Hey everyone! Here is a new layout for Simple Stories using
the gorgeous Heart Eyes collection! This is a Valentines themed collection. I’m
always a huge fan of Valentines collections because I find hearts and love so
versatile…I love my children, I love our house, the activities we do and the
places we go…hearts go with everything! I particularly love this collection because
it doesn’t just consist of reds & pinks, but also has turquoise and bright
orange too, which makes it so versatile.
I’ve used a photo of my three children. I wanted to use that
super gorgeous paper with multicoloured hearts. I decided to feature this as a
large section so I fussy cut around one edge of the hearts, trimmed it down a
bit and added it to the bottom part of my layout. I tore a strip of pink paper
and added that behind it and left the top 4” of the layout white. This
horizontal line across the layout gave me a place to add my photo and my title,
as well as lots of embellishments.
I mounted my photo onto pink paper and added the word Adore
from the Foam Stickers to the left of it. I layered a large heart from the
Journal Bits behind my photo and pulled out some flowers, more hearts and flags.
I arranged these around the photo as well as along the horizontal line on the
layout.
I extended the embellishment cluster on the corner of my
photo down a bit too, adding lots more hearts from the Cardstock Stickers, and
Decorative Brads too. I also added Enamel Dots, dotted around the layout.
I finished off with splatters of white paint and a line of
handwritten journaling.
Thank you so much for joining me today and happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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Hey everyone, here is another layout using the Simple
Stories Pet Shoppe collection. For this layout I focused on the spotty paper which
I cut at an angle and placed onto my white background. I layered this with the yellow
striped paper. I always enjoy using patterned papers on my layouts but this can
sometimes be tricky especially is the paper is very busy. I usually combat this
problem by pairing the pattern with some white space, which is what I have done
here!
I chose to use one photo of my little boy with some guinea
pigs which I mounted and placed across the paper layers. I balanced it out with
a guinea pig journaling card ‘it’s guinea be a great day’ and other journaling
layers too.
I’ve used a title from the Foam Stickers ‘life is better
with you, and I added lots of super cute guinea pig embellishments. I also added
other animals, I tucked these into the paper layers, I love how they look like
they are peeking out!
I then embellished the spotty paper. I doodled some circles
around some of the spots, I added Decorative Brads to some, enamel dots to
others and I also added raised heart stickers to some too. This just added an
extra level of details and dimension to this side of the layout and it was fun
to do!
I finished off with my journaling and splatters of white
paint. I really had so much fun creating with the Pet Shoppe collection! I hope
you enjoyed seeing my layout.
Happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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Hey everyone! Here is a new layout for Simple Stories using
the totally adorable Pet Shoppe Collection! There are three Pet Shoppe collections,
the one I’m using features small pets such as rabbits, guinea pigs, mice,
lizards etc. There are two other Pet Shoppe collections too: Pet Shoppe Cat and
Pet Shoppe Dog.
Our family actually doesn’t have any pets which is something
which my children would love to change! To compensate for this, we regularly visit
our local farm which offers a small animal petting experience, where we spend a
fun hour playing with the rabbits and guinea pigs. They also have a rescue chicken
who also comes to play, and it takes place next to the llama enclosure, so we
get to pet the llamas too. It is always fun, and it is a really good way for
the children to interact with animals!
For this layout I decided to feature some of the bright fun
patterns from the Pet Shoppe collection. I couldn’t choose between them as I
love them all so much, so I decided to feature small strips of them all. I cut
strips in various sizes and arranged them vertically. I machine stitched them
in place and curled up the ends to give extra texture and dimension.
I arranged three photos horizontally across the strips which
I mounted first on journaling cards. I then had lots of fun adding
embellishments. These photos featured rabbits so I set about picking out all
the rabbit embellishment I could find. The rabbits in this collection are just
so cute and adorable! I used three from the Foam Stickers and one from the Bits
& Pieces.
I added stickers from the Cardstock Stickers and more Bits
& Pieces. My title is from the Foam Stickers and I also added Decorative
Brads.
I finished off by handwriting my journaling and adding
splatters of white paint.
Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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Hi everyone, here is a new layout for GoGo Shopaway using
the very lovely Jen Hadfield Stardust Collection. I have found this collection
so much fun to use, it is very generic and therefore it’s been versatile and
easy to use.
For this layout I picked out a pink diagonal paper which I
trimmed down to 10” and stuck to a white background. I distressed the edges and
folded them up to give them lots of dimension.
I then fussy cut lots of speech bubbles from one of the
Stardust patterned paper. I mainly focused on the pinks and blues because those
colours matched the aprons we are wearing in my photo. I also fussy cut some
concentric hearts from another sheet of paper. I mounted my photo and stuck it
in the middle with all the speech bubbles pointing to the photo.
For my title I used the Stardust glittery Thickers. I had to
slightly re-arrange some of my speech bubbles to fit it in. I decided to keep any
further embellishments minimal so as not to detract from the speech bubble
effect so just added little foam diamonds and enamel dot diamonds in between
the bubbles. I also added some crafty Bramble Fox Perspextives from my stash. I
finished off with white splatters and my journaling.
I really love how this turned out. Th speech bubble paper
was so fun to use and this layout would be super easy to re-create, so give it a
go!
Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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Hi everyone! Here is my version of the January For the Love
of Pretty Paper Sketch! I’ve used Jen Hadfield Stardust and chosen to use a
black background with multicoloured stars. I love this paper so much.
I then used the striped paper from the Stardust collection
to cut several stars. I then scored each one to make them 3D and arranged them
around my photos. I also used one of the pre-made rosette stickers and lots of
little embellishments. I’ve used the gorgeous glittery Stardust Thickers for my
title.
I hope you have enjoyed this layout, I love how it turned
out!
Happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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Hey everyone! Here is a layout I made for Simple Stories
using the Simple Vintage Winter Woods collection. This collection is perfect
for snowy or frosty photos!
I wanted to showcase some of the beautiful patterns in this
collection from the 6x8 Paper Pad so I selected a few and punched some
snowflakes from each. I then used the Simple Vintage Winter Woods Stencil and a
blue ink pad to create some stencilled snowflakes onto a white background. Amongst
the stencilled snowflakes I added the punched snowflakes. Some are layered and
offset to give extra dimension.
I added my photo layered with one of the Chipboard Clusters
in the middle of the layout together with some ephemera from the Bits &
Pieces packs. I added a large title to the right of the photo together with
lots more embellishments including Foam Stickers, Decorative Brads, Bits & Pieces
and Enamel Dots.
I was going to leave it there but I had quite a few leftover
punched snowflakes so I stuck them randomly all over the background together
with some little water droplet gems from my stash. I finished off with
splatters of white acrylic paint.
Thank you so much for joining me today. I hope you’ve
enjoyed seeing the gorgeous Simple Vintage Winter Woods collection, it’s is
just so pretty and I have loved working with it.
Happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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Hey everyone here is a new layout for Simple Stories using
the very beautiful Simple Vintage Winter Woods collection. This collection is so unbelievably pretty
with all the soft pastel snowy tones and I couldn’t wait to dive right in!
I was instantly drawn to the cross hatch paper and decided
to use that for my background. I trimmed it down and distressed the edges, then
mounted it onto a piece of paper from the 12x12 Basics Pack.
I cut a circle from white card, which I then cut into pieces
and distressed. I then added this to my background as a central feature.
I then added my photo which I layered with one of the
Chipboard Clusters and some ephemera from the Bits & Pieces pack. I tucked
in several snowflakes from the Woodland Bits & Pieces to the slices of my
circle and created a couple of embellishment clusters with these, some Foam
Stickers and more Bits & Pieces.
My title ‘love never melts’ is from the Foam Stickers, how
adorable is that phrase! I added more Foam Stickers, Decorative Brads and
Enamel Dots.
I finished off with splatters of silver paint. I’m delighted
with how this layout turned out, this collection is super pretty and perfect
for frosty photos.
Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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Hey everyone! Have you seen the Baking Spirits Bright
collection by Simple Stories? I absolutely adore it! It is obviously Christmas
themed and is about Christmas baking! Even if you aren’t a baker yourself
though, it is packed full of fun icons, embellishments and prints that work for
generic Christmas photos too.
My favourite icons in this collection are the gingerbread
men! There’s a whole pack of Gingerbread Bits & Pieces which are just so
fun! We ‘make’ a gingerbread house every year (well actually I buy a pre-made
kit and we just stick it together and decorate it!) so this collection is
perfect to document those photos!
I really wanted to use the paper with the gingerbread people
all over it but as a full sheet it may have been too busy for a background, so
I cut off the top half of the paper, carefully fussy cutting around all the
people. The result was a gingerbread people – shaped border! I added this to a
piece of red paper from the Baking Spirits Bright collection which gave me a busy
top half of the layout and a more plain lower half of the layout.
I mounted my photo into one of the Chipboard Frames and positioned
this on the right side of my layout. I added a title from the Foam Stickers
underneath and added embellishments from the Foam Stickers, Bits & Pieces
and Gingerbread Bits & Pieces around the frame.
I also made a little embellishment cluster of little items
from the Bits & Pieces underneath the title, and I added some raised stars to
the gingerbread background too. I finished off with a couple of lines of
journaling and some splatters of white paint.
Thanks so much for joining me today, I hope you like the
layout!
Happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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Hi everyone, I’ve been playing along with the December
sketch over at For the Love at Pretty Paper. The December sketch is Christmas
themed and has baubles on it!
I’ve used the Baking Spirits Bright collection by Simple
Stories, which is adorable! I made layered circles for two of the baubles and
the third is a folded paper rosette. I’ve decorated the layout with loads of
Bramble Fox Perspextives, I just adore all the Christmas ones!
Happy scrapping and merry Christmas!
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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