CREATIVE INSPIRATION, UPDATES & GIVEAWAYS

AUGUST 2012VOLUME 3

ISSUE 4

NOTE FROM STephaNie

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

2012 - 2013

DETAILS COMING SOON!

August is such a great time of year; As you are enjoying the heat and summer sun Bella’s latest and greatest CHA Summer collections are NOW SHIPPING to your favorite stores around the world, literally! CHA Summer was wonderful. In conjunction with Bella Blvd’s fourth birthday celebration we debuted a brand new trade show booth and released birthday collections for both boys and girls! Here we are in Chicago...

In other exciting news, we have officially launched the second annual Design Team call. We are looking for fresh, new faces full of talent and inspiration. If you love, love, love Bella Blvd and all our products you’ll want to check out the details. We are searching for Layout Lovers, Cardmakers & Stampers, Altered Project Designers and even Fabric Designers too! There is still plenty of time to submit; Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. Good luck to all who submit.

Find all 2012-2013 Bella Blvd Design Team Details here.

Have you located these three new collections, including patterned papers, cardstock stickers, Stick Pin Flags, Buttons and chipboard?

Bella Materials Used: Eat Cake, About A Boy, Borders, Alpha+Bits (Birthday Boy); Miles of Smiles (Birthday Girl); Sienna Chipboard Alphas Blueberry, High Five Alpha Stickers Yellow, Ciao Chip Elements Stars & Hearts (Sophisticates by Stephanie).

* My oldest son starts high school this year; A huge

milestone.

* I use to be a great soccer player.

* I love watching scary movies by myself at night with all the lights off.

* I don’t own any stamping ink.

* I don’t know how to sew, except on scrapbook layouts.

* I hate wearing shoes. I even walk around

without them at work.

* I was on the diving team in high school.

* My mom passed away almost two years ago, and I still talk to her every day.

* I am a cat lover . . . I have a small fear of dogs.

* I always try to look on the bright side of things;

Life is too short.

From Michiganhttp://sarahklemish.typepad.com

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Sarah Klemish

Bella of the Ball

Yum Yum

Not Camera Shy

Bella Materials Used: Sugar Rush, Miles of Smiles, Borders, Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers (Birthday Girl); Birthday Girl 2 (Flags); Pickle Juice Chevron (Designer Tape); Hot Pink Flowers (Button Market); Sienna Chipboard Alphas Punch, Simply Simona Chipboard Alphas Prune (Sophisticates by Stephanie).

RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME:

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Create a layout, combining the Birthday Boy AND Birthday Girlcollections, & at least 4 different Designer Tapes.

Challenge on the BLVD

To complete this challenge I wanted to use the great colors and patterns of the Bella Blvd Designer Tapes to create a striped frame around my photo. I layered the tape on vellum and mounted it on white cardstock to help the colored strips stand out in the forefront of the layout, along with the photo and embellishments

Bella Materials Used: About A Boy, Borders, Cute Cuts (Birthday Boy); Alpha+Bits Stickers (Birthday Girl); Chipboard Icons (Sunshine & Happiness); Chipboard Icons (Family Dynamix); Sienna Chipboard Alphas – Blueberry, High Five Alpha Stickers – Green, Ciao Chip Elements – Stars & Hearts (Sophisticates by Stephanie); Orange Stars (Button Market); Green Chevron, Yellow Chevron, Blue Gingham, Pickle Juice Dot, Aqua Dot, Orange Stripe (Designer Tape).

Combining the Birthday Boy & Birthday Girl collections created the perfect bright rainbow of colors that I wanted for my “wishing” layout. I love that between both sets of the Alpha+Bits Sticker sheets I was able to spell “wishy” using the little banner stickers. That is exactly how Ella says it as she is reeling in her fishing line. “Here wishy, wishy.” Such a fun memory that

I really want to remember forever!

Bella Materials Used: Miles of Smiles, Party Dress, Borders, Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers (Birthday Girl); About A Boy, Toadilly Cool, Eat Cake, Borders, Alpha+Bits Stickers (Birthday Boy); Hot Pink Flowers, Masculine Mix (Button Market); Teal Stripe, Yellow Chevron, Gulf Dot, Pickle Juice Chevron, Punch Chevron (Designer Tapes).

By Megan Klauer

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sweet Treat Here Wishy

By Katherine McElvain

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Hanging on to previous Bella Blvd products? Just because papers and stickers are not brand new, doesn’t mean they are not worth using! Get inspired by these great layouts we have

found showcasing some of Bella’s past and previous products!

Bringin' Bella Back

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Jana Eubank of Bountiful, UtahDesign featuring products from our Finally Fall & Sophisticates Collections

Monique Liedtke of Delft, The Netherlands Design featuring products from our Midterm Collection

Tammy Kist of Huntington Beach, CaliforniaDesign featuring products from our All Inclusive Collection

Brenda Cazes of Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaDesign featuring products from Making the Team Collection

Kindergarten Girl

White Sand

New Books

Future Soccer Star

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Facebook Fan Love

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Newsletter Giveaway

Ana Paula Leal of the South of Brazil Design featuring products from our

Baby Boy and We’re Expecting collections.

Jenny Evans of Ponca City, OklahomaDesign featuring products from our

Baby Boy collection.

Are you on Facebook? So are we! Visit Bella Blvd’s Facebook Fan page today for plenty of updates and inspiration from readers, fans and scrapbookers like you! Just upload your recent Bella Blvd layouts and projects to our wall and your work might just be chosen and published here in our bimonthly newsletter “Facebook Fan Love” feature.

Back to School is just around the corner as we head to the store for school supplies, pack up for college and realize all the homework that’s just ahead! Bella’s Midterm Collection is up for grabs---it’s perfect for those first-day of school photos! Visit our Facebook Page, let us know you’ve read the August issue of The Bella Buzz & you could win these goodies including: Patterned papers, embellishment papers, cardstock stickers and coordinating chipboard alphas & Stick Pin Flags! Winner will be announced September 4th on the Bella Studio Blog.

Two feet, 10 Toes Sweet Cheeks

We also spotted this darling layout featuring the Sunshine & Happiness collection within the same Summer issue.

Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine- Summer 2012 Issue Bella’s super popular High Five Alphabet Stickers are featured in the “3-Designer Challenge” article as the talented S&CT design team mixes them with other products! Our High Five alphabets are available in five different color sets; Add them all to your stash today!

CardMaker Magazine- September 2012 Issue What an honor for Bella Blvd’s Halloween collection, Too Cute to Spook, to be selected as one of CardMakers “Favorite Products.” The issue is loaded with paper crafting ideas for Halloweeninclude greeting cards, candy treats, favor bags and more! Pick it up on newsstands today; there’s plenty of Too Cute to Spook to go around this ghoulish season!

In the Press

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