Laura Vegas

Today we are up with our second full collection reveal for CHA Summer on the Bella Blvd blog! If you missed yesterday's reveal, keep scrolling down to see the new Snapshots collection, which I am hearing lots and lots of people raving about. And hopefully, this second collection gets just as warm a welcome as the first.

{Photos courtesy of Krista Lund, friend and photographer}

I started this layout with an adorable photo of my friend Krista's youngest daughter playing outside, and two of the 4×6 cards from the Daily Details paper (the aqua chevron and the yellow "let your light shine" cards). I arranged those on the page, and just started trimming some of the tone-on-tone patterned papers to fill in the holes.

I knew the aqua clouds would go along the top of the page, along with my title. I used the white text chipboard alphas for half of my title, and some aqua alpha stickers for the other half. I also added an aqua scalloped border sticker along the very top of the page, machine stitched it in place, and then curled up the scallops with my fingers to add some texture.

I did trim down the yellow 4×6 card a bit on one side so that it fit next to my photo. My goal on this layout was to keep it pretty monocramatic. So I added some green phrase stickers to the green patterned paper, and a yellow chipboard sun to the yellow "let your light shine" card.

The aqua chevron card actually says "together" in the center of it. But since the photo is of just little Emily, I thought it would be best to cover that up. I adhered a white feather diagonally across the 4×6 card, and adhered an aqua chipboard heart over the center (which also covered up the staples securing my feather).

I added coordinating crochet hearts and buttons to the green and pink patterned papers on either side of the bottom of the page, along with my journaling strips. I finished it off by adding some scalloped punched borders from white cardstock in between the papers, and machine stitching as well.