Spread Joy Christmas Scrapbooking with Bramble Fox

I’m spreading joy today with the festive Perspextives in the December Fox Box! I’ve chosen to use the Spread Joy Perspextive which comes in a traditional green colour. It has lovely details within the O and I wanted it to show up really well so wanted to make sure it was on a white background.

So I started with a white background, and took a sheet of traditional red and green patterned paper from the Simple Stories Boho Christmas collection. I cut this into a large circle shape which I then cut into two pieces. I placed the large piece on the left side of the layout and the smaller piece on the right. The smaller piece was a bit too big for the space and didn’t leave a gap big enough really for the Perspextive title, so I trimmed it down a bit. I then added machine stitching around the outside edges of both circle pieces.

Once both circle pieces were in place, I added my photo and the Perspextive title. I then started to build my clusters: one to the bottom left corner of the photo, one on the top right corner of the photo and one on the small circle piece. I added stickers and ephemera to these areas together with Perspextives stars from the December Fox Box, and a couple of mirrored Persspextives I’ve had in my stash for a while!

I finished off with word strips, brads, tiny stars and splatters of white paint.

Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Autumn Scrapbook Layout with Grid Design using Simple Stories Acorn Lane

 

Autumn scrapbooking makes my heart happy! This layout was my sample layout for a moodboard challenge during the recent GoGo Getaway October 2023 retreat. 

I cut patterned papers into a grid design and added a journaling card and my two photos, with large floral & leafy clusters on either side! I’ve included lots of elements from the moodboard into this layout, I love using moodboards! 

I’ve used the Acorn Lane collection by Simple Stories which is perfect for my photos, and have used several Perspextives by Bramble Fox too, new and old!

Enjoy the video and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates 

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Paper Weaving Scrapbooking using Cocoa Vanilla Studio Heart & Home

Hey everyone, today I’m doing something a little different and am having a go at some paper weaving! I’m using Cocoa Vanilla Studio Heart & Home collection and started off with that beautiful stripy paper called Harvest. I spent a bit of time cutting out all the coloured stripes. They are quite narrow which is why I had the idea for the paper weaving.

Once my stripes were cut, I then cut them all in half. I then took a spare piece of cardstock and arranged the stripes in colour order, onto the cardstock in a vertical orientation. When I was about happy with the order and the size of the stripes altogether, I taped one end of all the stripes to the cardstock. I then took the horizontal stripes and began weaving them into the vertical ones, under, over, under, over etc. I repeated this until all stripes were weaved.

To secure the weaving I carefully peeled the taped ends from the cardstock and turned over the weaved piece. I then made sure the weaving was quite tight and then I put tape all over the back so the stripes couldn’t move. I ended up with a beautiful piece of paper weaving about 6” square.

I then set about making my layout. I added the weaved paper piece to a white card background, added two mounted photos and then added several pieces of Floral Ephemera. I also added a title using the beautiful gold foiled Title Ephemera and a few phrases cut from the Golden Fields paper.

I finished off with a few Puffy Stickers and some splatters of gold paint.

Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Life's a Hoot! Scrapbooking Sketch using Simple Stories Harvest Market and Bramble Fox Perspextives

 

Hey everyone! I'm having fun today playing along with the November sketch challenge over on For the Love of Pretty Paper. 

I've stuck fairly close to the sketch but have moved my photos around a little. I've used Simple Stories Harvest Market collection which is from last year. I've also used Life's a Hoot Perspextive title by Bramble Fox together with those cute wooden owls.

Play along with the sketch over on the For the Love of Pretty Paper Facebook Group.

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Beautiful Butterflies Moodboard Inspiration with Cocoa Vanilla Studio Heart & Home

Hey everyone! Today I am setting the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Monthly Moodboard Challenge! I’m using the Heart & Home collection.

I had envisioned an Autumn themed layout with lots of warm autumn colours that appear in the moodboard, but then I was inspired by the butterfly and went in a completely different direction! I love the butterfly paper in the Heart & Home collection and decided to use that. I cut around the butterflies to create a frame around three sides of my layout.

I then incorporated the other things in my moodboard: two people in my photo, flowers, hearts, cross stitches (on the photo) woodgrain, words & phrases (inspired by the books image and the book print in the background of the waffles image) and if we want to stretch things a little further: my paint splatters are inspired by the sprinkles!

I love how my layout turned out and even though at first glance it might not look much like the moodboard, so many elements on my layout came together because of the moodboard images!

Thanks so much for joining me today and I hope you enjoy playing along with the Cocoa Vanilla Studio November Moodboard challenge!

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Autumn Moodboard Scrapbooking Inspiration with Cocoa Vanilla Studio Heart & Home

 

Do you love or loath moodboards? I love them but I know some people struggle to interpret them. I tackle them by making a list of all the things I see and then I try to incorporate as many of them as possible into my layout.

For the beautiful October moodboard set by Sophie, this is the list I made: acorns, check print, web, leaves, wooden round, circle shape, flowers, words (script font and regular), knitted yarn/wool, pumpkins, woodgrain, the colours (green, orange blue, brown, pink, peach, yellow), Autumn theme. That’s a long list!

I was mostly inspired by the central photo of the wooden round. I used the A5 paper stack sheet of woodgrain paper and cut out the largest circle possible. I distressed the edges. I mounted my photo onto a check print.  I arranged my photo and Floral Ephemera to the right of the circle together with a Ephemera frame. The frame has acorns on it. I arranged all these elements as per the central photo of the wooden round, together with my title too over on the left. So far I’d incorporated: acorns, check print, leaves, wooden round, circle shape, flowers, words, woodgrain, the colours and an Autumn theme. Lots of boxes ticked there!

I added some ink under the area where the flowers would sit. I used a peach shade and then added some darker ink splatters over this area. 

I wanted to incorporate the knitted yarn so took some white embroidery thread and cut three long lengths. I then plaited these and make a piece long enough to go around the edge of my wooden round. I just stuck it in place. I also added a doily under the wooden round, which could (at a stretch) represent the web on the moodboard. So now I could also tick off: web and knitted yarn. That’s pretty much everything except the pumpkins.

I added a few more fussy cut acorns, handwrote my journaling, and added some puffy heart stickers. I also created a little torn area on the left side of the layout backed with patterned paper, to balance out the very large cluster that was over to the right side.

So I think I nailed the moodboard and I hope that you have enjoyed seeing how I tackle a moodboard!

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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It's a Monster Party! Halloween Scrapbook Layout with Bramble Fox Perspextives

 

It’s a Monster Party!! Halloween scrapbooking is so much fun! I adore the Monster Party Perspextive set by Bramble Fox because it is perfect to scrap photos of my very own little monster!

The Monster Party set contains two titles: Monster Party and Yay, three little monsters and a star, all in shades of blue and green.

I’ve used the FaBOOlous collection by Simple Stories and picked out all the black and grey shades for this layout. I’ve used a black background as my base and added a ghost pattern in the middle with a grey strip across the centre. I’ve used four photos, in a few different sizes and arranged these across the layout.

I’ve used Monster Party as my main title but also used Yay and the monsters included in the set too – they are super cute!

I added a few embellishments from the FaBOOlous collection, gorgeous sequins by Spiegelmom Scraps and splatters of black paint.

I love how fun the layout turned out!

Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Boo! Halloween Layout using FaBOOlous by Simple Stories

 

EEK! Another FaBOOlous layout using the FaBOOlous collection by Simple Stories_  This layout didn't quite turn out how I'd originally planned but it is faBOOlously spooky just the same!

I started by trimming down the orange and black checked paper and then I made cuts from the outside edges towards the centre. I positioned this onto a black background and positioned all the pieces, stuck them in place and machine stitched through each one. I added small pieces of orange and black patterned papers to some of the edges and then began tucking ephemera pieces in.

I added two photos in the middle of the layout and build clusters using Floral Bits on their side. I added a Foam Sticker ‘Boo’ as my title.

I tucked in lots of fun Bits & Pieces to the background – I wanted it to look as though the ghost and skeleton were emerging out from the gaps in the background paper. I added Decorative Brads, and lots of Cardstock Stickers too.

I finished off with Enamel Dots and splatters of black paint.

Even though it didn’t quite turn out as I had originally planned, I think it turned out to be a fun Halloween layout!

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Spooktacular! Halloween Scrapbooking Layout using FaBOOlous by Simple Stories

 

Here is my second layout using the fabulous FaBOOlous collection by Simple Stories! For this layout I choose a black background and added large pieces of torn patterned papers from the collection.

I layered my photo together with one of the Chipboard Frames, a tag from the Tags paper and large pumpkin ephemera from the Floral Bits. I turned these elements into one giant cluster on the right side of the layout.

I added a title ‘Spooktacular’ from the Foam Stickers and then continued to build up the large cluster. I added more Floral Bits, more Bits & Pieces, Decorative Brads, Chipboard Stickers, Enamel Dots, and Cardstock Stickers. I raised a lot of these elements up on foam pads to give the layout extra dimension.

I finished off with some journaling strips and splatters of black paint over all the embellishments.

Thanks so much for joining me today and happy haunting!

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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FaBOOlous! Halloween Layout using FaBOOlous collection by Simple Stories

 

Hi everyone, here is a new layout for Simple Stories using the FaBOOlous collection! I adore Halloween so was super excited to cut into this collection.

I started off with that cute orange pumpkin face paper which I trimmed down and folded over one corner. I made a feature out of that folded corner by including lots of Floral Bits and Bits & Pieces.

I added my two photos over on the right side of the layout together with the large FaBOOlous word from the Page Pieces. I built another cluster over to the right side of the title, including Floral Bits, Bits & Pieces, and Cardstock Stickers.

I then created a feature in the top right corner using Chipboard Stickers and word stickers from the Cardstock Stickers.

I added Decorative Brads and Enamel Dots to each of my clusters and added splatters using black paint.

This layout turned out so fun, I love it and I hope you enjoyed it!

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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