Multiple Photo Layout using Boho Christmas | GoGo Getaway Challenge

 

Hey everyone! Here is a layout I made for a GoGo Getaway challenge at the recent Cybercrop, which was to use multiple photos – four or more!

I choose to document a series of photos from a day out last year when we went searching for Nutcrackers around our local town. I had 8 photos to use! I printed them quite small and then mounted them onto two photo strips. I’ve used Simple Stories Boho Christmas collection and some Bramble Fox Perspextives that I believe I got in the Advent Calendar last year.

I love how it turned out and even though I was initially a bit scared of using so many photos on one layout, I think it ended up great!

Happy scrapping and Merry Christmas

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Oh What Fun! | For the Love of Pretty Paper Sketch Challenge | Boho Christmas

 

Hey everyone, today I'm playing along with the December Sketch Challenge over on For the Love of Pretty Paper Facebook Group. I've used Boho Christmas Collection by Simple Stories and lots of Perspextives by Bramble Fox

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Noteworthy Travel Memories using Bramble Fox Fox Box

 

Today I’m scrapbooking some noteworthy memories using the January 2024 Fox Box and a travel collection by Simple Stories called Here & There. I’ve used a circular paper as my focal point and layered two photos on the left side and balanced those out with a journaling card on the right.

My title gets centre stage right in the middle of the layout. The word ‘noteworthy’ fit beautifully in between the two clusters. I extended the title by using a piece of ephemera that says ‘memories’.

I also used some arrows from the new Arrows set, and the ‘take note’ tab also from the January Fox Box. I’ve also used some of the Paper Snips #049 – two stars and several lovely phrase strips.

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, using Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days

 

Hey everyone! I was determined to make Christmassy layouts in December but I don’t have any Cocoa Vanilla Studio Christmas Collections anymore – I loved them so much that I used them all up at the time! So I’m using the two latest collections, Happy Days and Heart & Home and getting Christmassy with those! For this layout I’ve mostly used Happy Days but the big green stars are from Heart & Home.

I love 3D stars and stars are perfect for Christmas. I also love modern Christmas colours, so pink & turquoise mixed with greens and golds so it was absolutely no problem for me to make a Christmas layout with these colours!

I settled on a horizontal design across the layout but I also added a little pink ink as a base colour and some splatters of the pink and gold paint too. I used several of the specialty paper Gold Frames from the Happy Days collection.

I picked out my papers and then used metal dies to make lots of stars. I then scored them at all five points, and folded them to make the 3D stars. I added flowers and hearts from Happy Days in the same colours.

For my title I used a mixture: ‘wonderful’ and ‘time’ were the chipboard words from Happy Days, ‘the’ and ‘of’ were the gorgeous gold word Ephemera from Heart & Home. The little letters are the puffy mini alphabet stickers from Happy Days.

I love how it turned out and I think it is very Christmassy!

Happy scrapping!

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Summer Love Scrapbooking with Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days

Hey everyone, today I’m missing summer so have gone back to using Happy Days! I’ve used photos from my little boy’s 5^th birthday this year when we spent the day at a water park having lots of fun.

I started off with the turquoise paper which I cut into a large circle, and I added this to a white background. I mounted my three photos and added them to the circle together with two colourful stripes from A5 paper stack. I also added that gorgeous tassel ephemera from the Die Cut Ephemera.

I then added some floral clusters using a mixture of Floral Ephemera and fussy cut flowers. For my title I used one of the Chipboard Titles and the lovely Mini Puffy Alphabet Stickers. I added some puffy stickers and handwrote my journaling as well as adding some white paint splatters.

I hope you enjoyed this layout, it was fun to go back to summer time, I adore this bright happy collection so much!

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Naughty or Nice? Fussy Cut Presents and Multi-Font Title Christmas Scrapbooking with Bramble Fox

 

Fussy cut presents and a multi -font title! Today I’m using the Define Naughty Perspextives set from the Bramble Fox Shop. I had a couple of great photos that this set would work well with.

I decided to use some offcuts of patterned papers I already had cut from the Simple Stories Boho Christmas collection, I layered these up on the left side and right side of my white background.

I placed my two photos on the left and then in the big blank area on the right, I started to build up stacks of presents, made up from lots of fussy cut presents cut from one of the papers.

I added my title using the ‘define’ and ‘naughty’ words from the Perspextive set. I also used alphabet stickers to add the ‘Dear Santa’. Together the title reads, ‘Dear Santa…define naughty…’ which I think is really cute.

To my present stacks and to the clusters around my photos, I added as many other Bramble Fox Perspextives as I could. I have quite a few left from the previous two years Advent Calendars. I used two wooden gnomes (how cute are the!) and a couple of sweeties, and the North Pole signpost.

I finished off with splatters of black paint and lots of teeny star and heart stickers.

Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping!

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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HoHoHo | Christmas Scrapbooking in Quarters with Simple Stories Simple Vintage Tis the Season

 

Hey everyone! Here is a new layout using the Simple Vintage Tis the Season collection by Simple Stories. This collection is packed full of beautiful florals and traditional Christmas colours.

I started with a large photo that I trimmed into a square shape. I decided to go for a quadrant design with a different square of patterned paper from the Tis the Season collection in each quarter of the layout. Once my papers and photo were in place I set about with all the beautiful embellishments.

I added one of the large Chipboard Clusters to the top left quarter, layered with some Floral Bits. I added the word ‘joy’ to the Chipboard Cluster, which is a title from the Foam Stickers.

I added three large red Floral Bits to the lower left quarter and added a & sign on top, together with some word strips from the Cardstock Stickers.

In the top right quarter, I added more word strips, a journaling spot and some Decorative Brads.

In the quarter containing my photo I’ve kept the embellishments to a minimum, so have just a few very small embellishments right in the corner. I also added my title, HoHoHo, also from the Foam Stickers across the bottom of the layout.

I finished off with a few splatters of black paint and I hand wrote my journaling into the journaling spot above the photo.

I hope you enjoyed seeing this layout come together, I really enjoyed making it and working with the Simple Vintage Tis the Season collection!

Happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Christmas Scrapbooking with Oversized Tags using Simple Stories The Holiday Life

Happy holidays everyone! This layout is my second layout using the gorgeous The Holiday Life collection by Simple Stories.

For this layout I decided to make some giant tags! I chose a few of the patterned papers and cut the into tag shapes: three large ones in varying sizes. I also cut two little tags from the Tags paper.

I stitched around each of my tags using my sewing machine and also tied each one through with ribbons. I then arranged them onto a white background and worked out where my photo was going to go! I then started to build my clusters of embellishments. I used the rub ons to add gorgeous floral details to a few areas of the layouts. The rub-ons were a pleasure to use, really easy to position and transfer.

I added a few house embellishments over on the left side of the layout and lots of other smaller embellishments, from a mixture of the Bits & Pieces, Floral Bits and Cardstock Stickers. I also added a few Decorative Brads.

I added a few phrase stickers from the Cardstock Stickers, which I distressed the edges of and raised up on foam pads. I find this was that they show up really well against a patterned paper.

I finished off with some journaling and splatters of black paint. I love how this one turned out, those oversized tags are so fun!

Happy scrapping and happy holidays!
Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year | Christmas Scrapbooking with Simple Stories The Holiday Life

Hey everyone, here is a new layout for Simple Stories using the gorgeous The Holiday Life Collection. I’ve really enjoyed using this collection, it contains quite traditional Christmas colours and it full of cute florals and icons, such as houses, that are just adorable!

I really loved the paper with all the houses I cut it into strips and mounted those strips onto a piece of solid red paper from the same collection. I then cut this out and made a feature of it for a large part of the background of my layout.

I added my title to the top of the feature paper, it’s from the Page Pieces pack. I created a cluster around the title, cascading down onto the houses. I’ve used a mixture of Bits & Pieces, Cardstock Stickers and Floral Bits.

My photo is a portrait photo of my front door and my gorgeous Christmas Wreath that I made (with the aid of a wonderful kit). I mounted this onto green patterned paper from the collection, and I offset it with a couple of journaling cards. I created a cluster here too, again using a mixture of embellishments such as Bits & Pieces, Floral Bits, Cardstock Stickers and Decorative Brads.

I finished off by hand writing my journaling and adding splatters of black paint.

Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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Bright Colourful Scrapbooking using Shimelle Main Character Energy and Bramble Fox Perspextives

Hey everyone! We recently had so much fun at GoGo Getaway October 2023 and today I’m sharing the GoGo Shopaway challenge. It was a 5, 4,3,2,1 challenge: 5 word or phrase strips, 4 different patterned papers, 3 wooden items, 2 photos, 1 star.

I have used Shimelle Main Character Energy. I loved the paper with the circle segments and I cut this apart and arranged the segments onto the background. I added machine stitching around some of the segments. My 4 patterned papers are: the circle segments paper, the patterned border, the photo that I mounted my photo on, and the tags are from a cut-apart sheet.

I added 5 phrase strips to the left of my photos, and added other embellishments on top of the circle segments: 3 wooden circles by Bramble Fox, one includes a star. That’s two more criteria ticked. My two photos are another one...and I’ve fulfilled the challenge criteria, yay!

I used a Bramble Fox Perspextive as my title ‘Enjoy Life’ which is very fitting for these photos. I also added a few more Main Character Energy embellishments around the title and also added lots of little enamel hearts around the layout. I finished with handwritten journaling and splatters of white paint.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my slightly crazy challenge example! Happy scrapping!
Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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