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Thanksgiving Week Day 6 | Tarrah

Hi creative friends and Happy Thanksgiving!

It's Tarrah back with you to share a new scrapbook layout for Thanksgiving Week! I was very lucky to recently go away on a scrapbooking retreat with some girlfriends, we had a blast of course! This photo was taken out at one of our lunches. I printed the photo in black and white and I love how it pops against the gorgeous bright colours in the Home Sweet Home collection I have used for this layout!

I firstly chose the pink ombre paper for my background paper and began building my layout. I placed 2 of the border stickers from the Doohickey Stickers at the very top of my layout. I then cut out a few papers fairly small from the Home Sweet Home collection and adhered them down, bending the edges of them and tearing the edges to add some texture. I decided to cut out the Thankful title cut file title using my Silhouette Cameo machine. I cut out the 'Thank' part of the title in one of the darker blue papers and the 'Ful' part of the title from one of the pink papers. I used foam tape to pop these up from the page. 

To make up the rest of the title, I took the Florence alphabet stickers in Bell Pepper and spelt out 'For'. I then took the Friends word from the chipboard icon stickers and placed it down under the Thankful and For titles. I love the mix of fonts and colours in my title. I added lots of the Doohickey Stickers and phrases from the Ephemera Icons pack from the Home Sweet Home collection around my page to help tell the story. I also took some die cut hearts from the Ephemera Icons pack placing these around my photo, I just love all those colours!!

I love to layer things on top of my cut files so I placed a die-cut and a sticker on top of the 'Thank' part of the cut file. On the right of my photo I popped up the pennant that says Friends Are Our Chosen Family with foam tape. I love this saying and it goes perfectly with the theme of my layout! Lastly I placed some of the small hearts from the Puffy Trinket Shapes in a few different colours around my page, I stamped the date stamp and sprinkled some white mist on my layout too.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Bella Blvd blog today! I hope you all have an wonderful blessed Thanksgiving with your family.

Happy creating!

Bella products used:

Bella Besties - Hearts and Ombre paper

Home Sweet Home paper collection

Home Sweet Home Doohickey stickers

Home Sweet Home Chipboard Icons

Home Sweet Home Ephemera Icons 

Thankful cut file

Florence Alphabet stickers in Bell Pepper

Bella Besties Trinket Puffy Shapes

Happy Thanksgiving | Yarelys Rodriguez

Hey there Bella Friends! Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you are having an amazing day! Yarelys here to share with you a new layout! To make this layout I used the Home Sweet Home collection and three Bella Cut Files.

I started my layout by cutting the cut files. For the Happy Thanksgiving and the Hearty Background cut files, I used white cardstock, and for the On The Vine cut file, I used the Graphic & Dot in Pickle Juice. Once I had cut all my cut files, I want through the papers of the collection and picked the Welcome Home, All My Love, Daily Details, Mosaic Tile and Home Sweet Home, and backed the Happy Thanksgiving cut file with them.

To paint my background, I used Distress Oxide in colors that match with the papers. I also used the Hearty Background as a stencil.

To build my layout, I glued the Happy Thanksgiving cut file and my photos. Then, I fussy cut some flowers from the Welcome Home paper and made three clusters with them and the On The Vine cut file. To finish my layout, I added Ephemera, Doohickey and Trinkets Puffy Stickers.

I love how this layout tuned out. Hope you all like it and get inspired 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/RQ7YwhJ2p_I

Bella Blvd Supplies Used:

Home Sweet Home Collection: Welcome Home, All My Love, Daily Details, Mosaic Tile and Home Sweet Home papers.

Bella Besties: Graph & Dot in Pickle Juice.

Ephemera Words: Home Sweet Home

Ephemera Icons: Home Sweet Home.

Doohickey: Home Sweet Home.

Trinkets Puffy Stickers: Pickle Juice, Punch, Peep & Cotton Candy, and Bell Pepper.

Cut Files: Happy Thanksgiving, Hearty Background and On The Vine.

Thanksgiving Week Day 3 | Melissa Mann

Good morning!

This is Melissa here with you today on the blog and I have a new Thanksgiving themed layout. Those of us here in the United States are celebrating Thanksgiving this week and I dug back in the photo archives and found some photos from Thanksgiving of 2019 to scrap and share with you all here :-)

I knew two things about this layout: I wanted to use a big title and I wanted to use several photos. I downloaded and cut out a digital cut file from the Bella Blvd Silhouette store that said "TURKEY DAY" and cut this out using Kraft card stock. 

I also knew that I wanted to use some earthy, darker toned papers for this project. I used a piece of rust colored card stock and a piece of brown Bella Besties pattern paper in Pony. I backed my card stock with the pattern paper and used a lighter piece of pattern paper from the Home Sweet Home paper collection to layer down the length of my layout. I found four photos I wanted to use and converted them to black and white. I placed these in a grid and backed it with the yellow pattern paper from Home Sweet Home.

I created a couple of embellishment clusters on either side of my grid using stickers, puffy stickers, chipboard, and die-cuts. Once I had all of this situated, I figured out where to place my title but I needed something to anchor my title down. I decided to take a strip of the same yellow pattern paper from Home Sweet Home and stitch the title to it with my sewing machine. I notched one end of the strip of paper and adhered it down at the top of my layout. I typed and placed my journaling underneath it. 

SUPPLIES USED:

1. Bella Besties Graph & Dot - Pony
2. Home Sweet Home - Daily Details, Mosaic Tile, & Houseplants
3. Home Sweet Home Doohickey Stickers
4. You Are My Sunshine Ephemera 
5. Home Sweet Home Ciao Chip
6. Trinkets Puffy Stickers - Bell Pepper
7. Florence Alphabet Stickers - Pickle Juice

Thanksgiving Week | Sarah

Happy Tuesday, Bella friends! I can't believe we are already approaching the end of November. How is it that December is just around the corner?! Are you all ready for Thanksgiving?! I know I am ready to get my feast on, hehe.

Anyway, It's me Sarah K. (@redoaklines) back on the blog, and I'm continuing Thanksgiving projects week!

Here's how I felt inspired:

 

I worked with lots of pieces from the To The Moon Collection for this layout. I know, I know - it's not conventionally made for Thanksgiving projects, but no fret! I used the fun "Happy Turkey Day" cut file from the Silhouette design store, and I used photos from a Turkey Day a few years back.

 

I started my layout by cutting out banner shapes from coordinating patterned papers. Then I layered some older Thanksgiving photos. I also stapled some arrows and tabs from the ephemera icons pack to add more dimension to my project.

I created embellishment clusters of stars around my photos. These clusters consist of pieces from the ephemera icons pack and puffy stickers.

Lastly, I want to talk about the Florence alphabet stickers - which I love and use ALL THE TIME! To make my title pop, I gave it some color by adding some Florence alphabet stickers to document the month and year of these photos. The hearts in the "O" and the "0" are also from another Florence alphabet stickers sheet. To be honest, I love that these alphas come in an array of colors, all of which coordinate with any of the Bella collections.

That's all I have for now. I hope that I've inspired you to create something beautiful. Or maybe you're inspired to create something you're THANKFUL for! If you do end up making something using any of the Bella collections, we'd love to see it! Please feel free to share with us on Bella Blvd's socials by tagging us.

As always, thanks for letting me share my work with you today, and thanks for following along.

Until next time,

Sarah.

 

Bella Blvd Supplies Used: 

To The Moon: Patterned Papers, 12x12 Bella Besties Papers, Doohickey Sticker Sheet, Ephemera Icons, Ciao Chip, Puffy Stickers; Legacy Collection: Florence Alphabet Stickers; Clear Cuts: Blueberry Chevies; "Happy Turkey Day" Silhouette Cut File

Thanksgiving Week Day 6 | Traci

Happy Saturday everyone!  I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving!  November is always one of my favorite months of the year ... the fall season in Georgia is so pretty, I love the cooler temperatures, and the Thanksgiving holiday always reminds me to be grateful.

So for my project, I used some colorful Bella Besties papers and Trinkets puffy stickers to create a gratitude journal.

For the album base, I used the Essential Mini Album die (661094) that was designed by Lori Whitlock for Sizzix.  I cut the base of the album pages out of white card stock, and the inset papers out of Bella Besties and lined journaling paper.

 

The pattern papers and cute flower die cuts are from the Chloe collection, and the "thankful" title is a die from Echo Park Paper Co.  (Links to all products can be found on my Artsy Albums blog).

I kept my album pretty simple because I plan to put 3x4 photos on the left side of every layout, and then journal about the things I'm thankful for on the right.

 

I added clusters of Trinkets puffy stickers on each journaling page.  I love how there are flowers, hearts and arrows so that I can mix it up.  So simple but so cute!

 

I love small little albums dedicated to journaling.  This would also be a fun project for kids to write what they are thankful for, or you could change up the papers to mcintosch and guacamole for a Christmas traditions journal.  

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today.  Again, if you need any links to products you can find them over on my blog at Artsy Albums.  I hope I've given you a few fun ideas for using Bella Besties and those adorable puffy stickers!

 

Bella Blvd Products Used

Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre Papers -- Gulf, Ice, Bell Pepper, Punch

Trinkets Puffy Stickers

Chloe pattern papers and ephemera

 

Thanksgiving Week Day 4 | Nathalie

 Hello there Bella Blvd friends!

Happy Thanksgiving to all our US friends! 

Nathalie with you today to share a bit of inspiration using the beautiful Bella Blvd goodies.  This week we are documenting Gratitude.  I couldn't think of anything that fills my thankful cup than being a mom to my two teen-soon-to-be-adult kids.   

 

I wanted a colorful cascade of hearts for my page, so I reached for the Love You Lots cut-outs to build my layout.   I backed one of each of the hearts with vellum, then used foam adhesive to attach it to a piece of Hearts/Ombre White Bella Besties paper.  Once the cut out was in place, I fill each of the empty hearts' spaces with the new Bella Blvd Trinkets, so that I have a chain of rainbow hearts.

 

The new puffy stickers are colorful and small enough to fill the heart spaces and bring a pop of color to the page.   I decided to add a few extra stickers to some of the vellum hearts on the left of the page.  These help to emphasize the colors in each of the hearts.

 

 

I placed my picture to the right of the heart cut-outs.  I added a few pieces of papers from the Mom's Life collection as layers behind the pictures, Then decided to create smaller clusters at the corners of the pictures.

I used a few more of the Trinket stickers as well as stickers from the Mom Life, and Mind Your Manners collection.  I added a simple title to the bottom of the pictures using the Oyster Florence Alpha stickers.  Finally, I added pieces of the Mom Life Doo Hickey edge stickers to frame the page.

Just love how this turned out, and how there is beauty in simplicity,color and texture.   I hope this inspires you to pull your Bella Blvd goodies to document your Gratitudes!  Remember to share with us your projects, so that we can be inspired by you, too

 

XO

 

MATERIALS USED:

PUFFY STICKERS - TRINKETS: White, Black, Gulf, McKintosh, Blueberry, Bell Pepper, Plum, Cotton Candy, Orange, Guacamole

BELLA BESTIES: Ombre/Heart white

MIND YOUR MANNERS COLLECTION:  Doohickey stickers

MOM LIFE: Doohickey stickers, ephemera, collection kit

LEGACY Collection:  WORD SALAD Sticker tablet

FLORENCE ALPHA STICKERS: Oyster

CHLOE Collection:  Enamel Heart stickers

 

 

 

Cyber Monday Celebration Sale!

 

Good morning Bella friends, and happy Cyber Monday!

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and enjoyed lots of time with family and friends, not to mention all the good food and SHOPPING!!!! Well, the fun isn't over yet! That's right, today is CYBER MONDAY!

To celebrate the festivities online, we are bringing our Black Friday sale back for one final day. This is your last chance of the year to snag some great deals on Bella's Consumer Shop... 50% off of everything in the retail shop, and 25% off of all page kits! You heard us right, 50% off! Think of all the Bella goodness that you could save on!  

We'll just leave this little link right here for your shopping pleasure, but warning...savings may bring on immense happiness;) Click here to get your shop on! 

 

Thanksgiving Feast Layout by Corri

Hi everyone! Corri here today sharing a layout documenting one of my daughter's favorite traditions.  Every year at her elementary school, they celebrate Thanksgiving with a big feast. The students enjoy dressing up in either Pilgrim or Native American costumes.  This photo was taken last year and was Gabriele's last year at her beloved little school so I wanted to make a page to remember this fun tradition.

I used paper from the Gratitude Documented Collection and my Silhouette Cameo to create my layout.    I cut a variety of fall leaves and then added dimension to the leaves by folding them in half.  I also inked the edges of the leaves with distress ink. 

I cut the "Thanksgiving" part of the title with my Cameo using the Darling Font from Lori Whitlock.  The white border was made with the offset feature in the Silhouette Studio software. I added the "feast" with Florence Alphas.

I added a few pieces of ephemera, some stickers and hearts to finish off my layout. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Gratitude Documented Pattern Papers, Ephemra and Stickers

 

 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving, from our color loving family to yours!

 

Gratitude Documented Digital Layout by Tya Smith

 Hello there, Tya here!  I really love this time of year, I love the chance we get to focus on all of the things we are thankful for. While I do try to find time to be grateful for all I have throughout the rest of the year, I feel especially thankful during the holidays. 

This week we got the chance to focus our projects on Thanksgiving and well, I could not think of a better subject to focus my layout on than on my family. We are such a tight-knit family and I truly adore each and every one of them and am thankful for them all individually in many different ways.  

Here is my digital layout I'd like to share with you. Isn't the Gratitude Documented collection so lovely? I love the color scheme and the hand-drawn elements of this collection. I loved using it with my photo. Aren't those leaves gorgeous? 

 

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope I have inspired you to create a layout focusing on all the things you are thankful for this week. I know I will treasure these special photos and memories for many years to come! Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Crafting friends! 

Gratitude Documented Collection Bundle