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EiEiO with Bella Besties | Sarah Millerhouse

Hello! It's Sarah Millerhouse here, and I am excited to share a layout with you featuring the beautiful EiEiO collection paired up with Bella Besties!

For this layout, I started with a piece of patterned paper from the EiEiO collection for the background! I loved the subtle hexagons on that white background. I added gesso all the way across the middle section on the layout, and then I added a rainbow of mixed media on top of that. I knew I wanted to highlight the colors in my photos, along with all the beautiful colors in the collection, and a rainbow was the best way to do that! 

Next I added several strips of patterned paper across the middle of the layout at an angle. This was a great way to highlight the placement of my photos and draw your eye to those! I layered a few tags from the Ephemera Words set in the collection behind my photos and added ribbon to those. I also attached a couple of tabs from that same set on either side of my photos. 

Above my photos, I added the Sunrise Bella Blvd Cutfile to highlight what a beautiful sunny day we had in Jamaica! I cut both the cutfile and an offset layer (that I created using the Offset tool in the Cricut Design software) so that my sun had more pizazz! I distressed the edges of each sun ray and also added hand-stitching and Pops of Color to really make it shine!

Beside the sun, I added a couple of clouds that I cut out from the Rainbow Bella Blvd Cutfile and added Pops of Color to some of the dots on the patterned paper.

For my title, I started with Ciao Chip letters from the EiEiO collection and the "Memories" Acrylic Word from Bella Blvd above my photos. 

Below the photos, I finished the title with Aria Alphabet letters in Bell Pepper and Guacamole and words from the EiEiO Ephemera Word set. I added some Puffy Hearts stickers and a few more Pops of Color to finish off the layout! I loved creating this layout, and I hope it inspires you in some way! 

Bella Blvd Products Used:

-EiEiO Collection: Patterned Paper, Ephemera Words, Ciao Chip

-Bella Blvd Cutfiles: Sunrise & Rainbow (Both linked above)

-Other Bella Blvd Products: Aria Alphabets, Puffy Heart Stickers, Acrylic Word - Memories

 

Merry Little Christmas with Heather Cerulo

Hello there! I hope you have been inspired this week seeing all the beautiful creations with Merry Little Christmas! When I sat down to create with this collection, I immediately knew I wanted to create a large Christmas tree. The borders paper was perfect for this!

 

 

First, I cut apart all of the borders, and then decided the order I wanted the patterns in my tree. I spaced out similar colors, as well as the borders with words. As I worked from the bottom of the page up, I trimmed some off the border so it became smaller as my tree made its way to the top.

 

 

A tree isn't complete without a topper! I used a pretty floral die cut from the Ephemera Icon pack, which I layered with some tangled thread and a Puffy Sticker. Of course, no tree is complete without ornaments, and the beautiful ones from the Puffy Stickers were perfect!

 

 

For my title I used the word "Santa" from the Ciao Chip, which I layered by popping some letters with foam tape. This helped the entire word fit in the space I had. A phrase die cut from the Ephemera Words pack was a great subtitle, right over the word.

 

 

To create flow, I added another floral cluster at two corners of my photo, including the same tangled thread and puffy sticker as on the top of my tree. Santa is the star of the show, and I knew he had to be included somewhere! This adorable puffy sticker, tucked perfectly with a tab on the top of the photo.

 

 

Finally, a tree isn't complete without a trunk! I used a word cut out from the borders paper. I hope you are inspired to document your Christmas memories with Merry Little Christmas!

Merry Little Christmas

Papers: Oh Christmas Tree, Papa Noel, Borders

Ephemera Titles & Icons

Doohickey Stickers

Ciao Chipboard

Puffy Stickers

Hi Bella friends, it's Kim and I'm here with my first layout using the amazing Merry Little Christmas collection. I adore scrapping Christmas and this collection is made up of  gorgeous colors with so many fun embellishments, I absolutely adore it. I was excited that my granddaughter's photo was perfect for the colors in this collection.

 

I love the pinks and blue in this collection and made sure to use them on my page along with the more traditional reds and greens. I loved all the wordy bits on the Daily Details paper and started by cutting it apart. Then, I distressed all the pieces and placed them around my photo. I offset the word, "Believe," from the paper and used it as my title.

 

The embellishments in this collection are so fun. I pulled out all the pinks and blues first and then pulled in more of the greens and reds. I had to use some of the gorgeous trees on my layout and layered them on one side.

 

Next, it was time to finish creating my clusters and add all the fabulous embellishments. Every single piece in this collection is adorable. I had to stop myself from adding them all.

I adore the puffy stickers, the epoxy stickers and the adorable Bella-Pops and used them to finish my layout. I added a few of the adorable Santas and the candy canes. For the finishing touch, I used the little glistening stars, enamel dots and epoxy flowers and then my page was complete.

Thanks for joining me and I hope you have a wonderful day!  Kim  

 

Products Used 

Merry Little Christmas collection:

12x12 Papers: Daily Details                 

Doohickey Stickers 

Ephemera Icons

Ephemera Words 

Countdown & Tags 

Ciao Chip 

Christmas Time Puffy Stickers 

Deck the Halls Epoxy Stickers 

St. Nick Bella-Pops

Oh What Fun Bella-Pops 

Christmas Cheer Bella-Pops 

Thanksgiving featuring One Fall Day with Kim Olson

Hi Bella friends, it's Kim and I'm back with another layout using the fabulous One Fall Day collection. The theme for this week is Thanksgiving and this collection is perfect for it. I loved creating this layout documenting my granddaughters at my home a few years ago.

 

I love using circles on my pages and started by cutting them. I used the Grateful and Gobble 'Til You Wobble papers for all my circles. I used the Grateful paper and placed it on the top and bottom of my page. Then, I added jute twine from my stash for interest. I backed all my photos with the same papers as the circles.

The embellishments in this collection are so fun! I pulled out all the food related items. Then, I chose the ones that matched the colors I was using on my layout. I used a lot of the words from the ephemera words pack and picked "beautiful" for my title.

Now, it was time to create clusters and add all the fabulous embellishments. This is absolutely my favorite part of a layout.

I love all the super cute food items and used a lot on my page.

I adore the puffy stickers and finished my page with some of them, the epoxy stickers and the adorable Bella-Pops too.

Thanks for joining me and I hope you have a wonderful day!  Kim  

 

Products Used all from the One Fall Day Collection:

12x12 Papers: Grateful, Gobble 'Til You Wobble. Doohickey Stickers, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words , Ciao Chip Icons,  Happy Fall Puffy Stickers, Falling For You Epoxy Stickers, Fall Feast Bella-Pops, Fall is Here Bella-Pops 

One Fall Day & Letter Scramble with Kirei Baldwin

Hi everyone! Who loves to scrap about Autumn/Fall? I love all the beautiful Autumn colors and the new One Fall Day collection has them all! I just had to scrap these photos of me and my friends on our way home from a week away scrapbooking. We stopped off to get a drink and there was a huge display of pumpkins outside the farm shop so we just had to get some photos! Us scrapbookers never miss an opportunity for photos to scrap about, am I right?! 

I pulled out the Mad for Plaid patterned paper (orange) as I loved the subtle all over leaf design and decided that would work well for the background so I tore a strip off the bottom in a diagonal line. I then tore a small piece from the top of the paper so that I could create a tucked in embellishment cluster later. Then I picked out the Pick a Pumpkin patterned paper (small pumpkins) and tore off another strip following the same line as the first piece as I wanted to tuck it underneath. I stuck them both down to a sheet of white card, and then curled up all the torn edges to add lots of texture and dimension. 

My two square photos are mounted on the Pick of the Patch patterned paper (green), then I distressed the edges and stuck them down to the right side of the layout. I cut the 'farm fresh pumpkins' card from the Daily Details patterned paper, distressed the edges and tucked in behind my photos along with a red plaid tag from the Ephemera Words. I finished off the tag by looping some green thread through the hole. 

Next is my favorite bit.... adding the embellishments! First I added some pumpkins, a red flower and a word banner to the top of the layout. 

Then I pulled out a mix of different colored pumpkins, leaves, berries, flowers and a truck from the Ephemera Icons, Puffy Stickers, Epoxy Stickers and Bella Pops and added them around my photos. 

I added my title using the word 'Pumpkins' from the Ephemera Words and 'galore!' from the fabulous new Letter Scramble Alphabet Stickers (Guacamole-green). I love that there are four different fonts on one sheet and even better is they come in all sixteen of Bella Blvd's signature colors! To finish I added my journaling below the title. 

I hope you've enjoyed my latest layout using One Fall Day, thanks so much for stopping by and I'll see you in my next blog post! 

Kirei x

BELLA BLVD PRODUCTS USED

One Fall Day patterned papers - Mad for Plaid, Pick a Pumpkin, Pick of the Patch and Daily Details

One Fall Day Ephemera Icons and Words

One Fall Day Puffy Stickers

One Fall Day Epoxy Stickers

Bella Pops - Pumpkin Patch

Letter Scramble - Guacamole 

Spell on You with Kim

Hi Bella friends, it's Kim here and I'm excited to be sharing a Halloween themed layout using the fun Spell on You collection. I love scrapping Halloween and this collection is perfect.

I love these photos of my granddaughters in my backyard. Their jackets work perfectly with the colors in this fabulous collection and I knew I wanted to use a lot of the patterned paper. I love white space, so I cut strips and slanted them, so there was white space in the center.

I backed my photo with the same papers and added the chipboard scalloped piece underneath my pictures for added interest.

I picked my title from the Fright Night Puffy Stickers, and then it was time to embellish with all the fun bits this collection has. I went with three large clusters on my page and that way, I felt like I could add plenty without it being overwhelming. I focused a lot of the skeletons and potion bottles. I used word stickers around my photos.

To finish my page, I added lots of puffy stickers, plenty of little candies because they are super cute. I adore the puffy stickers and finished my page with some of them, the epoxy stickers and Bella-Pops.

Thanks for joining me and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

 

Products Used Spell On You collection:

12x12 Papers: Wee Witches, Spooky Skulls, Carving Pumpkins  

Doohickey Stickers 

Ephemera Icons

Ephemera Words 

Fright Night Puffy Stickers 

Witchy Epoxy Stickers 

Stars Halloween Mix Epoxy Stickers 

Black Cat, Jack & Bat Bella-Pops 

Bella Besties: Hearts & Ombre' Gulf paper

Halloween Fun with Gloria Parra

Hello Bella friends!! Did you have a Happy Halloween?! Today I want to share a layout using the super cute Halloween collection called “Spell On You”. Documenting our Halloween memories is always a highlight for me, and this collection was so fun to create with, I couldn’t love it more!

I started with the black “Hocus Pocus” patterned paper for my background, I gutted the paper to save the middle piece. On top, I used the orange text patterned paper cut at 11.5" square to create a middle layer. For the top layer I used the gray and white rhombus shaped patterned paper as my main base cut at 11”. I added machine stitching to the top layer using some black thread to add contrast.

For my photos I used three 3.5" square pictures to showcase our Halloween costumes. I decided to use three super cute witches to represent each of us girls, LOL! I loved how it turned out!

Because I fell in love with the big “October 31” chipboard pieces as soon as I saw them, I used it as my title. Under it, I placed a subtitle, a little banner that says “Halloween Fun”. Under my title and subtitle I placed my journaling strips with my story.

Using the little witches, I created 3 embellishment clusters: Two at the sides with some trees and one at the top right with the moon and the stars. 

Clouds, stars and little bats decorate my sky scene and finishes my layout. I love creating little scenes with the fun ephemera, chipboards and stickers in this fun Spell On You Halloween collection.

I hope you like this layout as much as I loved creating it, and I hope you feel inspired to create with this awesome collection, perfect for all your Halloween pictures and memories! 

Huge hug friends and Happy Halloween to all!!!!

Happy Halloween with Brianna Lepper

Hey friends! Brianna Lepper here and in celebration of Halloween tomorrow, I’ve got a super cute Halloween page for you today. We dress up our dogs every year and it’s always so fun to document their photos! I used the Spell On You collection and hope that you like it:

I originally wanted to add some fringe edges to a few patterned papers, but I couldn’t find my fringe scissors (we moved and I’m still unpacking my craft room)...So, I created that same effect using my regular scissors. I’m glad I went with this method so I could make my fringe any width/length I wanted. I used the B sides of these papers: Broomsticks, Daily Details and Borders. I trimmed them down, layered them together, cut the fringe edges and adhered them to white cardstock. 

For some extra interest, I bent and curled the fringe pieces back. I love that you can see the pattern and colors from the other sides of the papers.

I matted and layered my photos together and adhered to the right of my page. Using a few pieces from Ephemera Words pack, I created my title and centered it right between both photos.  

Next, I started embellishing by pulling out some Ciao Chip Chipboard stickers to build some clusters. I also added in a few of the Puffy Trinket Stickers.....Don't those small ghosts look perfect on that scary house?

I also pulled out a few Ephemera Icons and added them to my clusters. I pulled in a cute spider web, pumpkins and some bats.  

For some finishing touches, I sprinkled in a few Epoxy Stars and adhered a few bits of tangled thread. Here’s one last shot of this super cute page: 

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope I’ve inspired you in some way! I’ll see you in my next post friends!

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

Spell On You Collection: 12x12 Papers, Ciao Chip Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, Epoxy Stickers and Trinkets Puffy Stickers.  

One Fall Day & Letter Scramble with Maree

Hi Bella friends,

Today I'm here to share a fun layout using the gorgeous new One Fall Day collection and the new Letter Scramble Alpha Stickers. Both are such fabulous products. I decided to use the Letter Scramble Alphas to make a very large title. I kept the colors tone on tone with the paper strips from the One Fall day collection.

I first cut 9 strips of various One Fall Day papers, the colors are so pretty! I stacked them horizontally to make my background. I used 2 pictures which I printed at 2.5 x 3" in size.

Then, to create the large rainbow effect title, I added all my alphas and the ephemera word pumpkin title

I created 2 main clusters using ephemera icon die cuts and a super cute Bella Pops called Fall is Here. It has little pumpkins and some flowers and leaves. I just adore the shine and dimension that the Bella Pops add to the page.

I finished with some journaling and white paint splatters. I also added gorgeous epoxy leaves and flowers down the side of the page in coordinating colors.

I hope you are enjoying the beautiful Fall weather and have a chance to use this fun new collection soon!

Maree

One Fall Day Collection

Collection Kit

Ephemera Words

Ephemera Icons

Epoxy stickers

Letter Scramble Alphas

One Fall Day & Letter Scramble with Kirei Baldwin

Hi Everyone! Are you wanting to scrapbook those Fall/Autumn photos? Bella Blvd's newest collection One Fall Day is just perfect! This is my first layout using the new collection and I LOVE it!

I was drawn to the new Cut-Outs called Leaf Wreath as I had some photos from an autumn walk last year to scrap. These are ready-made-cut-files that come with templates for backing the cut - so it's super easy to use! Leaf Wreath comes with a full leafy wreath, four individual leaves and the title 'happy Fall'. I opted to use the wreath, and decided to paint it with gold watercolor and then cut apart all of the individual leaves as I had an idea of creating a sort of leafy cascade down my layout.

I used the large leaf template to cut out backings. For the wreath leaves I used the Pick of the Patch (green), Grateful (red) and Daily Details (orange) patterned papers. Because I wanted to keep some dimension with my leaves, I stitched the gold cut file leaf to the paper leaf using gold thread and then left the cut ends on for added texture. I love how they look! 

I opted for a patterned paper background as I wanted to keep a warm, autumnal feel to the layout so I selected the Borders paper and used the brown text side as my base. I then positioned all of the leaves. When happy with the placement I stuck them all down. In the photo below you can see the dimension I got from the layered, stitched leaves.

Next I mounted my two photos using the Pick of the Patch (green) patterned paper, distressed the edges, again I love a bit of texture! These were stuck down using foam squares to the right of the layout. 

I added a title under my photo using 'Beautiful' from the One Fall Day Ephemera Words and stuck that down using foam squares. But...I wasn't quite finished as I wanted to use another fab new Bella Blvd product called Letter Scramble! These are full 12" x 12" sheets of alpha stickers with four different fonts! And they come in all sixteen of Bella Blvd's signature colors! I love to use a mix of fonts on layouts - these are so perfect for that! I used the Guacamole and Orange colors to finish my title. 

To embellish I added in more leaves from the One Fall Day Ephemera Icons, Puffy Stickers and Epoxy Stickers. Then, I finished by adding my journaling under the title with some extra splatters of gold watercolor. 

I hope you've enjoyed my first layout using the fabulous new One Fall Day collection and Letter Scramble alphabet stickers! Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today, see you again soon!

Kirei

 

BELLA BLVD PRODUCTS USED

Cut Out - Leaf Wreath

One Fall Day patterned papers - Pick of the Patch, Grateful, Borders and Daily Details

One Fall Day Ephemera Icons and Words

One Fall Day Puffy Stickers

One Fall Day Epoxy Stickers

Letter Scramble - Guacamole and Orange

Fun Together | Lake Life

Hey friends!  Brianna Lepper here today and I’m so excited to share another layout featuring the Lake Life collection.  Here’s my page: 

To start, I chose white cardstock as my base and tore into the B side of the Daily Details paper as well as the Boat Waves paper.  I wanted to create somewhat of a scene design on my layout since my photo is of my son and his friends on a pier.  I used the wood grain as the pier and the waves pattern as the water.  

To create some additional waves for the water section of my design, I added in a few of the waves from both the Puffy Stickers and Ephemera Icons packs.  I also adhered a few fish from the Ciao Chip Chipboard Stickers.  I love how it turned out!

For my title, I used a phrase from the Ciao Chip Chipboard Sticker sheet and added onto it using a phrase from the Ephemera Words pack.  I love that the ‘together’ phrase pops on the wood grain paper.  I also added in a few more phrases underneath my title and popped them up on foam for some interest.  

In the Ephemera Icons pack there’s a row of adirondack chairs that I’ve been wanting to use on a page and I thought that this was the perfect page for it.  I adhered it to the bottom of my page and added a few embellishments around it.  

Next, I embellished up in the “sky” portion of my page by adding in a sun, clouds and a few butterflies.  

As a finishing touch, I sprinkled in a few Enamel Dots and that completed my page.  Here’s one last look:

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope that I’ve inspired you in some way!  See you next time friends!

xo Brianna

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: Lake Life Collection: 12x12 Patterned Paper, Ciao Chip Chipboard Stickers, Doohickey Cardstock Stickers, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons, Puffy Stickers and Enamel Dots.