Simple Stories - Game Night - Family Tradition

Today I'm sharing a new layout featuring the fun Game Night Collection from Simple Stories. This collection is packed with images of dice, playing cards, game pieces, and classic board games and is perfect for scrapbooking your memories of game nights. I love that this collection uses the classic primary colour scheme with bold reds, blues, yellows, and greens. The collection also has a vintage, nostalgic vibe and was exactly what I wanted for my layout.

I started by layering vertical strips of "It's Your Turn", "No Cheating" and the B-side of the "2x2/4x4 Elements" paper. I also mixed in a woodgrain strip from Echo Park's Wood Grains collection for a bit of contrast and to echo the woodgrain background in my photos.

For texture I tore the edges of the paper strips and arranged them onto 12x12 sheet of yellow cardstock, leaving a narrow border.  I machine-stitched a white straight stitch around the entire perimeter to add more texture.

 

Two 6x4 photos were matted with more yellow cardstock and placed on the layout. Two die cuts from the Bits & Pieces pack were used to embelish.

Using my Silhouette, I welded two words in different fonts together to create a custom large-scale title. I then cut this from yellow and black cardstock and attached it to the layout.

To the left of the title I layered more die cuts. I was careful how I glued only the outer edges of the die cuts so that they created a pocket into which I was able to place my journalling tags.

I cut the journaling tags from the "Tag Elements" paper and printed my journalling on the computer. To finish the tags off, I strung them together with some black and white baker's twine before tucking them into the pocket.

Photoplay - Christmas Junque - Oh Christmas Tree

Today is the eve of Epiphany, which means the Christmas decorations are coming down tomorrow! 🎄 To say a proper goodbye to the season, I’ve created a new layout featuring my Christmas tree. I used the gorgeous Christmas Junque collection by Photoplay, which I think was the perfect match for the photo.

I started with a sheet of  Mrs. Claus Bakery paper. While I originally saved this for a festive food-themed layout, I realised that by layering embelishments to hide the 'Bakery' reference, I could use the entire sheet for this tree layout instead.

After printing my photo slightly smaller than A4, I double-matted it using Christmas Time paper and gold mirror card. I then stuck it to the right-hand side of my layout.

From the Collage Cut Out Sheets I fussy cut several images, matted them with gold card and used them to embellish the photo. Stars from more gold card were also included.

A fussy cut arrow was used to pinpoint a favourite ornament in the photo.

To cover the 'Mrs. Claus’ Bakery' text, I used a cut-out piece as a pocket. I secured it to the layout using gold brads, which added a touch more gold to the layout and also hid the original paper's theme.

I printed my journalling onto a tag, created a red tag top, threaded it with some red and white twine and tucked it into the pocket.

Tucking a few additional cut-outs into the pocket created a layered, cluster effect that gave more interest to the layout.

At the top of the layout I added a die cut title and finished it off with a scattering of gold sequins and punched cardstock stars which carry the gold theme across the whole layout.