WEAR CRAFTS - SIMPLE STORIES

A while ago, Jen at Wear Crafts sent me a sample of the Simple Stories items that she has available on her website (see top right for the button to find out more) and mentioned that some of these were being used in a 'project life' style way by some people.  Intrigued I had a look but was unsure as I attempted a similar project style last year without great success if I'm honest.  So they sat on my desk for a few weeks waving at me to do something with them, so I got them out the other week and decided to utilise them in some scrapbook pages.

Here is what I made, the first one page is where I took the 6 x 6 pages and I reconfigured them into a 12 x 12 layout, I think people forget the versatility of the 6 x 6 pads sometimes and that as scrapbook pads are designed to 'go together' you can easily create your own background page as I did!

I then added some hand stitching to the bottom and right of the turquoise square, some strips of the chevrons from another sheet of paper, a brad, some hand stamping, a hand cut journal card from another sheet and my photo and we were done. Documenting the fabulous tram that goes up the great orm, using an Instagram photo that I had printed.

Next up I took the remainders of the papers left, I centralised one piece and then added strips of the chevron and arrow style papers, a little phone charm, some hand stitching, hand stamped title and some journalling and hey presto finished.  This layout documenting giddy teenagers in a toy shop when we were in holiday, said 13 year old has an affinity with turtles and said niece just wanted to join in the giddy fun! 

This did then leave me with a tiny amount of paper left but I was determined to squeeze one more layout out.  I used the remaining strips of paper on the bottom left hand side, woven in and out of the white cardstock, I then added the remaining strips to the top left as an accent piece, the remaining larger piece of paper had already been trimmed down, so I rounded the corners, added the photo (with the corners rounded) and the title.  Another quick and simple layout, documenting a game of boules that the owners of a property we stayed in had left to utilise.  I think this layout goes to show how far some supplies will go!  The range is really broad with lots of different types of items in it and I enjoyed working with the bold geometric papers!  Fabulous stuff - thank you Jen!