Laura Vegas

Yesterday was the first Monday of the month, which means that a new monthly project sheet went up on the Bella Blvd blog. For this month's layout, I was asked to use the new Sweet Sweet Spring collection. I decided to go with some photos of the girls coloring easter eggs years ago, as I'm fairly certain I have never scrapped these before. 

I printed my photos as 2×4" pics, which isn't something I do very often. But I had the idea of doing four strips of patterned papers and photos across the center of the page, with an extra smaller strip of patterned paper mixed in, so the skinnier and taller photos were in order. 

I picked out several of the tone-on-tone patterned papers to use as the strips my photos would be on, and then picked one of the busier patterned papers to use on it's own. I also cut a strip of a aqua dotted clear cut transparency to layer over the aqua grid patterned paper, to give it a bit more interest. 

I added a few border strips along the top and bottom of the page. The yellow dotted border strip and the "happy easter" border strip, both along the bottom of the page, and a thin piece of the aqua dotted border strip along the top of the page. 

The new collections all come with newly designed Paper Pieces, which are filled with a variety of die cuts that are all ready to add to your projects. I knew I wanted to add several of them to the page, and pulled out the easter eggs, a few banner pieces, tabs, and flowers.

I didn't have any of the chipboard to work with for this layout, and I wanted something a little larger to fill the upper left corner of the page, so I fussy cut the cute little tree from a 3×4" card on the Daily Details patterned paper. 

For the title, I used the purple alpha stickers from the Treasures & Text sticker sheet and some alphas from the Tiny Text alpha stickers. I went back and forth on what color to use for the "fun coloring" part of my title, and settled on navy blue, since there were touches of it in the busier patterned paper strip and my photos. 

I added several of the die cut flowers down my busier patterned paper strip, and added some enamel dots to the centers of several of the flowers, as well as sprinkling them around the rest of the page. 

You can download a copy of the March project sheet, complete with full supply list and detailed instructions, RIGHT HERE.