So Much Love!

So Much Love!

 

 

Hey everyone, and happy New Year! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) with two new layouts for Simple Stories using the gorgeous Heartstrings collection. I always love Valentine’s collections and this one is no exception, I particularly love the colour palette, with pinks, oranges and reds are just fabulous and I love the pops of blue and green too!

For my first layout I wanted to showcase the different papers, so I cut nine hearts out of different patterns. I distressed the edges of each one and raised them on foam pads onto a white background. For the middle heart I wanted to include a heart-shaped photo, so I used one of my hearts as a template to draw around the part of the photo I wanted, and then hand-cut slightly within those lines to make my photo slightly smaller than the patterned paper heart. This way it had a nice border around the edge.

I then set about making each of my hearts into a mini scrapbook page! Lots of the hearts have a small photo. We had a ‘gal-entines’ party for my daughter and her friends – they go to a girls’ school so there are no boyfriends on the scene, so they decided to celebrate their gal friendships instead! At the party we had cookie decorating, lots of pretty decorations, pizza, music and lots of silly fun! So, all the little photos show some of those things.

I was worried the small photos were a little too big to go on the hearts, but at the right angle they looked OK and the hearts still maintained their heart-shape without too much being covered. Some of the hearts contain titles from the Sentiment Bits, and the bottom right heart has a little clipboard journaling spot, for me to write my journaling.

I added Floral Bits to each heart together with Bits & Pieces, some of the small hearts from the Foam Stickers, Decorative Brads and some phrase stickers from the Cardstock Stickers.

I finished off with a few splatters of black paint – I love the pops of black in the collection, so the black splatters were the perfect addition!  I love how this one turned out! Here is a link to my process video if you would like to watch it come together: https://youtu.be/-TQ2lEWihME

 

 For my second layout, I wanted to use that simply fabulous heart paper as a main feature on my layout, so I started by cutting a large piece of it to use on the right side. I fussy cut around the hearts to give a shaped edge.

I used two photos, stacked together in the middle and added a sticker of bunting from the Cardstock Stickers in the middle, this added a bit of separation between the two photos.

I added two titles: ‘Sweet’ from the Foam Stickers, and ‘adorbs’ from the Cardstock Stickers. There are so many lovely titles on the Foam Stickers and lots can be used generically instead of just for Valentine themed photos.

I added a few embellishments around my photos: flowers from the Floral Bits and a gumball machine from the Bits & Pieces – so cute! I also added a few of the phrase stickers from the Cardstock Stickers, I always love to use those as the phrases are always brilliant and so easy to use!

I added a few Decorative Brads and some Enamel Dots. I also handwrote my journaling and finished off with some splatters of white paint! I think it turned out really cute!

Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping!

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

 

Products used: Heartstrings Patterned Papers, Cardstock Stickers, Foam Stickers, Bits & Pieces, Floral Bits, Sentiment Bits, Decorative Brads, Enamel Dots.

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