Today I am using Creative Imaginations Paint IT papers and Luminarte.  The Paint IT paper is new to Creative Imaginations and is super duper fun to use and easy too!  It may look complicated, but it’s just  blending fun colors together and having fun.

I started out using an embossing folder to create a background.  Then I used  Twinkling H2O’s to color and blend the back ground to match the theme.  Next, I die cut using Creative Imaginations Love Blooms and Nostalgia papers to create my center.  The Love Blooms and Nostalgia lines both come with die shapes that also can be colored using any of the Creative Imaginations Luminarte products.  Once everything was adhered to my liking I finished by misting it with some Gold Pearl Luminarte.

Here’s what I used:

Creative Imaginations

Luminarte

Cuttelbug Embossing Folder

Spellbinder Lacey Ovals

May Arts Ribbons

Check back tomorrow for another card making day here on Cards by Alice.

“A Little Birdie Told Me” card, by Alice Carman.

As a card maker I try to think outside of the box when using my stamps by finding different ways to stamp. Today my challenge is to use the calendar month stamp alongside another stamp. My theme is baby and of course I used our new Baby Girl collection. I thought stamping another image onto a stamped image is a little different from anything I’ve ever done. What do you think? Does it work? I also paper pieced my birdie stamp as well to give it some color without having to color it.

Supplies:
Baby Girl: Sweet Dreams, Borders; Sophisticates: Sprinkles & Lace Punch, Black-White High Five Alphabets; We’re Expecting: Bella Baby Bump; Unity Stamps: Calendar Month, Birdie Told Me

“New Set Of Wheels” card, by Alice Carman.

On this card I used the calendar month stamp and turned it into a fence on my peep card. I cut out a few of the grid boxes from the calendar stamp and lined it up to make a fence. I also paper pieced the New Set of Wheels stamp and stamped directly onto the Sunshine Happiness Play Date pattern paper to make the stamp pop.

Supplies: 
Baby Boy: Heaven Scent; Sunshine & Happiness: Play Date; Baby Girl: Pretty in Pink; Unity stamp: Calendar Month, New Set of Wheels stamp

Be sure to visit the Bella Blvd Blog and leave a comment for a chance to win some Bella goodies.

Tagged: grid boxes, heaven scent, little birdie, play date, set of wheels, sunshine happiness ]]> http://alicecarman.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/bella-blvd-unity-stamps-inspiration-giveaway-day/feed/ 1 alicecarman usc_logobrown Alice-Carman-Birdie-stamp Alice-Carman-Birdie-stamp-C Alice-Carman-Wheels-stamp Alice-Carman-Wheels-stamp-C 6a00e553a7b4ae88340162ffe175ed970d-250wi 6a00e553a7b4ae88340168e5d7597a970c-250wi http://alicecarman.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/new-love-blooms/ http://alicecarman.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/new-love-blooms/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:56:55 +0000 alicecarman http://alicecarman.wordpress.com/?p=2460 ]]> Here’s a peek at this year’s NEW Creative Imaginations Love Blooms collection.

This collection comes with six embossed papers, die shapes and brads.  Everything from paper to brands can be colored with Creative Imaginations Luminarte products.

I love the patterns in this collection then again the patterns really help make the color pop when I colored them.  You can die cut using any of your favorite dies so you can layer and pop dot them against one another.  Lots to do, right?

Coming to stores soon so be on the look out for Love Blooms from Creative Imaginations!

If you’ve signed up for it already, it should have arrived to your inbox this morning. If you have not signed up yet, you can do so HERE, so you can be sure to get on our subscriber list. You can also find previous issues HERE, to browse and download.

You can view and download the February 2012 issue HERE. We really hope you enjoy it, and we want to thank all of the designers who helped contribute to it!

Please check out the Bella Blvd Blog today to see all the beautiful projects created from our Bella Blvd DT.

I colored my stamp and used a few papers from the different Bella Blvd collections to enhance my card. Don’t you just love the new crochet flowers and the buttons? The Sophisticates letter stickers are a must when crafting, especially the new Sophisticates alphabets.

I love that you get 4 different fonts and styles. Don’t forget Bella Blvd/Unity stamps not only comes with an image stamp, but you also get a sentiment which can be used all different ways. I only stamped the word, “girl” from the sentiment stamp, so you can break up the sentiment stamp or use the whole thing.

Supplies: 
Baby Girl: Sweet Dreams; Sunshine & Happiness: Sunny Side Up; We’re Expecting: Baby Bella Bump; Sophisticates: Black and White High Five Alpha Stickers; Button Market: Text; Crochet Flowers: Daisies; Unity Stamp Company: It’s A Girl

Today, we have our last paper collection to reveal to you. Don’t worry. We still have a few more days of exciting new products to reveal and share with you. But right now, we have a super fun and colorful new collection in store for you. We hope you love it!

Kick off your summer Sunny Side Up with these brights and playful new products! Pack your picnic basket and capture your next Play Date .. It’s sure to be a Juicy Good Time! Dance in the flowers, splash in the pool, and enjoy a fresh popsicle! Sunshine & Happiness is fabulously delicious!

Double Sided Patterned Paper:

Cardstock Stickers:

Chipboard:

Flags:

Thanks for stopping by and I’ll have more to show you tomorrow.

Sneak Peek Week continues with a second full week of our new product reveals! We’ve created so much fun stuff that we need another entire week to show it all to you! Remember, if you’re loving what you’re seeing, make sure and let your LSS know, and ask them to order Bella for their stores!

It’s colorful, full of class & and just plain pretty. The Sophisticates collection has quickly become one of the industry’s favorite everyday product collections. With something beautiful for everyday, Sophisticates classis Sprinkles & Lace patterns have THREE new colors to their family. Check out the FIVE new Sophisticates chipboard elements, including trees and clouds, family words & more.

The Sophisticates collection is so much fun, and with even more new colors added to the collection it will match anything! I wanted to showcase all of the colors in this line so I created a chevron stripe pattern and then used some of the cute new chipboard that you’ll love so much! The new chipboard is so versatile and cute and adds so much fun to pages, cards and anything else you might come up with.

Double Sided Patterned Paper:

Chipboard:

And now for giveaway time! We want to give one lucky blog reader a chance to own all the NEW and the old Sprinkles & Lace papers, along with all 6 new chipboards. This is a great chance to get it before it even hits the stores. Just leave us a comment on the Bella Blvd Blog  to be entered. One comment per person, please. All of our giveaways for our sneak peeks will be left open until Saturday, January 28th. All winners will be announced on Sunday, January 29th, which is the first day of the Winter CHA show!

Along with Unity Stamp Company, we are introducing 9 new Itty Bitty stamps to match with our newest paper collections: Baby Boy, Baby Girl, We’re Expecting and Sunshine & Happiness. Each rubber stamp includes a great coordinating card sentiment for your greetings. Along with these new stamps comes a new announcement from both Bella Blvd and Unity Stamp Company. 

These newest Unity stamps will now be available for order directly from Bella Blvd for retailers and distributors. That means when we ship your product order, the stamps will be included as well! In efforts to be more efficient we are happy to be stocking Unity stamps in our warehouse for order fulfillment. And, in an effort to please scrapbookers worldwide, Unity Stamp Company will be selling these stamps individually on the Unity website for consumers also! Now you have the best of both worlds. If you can’t find the Unity stamps at your LSS, be sure to visit Unity Stamp Company and order them online.

“100% Boy” card

For today’s card I am using Bella Blvd/Unity stamp called, It’s a boy! This is such darling itty bitty stamp.  I stamped my image onto a few pattern papers using Bella Blvd’s Baby Boy line and cut them out instead of coloring them. You’ll notice that my stamp image is missing something. Can you guess?

I inked up my stamp and then I cut a  small circle to cover my sentiment.  Next I stamped the image on to paper and you’ll notice the sentiment part of the stamp did not show.  This process is called, Masking.  You can do this with any of the Bella Blvd/Unity stamps to change it up.  Isn’t this cool?

“A Little Birdie Told Me” card

Here’s another great stamp by Bella Blvd/ Unity called, Birdie Told Me. This is also another itty bitty stamp I got to play with today that you’ll want to get to match the Baby Boy line form Bella Blvd.

On this card I did a little paper piecing. Paper piecing is when you stamp an image on a few different patterns and cut out what you like and piece it together to create an image. You’ll notice I cut out the wing and the sack using different paper from the Baby Boy line and pop dot them on to my card. So what do you think? Great use of the stamping and no coloring needed.

And now for giveaway time! We want to give one lucky blog reader a chance to own a few of our new Itty Bitty Stamps from Unity Stamp Company. If chosen, you will receive 3 stamps of your choice, before they even hit the stores. Just leave us a comment to be entered on the Bella Blvd Blog. One comment per person, please. All of our giveaways for our sneak peeks will be left open until Saturday, January 28th. All winners will be announced on Sunday, January 29th, which is the first day of the Winter CHA show!

 It’s a wonderful day around here as our crates are officially on their way to California! We leave in less than a week and we still have so much to show you and reveal on the blog! Have you loved what you’ve seen so far??? Did you tell your favorite LSS about the new Bella goodies?

Well, today I wanted to share with you my favorite (I think) embellishment that we are releasing at CHA.

You’ve seen them popping up everwhere! Washi and patterend tapes are all the rage in scrapbooking and paper crafting! Now you can match your favorite colors & products with these trendy Designer Tapes by Bella Blvd! Availale in 8 different styles and 2 different widths, these Designer Tapes include versatile designs like sweet polkadots, hip chevron and more!

So I’m not going to lie when I say, “OMG they are so cute, packaged these petite little clear boxes and the cores are printed with ‘Bella Blvd’ on the inside!” They just make me so super duper happy I can’t stand it!

Here’s the eight different patterns, all matching Bella’s signature bright & happy color palette! So these four styles are .25″ in width. Each roll has 30 feet of tape!!

Teal Stripe:

Red Dot:

Pink Stripe:

Jail Bird:

And these four styles are .5″ in width!

Blue Gingham:

Pink Flowers:

Yellow Chevron:

Pickle Juice Dot:

Thanks for stopping by and come back for tomorrow’s next peep show.

]]> http://alicecarman.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/day-4-cha-bella-blvd-peeks/feed/ 0 alicecarman 6a00e553a7b4ae883401676081566f970b-800wi 1 LOGO DESIGNER TAPE 6a00e553a7b4ae88340168e5dc3171970c-800wi 6a00e553a7b4ae8834016760daf704970b-800wi 6a00e553a7b4ae88340168e5dc442a970c-800wi 292 RED DOT 12mm 293 PINK STRIPE 12mm 294 JAILBIRD 12mm 295 BLUE GINGHAM 19mm 296 PINK FLOWERS 19mm 297 YELLOW CHEVRON 19mm 298 PICKLE JUICE DOT 19mm http://alicecarman.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/day-3-cha-bella-blvd-peeks/ http://alicecarman.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/day-3-cha-bella-blvd-peeks/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:27:47 +0000 alicecarman http://alicecarman.wordpress.com/?p=2321 ]]> Sneak Peek Week: Baby Girl Collection

Welcome to day three of our two week long Sneak Peek Week feature! I know a lot of you have been waiting for this reveal, since seeing Monday’s collection. You knew we couldn’t have a new Baby Boy collection, without having a Baby Girl collection, that was was just adorable and cute

“Sweet Dreams precious Baby Cakes“, says Daddy as he kisses his new baby girl good night. It will be impossible to put away her teddy bear friends and snuggly blankie as she soon becomes a young lady. After all, she’ll always be Daddy’s Girl!”

Double Sided Patterned Papers:

Cardstock Stickers:

Chipboard:

Flags:

And now for giveaway time! We want to give one lucky blog reader a chance to own our new Baby Girl collection, before it even hits the stores. Just leave us a comment on the Bella Blvd Blog  to be entered. One comment per person, please. All of our giveaways for our sneak peeks will be left open until Saturday, January 28th. All winners will be announced on Sunday, January 29th, which is the first day of the Winter CHA show!

Thanks for visiting and come back tomorrow for another peek !