Hi friends! It has been such a joy to create with the Our Love Song collection and I love that I get to share another layout with you this month. I hope you have had a chance to get your hands on this collection. This week we are using the collection with a focus on circles and the Bella Blvd Clear Cuts. Clear Cuts are a Bella Blvd specialty - printed transparency paper. The one in this collection is called Love Squad and has the cutest little pink and red hearts printed on it. Here's what I created:
So I started by cutting out a large heart stencil with my Cricut so that I could have a template when stamping the stitched circles inside the heart. Once I had the template, I placed it on top of a piece of white 12" x 12" cardstock and stamped the circles inside the heart. Then I removed the template because I no longer needed it. I used my Cricut again to cut out circles to go inside the stamped circles. These circles are about 1.15" in diameter. I used several patterned papers from the collection including - XOXO, Volume Up, Crazy For You, as well as the Bella Besties Graph & Dot in Cotton Candy. This is also where I used the Clear Cuts. I was able to cut through it with my Cricut; I just needed to run it through the machine a couple times to get it to cut all the way through the transparency paper. Next, I added all the circles to the layout using tape runner.
In between all the circles there were some gaps so I added more stamping and some small black sticker hearts and dots from the Florence Alphas sheets. Next, I backed my photo with white cardstock and then added layers of paper behind it. I used the Clear Cuts again - this time I added some black and white grid paper behind it. You can also find that paper in the Our Love Song collection. It's called Soundtrack.
I got the title from the Ephemera Words set. I really kept the rest of the layout fairly simple, because of all the patterns and colors I chose for the circles. I added a few hearts around the title and then finished the layout with some journaling around the heart.
Thank you so much for taking the time to check out my work. I hope you feel inspired to create a circle themed layout and even throw some Clear Cuts in there as well. Here's a list of the supplies I used:
- 12" x 12" White Cardstock
- Our Love Song 12" x 12" Patterned Papers - Sound Track, XOXO, Volume Up, Crazy For You
- Bella Besties Hearts & Ombre in Black
- Bella Besties Graph & Dot in Cotton Candy
- Florence Alphas in Black (heart and dot stickers)
- Our Love Song Clear Cuts - Love Song
- Our Love Song Ephemera Words
- Our Love Song Ephemera Icons (hearts)