Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Time To Travel

Time To Travel

Hi friends! Erika here. Today, I’m excited to share a special 12x12 layout featuring my 6-year-old reading to her 2-year-old sister. While I used a travel collection for this page, I love stretching my imagination to fit different themes. In this case, I used it to signify the imaginary travel that happens through reading books.

Over the past year, my kids have become regular visitors to the library, and on this particular night, my eldest was reading aloud to her sister. Her progress in reading has been remarkable, and I’m incredibly proud of her.

My style typically includes lots of vivid colors with high contrast in black and white. To achieve this, I often start with a black and white photo as my central focal point. For this page, I anchored my main photo with colorful heart paper as well as a large horizontal strip of black and white cardstock, trimmed at the edges with lace for a fun touch.

One of my favorite techniques is using cut apart sheets for my titles. For this layout, I chose "travel is good for the heart" from the collection. I then used an alpha stamp to add "bookish" to complete the title. To ensure all the elements stood out, I inked the edges for extra definition.

On the right side of the page, I added a fun element by creating two small-scale books. Inside these books, I placed two additional photos that were slightly repetitive but too precious to leave out. This was a great way to include them without cluttering the page.

To add a burst of color, I backed the entire page with a blue cloud print paper and adhered small strips of solid patterned paper in rainbow order. A black zigzag stitch around the edges and a few more pieces of ephemera brought the layout together beautifully.

Thank you so much for hanging out with me today. I hope this post inspires you to get crafty and create something special this week! Happy scrapping!

Supplies:

12x12 paper-

Road Trip

On the Go

Photo Op

Daily Details

Love this Place!

Stickers:

Bella Pops- Postage

Plane chipboard sticker

Clouds epoxy sticker

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March 22, 2024

Smile Cruisin' Baby

Hi Bella friends, it's Kim and I'm here today with a layout featuring the Time to Travel collection. Our challenge was to use the collection with a focus on the Cut Outs and a vacation vibe. This picture of my sweet granddaughter on her first cruise was perfect for it.

I loved the blue sky and water behind my granddaughter in the photo and decided I would reflect that on my page. I started by pulling out a stencil and inks from my stash. I added clouds at the top and waves at the bottom.

I picked Smile as my Cut Out to use and backed it with two different papers. I love the scalloped borders and added multiple ones underneath my title for added interest.

To embellish this page, I stuck with the green, yellow and blues in the collection. My granddaughter's top was a perfect match, it's like this photo was made for this collection. I love it when that happens!

I added a few word phrases, flowers and some fun diecuts. I finished my page with the Puffy Stickers and epoxy stickers.

Thanks for joining me and have a wonderful day! Kim

Products Used:

Time To Travel Collection

12x12 Papers: Freeway, In The Clouds, Daily. Details

Doohickey Stickers

Ciao Chip

Ephemera Icons

Ephemera Words

Scenic Route Puffy Stickers

Getaway Epoxy Stickers

Cut-Outs: Happiness

Bella Besties:

Trinket Puffy Stickers: Bell Pepper, Pickle Juice & Guacamole

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March 21, 2024

Time to Travel Layout with Maree

Hi Bella Friends,

I have a fun travel layout to a share with you all today and this is a really easy one to re-create! I documented some recent time in New Zealand with my family when we had a day at the beach.

I used a simple grid design. I cut squares from papers in the Time to Travel Collection Kit. I cut them 2.5 inches square and my small pics are 1.75 inches square. I started by laying out the squares around the outside of the layout to create a big border. Then in the middle I used the 'I love travel' cutout. The phrase was Family Trip but I trimmed it down just to used the word family. Then I used the Florence Alphas in the color Blueberry to create the sub-title Beach trip.

Then I added my pics and did some tone on tone embellishing.

I used a mixture of Ciao Chip, Epoxy stickers, Word and Icon Ephemera and Doohickey Stickers. I popped some bits up on foam adhesive to create dimension. It is a fun way to add lots of pictures to a page when you make an easy grid.

I finished off with a little bit of stamping and white ink splatters for interest. I really enjoyed creating this layout and hope you like and maybe give it a try yourself!

Maree

Time to Travel Collection

Collection Kit

Ephemera Words

Ephemera Icons

Doohickey stickers

Ciao Chip

Epoxy stickers

Florence Alphas - Blueberry

Cut Outs - I love Travel

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March 19, 2024

Time to Travel l Kirei Baldwin

Have you ever used a really large title on your layout? Well, I've done just that with the fab Cut Outs from the Time to Travel collection! I had some photos from a recent trip to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands that I wanted to scrap. The pics are of Jameos del Agua which we visited as part of a tour doing the Cesar Manrique (local artist) sights around the island. It's a natural space created inside a volcanic tunnel and is pretty impressive!

I firstly backed the I Love Travel Cut Out using three different patterned papers (Love This Place!, Vacay Vibes and On the Go), I just had to use the palm trees and sun papers as there are plenty of both in Lanzarote!

To make the Cut Out pop from the background I used the yellow patterned paper (Daily Details) as a background, firstly trimming it down and distressing the edges before sticking down to the white cardstock. My three photos are backed with the black and white striped patterned paper (Road Trip).

I didn't use too many embellishments as I didn't want to cover up too much of the large title or my photos. So I picked out a few pieces from the Ephemera Icons and the Ephemera Words & Tags and added a couple of the Puffy Stickers. I added a layered star from the Camera Bella-Pops to the A in the title. Then I added the long phrase sticker from the Doohickey Stickers to the bottom of the layout. To finish off I added my journaling below my photos.