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Mini Album #3 + Bella Workshop ONLY $1

Happy Thursday peeps! Today is my favorite day of the week because Friday is only 1 day away and also my favorite shows are on Thursday nights: Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Survivor....

The mini album I have to share today is *amazing!* In honor of the Creating Keepsakes feature we blogged about yesterday we'd like to give you some more Plastino inspiration!

"Summer Memories" Mini Album (Acrylic)

By Wendy Cieklinski

  I'm  pretty sure Wendy went through all of her photos and pulled out perfectly matching ones for this summer themed album.       Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Bella's Plastino Collection: Cabana (stripe), Gardinia, Forget-Me-Nots, Bermudas, Trellis, Bits A Bella

Cardstock Stickers: Plastino Label Additions, Carla Bell Pepper (Yellow Alphabet Stickers)

One more thing today, I have been working with The Scrapbook Store in Greenfield, Wisconsin organizing a super fun event! I will be teaching a mini workshop on November 21^st from 1-5pm. We'll make 3 Christmas cards using the new December Details collection. Sign up today, it will only cost you $1!! The workshop is limited to the first 80 people, be sure to call and sign up today! (414)-282-9815! Hope to see you there!

Don't forget! Leave a comment on yesterday's post to have a chance to win our Blooms A Bella cotton flowers!

Giveaway and a Mini Album Today!

Have you seen this yet? 

Bella Blvd was picked for this article! 

Our Blooms A Bella cotton flowers have been such a huge success! Everyone loves playing with them! They are great for both scrapbooking and general crafts. Be sure to check them out at your local scrapbooking store today, or see the links on the sidebar to order from an online store! And the Plastino Collection was also chosen by Lori Fairbanks!

Also, Bella is proud to be a sponsor of Creating Keepsakes 2010 Dream Team. CK announced the girls on sponsors today via their blog! Congratulations to all the ladies, we look forward to seeing your work in future publications!

To celebrate this fabulous mention in Creating Keepsakes we want to giveaway some blooms! 

 

Leave a comment below telling us why you love the Blooms so much and what you'll make with them, and you might just win them all!

We thought we'd give you some inspiration using these highlighted products (Blooms A Bella and the Plastino Collection)

"Beautiful"

By Stephanie Hunt

 

Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Bella's Plastino Collection: Forget-Me-Nots, Bermudas, Trellis, Bits A Bella

Cardstock Stickers: Plastino Label Additions, Camped Out Collection: Carla Mudpie (Brown Alphabet Stickers)

Blooms A Bella: Bianca

And the mini album of the day is brought to you by Bella Artista, Beth Gerlach.

"Cartwheel" Mini Album Beth pulled apart the Rosa Blooms and created her own custom pink cotton flower for the container topper. (and of course added some bling....because if you haven't noticed yet, Beth is obsessed with bling!)  Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Bella's Flirty Collection: High Maintenance, Heart Throb, Party Girl, Bits A Bella, He Loves Me, Omigosh, Swing Into Spring Collection: Rainbow Ribbons

Cardstock Stickers: Flirty Label Additions, Swing Into Spring Collection: Carla White (Alphabet Stickers)

Blooms A Bella: Rosa, Azzurra

Finally, one more Plastino Layout!

"Push Me Bigger"

By Wendy Cieklinski  Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Bella's Plastino Collection: Bermudas, Trellis, Forget-Me-Nots, Bits A Bella

Cardstock Stickers: Plastino Label Additions, Carla Bell Pepper (Yellow Alphabet Stickers), Flirty Collection: Carla Posie (Pink Alphabet Stickers)

Don't forget to leave a comment about the Blooms A Bella to win! Winner will be announce during Friday's post!

A mini-week of Mini-Albums!

Ciao Ciao my loves! Hope this morning finds you in good spirits and ready to tackle another day! It's a great day to be a Bella product designer, I'm working on the newest collections for CHA January and I'm soooo excited for them!

In the meantime, for the rest of the week I want to share some fabulous mini albums & decorated books! Mini albums make great gifts and coffee table albums! Today's feature was created by Bella Artista, Wendy Cieklinski.

Wendy created a small "Girls Only" journal/notebook using a small composition notebook from the drug store. The entire journal uses Bella's Flirty Collection. There's a bookplate on the front so either you or the recipient can personalize it!  And little category tabs on the inside for shopping notes, funny talk and whatever! 

 

Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Bella's Flirty Collection: High Maintenance, Heart Throb, Bits A Bella

Cardstock Stickers: Flirty Label Additions

And one fabulous card to share with you today!

"Skip a Beep" Card

By Katherine McElvain 

 

Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Bella's Super Stud Collection: Robot Love, Cyber Kisses, Eclipse, Planetarium, Bits A Bella Bella's Camped Out Collection: Fireside

Blooms A Bella: Rosa

Happy November!

It's really here! Goodbye Halloween, hello Thanksgiving. It really is unbelievable how quickly time passes by! Today we have some great inspiration for you and a contest opportunity too!

 

Bella Blvd is the Manufacturer of the Month over at Scrapgal.com! Be sure to check out the Bella Blvd contest they are holding for this month....submit up to 3 Bella Blvd layouts and you could win some free Bella goodies! You can find more of the rules on their forums here! Good luck!

The Artistas wanted to inspire you with some layout ideas! All projects designed with our 2009 Summer Release, in stores and available now!!

"In Your Eyes..."

By Katherine McElvain

Plastino Collection

Check out these awesome handmade flower embellishments! Look what you get with a couple circle punches and a stapler! 

Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Plastino Collection: Trellis, Bits A Bella, Forget-Me-Nots, Gardinia

Cardstock Stickers: Plastino Label Additions

"Baby Girl"

By Wendy Cieklinski

Flirty Collection

 

A Clever technique here: using the Flirty Clear Stamps, wendy patterned the cardstock alphabet stickers in her title!Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Flirty Collection: He Loves Me, Party Girl, Bits A Bella

Cardstock Stickers: Flirty Label Additions, Carla Posie (Pink Alphabet Stickers)

Clear Stamps: Flirty

"U are my Sunshine"

By Allyson Meinholz

Plastino Collection

 

Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Plastino Collection: Trellis, Bits A Bella, Cabana, Bermudas, Forget-Me-Nots

Cardstock Stickers: Plastino Label Additions, Carla Bell Pepper (Yellow Alphabet Sticker)

"Next Top Model"

By Beth Gerlach

Plastino Collection

 Love the stamped border here that creates the large circle frame! Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Plastino Collection: Trellis, Bits A Bella, Cabana, Bermudas

Cardstock Stickers: Plastino Label Additions

Clear Stamps: Plastino

Blooms A Bella: Azzurra

Designer Spaces: Brittny Lejeune

"So In Love..."

I *love* the run-on title using the Label Additions Cardstock stickers!Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: From the Super Stud Collection: Robot Love, Cyber Kisses, Planetarium, Bits A Bella

Cardstock Stickers: Super Stud Label Additions, Carla Mediterranean (Alphabet)

{I've been excited to share Brittny's scrapbooking space with you ever since she submitted it to Bella! I am inspired by all the color that she surrounds herself with. I'd love to scrap in her room!} I'll let Brittny take it from here....

It's a little embarrassing showing photos of my current studio because everything is just sort of half-unpacked, half-done, and shoved wherever it fits. I was told not to drill/hammer/screw or glue anything to the walls as we're just renting for a little bit until our house is ready, but after a couple months of boring walls I said, "Screw it!" Literally.

This is the space that guests (meaning my Mom, because Eric does his best to stay away from such girliness!) usually sits and jabbers with me, although my hex quilt has been sitting there staring at me for days! I keep all my mementos hidden inside the trunk of the coat rack, and my swiftly shrinking collection of smut novels on top. My magazine rack was a super find for $10, the little dresser was a $3 hard sale discovery from my sis, and the vintage case hold nothing - I just think it's super cute!

Below is my desk/Inspiration place. Careful, don't blink or it will look totally different when you open your eyes! This is where I put together all of my projects, so it is crammed full of those immediate-need sort of things. My favorite thing in the world is my pink lamp! . Projects in progress are parked in the 12x12 plastic trays on the right.Correction: My pink lamp and my framed pinchusion! LOVE THAT-and easy to make! The wall below the shelf is a constantly revolving inspiration station. It has everything from great graphics to funny quotes!!

Love me my paper rack! Another $3 yard sale find that I have yet to paint. Papers are organized by manufacturer. Thank the Lord (and my future in-laws) for my tabloid printer - where would I be without it?

I keep all of my inks and ribbons in these two wall cubbies and use only Ranger Distress Inks and inexpensive Studio G $1 inks - they do the job! 

I put the desk perpendicular to the wall to create another little space for sewing. Another half-finished project - will eventually be yellow to match the bench. Hanging wall storage is from Ikea. This is probably the most versatile system I have. It started out in my kitchen in college, and will eventually hold all of my quilts. For now it is the perfect spot for draping fabrics, aprons-in-progress and future embroidery projects!

Designer Challenge: Brittny Lejeune

Before we feature Brittny's scrapbooking challenge, I have to share these with you! The fall foliage is peaking right outside the Bella Studios. When I take mascot Mio out for a walk each day I'm crunchin' up all these beautiful leaves!

And check out the tree just outside our front entry! Breathtaking. I just love it!

Beth gave Brittny this scrapbooking challenge:

Use Bella's Flirty Collection to Create a Layout with Hearts & Butterflies.

"Lucifer"

I love the use of patterned papers within the confined square. 

About the Challenge: The Flirty line is so cute and pretty and feminine and adorable and packed full of beautiful colors! I have wanted to do a memorial page for my cat, Luce, for a long time now, and since he always seemed to find my "pretty things" and stretch out on them, I figured this line was perfect for him! I want to create a layout that had the feeling of being sort of suspended, so I centered all of the elements on the page, and gave butterflies some dimension by sewing their centers down and flipping up their wings. Also, I cut up about a million pop dots to raise the title up off the page and put a little Glossy Accents on the hearts!Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Omigosh, He Loves Me, High Maintenence, Heart Throb, Bits A Bella

Cardstock Stickers: Label Additions, Carla Posie (Pink Alphabet Stickers)

Designer Spotlight: Brittny Lejeune

Hi there!!

I'm Brittny Lejeune (yes, that's how I spell it!) and I live in Vacaville, California. I'm a recent transplant from San Luis Obispo, California where I got my bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture, worked as a graphic designer, and met my soon-to-be ball and chain...ehem...I mean the love of my life, Eric. After I graduated I was introduced to a lovely little economy where jobs for Landscape Architecture grads don't really exist and as a result I am now officially a stay-at-home fiancee pursuing domestic bliss. Hoooray!!!

I try to scrap everyday, whether I finish an entire layout, or just work on making some new embellishments. For me, creativity = happy. My scrapbooking style is always changing. I have so many "looks" that I love, and am always trying to capture them on the page! When I'm not scrapping I can be found parked on the couch either ranting on my blog, knitting, hand-sewing my hex quilt (which I'll probably be working on until the day I die), sketching, or in the kitchen cooking and baking - especially now with the holidays coming up! I consider myself to be a connoisseur of smut novels and chocolate and look forward to the day when I have a house full of kids to keep me from enjoying both. 

I am so honored and excited to be a Bella Artista! This has been such a fun experience getting to play with some super amazing products!

"For You!" Birthday Gift Bag

What a great way to give a gift!

 

 

 

 

 Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: From the Sweet Celebration Collection: Lollipop Stix, Party Hearty

 From the Swing Into Spring Collection: Candy Buttons

From the Flirty Collection: Heart Throb

Cardstock Stickers: Sweet Celebration Label Additions, Swing Into Spring Label Additions

Blooms A Bella Azzurra flowers

And Brittny threw in an extra project as well! (I love when the designers surprise me and do this!)

Check out the beautiful card!

"Celebrate" Birthday Card

 Love the mixing of paper collections here! Card Inside: Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: From the Sweet Celebration Collection: Stardust, Treat & Sweets

From the Flirty Collection: He Loves Me, Omigosh

Cardstock Stickers: Sweet Celebration Label Additions

Designer Spaces: Donna Creedon

Good morning all! Today we are featuring guest designer, Donna Creedon's scrapbooking space!

My scrap space is actually just a corner of my bedroom. (which I might add is slowly taking over most of the room!) I do have to be tidy and clean out my stuff quite regularly, which I guess is a good thing.

This is my desk. As you can see, I don't have much actual workspace. To the left I have an Ikea Expedit bookcase on it's side which I use as a desktop to keep my TV, sewing machine etc. This is the Expedit bookcase in which I have 12"x12" containers to store ribbons, stamps and chipboard. I also keep a few of my albums and some books in these shelves. I have a cute little cupboard in which I keep my paints and the drawers above that hold my tiny bits and pieces. The 2 sets of drawers, which I got from a discount store and painted green, each have 1 drawer which is 12" long so I store my scallop edges in them. This little cupboard is handy for keeping gems, buttons and other bits and pieces in. The baskets store felt and containers of glitter. This Ikea trolley holds my paper trimmer and all my cardstock, stickers and rub-ons. It sits to the right of my desk.

 

To the right of my trolley sits these paper racks. The drawers hold all of my scraps of paper, sorted by color.

 

This is actually a shoe cupboard I got from Kmart. I bought drawers to fit in each compartment and store all my embellishments, also organized by color of course! ;) 

Finally, this is my over-crowded Clip-It-Up! These are just my alphabet stickers. No other stickers are kept on this carousel.

One more layout from Donna using Bella's Camped Out Collection.

"Happy Camper...Not!"

Bella Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Keeping Warm, Fireside, Bits A Bella

Cardstock Stickers: Label Additions, Carla Mudpie (alphabet stickers)