Paper, Alpha Cards and Embellishments by Sweet Bella

Sweet Bella offers paper and embellishments to sweeten up your artwork. Stylize, then, incorporate their unique hardware of giant pins and large naked buttons to get your next project up and off the drawing board in a big way.  Or how about creating a banner, gift decorations or other fun things incorporating these contemporarily ‘vintage’ looking alphabet cards?  And don’t forget to check out their double sided glossy papers in a sweet combo pack. All in all: a sweet offering.

Hardware Embellishments

Sweet Pins make any project sweeter. Use Sweet Pins to bind pages, books or mini photo albums or to decorate pages and packages. And don’t forget to dress up your pins, they’re NAKED!!! Use your favorite fabric or paper to dress up your buttons. For a flat back, remove the shank with a pair of pliers or leave the shank in so you can sew your newly dressed button onto your project. No tools needed to put your button together.

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Sweet Pins
3/4” x 4 1/8”; 3 pins per pack
Price: $7.95
SKU: 5SB-PINS

Alpha Cards

Made from recycled fibers, these sweet alphabet cards feature four different designs using the full alphabet and with two extra sets of vowels in each pack, your embellishment options for gifts, pages and decor are wide open.

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Papier
Price: $6.95
SKU: 5SB-ALPHCARDS

Papier

Here’s a sweet fact: these 12 x 12 glossy papers are double sided and come in design names such as Postage, Vintage Book, Vintage Poster, Worn Poster, Crate and Vintage Orange.  That’s two each of six designs. Now that’s a sweet deal.

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Papier
Price: $11.95
SKU: 5SB-PAPIER

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Bird Song Pop-Up Book
By Cher B. Lashely

Cut two pieces of chipboard, then, two pieces of decorative cardstock slightly smaller than the chipboard. Download and print various images from Memories of a Lifetime: Birds & Butterflies (5SPBIRDS&BUTTER): die cut, edge with gold leafing pen and set aside. Collage the fronts of chipboard using vintage papers, wallpaper scraps, etc. Embellish one of the layered chipboards using a prepared image, Large Flowers - Winter 1 (5PM-506551) with gold rhinestone from Adhesive Rhinestones - Maison (5KC-564787) center and other tidbits of your choice: this will be the front cover. Collage the backsides of the chipboards starting with the solid color of the Sweet Bella Crate paper (5SB-PAPIER), then, tear printed side to incorporate into collage, along with antique text papers, a prepared image on each piece and rubber stamping (M4749 - Patterned Flourishes; 5AMSTAMPSET - A-B-Seas alpha stamps) for interest.

Cut a circle from vintage (or other) fabric according to the pattern enclosed with the metal Sweet Button (5SB-BUTTONS). Leave the shank in place. Pull fabric taunt around the metal to the back of the button and under the serrated edge, then, place backing over and push down with your fingers until seated. Embellish the front with a round punched image and appropriate text.

Cut a slit slightly longer than the width of the dressed button, then, another approximately ¾” below it to prepare the decorated cardstock for the pop-up page. Collage front and back in the same manner as the chipboard. Punch two ovals from a tea stained file folder, then, stamp with images from Cavallini’s Birds & Nests Rubber Stamp Set (5CSTAMP/BRD) and edge with gold. Place ovals where intended, then, punch two holes at sides and two more corresponding holes in the cardstock. Thread ribbon through right oval hole, along back and back out of left hole: thread the ends through the cardstock holes and tie on other side. Stamp text with A-B-Seas alpha stamps (5AMSTAMPSET). Punch two holes, one above slit and one below, for large pin to slide through.

Cut and glue vintage (or other) fabric for spine of book. Wrap a piece of tea dyed muslin around outside bar of a Sweet Pin (5SB-PINS) and tie into a square knot. Thread pointed bar of pin through fabric, in and out of punched holes of cardstock, then, back through fabric and clasp. Hang a Small Altered Aged Tag (5SG-8146 - Discontinued) from pin’s bottom loop using metallic thread.