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HALLOWEEN - Sketch Week + Monsters & Friends Week - Nathalie

Hi there!

Nathalie with you today to continue sharing more inspiration featuring this month's sketch and the super cute Monsters & Friends collection.   This month's sketch is a fun one, and I think you are going to love its versatility and possibilities.  Here is the sketch, Nikki created, we are using as inspiration:

 

 

I pulled a few pictures of my daughter almost 15 years ago to create this page:

 

 

I am using the Fun Facts paper as the base for my layout.   All the small script create a neutral background for the page, since I am going to add saturated colored papers on top of it.

 

 

I decided to keep the square format of the photos (as per the sketch), and backed them with pieces from the Monster Party paper.   Once the pictures were ready, I trimmed a piece of Bella Besties to create the paper layer in the sketch.  Here is where I added my personal touch by adding a second layer of paper behind it, and adding the scalloped edge to the right of the layers.

 

 

Once the papers and photos were attached, I started to embellish following the sketch.  I used a die to cut two webs from black  cardstock, and placed as a background to the clusters of ephemera. Since the pictures are all about my daughter's kindergarden dance, I used the flower ephemera to  create the clusters around the photo.

 

 

I decided to change the location of the journal lines, and the direction of the title.  I used chipboard stickers from Monsters & Friends and Spooky & Sweet  as well as Doohickey alpha stickers to complete the title work.  

 

 

I decided to move my journal lines to the bottom of the paper strip, and then capped the corner of the paper with a chipboard sticker from Spooky & Sweet and stickers and  enamel shapes from the Monster & Friends collection.

 

 

I love how easily this page came together by following the sketch.  Remember to share any projects you create inspired by our sketch.  Cannot wait to see what you create with it!

 

XO

 

Bella Blvd. Supplies:

MONSTERS & FRIENDS Collection:  Patterned paper, ephemera, doohickey stickers, enamel dots, chipboard stickers

SPOOKY & SWEET COllection:  Chipboard Sticker

BELLA BESTIES Collection:  Ombre/Hearts in Grape

 

 

HALLOWEEN | Sketch Week with Monsters & Friends Day 3 | Niki Rowland

 

Hi everyone! I have a new layout and process video to share using Monsters & Friends – I love this collection and Halloween is my favourite thing to scrap! It is also Sketch Week so I'm using the sketch below.

The sketch has three photo blocks on it. I had two photos so for the third one I went looking for items from the Monsters & Friends Cut Apart sheets to use. I found a great square which contains three monsters and the phrase ‘night squad’. This was perfect for my third block.

I used an orange print paper from Monsters & Friends for my background, it has tone-on-tone stars on it and is just fabulous! I trimmed it down and distressed the edges and stuck it to a black background. I added my photo blocks and a strip of black & white polka dot paper, as represented by the sketch.

I then went looking for items to add to the embellishment clusters. I used two 2” squares from the cut-apart sheet and then added embellishments, for example a chipboard ghost and several flowers from the Ephemera.

For my title I wanted to use the Halloween chipboard title but it got lost in the dots of the background paper. To get around this I mounted it first onto a sheet of white Freehand Graph Bella Besties paper from the Monsters & Friends coordinating Bella Besties pack. I trimmed around it so it had a border and this helped it to stand out against the dots perfectly.

I added machine stitching through my title and around the edge of the layout. I also added black splatters of paint and handwrote my journaling. I finished off with some enamel stars.

 

Thanks so much for joining me today and I hope you have enjoyed this super spooky layout! There is a process video below, enjoy watching along!

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Products used: Monsters & Friends Collection: 12x12 Papers, Cardstock Stickers, Monsters & Friends Bella Besties Paper Pack, Chipboard, Enamel Stars, Ephemera.

Black card, black acrylic paint 

NEW! Let Us Adore Him Collection Reveal!

He is the reason for the season, the Prince of Peace, the King of Kings and the light of the world! Let us rejoice for a Savior has been born to us, He is Christ the King! Join us in celebrating Christmas’s greatest gift! The darling nativity combined with beautiful florals and colorful trees, make Let Us Adore Him a perfect Christmas combination! Merry Christmas from Bella Blvd.

Layout By Traci Reed

Double-Sided 12x12 Patterned Papers

Let Us Adore Him Collection Kit

Coordinating Let Us Adore Him Besties Collection Kit

Doohickey Stickers

Chipboard

Ephemera Icons

Ephemera Icon Words

The Reason Cut-Outs

Layout By Traci Reed

Bella Pops

Epoxy Stickers

Puffy Stickers

 

Now that you've seen Let Us Adore Him, what do you think? We can't wait to see what you will create with this BRAND NEW collection!

We know you're probably just as excited as we are, so you will be happy to know that all of these products will be shipping soon to your favorite local and online retailers!

What could be better than getting to buy this collection very soon? How about WINNING a whole Let Us Adore Him prize pack!? That's right! For a chance to win, be sure to visit our Instagram feed and locate the image below for all of the details on how to enter.

Thank you for joining us for today's reveal, we can't wait to hear all about your new favorite products!

 

 

Fall & Cut File Week | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you today sharing a colorful fall layout using one of the Bella Blvd cut files and some Bella Besties!

You can check out all the Bella Blvd cut files at the Silhouette Design Store or at Lori Whitlock! Today I am using the Autumn Leaf cut file I picked up in the Silhouette Design Store. I wanted to create a fun colorful fall wreath and this cut file was perfect! 

I cut the file out on some of the Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre papers. These are perfect to create a colorful rainbow in all different shapes and sizes! Once I had all my leaves cut out I created a wreath will al the cuts. I made it nice and full and I just love all the texture! 

To add a little bit of interest I took some white paint and splattered it all over the leaves. 

The photo I am using today is of my daughter Alyssa and Sofia who is my son's girlfriend! They went out to the apple orchard for apple cider donuts and snapped this super cute photo! 

For a little bit of texture and detail I used some of the Bella Blvd Puffy Trinkets and sprinkled them around the wreath. I added in some different stickers from my Bella Blvd stash that matched with the colors in the wreath! To finish off the layout I matted the trimmed down white cardstock onto some black cardstock and an older Bella Blvd pattern paper from the Panda's and Popsicles collection. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Make sure to stop by the Silhouette Design Store and check out all the fun Bella Blvd cut files!

Autumn Leaf Cut File | Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre | Puffy Trinkets | Aria Alpha |

 

 

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 | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends, 

It's Tarrah back with you today to share a new Fall inspired layout featuring Bella cut files. I decided to pull out the gorgeous Let's Go On An Adventure collection for my layout today, I love the trees and outdoors feel to this collection, it was perfect for the photo of my sons in the great outdoors.

For the cut file aspect of my layout, I chose the pine trees from the Silhouette Design store and cut out 3 lots of them from the dark green ombre side of the Hearts and Ombre patterned paper. In the Silhouette Studio software I placed the 3 lots of pine trees in different areas on the mat so that when the trees were cut they were different colours. Once they were cut out I arranged them on my chosen background paper - No WiFi paper. I trimmed down this paper so that I was then able to back it with the dark mountain paper. I like the look of multiple patterned papers in my background. I adhered my photo in the centre of my layout using craft foam. I tucked in one of the tags from the ephemera icon pack in the top left under my photo and added some white twine through the hole, I placed a map marker chipboard piece from the Chipboard Icon stickers on top of my photo.

At the bottom right of my photo I placed the super cute squirrel chipboard piece and adhered a die-cut word on top of the squirrel. I also placed my title below the photo which is the chipboard piece that reads, Life Is Good in the Woods. Under the title I also added a phrase die-cut that helps tell the story of my layout. On the left I added some chipboard trees from the Chipboard Icon stickers and a floral and word die-cut from the Ephemera icon pack.

On the right of the layout I added some die-cut trees from the Ephemera icon pack, some chipboard trees and also some of the gorgeous Acrylic trees too. Lastly I added a tab word die-cut and a word die-cut above my photo. I love how these words and phrases all help to tell the story of my layout. I stamped the date stamp with black ink to finish.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Bella Blvd blog today! I loved creating this Fall inspired layout using some Bella cut files and I hope you enjoyed my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it too. 

Happy creating!

Bella Blvd products used:

Let's Go On An Adventure collection kit

Let's Go On An Adventure ephemera icons

Let's Go On An Adventure chipboard stickers

Acrylic Shapes - Tree mix

Bella Blvd cut files

Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre paper - green

 

Fall & Cut Files Week Day 3 | Niki Rowland

Hey everyone! This is Niki @nikiclairecreates and I have a new layout and process video to share today using a mixture of collections and papers. Our assignment this week is to create fall layouts using cut files! I have used a Bella Blvd Sunflower cut file available from the Silhouette Design Store.

I started off by cutting the sunflower. I used Bella Besties dots paper in Bell Pepper for the base. For the second colour of leaves I decided to use a Cooper paper and I also used another Cooper paper for the centre of the sunflower. I assembled the sunflower and stuck it onto a green background. For this I used the Hearts & Ombre Bella Besties paper in Pickle Juice. I trimmed it down a bit, distressed the edges and added it to a sheet of white card.

I trimmed my photo into a circle shape and added that to my layout. I went looking for some embellishments to work with this colour scheme and decided to go for the You are my Sunshine collection as it has lots of flowers, bees and suns in it – perfect for sunflower photos!

For my title I wanted to use the ‘you are my Sunshine’ chipboard title from the chipboard stickers. It didn’t show up too well against all the different colours I already had on my layout, so to create some separation, I mounted it first onto some white card and cut around it leaving a narrow white border. This made it stand out very well.

I cut a few leaves using a leaf punch from three colours of patterned paper and positioned these around the layout, mostly clustered around my photo.

I added a bee Bella Pop, chipboard sun and a few sticker from the You are my Sunshine sticker sheet.

I finished off with a few splatters of white paint. There is a process video for this layout below, enjoy!

Thank you so much for joining me and I hope you have enjoyed this fun layout!
Happy scrapping

Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates

 

Products used:

Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre, Freehand Graph & Dot

Cooper Collection: 12x12 papers

You Are My Sunshine Collection: Chipboard, Stickers, Ephemera, Bella Pops

Cut Files: Sunflower

Other: white cardstock, white paint

 

Fall & Cut File Week Day 2 | Karlla Dauer

Hello Bella Blvd Friends.

Karlla Here and I'm so happy to share a new layout with you!

It's Fall & Cut Files week here at Bella, and I love it! 

I already said in my other post that I love this season.

Of the holidays, the colors, the pumpkins. So I wanted to bring this Fall style to my project.

For this layout, I chose to use two cut files "PUMPKIN PATCH" and "FALL LEAVES OUTLINE".

I placed the pumpkins in various sizes with foam tape and the leaves below the photo as an arrangement.

I created a composition with Bella Besties, Squeeze Day collection and Hearts & Ombré.

I liked the mix of prints and colors.

For the title and details, I added Florence Alpha Stickers, Aria Alpha and Trinkets Puffy Stickers.

I think the combination of colors between them is so beautiful. How much it brings life to the project.

To finish, I splashed white acrylic paint.

I loved the delicacy of this layout, and I hope you like it too.

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

Have a wonderful day!

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Bella Besties Collection

Hearts & Ombré Bella Besties

Squeeze Day Collection

Aria Alpha

Alphabet Stickers

Trinkets Puffy Stickers

Pumpkin Patch and Fall Leaves Outline Cut Files

 

 

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!

Fall Themed Mood Board Week | Brianna Lepper

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today sharing a new layout using the gorgeous September Mood Board!  There are so many things that inspired me on this board and I had a lot of fun creating this page.  Here's my layout: 

 

Here's the beautiful mood board: 

 

 

I was so inspired by color palette on this mood board as well as the plaid in the center and the circles in the right square, middle row. So, that's where I started!  I pulled out my Bella Plaids & Dotty Papers as well as my circle punches and punched a few circles out of the Bell Pepper, Ice, Orange and Cotton Candy papers.  I also pulled in the "Let's Go On An Adventure" collection and a punched several more circles from the "No Wifi Script" patterned paper.  I set those aside and created an ink blended background using a few ink pads from my stash.  I really loved the colors in the mood board, so I made sure to pull some inks that matched it.  

 

 

After I finished my background, I arranged my circles in three different clusters.  I had one at the top and the bottom and then put one right in the center where I would eventually add my photo to.  I distressed the edges of my circles and popped a few up on some foam tape.  I fussy cut some floral pieces from the Wild Flowers 12x12 patterned papers and layered them in all three clusters making sure to pop some up on foam tape for more interest.  

 

 

Next, I added in a few fussy cut foxes from the Shy Foxes patterned paper and also pulled in a couple of Ephemera Icons to add to each cluster.  I layered some of the floral Trinket Puffy stickers and then tucked in a few bundles of tangled thread.  

 

 

I matted my photo using both sides of the Morning Meadow patterned paper and used the Oyster Aria Alphas to create my title.  Since it's a Fall themed week, I thought this photo of my son in his baseball uniform (with my pumpkins in the background), would be perfect!  

 

 

Here's another look at the inked up background and all of the pretty layers:  

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by the blog today!  Have you started scrapbooking your favorite Fall photos?  You should definitely use this pretty mood board as some inspiration, it's so fun!  Make sure to tag me in your social media posts so that I can see what you create using this months board!  See you next time friends!

 

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Let's Go An Adventure Collection:  12x12 patterned papers, ephemera icons, ephemera words; Bella Besties: Plaid & Dotty papers in Orange, Bell Pepper, Cotton Candy and Gulf; Aria Alphas in Oyster and Trinkets Puffy Stickers in Bell Pepper