Fun with Elements!

Hey Simple Stories fans! Nicole here today to share a few projects using cut apart/element sheets in different ways! I love how each Simple Stories collection has different sized element sheets that can be simply clipped out for you to get creative with!

For my first project “Summer is a State of Mind”, I started with the cut apart sheet from Summer Days [1]. I was too tempted to use a lot of the different cards and patterns, so I chose a few favorites and clipped them down a little to make some simple banners on my page.

You can see that I varied the size and shape of the pennant designs and then added in some smaller sized patterned papers to add to the flow of the pennants.

 I love how the cards provided me a simple title for my page – one of the hardest things for me to decide to do on a layout is the title!

Now that my pennant designs were all ready to go, I was able to add some Cardstock stickers [2], Decorative brads [3] and Bits & Pieces [4] to embellish each pennant quickly and easily too!

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For my second layout, I took a more simple approach to the use of the cut apart sheet in the Hello Lovely Simple Set [5]. I chose the “Hello Lovely” 4x6 journaling card [6] from the sheet and used it as the title on my project.

The bold black adds a pop! to the page and creates a great focal point for the layout to come together. I added in some simple strips of paper from the Hello Lovely Simple Set [5], mixing in a little blue paper from my stash.

All there was really left to do is add some Cardstock Stickers [7] from the collection using foam adhesive to pop them off the page slightly, and of course a few enamel dots [8] I had left over from the Life in Color collection.