Scrapabilly shares - January kit

Warning: Photo heavy post ahead :-)

What with one thing or another, we are all a little late posting our Scrapabilly January kit creations. The gallery (here) will go live tomorrow - 19th January - but Sylvia said I could share a little early. Probably because she realised just how excited I was with what I'd done with my kit! You can find the kit in the Scrapabilly shop here.

First things first, let's have a look at the kit:

 Can you see all that Simple Stories goodness in there? It's based on the Daily Grind collection and as soon as I saw the monthly bingo cards and cut apart sheets featuring places, activities and people, I knew I needed to make this into a year in review album. This is a really super kit - love at first sight.

The kit itself would have been enough to complete this whole project as I have quite a lot left over which I am considering making into a set of cards, but I decided to add some of the extra papers available in the set. I really wanted to have as much fun as possible with the paper combinations.

Here are the papers I added in:

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One of the things I love most about Simple Stories is that the colours are so consistent across all the papers. I'm not sure if this is really the case, but it feels like every piece of multi-patterned paper features every colour in the collection to some degree. So that makes a project like this so easy as I never had to stop and think about which papers would "go", I just grabbed what I liked.

I also picked up two packs of the Simple Stories Sn@p divided page protectors (see here) to make it even easier. I worked on it one afternoon, then a few extra hours another day and finished it off on Monday evening. Really, if I'd been a bit more organised, this could have been done and dusted in one weekend or even just one day. My time included picking out my photos, printing them, making up the pages, writing out all the journalling and then embellishing.

Here are some shots of my album. You can see the full set of photos over at the Scrapabilly gallery (here) otherwise this will turn into the longest blog post of the century! (there are 20 photos in total):

I've become such a fan of Simple Stories over the last year or so, and this quick and easy project has really cemented that feeling. In fact, I'm considering picking up more papers - perhaps mixing in the original Sn@p collection from Scrapabilly - and making year in review albums for 2008-2011 and 2013. With a little planning, I think I could get these done in a couple of weekends if I organised the photos and sent them to be printed rather than doing that all myself.

Well done if you've got this far - so many photos that I really wanted to share with you!

Don't forget to check out the rest of the design team (see sidebar on the right) to see what they've created with these versatile papers.