pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}

Okay, third day in a row and now I’ll be all caught up sharing my makes for Paige Taylor Evans’ blog! This time I went with her Seashell cut file to scrapbook some photos of Ariel and Eric from The Little Mermaid!

You can find the full write up on Paige’s blog, or watch this video to see how it all came together.

You can find Bloom Street and the Silhouette Cameo to order through that dandy affiliate link (thanks!) and find the cut file here or by searching for it on the Silhouette Design Store.

Have you spotted that all the pages I’ve made for Paige’s blog are Disney projects? No coincidence there – there’s a lot of magic in Paige’s designs! This and a few other seashells she offers are great for photos of meeting Ariel, be it at Bon Voyage Breakfast like this (a character meal with two princes! Huzzah!) or with her feeling a bit more under-the-sea in her grotto at the Magic Kingdom.

Shhh, don’t laugh at me too much but I got a bit behind in posting my pages for Paige over here, so I have another one today. And also tomorrow. Ha! At any rate, today it’s all about an easy-peasy start to mixed media with your cut files. You can find this project on Paige Taylor Evans’ blog and this time I went with her Best Friends Forever cut file for a big title that could also hold some photos. The title was cut from smooth white cardstock and most of the rest of the page comes from Paige’s Bloom Street collection.

You can find the full write up at Paige’s blog, or watch how it all came together in this video. This is a very easy intro to mixed media and I promise you can do it!

You can find the Bloom Street collection and indeed the Silhouette Cameo to order through that dandy affiliate link (thanks!) and find the cut file here or by searching for ‘Best Friends Forever’ on the Silhouette Design Store.

Here’s also a look at the layout that inspired me to keep going with the Best Friends theme! This is one I made with my Never Grow Up collection plus a bit of Sparkle City while scrapping on Facebook Live.

Hello hello! It’s my turn to share a design team page on Paige Taylor Evans’ blog and this time I went with her Speech Bubbles Background. Once that was cut from smooth white cardstock, I set myself the challenge of using just one 12×12 paper pad and one #StickerBook to complete the whole page.

You can find the full write up at Paige’s blog, or watch how it all came together in this video.

You can find the Bloom Street Paper Pad and the Paige Evans #StickerBook to order through that dandy affiliate link (thanks!) and find the cut file here or by searching for it on the Silhouette Design Store.

This photo was from a solo day at Disneyland back in January of this year. I can’t skip character meets just because I’m by myself – it’s part of the fun and definitely part of the magic! But there’s not always a substantial story for these photos beyond the fact that they make me smile a lot, so I love pairing them with big designs that offer a chance to just play with product and make something new to me!

Hey creative friends! It’s my turn to share a design team page on Paige Taylor Evans’ blog, and this time I went with her Makers Gonna Make cut file.

You can find the full write up at http://www.paigetaylorevans.com/2020/04/makers-gonna-make-layout-by-shimelle.html, plus here’s a very quick behind the scenes look at how it all came together!

You can find Bloom Street to order through that dandy affiliate link (thanks!) and find the cut file here or by searching for it on the Silhouette Design Store.

Can you spot what ‘making’ is featuring in those photos? It’s one of our favourite quiet breaks to take on an Animal Kingdom day, because we just have a need to do some making of some sort, pretty much every day!

Happy Easter! I’m celebrating with… a rainbow-themed scrapbook page. Ha! It just happens to be my turn to share a project on Paige Evans’ blog today, so rainbows it is.

I used Paige’s Bloom Street collection (affiliate link) for this pastel rainbow, and you can find a full write up of the steps on Paige’s blog.

Wishing you a wonderful, if quite unique, Easter Sunday!

Hello and RAWR to you today, friends! It’s my turn to share a page on “Paige’s blog”: and today I’m scrapbooking with Bloom Street’s pastel colours and some dinosaurs. What could be a better way to spend the day? Pretty sure RAWR is dinosaur for ‘stay home and scrapbook’ and I’m on board.

I’ve had the Geometric Dinosaur cut file bookmarked in my mind for a while, but someone recently asked which papers I would use specifically from Bloom Street to bring this dino to life, so it had to be done! And it appears the answer is all the greens and purples, plus a cheeky pair of chipmunks.

You can watch it all from start to finish in this process video.

Thanks so much for braving this fearsome T-Rex and I wish you much pastel fun in your own creating this week!

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Hey howdy hey friends! It’s my turn on Paige Evans’ blog and I’m excited to share with you a new layout using plenty of purple from Bloom Street along with this fab Star Wreath cut file and a photo from Disneyland!

The top I’m wearing in this photo has a space ranger badge on the front and says ‘to infinity and beyond!’ on the back, so I knew from the start I wanted to pair it with purple and green to play up the Buzz Lightyear memories, plus plenty of stars seem apt for a space ranger in Tomorrowland. I couldn’t decide between a star background or a star wreath, so put it to a vote on social media and the star wreath was the winner! I started the whole process by cutting that at the full page size from white cardstock on my Silhouette Cameo. You can watch the whole process from start to finish in this process video.

Thanks so much for taking a look, and please do let me know if you make something with purple, green, and stars any time soon.

One of my favourite things to come out of the start of 2020 is the chance to work in a new way with an old friend: as part of the cut file design team from none other than Paige Evans. Today I’m sharing the first page I’ve made as part of that team with her Love Love Love cut file and her beautiful new Bloom Street collection.

Here’s a look at how it all came together, with one photo taken just outside It’s a Small World at Disneyland Paris, and one patterned paper per word of the cut file. Plus a little thread to finish it all!

I cut my files like this with the Silhouette Cameo 3 and smooth white cardstock, then adhere with the same adhesive I use for almost everything: the Kokuyo dot roller.

You can find Paige’s paper collections here at scrapbook.com and find her cut files on Etsy and the Silhouette Design Store.

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