The Magic Of Winter!

Hi everyone! Tara here with Secretbees Studio. I'm certainly not a fan of Winter, but the new Simple Stories Simple Vintage Winter Woods collection helps me appreciate the beauty of the season! This collection is stunningly beautiful and filled with elegant winter images! To show it off, I created this mixed page mini album that lets you see the fabulous papers and embellishments in one glance!

The wintry cover of the album was created with the coordinating snowflake stencil and some silver glitter paste. I then layered on a gorgeous chipboard cluster from the collection along with a dimensional sticker and tucked in a few iridescent sequins for a snowy feel! Some rolled paper beads are attached with silvery thread for even more sparkle!

The pages of the album showcase a different pretty paper design on each side and are decked out with lots of the dazzling embellishments! This collection offers so many gorgeous ones to choose from! 

On some of the pages I made ready-to-go photo spots with more of the lovely patterned paper in a variety of shapes and all I have to do is add my Winter pictures! There is also a page with a pocket stuffed with embellished journal cards and two with frames that are also ready for photos! 

Some of the pages were already beautiful with just the paper and I only had to add a few charming decorations! 

This brilliant and beautiful collection is a must-have for Winter projects. I hope this lovely mini album inspires you to create a wintry project of your very own!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!

Deck The Halls!

Hi everyone! It may only be the beginning of November but its not too early to get your December Daily ready! This festive and fun box, filled with rolls of brightly patterned paper along with lots of charming cards full of embellishments, is a new take on memory keeping! 

The box is made from chipboard and is covered in the new Simple Stories Mix & A Mingle paper collection, which is full of dazzling and beautiful colors and the cutest retro Christmas images! All of the card inserts are made with the same collection too! Each day, through Christmas, features a double sided card that is marked with fun number tags from the sticker book! 

For the inserts, I used journal element cards along with some 4x4 and 3x4 element cards and slipped a tag or two in there as well. All of these elements are lovely on their own but I added in additional stickers, chipboard, decorative brads and enamel dots for even more charm! Some of them are even interactive! To see them in detail, visit my Instagram page or see the video on my YouTube channel.

There are 13 rolls in this December Daily and a total of 25 cards. The decorative cards can be inserted anywhere between the rolls of paper and since they are double sided, this box looks amazing from the front as well as the back!

The box is wrapped in more of the delightful patterned paper with some decorative paper corners. I layered on more of the cute stickers, chipboard and paper elements of the collection as well as some colorful enamel dots to make it even more adorable.  Check out the tutorial video on my YouTube channel to create one of these for yourself!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!

All The Colors!

Hi everyone! Tara here with some super cute and super colorful party favors made with the amazing Simple Stories Color Vibe Collections! These eye-catching collections are supposed to be 'basics' but they are anything but! There are fabulous chipboard and flower bits as well as buttons and enamel dots to go along with the gorgeous coordinating papers plus colorful alphas in an array of sizes. 

I used a mixture of colors from the Brights, Bolds, Summer and Spring Color Vibe collections to make these adorable jelly bags from SVGCuts.com. The bags were cut from the card stock and double layered for sturdiness. The paper has a solid side as well but I used the polka dotted sides for the inside and out of the bags.

The fun pinwheels were made with colorful stacked triangles and topped with lots of layered flower bits and a button! They are stuffed inside the bag along with a bottle of bubbles that are wrapped with more of the paper and decorated with a fun embellishment that features the flower and chipboard bits along with enamel dots!

The adorable tags are made with two colors of the polka dotted papers and are topped with more flower bits and layers of the chipboard hearts, stars and arrows as well as more bright enamel dots. I used the two sizes of alphas in the alpha sticker book for the tag names. So adorable!

Of course you can mix these beautiful Color Vibe collections with any of the Simple Stories collections for a coordinating pop of color but they look gorgeous on their own and are made extra special with the  fun and fabulous embellishments! 

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!

Hello Pumpkin Season!

Hi everyone! The Fall season is soon to be upon us and it's a great time to start getting your Autumn decorations planned! Pumpkins are a wonderful Fall decoration and if you're not ready for the real thing, you can always create one from paper! 

I created this mini pumpkin using eight arch shapes cut from the Simple Stories adorable new collection Harvest Market! Some were cut from the regular patterned papers and some from the 6x8 paper pad. I adhered them back to back and added a paper stem to the center complete with pumpkin leaves and tendrils. 

This pumpkin would have been super cute with just the paper patterns but I dressed it up even more using all of the fabulous embellishments from the collection! Each page features a beautiful array of the darling chipboard stickers, Journal Bits, Bits & Pieces and stickers layered together with pretty journal cards and patterned tags. Tucked in here and there are the gorgeous adhesive brads and colorful enamel dots!

While some of the pages are purely decorative, other pages features journaling areas and spots for photos! There is even a pocket on one page with a couple of pull out tags that are perfect for your Autumn memories! Such a fun way to preserve and display all of your favorite Fall photos and mementos!

On most of the pages I added a strip or two of the decorative washi tape that is also part of this collection. The different patterns and widths add such a fun and decorative element to the pages making them even more charming! 

Even though I'm not quite ready for colder weather, I am excited to add photos and some journaling to this cute pumpkin and start my Fall decorating! Visit my Instagram page for a video look at this pumpkin mini album!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!

Happiest Place On Earth!

Hi everyone! Disney albums are always such a joy to make and I couldn't decide on just one of the new Say Cheese At The Park collections by Simple Stories so I made this adorable mini album featuring all of them! I say 'mini' but this chunky album will hold 40 plus photos and I created it knowing I wanted a separate section for each of these charming collections. 

The album folded up measures about 7 inches by 7.5 inches and is 3.5 inches deep. It is tied closed with a bright ribbon and once untied, it opens up to reveal all 4 amazing sections at once! It is made from chipboard and is covered in the super cute patterned papers from each of the Say Cheese At The Park collections along with some cheery coordinating Color Vibe cardstock. 

This is the first half of the album that holds the Frontier and Tomorrow sections. Each section features a waterfall flip for photos made with each collections papers and is embellished with all of the delightful and captivating stickers, chipboard, foam and brads! The other picture features some of my favorite pages of each section! 

The second half holds the Fantasy and Adventure sections and is equally as charming! More waterfall pages and decorative strips- one opens to the bottom of the album, the other to the top! I added in some interactive pages to each section as well, such as pull out tags and flip outs for more photos! course, I had to show some of my favorite pages for these sections as well!

There is a video on my Instagram page that shows this beautiful album in all of its gorgeous detail. Head on over to @secretbees_studio to check it out and be sure to pick up all of these stunning collections for all of your Disney memories!

Lake Time!

Hi everyone! It's Tara with Secretbees Studio and I have the sweetest mini album to share with you today! I have been wanting to make this adorable fishing kreel since I saw it three years ago in a magazine and the Simple Vintage Lakeside paper collection gave me the perfect opportunity to finally create it!

I used the coordinating Lakeside Basics papers to make the outside of the kreel and then used the gorgeous and lush embellishments of the collection to give it that lakeside feel. I added in a decorated pocket with tags along with hooks, colorful fishing line and richly detailed paper fish!

Inside is the real surprise! The mini album pulls out of the kreel for viewing but is still attached with a bit of ribbon and then flips open to reveal page after page of this stunningly beautiful collection! The patterned papers are the perfect background for layering on the striking and fabulous elements of chipboard, brads and stickers!

I added in some frames and raised the embellishments to accommodate pictures but the pages themselves are so pretty and detailed that photos aren't even necessary! Every time I look at this album, even I find some new detail I had not noticed before!

This collection is perfect for any lover of nature and the outdoors. There are not only fish and lake references but also woodsy, fauna and wildlife ones as well. Get your outdoor crafting on with this elegant and exquisite must have paper collection!

Make sure to visit my Instagram page to see a video of this beautiful album!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!