Last Friday we revealed our new All American collection on the Bella Blvd blog, and this week we are sharing All American projects from our design team all week long. Five full days, with a new project from every single designer on the team. My layout was included on today's post.
This collection was perfect for scrapping some of the photos I took on Memorial Day last year. I did use a few of these photos before on a project sheet layout, but I really wanted to create a layout using more photos from the day to give a better view of the day. I used a storyboard template from Kerri Bradford Studio to create my photo collage, allowing me to get 9 photos on this one page. I also love that when I use a photo collage, I'm really just trimming one large photo, rather than trimming and adhering 9 individual photos.
I wanted to use the blue star patterned paper, but I didn't want it to overwhelm the page. So I used my Cameo to die cut this circle border to go along the left side of the page. I like that you can still see plenty of the star pattern on the blue paper, but it still allows bits of the white cardstock background to show through. I think it helps to balance out the white on the other areas of the page.
I wanted to add a little embellishing to the page, since it was mostly paper, stickers, and a few chipboard pieces, so I added some simple metal star brads along my circle border.
I used the "American" chipboard letters from the Chipboard Icons package for my title, dotting the "i" with a silver star brad. Since I was adding my journaling strips directly to the white cardstock background page, I lightly inked the edges of my strips with a navy blue ink pad to help them stand out. I had also lightly misted my white cardstock background with a light blueish misting spray.
Check out the Bella Blvd blog all week to see a wide variety of cards, layouts, and altered projects featuring this new collection (which begins shipping April 1st). There's a good mix of patriotic themed and everyday projects as well, showing how versitle the collection is.
so I TOTALLY love the new line! And your page is just ROCK'N!!
Posted by: Diana Waite | March 19, 2013 at 11:04 AM
Man, I LOVE this Laura!!!
Posted by: Heather Crawford | March 19, 2013 at 07:38 PM
Great design! Love that title and die!
Posted by: Kathy Martin | March 20, 2013 at 04:31 AM
Love your LO and you fun photo idea!
Posted by: Leanne | March 20, 2013 at 07:08 PM
WOW WOW WOW!! I love this so much laura!! Great pictures and this paperline is one of the best ever!! Awesome layout!!
The one above is so cute, she is a ham just like my Summer is. Love this!!
Posted by: dawn | March 22, 2013 at 09:51 AM