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Birthday girl layout - Lisa Fonseca

Hey friends, I hope you're well! :)

Today I'm sharing a new layout, featuring the Wish Big collections to celebrate Bella's 12th birthday :)

I really love the Wish big collections. There is the girl part and the boy part and they fit together really well. 

I wanted to scrap a picture from my 35th birthday, which was on June 19th. I started by drawing a cute little bunny, sitting in a cupcake liner. I cut out the different pieces, traced them on different patterned papers from the collection, and adhered all the pieces onto white paper. Then I cut it out, leaving white borders.

For the background, I did a bit of mixed media, using acrylic inks in the same colors you can find in the collection. I did some overlapping stripes in different directions, some dots and splatters and then I used a star stencil on top, with white acrylic paint. I let the background dry for a few minutes and looked for all the pieces that I wanted to use from the Wish Big collections.

Then I created five cute little rosettes, using white paper and placing a heart or star in the middle of each one. I backed my photo with two different patterned papers. 

Then I started placing everything on my page. When I had everything how I liked it, I adhered the photo and little bunny with foam tape, next to each other. Then I adhered my rosettes, after putting some tangled thread behind them. I decorated with some ephemera and chipboard pieces. I love the super cute flamingo with it's hat...:) I used flowers, hearts, stars and a crown to place on the bunny's head. 

For my title, I used an acrylic word and some Wonky Alpha stickers. I finished the layout with some black splatters to come back with the black that's in the photo. 

I think it turned out super cute and I hope you do too.

Thank you so much for being here,

see you soon! :)

It's summer and I'm so happy about the sunshine and warm, relaxing days! When I saw June's mood board, I knew I had the perfect papers to go with the summer, water, and rainbow themes.

I love the blues, yellows and reds on this inspiration piece.  My eye was drawn to the yellow square over the blue stripes.  It felt like sunshine over water to me, so I went with that on my cover.

 

Since the mood board had a rainbow design, I wanted to add several rainbow patterns in my album. I fell in love with the heart die cut from the Splash Zone ephemera words and used that on my first page.                                    

 

I added another rainbow pattern down the side of this page, and kept the water theme going with the cute splash paper.

The rainbow on the mood board isn't curved, so I wanted the colored patterns on the page below to have a more rectangular, edgy feel.  The cute little word stickers added a fun finishing touch.

The page below might be my favorite because I was inspired by the round ice cream scoops.  I found these colorful die cut circles in the Wish Big ephemera, and used them to surround a 2 1/4" circular photo mat.  

 

How are you inspired by this month's mood board?  Please share your projects and be sure to tag @BellaBlvd so we can see your fun creations! 

 

Bella Blvd Products Used

Splash Zone 12x12 pattern paper

Splash Zone Ephemera

Wish Big Ephemera

Bella Besties:  Punch, Gulf, and Bell Pepper

 

That's me layout - Lisa Fonseca

Hey scrappy people, 

it's me Lisa, back on the blog and today I'm sharing a new fun rainbow layout. 

The assignment for this week, was to use as many Florence Alpha stickers as possible. :) I really thought a loooong time about this and couldn't really come up with something I liked... haha! :) But then I finally had an idea that I thought could work... I wanted to list all the things I liked and use as many colors of the rainbow as I could.

So to start, I wanted to have a rainbow background. I used watercolors with a lot of water and put down color after color, letting it flow in different directions and letting the next color mix and blend with the previous one. After I had all the colors, I dried them with my heat gun. Then I went back and did some platters of the same colors on top. I dried it again and topped it with white splatters.

I used my stitching machine to create a messy white line and give me a base to put my words on. I used a lot of the Florence Alpha stickers and wrote down a few of the things I love the most. 

Then I chose my photo and backed it with some white paper, some vellum and some patterned papers that matched with the colors on the background. I adhered it with foam tape. Then I went through my embellishments and chose some chipboard and ephemera flowers. I placed them on my layout, trying to find the best placement. 

Before adhering my flowers, I wanted to create my title. I wanted to write "That's me" but after placing the "me" down, I couldn't find the right way to incorporate the words "that's"...! I tried writing it on pink paper and cutting it out, I tried some Florence stickers, I tried some bold hand-cut letters... but nothing seemed to work. So I just decided to leave it that way... :) 

I adhered the title using foam squares and then adhered all the flowers, some flat to the paper and some using foam to create dimension. I also used some tangled thread behind the red flowers and put enamel dots in their centers.

Then I added some white chipboard hearts and used some watercolor to paint the title and hearts. I LOVE the look that gives. :)

To finish, I wanted to have more abstract leaves around the flowers. So I took some vellum and traced some strands with leaves with a black pen and a pencil. I cut them out and added them around the flowers. Some more splatters and I was done! :)

I hope you are inspired to create a rainbow layout with the Florence Alpha stickers. You really need to have them in EVERY color, they are so pretty and easy to use! :)

Thank you so much for stopping by, see you soon!

Squeeze the Day Layout by Tegan Skwiat

I am having so much fun using the Bella Blvd Mood Boards for inspiration! The May board is so full of springtime colors and fun elements...come take a look!

Right away I knew I wanted to incorporate the circular design from the middle mood board square in to my project. And right away I pulled out the fun Squeeze the Day collection because it has a similar color scheme to the colors in the board. The layout ended up being different than my initial vision, but that's part of the fun when working with mood boards! 

I originally wanted to take the large title idea from the board and make a large title on the page with each letter in one of the circles. But once I started moving my circles around the page and layering them with adorable Squeeze the Day embellishments, I decided to use the chipboard 'Squeeze the Day' phrase for my title instead. I filled in the extra space between the letters with enamel dots from the Heart Hugs Earth pack for a fun design. 

I made the circle designs by creating 2.75" circles in the software for my electronic die cut machine. I used the dot design from the Bella Blvd Sweet Sweet Spring Eggs Cut File over my circle to create a cool polka dot pattern. Once cut out, I then backed the circle with coordinating patterned papers. I hope you think the circles turned out as neat as I do! I created these circles with Squeeze the Day, Home Sweet Home, and Bellas Besties Patterned Papers. My decision to add a couple floral pieces from the Wish Big Girl collection was also inspired by the mood board!

My travel photo was also inspired by the mood board! The fun and fruity Squeeze the Day collection was perfect for documenting a Pineapple Dole Whip stop during our trip to the Magic Kingdom last year! 

I love all of the polka dot circle designs! I can't pick a favorite one, can you?  And the Word Salad phrase stickers were perfect for adding little embellishments of color around the page.

Thank you for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to grab some of the Squeeze the Day collection and use the May Mood Board for inspiration on your next layout!

Squeeze the Day Collection: 6x6 Paper Pad, Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons

Bella Besties Collection: Pickle Juice Graph & Dot Patterned Paper, Ice Graph & Dot Patterned Paper

Home Sweet Home Collection: Mosaic Tile Patterned Paper

Wish Big Girl Collection: Party Animal Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers

Wish Big Boy Collection: Dinotastic Patterned Paper

Word Salad Stickers, Heart Hugs Earth Pack, Puffy Star Stickers Ice Mix, Puffy Star Stickers Orange, Puffy Heart Stickers Bell Pepper Mix

Bella Blvd Sweet Sweet Spring Easter Eggs Cut File 

 

 

Celebrating iNSD with Nathalie

Well Bella Friends, we have reached the end of our iNSD celebration, but boy has it been a blast! We hope that you've spend the day crafting away and doing what you love. Thank you for spending the day with us, we've enjoyed it!

Make sure that you check in on our Instagram feed for two iNSD challenges, giveaways, digital sale info, and all the beautiful projects our creative team worked so hard on to share with you today.

We leave you for the day with this final iNSD post by Nathalie, thank again for sharing your day with us, and for being the #1 reason we love what we do!

Here is Nathalie's post...

Hello Bella Blvd friends! Happy National Scrapbooking Day to you all!  It is nice to have a day to celebrate this beautiful hobby even amidst this unprecedented time.   I hope you all are enjoying all the projects we have prepared for you.  One of the reasons i am drawn to scrapbooking is the need to tie my daily stories to pictures and feelings.  I keep a daily journal routine, and use a lot of the stories to create keepsakes for my family.  Here is one of the entries in my family album ( COVID documenting/gratitude journal).

 

I wanted something really colorful to lighten up the feeling of the page, so i pulled the Truck Parade paper from the Fireworks and Freedom collection to use as the background for my layout. 

 

Unfortunately this was supposed to be my daughter's last year of High School, and since the pandemic was declared, she has seen all the milestone slowly disappear.  We always talk about God, his blessing and finding rainbows after the storm. So, i decided to give this page a shower of rainbows.  For this, I used the Rainy Clouds  cut file to cut all the clouds and raindrops from Bellas Besties papers.  Once i glued them on the page,  i used a white gel pen to add the small white lines that give a more 3-d look to each piece.

 

I am a journaler above all, so i decided to write all about our conversation and printed this on vellum.  I cut the journal to fit within the page, then added the picture of my daughter and a few embellishments from the Mom Life, Splash Zone and Wish Big collection.

 

 

The last thing i added was a title to the page.  For this i mixed alphas from the Florence Alpha Stickers in Black, Oyster and White; then added a simple phrase sticker from the Word Salad sticker tablet - Legacy collection-.

 

 

I hope your NSD is filled with inspiration, and you use it to document your small or big moments.
XO

 

 

Bella Blvd. Supplies:

Fireworks and Freedom collection:   Truck Parade paper

Bella Besties: 6x6 Paper pad

Florence Alphabet:  White, Black, Oyster

Wish Big:  Stickers

Legacy collection:  Word Salad sticker tablet

Mom Life:  Stickers

Splash Zone:  Ephemera

Digital Cut file:  Rainy Clouds - Spring

Bella Blvd Cut Outs | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you today sharing a new layout using the Bella Blvd Wish Big Girl collection and a Bella Cut Out. Bella Cut Outs are perfect for all types of projects. Each package comes with a title piece and 3-4 other cut outs. They are simple to back with pattern papers and add to your page.

I stated out by picking out some pattern paper from the Wish Big Girl collection to back the stack of presents cut out from the Christmas pack. To back the cut outs I like to take the cut out and turn it over also turning over the pattern paper I am using. I use a pencil to trace the inside of the cut file. Next I will cut around my trace line leaving a small boarder so there is something to adhere to the back of the cut file.

Once my cut out piece is backed I will add some foam squares all over the back so that it pops off my page. I wanted to add some color to my white cardstock background so I pulled out my Catherine Pooler inks and added some ink splatters. I have four photos of our daughter on her 6th birthday! We celebrated with a sweet candy shoppe theme and she had the best time. She had a candy bar set up for her friends and family and the cutest cake and cookies! I printed the photos out so that I would have 2 photo strips. I added a tab to the top of each strip from the Wish Big Girl Ephemera Words pack.

I added this sweet die cut to the right of my photo and tucked in some super cute balloons. For my title I used on of the Wish Big Girl chipboard pieces. I wanted to add some more yellow to the page and this celebrate piece was perfect.

Here is a look at my completed layout! If you would like to see my process video you can head on over to my YouTube channel!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Bella Cut Outs Christmas | Wish Big Girl Collection | Wish Big Girl Ephemera Icons | Wish Big Girl Ephemera Words | Wish Big Girl Chipboard | Wish Big Girl Sticky Mix | Puffy Hearts Stickers

Egg Hunt Mini Album | Tegan Skwiat

I am having so much fun playing along with the monthly Bella Blvd Mood Boards! I love that April's board is filled with pretty spring colors and lots of Easter accents! Come take a look! 

And I had so much fun incorporating some brand new Bella Blvd Spring and Easter cut files in to my project. For starters, I thought the Sweet Sweet Spring Easter Egg Cut File would make an 'egg-cellent' (pun intended) mini album! All of the eggs in the Mood Board inspired me to make a mini album. And I was inspired by the layers in the cake to make my album cover a layer of pink, aqua, and yellow. I used the Graph and Dot Patterned Papers in Ice, Bell Pepper, and Punch. The awesome mini polka dot background on the egg is part of the cut file! I then used a flower from the Bella Blvd Halloween Flowers cut file to anchor my title. 

I used the new Bella Blvd Carrots Cut File to create the journaling page at the beginning of the album. I had so much fun putting these sweet little carrots together. Aren't they the cutest?!

I used mostly the Squeeze the Day collection, but I pulled from other collections as well. Here I used a floral chipboard sticker from the Let's Go On An Adventure collection. All of the Bella Blvd collections mix and match so well! 

I really enjoyed creating this egg shaped album for a change. It was fun working with the shaped pages and the circular photos I ended up using. 

On this page, I mixed and matched the Squeeze the Day and Wish Big Girl collections. I then finished off the page with fun Puffy Star Stickers. Did you notice all of the rainbows I used? Those were inspired by the mood board as well! And how appropriate since Easter eggs come in a rainbow of colors! 

And of course I had to include a bunny, especially since there was some on the mood board! The new Bunny Side Cut File makes the sweetest little page accent, don't you think?! And the Word Salad phrase stickers are great for embellishing pages with pops of color. 

Even though the Squeeze the Day collection isn't Easter themed, I had no problem creating this Easter mini album! The collection is super fun and with the cut files I was able to easily add in some Easter accents!  

Thank you for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to use the April Mood Board, the Squeeze the Day collection, and the new Bella Blvd Cut Files on your next Easter project! 

Squeeze the Day Collection: Borders Patterned Paper, Bananas For You Patterned Paper, Fruity Hearts Patterned Paper, Lemon Fresh Patterned Paper, Sweet Skies Patterned Paper, Fruit Salad Patterned Paper, Fruity Mix Enamel Dot Stickers, Chipboard, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, 12x12 Cardstock Stickers, Epoxy Icons Stickers

Bella Besties Graph and Dot Patterned Papers: Bell Pepper, Ice, Punch, Guacamole, Orange

Wish Big Girl Collection: Let's Celebrate Patterned Paper, Daily Details Patterned Paper, Chipboard, Ephemera Words, Cardstock Stickers

Let's Go On An Adventure Collection: Chipboard

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Black

Puffy Stars: Orange Mix, Pickle Juice Mix

Cut Files: Sweet Sweet Spring Easter Eggs, Carrots, Halloween Flowers, Bunny Side

 

 

Spring Time | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you today sharing a colorful spring layout. Mixing collections with Bella Blvd is easy and one of my favorite things about Bella. For my layout today I mixed papers from the Wish Big and Home Sweet Home collections.

I cut this free newsletter cut file from The Cut Shoppe out onto some white textured cardstock. I pulled some papers together from Wish Big Girl & Home Sweet home that I thought went well together. I love the fun spring colors and the floral print.

Using a big title cut file like this is an easy way to showcase a lot of different pattern papers and colors. I popped up the cut file on some foam squares to add dimension to the layout. This also makes it easy for me to tuck different embellishments around the cut file.

To add some different textures to my layout I pulled in some Bella Blvd puffy heart stickers and the Fruity Mix Matte Enamel dots from Squeeze the Day.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Bella blog today. I hope you found some Spring time inspiration today and are inspired to mix up your Bella Blvd collections on your next project. Don't forget to check out the Bella Blvd. Instagram page for more inspiration. Have a great day!

Wish Big Girl Pattern Paper | Home Sweet Home Pattern Paper | Home Sweet Home Ephemera Icons | Simply Spring Treasures & Text | Fruity Mix Matte Enamel dots | Punch Mix Puffy Heart Stickers | Heart Mix Acrylic Shapes |

Other Supplies

Spring Time Cut File | We R Memory Keepers Typewriter | Silhouette Cameo 3

My Favorite Band | Erica Thompson

Hey friends! Erica here with you today and this week the team has been sharing all about FAVORITES! I wanted to document my favorite band on this layout! I have a huge and I mean huge love for Dave Matthews Band that started when I was in High School! I have been hooked ever since and they are always at the top of my playlist! I have been lucky enough to see them many times live and it is one of the best shows I have ever seen and I have seen a lot! I love all types of music but DMB will always be my favorite!

I always take a lot of photos at the shows and I am sharing a few of my favorites in this layout! I remember the photo of Mike and I at the top right photo in Chicago! I was about 6 months pregnant with our son Gavin and I was happily drinking lots of water and having the best time dancing and enjoying the music! It was a great show and my pregnant belly enjoyed every minute of it!

I thought this speech bubble cut file was perfect for my photos and then I backed some of the spots with different pattern papers from Bella Blvd Squeeze the Day, Bella Besties and Wish Big.  I also added in some of my favorite Dave Matthews song titles using the Florence Alphas.

When my oldest son was in middle school he really wanted to go to a DMB show so we purchased him a ticket and invited his dad and girlfriend to come along! Drake loved it and they even played his favorite song that night!

I added a few heart hugs around the page and some die cuts from the Wish Big collection. To add some fun to my background I used some acrylic paints and splattered around the page with my paint brush. I added some machine stitching all around the page using some pink thread and then distressed the edges of my layout. Here is a look at my completed layout!

I hope you are have been inspired this week to create a project documenting some of your favorites! Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you have a great weekend!

Wish Big Girl Ephemera Words & Icons | Wish Big Girl Pattern Paper | Squeeze the Day 6x6 Paper Pad | Bella Besties 6x6 Paper Pad | Bella Blvd Heart Hugs | Bella Blvd Puffy Hearts | Florence Alpha Sets

 

My Favorite Room in the House Layout

This week is all about our favorite things, so I thought it would be cool to document my love of crafting! I started with the adorable Home Sweet Home collection but I had fun mixing and matching in a couple other collections too. I love that the Bella Blvd collections easily work together so well! 

I used the light pink side of the Wish Big Girl Party Animal patterned paper as my background because I wanted my houses to really stand out. I used the background image of the Bella Blvd Happy House cut file and my electronic die cut machine to cut out the houses in different fun colors. (I did widen the house in my design software to accommodate all of the words in my title.) And I love the whimsical feel that the Florence Alphabet stickers give to the page!

My goal was to make the houses as colorful as I could! I used more simple patterns for the front of the houses so the alpha stickers could be easily read. I used the more involved patterned papers as a background to each house to add more color. I adorned the houses with ephemera pieces and chipboard stickers from the Home Sweet Home collection and some Puffy Stars stickers.

Since the Florence Alphabet Stickers come in so many awesome colors, I was able to create a very colorful title! And the Word Salad Stickers are prefect for adding little phrases and pops of color around a page. 

I used the tree image from the Bella Blvd Family Frenzy House 1 Cut File and the green Splash Zone Summer Scramble patterned paper to make a couple of greenery pieces. I tucked these behind the yellow house and my photo. Isn't that little ephemera butterfly fluttering around outside the houses just the cutest?!

Thank you for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to grab your favorite Bella Blvd collections and document your crafty space! 

Home Sweet Home Collection: Mosaic Tile Patterned Paper, Welcome Home Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers, Ephemera Icons, Doohickey Stikcers

Splash Zone Collection: Summer Scramble Patterned Paper, Sunny Days Patterned Paper

Wish Big Girl Collection: Party Animal Patterned Paper

Wish Big Boy Collection: Borders Patterned Paper

Squeeze the Day Collection: Borders Patterned Paper, So Berry Sweet Patterned Paper, Ephemera Words

Let's Go On An Adventure Collection: Borders Patterned Paper, Wildflowers Patterned Paper

Florence Alphabet Stickers: Ice, Bell Pepper, McIntosh, Blueberry, Cotton Candy

Orange Mix Puffy Stars Stickers, Pickle Juice Mix Puffy Star Stickers, Word Salad Stickers

Bella Blvd Cut Files: Happy House, Family Frenzy House 1