Hi there Magpies, Sheena here again. This time I’ve been creating with the lovely Simple Stories Boho Sunshine. It has lovely soft summer colours making it so easy to create with. Hello Sunshine. Check out how this came together in this YouTube process video. Till next time x Supplies used Simple Stories – Boho Sunshine collection. The post Hello Sunshine / Boho Sunshine – Simple Stories / Sheena Rowlands. appeared first on Hey Little Magpie ..read more

Hi there Magpies x It’s my turn this month to set the challenge and after some thought I’ve chosen” Banners”. Use them any way you want on your layout. We look forward to seeing your creations. Together. I’ve used Simple Stories- The Simple Life collection from the Hey Little Magpie Taste of Kit. Check out the process video on our YouTube channel. My lovely team mate Wendy created this example using multiple small banners, isn’t it fab x 95 Today. To be in with a chance of winning upload your layout/project into the June 2023 challenge album, on the Facebook page. The winner will be cho ..read more

Hi Jackie here with my final blogpost for May.  I been concentrating this month on getting some of my Disney photographs documented from 2022. For this post I’ve used Simple Stories – Say Cheese Adventure at the Park collection. One of the areas at Animal Kingdom, was a lovely walk around the Maharajah Jungle, it was a great area to escape from the crowds for an hour and explore and find out more about the animals. As I took loads of photographs in this one area, I decided to print them smaller and add them to a pocket page. The lovely JD3D Print Wood are perfect for this pocket page ..read more

Hi there Magpies, Sheena here again. I’ve been creating with the stunning Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days collection. I particularly liked the stripySunshine Lollipops paper and used this combined with the puffy stickers and Distress oxides to make this page. Do check out the process video on our YouTube channel. Happy Memories. Till next time x Supplies used – Cocoa Vanilla Studio – Happy Days       The post Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happy Days | Sheena Rowlands appeared first on Hey Little Magpie ..read more

Hello Magpies Welcome back. Do you enjoy playing with mixed media & making your own unique backgrounds? If you know me you’ll know I love it & this is one of my fave techniques & really easy to do, stamp ‘bleeding’ You add stamping, I choose the word yum, using some older Heidi Swapp stamps, from my stash, & stamp onto gessoed cardstock. The gesso is the key as without it the ink won’t ‘bleed’!! I did it in 3 colours of oxide inks Mustard Seed, Kitsch Flamingo & Peacock Feathers. I just did a few words at a time before using a water brush to add a small amount of water & ..read more

Hi Everyone! it’s Wendy here sharing my last layout for May using the gorgeous 49 and Market Vintage Artistry travel Collection. I have taken another different approach as I wanted to use multiple photos for this layout. I love banners and tags and pockets so decided to create mini version and make a grid layout with them. I used the 12×12 bright Pilgrimage paper as a background. I trimmed the 12×12 patterned paper and added a white card stock border to give more dimension. I hand cut several banners and pocket shapes in different papers from the collection, I distressed all the edges and I t ..read more

Hello Magpies, Amy here again today to share my last 2 layouts using the “Set Sail” collection by Heidi Swapp. My first layout today is a classic grid design, using the 3×4 cut apart paper. I selected 5 of the cut-aparts, and used my 3×4 photo to fill the 6th space. I added the reverse of the cut off branding stripe to the top of the layout. To the bottom of the layout I added a fussy cut knot length from the same paper.  I like to add this top and bottom border to this kind of design. I then had fun decorating the grid design with ephemera, stickers and cutouts from the Hey Little Magp ..read more

Hi Jackie, here with a layout using Simple Stories – Say Cheese at the Park collection.  Love this collection as it bright and fun just like being a Disney. Say Cheese For a change I decided to use Full of Wonder paper as my background. Then using the b-side of 4×6 elements which measured 7×5 I cut it into a pennant and distressed the edges.  Using a 3×8 piece of 3×4 element paper – using the b-side. My photograph is backed with Meet me on Main Street, adding 3D foam behind to give it added dimension. For my journaling spot, I used the  cut-apart journaling elements sheet, and ..read more

Hi Magpies, Today I’m sharing my second layout using 49 & Market’s Vintage Artistry Everywhere collection. And what a collection it is – so many elements, variety & the colour combination is really unusual, I had to try it!.   LOVE THIS PLACE   I began my layout by cutting some wonky circles in white which I glued to the centre of the Wonder paper. Although, this design could easily be created without the circles if preferred. I added a few embellishments to the top right, who could resist that cute aeroplane?!   Next, I backed my photo with a few pieces of epheme ..read more

Hello Magpies, Amy here with a second layout using the “Set Sail” collection by Heidi Swapp. Instead of using white cardstock for my background I decided to switch it up and used the B side pf the patterned paper called “Sailboats Black“. I cut a 9″ circle from the B side of paper called “Dark Shells“. I distressed the edges to hide my inaccurate hand cutting! I then stitched it to the centre of my background paper using my machine. Again to hide the fact my stitched circles were wobbly, I went around the circle about 4 times! I layered some of the larger tags from the “Tags” paper behind my ..read more