Bella Blvd | Bella Of The Ball

Hi Everyone!  I had the pleasure of creating two scrapbook pages for the Bella Blvd March newsletter!  I am the “Bella of the Ball”!  I created two layouts with their new spring collections “Campout”, “Simply Spring”, and “Color Chaos”.  To see the newsletter, go here.

The first layout is about the time when we went to San Francisco and hiked at Muir Woods.

I used a Silhouette cut file to cut my background white cardstock and filled the back with different patterned papers.

I adhered the papers with some foam adhesive so that the white cardstock looks more dimensional.

The 2nd layout I did for their newsletter was “Splash of Fun”.

I love that Bella Blvd has clear overlays now too!  I thought this page was fun and very summery.  I used different patterned papers for layering, and enamel shapes to create texture.

The letters were cut using patterned papers and adhesive foam with a Lawn Fawn die set.

It was awesome to work with these new collections from Bella Blvd!  They are available at most scrapbook retailers.  You can buy them from the Paper Issues store for 20% off using my code LISTGIRL!

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Bella Blvd | Ornament Thief

My third and final layout for my Bella Blvd guest designer spot this month is very whimsical!  And it stars my cat Noodle! 

Bella Blvd | Ornament Thief

My supplies are from the Bella Blvd holiday collection called Christmas Cheer.  I love this colorful and whimsical holiday collection with awesome patterned papers!

I caught a photo of Noodle trying to take an ornament off the tree a couple of years ago. I thought I would create a tree filled with the pretty papers.  I used a digital brush in Photoshop to create the tree shape. Then I saved it as a jpeg file and brought it into my Silhouette Studio software to trace it for cutting. Then I filled the cut-out “windows” with patterned papers.  I also used my Silhouette to cut out the word “thief” and stapled it to my photo as part of my title.

I thought the green feather was perfect under the photo, sort of like a tree branch.

I sewed around the edge of the tree with red stitching for the finishing touch.

I love all three layouts that I created for Bella Blvd this month.  Check out the Hello Autumn and Christmas Cheer collections for fall and holiday scrapbooking!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Bella Blvd | Holiday Spirit

Today I’m showing you the second scrapbook layout I made for my September guest designer gig at Bella Blvd.  I had a lot of fun with all the patterned papers in this one!

Bella Blvd | Holiday Spirit

Supplies:  I used Bella Blvd’s new holiday collection called Christmas Cheer.  It’s full of colors and whimsical characters, such as reindeers, penguins, and Santa! 

I love the happy colors in this collection. The reindeers were my favorite! In fact, it inspired my selection of the photo for my second layout, “Holiday Spirit”.  I used a triangle punch to punch out a bunch of triangles from my favorite papers in the collection. Then I placed them to make sure they fit and look good, then I glued them down.

I layered vellum under the photo and the title so that they stood out from the triangle patterned background.  The “holiday” in the title with the circle connected to it was drawn by me and then traced in the Silhouette Studio software.  Then I cut it out with my Silhouette and white cardstock.

I added some stickers and little embellishments on top of the vellum mat, to make it more festive!

I framed the photo with some of the border, tab, and word stickers, giving a layered look.

Christmas Cheer is such a happy & colorful holiday collection.  I can see using it for many holiday and winter pages, and also a December album!

Thanks for stopping by!  Tomorrow I’ll show you my third and final layout I made for Bella Blvd this month!

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Bella Blvd | Pumpkins

I’m very excited to be the September guest designer at Bella Blvd!  When Laura emailed me to ask me, I said yes immediately.  I made three layouts for Bella Blvd and I’ll be blogging here about them today, tomorrow, and Wednesday.  My September guest blog post is also live on the Bella Blvd blog today, if you want to click over and see all my layouts at once.

Bella Blvd | Pumpkins

This layout was created using the Bella Blvd Hello Autumn collection.  This collection is perfect for all your fall photos, especially pumpkin patch photos! 

Since I live in SoCal, I usually don’t have a lot of fall photos. However, last year we went to a big pumpkin patch for the first time. It was 85 degrees in October and so hot! But I did get a bunch of fall-ish pumpkin photos, so I was delighted when I saw the new Bella Blvd fall collection Hello Autumn! The colors were perfect with my photos.

I love that this collection has blue colors in it too. It really pops against the oranges and yellows.

 

I created a little leaf tag for the upper left corner of my layout, using a diecut tag and a chipboard leaf.

The stickers in Hello Autumn were one of my favorite things! I just love the sticker tabs that I can adhere to photos or papers. And that leaf paper is the best ever!

I had a lot of fun layering and creating with Hello Autumn!  The patterned papers, stickers, and chipboard embellishments are all fabulous! 

Thanks for stopping by!  Be back tomorrow with another Bella Blvd layout. :)

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