Simple Stories - Game Night - Shuffle, Roll. Laugh, Repeat

Hello, Karen here with my latest project using the colourful Simple Stories Game Night collection. For this layout I went for a grid design and used the Tag Elements paper. I challenged myself to use the majority of the tags as the foundation for my layout, and I love how it turned out. 

I began the layout with a sheet of white cardstock. I trimmed this down slightly and then matted it onto a sheet of black cardstock, making sure to leave a narrow border around the edges.

To add some texture I machine stitched a straight stitch round the outside of the layout with white thread.

I fussy-cut the tags from the Tag Elements paper and paired them up. I stacked them in doubles to create a 3 x 2 grid right in the centre of my layout, giving the layout a fun, game board feel.

On five of the tag piles I added a small photo. When I choose to use this collection I hunted through my photos to find as many game related photos as I could. We often play games on holiday and at Christmas so there were quite a few to choose from.

The tags were embellished with die cuts from the Bits and Pieces pack and a few images cut from some of the papers. The photos and the die cuts were raised on 3D foam to give some dimension.

The names of the games were printed on the computer using a font called 'KB Chatter Box' , cut into strips and added to each tag cluster.

To finish them off, I threaded some black and white baker's twine through the top of each tag

I purposely left one of the tags unembellished, so that the words served as the title for the layout.

Finally I punched a few stars from some co-ordinating cardstock and dotted them around the layout.

Thank you for stopping by the blog today. I hope this grid design inspires you. If you’re ready to document your own family gaming traditions, make sure to head over to the shop to grab the Simple Stories Game Night collection before it’s gone.

Take Care

Karen x x