'Love love love' page by Meg using Happy Hearts, Simple Stories

Hey all it's Meg here today and I'm sharing my last page (for now!) using Simple Stories Happy Hearts. I love all of the vibrant colours in this collection and so I wanted to try a colourful non-white background! 

I started with the navy Bazzill cardstock and I used my Cricut and a Paige Taylor Evans cutfile to make the butterfly background, which added lots of texture and interest. I backed it using coral Bazzill cardstock and the Wink Wink paper (confession time - I used two co-ordinating papers to back it because I didn't have enough of either ha)!

This cutfile gave me a great starting point and I knew I wanted to create a central cluster with lots of colour. I looked through my photos and picked a photo of my baby girl and cut it into a circle shape, then matted it using the coral Bazzill cardstock and I popped it up with foam tape. 

I cut a larger circle of the Happy Hearts - Forever Yours paper and a couple of torn circles of vellum to layer behind my photo and then I began tucking in lots of pieces of colourful ephemera! 

The bouquet, 'cute' banner, the hearts and little cake on the left came from the Bits And Pieces pack, the 'Love Love Love' was a Foam Sticker, I fussy cut a few tiny flowers from the Forever Yours paper and the rest were Happy Hearts Puffy Stickers. I finished my central cluster with a sort of diagonal splatter of white paint, which I reallyyyyy loved against the navy blue cardstock! 

I added journaling on a little tag that I fussy cut from the Happy Heart Day paper and I popped that up in the corner of my page, with an acrylic clippie embellishment that came from Bramblefox. 

As my cutfile came out a little wonky on the page (a happy error!), it wasn't completely central and I had a little extra space on the bottom of the page, so I used the border sticker from the 12x12 Combo Stickers page which really finished the page off! It matches the paper I'd used behind my photo and it couldn't have worked out better. 

I'm thrilled with how this page came together, especially because I don't often use colourful backgrounds, su that was a fun challenge! I hope my page inspires you in some way and thank you so much for reading. 

Take care and I'll be back again soon with another page from a new collection! 

Meg x 

'I Heart You', using Happy Hearts from Simple Stories by Meg

Hey all - it's Meg here today sharing a layout using the very sweet Happy Hearts collection by Simple Stories! 

I just LOVE Simple Stories collections, they're always so bold, bright and versatile and Happy Hearts is no exception. 

This page was a really fun page to put together and I absolutely just went with the flow - I started by fussy cutting a strip of the roses from the Sweetheart paper. I often start by fussy cutting and inspiration will strike afterwards! 

I decided to do a vertical layout and I tore a strip of the Sweet On You paper and vellum to layer on top of the fussy cut Sweetheart roses, which I stitched on top of and I distressed some of the edges. I tore another smaller piece of Sweet On You to go on the opposite side of the page, to balance it out a little. 

I had some photos already picked out to go with this collection and so I sifted through and picked out this one with my husband and son on our wedding day, which is one of my most favourite photos ever! I double matted it with white cardstock and vellum before adhering it to the page and embellishing around it. 

At this point I decided to use some watercolours to just add a little green and pink on the page behind the roses, then I began sticking down word phrases from the Combo Stickers sheet and the packet of Bits And Pieces. The title 'I Heart You' actually came from the Combo Stickers sheet but I added the 'Heart' from the Foam Stickers sheet on top to add some extra dimension. The 'Happy Heart Day' and 'xoxoxo' stickers were from the pack of foam stickers too. 

I then focused on the little cluster on the right hand side of the page, popping up a little 'Love You' van from the Bits And Pieces pack plus a few stickers from the Combo Stickers sheet. 

And voila! I added some journaling and the page was finished. 

I really hope you like my page as much as I enjoyed creating it! Thank you for stopping by :-) 

Take care, 

Meg x 

'Hugs & Kisses', using Simple Stories Happy Hearts, by Meg

Hello everyone, I hope you are well and warm! Today I'm popping by really quickly to share a layout using the brand new Happy Hearts collection by Simple Stories. I absolutely adore this collection, it's just so cute and fun! After finishing this page, I went straight onto the website to order more! 

So my starting point with this page was pulling out a few papers I wanted to use and I got straight into inking a section of my white cardstock with a mini Tim Holtz Distress Ink - these ones here, using the Abandoned Coral colour. I swiped it straight over the page and then dabbed some white gesso on top to sort of make it a little softer in some parts. 

Next I picked out some photos (I just love these ones of my little baby girl - I took them at the beginning of the first lockdown!) and began arranging them on the page over my ink patch. I decided on making a bit of a trio and cut out this mint green cactus and the 'let's stick together!' from the 2x2 and 4x4 Elements paper. 

I fussy cut some love letters and typewriters from the Hello Love paper and arranged it around my cluster, along with a fussy cut love letter mail bag from the 2x2 and 4x4 Elements page. I really loved how that all tied together and went with the title 'Hugs & Kisses', which came from the Foam Stickers pack. 

I finished off my cluster with a fussy cut paper aeroplane from the 2x2 and 4x4 Elements page (with my journaling written around in a loop-the-loop behind it!), some sweet little flower stickers from the Combo Stickers and few more Foam Stickers. I also spattered a few darker coral watercolour paint drips. 

The Bazzill coral cardstock Arroyo coordinates so perfectly with this collection and my page, so I used a little behind one of my photos to mat it. I also layered my white cardstock page into some of the Bazzill Arroyo cardstock and then on top of a corner of the Wink Wink paper, distressing both of the edges and trimming it back into a 12x12 page with my guillotine. 

And there we have it! A sweet page full of kisses for my little girl. 

I can't wait to play with this collection some more! I hope you love it too and you have a lovely week. 

Bye bye for now, 

Meg x