This week and next, over on the Bella Blvd blog, we're revealing our new Summer 2016 collections and products. There are five new Bella collections, three new Illustrated Faith collections, and a new release of Illustrated Faith basics as well. I’ll be sharing peeks at these collections here as well, along with some layouts that I created for the catalog.
First up, is the new Addison collection. It's a collection geared towards teen girls, but could honestly be used for girls of all ages. There's some new products worked into all of the new collections that you'll want to check out. In addition to patterned papers, stickers, and die cut Paper Pieces, there are now Tabbies, Designer Clips, Washi Stickers, and a 6x8" paper pad that I think is going to be awesome for smaller projects.
I created a layout with the Addison collection for the catalog, and ended up using some photos I took of a friend's daughter forever ago (she was only one of my first daycare kiddos 14 years ago). I have plenty of photos of my own girls, but there was something about these photos of Alison that caught my eye. That sassy look in her eyes said "pick me for your layout", so I did :)
I think I've mentioned this before, but when doing catalog layouts, we are almost always working with mock up product. So we pick what papers we want the office to print out for us, hopefully having some sort of idea what we'll do with the pieces we picked. I knew right away that I wanted to use the feather patterned paper, and also the blue and black gingham patterned paper.
From there, I also picked out the black and white polka dot, because I knew it would really pop against the other papers. For whatever reason, I only asked them to print me half a sheet of the black and white polka dot, and it wasn't big enough to mat under the photos and the pink patterned paper. So I had to get creative. I cut it up into smaller blocks of paper, machine stitched around the edges of each one, and then layered them under the pink patterned paper. So a little paper went a long ways.
For my title, I used one of the Ciao Chip script words, along with some alpha stickers from the new sticker sheet. Because I had to fussy cut those alphas from a sheet of paper (mock up = no stickers, just paper), there was no way I could get the center of the letters to cut out nicely. So I added the enamel dots to the centers.
Head on over to the Bella Blvd blog to check out the new Addison collection in full, and get in on a chance to win-it-before-you-can-buy-it! We're also revealing a second collection today, and I have a layout for that as well. I'll be sharing that one here tomorrow.
Love your page Laura! Gorgeous! And this collections looks awesome! Bella Blvd always has such amazing vibrant colour in their collections!!
Posted by: Tracey | June 30, 2016 at 03:54 AM