Kerri Bradford Studio & Bella Blvd Team Up: Love At Home

All this week, the designers at Bella Blvd are teaming up with Kerri Bradford's designers, to bring you projects that combine Bella's colorful collections and products with Kerri's cut files. And today, it's my turn to share the layout I created over at Kerri Bradford Studio.

Kerri's cut files and Bella Blvd's colorful collections pretty much go hand-in-hand for me, since I'm lucky enough to design for both teams. I've done quite a few layouts for both Kerri and Bella, featuring photos I've taken of my cousin and his family over the last few years, and I decided to scrap another set of photos of them for my team-up layout.

I pulled my colors from the photos themselves, and picked out some Bella patterned papers in navy blue, yellow, green, and brown. I used the confetti patterned paper as my "neutral" paper for the side of my layout where I knew I'd have my photos and title. 

I usually don't die cut all of my elements from the same patterned paper, but that's just sort of how it worked out this time as I liked the navy blue woodgrain patterned paper for most of my pieces. I die cut the circle border from Kerri's Simplicities: Best Thing Ever kit to add along the left side of page, to break up the "heaviness" of too much patterned paper on the page (if that's even a thing?).

Alongside the circle border strip, I added a strip of yellow chevron patterned paper, layered with a strip of white Confetti Clear Cut transparency on top. I have to say that the white Clear Cuts are my favorite to use, as they're so subtle when laid over any patterned paper or even white cardstock.

To adhere the transparency in place, I cut it a little wider than needed, and added the adhesive under where the confetti patterned paper and the brown border stick were going. Then I machine stitched along the sides to secure it in place.

I love the "together" tab, from the Love: Every Little Thing kit, for tucking behind photos or layers of papers. I won't lie. I often have ideas of tucking things under the edges of papers or photos, and then I often forget to do it before doing my machine stitching. Luckily it all worked out on this layout.

I went with the "love at home" title from Kerri's All In The Family kit, as we took these photo at my cousin's house. We often take their photos in other locations, so I loved the idea of adding the "home" touch to the page.

And to embellish the page, I die cut some of Kerri's Friday Freebies: Flower Power flowers (yes, she's got tons of freebies on her site!) from coordinating patterned papers and added chipboard circles or enamel dots to the centers.

Be sure to visit both the Bella Blvd blog and Kerri Bradford's blog all week long to see what their designers are up too and what they've created for our team up feature. Both sides will also be having a few giveaways this week, so keep your eye out for those as well ;)

Comments

[Raiza]

Love the colors! And the different patterns! As always, perfectly put together!

[Diana]

loving all the color and cuts!