Color Vibe Matchbook Minis!

Hi everyone! I am showcasing some of the new and beautiful Color Vibe collections today! All of the Color Vibe collections are great for mixing with and complementing all of the Simple Stories themed collections but they are marvelous on their own too!

 

All of these adorable matchbook mini albums feature a different Color Vibe Woods paper for the base and inside are two pockets also made with the Woods cardstock. Then I layered on all of the gorgeous Color Vibe Darks and Woods chipboard and flowers embellishments along with colorful buttons and enamel dots! 

The Color Vibe Darks collection is full of rich and deep hues that add elegance to any project. I used the dotted sides of the cardstock to create the tiny photo cards for the pockets and then added texture and dimension with more chipboard, flowers, leaves and letters! Super Cute!

On the covers of the albums and some of the pockets, I added in a few bits from the Simple Vintage Essentials collection too! It just goes to show you how well all of these collection mesh together in the most delightful way!

I hope this cute project inspires you to use these collections not just as background but as the star!

Outdoor Adventures!

Hi everyone! I have the most darling mini album to share today! The new Simple Stories Trail Mix collection is so adorable and colorful and perfect for scrapping all of your Summer outdoor adventures! 

To really show off all of the cute icons and fun sentiments in this collection, I created this charming 3-D tent that opens up to reveal a sweet little mini inside! I hinged one side of the tent so it will open and secured the opposite side with a magnet closure.

The mini album, which is graduated in size so it fits inside the tent, has plenty of pages and pockets to fill with memories. There are five sections to the mini album and they either flip to the side to open or to the bottom, plus there are lots of interactive elements on the pages as well!

The papers in this collection coordinate beautifully together and have amazing patterns and details! I had the best time layering them together and embellishing them with the fabulous stickers, chipboard and bits and pieces to create this one of a kind memento! 

Get ready for your Summer camp and outdoor adventures with the amazing and super fun Trail Mix collection! Visit my YouTube channel for a short video walk-through of this delightful mini album keepsake or visit my Instagram page!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!

Hot Days and Cool Treats!

Hi everyone! Summer is almost here- yay! I am so looking forward to hot days, pool time and sweet treats and the new Retro Summer collection from Simple Stories is going to be the perfect way to scrapbook all of it! This collection is all about fun, yum and happy!

I wanted to show all of the fun and bright papers in this collection in one glance so, taking inspiration from my fellow team members, Becki and Dorymar, I cut down the cover of a Teal Sn@p Flipbook and created the album to be vertical! I also resized the inside pocket pages and combined those with decoratively edged patterned papers to give the album all of these wonderful staggered pages!

The pages alternate between pocket inserts and colorful patterned pages from the collection! All of them are decked out with the super charming embellishments and icons along with the cheerful sentiments! I also added in some of the Summer Color Vibe Cardstock which coordinates beautifully!

All of the ice cream icons look yummy enough to eat whether they are stickers, chipboard or foam and add such a delightful element to the pages! Tucked in with these goodies are the bright enamel dots and self adhesive brads! 

There are also some interactive pages too! Two are shown in this photo but there are a few more in this super cute and chunky album! There is a walk-through video on my YouTube channel so you can see all of them in detail!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!

Travel Is Good For The Soul

Hi everyone! Traveling is my passion! It is so exciting visiting a new or favorite destination and it's even more fun to come home and relive those awesome memories through the pictures taken and the mementos collected! The Here and There collection by Simple Stories is full of fun icons, great sentiments and ephemera that are perfect to document your travels near and far.

Mini albums are a great way to showcase a memorable vacation and I especially love a travel mini that has lots of room for pictures and journaling! I've used this new and fabulous Here and There collection  to create this gorgeous and super functional travel folio that is full of pockets and flips and even some pocket pages ready for your photos!

The first section features a large pocket and pull-out with lots of room for photos on the right and room for journaling and trip details on the left. There is even a hidden pocket on this side too!

Flip this page open to reveal another big pocket with photo cards and then open up the whole section to reveal a journal card holder made from a 3x4 journal card and lots of fun photo flips in the center! Just think of all those great vacation pictures that will look amazing here!

But there is even more! Turn the page for a sweet photo frame and a small section of pocket pages that are just waiting to be filled with even more mementos. Another hidden pocket at the top holds three of the journaling tags that have been decorated with the awesome embellishments of this collection and there is another large pocket at the very back that will hold a travel journal so you can document all of those great memories! 

Visit my Instagram page or my YouTube channel for a video walk-through of this stunning album and see all of the details!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!

Wildflower Memories!

If you love floral papers this is the collection for you! The new Simple Stories and My Mind's Eye collaborative collection, Wildflower, is absolutely stunning and filled with all sorts of lovely flowers,  hearts, butterflies and more!  To showcase some of the pretty floral patterns, I created this multi page mini album that features some fold-outs, flips and a pocket!

The front cover is highlighted with one of the charming chipboard frames of the collection. I layered it with some additional embellishments including a cute chipboard bow, some bits & pieces, a simple sentiment sticker and colorful mini brads.

Inside you can see more of the pretty patterned paper and the gorgeous floral embellishments! The first page features a piece of ephemera that rotates to reveal a sweet photo or journaling spot and the second page has a pocket that I stuffed with some pretty embellished tags from the collection!

On the next page, one of the adorable, colorful tigers is holding a pull-out two sided picture card that is decorated on both sides. I also added in a cute foam flower sticker and another colorful brad!

The final page of the album which is adorned with a decorative tag, a pretty scalloped sticker and a flower opens to a space for a large photo on the left and a very cute photo flip on the right! For the large photo space, I added a sentiment and embellishment cluster to the bottom and stapled a sweet little date sticker to the top. The flip on the right is a darling mixture of journaling bits, floral bits, foam and chipboard stickers on top of more of the fabulous papers of the collection!

You can watch a walkthrough video on my instagram page or below. Check out my YouTube channel for this video and others as well!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!

Focused On Me!

It's a bit daunting to scrap solely about yourself but the new My Story collection from Simple Stories really makes it fun and exciting! The more I worked on this project, the more enthusiastic I became to share my life in such a unique and delightful way!

I picked up on the sentiment 'focusing on me' right away and thought a camera and some snapshots into my life would be perfect! The camera is a cut file from SVGCuts and looks amazing in the gorgeous patterned papers in this collection! I mixed and matched three different papers and also added in some of the charming stickers from the sticker book as accents along with some of the fantastic embellishments!

 

Not only is this camera beautiful but it holds a small mini album too that is all about me and the favorite parts of my life! This collection has so many great prompts and sentiments that make it so easy to write your own story!

I focused on the 5 top things in my life and created this staggered mini that features a different edge on each page so I could really show off all the fabulous papers! I dedicated a page each to my true love and me, my adorable pups, my amazing grandbabies, my happy place, aka craft room, my love of books and reading and finally, my passion for travel!

I feel like anyone could open up this camera box and mini album and get a true glimpse of me and the things that I hold most dear in this world plus it's super cute and will become a treasured memento! Let this wonderful and charming collection inspire you to create something personal and beautiful!

I have a video of the camera and mini album on my Instagram page so be sure and check it out!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!