Chantalle McDaniel's Blog Posts

11.24.17

Hello Simple Stories fans and welcome back to the blog today!

The silly season is fast approaching and it’s a wonderful time to revisit photos of Christmas past. Personally, my shots are always pretty average. Every year I tell myself to play with lighting options before the big day but every year I’m bleary-eyed as my kiddos wake up before dawn, lol.

This page captures a super cute moment between my two when they were a bit younger. Erin was pretty comfy on her big brother’s lap but laughs soon turned to tears as she was asked to sit for one more snap! I’ve used the adorable ‘Oh What Fun’ Simple Set. I love the slightly less traditional colours of this collection and the characters are oh-so-cute!

One of my favourite prints was on a sheet of ’Tis the Season’. I couldn’t resist hand cutting a bunch of the flowers out to use as embellishments! The centres have been highlighted with a bit of glittering dimensional media.

Watch out there Santa! Two stickers have been combined from the Oh What Fun Combo Cardstock Stickers to make as if Santa is walking a bulby tightrope.

The title has been hand cut from the 4x6 Vertical Elements paper in the set. I haven’t cut right to the edge, instead, leaving a bit of the red as a border around the text.

Some typewritten journaling and machine stitching finish the page off…

I changed the idea for the design of this page a couple of times as I just wasn’t feeling it. Eventually, I found a sketch by Kristine Davidson that I liked and used it for reference. I cut a bunch of squares then snipped them in half, adhering and then stitching them down.

Thanks so much for joining me today.

Wishing you lots of fun with your Christmas crafting!

 

Chantalle

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10.27.17

A spookalicious welcome to you today to the Simple Stories blog! Chantalle with you to share a page about some super cute trick-or-treaters, using the ‘Spellbound’ Simple Set.

The background of this page incorporates some hexagon shapes which I have punched in to some white cardstock. Behind the shapes, I have placed some orange circled paper (this one comes from the Summer Days collection). I then used the different patterned stripe print of ‘Something Wicked’ and ran the strips in and out of the hexagonal shapes.

Now the base was ready and I could go ahead and embellish to my spooky hearts content!

I’ve added a touch of watercolour painting over some stamped pumpkins, some fussy cut elements from a sheet of 3x4 & 4x6 Journalling Card Elements and almost a whole sheet of the fabulous ‘Spellbound’ cardstock stickers.

Some machine stitching and typed journalling strips add the finishing touches.

Thanks so much for joining me today.

 

Happy Haunting!

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10.21.17
Hello and welcome to the Simple Stories Blog today!
 
Chantalle with you and I’d love to share a page I’ve created using the oh-so-pretty ‘Beautiful’ collection and a pic of my little one taken a couple of years ago.
 
 
The base of this layout uses a 12x12 floral stencil cut using my Silhouette Cameo. I’ve placed this over a sheet of ‘Choose Happy’ which has a soft and flowy, mint marble print. I loved this paper as it wouldn’t distract too much and the colour would blend with anything I placed over the top.
 
 
Behind the floral lace, I’ve popped some circles which I cut from the ‘Beautiful’ 6x8 paper pad. This gave me the opportunity to incorporate many different colours and prints from the collection into the layout.
 
 
Once I was happy with the background, I went about building up my layers and embellishments, which included a card cut from a sheet of ‘Beautiful’ 4x6 Vertical Elements, which I used for my title. Over the top of this, I have placed a foil finish sticker from a pack of ‘Beautiful’ Clear Stickers.
 
 
There are lots of little finishing touches on this page, like some tiny floral punches, stickers, some hand drawn pen marks and enamel dots. 
 
 
This collection is so versatile - pull out the darker shades and you’ve got the makings of masculine pages or work with the creamy pinks and mints and add soft tones to feminine projects.
 
Thanks for joining me!

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