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Monsters & Friends + Bella Besties Day 3 | Yarelys Rodriguez

Hey there Bella Friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys here to share with you a Halloween layout using the Monsters & Friends collection, the Bella Besties, and one of the Bella Blvd cut files.

I started my layout by painting the background. For this I used Distress Oxide in colors that match the collection. I also used Distress Oxide to paint my cut file.

Once the background dried, I started to build my layout. I backed the Happy Halloween cut file with the Bella Besties. Then, I glued my photo and the cut file with adhesive foam to create dimension.

To finish my layout, I added Bella-Pops, Ephemera, Doohickey, Ciao Chip, Epoxy and Matte Enamels.

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/tCRuvcOyQ2s

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Monsters & Friends Collection: Scary Cute paper.

Bella Besties: Graph & Dot in Pickle Juice, Ice, Plum and Orange.

Ephemera: Monsters & Friends.

Doohickey: Monsters & Friends.

Ciao Chip: Monsters & Friends.

Bella-Pops: Candy Bandit, Little Monster and Pumpkins.

Epoxy: Goblins and Stars Halloween Mix.

Matte Enamels: Halloween Mix.

Cut File: Happy Halloween.

Monsters & Friends + LARGE Titles Day 1 | Sarah

Happy Monday! I’m excited to share this layout using the Monster & Friends collection! 

I started by using the Pumpkins cutfile. I cut it extra large to fill the page! I then picked patterned papers from the collection to add to the pumpkin. I cut them in 1.5 inch squares and distressed the edges. I folded the corners into the center of the square. I then glued them to the pumpkin on the diagonal, making sure to mix the patterns.

I then created the background. I started with the black and white print paper from the collection. I added distress oxides using a foam ink applicator to make a glow around where I knew the pumpkin would go. I added splatters of distress inks and black and white acrylic paint. 

I glued the pumpkin to the page. I dressed up the black stem with hand-stitching using black embroidery floss. I added the leaf and swirls from the cutfile. I then coated them with glimmer paste to give them some extra sparkle. 

I finished the page by adding the “Happy” and “Halloween” acrylic words and embellishments from the collection!

 

 

I hope this layout inspires you in some way!! Have a great week!
Bella Blvd Products Used:

Monsters & Friends : paper and ephemera

Sweet & Spooky: acrylic word - "Halloween"

Wish Big: acrylic word - "Happy"

 

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.

Fall & Cut File Week Day 1 | Sarah M

I am so excited that fall is finally here! One of our most favorite activities to do as a family when fall arrives is to go to the pumpkin patch at our church and pick out pumpkins! We bring them home and work together to carve them, and the kids are simultaneously grossed out and fascinated by cleaning all the yuck out of the pumpkins! For this layout, I wanted to capture this fun memory of the start of fall for our family. 

I have used four Bella Blvd cut files for this layout: Family Fun, Smiley Pumpkin, Flower Pumpkin, and Leaves.

For the Family Fun cut file, I used the offset tool in the Cricut software to create the purple layer, and I used the Contour tool to cut the word FUN. I was able to distress the edges and pop that word up. To finish the look of this cut file, I added dots of green glitter the word family and a layer of orange glitter to the word fun. Adding these details helps it to stand out on the page!

For the Smiley Pumpkin and Flower Pumpkin, I cut them in matching colors and layered them up on the page. I distressed the edges of the pumpkins to match the background of the layout. I also added orange dots of glitter to the rim of the pumpkins, and I added some jewels and glitter around the outside of them to match the layer they were sitting on. I love how this draws your eyes to the pumpkins! 

For the Leaves, I cut those in coordinating colors with the pumpkins and background. The cut file itself has several layers, so it was easy to give the leaves dimension and interest. There is a tiny stem and veining piece of the cut file, but I attached this to the back of the leaf and used black thread that I hand-stitched to add the veins to the leaves. I love the texture this gives to the layout. 

For the center background of the page, I used patterned papers from the Besties, Oh My Stars, To the Moon, and You Are My Sunshine collections. I pulled patterns in purples, greens, yellows, and oranges. I cut small strips in varying heights and 4 3/4 inches long, heavily distressed the edges, and stacked them going down the page. To the left of that layer, I used distress inks in coordinating colors to peek out from underneath. I also added splatters of white acrylic paint. I love the messiness this adds to the page!

On the left side of the layout, I added a few more strips of paper to balance the page. I am so happy with all the fall colors and the way the cut files and patterns helped me capture this sweet memory for our family! I hope this inspires you in some way!

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

 

 

Mood Board Week Day 1 | Sarah

Happy fall! I absolutely love the mood board this month and the fall colors and themes! I’ve been ready to break out the pumpkins and sweaters for months, and I’m thrilled it’s finally here! 

For this layout, I was especially inspired by the colors in the mood board.

I love that circle image, and I wanted to incorporate those colors and a circle somehow. I started by gathering the colors I wanted to use. I pulled greens, oranges, yellows, and blues from several Bella Blvd collections: You Are My Sunshine, My Candy Girl, To the Moon, and Bella Besties. I also threw in a brown and grey while I was trying to incorporate the colors I saw in the mood board. I decided to use all of the beautiful papers to build a central circle on my page. I cut a circle out of scrap paper to use as the foundation. I hand cut triangles out of each pattern and tried to vary the sizes a bit. I wanted the visual texture and dimension the varied sizes add. I then distressed the edges of each piece and placed them around the circle, paying attention to the direction of the patterns (ex. I wanted hearts facing the correct direction). Once I was happy with how it looked, I glued them down to the circle. 

I then grabbed my background paper and lightly traced where I wanted the circle to go. I also quickly jotted down where each color was going to be behind the circle. I set it to the side and played with coordinating distress inks on my background. I love the messiness and depth the inks add to the layout. I tried to match the shades of inks to where each patterned paper would be. Once I was happy with that, I put my circle back down on the center of the page. 

I used two Bella Blvd cutfiles to tuck around my sweet pumpkin patch photos and emphasize the fall theme. The pumpkins add to the feel of my photos, and the leaves add texture to the scene. I added glitter to the pumpkins for a little shimmer and shine. I love the layers of the cutfiles and how they bring in more of those fall colors. 

I created my title out of phrases cut from patterned papers from the My Candy Girl Collection. I also added a few embellishments from the collections and finished the layout by adding my journaling to the bottom of the layout and white acrylic splatters around the page. 

I hope this layout inspires you in some way, and I’m wishing cooler weather upon all of you (especially my fellow Texans)!! 

 

Fall & To The Moon Week Day 2 | Yarelys Rodriguez

Hey there Bella Friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys here to share with you a fall layout using the To The Moon collection and the Bella Besties. I also used two of the Bella Blvd cut files.

I went through the papers of the collection and picked the Borders, Little Explorer, Out Of This World, Reach For The Stars and The Sky’s The Limit and cut strips to make rosettes with them. Then I cut the Fall Leaves Outline cut file, for this I used the Bella Besties in Blueberry, Ice, McIntosh and Orange.

To build my layout I glued the rosettes and my photo, then I added the leaves from the cut file.

For my title I used the Autumn cut file. To finish my layout, I added the word days to the title and some Trinkets.

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/6rciyel5cXg

Bella Blvd Supplies Used

To The Moon Collection: Borders, Little Explorer, Out Of This World, Reach For The Stars and The Sky’s The Limit papers.

Bella Besties: Hearts & Ombré in Ice and Orange.

Bella Besties: Graph & Dot in Blueberry and McIntosh.

Doohickey: To The Moon

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

Cut Files: Fall Leaves Outline and Autumn.

Sketch Week Day 3 | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today sharing a new layout using the gorgeous September Sketch and the You Are My Sunshine collection.  Do you like to create with sketches?  They really take a lot of the work out for you and it's fun to take a sketch and alter it to fit your design/style as well.  Here's what I came up with!

 

 

Here's the gorgeous September Sketch created by my fellow CT member, Niki Rowland. It's fabulous!

 

 

When I looked at the sketch, I noticed a fun mixed media background using a stencil.  So I took a stencil from my stash and ink blended on a few different Distress Oxide ink pads in pink, orange and yellow. It was super simple and quick!  You could even add stitching in place of the mixed media.  It would add some great texture.  

 

 

I usually add only one photo to my layouts but this sketch called for several and I really wanted to stick as close to the sketch as possible.  I had a bunch of photos that I had taken of my boys playing basketball in the pool and I thought it would be fun to arrange them frame by frame.  I matted them using the Everyday Magic 12x12 patterned paper and popped them all up on foam tape to give them all a little bit of lift.  The photos and the mattes are all in blue tones so they really popped on top of my background. 

 

 

I wanted to add more color and without using additional patterned papers, I thought it would be neat to add washi tape to the top and bottom of the page.  I used both a polka dot washi and skinny stripe washi and really like how it pulled everything together. For my title, I used the "Memories" acrylic piece and added onto it using the Aria Alphas in Gulf.  

 

 

Next, I pulled in some ephemera, puffy stickers and chipboard and cardstock stickers.  I created embellishment clusters around my page and added some tangled thread to them as well.  

 

 

Here's a close up shot of one of the clusters.  All of these bright colors make me so happy.  

 

 

One more shot of this fun layout!

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I really appreciate you being here!  If you do end up using this sketch to create a page, please make sure to tag me in your social media posts.  I would love to see your take on it!  I'd also love it  if you checked out my process video down below to see how this layout came together.  See you next time friends!

 

 

 

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

You Are My Sunshine Collection: 12x12 Patterned Papers, Ciao Chip Stickers, Doohickey Cardstock Stickers, Ephemera, Puffy Stickers; Bella Besties: Aria Alphas in Gulf, Memories Acrylic Piece.  

 

 

Sketch Week - Day 2 | Nathalie DeSousa

Hello Bella Blvd.friends!

Nathalie here to continue sharing more inspiration with this month's sketch.   We love sketches, they are one of the  best ways to get a project done in a short amount of time with great results. Let's take a look at this week's sketch

Just love all the small picture  spots, and the large title.   Now here is my project:

 

 

I started by creating the background for my page.   The sketch shows a broken grid print in the background; I am replacing that with a bit of mixed media.  A bit of ink blending, then followed by a stencil application just adds a bit of color to the white cardstock.

 

 

Next, it was all about working with the photos.  I chose to back my 4 photos with papers from TO THE MOON Collection, and glued them as per the sketch.  However, I replaced the center photo with part of  my title.   I used Aria puffy alphas to spell the word, "DAD", in the center of the page in vertical formation.  

 

 

I used a circle stencil for the background, so I used a set of dies to cut some of the TO THE MOON collection and BELLA BESTIES Ombre/hearts into circles.  These are scattered at the bottom of the photos, along with  chipboard  stars and puffy star stickers from To The Moon collection.   I added a few extra accents atop the word "DAD", and a few extra embellishments at the outer edges of the pictures at both ends of the page.

 

 

I love the font in the Doohickey sticker page.  I used the ones from TO THE MOON collection for my title work.   I followed the placement for the journal lines, but decided to bring a bit of extra embellishment to the bottom edge of the page.

 

 

The sketch also shows a bit of embellishing on the top edge of the layout.  I chose to trim the top edge, and distress it a bit. Then backed the empty space with one of the papers used in the circle die cuts. I repeated this look at the bottom of the page, too.

 

 

I love how this turned out, and how easy it came together using the sketch as inspiration for the page. Remember to share your projects -inspired by the sketch- with us, too.  We would love to see your take on the sketch!

 

XO

 

 

Supply List

TO THE MOON Collection:  Patterned papers, Doohickey Stickers, Ephemera, Puffy Stickers, Chipboard Stickers

BELLA BESTIES Ombre/Heart Collection - Blueberry

ARIA PUFFY Stickers - Blueberry

Others:  Stencil - Vicki Boutin exclusive; Distress Ink - Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers; Dies - Freckled Fawn

You Are My Sunshine Alphas Week Day 3 | Yarelys Rodriguez

Hey there Bella Friends! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Yarelys here to share with you my new layout using the You Are My Sunshine collection and focusing in the Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers and the Florence Alphabet Stickers. I also used two of the Bella Blvd cut files.

I started my layout by drawing hearts for my background, using the Heart and Arrow cut file. Once the hearts were drawn, I painted and hand stitched around them. Then, I filled them with the Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers and the Florence Alphabet Stickers.

I went through the papers of the collection and picked the Happy Thoughts, Ray Of Sunshine, Rise & Shine, Sunshine and What A Day, and used them to cut the Daffodil cut file. I cut the flowers in different sizes to layer them and create dimension.

To build my layout, I glued my photo and the flowers. For my title I used one of the ephemera pieces of the collection, and to finish my layout, I added Bella-Pops and Epoxy.

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/wX_I8T7BGl0

Bella Blvd Supplies Used

You Are My Sunshine Collection: Happy Thoughts, Ray Of Sunshine, Rise & Shine, Sunshine and What A Day papers.

Aria Alphabet Puffy Stickers: Guacamole, Ice, Blueberry, Cotton Candy, Peep, Punch and Bell Pepper.

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Pickle Juice, Ice, Blueberry, Cotton Candy, Peep, Punch and Bell Pepper.

Ephemera: You Are My Sunshine.

Bella-Pops: Fly Away.

Epoxy: Hello Summer.

Cut Files: Daffodil and Heart and Arrow.