Love | Simple Stories | Heartstrings Collection

Hey everyone, here is a new layout for Simple Stories using the gorgeous Heartstrings collection. I always love Valentine’s collections and this one is no exception, I particularly love the colour palette, with pinks, oranges and reds are just fabulous and I love the pops of blue and green too!
For this layout I wanted to showcase the papers, so I cut nine hearts out of different papers. I distressed the edges of each one and raised them on foam pads onto a white background. For the middle heart I wanted to include a heart-shaped photo, so I used one of my hearts as a template to draw around the part of the photo I wanted, and then hand-cut slightly within those lines to make my photo slightly smaller than the patterned paper heart. This way it had a nice border around the edge.
I then set about making each of my hearts into a mini scrapbook page! Lots of the hearts have a small photo. We had a ‘gal-entines’ party for my daughter and her friend – they go to a girls’ school so there are no boyfriends on the scene so they decided to celebrate their gal friendships instead! At the party we had cookie decorating, lots of pretty decorations, pizza, music and lots of silly fun! So all the little photos show some of those things.
I was worried the small photos were a little too big to go on the hearts, but at the right angle they looked ok and the hearts still maintained their heart-shape without too much being covered. Some of the hearts contain titles from the Sentiment Bits, and the bottom right heart has a little clipboard journaling spot, for me to write my journaling.
I added Floral Bits to each heart together with Bits & Pieces, some of the small hearts from the Foam Stickers, Decorative Brads and some phrase stickers from the Cardstock Stickers.
I finished off with a few splatters of black paint – I love the pops of black in the collection so the black splatters were the perfect addition!
I love how this one turned out! Happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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