June 2020

NEW Daydream Collection | Reveal & Give Away!

Hello everyone and Happy Tuesday to you!

I know it’s been a while between collections… we have been very busy here at CVS headquarters during COVID! And because of that, I’m so happy to reveal our gorgeous new collection, and I am just in love with this one…

We all need a bit of happiness and comfort with the way things are in the world at the moment, and that is just what our new Daydream Collection delivers!  I really feel like I went back to my roots with this collection, and just had FUN with designing!

It is filled with a fun mix of whimsical designs and icons, in a fun neutral pastel colour palette that is on trend this season… And really, who doesn’t love a cute rainbow?? I can see it being used from anything from kids, to family memories, to time spent at home… it really is a versatile range that will suit a wide range of subjects!

We have our usual line-up of products, as well as a couple of fun new additions including the CUTEST little corduroy puffy hearts which are just the sweetest things ever, and a gorgeous sequin mix with flowers!

This collection will start shipping to our wonderful retailers late July 2020

There’s a chance for you to WIN the full collection, so read on to find out how!

** GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED **

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For a chance to WIN this gorgeous collection, just leave a comment below telling us what you think of our new Daydream collection.

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Thanks so much for joining me today, and I hope you have a wonderful week!

♥ Zoe

Memories Captured | Unforgettable Collection | Danni Visser

Hi everyone! Danni here with a simple modified grid layout using the incredible Unforgettable collection. I still can’t get enough of the beautiful colours and florals in this stunning collection.

In keeping with our ‘Stars and Stripes’ theme for this week, I decided to showcase the grey stripe pattern in Glorious 12×12 paper by using it for my background. I cut a large square from Lacewing 12×12 paper and added a white border to use as the base for my modified grid. I oriented my photo in the upper right of the square, then added a journal spot from Storyteller 12×12 paper which I backed with the woodgrain of Natural Beauty paper. I went ahead distressed the edges and added some machine stitching to the large square and my journal spot layers for some extra texture.

 

For my title I decided to switch it up and fussy cut some words from Unscripted 12×12 paper and I’m so glad I did! They were easier to do than I thought, and they are the perfect medium sized titles. I placed my title in my journaling spot and added a few lines of journaling along with the date to fill up the rest of the card.

For the rest of the grid I cut rectangles from the 6×8 paper stack in different sizes to fill in the remaining spaces. I love using the 6×8 paper stack for things like this because the smaller pattern makes it more visible in the small pieces. I used a combination of accessory stickers, die cut ephemera and clear stickers to decorate the remaining rectangles. I also added some twine to the sticker tag and outlined some of the pieces with black pen to add definition.

I made some star embellishments by tracing some star shapes on the reverse side of 6×8 paper stack papers and fussy cutting them out. I used these to fill in some of the empty spots and to cover some of the unwanted background details in my photo – an easy way to save a photo if you forget to edit it before printing like I did! I also went ahead and added a few enamel dots to each cluster of stars. The finishing touches were some black paint splatters to the background and a sketchy hand drawn border in black pen.

There is a process video linked below if you would like to watch this all come together. Thank you for joining me today and happy scrapping!

Danni x

LOVE THIS | Legendary Collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello everyone !

 

I am Sophie Delorme, a new DT member to the Cocoa Vanilla family ! I am more than thrilled and so grateful to get to work with such an amazing team of talented ladies !

I am from Canada and have been scrapbooking for many years now ! And let me tell you, the first time that I got my hands on some Cocoa Vanilla Studio papers, ohhh gosh, it was love at first sight !!

So I will share with you my very first layout as a DT member here today ! I played with the gorgeous Legendary collection.

 

 

I thought this collection was absolutely perfect to document one of my photos from a hike we did on a trip to Italy last summer.

I started by adding watercolor paint to a thick white cardstock as my base for my background and did a few splatters here and there on my page.

Then, I teared a part of the diagonal striped patterned paper called “Explorer” and adhered it on the bottom of my page. I also cut a strip of the “Outdoors type “ patterned paper with a border punch and sticked it on the teared paper .

 

 

I layered a few patterned papers as well as tissue paper behind my photo and popped it with adhesive foam. I created a tree next to my photo with an old die from my stash.

 

 

Choosing among all the Legendary Die Cut Ephemeras to embellish my page was not an easy task ! Everything matched so beautifully, it was hard to stop !

My title is from the Die Cut Titles from that same collection. I also added a flair and some accessory stickers for the final touch.

 

Here are some more close-ups.

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you like my page and that you felt inspired to use that gorgeous collection !

Thank you so much for passing by today !

Sophie xx

 

Bloom and grow | Unforgettable Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello Friends. It’s Anna here with my new layout made with fantastic “Unforgettable” collection. Recently I am in a mood of using up as many things from my stash as possible. Don’t get me wrong – I love to just “own” scrappy supplies but saddly my scraproom doesn’t want to magically expand. This time I wanted to finish a pack of foam titles so I figure out a design that will allow me to do that.

I started with white cardstock base. Next step was to add a square of paper called “Sprightly“, right in the middle. After glueing down the photos, I added the foam titles on the edges of the square. I tried to fill them from corner to corner combining sets of words together.

I added some flowers, tickets and butterflies on the empty spots around the photos. They all come from ephemera pack. I also found some remaining flair button from “Unforgettable” collection so I used it too.

Edge of the layout seemed empty so I decided to embellish it with some flower clusters. I got few of them left in my ephemera pack. I cut them in halves to be able to glue them all around.

I finished the page with enamel dots, like usual. It seems busy and like a lot of work but it took me less than an hour to make it. Once I got the idea in my head of course. Because it lasted much longer in my head :)

That is all for today. Thank you for stopping by and see you in July. Summer is officially here so it’s time for some sunny projects :)

XO Anna

Super Awesome | Legendary Collection | Melissa Vining

Hello its Melissa here and I’m so happy to be back sharing a sports layout with you that I created with the amazingly versatile Legendary collection.  The photo is of my son at our New Zealand National Jiu-Jitsu Tournament in 2018.  I always think a sports layout is the perfect way to feature stars, especially when its a boy layout too!!

 

For this layout I really wanted to feature some of the gorgeous star die cuts from the Die Cut Ephemera pack, and I knew that I wanted to have them hanging like a key chain.  My photo was taken in 2018 and Sam was aged 11 at the time, so I really wanted to make sure the key chain feature looked masculine, and not girly or like a baby mobile. In order to this I used a really old banner paper clip from my stash, which also enabled me to attach the stars to my photo. The papers that you can see backing my photo are Offbeat, One Way, and All Star.

I created a shaker pocket from the largest star with plastic packaging, which I hand stitched to close the pocket.  I used some sequins to fill my pocket, and then attached all of the stars with some blue and white stripped twine.  I backed the second largest star with Outdoors Type and then punched holes in all of the stars to thread the twine through.  I arranged all of the stars with different lengths of twine, and then tied them in a knot around the paper clip.  It was a little fiddly, but so worth it!

I created my background with gesso first, then texture paste through a stencil followed by water activated powders that I applied with the packaging technique, and then splatters.  I always think its worth taking the time to dry in between layers of powders to get defined spatters.

Most of my embellishing was done with one of my favourite Cocoa Vanilla Studio supplies, the Clear Stickers.  I also used a phrase from the clear stickers for my title.   I finished my embellishing with a couple of the Accessory Stickers on my photo, and a subtle piece of ephemera which I cut in half and used as a layer under the paper layers.  In order to ground my photo I used a torn strip of Off Beat on the left side of my page.

I made a process video which you can watch below or on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio YouTube Channel.  In fact make sure you subscribe so that you don’t miss any of the videos the DT posts!

Thanks for looking!

Melissa xx

The Mountains are Calling | Legendary Collection | Anna Blades

Hi everyone!

Anna here with you today with a new layout featuring the awesome “Legendary” collection. With this page, I really went out of my comfort zone: no pink and no flowers!!

I started googling a mountain shape and with my Silhouette Cameo, I traced it and cut it. Then, I used it as a stencil with my distress inks in white cardstock. I love how this background turned out!

I also created the title with my Silhouette Cameo, using both sides of the Outdoors Type paper in two different fonts, and I raised the word “mountains” with foam dots. I stacked a flair button with the same pattern next to it (and could be used as a subtitle).

From the Die Cut Ephemera pack, I choose two that had mountains and placed them on both sides of my picture. The picture was matted with the B side of the Wild One paper and the whole page with the Outdoors Type paper too. I also made a machine stitching all around it.

Finally, some stars from the Die Cut Ephemera in the sky and some clear stickers.

It was so hard not to use pink at all, but I love the final result! I hope you like it too!

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great weekend!!

Anna xx

Happy Days | Throwback Thursday – Midnight Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hi Friends its Michelle here today with a new layout share for our ongoing ‘Throwback Thursday’ Theme. I dove back into my stash of Midnight collection and added a couple of cute photos of Leila from a family outing a little while ago.

I love the colour palette of this collection and its soft floral patterns, especially that tiny floral pattern paper I’ve used to the left of the layout. I based my layout on one that I’ve made in the past, and one that I’ve been wanting to recreate again.

I started with 4 different pattern papers – INKY DEPTHS, SHINE BRIGHT and INSPIRED and cut triangles from each piece to create the background for the layout. I’ve machine stitched around each triangle after adhering each piece to the cardstock backing.

I backed the photos I’ve used with some of the pretty ombré SHINE BRIGHT paper and added a doily from my stash. Something I haven’t added to layouts for quite some time.

To the right of the photos I created a cluster of mixed embellishments, bringing together ephemera and stickers layered with different adhesives for pops of dimension.

There’s a couple of similar elements tucked into the left of the photos also.

Under the photos I added a title using words from the Die Cut Titles pack with a sprinkling of glitter enamel dots from the Wild at Heart collection to the right.

Lastly I created a mini cluster at the top left of the layout which helps to bring all the embellishments elements together and balance the visual triangle I created on top of the triangular pattern paper background.

Well friends that’s all from me today. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you’ve enjoyed this instalment of Throwback Thursday – our fortnightly walk down memory lane.

Until Next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x

Hey Cool Dude | Legendary | Kylie Kingham.

Hello crafty friends. Thanks for stopping by the blog today! It’s Kylie back with you all to share another new layout I have been working on. This year I had two goals: One was to complete more layouts for my sons album and the second being to try and use more than one photo in a layout. For my page today I managed to tick both boxes and I was able to do so using the super fun ‘Legendary’ collection.

For my background I chose the wood grain printed paper called ‘Outdoors Type’ and added some scalloped borders of ‘Wild One’ as well as a strip of ‘Epic Tales’. Using a leaf border punch from my craft stash I added a decorative strip punched from the ‘Off Beat’ paper.

Normally when I add my photos to a layout I like to back them with co-ordinating paper, but for my page today I added them in their ‘raw’ state, printed to full size and with a white border. Some of the punched stars from the die cut pack were added in behind both before adhering the photos to the page with foam tape to add a little more dimension.

Once the photos were in place I added a cluster of die cuts to the lower side to balance the large title that was added. To finish I adhered some of the typed phrase stickers. I love being able to build phrase titles with these that suit my photos.

I’ve really been able to create some fun pages thanks to the gorgeous ‘Legendary’ collection. My sons album will be a lot more full in no time!

I hope you have enjoyed seeing how my design came together today.

Until next time,

Kylie.

 

 

The Good Life – Scraplift | Unforgettable Collection | Zoe Pearn

Hi everyone, and happy Monday!

It’s Zoe here today to share a layout I created as part of our scraplift series, where we create a layout inspired by YOU!  As soon as I saw this gorgeous layout by Katie Scott, which she did for our iNSD celebration mood board challenge, I knew I had to scraplift it and make my own version. It had all of my favourite things – flowers, butterflies, all coming together in a wreath design… what’s not to love?

Katie used our Happiness collection to create this beautiful layout…

And here is my version using our Unforgettable collection!

The “Garland” paper from the Unforgettable collection made the perfect base for this layout, with it’s pre-made wreath design. Using that as a guide for placing my embellishments made this layout come together in a snap!

I fussy cut a whole heap of butterflies from the “Lacewing” paper, from both the 12×12 paper and the 6×8 Paper Pad, so I had varying sizes to use.

Of course, the beautiful flowers from the Die Cut Ephemera made an appearance!

And the Foam Title Stickers, and some watercolour splatters around the wreath, made the perfect finishing touch to this page.

Thanks so much to Katie Scott for the inspiration!  Remember, if you’re stuck in a rut, finding a layout you love to scraplift and make your own is a great way to get creative… super easy!

I hope you all enjoy the rest of your day, and I’ll see you again soon!

xx Zoe

So Awesome | Legendary Collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi everyone!

It’s Tarrah McLean back with you today to share a new layout featuring the awesome Legendary collection!

I have chosen to scrap a 8.5′ x 11′ size layout today, I have been on a bit of a kick with this size of late and the photo that I am documenting is of my 2 sons on a recent bush walk where they found a cave.

I trimmed a piece of plain white cardstock to 8.5′ x 11′ and then trimmed the Offbeat paper with the blue stars showing down to 8′ x 10.5′. I machine stitched the paper to the white cardstock and bent up the edges to create a textured look. I then trimmed a piece of the One Way paper, turned it over to show the orange side and cut a banner edge into the bottom. I love how this paper looks as a contrast on the blue star background paper.

I added craft foam underneath the orange paper and the other layers to create shadows and dimension, I adhered these all in the top left corner with my photo. I then added some of the awesome accessory stickers, clear stickers and die-cuts to embellish this main design element on my page.

For the bottom right cluster I had to add that gorgeous bear die-cut, he is popped up off the page with craft foam, I overlapped the Explore piece also and tucked in a few clear stickers here. The stars are clear stickers adhered to white cardstock and then fussy cut out with a foam dot placed under each of them. My title is made of those awesome cardstock die-cut titles with that super cool font!

Lastly I placed some enamel dots and stamped the date stamp to finish my page.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you are inspired to create with your Legendary stash or if you don’t have this collection, be sure to check out the Cocoa Vanilla online store to purchase!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

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