Hi beautiful Simple Stories friends, Cristina here with you today to show you a new project I made with a brand new collection Bro & Co. This is a collection very useful for boy memories, full of colors and designs that perfectly match with daily elements for a young boy.

I have no boys in my life, not young neither old, ahahahahaha so I decided to use this beautiful collection to keep memories of a young man so precious for someone else I deeply know and love.

I chose a really amazing patterned paper with tiny triangles and I used it as a base of my page, then I cut out a beautiful cut file, you can find it on the simple stories silhouette store. I used a lovely camera and cut it from a wood patterned paper from the Sn@p Wood Basics collection that I totally fell in love with. The paper really seems to made from real wood!

I really enjoyed playing with these elements, colors and designs, they are totally different than those I usually use but I think creative person can always go ahead and try to match her taste with other ones. We can learn so much about ourselves and discover so many other
creative ways to improve our creativity.

I chose my decorative elements from all the products available. I totally love the high quality, chipboard, foam stickers, ephemera die-cuts and enamel dots. You can really choose by so many different elements for your own projects, I totally loved the shoes, the earphones, the old tape that reminds me of how I listened to music in my youth.

That’s my project and I hope you like it and can get any kind of inspiration from it. Please don’t forget to leave us a comment below and tell us what your ideas are on how to use this collection.

If a sunny day has you longing for a walk in the woods, the Simple Stories Simple Vintage Great Escape Collection is for you!

The collection is loaded with vintage images of flora and fungi straight out of your favorite field guide!   I love the realistic images that are a feast for the eyes.

The prints include plaids, stripes, topographical prints, geographical maps and watercolor wash botanical prints.

The colors are a sumptuous mix of mint, greens, rusty earth tones, and a pop of aqua.

This collection has all the goodies you expect from Simple Stories like Chipboard, bits and pieces die cut images, stickers, washi and decorative brads.  Everything is perfectly color coordinated so you know it’s all going to match perfectly.

My cards were made with the 6x8” paper pad that is ideal for card makers.   I layered the papers over solid cardstock prints from the basics pack.  It’s perfect for adding layers and breaking up prints.

I love the inspiration sentiments that encourage me to make the most of every day, to enjoy the simple things, and discover the wonder and beauty of nature!

Whenever I go for a hike I can’t resist stopping at every treasure I find – an animal track, a mushroom or lichen, or pretty flower or butterfly, or just the sound of a woodpecker knocking on a tree.

These cards make perfect notes for the nature lover’s in my life! I think the images are just gorgeous and I know they will too!

Hey everyone, Michelle here today with a new layout to share using the  Kate & Ash collection.  I started off this layout by cutting out some banners from the Simple Stories cut files in the silhouette store.  I used the Sweet Banner and the Love Banners.

After my banners were cut, I stitched around each one with my sewing machine using black thread.  I wanted to add pops of black since m y photo was black & white.

My favorite thing about this layout is the title and sweet banner.  As soon as I saw the word Sassy in the foam stickers pack, I knew this was the photo I had to use!

I added a lot of little embellishment clusters on this layout.  Lots of word stickers and enamel dots (these are my fave!!)

I really enjoyed working with this collection.  The colors and patterns are so much fun!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hi! I´m back and in a very  special way! Today I will show one of my favorite projects ever! A rainbow that will make you smile every time you see it! I'm Celes from GuiadeManualidades.com and I’m inviting you to create your own rainbow…

I've been planning this project for weeks. Preparing all cutting files and trying them to make sure everything will work in the best way. And…. here it is! Finally! My Rainbow Album for all of you!

I prepared all the cutting files for this mini book. You will find the archives in .FCM (Brother ScanNCut), .SVG (for other cutting machines), .PDF (for printing and cutting by hand), .PNG, .DXF and .studio3 (in this case you will have one file with all you need)

The first thing you need to download all the cutting files (the ones you need according to your cutting machine or if you are going to cut by hand).

IMPORTANT: if you are using a cutting machine, before cutting you material, please try all go them. Just cut them in paper and check that every piece fit in the correct way. This will help you in case you need to resize some of them.

My final project is around  10 3/4” w x 5 1/2” h.

I will explain some details of the cutting files first. You will find a lot of cutting files. The first one is “RAINBOW-BASE-AND-INTERIOR”: use it to cut 2 pieces of stable cardboard and two pieces of white paper. The second one is “SHAKER-FOAM-ACETATE/SHAKER-FOAM/SHAKER-ACETATE”: you will use the one that fits better according to your cutting machine.  Use it to cut 2 pieces white foam (the rainbow with the inside stripes) and 1 piece of acetate (rainbow outline). The third one is “SHAKER-RAINBOW-COLOR-PAPERS-COMPLETE/ OR 1,2,3,4,5”: you will use the one that fit better according to your cutting machine (you will find some with all the 5 pieces or one for each color) use it to cut the pieces of the rainbow (choose 5 of your 6 colors). The fourth one is “RAINBOW-PAPER-BORDER”: you will use the one that fits better according to your cutting machine. You have to cut 3 or 4 strips of white cardstock to cover all the rainbow shaker outlines. If you prefer not to cover the foam border, you don’t need to use this file. The fifth one is “BACK-RAINBOW-COMPLETE/OR 1,2,3,4,5”: you will use the one that fits better according to your cutting machine. Use it to cut the pieces for our back rainbow. Remember to use the same colors as the ones for the cover. The sixth one is “INTERIOR-PAGE”: you will use the one that fits better according to your cutting machine. Use it to cut 2 pages of each color you chose for the inside of the album (6 colors, 12 pages in total). The seventh is “INTERIOR-PAGE-DECORATIVE”: you will use the one that fit better according to your cutting machine. Use it to cut the interior pages (design paper) to add to your color pages. Cut as many as you like. It will depend on the way you decorate every page.

First thing to do is to prepare the stable cardboard pieces. For my project I cut 2 pieces of stable cardboard using the cutting file “RAINBOW-BASE-AND-INTERIOR”. And I cut 2 extra pieces of stable cardboard of  2 1/2" w x 4 1/8" h. You have to use white cardstock to cover all the pieces of the structure. Once you finish that, you can glue all pieces together.

Now we have to make 2  basic spines. For making them cut 2 pieces of white cardstock paper of 11 1/4" w x 3 7/8" h. Then you have to scored it in 2", 2 1/2", 3", 3 1/4", 3 3/4", 4 1/4", 4 1/2", 5", 5 1/2", 5 3/4", 6 1/4", 6 3/4", 7", 7 1/2", 8", 8 1/4", 8 3/4", 9 1/4”.  As a result you are going to have 2 classic spines with 5 hinges each one. Another detail you can add are small strips of color paper between them. As my pages are going to be in rainbow colors, you can use those papers to cut the small strips. We are going to use 6 color papers for the inside of the album. The first and the last strip will be bigger than the other ones. So, you need to cut 4 strips of your first color (pink in my case) of 3/8" w x 5" h. And then, you will cut 2 strips of each one of the other colors (5 colors) of 1/8" w x 5"  h. Glue them in the right place. Once your spines are ready, you can glue them in the interior of the mini album structure. While you are doing it, please check that they are aligned.


Now we are going to work on the cover. The first thing to make is the shaker. Cut 2 pieces of white foam and 1 piece of acetate using the cutting file “SHAKER-FOAM-ACETATE/SHAKER-FOAM/SHAKER-ACETATE” in the way I explained before. Glue both pieces of foam together. Then, you have to glue the new piece to the cover. Let it dry off as much time as it needs.

Then, cut 1 piece of each color (the 5 colors you chose for your cover) using the cutting file “SHAKER-RAINBOW-COLOR-PAPERS-COMPLETE/ OR 1,2,3,4,5” in the way I explained before. Besides, choose five colors of small beads to fill the shaker. Please, choose the same colors as the papers you cut before.

Once the foam piece has dry off, fill it with the five colors of small beads. Place and glue the acetate piece. Let it dry off as much time as it needs. Then, you can glue each piece of the rainbow in the right place.

Another detail to add is to cover all the rainbow shaker outlines. You can use the cutting file “RAINBOW-PAPER-BORDER”. This is optional. 

To close the album we are going to make a simple stripe of paper. Cut 3 pieces of white cardstock of 1" w x 4 1/2” h. Glue them together.  Besides, cut 1 piece of foil paper of 3/4" w x 4 1/2” h. Glue the foil paper on top of the first piece we made (add one magnet, place it on one end of the strip). Let it dry off and then score it in 1" and 3 1/2”.

Glue it in the center of the structure but before remember to add the other magnet. Once this is ready, you can finally add the 2 pieces of white cardstock we cut at the beginning.

Let´s go to the back of the album. Use the cutting file “BACK-RAINBOW-COMPLETE/OR 1,2,3,4,5” in the way I explained before. Cut every color and glue them to the back.

Cover: to complete all the decoration I added some rolled flowers, one wood phrase and some foil hearts. For the flowers, you have to use the same papers that you use before for cutting the shaker. Place them in different places and add your favorite phrase or word. You can use the glue gun for this.

When you finish your cover… it’s time to go to the interior!

Use the cutting file “INTERIOR-PAGE” in the way I explained before. You will cut 2 pages of each color you chose for the inside of the album. Then use the cutting file “INTERIOR-PAGE-DECORATIVE” to cut the interior pages (design paper) to add to your color pages. Cut as many as you like. You will see I decorate every page in different ways. Sometimes I add the design paper page but other times I don´t. You can even make hidden pockets when adding the design paper piece to the color page. Bring all you got to your table… As I always say…  magic begins! You can make as many interior structures as you like. Another idea is to use the strips you have from the cuttings you made for the cover, to make a special rainbow. Glue or sew them at the beginning and at the end and in some places in between. You can add small photos with clips or wooden clothespins. Other idea: make a pocket with vellum and decorative brads.  Use all you have. Die cuts, stickers, chipboards, enamels dots and washi tapes.

Once all your 12 pages are ready it’s time to glue them together and add them to the structure. Glue both pages of the same color but leave the bottom of the rainbow without glue. This will give us the “small pocket” we need to add the page to the album.

To add the final page to the album you need to put glue on every hinge. Remember that every page will have two pockets. Each one for each spine. Put glue in the first pair of hinges and carefully add your page. Check that your page is aligned to your cover. Once the first page is ready, you can keep going with the rest of them.

As you can see, this album has a lot of space for pictures and to keep special memories.

I hope you like this idea! Enjoy the process… and fall in love with your rainbow..

Have a happy day

CUTTING FILES LINK: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wcjoq5kjgax1odd/AADzP4hmiMMIGD50TLZ9gyAma?dl=0

Hi there, it’s Emma back with you today, to share how I’ve used the Bro & Co collection in the Navy Sn@p! Flipbook. I choose to use the 6x8 flipbook with this collection and covered the front with the fun star print 12x12 paper, I literally just cut to size and used double sided sticky tape to attach, then I used a 4x6 element and some chipboard pieces...oh and of course some enamel dots and a little star brad for additional detail. 

I love how you get an assortment of pocket pages in the 6x8 flipbooks. Here I did a couple of layouts to fit in the full 6x8 pages. 

Then for the pocket pages that offer two 4x6 pockets. I used foam sticky tape to layer up stickers and die cuts, I also used some more brads. 

This last image I used the page which gives two smaller 3x4 pockets and a 4x6 pocket below. 

You can also add pages to your flipbooks really easily, so if you were wanting to make it super chunky, then you can! I hope you’ve enjoyed flipping through pictures of my flipbook! If you’d like to see more of how I use simple stories products, pop over to my IG page

Hi! So happy to be here again! I´m Celes from GuiadeManualidades.com and today we are going to create beautiful things together! You are going to fall in love with the new collection… Simple Vintage Great Escape! It’s so wonderful and full of amazing details.

This collection is perfect to prepare a mini book for a special journey. That’s what I’m going to show you today… But this time we are going to combine two types of projects in one big album. We are going to make an album with three journal notebooks and a lot of space for photos, collecting memories and to add everything you want. Let´s get started!

First thing to do is to prepare the stable cardboard pieces. For my project I cut 3 pieces of stable cardboard : #1- 7” w x 8 1/2” h (cut 2 of it), #2- 2 3/4” w x 8 1/2” h. I used two of the collection kit papers and one of the basic kit to cover all the structure. I also picked one design paper for the interior. But, you have to wait to add the inside paper until you prepare the spine.

I made a basic spine but I left some spaces for three journal notebooks. For making it cut a piece of white cardstock paper of 9 1/4” w x 6 1/2” h. Then you have to scored it in 1 ½”, 2”, 2 ½”, 3 1/4”, 3 3/4”, 4 ¼”, 5”, 5 1/2”, 6”, 6 3/4”, 7 1/4”, 7 3/4”.  As a result you are going to have a classic spine with 4 hinges and 3 free spaces between them. As a special detail I added small stripes of color paper between them. Once the spine is ready, you can glue it in the interior of the mini album structure. Please, glue it in the center.

After that, you should add 6 eyelets above and below the spine. We are going to add an elastic cord and they will be ready for our journal books.

Next, we are going to prepare the cover. Before starting with it, you have to pick a decorative ribbon. Glue it to your structure. For decorating the cover I used: one layered frame from the collection, a small picture that I printed before starting, made some flowers with the papers of the Color Vibe collection (in this case I used a model from Paige Evans, you will find it in her store), some foil and foam 3D.

If you like, you can design the cover in a different way. But as I love flowers and chose this very special photo for me… I made this composition. I also added two capital letters for New Zealand (this album is for that special trip that I made a year ago)

Time to go inside!

First, we need to make three journal notebooks of  6” w x 7 1/2” h. You can use three papers from the collection kit to make all the covers. If you have a binding tool it will be fast and easy to make them. In my case, I made 3 notebooks of 10 pages each one.

Besides the notebooks, we have to make four pocket pages. For them you need 4 papers of 13” W x 9” h. Score papers in 6 1/2” (w) and finish the pocket pages. The final measures are 6 1/2” w x 8” h.

We have all we need ready… time to decorate! My favorite part of the creative process! YAY! We are going to decorate all our pages and journal notebooks. You can use all you have. Die cuts, stickers, chipboard, enamels dots, foam alphas, brads, stamps, hemp cord, washi tape. The idea is to leave as much free space as we can to add a lot of pictures. You will see that I added some hidden pockets and special structures in every page. Besides, I added some pockets to the interior of the journal notebooks.

IMPORTANT: If you are planning to make some inside structures as cascade or anything else, you have to add them before you glue the pages together. The same thing happens if you are planning to decorate with some brads as I did.
You can see some of my pages here. When you finish decorating them, you can glue them to the spine.

Remember to decorate your journal notebooks before adding them to the album.

I hope you like this idea! Create as much inside structures as you like and leave a lot of space for your beautiful photos and memories… you are going to love your album!

See you next time!
 

Hello Simple Stories friends!

Nathalie with you today with a new project that brings all the shades of the rainbow to a page.   The new Color Vibe collection is not just a companion to the amazing Simple Stories collections, but also the best and colorful collection to bring a rainbow to a page.  Let me show you!

All the new texture cardstock of the Color Vibe collection creates the color and interest in the page.  I started with a cut file from Handipaper.  

 I used papers from the Color Vibe Brights and Color Vibe Lights to back the rainbow and large floral of the cut out.  A bit of foam adhesive helps to add dimension to the cut out.

In addition, i used the same papers to back separate floral diecuts making sure i used the same Color Vibe papers for it.   The texture in the cardstock brings extra interest to the diecuts.

I used Color Vibe Basic and Color Vibe  Lights to back the pictures of my little one, and decided to use the Warm White Color Vibe as the background.  Once i attached the picture and rainbow to the page, i added the small floral clusters along with sticker embellishments from the I AM 2020 collection and Magical Birthday collection in coordinating colors.

To complement the colors in the rainbow design on the page, i decided to use Color Vibe Foam Alphas (Pink, Coral, Orange, Yellow, Green, Robin's Egg and Teal) and the  Color Vibe Basics Alpha Sticker alpha.  But before gluing the title down, i created a strip of all the papers i used on the page as a way to anchor the title to the page.

This page is just a small burst of color, and all created with the new COLOR VIBE collections.  Be sure to check the cardstock and foam alphas you will love them!!

XO

Hi Friends, is Dorymar today sharing a gorgeous flipbook with the brand-new Kate & Ash Collection. I have two teens girls and I am in love with this collection. Kate & Ash collection is perfect to document many moments of your teen girl.

I decided to use the 4x6 pink flipbook because is the perfect match for the collection. On the cover, I created a fun collage with the fantastic icons of the collection. They have great colors and fun images. As a title, I used “Hey Girl!” foam sticker from the collection, I think this is the perfect phrase to describe what you can see in the inside of the album.

I used as a background of my cover the b side of the “Super Like” paper. This paper has many colorful dots and I used the enamel dots of the collection to highlight the dots and add a little bit of texture.

I love to add interactive pages on my projects, so here you can see how fun they turned!

Unlike snap albums, flipbooks do not have their own dividers and an excellent way to personalize it is by creating your own page dividers, below you will see how much fun your project can be if you decide to add a different touch to it. To create my pages, I used white cardstock. In these first two pages, I created a page with several flaps and in the other, I created a fun shaker because they are very fashionable these days.

A fun way to use the 2x2 cards is to create fun flaps like these!

Creating your own pages gives you the option to add many more photos in many sizes and allows you to also use the beautiful icons of the collection. This is fantastic!

For this page dividers, I created a different way of pockets.  One of the pages is an envelope and on the other page I incorporated a flap and a side pocket with a tag.

Inside the pocket, you can find two cards to add photos or journaling!

The bellyband on the backside of the page holds to 3.5”x 3.5” cards for a cool interactive look. 

Here you can see how pages match perfectly with the pocket pages included in the album. 

The colors and print on this collection are FABULOUS and when I started to work, I wanted to use all the papers and beautiful icons and I found the perfect way to use them, creating my interactive pages.

I had so much fun during the making, this is a great project to document your teen!  I hope this project inspires you to create your own one.  This is a great way to jump into the new flipbooks, they come in many colors, sizes and you can add extra pages.  Please check all the new products on the Simple Stories page and follow me on my IG page @dorymar_pl.

Happy crafting!