Hi CVS friends today I am stash busting whilst I wait for the stunning new collection Unforgettable! I have used mainly More Than Words collection to create this layout of my oldest and youngest sharing a sweet moment.
This gorgeous cut file So Loved is from Cut to You. I sized it to fill most of my page choosing the ombre blue paper Wild & Free which is actually from the Bohemian Dream collection as my base paper which I also added some splatters of white paint before adding the cut file.
I used the Darling Buds paper, floral side to paper piece the letters. As you will see some letters I used foam tape to adhere some of the letters to add dimension and height variation on the layout.
I added my photo with foam tape which I framed with a die cut ephemera frame and finished off with a die cut banner and butterfly. I also added a another black frame to ensure it provided a contrast which would draw the eye to it.
I have used Boho Bits paper (again from Bohemian Dream collection) to paper piece the hearts of the cut file and again all added with foam tape. And for the bit I like best, choosing gorgeous die cuts to embellish my layout! I have tucked under the foam taped letters small floral die cuts, die cut word sentiments over the words to create a form of journalling and lastly adding some pretty die cut butterflies.
Thank you for taking the time to pop by today and I hope this layout has inspired you in some way. See you later in the month were I will have another layout using the new CVS collection Unforgettable yay! Have a great week.
It’s Sue Plumb here to share my latest design team project with you, and my very first using the brand new ‘Unforgettable’ collection. And OMG…is this one gorgeous range or what?! I was so excited to sit down and create with this one – so many gorgeous pieces I hardly knew where to start! But once I did, boy was this layout easy to create; it was one of those that just “fell onto the page”. (Don’t you love it when that happens?)
I designed this layout to document some fun candid photos of my siblings and I that were taken a couple of weeks ago at my older sister’s birthday party. You’ve gotta love candid shots sometimes – we were all having such a great time singing and dancing together we didn’t notice the photographer snapping away at us.
So I began my page with my three photos and a sheet of white cardstock. The first item I reached for was the 6×8″ Paper Stack. You may recall that previous collections have had a paper pad, not a stack. This is a new addition to the product range, and I have to say, I MUCH prefer the stack to a pad. It made it so much easier to pull pieces out to shuffle around!
I chose three patterns from the stack that I thought would work well together – the watercolour floral print (from the Glorious paper; the monochromatic floral print from the Lacewing paper; and the hot pink pattern from the Unscripted paper.) I cut and punched a variety of circles from the papers and arranged them so they were cascading down the right side of my page.
I then placed my three photos on the page, layering the two smaller ones near the top, and the slightly larger feature photo near the bottom. I made sure I had left enough space between them for my layout title, which I had chosen from the new Foam Title Stickers. One of the best thing about these stickers? They come on a clear backing sheet! This makes it easy to move the titles around to different spots to see how they will look before you commit to placement. Once I found the right spot, I stuck it down; adding a small heart at the end of the word.
With my title in place I then set about embellishing my page. Below the title I added the sticker photo stories from the Accessory Sticker sheet; andin the smaller circle to the right, a camera sticker from the Clear Sticker sheet.
To balance out the title cluster, I then added a a large die cut flower and the little moments arrow (both from the Die Cut Ephemera pack) alongside the photo at the top of my page. I also added one of the watercolour brush marks Clear Stickers nearby.
Above my top photo, and in keeping with my circular theme, I added the snap shots flair from the Flair Buttons pack. To the right of that same photo I tucked in a small die cut flower, then added a gorgeous butterfly clear sticker.
I added another tiny die cut flower and a heart clear sticker near my feature photo; then wrote my journalling onto a tag from the ephemera pack. I added a small piece of twine to it before tucking it in behind my photo.
To finish off I added tiny black splatters around my page.
Thanks for stopping by so I could share this with you. I can’t wait to create some more with the ‘Unforgettable’ collection which should be hitting the shelves of a store near you soon. If you have a chance to get your hands on it, I highly recommend you do – you will love all the new additions to the product line up.
Hello Cocoa Vanilla family, and welcome back to another blog post! For this week’s project, I’m playing with the lush pastels and warm neutrals of the More Than Words collection and I’m scrapping a photo of one of my very good friends and her daughter.
I love how spontaneous and fun summer can be, and this photo was on a very spur of the moment trip to the zoo with my friend. She quite literally hit me with her stroller as they were walking a few weeks ago and inevitably, I tagged along on their outing. This picture, and many others, was a result of that outing.
For this layout, I knew I wanted to play with texture. I’m down to the very last of my stash for this collection so I knew that I wanted to make the patterns of the paper pad shine and work with a few embellishments to make an impactful layout. I began by punching squares from seven patterned papers and arranging them in a sort of bricklaying fashion across the top and bottom of a piece of white cardstock. I then used some basic white crepe paper to add some more texture to the rows and followed that with some trim I had in my stash that I grabbed from my local fabric store. I then rolled and distressed the paper rows so they wouldn’t lay perfectly flat because I needed a bit of mess in my pages.
Next, I worked on the photo. I used the remnants of the papers I used for my paper squares to create a layered photo mat and then grabbed some mini doilies from my stash, also to add texture and more color to the page. The only ephemera I have left from this collection was the vellum die cut pack, so I used some floral elements from that pack to add some interest around the photo, and I really love how it softened the picture and added a new texture to the page.
For my title, I used one of the chipboard stickers from the collection coupled with some gold thickers from my stash to carry the gold theme from the trim to the rest of the layout. I finished the page with a cluster in the upper left corner of pieces from the accessory sticker sheet that I mounted on foam dots to add some height to that element.
I hope you enjoyed this layout and were inspired to look at elements in your stash in a completely different way. It was fun to take something that’s not a conventional scrapbooking element like crepe paper and trim and work it into a layout – and I hope you give it a try. Till next time, keep it crafty friends.
Sue Plumb here today to share a project I created for our regular “Throwback Thursday” theme. I had some super cute photos of one of my boys dressed in his Batman suit that I wanted to document, so I dug into my stash and pulled out the ‘You Rock’ collection, which I thought would be a perfect match.
I started with the star print of the Night Sky paper as my page base, adding a smaller piece of the wood grain print of the Plus One paper over the top.
Next, I used plain black cardstock to cut the Super Hero cut file set from Cut to You. I sorted through the pieces, choosing the ones I wanted for my page design. I chose the large kaboom piece and backed it with the yellow spotted print from the In Line paper. I then backed the smaller pow and boom pieces with the black and white cross print from the Random paper.
Before adding any of the cut file pieces to my page, I decided to create a little more depth on my background using some subtle stamping and some small torn pieces of the Washi Tape Stickers.
I then arranged the three cut file pieces that I had backed on my page; before placing my photos on top. Before sticking them down, I tucked some messy white cotton thread underneath, and added some scrap cardboard to the back to pop them up from the page.
With all the main pieces of my page in place, it was simply a matter of adding my embellishments to tie it all together and finish it off.
I used some of the black cardstock stars I had left from the Super Hero cut file set, and placed three of them around my page to create a “visual triangle” around my photos. On top of the largest star I added a wood veneer star from the Wood Veneer pack; which I then offset with three wood veneer lightning bolts – keeping two of them relatively close together to again form a visual triangle.
I decided to draw some extra attention to the kaboom piece as I was using it for my page title. I added anextra small wood veneer star over the top of the word, then the black you’re awesome banner from the Rubber Charms pack. From the same pack, I added the small yellow epic arrow alongside my photo.
To finish off my layout I used a few yellow crosses from the Enamel Shapes pack and I was done!
Thanks so much for stopping by today so I could share this with you.
Gwen with you on the blog today and I’m crazy crazy excited to be using the beautiful new ‘Unforgettable’ collection! Seriously, this collection is just divine! I actually get quite nervous working with a new collection, I want to be sure I do it justice. I imagine how much work Zoe has put into designing it and I don’t want to let her down. I have to say though, this one was so so easy to work with straight away, I’m already calling it a real contender as my favourite of all time.
I began the page with some fussy cutting, as I mentioned, I do sometimes struggle knowing where to start with oh so many pretty choices, so a bit of fussy cutting is a great way to ease myself into it. I fussy cut out the four butterflies from the ‘Pretty Bits’ pattern paper. I then decided on my photo and went to the ‘6×8 inch paper stack’ and mounted it with the bright pink pattern ‘Unscripted’.
Next, I decided to use a plain white cardstock for my base but wanted to add some colour. I’ve taken a stencil and added some watercolour spray. Once dry, I’ve chosen a cut file, this one from CUT to YOU for my title. Yes, there are the most divine foam title stickers in the collection, but I’m currently hoarding those! Again, I’ve used the paper stack to alternate pattern papers to back each letter. I love that for this collection the papers are not glued together into a pad, they are all individual sheets so it is super easy to pull them all out to audition each design before you commit to anything.
Once my cut file was all backed and looking lovely, I’ve position onto my background with some foam tape. Now it was time to look through all of the pretty embellishments.
I’ve started with the Ephemera pack, which has 65 pieces, including florals and butterflies and banners and auditioned EVERYTHING, it is all so so nice! As well as the ‘Bows and Tassles’ pack, there was no way I wasn’t going to include a bow on this first page! I’ve also matched the ‘Enamel dots’ from the collection with the pop of the pink in the pattern paper.
I thought it best to lock in the position of my large fussy cut butterflies first and then work in the smaller elements. I did end up with just the three for this page. I did find a matching butterfly from the ephemera pack which was the perfect fit as it was quite a bit smaller than the others.
I’ve added in some florals to the left and right of my photo as well as a pretty little cluster of banners and florals above the right-hand side of my photo. I find this gives the eye three places to rest as it moves around the page and really rounds out the design. Lastly, I added in the bow and the enamel dots and called it done.
Thanks for popping by today to see my latest project, the first of many with this new collection. It is shipping now and I know many retailers have pre-orders available, so if you don’t have any on order yet, get onto that, it’s even prettier in real life!
Hi crafty friends Anita here with you today sharing a floral layout using the midnight collection.
I always love this time of the year when the flowers are in bloom and the butterflies are flying about our garden full of life …for my layout I wanted the design to be light and shabby chic looking ..
I started off my cutting out a cut file from Paige Evans heart swirl from moonlight and then adhering it onto white cardstock that I trimmed down to add a border around it using the B side moonlight
I then wanted to add this beautiful floral cut file from Paige Evans poppies I had on my desk so I decided to back it with glassine paper then backed again on to the floral pattern paper from the midnight 6×8 paper pad to give it a lighter look
I backed my 3×4 photo on pattered paper from the midnight 6×8 and shine bright and adhered both photo and floral cut file down at the same time then using the ephemera and accessory stickers I added them around my photo and background
I die cut a mini bow from the 6×8 paper pad and then added a chipboard heart to the middle to add to a paper clip
Then to finish off my layout I flicked black mist and added machine stitching around the border.
This gorgeous cut file So Loved is from Cut to You. I sized it to fill most of my page choosing the ombre blue paper Wild & Free which is actually from the Bohemian Dream collection as my base paper which I also added some splatters of white paint before adding the cut file.
I used the Darling Buds paper, floral side to paper piece the letters. As you will see some letters I used foam tape to adhere some of the letters to add dimension and height variation on the layout.
I added my photo with foam tape which I framed with a die cut ephemera frame and finished off with a die cut banner and butterfly. I also added a another black frame to ensure it provided a contrast which would draw the eye to it.
I have used Boho Bits paper (again from Bohemian Dream collection) to paper piece the hearts of the cut file and again all added with foam tape. And for the bit I like best, choosing gorgeous die cuts to embellish my layout! I have tucked under the foam taped letters small floral die cuts, die cut word sentiments over the words to create a form of journalling and lastly adding some pretty die cut butterflies.
Thank you for taking the time to pop by today and I hope this layout has inspired you in some way. See you later in the month were I will have another layout using the new CVS collection Unforgettable yay! Have a great week.
