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Mixing and Matching Collections| Tegan

This week's mission to create a layout with 2 or more Bella Blvd collections was a piece of cake because they all mix and match so easily! I starting by grabbing a large stack of different collections and then sorted through them for winter or non-themed items. It was actually fun...kind of like a treasure hunt! I think I ended up using 6 collections (7 if you count the Acrylic Word from the Bug Explorer collection)! Do you spy a little bit of Santa Squad, Let's Go On An Adventure, Wish Big Girl, Santa Stops Here, Squeeze the Day, or the Merry Christmas collection?! 

I started by using the Bella Blvd Snowflake Cut File and electronic die cut machine to cut five 3" tall snowflakes out of white cardstock. I then backed them with different colors of patterned paper. I had pulled out a combination of Acrylic Words and die cut pieces that could be used to describe winter, so I adhered those to the different snowflakes. Sure, winter can be such a bummer! But it really is a fascinating thing if you stop and think about it! 

I embellished the snowflakes with enamel dots from the Heart Hugs packs and Christmas Mix Enamel Dots from the Santa Squad collection. I really wanted to mix and match the colors to create a colorful layout!

The penguin Santa Squad Epoxy Sticker was perfect for adding a touch of winter. I also added Word Salad stickers on the snowflakes to add color around the page. And of course I used Word Salad stickers that could be used to describe winter!

I had so much fun mixing and matching the collections to create a fun and colorful winter layout! I can't decide which snowflake is my favorite, can you?

Thanks for joining us today! I hope I have inspired you to have fun mixing and matching your Bella Blvd collections! 

Santa Squad Collection: Ho! Ho! Ho! Patterned Paper, Christmas Mix Enamel Stickers, Squad Epoxy Stickers

Squeeze the Day Collection: Bananas For You Patterned Paper, Chipboard Stickers

Let's Go On An Adventure Collection: Mountain Peaks Patterned Paper, Fairy Garden Patterned Paper

Wish Big Girl Collection: Ephemera Words

Santa Stops Here Collection: Chipboard Stickers

Merry Christmas Collection: Daily Details Patterned Paper, Light It Up Patterned Paper, Acrylic Word 'Joy'

Bug Explorer: Acrylic Word 'fascinating' 

Bella Blvd Snowflake Cut File 

Heart Hugs (Enamel Dots): Sunshine, Give Thanks 

Puffy Star Stickers: Guacamole 

 

 

 

Falling Leaves | Family Scrapbooking Layout

Hi everyone! Heather Leopard is here with a photo tutorial for a really fun fall layout featuring lots of leaves. Come take a look at what I created...

My idea for this originally started by thinking I'd layer leaves from the top down as if they were falling but as I was playing around with this Bella Blvd "leaves" cut file, I started thinking the concept would pair well with a round photo. That got me thinking of this alternate design. It cut the same leave in 3 different sizes - small, medium and large and in multiple different colors and patterns.

Starting with the largest leaves, I adhered them to the page in a sort of circle.

Next, I added the medium leaves and then the smaller leaves on top, moving in with each "row" I glued down until I had enough to create a border for my photo.

I printed a 3.75" round photo and placed it in the center of the wreath of leaves. As you can see from the photo, I only glued the bottom part of the leaves to the paper so that the ends of the leaves could have some dimension.

I tucked a few pieces of chipboard and ephemera under the photo and also added some embellishments to the top right.  

Lastly, and to create a diagonal type design, I added the title and a few more embellishments to the bottom left of the page. I'm still deciding where to put my journaling but I'm thinking maybe I'll add journaling strips on the bottom right.

Let's Go On An Adventure Border & Wildflowers 12x12 patterned paper, Ciao Chip, Ephemera Words, Ephemera Icons; Squeeze the Day Borders, Zesty, Fruit Salad 12x12 patterned paper, Bella Besties Graph & Dotty Pony, McIntosh, Orange 12x12 patterned paper, Wish Big Borders 12x12 patterned paper, Heart Hugs Earth, Heart Hugs Sunshine, Acrylic Word Family, Wonky Alphas Orange, Bella Blvd cut file "leaves" in Silhouette America store

Hip Hip Hooray Digital Layout by Tya

Hello and Welcome! It's Tya up on the blog today! This week we are sharing projects that feature the awesome Acrylic Word embellishments. I was so excited to see that many of our digital collections come with Acrylic Word files to use! I created this fun birthday-themed layout featuring the new "Wish Big Girl" digital collection.

 

 So when you get the digital file for the acrylic words they are flat, just like the normal type. By using just a few adjustments you can make the acrylic words seem a little more dimensional and real- looking. I've included an example below. 

To achieve the dimensional look, simply place your word on the layout. On the word, right-click the drag-down menu and look for the Blending Options menu. Open that and you will click on Drop Shadow and the Bevel and Emboss buttons. I played around with the slider bars on these menu options until I was happy with the end result. As you can see on my layout, the Hip Hip Hooray looks shadowed and a little dimensional and not flat. Just like a real acrylic word. So with just a few adjustments, you can make your digital embellishments look just like the real thing! It is so cool! 

I hope I have inspired you to play around with your digital embellishments and use those fun acrylic words that come in the collections. They really are a great focal point embellishment to any layout! Happy Crafting everyone! 

 

Wish Big Girl Collection Bundle

Birthday Cards

Hi everyone! Corri here today sharing a couple of birthday cards that I made with some bits and pieces from the Wish Big - Girl Collection. I used some strips of pattern paper and some paper punches to create some fun backgrounds for my cards. 

For my "celebrate" card, I used a hexagon punch to several shapes and then created a background for the celebrate chipboard piece. Then I added a couple of chipboard hearts and piece from the ephemera.

 

For this card, I used a large banner punch to create another background.

I added a sentiment from the Daily Details sheet along with a few chipboard candles. 

Using punches or dies is a great way to take advantage of all your leftover paper strips! I love how both of these cards turned out. 

Perfect to have on hand for all my daughters' friends birthday parties. 

 

Wish Big Girl Pattern Paper, Wish Big Girl Chipboard stickers, Wish Big - Girl Ephemera Pack Words, Cute Clips



 

Birthday Calendar Rolodex Cards by Tessa Buys

Hello, Bella Blvd. friends! Tessa Buys here with a fun and functional project for celebrating birthdays featuring the darling Wish Big collection.

Keeping track of birthdays for all your friends and family can be daunting, but this method will allow you to stay organized and include some memory keeping as well. I made a Rolodex-style card for each month of the year using patterned papers, Florence alphas, acrylic words, die-cuts, and cardstock stickers from the Wish Big collection.

As a fun addition to some of the cards, I added my favorite party decor staple—crepe paper streamers!

Here are some ideas for recording all of your important dates:

1. Make a blank card for each month on which you can list the birthdays for that month.

2. Trim a photo of the birthday boy or girl into a card and write or use stickers to add their birthday to the photo. You can update as the years go by if you’d like.

3. Save tags or memorabilia from birthday parties and add them to the tray.

I love when something can be decorative and functional, so this fun tray is a welcome addition to my desk that’s going to keep me on my toes for all the birthdays coming up. Be sure to pick up the Wish Big collection to make one of your own. Happy creating!

 

Celebrate 5 layout!

Hi Bella friends! Tegan here today! I am excited to share all of the fun I am having creating with Bella Blvd's new cut files! I wanted to document a picture of my niece turning five, so I also grabbed the adorable Wish Big Girl collection. The fun icons and colors are perfect for documenting little girl birthdays!

I started by creating a background design in my diecut machine software using the number 5 from the Bella Blvd Florence alpha cut file. I then backed my background with pink, yellow, and teal patterned papers from the Wish Big Girl collection. I hope you LOVE this number 5 background design as much as I do! :) 

I then enlarged the Bella Blvd 'celebrate' cut file in my diecut machine software. I used fun coordinating floral and check print patterned papers from the Mom Life and Island Escape collections to cut out parts of the word and then pieced them together. I then adhered the word onto a dark blue cut out 'celebrate' so it would really pop against the white. I love how it turned out! 

I then decorated the page with lots of sweet embellishments from the Wish Big Girl collection like the cute birthday party hippo ephemera piece and the fun chipboard cupcake and candles! I love adding finishing touches to my pages with enamel dots and puffy star stickers too! 

Thank you for joining me today! I hope I have inspired you to use the Bella Blvd cut files and Wish Big collection to create a fun design on your next layout!

Wish Big Girl collection: Daily Details patterned paper, Cakes and Crowns patterned paper, Let's Celebrate patterned paper, Borders patterned paper, Chipboard Icons, Ephemera Shapes, Ephemera Words

Island Escape collection: Good Vibes patterned paper

Mom Life collection: Houseplants patterned paper, My Tribe patterned paper

Bella Blvd cut files: Celebrate word, Florence alphabet

 

 

Sweet Birthday Girl

Being the mom of two boys, it is not often that I get to use lots of pink or girly embellishments on my projects. When I do get the chance, I go a little overboard! Today I am sharing a 12" x 12" layout that I put together using Bella Blvd's Wish Big Girl birthday collection to document this little gal turning 5 years old! 

My process for putting together this layout began with choosing a big title. Have you noticed how popular the big titles are lately? I love them! I had to mix it up a bit by adding a little dimension with some Ciao Chip letters and an Acrylic Word surrounded by some of those cute little heart stickers from the Florence Alphabet Stickers. 

I tend to add a lot of embellishments to my layouts, sometimes I have to hold myself back so I have some left over for the next layout. Doesn't everyone take a zillion birthday pictures? Seriously though, it's really easy when you are working with such great product that is super cute! This little colorful heart cluster at the top of my layout was the final touch to complete this layout. 

Wish Big Girl Collection Kit , Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words, Florence Alphabet Stickers White,
Acrylic Words, Cute Clips Rainy Day, Puffy Heart Stickers Milk White

 

Yummy! | Erica Thompson

Hello and Happy Grilled Cheese Day! Yes that is right it is National Grilled Cheese Day! We love grilled cheese in our home and we have it for dinner at least a couple times a month in the winter! Grilled cheese and a bowl of tomato soup is so good on the cold nights! We like our sandwiches extra cheesy! So to document my love for for this scrumptious sandwich I created a fun layout using some fun Bella Blvd products!

I started with an alpha cut file from The Cut Shoppe and backed it with papers I pulled from my stash of Bella scraps! I love that matching papers is so easy to do with all the Bella products! I cut the word YUMMY out with some white card stock and the colors I used to back the file are some of my favorite!

Pink, yellow, blue, black and white! Yes! Perfect color combo in my eyes! I pulled some embellishments from different collections to match these colors mainly using 12x12 sticker sheets.

I did a little swapping out of colors on the felt banner! I wanted to add the pink heart to the black banner and it was very easy to swap it out! I love how it looks on this layout! I added on of the Little Bits word stickers to it as well!

I added a heart from one of the 12x12 sticker sheets to the right of my photo and tucked under a yellow heart hug for another pop of color! I pulled out some stickers from the Word Salad booklet and added some staples for some texture as well!

Here is a look at my completed layout and you can see my process video HERE on my YouTube channel!

Oreo Black Little Bits, Word Salad Cardstock Stickers, Oh My Starts 12x12 Fundamentals, Star Student 12x12 Treasures&Text, Papers from Oh My Stars, Wish Big, Popsicle's& Pandas, She Loves Color Exclusive, Bella Pennants, Heart Hugs

 

DIY Mini Easter Baskets

Who loves putting together little DIY gifts for friends and family? I certainly do! And when I can use my paper crafting supplies to do it, it's even more fun! Christine joining you today to show how I combined several Bella Blvd Collections to make these mini Easter Baskets!

I decided to go ahead and make a girl one and a boy one using a cardstock base and then topping that with Plaids & Dotty!

I also used the Wish Big collection to create an egg embellishment. I simply cut the lantern from the ephemera pack in half and then spread it out on white cardstock so that it would form an oval. Then I fussy cut around it and voila, an egg! Adding a simple border down the middle accompanied by enamel dots made it even more cute.  

To identify the baskets, I created simple accompanying tags. Both tags came from the Oh My Stars Collection. No need to wonder, the colors match up perfectly because that's one thing that Bella Blvd is known for! With each collection you can count on the colors matching up from other collections, meaning it's easy to mix and match!

My approach was pretty much the same for the girl basket: add an egg, an embellishment, and a tag! You may notice that the style of the two baskets is slightly different. I used two different cut files but they are put together the same way. You can check out my video below for more details!

I do want to point out one more little detail that helps make these baskets special! The Bella Bows on the top were just the right finishing touch! I love it when you find an embellishment that is just right!

Thanks so much for joining me today! Happy Crafting Friends!

Bella Bows, Wish Big Collection: Ciao Chip, Ephemera, Stickers; Plaids & Dotty: Patterned Paper, Oh My Stars: Tags, Heart Hugs: Enamel Dots

 

 

That sweet face

Good morning everyone!!

I'm back this morning to share a new layout playing with a mix of Bella products. This week my prompt was to pick three or more collections and use them on one layout. I think I did that! lol

I went into my scrappy room, sat on the floor and pulled a bunch of the Bella collections I have out around me. I chose my first paper, it was the multi colored one from the Oh my stars collection, I used to mat my photo strop on. Once I got that one, I pulled a bunch of papers and embellishments that matched it and went to town adding layers behind my photo and to add some texture I used a punch too.

I played with a lot of different papers for my layers and different collections, but I kept switching them out until I finally got a happy bunch of layers. I popped them up on some 3D foam adhesive and put my photos and layers right in the center of my layout. I figured this would give me a center, a focal point. Once I had that down I went in and added some circles I had punched out for another project I had done, I had left overs and they worked great here so I added them in, above and below my photos.

I liked the circles, but wanted more there, so I pulled some of the ephemera packs and sticker sheets and started to go threw them. I layered some of the stickers with embellishments and put them in and around the circles, them I popped some of them in with my photo mats and kept going. At one point I thought maybe this was to much, but nope I kept going lol.

I pulled out some of the gorgeous puffy hearts and added them in here and there, finished off my title with some of them wonky alphas and decided that I wanted some more purple in my layout. So I grabbed my punch again, cut off about a half an inch and then punched the entire length of my layout and added another purple tone on tone and popped in a few more stickers and tabs and felt done with this layout. I was really happy with the way this turned out and I hope you decided to have some fun with your collections, mix it up a little and play with multiple together too and see what you come up with!

Oh my stars collection: Plum Stars, Fundamentals

Sweet&Spooky Collection: Night garden, Ephemera pack, Ephemera word pack

All people all nations collection: Boarders and 3x4 cards

Addison collection: Tabbies

Alex Collection: Tabbies

Wish Big Collection: Daily details, Ephemera word pack

Puffy Hearts: Ice mix, Pickle Juice, Milk white, Orange mix

Wonky alpha puffy stickers: Oreo black

Word Salad booklet