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Life Documented with I Heart Summer

Hellof friends!  It's Layle, back again today to share with you a super cute SN@P! album using our I Heart Summer Collection :)

This project was such a treat for me put together!  It was designed by Sue, one of our in-house designers, for a class I'll be teaching this weekend at the I Heart Memories retreat.  I've had so much fun looking through my photos, adding them to my book and adding my own little personal touches to make it my own. More often than not, I'm the one designing a project I'm going to teach, so by the time I've finished designing and it's time to finally get to the process of adding my photos, I've run out of steam and am ready to be done.  Not so in this case!

Rather than focus on a specific summer, I thought it would be fun to include some of my favorite summer photos and memories over the years.  And our I Heart Summer collection is perfect for that!  It has the perfect balance of assorted summer designs to fit beach, lake, bike, and hike - you name it - photos :)  And the 4x6 and 3x4 Elements make it so easy to trim, insert and go!

So here's a peek at how my album turned out -

The inside cover - tell me you don't leave it plain when you make a SN@P! album!  That's prime space for a photo and introduction for what the mini is all about -

 
Same goes for the heavy duty kraft chipboard dividers included in the SN@P! Albums - no reason not to add photos just like you would any other page :)

I've said it before here and I'll say it again, I just can't get enough of our SN@P! Pages!  They're pre-punched to be easily inserted into the SN@P! Binders, the designs are out of this world, and don't even get me started on the die cut pages :)

But I think my favorite thing of all has to be the Pocket Pages that are included in the SN@P! Binders - 2 each of 5 different styles/formats. 

I've made enough of these SN@P! Binders over the last few months and used the Pocket Pages enough that I *think* I'm ready to dive into 12x12 divided page protector scrapping! (EEK!  Did I really just type that?!)

Hee hee!  I couldn't resist adding this new photo to my book of favorite summer memories!  Life Documented design team member Vicki Boutin and I were together teaching at an event last week in Puerto Rico.  We had so much fun!!  Silly girls....

Would you believe the photos I used span from 2003 to 2013 - 10 years!  When you approach a project like this, don't feel like you have to fill up the entire album from one event or season.  It's absolutely ok - and even liberating! - to mix and match photos from different occasions. 

Products used -

• Teal SN@P! Binder
• I Heart Summer Expresssions Cardstock Stickers
• I Heart Summer Fundamental Cardstock Stickers
• I Heart Summer Pages
• I Heart Summer Pockets
• I Heart Summer Flair
• I Heart Summer SN@P! Cuts
• I Heart Summer Smooth Sailing
• I Heart Summer Daydream
• I Heart Summer 3x4 Journaling Card Elements
• I Heart Summer 4x6 Horizontal Journaling Card Elements
• I Heart Summer 4x6 Vertical Journaling Card Elements
• I Heart Summer 4x4 Quote & 6x8 Photo Mat Elements
• I Heart Summer 2x12 Border & 4x12 Title Strip Elements

Thanks for stopping by today! :)

Products Used:

Simple Stories-
#3000 Vintage Bliss 12x12 Collection Kit
#3026 Vintage Bliss Decorative Brads
#3028 Vintage Bliss Layered Stickers
6x8 Pocket Pages 
6x6 Sn@p Leather Album- Pink 

- See more at: http://simplestories.typepad.com/simple_stories/#sthash.oPFFNpBH.dpuf

Products Used:

Simple Stories-
#3000 Vintage Bliss 12x12 Collection Kit
#3026 Vintage Bliss Decorative Brads
#3028 Vintage Bliss Layered Stickers
6x8 Pocket Pages 
6x6 Sn@p Leather Album- Pink 

- See more at: http://simplestories.typepad.com/simple_stories/#sthash.oPFFNpBH.dpuf

Products Used:

Simple Stories-
#3000 Vintage Bliss 12x12 Collection Kit
#3026 Vintage Bliss Decorative Brads
#3028 Vintage Bliss Layered Stickers
6x8 Pocket Pages 
6x6 Sn@p Leather Album- Pink 

- See more at: http://simplestories.typepad.com/simple_stories/#sthash.oPFFNpBH.dpuf

Life Documented with Sn@p!

Hi, everyone! Teri here today with a Life Documented project! I'm excited to share with you a few pages I recently made with Simple Stories' Sn@p! products: Sn@p! Life; Sn@p! Embellishments; Sn@p! Cards; and Sn@p! Color Vibe.

Before we get started, let me tell you a little bit about my approach to pocket-page style memory keeping. A lot of my crafty friends use Pocket Pages to document every week in their lives.  I don't do that.

I'm a bit of a free spirit when it comes to pocket-style pages. I typically make them when the mood hits me. So that means I'll do a page one week about some fun event I took part in and then maybe not create another page until a few weeks down the road. Like many of you, I lead a pretty busy life, and I don't always have a lot of  time to sit down and scrapbook. So I really try to limit my pages to events, people and things I really, really, really want to remember.

So that leads me to my first set of pages. They are all about a color run I took recently took part in.

Talk about about a day I don't want to forget. Fr0m the nervous feeling of signing up for a 5K (my first one ever) to literally getting covered with color from head to toe on race day, I wanted to remember everything. The day was just so much fun! And I am pretty sure I smiled the entire time!

The number is my actual race bib. The "rad" word is a tattoo leftover from race day. And the picture with the blue background is of myself and my teammates! We called ourselves "Team Crafty" so I used letter stickers to spell our team name right on top of the picture.

I wanted my pages to have a little personality so I added a few extra touches to them, like punching holes in the blue polka dot card with a hole punch and then adding some circle stickers (and a brad) over some of the blue polka dots.

Another fun time I wanted to remember was a recent weekend spent with a good friend of mine.

These two pages cover the highlights of three days of fun with my friend. From the minute my friend arrived at my house to the minute he left, a bit of everything is covered on these two pages.

These pages include a few pictures, a parking pass (complete with the wrong year written on it!) and a lot of journaling!

I completed the majority of journaling on this spread with  an old typewriter. And because the spread is so text heavy, I tried to bring in quite a bit of color to it by choosing some Sn@p cards in bright colors rather than just white ones.

I especially love the Seriously! card here from the Sn@p! Cards - 4x6 Fill in the Blanks pack because it has so many colors on it.

I also used embellishments to liven up the spread and try to downplay all that text. Here I made a border with circle stickers and brads.

Kinda fun, right?

I'll be using the 12x12 Sn@p! leather album in teal as the year goes on for many of my Life Documented projects! I love the color of the album, and that it has a ring binding system! Since I employ a free spirit philosophy when it comes to these pages, I dig that I can easily work on my pages for it out of order.

I used the Sn@p! 12x12 Pocket Pages  Design 5 (4x6/4x3), Design 7 (4x6/ 6x12), Design 8 (6x8/4x6) and Design 10 (3x4/4x4) for my pages today. I love the variety of page styles Simple Stories offers. It's fun having so many options.

Other Sn@p! products I used were:

• Chipboard Stickers - Hello
• Decorative Brads - Life
• Flair Icons
• Stamps - Snapshots
• Stickers - Letters
• Stickers - Icons
• Cards - 3x4 Life
• Cards - 3x4 Fill in the Blanks
• Cards - 3x4 Just the Basics
• Cards - 4x6 Fill in the Blanks
• Cards - 4x6 Snappy Sayings
• Cards- 4x6 Just the Basics
• Fundamentals Cardstock Stickers
• Color Vibe Paper Kit

Thanks for tuning in today! Wishing you the best Tuesday! I look forward to sharing more of my pages with you soon!

Life Documented - Disney Documented (Part 1)

 

Hi it's me, Amber,  posting today!  I am the founder and owner of Simple Stories (along with my fabulous husband). I am usually behind the scenes busy with design and product development  and I don't get a chance to post as much as I'd like.  That's why I'm so thankful to have a wonderful Simple Stories design team and Life Documented team - as well as our fabulous director of marketing Layle Koncar -  to help run the blog and keep fresh, exciting ideas and inspiration coming on a daily basis!

Although I'm crazy busy putting the final touches on our new product releases (you'll get to see sneak peeks starting in mid-july), I wanted to take a minute to post during our Life Documented series to give you a little backstory on how Simple Stories came to be.  With the release of our all new 12x12 albums and pocket pages (shipping July) - a dream I've had for what seems like forever - it's only fitting to take you back to the roots of Simple Stories and the base of our entire company, our products and our system. Sure you can read our "About Us" here, and Layle even highlighted a little here...but I actually wanted to SHOW you how our products, concept and company came to be.  Sometimes it's as simple as....

 

.....THIS - it's what started it ALL!

See this - this is a Disney album I created in 2007.  I was so excited to document our Disney memories of our children's first trip to Disneyland.  I bought this album at Target and couldn't wait to fill it to the brim with photos and memories - at the time I loved the idea of saving time by just inserting my photos into pockets in these standard photo albums. 

 

 

 

 

 

So I took this album, all 3,000 + photos (okay maybe not that many - but you know it's Disney!!), and loads of paper and embellsihemnts to a weekend scrapbook getaway with a group of my girl friends.  I worked on this album non-stop for 4 days, cutting, trimming, gluing, embellishing - basically creating ALL of my 4x6 cards to slip into these pocket pages along with my photos.

 

 

You would think that with that much time my album would be complete right?  Not so - I didn't even finish all of my "personalized" 4x6 cards that weekend - it still took me months to finish and insert my photos after that.

 

 

So what about the journaling - surlely I had time to add cute little quotes or the perfect sentiments to go on these cards in my album.  Nope.  As you can see from the photos didn't happen - it was crazy to me that for the intention of being a  "quick", "easy" and  "simple" album - it had turned out to be a major project.  The way I saw it is it doesn't make it simple, quick or easy if you still have to create your own elements or cards to insert into the pocket pages. 

 

And really - that's where my idea for creating pre-designed 4x6 cards and elements to compliment divided page protector scrapboking originated - becuase I was looking for a system just like Simple Stories for myself.  I wanted to create quick and beautiful albums so I could document my life in a simple, yet meaningul way - and the pre-designed cards and elements in just the right sizes for all types of page pocket scrapbooking like 4x6, 3x4, 4x4, 6x8 and even 2x12, 4x12 and 6x12 elements were the key and core to our concept and system.  In the fall of 2009 that dream became a reality when we launched our first Simple Stories kit - Life Documented with the the original pre-designed elements that you see in our collections today - to a group of scrapbook consultants and by Winter 2011 we launched our Simple Stories brand and concept industry wide.  It has been such a journey....and to think it all started with a Disney album!

Sooooo...now that I've shown you a little about where our Simple Stories concept came from...and my "finished"  album, take a look at this same album just 6 years later.

 

Ughhhh!!

Yup - that same album that I put my heart and soul into and trusted to be a long-lasting cherished keepsake for my family to enjoy - look at it now.  After years of our family and kids looking through it, laughing, and remembering - it completely fell apart!  

 

THIS is exactly why its so important to have high-quality albums and page protectors - after all they are storing your precious memories and workmanship.   We KNOW how important your memories are and the time you spend creating layouts and pages to enjoy these memories - that's why our number one priority is quality and functional products so you can continue to share your stories for years to come!

 

New SN@P! Albums!!

 

 

That's why - after 6 years since my AH-AH moment when creating my Disney album - and over 2 years of sampling, testing and sampling again we couldn't be happier to introduce our own line of SN@P! 12x12 and 6x8 leather albums! We are over the moon excited about these new products and thrilled with the final results. With top-notch, high-quality construction, faux leather in 6 beautiful colors, contrast stiching, and custom metal bookplates and corners - and not to mention the amazing pocket pages in a variety of styles - you will absolutely LOVE the quality and these will soon become a staple in your scrapbook library!

 

6x8 SN@P! Album

 

 

12x12 SN@P! Album

 

 

I personally CAN NOT WAIT to start using our SN@P! albums and pocket pages - and in fact will be taking all of my photos out of this Disney album and recreating it in a new SN@P! album -  using a brand new product line that you will adore - and I know this time around with our Simple Stories system complete with pre-designed elements, stickers, paper and embellishments it will make it easier than ever to create this album.  So join me next month as I show you my new  album in my Disney Documented - Part 2 blog post! You'll get to see my new completed Disney album - plus our new product line that is squeal-worthy (or should I see "squeak" worthy)!!

Amber :)

 

Life Documented with Vintage Bliss and Maya Road

Hey everyone! It's Emily here to share a quick & easy way to scrap your photos in a Sn@p with Simple Stories Vintage Bliss Collection  & Maya Road products! 

Vintage Bliss is one of my all time favorite collections. The colors are so feminie and beautiful, but the sentiments work for any photos. I had a lot of photos laying around from the first year that my husband and I started dating on to when we got married. I just haven't had time to sit down and scrap them. I'm a busy mom & wife, so finding time to craft is something I have to fit into my agenda. With the Simple Stories approach, it's so easy for me to sit down and create a few pages each night and easily have an album completed within a week. 

I like my projects to be lumpy & bumpy. I'm not a flat scrapbooker, I just can't do it. With the pocket pages, you can add lumpy & bumpy objects to the outside and have a really nice dimension to your project. Also, by embellishing this way, you don't totally ruin your photos with adhesive that the embellishments are stuck on with. That way, if you want to move your photos around, you can do it easily!

One of my favorite products in this collection are the little acetate 4x6 sheets that come in the collection packs. I have never paid close attention to these until now. They are so cool! All you do is layer them over your photo and stick them both into the pocket! you get this really cool layered writing over top of your photo without gluing or having to rub on a permanent image onto your photo. 

I love Maya Road trims, so for this album, I added some on top of my pages. They are so pretty and give that perfect added dimension to these albums. 

My pages are displayed in the new Sn@p 6x6 Pink Leather album. These are such nice albums, they are bound niceley and just an all around great album. 

I also used a variety of the 6x6 pocket pages. You can find a lot of different elements to fit these in the 12x12 collection kit along with other fitting products in each collection. 

Thanks for stopping by today! 

Products Used:

Simple Stories-
#3000 Vintage Bliss 12x12 Collection Kit
#3026 Vintage Bliss Decorative Brads
#3028 Vintage Bliss Layered Stickers
6x8 Pocket Pages 
6x6 Sn@p Leather Album- Pink 

Maya Road- 
Vintage Wood Mini Butterflies
Flower Pins Hot Pink & Cream Pearl
Rose Pink Vintage Tape Measure Trim
Tulle Pleat Trim Pumpkin Orange

Life Documented with Urban Traveler and Maya Road

Happy Friday Simple Stories' fans. Tonya here to show you my Life Documented pages from a girls' trip that I took last week. My girlfriends and I went for a quick no husbands, no kiddos trip to Vegas and Urban Traveler was the perfect collection to use for the occasion. 

 

I used my Silhouette to cut out the state of Nevada and the little star that represents Las Vegas. To embellish it I used a skyline sticker from the Fundamental Cardstock Stickers. I glittered the star, popped it up with some foam tape and then a yellow Maya Road  star stick pin. 

For the word Vegas on the lower portion of the pocket page I used the Silhouette again to cut out the word and then I outlined it with glue and added some dark grey glitter...a Vegas layout needs a bit of bling right?!

To make the dark blue "What I like most..." card stand out a bit I added a strip of airmail fabric tape from Maya Road. For the center of the camera lens I used a piece from the chipboard stickers.

***Disclaimer - No, we did not go see Thunder From Down Under. It was a joke between us and our husbands. When my girlfriend texted this nice photo of the three of us to her husband, he apparently thought it would be funny to put his photoshop skills to work and then texted the photo back to us!  We chuckled about it our whole trip!

For my Life Documented project I am using the black leather 12x12 binder...

These albums are so sturdy and well made, I love that little extra touch with the metal corners. Such great protection to help keep those corners intact.

The two Pocket Pages that I used...

The pockets on these pages are the perfect size, they provide a smidge more room making them perfect for those of us that like to layer and add some embellishments.

Additional Products Used from Urban Traveler:

  * Fundamental Cardstock Stickers

  * Expressions Cardstock Stickers

  * Chipboard Stickers

  * Decorative Brads

  * 3x4 Journaling Card Elements

  * 4x6 Journaling Card Elements

  * 4x4 Quote 6x8 Photo Mat Elements

  * 2x12 Border and Title Strip Elements

  * Grey Concrete/Chevron Paper

  * Navy Dots/Ledger Paper

  * Orange Stripes/Map Paper

  * Sn@p! Cards

Life Documented with 24/7, I {Heart} Summer, and Maya Road

Hola Simple Stories (and Maya Road) fans! Allison here today to share my Life Documented pages using the 24/7 and I {Heart} Summer lines. These layouts also made great use of some of my favorite Maya Road products such as the paper twine, mini tickets, fabric tape and DIY speech bubbles. If you've been following the Simple Stories blog, you know that I've been using our 6x8 Sn@p album for my Life Documented projects since day one of the year. One of the main reasons I chose a 6x8 album size was because I knew from last year that I was going to have weeks that were so busy that I'd forget to take photos, and I didn't want to be stuck trying to come up with too much "filler." Sure enough, that's exactly what happened in Week 16. So, I decided that I'd try my hand at mixing in a full 6x8 Pocket Page into my album. 

Using a 6x8 photo mat from the 24/7 line, I simply layered my weekly number (a printable) along with some of those adorable Maya Road mini tickets, some alpha stickers, and staples. I added a 6 1/4" x 8 1/4" mat to my card to fill out the Pocket Page just a bit more since these pockets are cut to match up with divided Pocket Pages and allow for fun embellishing. Here's a close up of the layered banner.

This really is what I love about the Life Documented philosophy... I can keep my elements as is, or I can dress them up and add a little bit of me to them. For the left pocket, I mostly left the 4x6 card as is, but I added the photo and this fun DIY speech bubble from Maya Road, which I stamped and then colored. You can also see a snippet of the Maya Road paper twine which I unraveled and stamped on top of using the little Sn@p icon stamps. I love the added texture it gives to the little card! 

I then moved on to Week 17, but for this spread, I had more photos. So, I paired the 6x8 Pocket Page with the 3x4 Pocket Page so I'd have more slots with which to play. 

Switching it up even further, this time I turned to the I {Heart} Summer line, which of course also had a great 6x8 photo mat. 

The 6x8 Pocket Page allowed me to showcase more photos which I surrounded with some of the Sn@p labels and tags. And how perfect are those cute Maya Road butterfly stick pins? 

I'm almost done with Volume I of my Life Documented series for 2013, and I'll soon be starting on Volume II. I'm currently using the green Sn@p Binders for this project, and I love the bookplate on the binding so I can easily label each part of my year. 

Pocket Pages used for this project included: 

• 6x8 - #2002
• 3x4 / 4x6 - #2005
• 3x4 - #2004

Additional Products Used from 24x7:

• Fundamentals Cardstock Stickers
• Expressions Cardstock Stickers
• Chipboard Stickers
• Today Patterned Paper
• Quote and 6x8 Photo Mat Elements
• Cork/Ephemera Patterned Paper
• Red Tweed/Calendar Patterned Paper
• Sn@p Cards (4x6)

Additional Products Used from I {Heart} Summer

• Expressions Cardstock Stickers
• Chipboard Stickers
• Decorative Brads
• Hello Summer Patterned Paper
• 4x4 Quote and 6x8 Photo Mat
• Daydream Patterned Paper
• Red Boardwalk/Ledger Patterned Paper
• Sn@p Cards 3x4

 

Life Documented with I {Heart} Summer and Maya Road

Hi Simple Stories fans! Rebecca here to share a Life Documented project with you using both Maya Road and the Simple Stories line I {Heart} Summer. I think the greatest element of Life Documented and using Simple Stories products is that they lend themselves both to the simplest form of scrapbooking as well as the most complex. I have major time constraints like all of you and often I want to just get my photos scrapped. Enter the simple side of Life Documented (the Pocket Pages and SN@P cards that slip right in).  And then sometimes I just want to play with paper and embellishments and get creative and have fun. Enter ALL the other Simple Stories elements that are available. And sometimes I want a little of both! So for my Life Documented spread this month I decided to do a 2 page spread with one 12 x 12 layout as the first page and one Pocket Page as the second.

Like I mentioned I made a traditional 12x12 layout on the left side:

I included lots of fun Maya Road goodies that compliemented the Simple Stories I {Heart} Summer line perfectly! Like the linen star decorated with twine cording:

And the cool canvas flower. You will notice that even this very dimensional flower fit easily into the Simple Stories 12 x 12 Pocket Page--they are very generous indeed!

And the Fabric Tape was loads of fun! I used it as a border and to create little flags:

And finally, I used the Mini Chipboard Heart Confetti stapled with some more Twine Cording to make this little embellishment:

On the right hand side of the spread I made a Pocket Page. I love the square pockets for Instagram photos!

And again, I embellished with lots of I {Heart} Summer and Maya Road! I cut the 4x4 journaling card from a larger 4x6 SN@P card, used my typewriter to journal on it and added a Maya Road mini Chipboard Say Cheese Camera.  I loved how you could take the pieces of the camera apart so they could easily be painted different colors!

I also layered a Maya Road flower over patterned paper, a border sticker and a brad element:

But my favorite pocket was this one, where I layered Simple Stories SN@P! Cuts over a piece of patterend paper from the 6 x 6 Paper Pad. Then added a Maya Road Butterfly flag. I faux stitched around the Kraft butterfly with a white gel pen and tied it with some twine cording which I unrolled to look a bit like a bow. Next I added a mini polaroid from the Maya Road Mini Chipboard Set Say Cheese which I painted white. I covered the bottom of the Polaroid with Maya Road Fabric tape and added a Simple Stories Chipboard heart to the center of the frame! PHEW! Lots of work, but like I said it is my favorite!

Like I mentioned, I used a traditional 12 x 12 Pocket Page for the left hand side of my page. I love the Simple Stories 12 x 12 Pocket Pages because they are so generous even fitting layouts with lots of dimension.

And on the right side of my spread I used the Simple Stories Pocket Pages Design 10:

Since I already have traditional scrapbook albums, my Life Documented albums tend to include lots of phone photos, so I LOVE the 4x4 pockets for all my phone and Instagram photos. I also love how the Pocket Pages are matte enough that they dont cause a huge glare, but clear enough that they don't look foggy. Just right! I hope you are enjoying our Life Documented series and see that whether you like to keep it simple or get a little more complicated Simple Stories has what you need to document your life!

Other Supplies Used:

Simple Stories I {Heart Summer} Products Used:

Fundamentals Cardstock Stickers

Expressions Cardstock Stickers

6x6 Paper Pad

Chipboard Stickers

Decorative Brads

Layered Stickers Flair Icons

Hello Summer Paper

Yellow Boardwalk Paper

SN@P! Cuts

SN@P! Cards

Maya Road:

Twine Cording

Fabric Tape

Butterfly Flags

Mini Chipboard Sets Heart Confetti and Say Cheese

Linen Star

Canvas Flower

Trim Flower

 

 

Life Documented with Maya Road and 24/7

Hi all! Kay here with another installment of Life Documented. For these two weeks I used a combination of the 24/7 line, and some Maya Road goodies. Because of Memorial Day I had a lot of pictures, so on week 22 I also used a smaller pocket page for my overflow. Let's get started!

Here is Week 21. 

On the left you can see I used the more traditional pocket page, using Design 3.

I've been documenting life for the last two years now, and at this point I am excited to mix it up a bit. So as you can see, I used Design 8 on the right-hand side.

For the 6x8 insert I trimmed down one of the Sn@p pages and also added a pocket for tickets, receipts, and anything else I wanted to keep for the week. I also included one of the adorable Maya Road cameras and twine at the top.

Here are some detail shots from this week using Maya Road goodies. I loved the journaling tags!

 For Week 22, I added another Pocket Page, using Design 9 on the right side.

There is also a 3x4 Pocket Page on the right side of the layout. I LOVE using these smaller pages because they just blend right in to the design, but allow for more pictures for those busy weeks!

Here is the full week: 

And another shot with the smaller page flipped to the other side

See how I was able to seemlessly get more room for the week?

Here is a close up of both sides. First the left side with then without the insert.

Now the right side with and without the insert.

Here you can see the interactive nature of this week.

And now some close-ups of the Maya Road goodies I used! Love the speech bubbles, and the fabric tape was awesome for some texture.

 

Simple Stories 24/7 Products Used:

• Fundamental Cardstock Stickers
• Expressions Cardstock Stickers
• 3x4 Journaling Card Elements
• 4x6 Journaling Card Elements
• 6x6 Paper Pad
• Chipboard Stickers
• Decorative Brads
• Layered Stickers
• Sn@p! Pockets
• Sn@p! Pages

Maya Road Products:

•  Twine Cording
• Fabric Tape
• Kraft Mini Tickets
• Kraft DIY Speech Bubbles
• Kraft Journaling Tags -  Decorative 
• Kraft Die Cut Pieces - Say Cheese Cameras

Be sure to visit the Maya Road blog for their wonderful and inspiring projects.

Check back tomorrow for another fantastic project from Simple Stories and Maya Road.  Have a great week!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life Documented with Vintage Bliss & Maya Road

Greetings Simple Stories fans, it's Liz here today to kick off a week of wonderful inspiration.  We've teamed up with Maya Road to bring you some fantastic ideas for incorporating embellishments with Simple Stories collections and our Life Documented style.  I'm sharing a project with the beautiful Vintage Bliss collection in a 6x8 Life Documented format.

 

Isn't Vintage Bliss such a beautiful and happy collection?  I thought it would look great with these summery photos of my daughter playing at the park

It's fun to trim the 3 x 4 journal cards to fit on another 3x4 background.  I did that with both of these journal cards and then inked the edges for a little distressing and contrast to the bright, bright colors.

The Maya Road Stamps are a great way to add sentiments to the journal cards, especially if you prefer type to your own handwriting.  The stamps are split up so you can easily mix and match the words to make a variety of sentiments.  I also added the adorable little rabbit to the card.

I stained this wood shipping tag and then stamped it with the "happy" sentiment from the Maya Road Art Journaling clear stamps.

I added a little tiwne to the cardstock sticker, pop dotted it and then adhered it to the center of this 3x4 jouranling card.

 

The Maya Road sheers are a great addition to life documented projects.  I have had these clocks in my stash for a long time and thought they were a fun addition to this Vintage Bliss journaling card.

The Maya Road twine makes a great frame for this photo.  The mini kraft tickets dress up the journal tag and can easily be written on.

The new leather albums make great storage for the Life Documented projects.  The 6 x 8 albums are easy to store and with the pocket pages are simple and fast to create.

My favorite of the pocket page configurations is the 3x4/4x6 combination...

 

Vintage Bliss Prodcuts Used:

• Fundamental Cardstock Stickers
• Expressions Cardstock Stickers
• 3x4 Journaling Card Elements
• 4x6 Journaling Card Elements
• 6x6 Paper Pad

Maya Road Products:

• Sweet Candy Twine
• Wood Shipping Tags
• Kraft Mni Tickets
• Art Journaling Clear Stamps
• Vintage Wood Rabbits
• Sheer Clocks

 

Be sure to visit the Maya Road blog for their wonderful and inspiring projects.

 

Check back tomorrow for another fantastic project from Simple Stories and Maya Road.  Have a wonderful and crafty week!

 

Life Documented - Behind the Scenes Part 2

Howdy friends - Layle here with you again today for part 2 of our behind the scenes coverage.

Before I jump in, I have to ask - are you a winner?!  There's still time to participate in our album giveaway, but you can't win if you don't enter :)  If you haven't entered, head over to this post and leave a comment telling us what you like the most about our new albums to be entered to win!

Today is the 2nd in a 2 part series of behind the scenes photos of how our new albums and Pocket Pages are produced.  If you missed the part 1 post from earlier this week about how our new albums are produced, you can see that here.

Alrighty - onto the production process for our Pocket Pages! 

The first step of the process is for the BIG rolls of ultrathick, heavy weight clear polypropylene material to be cut

After that, the cut material goes through an ultrasonic sealing machine to create the pockets

The final step is for the Simple Stories logo and item # to be stamped in silver foil on each Pocket Page

You can see the silver foil stamped logo on Melissa's Pocket Page layout on the left

And there you have it!  A much shorter process than the albums go through.  But then again, there are 10 different designs of the 12x12 Pocket Pages -

and 5 different designs of the 6x8 Pocket Pages

so there's quite a bit of cutting, sealing and stamping that takes place :)

I hope you enjoyed the behind the scenes look at how our new albums and Pocket Pages are produced!