Laura Vegas

CHA Winter 2014 is just days away! I know Stephanie and the rest of her Bella team is really excited to leave their freezing cold homes and make their way out here to a much warmer Anaheim, California. This is the second year in a row that I'm not going to the Winter show, and I will really miss not getting to see everyone again. There's just too much going on here at home, and it's all stuff that I'm not willing to miss out on. So, being that it's almost show time, we're finally ready to reveal the new collections over on the Bella Blvd blog! There are 4 new collections, which we will be sharing through out the rest of the week, along with a special feature on Saturday. First up is the Max collection!

I lucked out and get to share one of my layouts with you today, since it's the one that's featured on the blog along with the reveal. While this collection is definitely geared towards the slightly older boys, it can still be easily used for younger ones as well.

I chose these photos of Nikolas, one of my previous daycare kids, from when he came to visit me about 2 years ago. He's one of my go-to boys for scrapping, because he's so stinkin cute!

The dark blue star pattern is actually a 4×6 card from the new Candid Cards package. I ended up adding a small strip of white grid patterned paper along the bottom of the card so that my alpha stickers would stand out.

One of the new products you'll find with each collection is a package of Candid Cards. It's filled with double sided cards in a few popular sizes. You get three 4×6 cards, nine 3×4 cards, and nine 2×2 cards. The fronts of the cards have fun images, sayings, quotes. While the backsides have everyday tone-on-tone patterns, such as the diagonal stripe you see on the yellow card above.