FUN | For the Love of Pretty Paper Sketch | Simple Stories Say Cheese Classic Mouse
Sunday, 2 February 2025
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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