April 2021

Epic | Legendary Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a bold and beautiful boy layout featuring the stickers in the Legendary collection. On the right side of the layout, I’ve created a trail of clear arrow stickers to add a border along that side and anchor the layered block to the side of the page. Then, alongside the right side of the bottom photo, I added a column of phrase stickers from the cardstock sticker sheet. The enamel dots give a little pop of dimension next to each phrase.

To the left of the photos, I layered clear star stickers around the die cuts to give a “stamped” effect. Love how clear stickers look on a white background! Then, I layered punched scraps and fussy cut stars all around the large die cut star (which I backed like a cut file with patterned paper). Enamel dots, Nuvo Drops, and ink splatter added the perfect detail finishers to this large star explosion!

The title may be my favorite part of this layout, it’s fussy cut from the Epic Tales cut apart and fit perfectly in that spot at the bottom! I popped each letter up on foam to give it a bit of dimension and put them on a jaunty angle for a bit of fun. Love the way the colors of the letters tie the layout together. I added my journaling around the perimeter of the layout for an extra border.

 

I hope this layout inspires you to have some fun with the bold colors and patterns in the Legendary collection! To see how the “Epic” layout came together, check out the process video below!

 

Life is Good | Sunkissed Collection | Danni Visser

Hi Cocoa Vanilla Studio fans! Danni here with another page in my family summer holiday album using the fabulous new Sunkissed collection. This week I was challenged to make a project featuring stickers, so I decided to use as many as possible!

My first step was to take a sheet of A4 white cardstock and prep it for some hand stitching. I love a sunburst pattern, so I pierced stitching holes in lines radiating out from the point where I planned to position my photo. I used a white embroidery thread to stitch a simple backstitch along each line, subtly separating my page into wedge-shapes sections.

I went straight to the clear stickers because they look amazingly vibrant on plain white cardstock. I took the Life is Good title from the clear stickers and placed that in one of the wedges. Next, I filled up two of the wedge sections with the floral and icon clear stickers, making sure to space them as evenly as possible.

The next two wedge sections I filled up with Summer Lights and Good Vibrations 12×12 patterned papers, cutting them to size and distressing the edges for texture. I did the same thing for the next wedge, this time using the rainbow spotty design paper from the A5 paper stack.

I love the bright colours and patterns in the 3×4 pocket cards, so the next wedge I filled with one of these cut down to size. I think this was meant to be a journaling spot, but I just loved the bright sun and the rich blues so I just had to use it as a patterned paper.

The final wedge I filled up with tiny phrase stickers from the accessory stickers, lining them up and stacking them in repeating rows. I love these little phrases and the summery sentiments were perfect to use on this holiday page. I matted my photo using the pretty blue daisy print from the A5 paper stack and positioned it at the centre of the sunburst pattern.

I added some extra puffy stickers around my title and a banner sticker from the accessory stickers on top of my photo. To finish off the layout I used a bright aqua hybrid ink to colour the outer edge of the page and add an extra pop of colour.

I just love this bright layout! It was a great way to use lots of stickers and the sunburst pattern made it very easy to put together once the initial design was laid out. I hope you enjoyed joining me today.

Happy scrapping!

Danni x

Costa Brava | Sunkissed Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with another batch of jummy colors and fun images. All of that thanks to the amazig “Sunkissed” collection – tha brand new, summer line from Cocoa Vanilla Studio. You all know I can’t get enough of rainbows so I made another page with this theme. I always have some summer photos to scrapbook and this time I picked two taken during our vacation at Costa Brava in Spain.

I started with cloudy paper called “Just chillin” as my background. Next step was to cut out rainbow strips from “Bright side” sheet and glue them over the clouds using strips of foam tape. It’s quite clean and simple page with not so many elaborate layers and so easy to recreate.

I placed my two horizontal photos on the bottom of the rainbow with no extra layers of papers under them. I didn’t want to cover the rainbow and the page was already colorful enough. I only added some smaller tabs from Stickers Sheets. One of the new products, that appeared in “Sunkissed” collection is pack of flowers and leaves. You have so many colors and sizes to choose from and I added some of them over my rainbow, color on color.

Sun and clouds from Ephemera Pack matches my sky scenes perfectly. I glued them down using pieces of foam tape to add more dimension. I finished the layout by adding few enamel dots from some older collections, that I had in my stash. I love making mixed media pages but I am also a big fan of simle and clean layouts, that comes really quickly together and do not require any special skills and supplies. It’s so refreshing to just play with paper.

I decorated area around the photos with two woodies (my fav embellishment!!!) and a puffy sticker. I love combining different textures and materials of one page. And you? Are you a team “just paper” or “mixed media”? Or maybe you are like me, like to jump between those two. I noticed I tend to make plain paper pages when the collection is new to me and then move to mixed media ones when I am already running out of papers or embellishments and I need to be more creative to stretch my stash.

Thank you so much for stopping by and see you in two weeks.

XO Anna

Fun in the Sun | Sunkissed Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hey Hey! It’s Michelle back here on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog with a new layout featuring our sweet NEW Sunkissed Collection. I’m still loving the bright fun colours of this collection, and yep those florals make another appearance

I created another mixed media background using some green and teal inks, smooshed together using my go to piece of bubble wrap plus a few extra splatters. I created vertically across the layout within the top 2/3. I used some of the cute heart paper ‘Feelin’ Fine’ as the main pattern paper, with hints of the blue version of ‘Fun in the Sun’ florals from the A5 paper stack. Both sections of pattern paper have machine stitching around the edges for a little extra detail.

The photo I’ve documented from 2019 is a cute moment when we visited the local rock pools. This was a time when Mario and Luigi came everywhere with Leila, but she didn’t have enough hands to carry everything while discovering creatures, so had left them safely sitting on a dry area on the rocks. I layered the photo backed with some papers from the A5 paper stack on top of the larger section of pink heart paper, then created a large floral cluster to the left using fussy cut florals from the ‘Growing Wild’ paper and floral ephemera pieces 

Love a good floral cluster, as most of you would guess from almost all of my layouts. OOH and how cute are the new puffy stickers that Zoe has added to this collection!!

And excitement PLUS that the Wood Buttons have made a comeback! I think I shared my excitement for them in a previous post too

I used the awesome new Gold Glitter words for the title, so many cool phrases to use within the pack too.

Over on the right I created a cluster of more florals, made a tag using the cute rainbow spot paper from the A5 paper stack and the matching journal card from the ephemera pack. I added the flip flops from the ephemera pack as we were at the beach and another of the cool puffy stickers. All pieces within both clusters either side of the layout were adhered using foam tape and glue dots for different heights of dimension.

Here’s another look at the final layout. I’m really impressed with myself for creating yet another layout with a mixed media background, even if it was just the simple plastic packaging technique.

 

Well friends thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you have enjoyed seeing my newest creation as much as I enjoyed creating to share it with you. Be sure to share your latest creations using the sweet Sunkissed Collection with us in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community Group on Facebook. We all love seeing what you come up with!

Thanks all from me for now. Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle xx

Smiles For Miles | Sunkissed | Kylie Kingham

Hello everybody! It’s Kylie back with you all today and I have another new layout to share featuring the ‘Sunkissed’ collection. The theme for today’s blog post was to share my signature style of scrapbooking. For me it’s about layers and flowers. Always flowers. To create paper flowers brings me so much happiness and I love nothing more than to add them into my scrapbooking layouts as I have for todays design. Whilst they can be time consuming, I actually find it relaxing to sit and bring all of the layers together to form a pretty paper bloom. I created these flowers today using a cut file by Paige Evans.

I like to also build layers into a page design. To have something going on in the background, which in this case is some die cut lattice work. I had this particular die in my craft stash and I ran it through my Sizzix machine using white cardstock.It has created some interest behind my paper flowers and breaks up the background a little. It also adds some texture and dimension to my page.

When it comes to constructing my paper flowers I really don’t do a lot to them. I simply curly each petal slightly before gluing each layer together. These particular flowers have even layers each to them and I have centred each of them with an enamel adhesive dot which were from the ‘Legendary’ collection.

The floral die cut pack from the ‘Sunkissed’ collection is so gorgeous and I have adhered some extra blooms as well as some greenery in the form of the die cut leaves amongst my layered flowers. I created a title for my page from my favourite gold glitter foam stickers as well as add in some smaller phrases from the sticker sheet to complete my page.

My photo for this layout was printed to 3″x 4″ in size and in black and white. There are usually two reasons I have if I print in black and white. One if the colours in the photo don’t match the paper collection I wish to use or as in this case, if I have a lot of colour in my page. I want my eye to still be drawn to the image.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you have enjoyed reading about my layout and what I consider to be my signature style.

Until next time,

Kylie.

Brothers | Legendary collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi Cocoa Vanilla friends,

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new layout for our ‘My Signature Style’ theme. When I think of my signature style I think of my sons and boy layouts! So I chose to create with the awesome Legendary collection

Also my signature style would have to include, colour, clean lines and a cut file – I chose a star and rainbow one from CUT to YOU.

I cut out a rainbow and stars cut file design from white cardstock and backed the majority of the design with the gorgeous Wild One paper Where there are stars in the design, I backed these with various scraps of the 12′ x 12′ papers from a previous project, making sure not to have the same pattern too close together. Once the entire cut file was backed, I added craft foam to the back of the cut file. I then adhered it to another piece of white cardstock. I love the shadows this creates.

I placed the photo of my sons on the lower section of the cut file, I layered a patterned paper underneath it and popped it up with craft foam also. I added the ‘Yeah Boy’ sticker to the right hand side of the photo and the Noteworthy tab to the left of the photo. My title is one of the awesome cardstock die-cut titles I love these so much! The font is so cool and very ‘boy’! I adhered the title flat however I added the Extreme die-cut and popped this up above the title. I also added a clear sticker to white cardstock and then fussy cut it out, adhering it just under the Brothers title.

Some other embellishments I added were the star diecuts from the ephemera pack, some phrase and word stickers from the Accessory sticker sheet and some more clear stickers too. I printed my journaling onto cardstock and then cut it into strips, I also stamped the date stamp, lastly I trimmed down the white cardstock and matted the whole page onto the star paper. I love how my layout has turned out, it is definitely a ‘me’ page!

Thank you so much for stopping by Cocoa Vanilla blog today, I hope you enjoyed my layout and that I have inspired you in some way?

Check out the Cocoa Vanilla Studio online store for this awesome collection plus so much more!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Throwback Thursday | Paint your Dreams | Rachel Lowe

Hi CVS friends, today is all about stash busting, yes its throwback Thursday. I recently invested some time in sorting out my older CVS collections, using three pizza boxes, one for 12×12 papers, one for paper scraps and the last one for embellishments. I have done this because I do not have enough left of a collection to create but adding them all together means I can be creative and mix and match collections.

Here is my throwback Thursday layout featuring a photo of my daughter. I went for an uplifting/inspirational layout for her. As you can see I have used a mix of collections here but they still coordinate so well together.  I used two cut files from the Silhouette design store, paint palette and title ‘paint your dreams’.

I used the script writing inspirational  paper as my base. I cut a 10×10 inch white cardstock strip and centred this on my base page. I next cut the paint palette and brush as this was the feature of my page. I found a wood grain paper in my CVS 12×12 paper box, once cut I added machine stitching to the edge. I backed it with a marble paper and to add a little something extra I added glitter to the paint blotches. I then added with foam tape off centre onto the white cardstock.

I then added my paint brush and added some small butterfly die cuts under the palette. I found a gorgeous die cut doily and used this to mat my photo. I used some phrase sentiments under my photo and finished off with a camera die cut.I added my title, I used some silver glitter paper for one word to stop it from looking too flat visually. I also added a light splash of black paint to add some contrast.

To finish off my page I added some beautiful die cut flowers and enamel dots. I added some more light splatters of black paint.

Most of these papers and embellishments are no longer in the store but you can recreate this layout with what you have in your CVS stash and don’t forget CVS have digital bundles of older collections too, just print and use.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a fab week!

Rachel X

Cheers to the Weekend | Sunkissed collection | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone, it’s Sue Plumb here to share a fun mixed media layout I created using the new ‘Sunkissed’ collection. For this page, I decided to document a photo of myself and my sister that was taken when we snuck off for a last minute weekend away late last year. Just us, peace and quiet, cocktails, snacks and lots of scrapping with ocean views. It was sorely needed after the forced cancellation of our annual retreat due to COVID, and pure bliss!

I started my page with the Just Chillin’ patterned paper, which features the sweet cloud print. Before I did anything else, I wanted to tone down the pattern in the centre of the page, where the focal area of my layout was going to be. I used white and yellow acrylic paint, which I applied lightly with a brayer, which softened the pattern enough, but not so much that you could still see through it. Once that as done, I turned my attention to creating some papery layers.

I started with a couple of papers from the A5 Paper Stack first – a yellow chevron, and a blue animal print. (These two papers are exclusive to the A5 Paper Stack, so cannot be found in the 12×12″ Collection Kit.) I chose the yellow and blue because the combination of these colours just screams “beach” to me. I tore both the papers and layered them, adding a strip of the pretty yellow floral from the Fun in the Sun paper on top. I then added a piece of the striped Good Vibrations paper, a small yellow doily, and some frayed gauze, before finishing the stack with my photo on top.

The next item I reached for was the Pocket Card pack. Pocket cards may not be something you would usually reach for when creating a traditional 12×12″ layout, but I love how versatile they are! I used one cut in half to add an extra layer in behind my papers; a card for my typed journalling; and a third card that I fussy cut my title from. My title was also popped up on some foam tape to give it some dimension.

To embellish my page I used several pieces from the Die Cut Ephemera pack including the small feeling fine banner; the tab and flag on the corner of my photo; a couple of clouds and the cute sun. I also used the gorgeous rainbow arrow from the Accessory Sticker sheet; a small Wood Button; some Clear Stickers; and a few cute Puffy Stickers.

I finished my page with some black ink splatters (and yes, some got on my photo! haha); and some stamped phrases using a roller stamp.
If you would like to watch how this page came together, you can watch my process video here:
Until next time, happy scrapping!

Sweet Love | More than Words collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends !

It’s Sophie on the blog today sharing an Easter theme layout created with the gorgeous “More than Words” Collection.

 

This Snapchat selfie of Sabrina and I was perfect for the theme !

I started with a white thick cardstock and added plenty of watercolor splatters in multiple pastel colors.

I cut a cute cut file from Just Nick Studio with my cutting machine in white cardstock and placed my photo centered between the two bunny ears of the cut file.I backed the cut file with different patterned papers from the collection and added adhesive foam before adhering it to my background.

 

 

My black and white photo is also backed with tissue paper, adhesive foam and patterned papers.

I cut out a few tiny florals from the “Darling Buds” paper and placed them on the cut file and around my title.

 

The title is a word (sweet) cut out of the “Treasure” patterned paper and a More than Words Chipboard Title (Love).

 

I also added a beautiful Banner from the Chipboard Stickers sheet of the same collection.

Finally, I fussy cut 3 butterflies out of the pretty “Gossamer” patterned paper, sticked them around my photo and handwrote my journaling.

Here are more close-ups;

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the vertical centered design of this page. Very simple and soft. Spring colors are my favorites !!

I hope that this layout was inspiring for you, thank you for passing by, and happy creating !

Sophie xx

Bunny Kisses | Sunkissed Collection | Raquel Bowman

Hey everyone, it’s Raquel here sharing an Easter layout today with you all  I hope that you had an amazing Easter celebrating with your family and friends. I am creating with the Sunkissed collection today, the perfect collection for an Easter layout as well.

Here is the layout that I have created:

In this layout I have flash backed to Easter 2015 and documenting a super sweet photo of my babes. Boy, I had so much fun going back through the archives looking for an Easter memory to document. This photo spoke to me right away and I just new it was the one. Look at how little and cute my babes are. Oh my!

I printed my black and white photo with a small white border and matted the photo with the cloud paper in the small paper pack. To the top right of the photo I love to add the tabs that are available in the ephemera packs or accessory sticker sheets. This captured tab was a part of the ephemera pack.

The title of the layout also served as a big focal point of the layout given its size. This is a cut file from the Cut to You store and I have backed each word using a different paper from the paper pack. I thought the word Easter needed to be using the flora paper. The look just screams Easter to me. I adhere the paper to the back of the cut file and use my fine tip scissors to cut out the negative areas.


I added my main embellishment clusters to the top right and bottom left of the page to maintain balance. The top right cluster is made up of floral ephemera teamed with a small glitter heart from the foam title stickers and some enamel dots from my stash. I have used a variety of dimensional adhesives to adhere the florals.

The bottom left cluster on the page is created in very much the same way however this one contains a tiny word accessory sticker and the stamped date from the time this pic was taken.

The entire cut file was adhered to the page with a thin foam adhesive that was purchased from Australian hardware store Bunnings. It has the perfect amount of dimension to add a little shadow to the white on white of the cut file and background card stock.

The whole layout has been framed on the ‘Just Chillin’ paper in a skewed fashion. I then added machine stitching to complete the layout.

I hope this layout has inspired you today. See you soon!

Take care

Raquel x

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