Hi All! Wendy here and wishing a Happy 7th Anniversary to PageMaps! The design team here at Simple Stories is so excited to join PageMaps in its month-long celebration, and all the party details can be found here. Simple Stories participated in the "On The Border" challenge with Lynn Ghahary, where we had to use three border designs on our project, along with this PageMaps sketch below for inspiration. What a fun challenge! And here's my take on the sketch.... My layout was inspired by the sketch (ok, obviously, ha!) but also from a recent trip in March to NYC... Continue reading

Welcome to Day 3 of the Simple Stories & Petaloo Blog Hop! We’re so excited to team up with Petaloo to share some inspiring projects with you this week. We’ll be giving away a great Simple Stories prize package at the end of the week, so be sure to play along and check back on Sunday to see if you’re the lucky winner! Here are the different ways you can play along – 1. Like Simple Stories on Facebook 2. Share this blog post on your Facebook wall and tell us you did on our Facebook wall 3. Follow Simple... Continue reading

Hello All! Wendy here to share up an altered project for you today! I always love the vintage and eclectic and this printer's tray from 7 Gypsies just spoke to me along with the Simple Stories Take a Hike collection. I love the tone of the distressed tray along with the color palette in this collection. My soul screamed...a perfect pairing. Truth. Take a Hike is a previous release from Simple Stories and just about perfection for all things outdoor-sy, masculine, and "simply" capturing the beauty of nature. You can still grab it up at your fav online spots for... Continue reading

Hi all, Wendy here & hello to the Friday! So, how about those CHA Winter 2013 reveals?!!! I kinda' thought you might drool (a bit) after the "powers-that-be" revealed up the motherload! Seriously, I told them if they thought they were slammed before with orders at past CHAs, then get ready to be stampeded at this show. I'm quite sure all the finishing touches are making it/done with the Simple Stories booth and the HUGE show kicks off this weekend! One project I have revealing up in the Simple Stories booth, is my 6x8 Mix & Match album using the... Continue reading

Festive time is here! Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate the season! 5 days until you knock down Santa for those fabulous presents, stuff your bellies to the max, and enjoy the time with family & friends! Hi all, Wendy here to share up my project with a bit of festive play on the season using the "Handmade Holiday" collection. This collection is perfect for all the awesome Xmas pics you've taken/still to take this month! SO many beautiful colors & the vintage twist in this collection and the perfect backdrop for my layout. Time to share up... I used the following key... Continue reading

Hi All!! Wendy here to take you back "ol' skool" to a much-loved collection released earlier by Simple Stories....the "Awesome" Collection! This collection is simply & stylish perfection for those guys - young, old, and middle of the road (ha!) - in your life! Also, there are some coordinating stamps over at Unity Stamps for the Awesome collection here. I love this collection even better with the addition of the 6x8 Mix & Match album pages. I'm planning to work this first layout into creating an on-going 6x8 Mix & Match for my boyfriend, Enzo. The great & simple style... Continue reading

Hello All! Wendy here to inspire you & share up the rest of my "Take the Journey" album previously shared up in Part 1 of 2 here. I'm sure you all are loving the new releases from Simple Stories revealed up at the past CHA summer show and two of those collections were Harvest Lane and Take a Hike! I worked with both of these collections on my project and actually combined them both in this project share titled "Take the Journey". Both collections speak together in colors, patterns, and also shows you how well the Simple Stories concept works... Continue reading

Hello All! Wendy here to inspire you a bit today. It's been awhile since I posted around here and now that the CHA Summer Show jets have cooled off, time to share up my project created for the Simple Stories booth. If you were a lucky duck to be at the show, I'm sure you LOVED all the new releases from Simple Stories revealed up at the show and two of those collections were Harvest Lane and Take a Hike! I worked with both of these collections on my project and actually combined them both in this project share titled... Continue reading

Hello Hello!! Wendy here and since CHA Chicago Summer Show 2012 officially kicked off with a bang today for Simple Stories, the new releases are on full display along with the team samples showcasing these wonderful new collections! CHA is DEFINITELY the place to be this week!! Well, I'm pretty much happy I can start sharing up a few of my projects today created with the NEW Handmade Holiday collection! Oh, bee sure to check it out in detail because I'm sure it will be one of your favs for the Christmas season past & present! Using Handmade Holiday, I... Continue reading

Hi All! Wendy here to bring a little "jingle jingle" vibe to the summer & sunshine-y days. The hot days are in full swing (especially in the South) but hey, it's mid-year and time for some festive flair to inspire you for the holiday season that will hit in a few months! Ok ok ok....maybe a bit too early to think upon, but hey, if you get those cards started early, you'll have no excuses for waiting until the last minute, right?! So, I'm here to inspire you a "lil' bit". The PERFECT collection for you from Simple Stories, "25... Continue reading

Hi All! Wendy here to share up my Part 2 of 2 post for this month to document my "Week-in-the-Life" {Apr 23 - 29}. It was a pretty monumental & epic week of many emotions, discoveries, feelings...so to process-document-inhale it all, I broke up this blog post into 2 parts. Wellllllll, actually, there is a 6x8 Mix & Match design team blog hop happening June 4th and I'll actually bring in a Part 3/BONUS share in that hop because I simply can't share it all up in this post. But in this share you will see actual completed pages from... Continue reading

Hi All! Wendy here to share up my Part 1 of 2 post for this month to document my "Week-in-the-Life" {Apr 23 - 29}. I believe many a soul participated in Ali's "week-in-the -life" project that week and it's such a cool thing to do. Well, I had a very very adventurous and incredible week overseas to Austria to visit my boyfriend who is from Italy and lives in Salzburg, Austria (he's pretty much in.cre.di.ble x 10....) but you can read more about all that over on my blog, BUT I wanted to capture the week with the Simple Stories... Continue reading

Hi All! Wendy here to share up my first blog post to kick off this new term with Simple Stories! I'm thrilled to design it up another year and just because Simple Stories is just some crazy coolness. BUT you don't need me to tell you all that, right? Ha! So, my focus on the team this year will be altered art/mixed media/mini books and so rolling it out with this NEW mini using the "Awesome" and "Destinations" collections. In this mini, I took an "older" (or I like to say classic) collection (Destinations) + a new CHA Winter 2012... Continue reading

February 29, 2012 Hi All! Wendy here to share up another project that was on display in the CHA booth. I previously shared up a fun fun layout here a few weeks ago using the new Fabulous collection and now time for a mini book. You know I love to create up a mini "every now & then". (wink wink) So, I'm gonna hop straight to it because there are lots of pics to share to see it all and some random close-ups to show your more of the details. This mini was inspired to all the girls out there... Continue reading

February 17, 2012 Hello peeps! Wendy here & happy to be back in action to post after the CHA spin on designing projects for the booth. I hear there was major major love for the new Simple Stories CHA releases! Seriously, who couldn't love these collections? I can't really pick a fav but the 6x8 albums are probably going to be a super fab fave! :) But I'm quite lovin' Fabulous too! So, sharing up one of my projects, a 12x12 layout, titled "Doodle Girl", that was in the Simple Stories booth using the Fabulous collection! I instantly thought of... Continue reading

Hi All! Wendy here to share up sneak peeks of a class I'm teaching this coming weekend & just to chat with ya for a bit as we sit out & try to distract your brain of CHA sneak peeks that are coming next week. Oh, if you love scouting out cool & fab scrapbook stores when traveling (which I do when I'm on the road traveling for work, I "reward" myself with a nice little splurge to a scrap store, if one is nearby) then you MUST check out Gigi's Scrapbookin' located in Foley, AL. It's just minutes from... Continue reading

and Hi all!! Wendy here to share up my project from the sweet collab blog swap event of Simple Stories & Glue Arts! What a fabulous union, eh?! I mean I'm quite partial anyway to Glue Arts adhesives because when you stumble upon a great adhesive, you pretty much marry it and there is no other that beats it. Trust me, they aren't paying me to plug this, BUT I do believe in a great adhesive and their glue dots are my all time fav and last for.ever. and a day. and coordinating page projects that work with the Simple... Continue reading

Hiya Simple Stories fan!! Wendy back with my FINALE take on my December Daily using Simple Stories & Maya Road!! Seriously, I can't believe I did it! Always had the ultimate intention to complete it out but would start, get frustrated, get behind, and with my recent printer issues FINALLY made it happen for this December Daily. So, I'm super pleased to complete it out (with the exception of a few days left - 22 - 25 - to round out the 25 days) but all in all, DONE-zo! :) I still have my bits & pieces of journaling to... Continue reading

Hiya All! Wendy here with my December Daily share for days 1-16. On a side note before I start sharing it up, I had printer issues (aka it died & went to printer heaven) with my "wingman/wingwoman (if you are into being all PC)" (aka Epson PictureMate). So, I'm still a bit picture-less in catchup to print my batch of photos for now but my new printer arrived on Friday. Rest assured, I'm working up printing all the daily pics I've snapped for these days to show up later this month. However, LOTS of pages & details to share up... Continue reading

Hi All! Wendy here to share up a FUN FUN & festive holiday gift idea! Are you lovin' all the fabulous gift & holiday decor ideas that we've shared all week!? LOTS of great inspiration! Handmade gifts are so sweet & special to receive. I know I love to receive them (not that I'm dropping any hints or anything to any gift givers out there - wink wink - but I have been SUPER nice this year). So, without further ado, let's get started "behind-the-scenes" into the making of my "Magical Memories" Altered Shadow Box. First of all, I have... Continue reading