... just Laura

Bella Blvd: Love Her

Did you catch the Kiss Me collection reveal yesterday on the Bella Blvd blog? I hope you love it as much as we do! For the rest of the week, we're sharing lots and lots of layouts and cards using the Kiss Me collection, so that you can see it in action.

One of the things that I love about Bella Blvd's collections, is that while they may be themed at first glace, but they are also very versitle and can work with so many everyday photos. While Kiss Me is a Valentine's collection, it's got so many great patterns and pieces that can be used for anything. I've had these photos of Alyssa and Haley for years, and never got around to scrapping them. Until now.

I have been wanting to use this Background Lace Circle cut from my Silhouette library for ages. I love circles, and the idea of filling the circles up with patterned paper, cardstock, or embellishments seemed like fun.

I used the navy blue patterned paper to cut the background piece from, and I intented to then cut circles from all of the other patterned papers to fill in the empty spaces.

However, when I was pulling off my die cut background piece, and all of the circles from the negative space, I realized that those circles would work just fine if I flipped them over. The backside of the blue patterned paper is a fabulous grid pattern with lots and lots of large patterned circles all over. I liked the way my pieces looked when flipped over, and they were already cut to size, which was a big time-saver, instead of cutting all new circles. So I just went with it.

I didn't originally plan on using this sticker on my page. But when I was trimming my photos after printing, they ended up being just shy of 6" tall for some reason, so they didn't quite reach the length of my page. I just covered the tiny gap between the photos with this sticker, adhered with pop dots.

I love that all three of the Sienna chipboard alphabet sets that were a part of Bella's summer release match perfectly with the Kiss Me collection.

I also added some buttons into my circle design, just so my layout wasn't all paper and stickers. A few simple threaded buttons, along with a few stickers adhered with pop dots, add the perfect finishing touch to embellish the page.

I loved the little ice cream cone on the Cute Cuts sheet of patterned paper, and knew it was perfect for the front of a card. I cut the card on my Silhouette as well, using the 3x3 Circle Pattern Card design, but I cut mine as a 4x4" card.

I cut the actual card base from this fabulous chevron paper. It cut out all of the circles as well, and then you cut out the top piece seperately. I cut this piece from the navy blue patterned paper, and adhered it to the front of the card using pop dots.

The backside of the chevron paper is a great pink text paper with tone-on-tone hearts on it. I was going to leave it like that, so that you would see that pink text paper through the holes in the front of the card. But in the end, I felt like it needed a touch of white, so I adhered a scrap of white cardstock inside the card.

Head on over to the Bella Blvd blog, and check out what some of the other designers have created with the Kiss Me collection! There are a ton of layouts and cards featured today, and it really shows the collection in action, and the different ways it can be used!

Bella Blvd: Kiss Me Collection Reveal

Today is a big day over on the Bella Blvd blog! We are revealing our brand new mid-release collection, called Kiss Me!

I am loving this new collection! The colors are fabulous. Lots of navy blue, pinks, aquas, tans, and a touch of green. It's got mustaches, kiss-ey lips, ice cream, clouds, and flowers. It's a lovey, valentines day collection. And yet, it's an everyday collection. The patterns and designs are so versitile that you can use this collection on anything and everything.

I've been collection projects from our design team that we will be sharing the next three days, and there's such a variety of themes and stories that they cover in their designs. I'm putting the finishing touches on some projects of my own, and will be sharing them starting tomorrow.

Head over to the Bella Blvd blog and check out the entire collection, piece by piece. And make sure to leave a comment over there, because we're giving away a collection kit to one lucky reader!

Bella Blvd: Re-Introduction

For the last two weeks, on the Bella Blvd blog, we have been introducing and getting to know each member of our new Design Team. If you haven't checked our blog in a while, you should. I'm excited about the designers I'll be working with over the next year.

Today, Stephanie and I are both re-introducing ourselves, and sharing a little bit about ourselves. You can check it out HERE, and find out what's going on in the photo above. Just a little insight into what I actually work on during the majority of my "Bella" work time hours.

Bella Blvd: Halloween Project Sheet

Yesterday we had our new Step-By-Step Project Sheet, for the month of October, go up on the Bella Blvd blog.

For this month's project sheet layout, I wanted to focus on lots and lots of layering. There are so many fun patterned papers in the Too Cute To Spook collection, and by layering pieces of each paper together, it makes it easy to use a wide variety of those papers without it overwhelming the page.

I used six different patterns on this page, and also cut some clouds out of a seventh paper. The backside of the Full Moon paper has "too cute to spook" written all over it, and made for a great background paper for the base of the page.  

I roughed up the edges of all of my papers with an edge distressor, which adds a ton of texture to the papers. And then I got to layering those papers all together, adding the adorable photo on top (which I borrowed from my good friend Lynn) with lots of pop dots for even more dimension.

I used some black chipboard letters for my title, combined with the orange alpha stickers from the Too Cute To Spook collection.

You can view and download the project sheet, with a full supply list and complete instructions, HERE.

A Birthday Girl & A Birthday Layout

I had a birthday layout up on the Bella Blvd blog on Tuesday, and it seemed fitting to share it here today. How about the layout first.

This was another one of my layouts for CHA, using the new Birthday Girl collection. If I'm being honest, it wasn't one of my favorites that I made. But it was also the second to last of about 24 projects that I made for CHA, so I was at the bottom of my creative well, so to speak. Lol. I dug out some older photos of Alyssa from her 10th birthday party, since I knew the colors would work well with the papers. Most of our birthday parties are swim parties, but I wanted more traditional "birthday" pics for a booth layout.

I took the "happy" chipboard letters from the Birthday Girl chipboard icons, and then added "b-day" with some Sienna chipboard alphas.

A few of the chipboard accents that I wanted to use were banner shaped, so I thought it would be fun to create an entire border across the page of banners. This was a great way to use up a lot of the scraps of patterned paper I had from my other projects, since I only needed small pieces of paper.

I just trimmed them into strips of varying widths, and roughly the same height, and cut banner notches at the bottom of each piece. I also added in some stickers here and there. I adhered them across the page, "hanging" off of a few strips of designer tape that I had layered together. On either end of the border, I added some fun embellishments. Buttons, chipboard pieces, a crochet flower, and some flags.

My journaling says "So hard to believe you turned 10 years old this year". Which was so true at the time. I think we say that just about every year, right? Every birthday I think "how are you another year older already???". Just like every school year, I say "how are you another grade higher already???". And before you know it, this happens:

Your daugher, that in your head is still just your baby, goes and turns SIXTEEN YEARS OLD!!! Seriously, how did this happen? How has it been sixteen years since she made her way into our lives, taking her sweet, sweet time to come into the world? I am so very proud of the young lady she's becoming, and she amazes me more and more every single day. Happy birthday Alyssa!

Bella Blvd: 2012-2013 Design Team

Check out the Bella Blvd 2012-2013 Design Team that was announced today on the Bella Blvd blog! 

I know I have been a bit absent around this blog of mine lately, and this is one of the reasons. Going through tons of talented design team submissions, narrowing down the options, finalizing a team, and getting that team all set up and ready to go is a lot of work. But I'm super excited to be working with all of these great designers, some of which I already know, and some of which I'm getting to know.

I'm also finishing up my last few weeks with our current design team members, collecting their last assignments, and talking about what's next for them. It's bittersweet. We've had an amazing year, and I loved working with and forming friendships with all of the designers. It's going to be weird not hearing from them quite so often from here on out. Luckily, I can still keep up with everyone on their blogs, Facebook, Instagram, and all of those other social media sites and message boards that us scrappers like to spend our time on.

We are going to start introducing you to each of our new (and returning) design team members starting on Monday, October 1st. I hope you'll stop by the Bella blog and check them all out!

Coolin' Down - A Bella Blvd Layout

I'm coming off a very busy weekend, and am having a hard time catching up on everything. I spend three fabulous days teaching at CKU (more on that later), attended a family wedding, and spend hours pouring over submissions for Bella Blvd's design team call. The craziness never seems to end. Over the weekend, I also had a layout go up on the Bella Blvd blog for our Saturday Sketch feature.

{Sketch by Becky Fleck}

I decided to turn the sketch on it's side for my layout, since I had vertical photos that I wanted to use. I dug out these super old photos of Sarah and a few of the daycare kids playing in the backyard on a hot summer day. I love finding everyday photos that I havn't scrapped yet, when digging around on my external hard drive.

I ended up skipping the circle element on the sketch, and just placed my title in that same general area. I used a mix of pink chipboard alphas and yellow alpha stickers.

I'm sure you have figured out by now that I love using this graph pattern paper on so many of my layouts. It's just a really nice neutral paper to use, in place of white cardstock. And it makes lining things up super easy, with all those lines to use as guides. 

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Bella Blvd: Such An Infectious Smile

I seemed to have lost all control over my time lately. Too much to do, and not enough time. Little nuggets of downtime, but not long enough to actually accomplish anything. Work, work, and more work. Not enough time to relax and play. I havn't really had the time or energy to create anything new the past week, so I thought I would share another one of my CHA layouts for Bella Blvd.

I actually created this for the CHA Summer catalog, and was asked to focus on the Sophisticates alphas. The older lowercase chipboard alphas, the newer uppercase chipboard alphas, and the alpha stickers.

I started by picking out a mix of the chipboard alphas. I used the newer white text, the pink, and the blue. Then I added in some older lowercase green alphas, and yellow and pink alpha stickers. I won't tell you how much time I spend picking out the letters, and mixing up the colors. It's not hard, but I overthink it.

After choosing my alpha colors, I set out to pick my patterned papers. I used my favorite grid patterned paper for the main part of my layout. It gives the nice white background, so that everything else "pops" on the page, but still has a bit of interest with the grid lines. The other papers are from the Birthday Boy collection, the Birthday Girl collection, the Thankful collection, and an older All Inclusive collection (the text paper).

I also used lots of chipboard pieces from the Sophisticates collection. The sun and clouds, a trio of trees, and some border pieces. See that orange tree? The tree trunk wasn't very tall, but I wanted it to be the tallest tree of the bunch. So I cut off a tree trunk from another tree in the package, and did what I could to make it look like it was all one piece.

Hopefully, I can come up with something to blog about this week. I have ideas, but not a whole lot of motivation to carry those ideas out. So frustrating.

Bella Blvd: Summer Memories + A Sunburst Background Tutorial

This week, we are sharing some simply tutorials from some of our design team members on the Bella Blvd blog. I put a tutorial together for today's post, on how to create these fun sunburst backgrounds.

I created this layout for the booth, for CHA Summer, using the Sunshine & Happiness collection. I wanted to use several of the colorful patterned papers, and thought a fun sunbursts background would make a great backdrop for this photo of Sarah. I grouped the photo and journaling together on a 9x9 piece of green cardstock, which sort of gave the appearance of a smaller "layout" on top of my layout. If that makes sense.

I cut out several shapes from the Cute Cuts paper for accent pieces. The polka dot cloud and the sun, topped with a button, are so cute together. I also added in some white embossed dotted cardstock from Core'dinations, to help all the other patterned papers "pop" more off the page.

I love the look of machine stitching along the edges of each "burst" piece, but it's a bit time consuming to do. I started out with the intention of only doing a few rows of machine stitching. But I couldn't stop, and ended up doing each and every row.

I had a bit of a gap between my photo and my long journaling sticker, so I layered two strips of designer tapes together, and stapled the ends. I also added a sprinkling of threaded buttons to the page, to embellish.

Some of you may know that I am NOT a fan of using my own handwriting on my layouts. I know, I know. It's important to include your writing, for future generations. But for the most part, I just think it takes away from my style. So I still print out little journaling strips, even when my journaling sticker has lines for easy writing.

Check out the Bella Blvd blog for a full tutorial on how to create this sunburst background.

Bella Blvd: Inspiration Layout

I'll be honest. I have quite a few things I could blog about. Imagine that. I love options. But since today is our Tuesday Inspiration day over on the Bella Blvd blog, and I have a layout up for it, I figured I would share that one today.

This is our inspiration piece for today (image found HERE). I spend more time than I probably need to picking out these images, for our designers to be inspired by. I spotted this on Pinterest, and it just caught my eye. I love the design and layout of the pieces on the image. I'm such a linear scrapper. But lately, I have enjoyed being a little more carefree in my designs. But still keeping things neat and orderly. And this design allows for those things.

On a side note. Check me out. I took these photos of the girls this past Saturday, and I already have them scrapped. Alyssa walked in and saw this on my desk on Sunday (less than 24 hours after taking them), and told me "Wow. You're really on the ball". Lol. We had picture day for fall soccer. It was at least 104 degrees out, and we were scheduled for 2:40 and 2:45 in the afternoon. Ick. We were all literally dripping in sweat, hot and miserable. And yet they both smiled pretty for me, and let me snap off a few pics, after standing in the sun taking their team photos. Thank you girls ;)

I used the Making The Team collection for this layout. I started the page with my favorite grid patterned paper (from the Family Dynamix collection), framed with four strips of the soccer ball patterned paper. I know, I know. I use that grid paper a lot. I can't help it. It gives me that white background that I love, but with a little interest so it's not solid white. And I can't lie. I love that the grid lines help me make sure everything is lined up perfectly.

I started this layout with the photos and the title. I knew I wanted to use the photo of Alyssa and Sarah together in the center of the layout, just like the main framed photo on the inspiration image. I printed a photo of each of them to add to either side of the main photo as well. I wanted to arrange my title in the bottom right corner, in the same spot that the row of numbers was on the inspiration piece.

I used a mix of chipboard alphas, chipboard numbers, and letter stickers to create my title. "MASL" is our city's leaque, 2012 is the year (obviously, but I had to say it), and this is for the fall season teams.

I choose this "Practice" journaling sticker that I knew I wanted to use, and hand cut the soccer ball from the Cute Cuts paper. I also picked out a chipboard accent and the "athlete" flag that I knew I wanted to work onto the page.

I took out some of my scraps of patterned paper form the collection, and started cutting them into random sizes to fill in the rest of the page. I cut notches out of one end of the patterned paper pieces, to create little banners. I love that I still have the linear, collaged look to my page. But all of the pieces aren't perfectly matched up or spaced out.

I added a few strips of designer tape here and there, along with a few threaded buttons along the bottom of the layout. I'm loving this layout. Not just the design and the colors. But the fact that something we did three days ago is scrapped and in the albums!

Bella Blvd: 2012-2013 Design Team Call

We have a BIG announcement on the Bella Blvd blog today!

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This past year has been an amazing year with the Bella Design Team! It was my first time being on the other side of a team, being the Design Team Coordinator. I really did have an awesome team of designers, and working with all of them has been so much fun. So many new friendships have come from exchanging emails and passing assignments and projects back and forth. I honestly can't even believe it's been almost a full year since forming our current team.

But it has been a year, which means it's time to put out a new design team call. You can see above what we're looking for in our designers, and there are quite a few different types of designers (layouts, cards altered projects, etc). So if you think it's something you'd be a good fit for, I really hope to see you apply. I'll be keeping watch on my inbox over the next few weeks, and can't wait to see all of the talented designers that love Bella and are interested in joining our team!

Bella Blvd: Birthday Project Sheet

It's time for a new monthly project sheet over on the Bella Blvd blog, and this month, I focused on the new Birthday Girl collection.

You can download our Birthday project sheet HERE.

Keep in mind, this layout would totally work with the Birthday Boy collection as well. There are so many pieces in these collections that are the same patterns or designs. Just different colors. If I had thought about it, I could have made a boy layout just to show you how similiar it would look.

I dug out these photos of Alyssa, taken on her thirteenth birthday. I used the heart patterned paper as my background paper, and started by adhereing my photos. I knew I wanted two 4x6 photos side by side, across the center, and then my two smaller 2x3 photos in the upper corner. I added a border sticker to seperate the photos.

I had to get creative with my title, since I only had select chipboard letters left over from my CHA projects. I decided to add in a few letter stickers and an older purple chipboard letter to complete my title. The fun flower sticker is one of my favorites, and you can find one in every collection. Including the Birthday Boy collection.

I wanted to use a wide variety of the different patterned papers in the collection. So I choose to create a layered banner border, below my 4x6 photos. I cut a bunch of small strips of paper, in varying widths and lengths, and cut notches on one end of each piece. Then I started adhering them from the outside edges, overlapping them a bit as I went. 

Once I had them all adhered, I added a strip of the designer tape across the layout, to cover up the edges of the banner pieces (since some pieces didn't go all the way up to the photos). I printed out my journaling and adhered it across the banner border, and then added a few threaded buttons to embellish.

And if you have been looking to purchase the new birthday collections, you're in luck. Two Peas In A Bucket got them in last week. You can find all of Bella's new products HERE.

Bella Blvd: Brothers

Someone asked me last week when I was going to share this particular CHA layout. How about today, Janet? Lol. Good timing, since it was up on the Bella Blvd blog yesterday.

First things first. I am well aware that there should NOT be an apostrophe in "Brothers". Was I aware of this when I adhered my letter stickers for my layout title? NO. But it was pointed out to me by a good friend. AFTER I had photographed it, and AFTER it was on it's way to the Bella office. Soooooo. I've received numerous grammer lessons on this already. Lol. I actually photoshopped the apostrophe out when posting this layout to the Bella blog yesterday, because I didn't want another lesson. But I figured I would just post the real deal here. I'm the furthest thing from perfect, and here's the proof ;)

Soooo. Now that I got that out of the way. Lol. Aren't these boys so handsome? Remember THIS LAYOUT from a few weeks ago? That was Miranda, little sister to Sam and Jeromy. Sam (the younger boy) was one of my very first daycare kids, about 10 years ago. I took these photos almost 5 years ago, so he's so much bigger now.

I created this layout to showcase Bella's stick pin flags. I laid out every pack of flags that Bella makes, including the new designs, and then set out to pick a variety of flags from those sets that would all coordinate nicely for this boyish layout.

I did have to get a bit creative. See that yellow flag? I knew I needed a touch of yellow, to tie in with my border sticker. But I wasn't finding a yellow flag that would work. But there was a yellow flag that said "Cat's Rule", and it had a pawprint on it. I figured I would just cover that up with a sticker or something.

 Funny thing was, I forgot. So I sent this layout in for the catalog, thinking I rocked it. A while later, Stephanie emailed me, saying she loved it ... BUT ... she wasn't sure how the "Cat's Rule" flag tied in. Lol. See. Just more proof that I'm far from perfect. I quickly covered it up with a piece of the border sticker, and re-photographed it. Too bad we didn't catch the apostrophe ;)

I've used this trick before, to add a bit of subtle interest to my patterned paper. I cut an extra strip of my striped paper, and then punched some half circles from the paper and from some scrap chipboard. I adhered the paper circles to the chipboard, sanded down the edges, and then adhered them across my striped paper strip, matching up the stripes. It's subtle, but still interesting.

If you're loving the new Bella collections, you'll be very happy to know that all of the product has arrived at the Bella offices, and is in the process of being packed up and shipped out to LSS's and online retailers! You'll be able to get your hands on our fun products very, very soon!

Bella Blvd: Birthday Cards

This week, on the Bella Blvd blog, we've been having a bit of a birthday celebration! Bella Blvd is turning FOUR years old this week, and we wanted to share lots and lots of projects using the new Birthday Boy and Birthday Girl collections. I figured it was a good time to share a few of my birthday cards that I created for CHA. 

I think this card was my favorite out of the seven cards I created for CHA. I really, really love the colors in the Birthday Boy collection.

I wanted to have a bit of a confetti look to my card, so I used a small circle punch along with a regular hole punch, and punched out a ton of circles from the polka dot patterned paper. Punching out the polka dots is a great way to get solid colors that will perfectly match your other pieces from the collection.

There is a sticker on just about every Just Write Journaling sticker sheet, that goes with each collection, that is the perfect width for the front of a card. I used a scalloped edged border punch along some patterned paper, to frame the sticker. Such an easy card. 

I knew this adorable chipboard froggie would have to land on the front of a card. I thought the quote sticker would be perfect, along with the frog, so it looks like he's sending the birthday wishes.

I distressed the edges of the quote sticker, and adhered it to a scrap of white cardstock, trimming around the edges. This allowed me to adhere it to the card using pop dots. Then I cut one of the little phrase stickers, into smaller pieces, and used it for my sentiment.

One of my two cards using the Birthday Girl collection. Except my second card isn't really a birthday card, so I'll share that another day. This one is pretty simple.

I used the alpha stickers from the Alpha+Bits sticker sheet, to spell out "birthday". I machine stitched along the pink strip of patterned paper several times, before adhering my stickers. I added the little banner "wishes" stickers below the pink patterned paper.

I pop dotted the chipboard cupcake to the bottom of the card, added a few strips of designer tape, and finished it off with a little sticker.

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Make sure and visit the Bella Blvd blog to see all of the fun projects we've been sharing all week, using these two new birthday collections. We had one day focusing on birthday cards, one day focusing on birthday layouts, one day focusing on everyday layouts using the birthday collections, and today is all about birthday mini albums! And be sure to leave a comment on both of the TWO posts we have today, since we are giving away a total of FOUR birthday collection kits! 

Bella Blvd: All Prettied Up

I had this layout up on the Bella Blvd blog over the weekend, and almost forgot to share it here.

I created this layout for the catalog, to feature Bella's designer tapes. It's not very often that I create 8.5x11" layouts. In fact, I can probably count the ones I have done on one hand. I started this layout by picking out an assortment of the tapes, in a color pallette that I liked. From there I went searching for a photo to go with them. This older one of Haley was perfect.

I used my favorite grid patterned paper (from the Family Dynamix collection) for the base of the page, and matted it on a fun aqua chevron patterned paper. Then I started adding strips of the designer tapes, lengthwise across the page, so that they would go underneath my photo. The grid background actually came in really handy for this, since I could line up the tapes nice and straight on the grid.

I adhered the photo over the tapes, to the right of the page. Then I added some cute little crochet flowers and some threaded buttons to embellish the tapes.

I pulled out some of the Simply Simona chipboard letters to use for my title, in both the pink and the black. I wanted a few black letters, to tie in with the black designer tape. Once again, the grid paper made it super easy to line up my title letters perfectly. I'm very picky about things being straight ;)

Speaking of Bella Blvd. This week, Bella is celebrating it's FORTH birthday, and we're having a big celebration over on the blog. What better way to celebrate a birthday, than to share tons and tons of inspiration using our new Birthday Boy and Birthday Girl collections? And I'm pretty sure there will be a giveaway in there as well. You can check out all the fun stuff HERE.

Bella Blvd: Endless Inspiration Week - More Birthday Girl

We are sharing more projects today, on the Bella Blvd blog, using the new birthday collections. I thought I would share another one of my altered projects with you, using the Birthday Girl collection.

These fun little paper ribbons can serve two purposes at birthday parties. First, they make for a great tabletop decor item. This would look cute on the cake table or food table, or even set out by the presents. Second, you can hand them out to the party guests, either during or after the party. This is a great project to make with your scraps of patterned paper, since they are all assembled using bits and pieces of papers.

I used my Silhouette die cut machine to cut all of the pieces needed for these paper ribbons.

The shape that I choose (called "Ribbon Pinwheel", from Lori Whitlock) actually came with every piece you see layered on here, including the ribbon tails. I arranged all of the individual pieces so that I could cut two sets at once. I just covered my cutting mat with 2 different pieces of pattern paper (4x12 for each, since I have the Silhouette SD), side by side. So I cut a full set from 8 different pattern papers, and then mixed all of the pieces together.

However, these would be simple to create even without a die cut machine. You could achieve the same look using a variety of circle punches, scalloped circle punches, or even certain flower punches, in varying sizes. The ribbon tails are just strips of paper, with notches cut at one end.

I layered the pieces together, using pop dots on a few of the layers. In between two of the layers, i added a piece of Designer Tape, adding small staples to each end to help secure it.

I finished off each paper ribbon with either a threaded button, a crochet flower, or a sticker added to the center.

I cut 4 long pieces of curling ribbon for each paper ribbon, and curled them with my scissors. I tied them onto a wooden stick, and then I hot glued the paper ribbon to the top of the stick. I created all of these assembly line style, doing each step for all 8 at the same time. So they really did come together very quickly.

To display these, I found a long (but small) metal tin, and added some styrofoam and filler grass inside. Then I just shoved the wooden sticks into the styrofoam to hold the paper ribbons in place.

Be sure and check out the Bella Blvd blog for even more project ideas using both the Birthday Girl and Birthday Boy collections!

Bella Blvd: Endless Inspiration Week - Birthday Boy

Today is all about the new Birthday Boy and Birthday Girl collection, over on the Bella Blvd blog. Since I have already shared a few of my projects using the Birthday Girl collection, I wanted to share one of my Birthday Boy projects today.

You all know that I have two girls. So when it comes time to create boy layouts, I turn to all the daycare boys I've had over the years, or family/friends that have boys. I can almost always pull it off. But birthday photos? That was a bit tougher.

Until I came across this adorable photo on Susan Weinroth's blog, of her son Noah on his second birthday, right after my CHA product arrived. It was as if this new collection was designed just for Noah's birthday photos. Luckily, Susan is such a great friend, and gave me permission to use this photo for my layout. Lucky me, because it made creating this layout SO easy!

I used lots of the chipboard pieces on this layout. I combined the "Party" letters and the "Birthday" banner piece from the Ciao Chip Icons, and some of the new Blueberry Sienna chipboard alphas, to create my title. I added in the chipboard asterick sign from the Ciao Chip Icons, and added one of the new orange star buttons to the center. And lastly, I used the cake from the Ciao Chip Icons as well, adhering it with pop dots and adding one of the new flags.

There are so many great patterned papers in this collection, and I wanted to use so many of them. So I pulled out my new Jenni Bowlin banner punch, that Fiskars generously sent me, and punched out lots and lots of little banner pieces. I adhered them all across the very top of the page, and machine stitched along the tops to secure them.

Stop by the Bella Blvd blog to see more Birthday Boy projects, along with Birthday Girl projects as well. We are only halfway through our Endless Inspiration feature. We'll be back next week, with even more CHA projects to share!

Bella Blvd: Endless Inspiration Week - Thankful

Today, on the Bella Blvd blog, we are showing off some of the CHA booth projects using the Thankful collection. I already shared my Thankful layout last week, but I have a few cards that I created with the collection that I thought I would share today.

I had used one of the quote stickers on a birthday girl card, and wanted to use this fun chevron quote sticker on one of my Thankful cards too. It's the perfect size for the front of a card. I used the leaf patterned paper as the base of my card, and then did my little paper framing trick with the brown paper, and just left the white cardstock showing through the center.

Love this cute little cloud from the Cute Cuts paper. I did a little back and forth machine stitching along the center of the cloud, which isn't super noticable here.

Once my chipboard alphas were adhered to the quote sticker, I adhered the entire piece to the card using pop dots. I also tucked the cute little sunflower flag in, and adhered it with pop dots as well.

I just had to use the adorable turkey from the Cute Cuts patterned paper for this card. I'm really not a fan of "fussy cutting" (which is the technical term for sitting and doing tedious cutting out of shapes), but every now and then I will do it. I hand cut the turkey twice, from 2 different sheets of paper.

Then I cut out some of the feathers from the second turkey, so that I could adhere them directly over the matching feather on the first turkey, but using pop dots to give them a little lift. I also decided at the last minute to cover those lifted up feathers with some paper glaze, to give them a shiny look.

Make sure to stop by the Bella Blvd blog today, where you can see more Thankful projects from our CHA designers! And I'm thinking that I'll share a fun birthday boy layout tomorrow. Yep, that's what I'm going to do ;)

Bella Blvd: Endless Inspiration Week - Button Market

On the Bella Blvd blog today, we are continuing our Endless Inspiration Week, sharing tons of booth projects from CHA. Today, we are focusing on our Designer Tape and Button Market collections. We have added new colors/designs/patterns to both the tapes and the buttons, and asked some of the designers to show off some fun ways to use them. 

When I started working on my assigned Button Market layout for CHA, I originally had a summery photo printed out for it (which then got moved to another layout), and lots of colorful plastic buttons pulled out of my Bella button stash. I was going to create a wavy button border along my page, to go with the summer theme. Then, with a last minute change in the catalog planning, I had to switch my focus to the wood buttons and mixes. I decided to move ahead with my wavy button border anyways.

Because there are quite a few wooden buttons that have black on them, I wanted to make sure I had a good amount of black on my page to tie in with the buttons. I built my page on a sheet of the Oreo Sprinkles & Lace patterned paper from the Sophisticates collection. I choose the aqua Turkey Tracks (how cute a name is that for a paper?) patterned paper from the new Thankful collection for the bottom of the page, and freehand cut a wavy line across the paper.

Then I just started arranging buttons along the wave, mixing lots of wood buttons along with a few plastic buttons and buttons from the mixed packs. I tried to stick to a certain color scheme, with the black, red, green, aqua, and yellows. I do take the time to thread each button, because I like the finished look it gives when adhered to the page. Just a personal preference. I thread them, and then add them to the page with a glue dot. I am not patient enough to actually thread them ONTO the page.

I choose this photo of Alyssa, not just because I love it, but also because she was wearing black, which tied in with the page. To add a bit more color to the page, I pulled out some papers in colors to match the buttons. Red from the Sophisticates collection, green from the Birthday Boy collection, and yellow from the Birthday Girl collection. I cut them into strips of varying widths and lengths, and then machine stitched around the edges, before layering them behind my photo.

After adding my title and journaling, I still had a bit of empty space on the top right corner of the page. I wanted to add another touch of color to the page, so I picked out some chipboard accents to add. Designer after-thought: I am sitting here typing this blog post, and writing about my layout, and I just literally said this out loud as I typed: "Is that an ORANGE star?!?!?!". I had to scroll up to look at my full layout, and I DO see a little orange star button. Must have made sense at the time. Just seemed very random, as I'm looking at it now. Lol.

Visit the Bella Blvd blog, where you can see more ideas using the buttons and also the designer tapes. And check back tomorrow, when we will focus on the new Thankful collection.  

Bella Blvd: Endless Inspiration Week - Birthday Girl

Today is the big day! CHA officially starts today in Chicago, and I am positive that the Bella Blvd booth is looking fabulous and busy as can be. I'm kind of wishing I was there right now, but it just wasn't in the cards for me for this show. It might be different if I had paid vacation at this job of mine. But seeing that I'm self employed, I don't, and just can't afford to take a week off during the summer. So I'm at home, watching all the craziness happen though blogs, Facebook, Instagram, and whatever other places I can find it ;)

Anyways. The real reason I'm here blogging, is that starting yesterday, and continuing for 2 full weeks, we are having "Unlimited Inspiration" weeks on the Bella Blvd blog. We are sharing lots and lots of the booth projects that our design team has been hard at work creating over the last few weeks. I love when it's time to finally share them, and not keep them hidden away in my files.

Today, we are focusing on the new birthday collections. So I thought I would share one of my altered projects I made, using the Birthday Girl collection. I came across this unfinished, wooden shadow box frame at Hobby Lobby (that store is new to us in CA, and I am in love with it after one trip!), and I knew right away what I wanted to do with it. Create a fun tabletop decor item, that would be perfect for any little girls birthday party.

I painted the unfinished wood frame with white paint, focusing on all of the edges and corners that I knew my pattern paper would not cover. Then I cut strips of paper and decopauged them onto the frame using Mod Podge. I brushed an additional coat of Mod Podge over the top of the papers, to add a nice shiny finish to them.

I trimmed a TON of 1/2 inch x 12 inch strips of pattern paper, using just about every sheet from the Birthday Girl collection. I then cut each strip roughly in half, eyeballing it, since they didn't need to be perfect. I took a pencil, and one by one, I rolled each strip tightly around the pencil. After holding it in place for a few seconds, I slid the rolled piece off the pencil and then loosened it back up a bit. Kind of like you would do when curling your hair :)

I took the "Eat More Cake" sticker from the Just Write Journaling sticker sheet, adhered it to a scrap piece of cardstock, and added small strips of punched scalloped edges cardstock around the edges. I glued together about 8 small blocks of thick cardboard (cut from a box), and then adhered my sticker on the top and glued it in the center of the frame. This raised up the sticker, and allowed me to fill up the rest of the shadow box frame with the curled strips of pattern paper, tucking them under the sticker as well.

Make sure and visit the Bella Blvd blog for lots more inspiration from our designer today, featuring both the Birthday Boy collection and the Birthday Girl collection!

Bella Blvd Sneak Peek Week: Flags

Yesterday, on the Bella Blvd blog, we shared some more peeks at our new embellishments and chipboard alphas. I shared one of the layout that was posted yesterday, and I'm back today to share the other layout.

Check out all of those adorable stick pin flags! For CHA Summer, there are 6 new designs, that coordinate with the three new collections. Flags are such a fun little embellishment that are great for tucking onto layouts and cards. And with such a wide variety of themes and sets, you're bound to find plenty of options for whatever your needs are.

I knew I wanted to use lots and lots of flags on this layout. I started with my photos (isn't Miss Miranda adorable!) and the title block from the Birthday Girl collection. 

Then I pulled flags from several different sets, in colors and styles that matched. From there, I pulled together my patterned papers and buttons, also in coordinating colors.

I thought this little title block was so cute, with the "You are the frosting to my cupcake" saying on it. I recently picked up this really cute canvas print, that had similiar types of sayings on it. I used that canvas to do my journaling. If you can't read it, it says: "You are the sun in my sky. You are the smile on face. You are the apple of my eye. You are the bubbles in my bath. You are the ink in my pen. You are the love of my life."

To help "ground" the flags to my layout, I layered punched circles of pattern paper together, and topped them with a button. These created fun little accents to scatter around the page, and I simply tucked a stick pin flag into each one.

Now, head on over to the Bella Blvd blog, where if you havn't already, you can enter in the FOUR giveaways we're offering up this week. We will be announcing winners next Tuesday. On Monday, we are kicking off our Endless Inspiration feature, where we will be sharing a TON of the CHA projects that the Bella designers have been hard at work on for the last few weeks. So there's definately more projects to come here on my blog as well!

Bella Blvd: Sneak Peek Week - Designer Tapes

Are you visiting the Bella Blvd blog every day this week? I hope so! For the last three days, we've shared the three new collections with you, each of which has some fabulous new embellishments that coordinate perfectly with the collections. Well, today we wanted to put the focus on the new embellishments and the new chipboard alphas. We want to make sure you know they're not JUST for that collection, but are meant to be mixed and matched with all of the Bella products.

I actually have two layouts up over on the Bella blog today, but I'm only going to share one here on my blog. I'll share the other one tomorrow. Today though, I wanted to share one of my Designer Tape layouts from the catalog.

I am in love with the Designer Tapes, both new and old. I decided to pick out a fun mix of tapes, in my favorite colors, and create a frame around my layout. Also, notice that I used pattern papers from the Birthday Boy collection. You know I'm always telling you that Bella's papers are so versitle, they can be used for anything, right ;)

I started from the outer corners and worked my way in, adding torn pieces of Designer Tape one after another, overlapping them as I went. Designer confession: See that tape that I added to the top of Sarah's photos? My original plan was to include it in my decorative tape border, but the roll of tape must have gotten away from me on my desk. I had all of the pieces neatly arranged, and in a very specific order, so I was bummed that I couldn't add it in.

Once I had all of the pieces adhered, I machine stitched along the tapes to help secure them. See that brown pattern paper, full of circles? I LOVE that paper! It also comes in pink, in the Birthday Girl collection.

For my title, I once again used a mix of the new Sienna chipboard alphas and the High Five alpha stickers.

The small circles were punched from the polka dot pattern paper in the Birthday Boy collection. I adhered some of them with pop dots to add a little dimension.

Now, head on over to the Bella Blvd blog, where you can see all of the new embellishments and the new chipboard alphas featured, piece by piece. There are also FOUR layouts that you'll want to check out! Don't forget to leave a comment on the Bella blog today, where we are giving one lucky reader a chance to win a set of ALL the new embellishments and chipboard alphas, before you can even buy them! Check on back here tomorrow, where I will share one more layout for this week ;)

Bella Blvd: Sneak Peek Week - Birthday Girl Collection

It's day three of our Sneak Peek week over on the Bella Blvd blog, and we're revealing our third new collection for CHA Summer. Monday, we introduced you to the Birthday Boy collection. You might have guessed that this next collection was on it's way as well :)

Birthday Girl is a fun, totally girly, collection. Lots of pink and purple, and touches of yellows, greens, and teal. The new Designer Tapes that coordinate with this collection are amazing! You'll see lots of chevron, polka dots, and stripes in the tapes, and they're fun, bright colors. I love that there are also new flags, and new buttons to match each of our new collections.

I dug quite deep for these photos from Sarah's 2nd birthday. I have plenty of birthday's that I haven't gotten around to scrapping yet. But the majority of our birthday parties have been swimming parties, where all of my photos are of wet little girls in swimsuits. Lol. I knew I wanted some really cute photos for this layout, and these photos were perfect.

Loving the music note paper! We're huge music lovers in this house, and I already have lots of ideas for this paper. I think my girls might too ;) The other side of the paper is a tone-on-tone pink music note pattern.

I used a few torn pieces of designer tape on either side of my smaller photo, and added a tiny staple to each one to secure it. It's just a fun and different way to use designer tapes.

I was spreading out my pack of chipboard alphas over a lot of projects, so I had to be choosey with the letters i used on this layout. So I used a mix of letter stickers and the chipboard alphas for my title.

I cut quite a few flowers from the Cute Cuts paper, and did a little random machine stitching in the center of each flower. I adhered them all using pop dots, and then bent up the petals on the flowers to add a little interest to them. I embellished the flower with stickers and buttons.

It just so happens, that I did a TON of projects with the Birthday Girl collection. Which means I have quite a few little peeks at some of my other projects ;)

Now, head on over to the Bella Blvd blog, where you can see the Birthday Girl collection in full, piece by piece. Don't forget to leave a comment on the Bella blog today, where we are giving one lucky reader a chance to win the Birthday Girl collection before you can even buy it! Check on back here tomorrow, along with the Bella blog, where we will be showing off the newest embellishments, along with more catalog layouts ;)

Bella Blvd: Sneak Peek Week - Thankful Collection

Soooooo. What did you think about the Birthday Boy collection we revealed yesterday on the Bella Blvd blog? Are you ready for our next collection? Let's get to it!

Thankful is Bella's newest fall collection. I have always loved fall collections, because I'm a huge fan of fall colors. Greens, aquas, yellows, reds, browns. These are the colors that fill my home. These are the colors I love to wear. So I am just naturally drawn to these gorgeous pattern papers.

I wanted to use a family photo on this layout, but the most recent one I had wouldn't have matched the papers. Note to self: take new family photo soon. So I pulled up a photo of each of us, looking for ones that matched nicely. If I line all our photos up, side by side, and add some designer tape to hold the photos together ... it's almost like it's a big family photo, right ;)

Loving the new chipboard alphas that coordinate with each collection. Especially these, with the text print on them. So cute. I adhered my title to one of the journaling stickers and adhered it with pop dots.

The sun was hand cut from the Cute Cuts paper, and embellished with a threaded button the center, and a cute little flag on the side.

The fun little cloud with the text on it, along with the "There is no place like home" piece, was also hand cut from the Cute Cuts paper. I machine stitched back and forth along the center of the cloud, and then added a few of the new buttons to embellish it. The cloud on the top is from the new Chipboard Icons.

I wanted to use so many of the different patterned paper that I couldn't narrow down my choices. So I cut small banner pieces from a bunch of the papers and arranged them across the bottom of the page, overlapping them as I went. I adhered a scalloped punched border strip on either side of the houses border strip, and adhered it above the banner pieces.

And here's a couple of peeks at a few more projects I created with the Thankful collection. More to come on these later ;)

Now, head on over to the Bella Blvd blog, where you can see the Thankful collection in full, piece by piece. And don't forget to leave a comment on the Bella blog today, where we are giving one lucky reader a chance to win the Thankful collection before you can even buy it! Check on back here tomorrow, along with the Bella blog, where we will be revealing our third new collection ;)

Bella Blvd: Sneak Peek Week - Birthday Boy Collection

There is LOTS of good stuff happening on the Bella Blvd blog this week! It's finally time to reveal Bella's new products and collections for the CHA Summer show.

First up, we are revealing the new Birthday Boy collection! This is a super fun, colorful collection, that is perfect for scrapping boys and birthdays, of course. Yet it can easily be used for girls as well. I have girls, and I'm actually quite drawn to the colors of this collection. I'm loving the navy blue, the greens, the oranges, the aquas, and the light browns. I know I say this all the time, but even with a themed collection, Bella's pattern papers can honestly be used for anything and everything.

And check out the fun coordinating embellishments. The Designer Tapes, the Flags, and the Button Market buttons. All the embellishments that we introduced at CHA Winter are back, with new colors, designs, and patterns to match the new collections.

I made quite a few projects with the Birthday Boy collection, but they're still under wraps for the time being. I can, however, show you some peeks at a few of them. You'll see lots more of these projects really soon ;)

Now, head on over to the Bella Blvd blog, where you can see the Birthday Boy collection in full, piece by piece. You can check out a super fun birthday layout by Bella designer Megan Klauer, that was designed for the new catalog.

And last, but not least, make sure to leave a comment on the Bella blog today, where we are giving one lucky reader a chance to win the Birthday Boy collection before you can even buy it! Check on back here tomorrow, along with the Bella blog, where we will be revealing our next collection ;)

Bella Blvd: Patriotic Project Sheet

Today, we have our new monthly project sheet up over on the Bella Blvd blog. For our July project sheet, I was challenged to create a patriotic layout, using a mix of Bella's products. 

You can view and download the July project sheet HERE.

Even though Bella doesn't have an actual "Patriotic" collection, it's really not that hard to find some great red, white, and blue products to work with. 

I pulled out a little Family Dynamix, a little Sophisticates, a little Winter Wonder, and a little Mr Boy pattern papers to use for this layout.

And then I added some Winter Wonder stickers, Sophisticates chipboard and alpha stickers, flags, and star buttons. Put them all together, and you have a fun patriotic looking layout.

Hope you all have a great 4th of July today!

Bella Blvd: Sunshine & Happiness Project Sheet Layout

Today, we have our new monthly project sheet up over on the Bella Blvd blog. For our June project sheet, I worked with the Sunshine & Happiness collection.

You can view and download Bella's Sunshine & Happiness project sheet RIGHT HERE.

I had a ton of fun creating this layout. I've shared a few projects recently, that had accordian pinwheel flowers on them. But the ones on this layout were actually the first ones I had ever made. Which makes sense, because I do these layouts a month ahead of when we release the project sheets.

The patterned papers in the Sunshine & Happiness collection are so bright and colorful. I wanted them to really stand out on the layout, so I used my favorite grid paper, from the Family Dynamix collection, as the base of my page. Once I had a good idea of where my photos, title, and flowers would be, I sprayed a bit of orange mist to the top left corner of my page and the bottom right corner, just to add a little splash of color.

It's kind of hard to see, but I added some pink paint around the edges of my photos. I haven't done that in ages. Because I left a white border around my photos, after printing them, I wanted to help them stand out a bit against the white grid background paper. I just used my finger to swipe the paint around the edges, and I didn't try to make it neat and perfect.

I also took a few torn pieces of designer tape, folded them over the sides of the "on a summer afternoon" sticker and also my journaling strips, and then stapled them to secure the pieces.

Then there was the flowers. Like I mentioned, this was my first time making these, so I tried a few different widths on my paper strips, because I wasn't sure how big the flowers would be. I ended up using a fun mix of different size flowers.

After I made all of the flowers, I arranged them in the bottome left corner of the page, overlapping them as needed. I used lots of glue dots and pop dots to adhere them. Then I dug out a mix of stickers and chipboard pieces to add to the centers of each flower. If you happen to notice that I left the date off of that chipboard piece, just pretend that it's really there. I forgot to write the date on there, before taking these photos ;)

One thing I love to do when using the stickers from these collections, is to adhere them to scraps of cardstock and cut around them with scissors. I love to add stickers to my projects using pop dots, and this is an easy way to hide the stickines of the "sticker", and turn it into a die cut of sorts.

If you missed my little tutorial from a few weeks ago, you can find out how I created the accordian pinwheel flowers in THIS POST.

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Bella Blvd: Baby Boy Altered Projects

A few days ago, I had some altered projects up on the Bella Blvd blog. It seems like forever ago that I created these. I actually forgot all about them, since the images ended up in some random folder on my laptop. These were created for the booth at Winter CHA.

One of my favorite items to alter are wooden and paper mache boxes. They are so easy to cover with whatever pattern papers you like to fit your needs, and they're even more fun to fill up with memorabilia. I altered two wooden boxes, using the Baby Boy collection. These boxes would be perfect for storing little keepsakes from baby's first year. This first box is about 8 inches square, and was purchased at a craft and fabric store.

I started off by taking off the hinges from the box, and then I painted the box with white acrylic paint. I never sand my boxes, but that's a personal preference. Then I measure out the top of the lid, and the sides of the box, and cut my patterned papers to size. I used Mod Podge, and decoupage them to the box. I added another layer of Mod Podge on top of the papers as well, to give the box a nice shiny finish.

When it came to embellishing the box, I kept it pretty simple. I didn't want anything to bulky on the top of the box, since at some point, I'm sure this would end up tucked away somewhere. I cut a few banner shaped pieces from patterned paper, and added them to the top of the box. I wanted to keep a bit of dimension, so I did not decoupage those pieces, and instead just used lots of glue dots.

For once, I got smart and I made sure the hinges were on the sides of the box. This way, the box can sit on a shelf nicely. I used lots of chipboard pieces from the Chipboard Icons to embellish the top of the box. Love how one package of embellishments added so much to the project.

For my second wooden box, I choose a smaller version of the first box. This box is about 5 inches square, and I thought the inset area on the top of the box added a nice touch.

I covered this box the same way I did on the first box. Painting the box with white paint, measuring and cutting my patterned papers to fit, and decoupaging them onto the box using Mod Podge. The "Baby Love" sticker from the Just Write Journaling sticker sheet was the perfect size for the inside area on the top of the box. I adhered the sticker to cardstock first, and cut around it, and then adhered it using pop dots for just a touch of dimension.

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Bella Blvd & The Twinery Team-Up

This week, Bella Blvd and The Twinery have teamed-up for a special week of inspiration. Both manufacturers have swapped product with each other, and let their designers have fun, creating projects that feature both the Bella Blvd products, along with The Twinery's baker's twine.

I kept looking at the yummy packages of baker's twine sitting on my desk, and all I could think about was THIS LAYOUT that I had created a few years ago, of one of my daycare girlies. I knew I wanted to lift that layout, for one of the girl's albums. I really liked the pink, green, and grey color combo, and knew it would go perfectly with this photo of alyssa. This is an all time favorite shot of her, and oddly enough, I don't think I have ever scrapped it.

I started by picking out some tone-on-tone patterned papers in pink, green, and grey. After I had those narrowed down, I found a few papers that had those same pinks, greens, and greys.

It's such a simple thing to do. Wrap the twine around the patterned paper block. But I think it adds a lot of interest to the page. After cutting the papers into the right size, I used my distressing tool to rough up the edges of the papers. This adds lots of texture, and it also helps the twine to "grab" the sides of the paper, so that it doesn't shift around too much.

I simply wrapped the twine around the paper, very randomly, and then tie a bow in the front when I'm done. I adhered these pieces using pop dots, to add even more dimension to the page.

And the misting. There's a story to the misting on this layout. I created this entire layout, on plain white cardstock. I think that was partly because I was lifting my older layout, and that's how I created that page. But on this page, it needed something. With the lighter colors in my papers, I think it just needed a little something extra.

The problem was that I had already created and adhered everything. And misting should really be done beforehand, since there's not a lot of control over where the spray goes. I got this bright idea that I could just cover everything except the bottom and the top of the page, and just mist those parts. I ended up going right over my title letters, since they were black and wouldn't really show. But I ended up making a bit of a mess on the page.

The top part suffered the most. I had mist on my journaling strip, so I tried to re-print it. My printers can never seem to understand when I tell them I want to print on an 8.5x12 piece of paper. They just assume I mean 8.5x11, and end up cutting off the end of my journaling. After a few tries, I gave up, and just had to use what I had. I did add the scalloped grey dotted border sticker above my journaling, and I think that added a lot to the page.

Take a few minutes, and check out what our designers have been creating with the gorgeous baker's twine on the Bella Blvd blog and The Twinery blog. 

Bella Blvd: Plastino & Mother's Day Project Sheet

Yesterday, on the Bella Blvd blog, we had a new project sheet available for download. For this month, I created a Mother's Day layout, featuring the Plastino collection. 

You might be thinking, "Wow, she's quick. Took a photo on Mother's Day and has it scrapped already". LOL. Not quite. The girls and I took this photo over a month ago, since I knew I had to get this layout done. The way I see it, I never remember to take photos like this ON the actual holiday. So I was just working ahead a bit. Nothing wrong with that, right ;)

The Plastino collection is an older collection, from Bella Blvd, but still a great one. I have always loved the aqua flower patterned paper. I used that as the base of my layout. The other paper I choose to use, was the creamish paper, with clusters of flowers surrounded by dotted circles.

I picked a few of the encircled flower clusters (all from the outside edge of the paper) to use on three different sections of my layout. I handcut around the dotted circles, and then used my distressing tool around the edges of the circles. I adhered these three sections to the aqua patterned paper, in the same exact spots that I had cut them out of the creamish paper.

I added a few scalloped edged stickers, using pop dots for extra dimension. Along with the sticker in the upper left corner of the page, I also added a few Blooms-A-Bella flowers.

I added a piece of my favorite graph patterned paper, from the Family Dynamix collection, on the bottom right side of the page. I needed a more neutral paper, so that my title would stand out. I used some chipboard alphas and letter stickers, to create my title. A chipboard border, some more flowers, a button, and a few stickers finished off the page.

You can download our project sheet, with full instructions for creating this layout, right HERE.