Simple Stories ~ For the Record ❤️

Hi everyone, it’s Anna back with you today. 

I have one final layout to share with you using Simple Stories For the Record, which you can find in the shop here. 

I like to create a ‘project life’ style page in my album each month. I do this to document all of the little bits of life, things you wouldn’t necessarily create a whole page for. 

I used to always use pocket pages to create this kind of page. But sometimes, I now create them on a 12x12 sheet of bazzill, just dividing various subjects into sections on the page.

I used a sheet of white 12x12 bazzill cardstock as my base and printed a selection of pictures that I wanted to use. I started to arrange them around the page to get an idea of spacing and what might fit where. 

I cut out a few elements from the collection including the January 4x6 and some journal elements. 

I mounted my photos on to patterned paper from the collection or coordinating cardstock.

I arranged all of the components on the layout and filled in any gaps with cardstock stickers. 

I added a couple of stickers from other collections to fit in with a particular theme or picture. For example I added a tree next to my frosty scene from the Vintage Fresh Snow Cardstock Stickers. 

I added some alpha stickers to create some mini titles. 

Thanks so much for looking.

I’ll be back with a new collection soon. See you then!

Anna

@acraftylifewithanna

Bella Blvd ~ Time to Travel ✈️ #1

Hi, it’s Anna back on the blog today! I’m back to share my third and final project with Bella Blvd Time to Travel and it’s a project life page…

I haven’t posted a project life page in a while, but I do use them a lot! I find them so helpful when making albums. They are a great way to add in extra photos that you may not have used or would have otherwise taken up lots of pages in your album. 

For this one, I’ve continued with documenting the travel day of our recent holiday. So I’ve used pictures of us and food etc on the plane that I probably wouldn’t have done a whole page on. It has also provided a whole pocket for journaling. 

You can find a variety of sizes of pocket pages in the shop here.

Lots of collections come with cut apart papers that are perfect to use in these pocket pages. Time to Travel is no different, so I cut apart a few pieces from the daily details paper.

I usually pair cut apart papers with project life cards, which come in a variety of designs and perfectly fit the pockets. 

You can find project life cards in the shop here. 

Once I’ve decided on the style of pocket page I’m using. I always start by laying out the photos I want to use and finding an appropriate card to mount them on. You can of course also use full 6x4, 3x2 etc photos without the need for any cards. I also like to leave a couple of spaces for cards on their own/ titles/ journaling boxes. 

Once I’m happy with the layout, I decide on any embellishments that can be added. 

I have used some of the puffy stickers from the collection to add in some extra detail.  I added in one of the little aeroplanes from the puffy stickers to the map to show our journey. In the bottom left pocket I added in a journaling box with the ‘travel’ alphas from the puffy stickers too. I will record details from our journey here. 

Thanks so much for looking!

 I hope this inspires you to have a go at a project life page.

See you next month, when I’ll be working with Simple Stories Into the Wild!

Anna 

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Simple Stories - Hello Today - Project Life Style by Adam

Hello Today from Simple Stories - Project Life Style!

Adam here again, thanks for joining me here on the Papermaze blog! Today I am sharing something a little bit different and my last February project! 

So once I had finished my layouts, I still had a full set of papers and lots of embellishments left. I will admit, I bought an extra set of papers cause I liked both sides! Alright... I do that with pretty much all papers I ever get!! So I had used all the papers in some way on my layouts and I wanted to use the A sides of the papers now - that is, the cut apart side. You can see photos from each month at the end of this blog post - a bit different to usual posts 😀

Hello Today is Simple Stories 'year' review style collection this year - you may recall they had 'Best Year Ever' last year (which was also fab - and lots still available in the shop!). So I decided I wanted to do a Project Life style page with each sheet - one for each month of the year. I did something I have never done before too... I created with no photographs (though I did end up putting a couple in with chipboard frames). 

It's quite basic but I love the result. I plan on choosing between three and five 3x4" photos each month and then filling them in periodically. I don't scrap project life style regularly so these will just slot in with regular layouts - and that's good with me. I like the mix.

I've used a big variety of the collection as I was using up the embellishments I had left. I've also thrown in some stickers from Cocoa Vanilla Studio stickers here and there. Because I don't have photos for every month yet (I'm using these for 2021), I printed a ton of 'Photo Here' stickers to show where my photos will eventually go. 

I have used element stickers, stickers from the sticker book, bits and pieces, journal bits and pieces, brads, foam stickers, puffy stickers, chipboard frames and chipboard stickers. So the whole collection! 

Something else I also did was decide on a couple of things and then carried it through the entirety of the twelve pages - so they call have the monthly 4x6" card at the top left, they all have a circular month sticker, they all have a 3x4" calendar card, they all have a numbered journaling card and they all have a number sticker from the sticker book. Beyond this, I didn't carry any placement through. I used two different varieties of Project Life protectors and all embellishments are stuck to the outside of the protector! 

Thats it from me for February but I'll be back soon with another fab collection for Papermaze! I am so pleased to have started and finished with one full collection in one month - quite the achievement for me!! 

Take care and stay safe and I'll be back soon! In the meantime, check out the shop, bookmark the new arrival section and have a look through all the photos below to see how the finished pages look!

Adam x

Project Life with Simple Stories

Hi, It's Lisa here with you today.

I have a Simple Stories Project Life page to share with you today.
I'm playing catch up.

I've used the Hugs & Kisses collection.

It's not dedicated to Project Life, but that what I love about it. The papers are so well designed so that you can enjoy making LO's, cards, the mini book I shared with you last week and now this PL page.
I love the flexibility and that suits me perfectly.

I've cut up various pieces of the patterned papers, piecing them together.
I've added some doodling here and there.

I've also used some of the matching stickers that you can find here.
I love these stickers sheets.

The page protectors that I use are also from Simple Stories.
You can find them here.

For me Project Life is about telling our day to day stories and having fun with my scraps of paper.
This is why I love it so much.

Thanks for stopping by today.
Lisa x

Hello Happiness - Project Life

Hello, it's Lisa with Project Life here today.

Doesn't this Bella BLVD range 'Molly' scream happiness to you!!
I used these papers to make up one of my PL pages.

 

 

 

 

I really enjoy making these happy and colourful pages.

All you need are some pretty papers, a corner punch and a journal pen.

It's as easy as that!!

 

Enjoy! 

 



Documenting December

December is full of events.
We are busy catching up with family and friends, eating good foods, going to nice places and doing lovely things.
So why is it every year I struggle to scrap all this?
It's like my mojo goes off on a Christmas holiday all on it's own and comes back later in January, by which time I no longer have any interest in scrapping Christmas.
Because of this I rarely have any Christmassy LO's. As for December Dailys, forget it. I always start with good intentions and give up after just a few days.

This year I'm tackling it Project Life style and it's working for me.
Back in Feb this year I said I would attempt Project Life but in my own relaxed way and it really has worked. So I thought I would try this for December too and 'Yes', it's working!!

I have my first week completed already and I've prepped this week too.
Not bad.
There is however a lot to document in December so I thought I would add a couple of extra pages.
I will show you these today.
After all, not every page has to start with a new week number or date does it??

I haven't used PL cards for these two pages, instead I used a couple of cute 12x12 papers that were perfect for cutting up.
First is this one from Bella Blvd. I love this happy paper.

I have cut it to suit my page protector. Across the top and then the next 2 sections in to twos.

Giving me this.

 

 

You can now see how it works for me. I just rounded off the corners.

I have added some little gems for some bling. The Prima Marketing gems and pearls are my favourite for this.

I love the little packs they come in and they are such great value.

 

 

My next page was more about the story telling.

Again no week number.

I used this October Afternoon paper. Make it Merry.

 

 



Here's my page all about picking our Christmas Tree this year.

 

 

I had a silly story to tell and this paper was perfect for my story.

 

 

 

I was able to document our tradition of how we pick our tree.

And if your paper doesn't quite fit what you need it to do.....then you make it fit.

 

 

 

A pair of scissors and it's a perfect fit : )

 

I'm so happy to be getting some of my stories down on paper this year.

This to me feels so informal and there's no pressure.

Perhaps I will actually get Christmas 2013 documented after all.

 

I hope you are enjoying your December so far.

Lisa x