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!!

Just One Of The Family!

Is someone in your life getting a new pet? Surprise them with a sweet gift full of things they will need for their new friend! These packages celebrate the smaller, but still so loved, new additions!

The Simple Stories Pet Shoppe collection is perfect for all of those "other" pets that aren't cats and dogs. It is full of the cutest animal images and the most adorable sentiments to go along with them! Plus the patterned paper is so bright and fun. This collection is going to make you want to run out and buy a less "cuddly" pet!

Look how fun this hamster/guinea pig tote is! It's covered on the inside and out with the fun and fabulous papers and then each side is decorated with images of these cute little critters along with some sweet and funny sentiments. It's the perfect size for filling with small goodies!

Turtles never looked so good! This collection celebrates even the smallest and most quiet of pets with charming sentiments and darling images. Just look at that turtle shell paper- how awesome! 

Birds are bright and colorful and so are all of the bird themed embellishments in this collection! The vibrant polka dot and striped paper matches all of them in the best way and is perfect for a feathered friend! 

All pets are special and the Pet Shoppe Collection honors them in the most delightful way!  If you have a "non-traditional" pet then this collection is for you!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!

 

All You Need Is Love And A Dog!

It's no secret that I love my pups and whenever I get the chance to scrap about them, I jump at it! The new Pet Shoppe collections by Simple Stories are all so fabulous and adorable but of course I gravitated to the Dog collection so I could brag on my pups some more!

I started with a simple dog house cut file that I modified  for my needs and added in some cute details. This dog collection has a bone stencil that is too cute so I used matching ink colors on white card stock and created the dog house doorway! Then I layered on some paws and hearts along with bright enamel dots! A chipboard element and a Bits & Pieces tag were used to create the cute hanging charm for the front.

Everything in this collection is so perfect for dog lovers! There are fun, happy colors, darling sentiments and paws and hearts galore! The pages are made with the charming 3x4 journal cards combined with the sweet patterned papers and embellished with as many of the super cute pieces I could add!

There are three interactive pages too! A couple of pockets and a fold out page that is held in place with a decorative brad! All to hold more pictures of two of my favorite (furry) people LOL!

Check out all of the new Pet Shoppe collections! They are all filled with the cutest and most adorable animals and pet accessories ever! Plus the sentiments are spot on for anyone that loves their pets!

Be sure and visit my Instagram for a video walk-through of this mini album!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!!

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!!