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.

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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 !

Welcome to day 2 of our two week long Sneak Peek feature! We loved hearing how much you loved the Baby Boy collection reveal yesterday! Judging from the adorable little girl monkey up in the image above, we will definately be having a reveal for all your momma’s to baby girls too

But first, we have a brand new embellishment collection that we’re excited to share with you!

Here we go! This is your first peek into some of our brand new embellishments! We’ve mentioned how excited we are to introduce “a plethora” of new embellishments! Buttons are such a timeless embellishment that we all love to use so much! Now you’ll have plenty to mix and match with your Bella Blvd papers and stickers! We’ve produced 20 different button items for you including plastic buttons, wooden buttons and button mix collections! You’re going to love how affordable they are! All the plastic and wood button items will retail for only $1.75/each and the Button Mixes for only $2.99. Don’t you want to have them all?!

For samples of projects using the new Button Market collection please visit the Bella Blvd Blog

And now for giveaway time! Want a chance to win some buttons, before they even hit the stores? We will be randomly choosing three winners from today’s reveal. One will receive all the plastic buttons, one will receive all the wood buttons, and one will receive the button mixes. 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 check back tomorrow for day 3.

Welcome to Sneak Peek Week!!! Or maybe I should say Sneek Peek Weeks

We have so many amazing new products to show you, that we’ve decided to make it a full TWO WEEK reveal! Starting today, join us as we share everything that’s new for Winter CHA, all the way through January 27! We will have full product reveals, along with some layout inspiration from our Design Team. And you know we can’t show you all our fabulous new products, without giving you a chance to win-it-before-you-can-buy-it Are you ready to get started? Let’s check out the first new collection!

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“It’s A Boy” exclaimed the doctor as your new bundle of joy was born! During the next few years he will become Momma’s Boy and be constantly On The Go. Capture those baby moments before he grows out of his wardrobe of Baby Blue!

Double Sided Patterned Papers:

Cardstock Stickers:

Chipboard:

Flags:

We are so excited about our newest embellishment, Flags! Flags are such a big trend in scrapbooking right now, and Stephanie has come up with an entire collection of these adorable flags! Each package contains 3 flags, with pearl topped stick pins. The flags themselves are 1.25″ wide, and 5/8″ tall, with 1.5″ stick pins. You will see quite a few of them revealed with our new collections, and then we will have an entire day where we will reveal the entire collection.

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We hope you’re loving what you see so far! And now for giveaway time! We want to give one lucky blog reader a chance to own our new Baby Boy collection, before it even hits the stores. Just leave 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!

“Be Happy” card

Supplies:
Hello Beautiful collection: Thanks a Bunch, Cute Cuts, Borders N’ Blocks, Blue without You, Alpha+Bits

“Happy Birthday” card

I don’t have any kids of my own, but I am an Auntie to four different nephews. It’s a busy household, but only when I borrow them or if they come and visit while their Mommy and Daddies go out for date night. Today’s cards were designed for the many little dudes in my family. Someday it will be my turn to have little ones, but not today … tee hee!

“Grreat” card

Supplies:
Mr. Boy: Borders N’ Blocks, Connect the Dots, Cute Cuts; Sophisticates: Quattrofina Milk & Oreo; Sunny Skies: Alpha+Bits; Super Stud: Super Stud clear stamp; Hello Beautiful: Alpha+Bits; Christmas Wishes: Alpha+Bits

Thanks for stopping by and check out the Bella Blvd Studio Blog for more ideas from the rest of the Design Team.  Have a great day!

My first card was created using Monarch Cherish Varnish Paper and Twinking H2O’s Basic RainbowPack.

Using the Twinkling H2O pack I used ginger peach  and Mallard from the color set. Then I used  Monarch Cherish Varnish Paper which I painted on.  I gave it a slight difference when I painted the patttern since I was using the same paper.  What do you think?

Supplies:

Monarch Cherish Varnish Paper

Monarch Allegro DS Paper

Twinkling H2O Basic Rainbow

Here’s a couple of choices for Valentine’s.  Instead of using paper that’s themed, why not use colors that always carry the same messages of love.

I used Monarch Trefoil Foil paper here and decided not to paint it, but to leave it as is.  The Monarch line also carries stickers, Monarch Happenings Chipboard 5×12.  I used these chipboard letters to add sentiments for my card.

I used Twinkling H2O Basic Rainbow, hot cinnamon.  You’ll find this color in the the Twinkling H2o Basic Rainbow Petite set.

Supplies:

Twinkling H2O Basic Rainbow

Monarch Trefoil Foil paper

Monarch Happenings Chipboard 5×12

My last card was also made with the Monarch collection.

I really want this last card to stand out so I used the Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist, Pearl Gold.  Not sure if you can tell in the photo how shimmering it is, but it really comes up well against a dark color cardstock.

Now that we got some shimmer on the card I wanted to match it up with some Marah Johnson’s Foil Embossed Stickers.  The Stickers come in gold and silver.  Don’t you just love how the gold pops off the card?

Supplies:

Monarch Brocade Varnish Paper

Monarch Allegro DS Paper

Foil Embossed Stickers

Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Pearl Gold Mist

Thanks for visiting today and come back soon for a sneak peek on my next class.

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You have an opportunity of winning one of our colorful prizes: Primary Elements Artist Pigments and All-purpose medium, one of the Twinkling H20’s petite sets or Luminarte’s latest release Silks Acrylic Glaze.

Simply click on the Luminarte GIVEAWAY LINK…. and fill out your survey .

Now go tell your creative friends and family to join the fun! Inform your local store to stop by our Creative Imaginations Booth #1657 at the Craft and Hobby Show. They can play with all our products and take home some great Make & Takes to share with you! 

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“Celebrate The Holiday Together”

Supplies:
Christmas Wishes: Trees for Sale, Quadrants, Alpha+Bits stickers, Chipboard Icons

“Merry Christmas”

Here’s another way to bring some Christmas joy to someone. Using Bella Blvd’s Christmas Wishes and December Details collection I created this card. I mixed the lines again and because the color tones are so close I was able to tie everything together.

Supplies:
Christmas Wishes: Candlelight, Star Stripe, North Pole, Christmas Love, Borders; December Details: Label Additions

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