Cristina Sales's Blog Posts

08.26.20

Hi beautiful Simple Stories friends, Cristina here with you today to show you a new project I made with the fun and summery Summer Farmhouse collection. I made a mini album to make a gift to a lovely friend and this collection was perfect to make a ring album full of amazing designs.

I decided to make a mini album because I really like this collection and I wanted to be able to use it as much as possible. I chose a ring album that has a very versatile binding and that allows you to choose the structure of each page as you go ahead. Since most of the photos chose were made vertically I chose to make a vertical binding for 4 + 3/4 x 9 + 1/4 inches sizes.

This kind of binding is also very suitable to add page protectors and those chosen were obviously of a different size so I cut them out at the junction point of the pockets and sewed them to the photo inside to solve the issue of the side left open.

I also added some cut file with beautiful sentiment to sew them to the pockets, I really love how they turned out because that was the perfect mood I wanted to have.

This summer collection is really different than other because it is full of original designs suitable for creating summer pages but not necessarily sea-themed. Then all the papers have very high quality, It does not flake on the score or tear when you are wrong to attach
a sticker and you have to remove it. It has a high weight and has a wonderful smell, yeah I love to smell paper and the Simple Stories ones have a smell that I totally love.

I hope my project can inspire you in some way so thank you so much for joining me today and see you next time.
Bye.
Cristina xxx

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08.08.20

Hi beautiful Simple Stories friends, Cristina here with you today to show you a new project I made with a brand new collection Simple Vintage Great Escape. This is another vintage style collection I totally fell in love with. Beautiful designs mixed with soft colors and delicate icons that perfectly match with my taste.

I looked through the papers of collection kit many times before I decided which ones to choose because I really loved all of them. Finally I decided to use the one with a map pattern and a really soft green shade and the one with vintage designs and big words that reminds me the shabby style I really love so much.

I decided to use a pic about a journey in Sicily because there I remembered many colors like those inside this collection. That ones I chose were perfect!!!

I really enjoyed playing with these elements, colors and designs. The vintage style is totally different that I usually use but especially this is very soft and versatile so I had so much fun playing with it and making this page.

I chose my decorative elements from all the products available in this collection such as chipboard, ephemera die-cuts and the clear stamp. All the products are really high quality and the clear stamps are made in photopolymer that is the best way to have a very perfect stamp.
So that’s my project and I hope you like it and you can get any kind of inspiration by it. Please don’t forget to leave us a comment below and tell us which is your own idea on how to use this beautiful new collection.

Thank you so much for joining me today! See you next time!

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07.22.20

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.

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