July 2021

Lovely Memories | Unforgettable Collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends !

It’s Sophie with you today and I am sharing a soft and beautiful layout created with the Unforgettable collection.

 

I started by adding a little bit of aqua watercolor paint on a thick white cardstock where I had planned to put my photo and on the top right side of the page.

I used a rectangle of the “Natural Beauty” patterned paper to ground my photo. I printed this lovely photo of Sabrina in our backyard in black and white to add to the softness of the page. I added tissue paper, adhesive foam and a layer of the “Sprightly” patterned paper behind the photo.

I added a floral cluster on the lower right corner of the photo that comes from the Die Cut Ephemera pack, and created a few watercolor leaves that I fussy cut and included in the cluster. I placed a few Unforgettable Accessory Stickers around it.

 

I added a tag and a camera on the upper right side of the photo.

 

My title is a mix of alphabet stamps from my stash and the word “memories” cut out of the “Story Teller” patterned paper.

 

Finally, I created a little cluster of embellishments on the top right portion of the page, added a beautiful Flair Button next to my photo and a few flying butterflies that I cut out of the gorgeous “Lacewing” patterned paper. Of course, I handwrote my journaling as I do on most of my layouts !

 

Here are a few other close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope this layout was inspiring for you, thank you so much for stopping by !

I wish you a great crafty day !

Sophie xx

SNAP SHOTS | UNFORGETTABLE | GWEN WRUCK

Hey Creative friends,

Gwen back on the Cocoa Vanilla blog today with a new project to share.  For this one, I’m using this months mood-board as my inspiration to scrapbook a sweet picture of our pet cat.  I was really draw to the circular elements in the mood board for this layout especially as my photo has a large circular element in it.  For more details on how you can play along be sure to visit the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Facebook group.

Here is the mood-board, as I mentioned above, I was inspired by the circular elements in the top left hand corner photo.  I was also inspired by the top middle photo with the water colour paint in it, such pretty colour. I do hope you can see how the mood-board inspired me and how it helped me pull my page together.

To begin the layout, I pulled out this large circular cut file from CUT to YOU and backed just the centre pieces.  I’ve used a combination of papers from the collection for this, it was super quick to do and is a great option if you are new to working with cut file designs.  I’ve then created a frame for my layout background using the ‘Sprightly’ pattern paper, I’ve made sure to also use this pattern within my cut file to help pull the page together.  I love this particular pattern paper for this mood board because of it’s water-colour feel.  It also includes all of the colours I plan to use on my page so it will help to give the page a cohesive look.

I’ve then backed my photo in a pretty mint green pattern paper and stitched around the edge for added detail.  I don’t often work with circles, but I felt the circular elements in my photo were the perfect fit for the mood board and when I teamed them with the cut file and other circular pieces of the ephemera pack, they all work together to help tell the story of my photo.

There are a bunch of elements in the ‘Ephemera Packs’ in this collection, I’ve mixed and matched elements in size and shape, paying particular attention to include some of the circular elements.  I even had a couple of the wreath style elements (from several left over packs) so added them as background layers.

Here you can see the ‘Flair Button’ from the collection and my main embellishment cluster.  I’ve also included some fussy cut out butterflies from the ‘Pretty Bits’ pattern paper.  These butterflies are a little larger than some of the other butterflies in the collection so they are perfect to mix and match.

To finish the layout, I’ve included some of the sentiment stickers from the ‘Accessory Sticker Sheet’ as well as some of the ‘Enamel Dots’.

I’ve also made a You Tube video for this share which you can watch here, I hope it inspires you.

Until next time,

Gwen

xo

 

 

Love | These Days Collection | Raquel Bowman

Hi everyone, it’s Raquel here with you today sharing with you some ‘These Days’ inspiration. This is the first layout that I have created with this new collection and oh my, it is just so gorgeous.

Here is the layout I created to share with you today:

This layout is featuring my beautiful new nephew and my beautiful and proud daughter and cousin. I absolutely adore these photos of my little girl holding her cousin and I wanted to showcase them. I used a fun grid design cut file from Cut To You which then inspired my photo size and amount of photos I chose to feature on this layout. I decided to back the photos into the cut file and printed them approx 3×4″ size in black and white.

 

The grid design of the cut file encouraged me to use the patterned paper to back the different sections. This allowed me to bring in a variety of papers and the bring contrast to the page. When adding the patterned papers to the page I tried to balance the prints and colours to ensure that the layout still looked appealing to the eye.

To embellish the layout I added three main clusters to the layout as well as some other embellishments to help guide your eyes around the layout. The embellishments I have mainly used are ephemera but also accessory stickers, clear stickers and puffy stickers.

The ‘Little Moments of Joy’ sentiment embellishment piece was fussy cut from one of the 3×4″ pocket cards. It was the perfect addition to this page.

The top right of the layout features a photo. I added my fave embellishment the ‘tab’ to the left of the photo. The finishing touch was the cute little puffy sticker hearts. I would just love a whole sheet of those little hearts.

I used the multi coloured tiny puffy alphabet stickers to add my daughters and nephews name.

I framed the whole layout with the yellow gingham paper and adhered the whole square cut file onto the woodgrain paper. I adhered the cut file and a selection of the embellishments to the page using a foam tape to add dimension.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope that this layout has inspired you to get creating.
Raquel x

 

 

I Speak For the Trees | These Days Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura here again with a hand-stitched wreath layout using the stunning new These Days collection! I have two photos of my youngest daughter exploring through a tree in our backyard as she often does, finding new and inventive ways to get into the branches. I love the pops of red in the These Days collection that allow me to incorporate these photos seamlessly. This layout features a chain-stitch border and a hand-cut circle in the center that I backed with the Family Ties patterned paper.

I added in clear sticker trees around my titles to accentuate the Dr. Seuss quote I used for my title. These tiny puffy alphas worked perfectly to follow the line of my stitching and add a pop of color at the top of the layout. After fussy cutting the entirety of the Home Grown 12×12 patterned paper, I created a wreath of florals around the side and bottom of my stitched border. Adding in a few butterflies creates the impression of movement and fills in the gaps around the photos.

To finish off this project, I added gold Nuvo dropos for the butterfly trails, splattered gold ink spray around the edges, and popped two of the wood buttons on the edges of my floral clusters. Beyond the florals, I kept the embellishing fairly simple with a tab above the left photo and a word phrase below the right photos, both from the ephemera pack.

I hope this hand-stitched layout inspires you to try a new technique on your next layout, whether that’s stitching, fussy cutting, or splattering! To see this layout come together, check out the process video below:

Picture Perfect Moments | These Days Collection | Danni Visser

Hello Cocoa Vanilla fans! Danni here sharing my first creation with the incredible ‘These Days’ collection, and I have to say, this is possibly my favourite collection ever! I have been so inspired to create with this one that I had to jump straight in with it. This layout was inspired by the adorable mason jar 3×4 pocket card.

I started with a mason jar cutfile (there are plenty of these available on Etsy) and cut out a white cardstock outline, and solid inside piece using Family Ties 12×12 patterned paper and a lid using grey and silver glitter cardstock. I raised the jar outline and the lid on foam to create a 3D effect.

To create a filled mason jar effect, I printed two small photos and selected all the trees and houses from the die cut ephemera pack. I arranged these within the cutfile jar to echo the design in the 3×4 pocket card. I also added in some tiny houses that I fussy cut from Neighbourhood 12×12 patterned paper and some tiny butterflies fussy cut from the A5 paper stack. These are so perfect for adding those tiny details.

For the background I chose the woodgrain side of Pretty Posies 12×12 patterned paper. I love woodgrain patterns for backgrounds, and it nicely emphasises the rustic country vibe of the mason jar. To create some extra detail I splattered some white acrylic ink all around the outside of the large mason jar.

I couldn’t resist using the mason jar 3×4 pocket card on the layout somewhere, so I fussy cut it out of the card and tucked it to the right of the large mason jar. I layered it with the ‘Picture Perfect Moments’ die cut ephemera piece to use as my title. I love using these smaller pieces for titles when I already have a large statement piece on the page.

To complete the page I added some more fussy cut tiny butterflies from the A5 paper stack, as well as some of the larger butterflies that I fussy cut from Take Flight 12×12 patterned paper. I love the two sizes of these butterflies! It enables you to create so much visual interest by varying sizes on the layout. I also added a smattering of white dimensional drops as a final touch.

I hope you enjoyed this layout! I am in love with These Days. What are you most inspired by in this new collection? There is a process video linked below on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio YouTube channel if you would like to watch. Happy scrapping!

Danni x

Living the Dream | Unforgettable Collection | Mandy Melville

Hi everyone!

Mandy here with you today for this week’s Throwback Thursday project. I decided to pull out the gorgeous Unforgettable collection to use for the layout that I’m sharing today. This is still one of my favourite CVS collections! I love the combination of the pink, aqua and woodgrain, with touches of peach and purple mixed in as well! The pretty florals and the scripty fonts just top it off beautifully. It was the perfect collection to document a couple of recent photos of a day we spent exploring a local national park. My youngest daughter brought along one of her soft toys (as she usually does), and while we there my son built a little tee pee house for her toy. I thought this was such a sweet thing to do, and I wanted to scrapbook these photos to record the memory.

To start this layout off, I cut some of the papers from the 6×8 inch Paper Stack into 2 inch squares and then adhered them around the outside edge of a sheet of cardstock to create a patchwork style border. Next I trimmed a sheet of white cardstock down to 9 inches square and matted it on the reverse side of the Lacewing patterned paper before adhering it to the centre of the layout. I also added some machine stitching around the edge of the white cardstock to add some extra texture and detail to the page.

I matted one of my photos with the pink side of the Unscripted patterned paper and the other with the beautiful Natural Beauty woodgrain paper. I adhered the photos roughly in the middle of the layout with them slightly overlapping and angled. I used craft foam to adhere the photo on the left to give it some nice shadow and dimension. I also added a couple of stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet on the bottom right hand corner of that photo.

I created two floral clusters on the layout, one to the bottom left of the photos and the other to the top right. I used a combination of florals that were fussy cut from the Glorious patterned paper, along with a couple of leaf sprigs and feathers from the Die Cut Ephemera pack.

For my title I used the ‘Living the Dream’ die cut from Ephemera pack and I added this above the photo on the right. You’ll notice that I’ve created a diagonal flow to the layout with the viewer’s eye being drawn from the large floral cluster in the bottom left, up through the photos to the title and smaller floral cluster in the top right.

I adhered my typed journaling strips below the photos, and to finish the layout off I added some of the cute open hearts from the Clear Sticker pack around the floral clusters and title.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today! I hope that you found some inspiration from my layout.

Mandy x

Floral home decor | Daydream Collection | Anna Komenda

Hello hello everyone. It’s Anna here and today I want to share with you a fun project I made with pretty “Daydream” collection. Usually I start creating with a certain memory in mind or a photo, or at least a collection I want to use. This time the whole process started with a die I purchases few weeks ago. I don’t know how your scrappy shopping process looks but I tend to buy things just because they are pretty or because I saw someone making a pretty thing with them. It happens even though I know it doesn’t fit my style 100% or will be hard to use on layout or in an album. Shame on me – I know!!! So I recently challenged myself to put every item in use. Floral dies are the first on my list. I knew I couldn’t recreate the flowers that will look like real ones – I am just too lazy for than :) so I made more simple versions.

I picked few pattern papers from “Daydream” like “Sun shower” and “Stepping stones” and some older paper scraps. I took me a while to cut out many, many flowers and put them together. I haven’t done anything fancy, just shaped the petals a little bit with the rounded pen tip and glued them together. CVS papers work really well this way and it was an easy task. I created few sizes of flowers and a lot of leaves.

I took 6 inches wide embroidery hoop and backed it with two sheets of plastic foil with sequins and glitter in between. You can still see through it so the final result is very subtle. I glued down the flowers on one side creating a cascade that drops in the bottom creating a line. I filled everything with leaves in two different shades of green. You can also spot few butterflies here and there, sitting on the flowers. I fussy cut them from “All Aflutter” paper.

I also added small puffy heart for a yellow accent. Everything else is just a plain paper. I just love the possibilites this simple product gives. You can create wonder with just few sheets. Especially if they are as pretty as the ones from “Daydream” collection. If you want this kind of hanging composition to last longer, choose the good glue. I glued part of the flowers with hot glue gun so they will stick like forever. Just remember not to use hot glue over the transparency. It will bend and melt quickly. Instead, reach for a good doublesided tape. To make a composition even stronger, add small drops of glue in between flowers so they will be all connected.

Last step of my process was to add small bow and a piece of string to be able to hang the hoop on the wall. It was such a fun process, with no specific outcome in mind. I just made a bunch of flowers and then figured out what I can do with them. It first I was going to add some small photo but I liked this simple floral look so i turned the hoop into the decoration.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope I inspired you a little bit to reach for your dies and put them in good use. I am still waiting for the box with new collection to arrive and fingers crossed I will be able to share my first project made with it in two weeks.

XO

Anna

Bloom | Unforgettable Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, it’s Melissa here and I am so happy to be back with you today sharing a layout that I created with the beautiful Unforgettable collection.  I recently used this collection for Throwback Thursday and as I was going through it I realised that I hadn’t yet used the partial wreath paper.  I was recently packing up my craft room (we are moving) and I found this really old photo of myself pregnant with my first baby, who is now 14. My photo is slightly damaged, but it didn’t stop me from scrapbooking it!

I started by fussy cutting out the centre of the wreath, and I adhered the wreath to the blue and white stripped paper.  I backed my photo with some of the papers from the 6 x 8 paper stack, and lightly distressed the edges.  I used dimensional adhesive to lift up the edges of the wreath.

I rotated the wreath so that it was located on the left side of the page, and then I tucked my photo under it.I added more dimensional adhesive under the flowers that overlapped my photo.

I embellished with ‘Die Cut Ephemera’, ‘Accessory Stickers’, ‘Clear Stickers’ and ‘Enamel Dots’.

The Bloom title is from the ‘Foam Title Stickers’ and was so perfect for my photo.

I hope I have inspired you to use the wreath paper from this beautiful collection in a different orientation.

Have a great week

Melissa xx

 

Summer Memories | Josefine vd Hoeven | Sunkissed

Hello crafty Paperlovers, Welcome to the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Blog today! It’s Josefine here showing you a new scrapbook layout that I created with the beautiful collection Sunkissed. I am completely in love with this beautiful summer collection. Definitely one of my favorite collections ever!

I love circles layouts and wanted to create a circle layout with this beautiful summer collection. I cut out a circle border from the wood grain design paper of the Sunkissed collection and I cut out a circle from the blue/green colored design paper. Both circles I stitched with white sewing thread. I place these circles in the center of this page. I placed my photo on top of the circles in the middle. Around the edges of the circle I stamp several times with the distress oxide and make some mixed media splatters. The color I used is “broken china”.

I selected some flowers, die-cuts and stickers and make a cluster on both sides of the circle. I used the gold glitter puffy word ” Memories” and placed it under the circle. I also choose an aqua colored Alpha set for the word “Summer”. My title for this layout will be ” Summer memories”.

 

I have decorated different die-cuts with gold sewing thread. On top of the picture I placed some die-cuts and word strips. Of course, I also used a wooden button on this layout. I choose to keep this page clean and simple. Now t’s time to add some white and black acrylic paint splatters and use my brush for this. These splashes make it so festive.

I am very happy how this scrapbook layout turned out. I hope I was able to inspire you with this summer layout. I looking forward to seeing your beautiful creations with this awesome summer collection! Wish you a beautiful and crafty day! XoXo, Jo

 

These Days | These Days | Michelle Stokes

Hello Hello! It’s Michelle here on the blog today with a brand spankin new layout share that features our amazing NEW collection – These Days. Love Love LOVING the soft colour palette and all the pretty patterns within this collection. Its perfect to mix together within a grid style layout like I have done, which some of you might say is very similar to one I’ve made in the past. You’d all be correct as its the newest addition to my yearly themed layout of ALL things Leila.

For those who aren’t quite familiar with what I’m talking about, heres a look at the previous 2 layouts I created in past years using the same layout design, same design techniques and recording the same details as years past. I’ve done this so in years to come we can look back on all the fun things that Leila loved each year, and its an easy way to simplify scrapbooking when you just want to document memories quickly.

You can find last years post HERE , the previous 3 years were not shared on this blog.

The main focus of this layout is to share Leilas current favourites at the same time each year, along with a current photo. However, this year has been a little hectic and It skipped my mind to get it done scrapped so its a couple months later than usual.

To start off the layout I grabbed the a5 paper stack and flipped through to fins 6 complimentary pattern papers to create the grid background. I sewed around each piece using machine stitching adding a couple of extra detailed stitches in random places. Next up I worked on creating the list on a ‘clip board’ using some scrap notepaper and adhered to the woodgrain pattern paper from the a5 paper stack. I’ve used the fancy new black foam title stickers as a title and added mini puffy number stickers from the new mini puffy alphabet set for her age plus a cute little puffy house sticker and gold heart to bring the B&W photo and list together. I used the rainbow watercolour stripe a5 paper as a base for the photo, tucked in a label tab from the ephemera pack, created a mini floral cluster of both ephemera and fussy cut florals (Home Grown paper) and added a few accessory word stickers to finish off this area of the layout.

At the top left of the layout I created one magical cluster of ephemera pieces, wood button, puffy heart sticker, wreath from the Good Life cut apart paper and foam leaf from the foam title stickers pack.

I replicated a similar cluster at the bottom right using more ephemera, wood button, florals and foam leaf strand.

At the top I added a couple of banner flag pieces from the Good Life cut apart paper.

Lastly a close up of some of the messy stitching, oh so slightly distressed paper edges and a sprinkling of gold colour shine to finish it all off.

Well friends thats all from me today. Thank you so much for stopping by and seeing my super quick simple hack to document the things you don’t want to forget. It doesn’t always have to be all the pretty/cute photos that get scrapped, sometimes all you need is a simple photo of them doing what they love, and adding a list of all the other things they love.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x

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