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Summer Checklist with Kelly

Hello everyone! It's Kelly here today sharing a two page layout featuring the Splash Zone collection:
My 'Summer Checklist' layout is a photo collage of my son's summer activities to check off kind of like a bucket list. I used the scallop plaid paper from Plaids & Dotties for my boxes, and I turned some V's from the Wonky Alphas into check marks. 

I connected each photo to it's activity by using stars in coordinating colors to match each title and it's check mark.

I added a few cardstock stickers and ephemera to the photo collage...and strips of patterned paper at both sides of the layout help to tie it together.

I layered some word bubbles for my title...and I just love that chipboard sun to top it off!

What's on your bucket list this summer?

Thanks for stopping by today!

Splash Zone: Sunny Days, Summer Scramble, DooHickey Stickers, Ciao Chip, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons; Fireworks&Freedom: DooHickey Stickers;  Plaids&Dotty: Scallop: Florence Alphas: Black, Ice, Orange, McIntosh, Pickle Juice, Blueberry; Wonky Alphas: Black, Ice, Orange, McIntosh, Pickle Juice, Blueberry; Puffy Stars: Black, Ice, Orange, McIntosh, Pickle Juice, Blueberry; Heart Hugs: Black&White; Tiny Text: White, Wild Berries

Father's Day Layout with Kelly

Hello everyone! It's Kelly here today sharing a Father's Day layout featuring the Let's Go on an Adventure collection.

The colors and woodsy theme of this collection enhanced my outdoor Father's Day photo perfectly.

I selected all of the embellishments and papers that matched the color scheme and subject of my photo. Since the photos were taken in front of the trees in my yard, the little die cut trees were perfect. I also added some papers from the Plaids and Dotty collection.

I LOVE the Florence Alphas...and had a ball using them for my long title....and of course no layout of mine is complete with out a little stitching, and a few staples.

I hope I have given you a few ideas to incorporate the Let's Go on an Adventure collection on your Dad's Day projects!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Let's Go on an Adventure: Shy Foxes, Mountain Peaks, Woodstumps, DooHickey Stickers, Ephemera Icons,Ephemera Words; Plaids & Dotty: Scallop, Dotty, Blueberry; Heart Hugs: Earth, Black & White; Puffy Stickers: Pickle Juice; Designer Washi Tape: Swiggle; Florence Alphas: Pickle Juice, Orange, Pony, Guacamole, Blueberry, Ice

 

Spring Cards with Kelly

Hello everyone! Today I am sharing four spring cards...Two of them are graduation cards, and the other two are for Teacher Appreciation.

I always try to make graduation cards using the graduate's school colors. For this one, I used a combination of Plaids & Dotty, Let's Go on an Adventure, and Pop Quiz.

For this next one, I made a window using Blue Chevron from the Invisibles line. I positioned the clear patterned paper with a tiny bit of double stick tape before I secured it in place with stitching.

The next to cards are Teacher Appreciation cards made with the Home Sweet Home collection. This collection is probably my new favorite...so feminine and perfect for so many occasions. The inside of this first one says "for helping us GROW."

The inside of this card says "for helping us BLOOM."

So many celebrations happen at the end of the school year... graduations, recitals, spring programs...and there's nothing quite like a handmade card to make every occasion feel special.

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Home Sweet Home: Ephemera Icons, DooHickey, Mosaic Tile, Borders; Let's Go on an Adventure: Morning Meadow; Plaids&Dotty: Blueberry; Pop Quiz: Sticky Mix; Heart Hugs: Black&White; Florence Alphas: Blueberry, Ice, Cotton Candy; Invisibles: Chevies Blueberry; Delight in His Day: Fundamentals; Cute Clips: Festive; Acrylic Shapes: Star Mix; Designer Washi: Rainbow, Ice Dot; Puffy Stars: Milk White; Tiny Text: Faithful; Word Salad

Blessed

Good morning everyone! Kat here today to share my newest creation made with the gorgeous Home Sweet Home collection. 

This collection is so beautiful that I wanted to try to incorporate a few of the fun patterns. I decided the best way to do this was to cut out a bunch of circles and bunch them together on my layout.

When I decided on this design, the layout came together pretty quickly. I used the "blessed" acrylic word to add in my title...I love the pretty font of that one!

Here is the final layout:

Quick and simple!

Have a wonderful week!

Patterned Papers: Home Sweet Home: Home Sweet Home, All My Love, Welcome Home, Always Welcome; Doohickey Stickers: Home Sweet Home; Ephemera Icons: Home Sweet Home; Acrylic Word: Blessed; Puffy Stars Stickers: Orange Mix

Happy National Farm Animal Day

Hello there, friends! Today is National Farm Animal day, and I thought I'd give you a little throwback with the amazing Barnyard collection! It has a ton of cute little farm animal illustrations, and they were perfect to go alongside these cute photos of my son at the farm!

For the large portion at the top of my pocket page, I chose to fill it with a fantastic cloud sheet of paper and fill in the rest with another photo and my title.

I layered up some chicks and some paper grass to nestle in that cute little pig for extra dimension.

I chose a pocket page that had room for a full 4x6 photos, because I just loved the whole scene of my little one playing in the water spigot! A normal farm visit would result in actual animal photos, but my little one was far more interested in this pretty red spigot than the animals.

For my last 4x6 pocket, I wanted to tie in some more red, so I backed my journaling card with the amazing red paper from the Plaids & Dotty collection. I then layered on this cute-as-ever tractor and trailer.

I chose to layer my typed journaling over the red plaid; I typed my journaling on wax paper to create a great textured element, that would let the amazing plaid shine through!

Barnyard Collection, Bug Explorer 12x12 Paper, Plaids & Dotty 12x12 Paper, Word Salad Booklet, Puffy Wonky Alphas, Chipboard Alphas

Fabulous friend by Kim Watson

Do you have 'leftovers' from various collections on your craft table?

Well I always do, so this week's challenge of using 3 or more collections together, came at the perfect time for me. This page is the result.

Fabulous Friends by Kim Watson

The theory behind this type of design is simple. 

1. Have a specific page theme to guide your pattern & embellishment choices.
2. Choose a base to hold the design; I selected a white Chevies Clear Cuts sheet.
3. Decide on a color palette; I chose pink, orange, yellow with aqua highlights.
4. Collect leftover paper strips & stickers that comply with points 1., 2. and 3.
5. Get crafty :D

 

As you can see, the Bella 'philosophy' of having standard color palettes really helps the 'mixing' process. Look how well the patterns from the different collections coordinate together. 

These are the collections I used:

1. Plaids & Dotty
2. Mom Life
3. Oh My Stars
4. She Blooms

 

The strips trimmed from short to long, create a colorful mat for my photo, this makes for an eye catching focal point. Did you notice how I have varied the heights of each piece? The stepped effect allows one to slip embellishments in between the layers in an organic manner, as well as giving the page dimension. Don't you love the way the resulting shadows add super visual interest?

 

Earlier I mentioned using aqua as a highlight color....I did so using one of my fave embellishments, a big Felt Bow with support from appropriate Word Salad sentiment stickers. The blue acts as visual anchors & helps one to visually move around the page. 

So no matter the theme of your project, Bella Blvd has the perfect combination of products to make your crafting process a seamless one. I hope you are inspired to 'bust your stash' using this timeless idea.

Have an awesome day further.

Hugs XOXO

 

Moms Life, Oh My Stars, She Blooms, Plaids & Dotty Collection, Word Salad Booklet, Puffy Stickers, Bella Bows, Acrylic Words, Chevies Clear Cuts

DIY Mini Easter Baskets

Who loves putting together little DIY gifts for friends and family? I certainly do! And when I can use my paper crafting supplies to do it, it's even more fun! Christine joining you today to show how I combined several Bella Blvd Collections to make these mini Easter Baskets!

I decided to go ahead and make a girl one and a boy one using a cardstock base and then topping that with Plaids & Dotty!

I also used the Wish Big collection to create an egg embellishment. I simply cut the lantern from the ephemera pack in half and then spread it out on white cardstock so that it would form an oval. Then I fussy cut around it and voila, an egg! Adding a simple border down the middle accompanied by enamel dots made it even more cute.  

To identify the baskets, I created simple accompanying tags. Both tags came from the Oh My Stars Collection. No need to wonder, the colors match up perfectly because that's one thing that Bella Blvd is known for! With each collection you can count on the colors matching up from other collections, meaning it's easy to mix and match!

My approach was pretty much the same for the girl basket: add an egg, an embellishment, and a tag! You may notice that the style of the two baskets is slightly different. I used two different cut files but they are put together the same way. You can check out my video below for more details!

I do want to point out one more little detail that helps make these baskets special! The Bella Bows on the top were just the right finishing touch! I love it when you find an embellishment that is just right!

Thanks so much for joining me today! Happy Crafting Friends!

Bella Bows, Wish Big Collection: Ciao Chip, Ephemera, Stickers; Plaids & Dotty: Patterned Paper, Oh My Stars: Tags, Heart Hugs: Enamel Dots

 

 

Spring Flowers Scrapbooking Layout

I don't know about you but Spring always makes me put on my happy face. Mine usually comes in the form of a smile. My youngest daughter on the other hand displays her happiness slightly differently and I just had to document it.

When I started this layout, I knew I'd have tons of outdoor Spring-like photos to choose from so I created this layout backwards. Crazy concept but it worked. I decided I wanted to create a layout with tons of Spring colored flowers so I looked through my cut file library and found this design by Paige Evans. It's great because it sets the stage for the theme of the page yet leaves plenty of space to keep the attention focused on the photo.

I chose to back the cut file with 3 different green patterned papers for the various leaf types and then used Spring colored patterned papers for the different flowers.

Once I layered the backed cut file on the background paper I noticed it wasn't popping enough off the page.  I did two things to fix this. First, I fussy cut the diamond border from a patterned paper and adhered the strips to the back of the cut out design so it would create a border.  Then I glued the cut file and applied a thick coat of white gesso to the inside it. The diamonds look like arrows pointing in toward the photo and the gesso allows everything (photo, title and sentiments) inside the square to not get lost.

Lastly I added the chipboard flowers in corners across from each other to give the page a bit of dimension. Since I only adhered the inside border of the cut file to the background I think I will also pop some of the flowers and leaves up using foam dots.

I hope this sweet girl's silly face and the fancy flowers in this layout bring a little happiness your way today.

Plaids & Dotty; Wish Big Patterned Papers: Daily Details, Party Animal, Cakes & Crowns, Let's Celebrate, Candle Parade, Borders, Caio Chip Icons, Sticky Mix Cardstock Stickers; Island Escape Patterned Papers: Borders, Daily Details, Peace & Quiet, Bonus Pattern; Mom Life Patterned Papers: Houseplants, Daily Details, My Tribe, Jammies All Day; Oh My Stars Fundamentals; Wonky Alpha Puffy Stickers

 

Spring Love | TN Spread

 

Hello there, friends! I couldn't wait to share this happy little traveler's notebook spread with you! I'm not a very happy camper in winter, so when the taste of Spring rolls around, I'm in love!

I was happy to document this little photo of my handsome son and I on a brief stroke of warm weather with the windows open in our house. I can't wait to have many more of these photos to document.

I had a blast working with the Bug Explorer collection, and I wanted to nestle those little critters in some grass on the opposing page. I stitched in 3 strips of green paper from the Plaids & Dotty collection, which I cut strips to emulate grass.

I finished up my spread with some enamel hearts and a couple pieces from the Word Salad booklet.

Bug Explorer Collection, Word Salad Booklet, Enamel Dots & Doodads, Wonky Alphas, Secrets of the Sea Ephemera

Easter Bunny | Erica Thompson

Hello everyone! Erica here with you today to share a new layout with you! This week we are creating Easter/Spring layouts to share with you. For this layout I pulled out my Bella Blvd stash of papers and pulled out all the papers that matched the Simply Spring 12x12 sticker sheet.

I knew I wanted to use this beautiful cut file I cut weeks ago from Paige Evans. I cut it out of some white cardstock and backed it with a bunch of spring colored Bella Blvd papers. I love how it turned out and how colorful it is. 

The photo I am documenting is of my friend Sandy and I when she was up for a visit. We had to run to Wal-Mart to get a few things and the Easter Bunny was around giving out candy! Of coarse we had to get a selfie with him! I love this photo so much and it reminds me of the crazy fun Sandy and I have when we are together.

I used so many different collections in this layout but you would never know that! Everything matches perfectly together and that is one of the things I love about Bella Blvd! Once the cut file was backed I added lots of foam tape behind it and adhered it to a piece of white cardstock. I love the dimension this adds to the layout. 

I added a few layers behind my photo and also popped this up on the layout with some foam tape. I kept the embellishments pretty light on this layout since the cutfile is pretty busy and colorful. I added some of the stickers from the 12x12 sticker sheet, some enamel dots around the layout and a white heart hug. 

I love how it turned out! Here is a look at my completed layout. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today

 

Simply Spring 12x12 Stickers, Plaids & Dotty, Wish Big 6x12 Sticky Mix, Oh My Stars 12x12 Fundamentals, Mom Life Pattern Paper My Tribe, Color Chas Pattern Paper Peep Strandz, Popsicles & Pandas Pattern Paper Oh Summer, Heart Hugs