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

Simple Stories ~ For the Record 🗒️ #1

Hello everyone - it’s Anna back with you today. 

I am working with Simple Stories For the Record for my blog posts this month. You can find the whole collection in the shop here.

I love to create an end of year page for my albums each year to highlight some of the memorable moments of the year. So this is my version for the end of 2024…

I used an app on my phone to create a collage of photos, I did one collage for each month of the year. I then printed these out and adhered in month order on to ‘Keep Looking Up’. 

I used various patterned papers and some coordinating cardstock from the matchmaker pack to back a cutfile by Paige Evans. I then adhered this to the top left of my layout. 

In the top right corner I used Bella Blvd Luna Alpha stickers to add the year and then I clustered some cardstock stickers around it. 

I added the monthly tab stickers from the ‘Monthly Cardstock Stickers’ to each photo, just tucking them in. 

I added a cluster of cardstock stickers in the bottom right corner and that was my layout complete! 

Thanks so much for looking! See you later on in the month with a second layout using this collection. 

Anna

@acraftylifewithanna

Simple Stories ~ Noteworthy #1 🗒️

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Papermaze blog! 

March is here and this month I’m working with Noteworthy by Simple Stories. It’s a gorgeous collection which features a sheet of patterned paper for each month of the year, with cut apart pieces. The reverse side is a patterned paper. So it makes the papers really versatile! I love to use the monthly cut apart pieces in my year albums. 

You can find the whole collection in the shop here. 

At the end of the year I like to create a year in review page, so for 2023’s page I have created a layout using lots of grid photos and a cutfile by Paige Evans. 

I backed the cutfile using the b sides of the various months of the year patterned papers. 

I used the b side of ‘February’ as my base.

I used an app on my phone to create grids of photographs from throughout 2023 and arranged them all together on my page. 

I then used the journal bits and pieces and cardstock stickers to embellish my layout. 

These style pages are a great way to reflect on the year and give opportunities for adding lots of photos that you might not of scrapbooked. 

Why not give it a try?

Thanks so much for looking. See you later on this month with a second layout using this collection. 

Anna

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