A day in the life / Bella Blvd DT

Good morning everyone!!

I am happy to be back here this morning with a bit of a playful layout I made of me and goofy dad.

My parents had come up to visit, but I needed to run to the store, so they went with me. Me and my dad play around so much, I'm glad we have that kind of relationship, we have so much fun. But he was playing bumper carts, I hopped up to avoid getting my ankles hit, lol and landed on his buggy. I said, onward, an my mom caught it lol. 

No back to the layout.

 

I made this layout with a mixture of Splash Zone and Home Sweet Home. The colors go together so well. I started with my picture of course, then that beautiful stripped paper, I need like 100 sheets of that one! I love the color chaos invisibles, so I grabbed the calendar one and used it as well.

 

I added a bunch of layers behind my photo so that they would have as many of the colors from the background paper as I could get. Then I started to go threw the embellishments, ephemera, doohicky stickers and word salad stickers, that matched the color lines in the background.

 

I made my little clusters in certain colors, it just depended where I was focusing them. So on the top right I had different blues, even it it was clouds. I know they had nothing to do with this layout but they were the right color and they were cute, so they went. Then I moved to the left of the photo and added yellow items and then down to the bottom left of the photo and added reds and pinks.

 

I added my title across the bottom of my photo, I like the label that said a day in the life and it was red so it went with what I wanted.

My layout was looking a little bare, I knew I wanted more. So I pulled out my word salad sticker booklet and started flipping to colors that were between my yellow cluster and pink/red cluster and pulled all the ones that went with that day and my picture. I love, love, love the word salad stickers and how many colors there are!!

I went from orange, to red and then into pink and in every color I could find what I wanted, things that expressed the relationship me and my dad have. Were goofy, close and love to hang out.

Thank you for stopping by to check out what I made today and if you haven't already, make sure to grab these collections. They are beautiful alone, but they mix perfectly!!

 

Splash Zone Collection: Flower garden paper, Summer Scramble paper, Daily Details paper, Ephemera Icons, Ephemera Words

Home Sweet Home Collection: Daily Details paper, Boarders paper, Doohicky stickers, Ephemera Words, Epoxy stickers

Fireworks & Freedom Collection: Truck Parade paper

Word Salad sticker booklet 

Color Chaos Invisibles: Calendar

Wake up and be awesome / Bella Blvd DT

Good morning everyone!!
We've had a bunch of strong thunderstorms the last few days, knocking power out and lots of rain, but its also been nice because its kept it cooler and when its in the 100's on a constant, its so nice for it to be cooler!
Well I'm here this morning to share a new layout with you using an older Bella collection, Alex. I love this collection, the colors are so bright and I love the fact that it works so well for my older boys!

I got out the Alex collection and pulled a bunch of things that I wanted to use, so that got my color scheme as well. So once I had those pieces pulled out, I started to lay things around my layout to see where I wanted them. Once I got an idea of where I wanted things, I decided to dip into my stash and grab some of my Shimmerz and play with them on my background to add some more pops of color.

I let all the color dry and decided I wanted to add a little more to my background, so I grabbed my Bella Blvd Elements clear stamps and started stamping away on my background. Once I was happy with it I moved on to putting the rest of my page together.

I started by cutting the Daily Details paper apart for layers behind my photo. I added all my layers, got it just how I wanted it, laid it where I thought I wanted it to go and moved on to playing with the Washi stickers. I pulled the ones I wanted to use and stuck them on some white cardstock and cut around them. I did this so that I could pop some of them up and on dimensional adhesive if I wanted to. I laid them across my layout and stitched threw the ones that were flat to the page to add some more texture and popped the other ones up. 

Once I had my washi strips down and sewn threw, I pulled out some tabbies and designer clips and tucked them in at the top of my photo.

I had everything to the right side of my layout and wanted some more to the left side, so I went back and pulled out the same Shimmerz colors and the stamps and added some to the left of my layout. While while that was drying I grabbed the boarders paper and cut a few strips off and added them to the top and bottom of the layout and sewed thew them. Then went back to adding some of the washi stickers, designer clips and some more stitching. To finish off my layout I went in and pulled out different colored Puffy Star stickers and added them here and there on the layout. I mean those go with any layout!! I love them and the dimension they add to a layout.

Alex collection; Beast Mode paper, Daily Details paper, Boarders paper, Tabbies, Designer Clips, Washi Stickers

Illustrated Faith Elements Clear stamps

Puffy Star Stickers; Orange mix, Blueberry Mix, Milk white

Head in the Game Layout/ Bella Blvd DT

Good morning everyone!! Sarah here this morning sharing a layout I made using Bellas Football collection!

This layout didnt quite go as I planned. Most of the time when Im making layout I'll stick with a white background, I just feel like it gives me a blank canvas to play on and keeps things bright, I do use full patterned/colorful backgrounds too, but usually white, and this layout happened to be one of those times!

I did pull out white card stock to start out with. I grabbed my Boarders&Details paper and cut some layers for behind my photo, even a boarder strip that had some footballs on it but it was looking to plain at this point for me so I went back in and started laying my photo and its layers on other papers from this collection and found this one and was so happy I did!!

I was way happier with this as my background and continued to build from there. I cut a star out of one of the papers and tucked it behind the left side of my photo and its layers and then decided I was going to add a little bit of white card stock to this layout. So I cut out a circle, popped up my photos and its layers on some 3D foam and laid it on top of my white circle.

I grabbed the ephemera pack and the fundamentals sticker sheet and started to add pops of red, blue and green around my layout. I popped some up on 3D phone to add some more dimension and I also decided I was going to run my fingernail under the side of my papers to add a little more texture to my layout. 

I got my title, that I added in the center bottom of my photo from the ephemera pack as well and popped it up on more 3D foam, along with a football. I added another football to the upper right of my layout with some stars and other ephemera pieces for another embellishment cluster.

I tucked a larger ephemera piece, with a football helmet on it, behind my photo so that it was sticking out and could still be seen and added a tab as well. I liked that this brought more of the colors in that I wanted and I also liked that it had a big helmet on it too! I wanted a little more texture on my layout and I have a bunch of these adorable puffy stars and of course they match perfectly, so I grabbed my puffy stars in the colors that matched and I tucked them in here and there all around the layout and that finished it off for me. I had fun changing it up a little bit from my norm and I loved how this layout turned out!

Football Collection: Boarders&Details, Throw it!, Game Time, Call The Play, Ephemera pack, Fundamentals, Puffy Star Stickers: Ice, Blueberry, Pickle Juice

XOXO Darling/Pretty little Studio feature Friday

Good morning everyone and happy Friday!! Yay its the first day of the weekend! We have family coming in to stay, so lots of fun here, what are your plans for the weekend??

Well this morning I'm here to share my first layout made with the beautiful With all my heat collection. This collection is beautiful online, but OMG its even more so in person!!!  Today I'm focusing on patterned papers.

I used multiple patterned papers to make a big impact and focus but its confined to just a few places on the layout.  I liked the idea of so many patterns on a layout but I wanted a way to separate them and draw focus, so I did this with cut-files. These gave me a way to add bright pops all over and have them focused right behind the photo and draw your eye in.

I put four different papers on one heart and then added a fifth behind a second heart, then layered a few labels with one of the word stickers and a pretty grey heart sticker.

I layered a few of the pretty flower stickers and dit-cuts before adding my title. I went simple with it, XOXO darling. I thought it was sweet for this little smiling picture of my daughter in her car seat.

I finished my layout out off with a little cluster in my upper left corner and that was it.

Everything in this collection is just amazing! I hope you enjoyed my take on featuring patterned papers on a layout out in a more minimal way, with a big impact.

Pretty little studio products used:

With all my Heart collection, Die-cuts-Floral Bouquet , Labels Love notes, Paper Cherish, Paper Flutter, 8x8 paper pack, Stickers Darling, Stickers Love story words, Stickers My Heart, Stickers Peonies