Bella Blvd: Step-By-Step Project Sheet - Cute Baby Boy Collection

We've got the new April project sheet up on the Bella Blvd blog today. For this month's layout, I was asked to focus on either the Sweet Baby Girl collection or the Cute Baby Boy collection. Since I had already used the girl collection for a catalog layout, I decided to play with the boy collection this time. Plus, I've got an adorable baby boy attached to me five days a week, so I knew I had photos to work with. 

I picked out this 3x4" card from the Daily Detail patterned paper to use for my title and tried it out against different patterned papers in the collection to find the best match. I ended up picking the grey squiggly lined patterned paper, which happened to be the backside of the same Daily Details paper that I got the title card from. 

I knew my plan was to layer several patterned papers under my photos, so I wanted to keep the background of the page fairly subtle. Since I'm supposed to stay away from using solid cardstock for these layouts, I've taken to using the Clear Cuts transparencies a lot, paired with white cardstock. Adds some interest, but in a subtle way. Here, I layered the silver Confetti Clear Cut transparency over my white cardstock, after spritzing my cardstock with some misting sprays.

I printed my photos as 2.5" squares, and trimmed them leaving a small white border around the edges. I tried out several patterned papers, layering them in different ways, until I found a combo that I liked. The light blue dotted pattern, the polka dot pattern, and the green dotted pattern. I cut two pieces from each patterned paper, adding a half inch to the width and length of the second and third papers, to make them all layer-able. 

I love using the border strips on my layouts, and added one along the bottom of the page, and one along the bottom of the grey squiggly lined paper on the top of the page. I added baby boy's name with some alpha stickers, and since they didn't stand out as much as I would have liked against the grey paper, I outlined them with a black pen. And since I outlined the alpha stickers, I decided I had better out line the other stickers on the page to match.

Each of my layered patterned paper strips were sized to hold two square photos. After layering the papers together, I machine stitched around each of the patterned papers. I knew I wanted to adhere the finished photo/paper strips at an angle, so I eyeballed where I needed to trim the papers so that I could adhere them right along the edges of the border strips at angles. 

You can download a copy of the April project sheet, complete with full supply list and detailed instructions, RIGHT HERE.

Comments

[Stephanie Buice]

You rocked this!!!

[lauravegas]

Thanks Stephanie!