Simple Stories & JustNick Team Up

Howdy! Layle here with you today. We have a fun week planned for you - a Simple Stories & JustNick Digital Cut Files Team Up!

Both design teams have swapped 'products' and will be sharing on our blogs all week long for some great inspiration! Let me tell you, if you fancy digital cut files then you're in for a treat! Nicole Nowosad, creator of JustNick, is super talented and has a fabulous library of cut files available!

Today creative team member Chantalle McDaniel joins us with two Hello Fall layouts -

Hello Simple Stories fans and welcome back to the blog today for a special JustNick swap. I’m a big fan of Nicole’s designs and am very happy to be able to work with her cut files again!

I’ve created two projects to share with you, both using the beautiful new Hello Fall collection and the JustNick Stems 2 and Rustic Leaf Frame cut files.

This page captures a little family escape after my DD was ill with a week-long bout of fevers a couple of years ago. Inspired by the beautiful colour palette in the Hello Fall line, I have used a touch of mixed media to add a bit of rustic charm to my page.

Unfortunately, capturing the true sheen of metallic paint on camera continues to elude me! I have used some copper and bronze acrylic paints with a brayer on some heavy duty cardstock.

I really like the way these stems are arranged in a grid pattern for display. It definately influenced the way I laid them out after I had cut them on the Silhouette Cameo. TIP: To save time, I trimmed my chosen sheets from a Hello Fall 6x6 pad down a bit and laid a piece in each of the four corners of my cutting mat. This way, I was able to cut four different shapes in one run.

These awesome large letters are from a pack of Hello Fall Chipboard Stickers. I’ve left out the ‘F’ so it just spells ‘all’. (In Australia we use Autumn more commonly, so I will keep my big ‘F’ for another project.) Behind the lettering, you can see a snip of the die cuts and metallic paint peeking through.

To complete my title, I have used the word ‘together’, which is a chipboard sticker from an older 'We are Family’ collection. It was just the right phrase, size and colour. Lucky me!

To document the day, I’ve run some white cardstock through my typewriter and then stitched the journalling to my page using a sewing machine.

You’ll notice a few more details behind that journalling… some fine golden thread and some crackle texture paste which has been applied through a botanically themed stencil. I just love the way one can see a bit of the bottom layers through the fine cracks.

These Stem cut files are so versatile. Change up the colours and you’ve got spring/summer foliage or add a touch of glitter for a festive touch.

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My second page captures the moment my Sister’s dog met a hedgehog for the first time. I sincerely hope that one day, I too, will get to meet one of these cuties in real life!

For this page, I have used the Just Nick Rustic Frame cut file with some white cardstock. I’ve rotated it slightly and snipped it in half, arranging each half on opposite sides of the page.

Before I adhered my cut files down, I ran a sheet of Hello Fall ‘Piles of Smiles’ through my typewriter to add some notes directly to my page. As a guide, I drew some light pencil marks beforehand, so I would knew exactly where to type.

I then adhered the cut file frame and built my other elements around them.

It was so only after I was pretty much done that I realised the page was missing something… a few splashes of colour applied with a water brush pen and some watercolour paints really tied all the elements together and made the white cut files feel less stark.

There are few finer details on this page like fine mist work and some mini stickers. I created these little DIY numbers by using a punch and some Hello Fall Stickers.