Two Wreath-Style Layout Designs With Simple Stories Simple Vintage Love Story Collection

Hello everyone! My name is Allison Davis and I am a scrapbooker and sketch artist for my family’s scrapbook store located in Springfield, MO and also the sketch artist for Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine. I am so grateful and excited to be a guest on the Spellbinders blog today sharing two layouts I created using the Simple Stories Simple Vintage Love Story collection.

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I don’t know about you, but to me, wreath designs are a classic concept that I love to use over and over. There are so many unique ways you can create and customize a wreath design whether it’s the shape of the wreath as a whole or the shape of the elements used to create the wreath.

For my first layout, I used the Spellbinders Essential Hearts cutting die to cut out lots of hearts in a variety of patterned papers. This Love Story collection is so beautiful, with so many pretty patterned papers so I tried to use a large selection of them to really show off the beauty of this collection.

I used the hearts to create a circle wreath, layering and overlapping them as much as I could. I first used the hearts cut with the Essential Hearts cutting die as the base for this wreath. Since there is so much overlapping, I added a hand-stitched border on each of these base hearts to really help each one stand out. Plus, I love the look of stitching with this Simple Vintage collection.

After I had that base wreath design laid out I started adding lots of small details to fill it out. I use small punched hearts, die-cut hearts, word/phrase stickers, and some of the Spellbinders jewels.

For my second layout, I took a slightly different approach to a wreath design and started things off with a large heart as the center.

I covered that heart with torn patterned paper strips and arranged them on top of a large cardstock heart base. To add even more texture and dimension and to really define the edge of the heart I added a chain link stitch along the edge. Then I adhered the heart with foam adhesive to the center of the layout.

There is a great package of Simple Stories die-cut flowers that have so many beautiful floral pieces. I used those to create a wreath around the heart in the center.

To fill out the wreath design and add lots of detail, I adhered lots of butterflies, hearts, and jewels.

Thank you so much for joining me today! If you want to see more of my work you can find me on my blog, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube

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Other supplies

Fiskars small heart punch, Embroidery floss: DMC.