Bella Blvd | Invisibles & Ears...

Hello Lovely Friends!  This poor little blog has been somewhat neglected again. But I am back today to share a layout created for Bella Blvd.  This blog post's title seems a little strange if not down right bizarre. I promise however, once I share, it will all start to make sense! LOL!

 

 

This week on the Bella blog, the creative team are focusing their creative minds on how to use the Invisibles Specialty papers. I love these transparencies; they are a little thicker than normal transparency paper and a lot sturdier than vellum sheets. Here's my project..

 

"Ears"

 

products used: cs - American Crafts; pp - Bella Blvd: Campout; Simply Spring; Bella Blvd Invisibles - Click! Click!, Blessings, Chit Chat, A Day At A Time; other - Bella Blvd: Treasures & Text, Enamel Dots, Crochet Hearts, Ciao Chip chipboard, Bella Bows; embroidery thread; Tools - typewriter, machine stitching, paper piercer.

 

Is the title starting to make sense now? *grin*

 

When putting this layout together, I knew I wanted to create a fun title! I wanted it to be large and I wanted the title to have layers - much like you would see on an illustration of a bunny rabbit.  With the Simply Spring collection and the fabulous Color Chaos Invisibles range I've created a fun look held together with hand stitching!

 

 

The first step was to select my patterned papers and cut large title letters with my silhouette. I followed the same procedure when cutting the letters from the transparent sheets of Invisibles. Before choosing which letter would be layered with which Invisible sheet, I made certain I could see both the patterned paper and Invisibles features. To finish off the title, I pre-pierced holes through both layers and hand stitched with coordinating thread.

 

 

To add to my layout, I've placed a white Bella Bow directly to the photo to make it look a bow tie. And I don't know if you can see in the photo or not, but this boy is pushing his very loose tooth over the top of his lip to get the "toothy" bunny rabbit effect!

 

 

Finally, I've played with the journaling to form a circle on white cardstock. Another subliminal message that I was documenting Easter, referring to not so round Easter Eggs!

 

 

Thanks for visiting today.  I hope you get the chance to visit the Bella blog this week for more fun inspiration using the Invisibles Specialty papers..x

 

 

 



JOT Magazine | June Moodboard...

Hello Friends!  Are you excited to see the new Jot Magazine June Moodboard?  It is a stunner!  The lovely Natalie Elphinstone is this month's guest pinner and what a delightful colour scheme she has created for us to play with!

I'll always be the first to admit that I love pink!  And when it comes in shades of flamingo and watermelon, well.. I am absolutely smitten!  There was no way I was planning on sitting this challenge out!

"Happy"



products used: cs - American Crafts, Bazzill; pp - Bella Blvd (Colorchaos), Scraptastic Club (Text Me); PL Card - Becky Higgins; other - Scraptastic Club: cut aparts; Bella Blvd: Bella Bows, ColorChaos "&" sticker, enamel dots; Heidi Swapp "Happy" die; Dear Lizzy ephemera; Crate Paper Poolside ephemera; Kaisercraft: ephemera; Pebbles: gold glitter banner; Elle's Studio label; tools - machine stitching, sharpie, circle punch.

I've even created some of my own watermelon embellishments to add to the page. It was a simple matter of using a small circle punch to cut cardstock from pink cardstock and layer it on top of a slightly larger green cardstock circle. Trim the circle in half and then add small "v" shapes with a black pen.

And don't you think the Bella Bow from Bella Blvd is the perfect colour to grab your attention?

Thanks for visiting with me today.  Please head on over to the Jot blog and play along with our new Moodboard! I can't wait to see you over there!