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cha summer 2013: simple stories

Three new main collections from Simple Stories – Say Cheese, Smarty Pants and December Documented, a christmas inspired extension to their Life Documented philosophy.

 

 

 

 

cha summer 2013: simple stories

Eight new ranges in Simple Stories Snap Sets, covering everything from everday life, to love and family and specific sets for boys and girls, and baby boys and girls.

 

weekend inspiration: simple stories

 

Simple Stories Vintage Bliss line is full of colour, clouds and vibrant typography, three elements Danielle really enjoyed featuring in her scrapbook page. With this design, words have as much a place in the design as the photo does! Danielle used various journaling card and feature strips from the Vintage Bliss line, and particularly loved the patterned paper full of large, patterned alphabet letters. Here she used this for her main title, a primary feature of the page.

 

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Kim's favourite scrapbooking brand is Simple Stories.  She has loved every range they have released and 24/seven was no exception.  In fact, she loved it so much, she created these three beautiful layouts using the 24/seven collection kit.  Kim comments that she loves the huge range of embellishments that come with every range, making it easy to quickly put together perfectly coordinated layouts.  The 24/seven range features lots of word embellishments which Kim particularly loves.

 

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How cute is this layout that just screams summer by Tonya Dirk from the Simple Stories Design team.  We love the woodgrain background and the starburst sun.

 

 

Simple Stories Design Team member created the above layouts to record her daughters' birthday party using the beautiful Vintage Bliss line.  She decided to use the page protector route just because she had so many photos she wanted to include, and the softness of the Vintage Bliss papers allow the photos to stand out perfectly.

 

 

 

 

Finally, the superbly talented Becky Fleck from Page Maps created these cards for Simple Stories full of wonderful details using both the 24/Seven and Urban Traveller collections.

cha winter 2013: simple stories

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

weekend inspiration: simple stories

 

Leeann really loves so many of the pattern papers in the fabulous collection by simple stories, which she then decides to create a sunburst pattern from the papers. She finished this page off by adding the coordinating stickers and label tags.

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Jill has turned the journalling pockets into a little minibook for journalling throughout the year.  It would be so easy to keep photos, ephemera and memories throughout the year as well as incorporating some of the more "personal" stuff hidden in the pockets.

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Gail Lindner is an Australian member of the Simple Stories design team, and we loved her pages.  In her first layout she showcases the gorgeous new Harvest Lane range, which as she rightly points out on her blog, is just as great for boy pages as it is for ‘fall’ ones!   Above she has used the Summer Fresh line which captures and reflects the sunny feel of her oversized photo.

 

 

 

 

Theses next two pages are by Kay Rogers  who also is a design team member for Simple Stories. Kay has used the summer fresh collection. Such fantastic page designs showing of all those patterns of paper that are rich and vibrant. Thank you so much Kay for letting us share two of your fabulous pages. you can see more of Kay's work here.

 

We simply adore this page by Tina Walker. Tina has used the summer fresh collection.We love the patch work and the placements of embellishments and that oversize title really rocks. Thanks so much Tina for letting us share your page.You can see more of Tina's work here.

2012 cha summer: simple stories - take a hike

Simple Stories final release is a super outdoorsy themed range, as they off the beaten track from their seasonal lines to introduce a new rough and rugged Take a Hike release – a campy collection that’s all about your rustic outdoor adventures.  From nature inspired yellows, greens and oranges, to deep woods blues and browns, not to mention touches of dark woodgrain, stripes, dots, plaids and chevrons mixed in with oh-so-campy icons and elements – it’s the perfect collection for your outdoor adventures.

 

 

2012 cha summer: simple stories - handmade holiday

Simple Stories Handmade Holiday is full of warm thoughts, well wishes and simple handcrafted designs – so gather your Christmas keepsakes and memories to add to this homespun holiday collection.  From fabric-inspired mix and match plaids, ginghams and checks to handcrafted touches like muslin, kraft, stitching and more, Handmade Holiday might just be all you need to create a simple cozy Christmas.

 

2012 cha summer: simple stories - harvest lane

Grab your favourite jumper and take a stroll down Harvest Lane.  With rich teal, crisp green, deep red, golden yellow and rustic orange - plus pops of kraft, wood and homemade goodness, Simple Stories new Harvest Lane is a bushel full of homespun happiness.  It's the perfect collection for celebrating your seasonal homemade memories. 

You'll see that they have added new Expression Cardstock stickers - that include a huge assortment of all the bits and pieces you need to tell your story.  Plus by popular demond Simple Stories has introduced new Simple Basics Collection Kits that include one of each of the Simple Basics papers so you have all your basics covered.

 

2012 cha summer: simple stories - sn@p! life

Introducing Sn@p! Studio by Simple Stories.. a happy, snappy new way to document your colourful life! From brand new binders, pages and pockets in juicy, delicious colours, to oh-so-fun stickers, catchy quotes and snappy sayings – our bright and vibrant Sn@p! co-ordinates and collections make it so easy to capture your everyday moments in a snap!

 

weekend inspiration: simple stories

 

 

Leeann couldn’t wait to get scrapping with this line 100 days of summer by simple stories. What Leeann loved the most was all the diecut papers and borders. Leeann took her inspiration from these papers. She wanted to showcase them as well as photos. First Leeann made her own negative from a trimmed sheet of white cardstock gave it a light mist. Layered it onto the pattern paper and started to arrange the die cuts and stickers. Once happy adhere all the die cuts and photos under the negative, added some machine stitching for extra detail.

Leeann also added machine and hand stitching to the negative and then adhere the negative in place using 3D foam for dimension. Leeann finished the page off by layering stickers and punched shapes from the papers.

 

The Baby Steps range from Simple Stories co-ordinated perfectly with the sweet photo of Louise W's youngest son. She created her own embellishments by fussy cutting the hot air balloons out of the paper and adding some thread to attach it to the fussy cut heading, to give it the appearance of flying. Some Prima flowers and diecut scrolls finish the look and add softness and movement to the page.

 

 

Tina Walker shares a couple of pages with us using a couple of lines from simple stories. She has used the life documented line here and we love how she has layered all the die cut cuts and borders lengths. Teaming it with a fabulous photo from the past!

 

 

We also love this page that Tina walker created using the Destination line by Simple Stories. Thank you so much Tina for letting us share some of your creations.

 

This fabulous sign was created by Kim Holmes and uses the new Aweso{me} range from Simple Stories to create a warm, yet masculine look. The large type, subtle inking and layering make it very clear it's no girls allowed! You can see more of Kim's work on her blog.

 

The vintage spools and trinkets used by Laura L. Weber on this beautifully altered clipboard, co-ordinate perfectly with the Simple Stories Life Documented range of papers. Louise W adored the dimension and vintagy details that added the sweet finishing touches to this masterpiece.

 

Finally We loved this set of cards created by the talented Natalie Dever using the Simple Stories Happy Day collection. With bright colours and touches of fibre, these cards are full of depth, dimension and fun!

weekend inspiration: memory works–simple stories

 

The Memory Works Baby Steps range proved irresistible for Janine! She loved the hues of green, brown, yellow, blue and pink to compliment her cute baby photo of her 5th child. The muted and distressed effect on the pages is a perfect fit for her style and she concentrated on the yellow, green and blue for this adorable baby boy page. This range is fabulous for recording your baby month by month as there are gorgeous blocks in the paper dedicated to the first 12 months of a baby's life.

Janine added further distressing to her page by using the new Prima Distress Tool by Ingvild Bolme, to not only distress her paper edges but also add distressing to the edges of her photograph to keep it all in a shabby distressed theme. She finished off the page with cute stickers from the range, the balloon and the title and pop dotted them up for added dimension on the page.

 

Louise W used a plain kraft card base for this Christmas layout using the Simple Stories kit. She combined diecut stickers with patterned papers and used foam tape and dimensional paint to add detail. To create the icicles she ran a hot glue gun across a teflon sheet and created the icicle shapes before allowing the glue to set before removing and detailing with glitter.

 

Louise adored this layout form Kristine Davidson using the Simple Stories 100 Days of Summer range from Memory Works. The subtle black outlining around all the elements and dimension of the layering attracts your eye but stops the patterns and colours from being overwhelming.

 

The Year-O-Graphy range from Simple Stories was perfect for this lovely layout from Nicole Doiron. The stitching and colours work together to add a homespun charm that is accentuated with soft punched borders and sweet chipboard touches. The kite adds a whimsical touch and is finished beautifully with a hint of bakers twine.

2012 cha release: memoryworks simple stories

 

 

 

 

 

year in review: suz

 

 

Clearly the most time consuming part of this layout was collating all the photos, because when you want this many photos in a double page spread, you really need to keep the rest of the page simple! 

Suz chose a couple of her favourite photos from each month of last year to create this photo gallery style page, and used small elements from the Simple Stories ‘Year-o-graphy’ collection, BasicGrey Indie Bloom Brads and Prima alphas to tie them together.  She loves it as just a lovely, simple overview of the year that was.

weekend inspiration: memory works, simple stories

 

Suz Doyle had a lot of fun with the stickers and journalling blocks that come with the Simple Stories collections.  She has used the Elementary range which is obviously school themed to chronicle the age old after school feeding dilemma.  The primary colours of the patterned papers are bright and fun but also have a vintage quality that would lend itself to older photographs as well.

 

 

Sue has used the 100 Days of Summer range to scrap lots of photos from a recent fishing expedition with her family. The papers are designed to scrap your photos quickly with minimal fuss and Sue found most of her embellishments were simply cut from the paper designs. A quick way of recording your memories.

 

 

This gorgeous set of cards was designed by the very talented Danni Reid, also using Simple Stories 100 Days of Summer. Thank you Danni for sharing your designs with us.

2011 cha summer: simple stories

Four gorgeous new themed lines from Simple Stories from Memory Works.  This great concept simplifies the whole scrapping process without sacrificing appearance. Check out the full lines here.

beyond the page memories: iris babao uy

 

 

 

cha winter 2011: simple stories

Simple Stories by Memory Works adds a new line – Destinations – to their launch lines.  This is such a fabulous concept.