

I hope you guys like this layout and feel inspired to use your themed collections in a totally new way. The Lake Life collection is perfect for those St Patrick photos that you have waiting to be scrapped!

Have an awesome day,

 

Gloria

 

Supplies Used:

 

Lake Life collections kit

Lake Life Ephemera Icon Pack

Lake Life Word Ephemera Pack

Lake Life Enamel Dots

Lake Life puffy stickers

Bella Besties patterned papers 

Letter Scrambles alpha stickers 

 

 

 

 

 

Bella Besties | Maree

 

Hi Bella Friends

Today I am here to share a fun layout using a whole range of Bella Besties products and some bits and pieces from the EIEIO collection. I also feature a Bella Blvd acrylic title and a Bella Blvd cut file from the Silhouette store.

 

I started with the gorgeous half rainbow cut file found in the Bella Blvd store here:

Bella BLVD Silhouette Store

I decided to use mainly cool tones to reflect the landscape in my picture. The next step was inking the bottom of the rainbow and adding the fabulous Trinkets Puffy Stickers in the colors, Ice and Gulf, Pickle Juice and Guacamole, and Bell Pepper.

 

 

Then I added my picture and created my large title. The word 'Family' is from the EIEIO words ephemera pack and 'memories' is from the EIEIO Doohickey stickers. The 'Today' is an acrylic piece by Bella Blvd and the 'so lucky' is made the Aria Alphabet Puffy stickers in the color Pickle Juice.

Next I added some small tone on tone cluster groups using the EIEIO collection. I used Ciao Chip, ephemera and stickers.

 

I finished off by adding my typed journalling. I am really happy with this layout. It came together quickly but is fun and bright. I hope you are all having a wonderful day and get some creative time today.

Maree

EIEIO Collection

Puffy Stickers

Ephemera Words

Ephemera Icons

Doohickey stickers

Ciao Chip

Bella Besties collections

Freehand Graph and Dot

Aria Puffy Stickers

Trinkets Puffy Stickers

Acrylic Word - Today

Bella Blvd Cut File - link above

Sunny Day Ahead | Gloria Parra | Lake Life + Bella Besties

Hello sweet Bella Blvd friends! Gloria Parra here today with a super fun layout. We were challenged this week to use our Bella Besties and the “Lake Life” collection to create a St. Patricks inspired layout, and OH how I loved the end result!

I started my layout with the green Lake Life polka dot patterned paper as my base, leaving a border all around. I then cut my white cardstock at 11,5 x 11,5 inches and adhered it on top. 

With the help of my trusty Bella Besties I created my super colorful rainbow, cutting each color of the rainbow with Bella Besties paper as well as some monochromatic Lake Life patterned papers. I die cut some clouds  in different sizes and different shades of blue and placed them on 3 corners, creating a visual triangle on my layout.

My idea for this page was to have a pot of spring flowers (instead of gold) at the end of my rainbow. To create my pot I used a black Bella Bestie pattered paper and the Sunny Day chipboard sticker from the Lake Life collection for my title. The red “ahead” subtitle comes from the fantastic Letter Scramble stickers. 

All the gorgeous flowers bursting from my pot come from the Lake Life ephemera packs and the Bella Pops in this incredible collection. The little turtle and frog at the bottom of my pot are also some Bella Pops from the this collection.

I printed my photos on two 2 1/4 x 6 inches photo strips and use a piece of the black patterned paper to create a frame for them, bringing the black to the left side of my layout as well. 

I then created little embellishment clusters  and  scenes on my clouds, adding little butterflies all around, which help lead the eyer through the layout. I also added some enamel dots to mark the trace of the butterflies…love how that looks!

Finally, I decided to use up all my enamel dots by placing a bunch of them on each color of my rainbow. I love the subtle shine and interest that this adds to my page! For my story I printed some journaling strips and placed them under my photo strips. 

What a fun page to create friends, you would never guess this layout was made with a lake them collection right? Hope you feel inspired to grab your bella collections and make them work for your next themed layout. Have a great day friends!

 

Love,

 

Gloria 

 

Supplies Used:

 

Bella Besties Graph and Dot papers

Lake Life collection kit

Lake Life chipboard stickers

Lake Life Epoxy Stickers

Lake Life Icon Ephemera Pack

Lake Life Word Ephemera Pack

Lake Life Bella Pops

Lake Life puffy stickers

Lake Life Cardstock Stickers 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Love Song and Letter Scrambles | Gloria Parra

Good morning sweet Bella Friends! Gloria Parra here today with a new love theme layout using “Our Love Story” and the new Letter Scrambles alpha stickers to create a fun layout for my sweet valentine.

I started my layout with a white cardstock as my base and cut a 3x12 black polka dot patterned paper for the top layer and the multi color floral at 4 1/3 x 12 for the bottom strip. On the middle  section I adhered my two 3x4 photos, side to side.

I then created 3 vertical lines using different sizes and a variety of different hearts. I chose cardstock hearts, chipboard hearts and puffy hearts to create interest and variety. I adhered some of them flat and others with dimension, creating interest and fun on my lines!

 

I then used the 3x4 “Top Hits” journaling card to create a place for my title and as my top embellishment cluster. I added some cassette ephemera and a big heart to complete the top cluster.

For my journaling I used a second “Top HIts” journaling card to elongate it and make it look as if it was one long piece. I added a word ephemera that reads “Sweet Heart” at the bottom that looks so cute!

I finished my layout sprinkling little puffy and enamel music notes and love hearts all around. I love how fun and cheerful this layout came out and hope you like it as well!!!

Big hugs!!!

 

Gloria

 

Supplies Used:

Our Love Story patterned paper 

 

Our Love Story ephemera word and icon

 

Our Love Story enamel stickers

 

Our Love Story puffy stickers

 

Our Love Story chipboard stickers

 

Our Love Story cardstock stickers 

Lake Life + Bella Besties | Maree

Hi Bella Friends,

I'm here to share a fun layout today that highlights Lake Life and some classic Bella Besties. I love how easy it is to add Bella Besties to any layout, they always coordinate perfectly!

I started off with a Bella Besties paper for my background. This one is called 'Hearts and Ombre Ice' in blue. The gradient fades from dark to light and is just so pretty! My next step was to add the patterned Lake Life paper in a few diagonal pieces and machine stitch in place. I also added some border stickers from the Doohickey sticker sheet to frame the page.

I also fussy cut some of the Clear Cuts wave acetate to add just above the bottom paneling to give a little more fun detail. Next I added my pics and then used a combination of Florence Alphas and Ciao Chip to create my title.

Then I created 3 clusters to embellish my page. The first cluster features that gorgeous little bear holding fish, and the boats from the collections icons pack. This tied in so perfectly with my pictures of us kayaking and rafting in the lake.

The next cluster is a few trees, the cute life jacket and cloud, and my favorite, the adorable epoxy frog. My kids went frog hunting on this trip so I had to add him to the page!

Finally I used a couple of tags from the ephemera words pack. I added eyelets and twine for texture and a couple of cute epoxy pieces for interest.

 I think the icons in this collection are just so stinking cute! I hope you get some inspiration on how to mix Bella Besties, and Alphas with the latest new collection. Have a creative day!

Lake Life Collection

Collection Kit

Doohickey stickers

Ciao Chip

Ephemera Words

Ephemera Icons

Epoxy Stickers

Clear Cuts

Summertime and Bella Besties | Maree

Hi Bella friends,

It's Maree back to share a cute summer layout with you using some awesome Bella Besties products and a Cut Out too!

I had some fun pool pictures of my daughter and her friend. I thought the Sunshine Cut Out was perfect for these pics. I decided to use the hearts Bella Besties papers because they are so cute.

I started with some Distress Inks and a sunburst stencil to make a rainbow design the same colors as the papers. The paper took the ink so nicely and it really frames the pics well.

I backed the Cut Out using various shades from the Bella Besties paper. I used the template included in the Cut Outs pack and it was amazing how quick this made it. I then used some tone on tone Bella Trinket Puffy stickers to embellish the completed Cut Out.

I pulled out a few bits and pieces from the Time to Travel collection to finish embellishing the page. I love that Ciao Chip camera! I then added my sub title using the Florence Alphas in Pink.

I added some white ink splatters to finish off the page. I think this turned out so fun. Have you pulled out your Bella Besties lately? They work for almost any layout idea!  Have a fabulous day.

Bella Besties Collection Kit - Hearts

Trinkets Puffy Stickers

Florence Alphas

Cut Outs - Summer Sun

Time to Travel - Ciao Chip

Time to Travel - Ephemera

Time to Travel - Doohickey stickers

 

Sweet Summer Girl / Bella Besties Summer Themed

Hello Bella Friends! Gloria Parra here today with a new summer themed layout using the fabulous Bella Besties!!! If you are not familiar with our Bella Besties, they are the best friends and the perfect addition to all other Bella products! Oh how I adore those besties, they are so much fun to create with and help us stretch our collections with their basic patterns and vibrant colors.

Today's layout is a Summer one!!! My daughter is a huge fan of ice creams, popsicles, snow cones and cotton candies; treats are one of her favorite parts of summer! So, I decided to create a layout about this…

Using all my Bella Besties, I created a sun ray on my white cardstock background. I cut 2 different sizes of rays and created a sunburst with all the summer colors in my two Bella Besties pack. I distressed each of my rays to create some texture and dimension on my layout.

My photo is a 4” inch circle with a circle frame that measures 4.5” inches. I placed it in the middle of my sunburst.

For my title I used a “Sweet Girl” Cut Out and two big ice creams that I backed up with some more Bella Besties patterned paper. I love the Cut Outs  products, you get a beautiful die cut piece without the trouble of cutting it yourself and dealing with a die cutting machine. I also used some Florence alpha stickers to add them “summer” subtitle. 

I then embellished the 2 sides of my title with some ice creams found in the embellishment pack and chipboard sticker from the Tiny Tots 2.0 collection. This collection was the perfect complement to my Bella Besties.

I then added a couple of stickers and embellishments on my rays in a monochromatic way, which I love to do! I finished my layout adding some puffy stickers in the same colors of my rays.

Hope you like this layout idea and that it inspires you to create a beautiful summer layout with it!

 

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful day!

 

XOXO, Gloria!

 

Products Used:

Bella Blvd Florence Alpha Sticker

Bella Blvd Trinckets Puffy Stickers

Bella Blvd Sweet Girl Cut Outs

Bella Blvd Tiny Tots 2.0 ephemera, chipboard stickers and Bella Pops

Bella Besties Freehand Graph and Dot pack

Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre pack

 

Cap & Gown Featuring Bella Besties! | Maree Crozier

Hi Bella friends, I'm excited to share this fun rainbow layout with you today. It features the new Cap and Gown collection with the Bella Besties Paper Collection Kit. The result is really fun and colorful!

I started off by cutting strips from the Bella Besties collection kit in different colors, distressing them and machine sewing them to white card stock. The two outer strips are the Dream Big paper from Cap and Gown.

Next I added my two pics and added some hand stitched rainbows to tie in with the colors and rainbow ephemera. I backed my pics with the black grid paper called Accomplished. The stitched rainbows are a stitching cut file from Paige Evans. Found here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1449454210/36-cut-files-for-stitching?click_key=22e086a1560422c90be6a7831652d2370b8b7f29%3A1449454210&click_sum=1566dfb0&ga_search_query=stitching&ref=shop_items_search_1&crt=1&sts=1

I then added some fun ephemera to the page, popping some up and tucking some behind.

Finally I finished with my title using a couple of pieces from the Words Ephemera pack and some Florence Alphas in black.

This was such a fun layout to make and I love how versatile the Cap and Gown Collection is, you can easily use it for birthdays, celebrations, graduations, sports awards etc.

There are some fantastic generic phrases to use such as "It's your day" and "We love you" as seen here. We look forward to seeing what you create with this new collection. Have a fabulous day!

Bella Besties Collection Kit

From Cap and Gown:

Dream Big paper

Accomplished Paper

Ephemera Icon 

Ephemera Words

Florence Alphas - Black

 

To The Moon + Hearts & Ombre | Tegan

Good day crafty friends! Tegan here with you to share my layout today! I had so much fun combining the To The Moon Bella Besties Patterned Papers and Molecule Cut File with some Hearts & Ombre Patterned Papers to create this love-themed layout. Come take a look!  :)

First of all, let's talk about this super fun To The Moon Molecule Cut File! I sized the molecules to about 3" tall and cut them out using the Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper in Black so they would have a little bit of a pattern to them. I then used some enamel dots from the Heart Hugs pack to embellish them. How fun! And I think they look super cool on the Orange Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper!

Here I used the Hearts & Ombre Patterned Paper in Guacamole to anchor my photo. I used the 'love' portion of the Bella Blvd 'God Loves You' Cut File to cut 'love' out using white cardstock. 

I used the adorable Florence Alphabet Stickers in Blueberry to complete the title. I adhered the red heart sticker from the Cooper collection on top of the chipboard globe from the Pop Quiz collection. I added some Ephemera pieces from the Cooper collection inside of the molecules to add some interest to the page. I love how all of the Bella Blvd collections mix and match so effortlessly! I 

I used a mix of the To The Moon Bella Besties Patterned Papers to create a colorful anchor spot for my photo. I love that the Bella Besties Papers have fun little patterns on them... I love all of the mini polka dots, graph design, and hearts on this page! 

Thanks for joining us all this week! I hope we have inspired you to grab some of the amazing Hearts & Ombre Patterned Papers and the To The Moon collection (and cut files!) for your next crafty day! 

Bella Blvd Products Used:

To The Moon Collection: Bella Besties Patterned Paper Combo Pack, Molecule Cut File

Hearts & Ombre Patterned Papers: Black 

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Blueberry

Heart Hugs Pack: Give Thanks, Black & White, Pretty in Pink

Cooper Collection Ephemera and Stickers, Pop Quiz Chipboard Stickers, Let Us Adore Him Collection Kit, God Loves You Cut File

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE & BELLA BESTIES WEEK Day 1 | Nathalie DeSousa

Hello there!

Nathalie with you today to kick off YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE & BELLA BESTIES collections week.   I love the colors and designs of You Are My Sunshine, combine it with the Ombre Bella Besties, and you can pretty much document any memory.  This year, I am working on notebooks and smaller format for my documenting; so, today I am sharing a new  entry in my Gratitude Journal

 

 

I had  a large photo to work with.  So, I balanced it with a large  title.  I used two sets of Alpha Dies to create my title work from both the collections.

 

I  wanted to follow the colors order as in the sky in the photo ( I chose blue instead of the mauve tone)   when cutting the letters for my title. I emphasized the focus of the layout by using Caps for the word. I simply glued them to onto the simple b sides of You Are My Sunshine collection,

 

 

I want the title to feature nicely on the page, that meant simple embellishing after... I added just a few extra details in a color blocking fashion, that means that I chose the colors of the embellishments to match the colors of the letters.

 

 

For the other side of the spread, I  shuffled the  the strips of the patterned paper, so that they match the colors in the photos.   Since the photo is large,  I had space to add a bit of interest in a small cluster at the top of the photo.  I had extra negative space, so I was able to use the time of the photo as an extra embellishment/ subtitle on this page

 

 

I hope this inspires you to check both YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE and BELLA BESTIES collections for your next project.  You will love the possibilities!

 

XO

 

Supplies

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE COLLECTION:  patterned paper, chipboard stickers, Doohickey stickers, ephemera

BELLA BESTIES Ombre/Hearts - ORANGE

TRINKETS : Orange, Bell Pepper, Blueberry, Ice and Gulf