Odessa Reichel's Blog Posts

07.11.20

Hi everyone! Odessa here. Toady I am sharing some SN@P! pages I made using one of the new Flipbooks and the Simple Vintage Great Escape Collection. I love camping. Planning where we’re going to pitch our tent throughout the summer is one of my favourite things to do in the spring. We have so many beautiful places within a few hours of us and I like to check out as many as I can. Where we live it’s a lot of forest-y campgrounds so Great Escape is perfect to go with all my camping trips!

The new Flipbooks are such a great way to make mini albums that don’t take up too much space on my shelves and work great with the SN@P! cards and embellishments I use in my albums. I used the Simple Vintage Great Escape Wild & Free cardstock to make a cover for the Green Flipbook I chose to match the collection. I was going for kind of a field notes kind of feel with the cover and added a strip of the Time for Adventure cardstock down the edge to mimic a notebook.

To embellish the cover I used one of the Simple Vintage Great Escape Banner Stickers across the front. These stickers are packed with imagery so I kept it simple and used one of the paint chips from the Combo Sticker sheet to fill in the empty frame.

On the first page I have a 4x6 Journal card from the 4x6 Elements card stock with a big tree filled photo underneath it.  I love all the woodsy colours of Great Escape!

I used a phrase sticker and a tab from the Simple Vintage Great Escape 4x6 sticker book to embellish my photo and added in a title using the Basics Alpha Sticker Book. There’s a great range of sizes in some basic colours that make making this title easy.

I love incorporating maps and things like that in my albums, especially from camping trips. I pulled out a map and camping permit to use on this page along with some photos. I used a mix of Washi, Bits & Pieces, stickers, chipboard and brads from Great Escape all over this page. I layered a few different cardstock papers under the camping permit to make it go with the vintage-y look. On the right side I used frames to highlight things. On the night sky photo I used one of the frames from the Combo Sticker sheet. So easy!

One thing I’ve been doing a lot lately is adding instant photo style frames to photos in my layouts. I used the Loose Yourself cardstock to cut a 3x4 frame for the campground map to make it blend in with the page better and added a sweet script chipboard sticker along the bottom. It really helped make the map work with the rest of the layout.

Another reason Simple Vintage Great Escape was so perfect is that I’ve become obsessed with documenting and identifying flowers and plants lately. I used some labels and phrase stickers from the Great Escape 4x6 Sticker book to label my photos in a vintage-y sort of style. I finished it off with a cute 3x4 Journal Card with a chipboard vintage camera stuck on top. It goes great with my plant pics!

Big photos make me so happy! I printed this 6x8 of my boys and kept the embellishing simple with some Bits & Pieces for a title and the ferns and the chipboard hearts and brads along the ferns for a nice border. So simple and sweet.

The last page has a nice trio of photos of my fav guys. I used one of my favourite Simple Vintage Collection things on the 4x6 photo - those little paint chips with colour matched embellishments on top. I think I’ve done that with every collection that’s had them. 

I did another 6x8 layout here, but with a smaller picture. I started by picking out a cardstock background, the hues in Born to Roam are so delicate yet wild. Then I used one of the easy to use Simple Vintage Great Escape Layered Frames over my photo. These frames are an instant way to embellish a photo. I could have stopped there, but I added in some torn paper layers, a couple of small photos and lots of brads and stickers and Bits & Pieces for even more layers!

I hope you enjoyed this look at my SN@P! Flipbook! They are already on their way to becoming a memory keeping staple for me.

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06.24.20

Hi everyone! Odessa here with a fun little project I just finished working on. The new SN@P! Flipbooks are soooo cute, I couldn’t wait to use them. Today I am sharing some of a mini album I worked on in an SN@P! Flipbook using the Simple Vintage Coastal Collection.

Hello beach vibes! I started off by decorating the cover of the Teal Flipbook. I used some paper from the 6x8 Simple Vintage Coastal 6x8 pad to cover the album and then used the cute little paint chip stickers from the Combo Sticker Sheet. The 4x6 size is perfect for documenting a short family trip.

I couldn’t stop there! I then matched up various Simple Vintage Coastal stickers, chipboard pieces and brads that matched the colour of the chipboard to add a little more to it. I love tone on tone layers.

This collection gives of a relaxing paradise feel so I started off my Flipbook with this journal card that sums it up for me. It’s not just a journal card in a pocket though, it’s actually a Photo Flip that I attached to a page protector that flips up for some interactive documenting.

Flip it up and there’s a lot going on under there! The top card is a piece of cardstock from the Simple Vintage Coastal 6x8 Paper Pad cut down to 4x6. On top I used one of the Layered Frames with some alpha stickers from the 4x6 Sticker Book to create a title for my Flipbook. Under that I used a blue Cardstock from the Simple Vintage Coastal 12x12 Basics Kit to create a faux instant photo frame for a landscape photo I wanted to use with a few embellishments on top.

Next up is a big 4x6 photo. I used the Coral Colour Vibes Foam Alpha Stickers on them with a phrase sticker from the Simple Vintage Coastal 4x6 Sticker book. Simple yet bold. The pockets next to it are a little busier with some journalling on a cut out from the 3x4 Elements page with layers of stickers and chipboard on it to tell a cute story related to the photo next to it. Which has brads and stickers and chipboard and die cut flowers to keep up the beachy vibes.

Here I have some more 3x4 Elements along with some photos and simple embellishing. Simple Vintage Coastal looks great all layered up, but also does simple well too. It’s a very versatile collection. Here I used brads, chipboard, phrases and labels to add some simple text to my photos.

These layered striped patterns in the Simple Vintage collections are some of my favourite and I always include them. Here I used the 3x4 Element with a die cut phrase for a simple yet adorable pocket. If you’re looking for some beachy and tropical cardstock and embellishments to go with your photos this collection is it!

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06.06.20

Hi! Odessa here with some birthday fun! The Simple Stories Magical Birthday is my dream birthday collection. Lots of fun pinks and teals and purples, gold foil and all the unicorns! I used Magical Birthday to make a fun SN@P! pocket page using some of my birthday photos.

The Pink Stripe SN@P! Binder is a perfect match for this collection. I used the Magical Birthday Washi Tape over the white strips on the album to liven it up a bit and then attached some of the Magical Birthday Decorative Brads using a strong glue. Easy and so festive!

Inside I used some fun journal cards from the 3x4 and 2x2 elements cardstock. There were so many foil stickers in the Magical Birthday 4x6 Sticker Book. The crown was just what I needed to crown myself the birthday queen! I used washi tape on a couple of the pictures over the corners for a faux photo corner look that matches my embellishments perfectly. 

I couldn’t leave out those Foam Stickers! Even they had some foil on them. I used the little “hi” on the bottom of a photo. I also used one of the cardstock sheets as a background for a DIY journal card. I cut it down to 3x4 and used a journaling die cut with a chipboard sticker and some enamel dots and decorative brads to make the journalling on the page extra fun. If you’re looking for a fun birthday collection Magical Birthday is for you!

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