DECK THE HALLS/SIMPLE STORIES

Happy Holidays, friends! Tis the season to be jolly and I’m all for it! I’m excited to share my holiday album with you. The Yuletide collection is beautiful, and I just love the vintage feel of this collection!

For those of you who have been inspired by my albums, you know I love creating these SNAP albums and I pretty much set these albums up a certain way. Sure, I like to embellish the front of the album with ribbon, papers, and embellishments, but I also enjoy adding little touches here and there that makes the album pop. It’s the little details that matter… I embellished the spine with decorated brads and chipboard. I like to do this with all my albums so that I can easily determine what theme the album is when they are all lined up on my bookshelf. I like to decorate the back of the cover and the chipboard pages using rub-ons, too. I just love the quality of these rub-ons…and let’s not forget about the notebook pages…these pages are perfect for writing a letter to Santa… who’s been good this year?

I used the rub-on sentiments for the different chipboard tabs. I love how pretty these tabs look all lined up… what do you think? I’m hoping to give you a few fun ideas to start your holiday album!


I adhered a 6x8 patterned paper from the Yuletide Paper pad to create a fun insert page. I glued the poinsettia at the top right-side of the page to add dimension and added the stars at the bottom.

Next, I matted a 4x6 photo using the chipboard frame with Santa. I glued the sled die cut at the bottom and tucked some holly behind it to create a fun cluster of embellishments. I mounted the chipboard bells at the top with the “together” foam square to spread out the embellishments a bit.

Here is a fun pocket page spread I created using the tag cut-apart sheets, foam stickers with a variety of die cuts layered at the bottom to create a fun flip card.

This is the flip card. I like how when it’s fully opened, it looks like another 6z8 spread. Also…you may have noticed the holly covering some faces… yes… I did that on purpose since they are no longer part of the family. Sorry, friends…but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to keep family members happy when flipping through your albums. And it’s a great photo so I wasn’t going to not include it…

I LOVE this spread so much. I love the reindeers… and how the chipboard title looks at the top. The little girl is a die cut that I carefully placed between the deer. Isn’t this beautiful?

Since this is a holiday album… I had to include a fun pocket page for letters and fun tags that can be removed and tucked back in. I added the “letters to santa” rub-on at the top with the stars for fun.

I can’t wait to add a few more pages to this album. What are your favorite elements of this beautiful collection? We’d love to hear your thoughts. I just love the vintage feel of this collection with the reindeer, little girls, and all the beautiful embellishments. Check out the full collection, here. Thank you so much for visiting today!


Nicole



Products Used:



Simple Stories SNAP Album Lime

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide 6x8 Paper Pad

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide 12x12 Tag and Journaling Tag Cut-apart Sheets

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide Chipboard Clusters

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide Bits & Pieces

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide Decorative Brads

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide Floral Bits

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide Chipboard Frames

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide Rub-Ons

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide Big Bits

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide Foam Stickers

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide Chipboard

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Yuletide Ephemera

WINTER ALBUM/SIMPLE STORIES

Hello, friends! I'm excited to share my latest little flipbook album I created for Simple Stories using the Snow Pine Lodge collection. It's such a cute collection and I thought it would be perfect for a winter album of my fur-baby playing in his first "real" snow.

I used a variety of chipboard and foam stickers to decorate the cover of the album. I added the decorative brads to fill in the white space. Next, I tied a bow around the spine of the album and glued the decorative brad to the bow to make it more pretty.

I always like to embellish the back of the cover with a variety of chipboard, die cuts, rub-ons, and foam stickers to make it fun. Don't be afraid to cut the chipboard to make it work. I cut the coat so that I could use part of it for this page.

I cut the woodgrain paper from the cut-apart sheet to use as a fun insert page. I mounted a tree die cut to the trees using foam squares to add dimension. Next, I cut the floral die cut in half and glued it at the top of the page and added the decorative brads. Aren't those brads beautiful! I love them all.

This is one of my favorite pages from this little flip book. Doesn't it feel like winter? I used the "Let it Snow" rub-on sentiments across the bottom to create a fun title for the page. I hand-journaled on the cut-apart sheet to share a little about our adventure.

This is another page from the cut-apart sheet. I used lots of foam squares to make the layers. This was a lot of fun to make...I especially had fun with the snowflakes.

I created this flip page by cutting two 3x4 journaling tags together and folding the page in half. I used double sided tape to mount the folded cards directly onto the plastic sleeve. 

For the inside, I added the tag with some string, a little snowflake and some journaling. Super simple!

This is another flip page I created cutting two 4x6 cards together and folding it in half. I tucked several flowers/embellishments slightly behind the photo to fill in the white space.

The chipboard frames in this collection is perfect for framing your photos! I matted the photo behind the chipboard and trimmed the excess photo and mounted it directly onto the plastic sleeve. I added the 4x6 journaling card inside the sleeve to add the patterns in the background. Next, I used double sided-tape to add the trees and snowflakes.

For this page, I added the die cuts and rub-ons directly onto the picture. As you can see, I love playing with embellishments...these albums are super fun for me to make. It's one of my favorite things I love about this hobby...making albums for my friends, and family...and myself. of course. 

Isn't that snowman adorable? I used foam squares for the sticker fox and squirrel to pop them up off the page. The "Love & Joy" is a 3x4 card I cut from the cut-apart sheet.

Simple Stories has so many fabulous collections out this season and I am here for them all... Are you ready to create an album? Check out the full Snow Pine Lodge collection, here. I hope you're having a wonderful weekend! Thank you for visiting me, today.

Nic

FRIENDS/TRINITY STAMPS

Hello, friends! Nicole here with a fun scrapbooking layout I created for Trinity Stamps. This layout was created from scratch using white cardstock, metal dies, stamps, and markers! I just love finding creative ways to make the best use of my supplies.

To begin I stamped the Reverse Floral Background stamp onto white cardstock using blue ink and then cut out the square to use as a fun backdrop for the layout.

Next, I stamped the Sketchy Florals onto white cardstock in black ink and used the Sketchy Florals Coordinating Die Set to cut out the image. I colored in all the flowers using markers.

I cut the cluster of flowers in half to use at the bottom and top of the layout. I used the Bitty Tags Die Set to create two small tags and tucked them slightly behind the photo. The stars were created using the Zip Gift Tag Die Set.

For the title, I used the Modern Embossed Alphabet Die Set to cut from white cardstock. Then, I colored in the alphas using the same markers I used for the flowers. I used the metal hearts from the 4-Bar card & envelope builder Stand Along Die Set to create the hearts below the title.

I had so much fun creating this friendship layout! I just love how all the different products came together and helped this layout bloom! Isn't it beautiful? To complete the layout, I added some beautiful gems to the flowers!

I hope you found this layout inspiring! Thank you so much for visiting today. Be sure to check out all the beautiful products in the shop!

Nicole