Laura Vegas

Today I wanted to share the layout I created for the Bella Blvd catalog, focusing on the new Chip Scripts. I mentioned in yesterday's post that I love working on the embellishment focused layouts for the catalog, since I get to mix patterned papers and other elements from all of the new collections, rather than focusing on just a single collection. This applied to this layout as well. I used quite a few patterned papers from the new IF She Blooms collection, and then added a patterned paper from the Sweet Baby Girl collection and the Sweet Sweet Spring collection.

I knew right away that I would use this black & white striped floral patterned paper from the She Blooms collection. I only had them print me half a sheet (I worked with mock up product for these), as my plan was to use it along the top of the page. I spritzed it with just a little bit of white misting spray as well, and added some black enamel dots to the centers of the flowers on the patterned paper.

I started playing around with some different options for my title, using the five sets of Chip Scripts, and came up with these two words to combine. I love the script font on "fabulous", mixed with the chunkier, block font of "memories". And when I laid them on the black & white striped floral patterned paper, they ended up looking perfect to me.

I also wanted to work in a few of the "love" chipboard words. I had a few different ideas in mind, but once I had printed out my 5×7" photo (of my gorgeous niece, Jovaughnna, from when I took her senior photos several years ago), I found that I could fit two of the "love" words along the side of the photo. By adding in a chipboard heart, they were the perfect fit.

And while you can certainly alter these chipboard words/letters to make them any color you want (and it was something that I thought I would end up doing), for this layout, I decided they looked just right in their natural state.

I layered a piece of the white chevron Clear Cut transparency over the yellow dotted paper, which I had first spritzed with some black misting spray. My favorite of all of the Clear Cuts are the white ones, as they add such a subtle look by simply layering them over a patterned paper.

I quickly realized that I should have asked for a full sheet of the black & white floral patterned paper, so that I could fussy cut a cluster of flowers to add to the bottom of the page. Luckily, one of the 3×4" journaling cards had a floral cluster on it. So I fussy cut that out, and made it work down in the corner, next to my photo.

Head on over to the Bella Blvd blog, HERE, to see the entire Chip Scripts reveal, piece by piece, and to enter the drawing for a chance to win-it-before-you-can-buy-it! The randomly chosen winners for ALL of the reveal giveaways will be announced on Saturday, January 9th.