FUN | For the Love of Pretty Paper Sketch | Simple Stories Say Cheese Classic Mouse

Sunday, 2 February 2025




Hi everyone, here is this month's For the Love of Pretty Paper Sketch which I've been playing along with. It's a really fun one with all those tags. I've used Simple Stories Say Cheese Classic Mouse, and really loved bringing this sketch to life! Enjoy!

Happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates  






 

Happy Birthday | Cocoa Vanilla Studio | Bloom & Grow

Monday, 27 January 2025

 



Hey everyone, here is a new layout for Cocoa Vanilla Studio using the beautiful Bloom & Grow collection.  I added a large torn strip of blue floral paper across the layout together with a woodgrain strip, and then I added lots of gorgeous florals: some are fussy cut and some are Floral Ephemera.

I added a label sticker for my title and journaling. I added the word ‘happy’ as part of my title, which is from the Gold Puffy Titles pack from the Deck the Halls collection. I’m on a mission to use up the last of the remaining words from that pack and am now at the stage of only having a few single words left, so it was fun to try and think of how to use them by extending them with the Mini Puffy Alphabet stickers from the Bloom & Grow collection. I simply added ‘birthday’ in the little letters to make the perfect title! (It’s his birthday in the photo!)

I finished off with phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet and some gold fabric hearts and some puffy hearts too. I love how this one turned out and it was quick and easy to make!
Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Snow Happy | Simple Stories | Simple Vintage Fresh Snow

Thursday, 23 January 2025

 


Hey everyone, have you seen the beautiful Simple Vintage Fresh Snow collection by Simple Stories? It is simply stunning...those blues have my heart! For this layout I choose a plain background and layered my single photo in the middle with Ephemera, Bits & Pieces and lots of Floral Bits! I also used loads of rub-ons which are fast becoming my new favourite product!

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates 

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Sweet | Simple Stories | Heartstrings

Wednesday, 22 January 2025

 


Hey everyone, here is another layout for Simple Stories using the gorgeous Heartstrings collection! This time I wanted to use that simply fabulous heart paper as a main feature on my layout, so I started by cutting a large piece of it to use on the right side. I fussy cut around the hearts to give a shaped edge.

I used two photos, stacked together in the middle and added a sticker of bunting from the Cardstock Stickers in the middle, this added a bit of separation between the two photos.

I added two titles: ‘Sweet’ from the Foam Stickers, and ‘adorbs’ from the Cardstock Stickers. There are so many lovely titles on the Foam Stickers and lots can be used generically instead of just for Valentine themed photos.

I added a few embellishments around my photos: flowers from the Floral Bits and a gumball machine from the Bits & Pieces – so cute! I also added a few of the phrase stickers from the Cardstock Stickers, I always love to use those as the phrases are always brilliant and so easy to use!

I added a few Decorative Brads and some Enamel Dots. I also handwrote my journaling and finished off with some splatters of white paint! I think it turned out really cute!

Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping!

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Love | Simple Stories | Heartstrings

 


Hey everyone, here is a new layout for Simple Stories using the gorgeous Heartstrings collection. I always love Valentine’s collections and this one is no exception, I particularly love the colour palette, with pinks, oranges and reds are just fabulous and I love the pops of blue and green too!

For this layout I wanted to showcase the papers, so I cut nine hearts out of different papers. I distressed the edges of each one and raised them on foam pads onto a white background. For the middle heart I wanted to include a heart-shaped photo, so I used one of my hearts as a template to draw around the part of the photo I wanted, and then hand-cut slightly within those lines to make my photo slightly smaller than the patterned paper heart. This way it had a nice border around the edge.

I then set about making each of my hearts into a mini scrapbook page! Lots of the hearts have a small photo. We had a ‘gal-entines’ party for my daughter and her friends – they go to a girls’ school so there are no boyfriends on the scene so they decided to celebrate their gal friendships instead! At the party we had cookie decorating, lots of pretty decorations, pizza, music and lots of silly fun! So all the little photos show some of those things.

I was worried the small photos were a little too big to go on the hearts, but at the right angle they looked ok and the hearts still maintained their heart-shape without too much being covered. Some of the hearts contain titles from the Sentiment Bits, and the bottom right heart has a little clipboard journaling spot, for me to write my journaling.

I added Floral Bits to each heart together with Bits & Pieces, some of the small hearts from the Foam Stickers, Decorative Brads and some phrase stickers from the Cardstock Stickers.

I finished off with a few splatters of black paint – I love the pops of black in the collection so the black splatters were the perfect addition!

I love how this one turned out! Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Year One | GoGo Getaway Sketch Challenge | Bella Blvd School is Cool!

Tuesday, 21 January 2025

 



I've been playing along with the recent GoGo Getaway January 2025 Cybercrop, and my challenge this time was a sketch challenge - my favourite! 

I've used the School is Cool collection by Bella Blvd and a large photo (trimmed down from 6x8)

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates 

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Christmas Time | Cocoa Vanilla Studio | Deck the Halls

Thursday, 16 January 2025

 


Hey everyone and happy New Year! I’m afraid I’m still scrapbooking my Christmas photos, so here is a layout for Cocoa Vanilla Studio using the gorgeous Deck the Halls collection.

I wanted to use that gorgeous green paper as my background so I trimmed it down a bit and mounted it on white. I added a strip of the with paper with ditzy stars (OMG this paper has my heart!) and then added my photo, which is my nemesis size: 6”x8” landscape! I always find using that size photo a huge challenge and annoyingly all the ‘professional’ photos from school and when visiting theme parks etc all seem to be in that size! I trimmed it down a bit to 7”x5” which I prefer and gave it a white border with some copy paper.

I then added lots of pretty Deck the Halls embellishments: Floral Ephemera, Ephemera and Chipboard Stickers. I created two clusters either side of my photo. For my title I used ‘Christmas’ banner from the cut-apart sheet and added ‘time’ from the gold puffy alpha stickers. I finished of with little puffy stickers and some splatters of white paint!

I think that’s it for my Christmas layouts…other than my December Album which needs my attention!

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates 

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Wild Adventure | For the Love of Pretty Paper Sketch | Simple Stories Say Cheese Wild

Monday, 13 January 2025


Hey everyone, I've been playing along with the new January 2025 Sketch over on For the Love of Pretty Paper. It's a DOUBLE page sketch, which was fun to use! I've used four enlargement photos and stuck very close to the sketch. I've used the Simple Stories Say Cheese Wild collection for this one!

Happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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