Simple Stories ~ Take Note 🖊️ #1

Happy New Year everyone! It’s great to see you here again in 2026! 

This month I’m working with Simple Stories - Take Note, which you can find in the shop here. 

I always find this style of collection great for reflecting on the past year and I like to create a ‘review the year’ style page to go at the end of my yearly scrapbook album. 

To create this layout I started with the b side of ‘Happy Days Ahead’ as my base. 

I had downloaded a cutfile titled ‘2025 documented’ with 12 Polaroid frames, so I cut this out on white bazzill cardstock. 

I created collage pictures on my phone, with 4 pictures from each month of 2025 and printed them out to fit inside each of the frames.

I backed ‘2025’ with sections from the b side of ‘Focus on the Day’ and adhered the cutfile and the photos to my page. 

I had some old month stickers from Simple Stories which I used to place on each of the frames. 

Finally, I finished my layout by adding some floral bits and pieces as well as some stickers from the element stickers. 

I tucked some of the florals around the frames and created clusters on opposite sides of the page. 

Thanks so much for looking! See you later in the month with another layout using this collection! 

Anna 

@acraftylifewithanna