Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a fun baseball layout using the gorgeous new Storyteller collection. This beautiful Spring Fling patterned paper with a mixed media vibe was perfect for these sweet photos of my youngest at her t-ball game. Using a star wreath cut file from Paige Taylor Evans, I backed it with paper from the A5 paper stack. The title in the center of the wreath is from the Foam Title Stickers.
These word phrases are fussy cut from the cut apart sheet in the A5 paper stack. Loved layering these up on my photos in place of journaling! The sweet little buttons are from the icon ephemera pack and the expoxy wood buttons layered over them perfectly! Loved all the layering with this layout.
One of my favourite details on this layout are the tiny little flowers that I fussy cut from the gorgeous Fly Away patterned paper. These little details add such a lovely touch of whimsy to the layout and softens the overall effect of a largely geometric design. Finishing it off with black Nuvo drops and gold ink spray splatter.
I hope this layout inspires you to try layering your embellishments over the edges of your photos. It’s such a fun technique! To see how ‘Make Me Smile’ came together, check out the process video below:
Mandy here today to share another layout featuring the new Storyteller collection! I’m especially loving the gorgeous bright colours and the beautiful florals in this collection, which I think perfectly complement this lovely photo of my kids with their cousins and their grandparents.
I started this layout off by cutting a large heart out of the centre of a sheet of white cardstock. I knew that I wanted to back the heart with one of the patterned papers from the collection, and I couldn’t go past using the gorgeous Brighter Days paper. This is one of my favourite papers from the collection! I decided to cut apart the coloured stripes on the paper so that I could distress the edges of each before adhering them back together on another sheet of cardstock. Once I’d done this, I then added the piece with the cut out heart over the top. I love the way this adds lots of colour and texture inside the heart! You can see that I also added a layer of craft foam between the white cardstock and strips of patterned paper to give the layout some extra dimension.
Next I matted my photo with one of the papers from the A5 Paper Stack and then adhered it on the right hand side of the heart.
To highlight the rainbow of colours on the Brighter Days patterned paper, I decided to keep my embellishing tone-on-tone. I started at the top left hand corner of the heart where I clustered together some Floral Ephemera pieces and a Die Cut camera, all in the pink and red tones. I adhered some with foam tape, and others I stuck directly to the background to give the cluster lots of interest.
Moving down the page, I created another embellishment cluster on the yellow section, again using tone-on-tone embellishing. This cluster includes more Floral Ephemera, as well as a couple of Chipboard Stickers.
Finally, I created a third cluster on the green and blue section, using similar elements that I’d used in the previous two clusters. I also added a Wood Epoxy Button to the centre of one of the flowers in this cluster. You’ll notice that the three clusters are positioned diagonally down the page, drawing the viewer’s eye from the larger cluster in the top left, down through the title and photo, and to the cluster in the bottom right.
For my title I decided on using the ‘Love this’ words from the Chipboard Stickers, which I added above the photo.
To finish the layout off I added a sprinkling of smaller elements around the three embellishment clusters. For this I used the little hearts and dots from the Puffy Stickers, as well as a couple of Chipboard hearts.
Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today! I hope that you’ve been inspired by my layout!
Hi Cocoa Vanilla Studio fans! Danni here with another layout using the gorgeous new Storyteller collection. Are you enjoying this beautiful new stack of goodies as much as I am? This collection is so easy to work with and so versatile, I am having so much fun with it!
I was rummaging around in my craft room this week (trying to clean but actually making more mess, who can relate?) and found a cutfile in drawer that I had cut ages ago but never gotten around to using. It is meant to be a Christmas cutfile I think, but it immediately made me think of a recent hike my family took in the mountains. I found some photos and decided the tree theme would work perfectly for a layout.
I started with the woodgrain side of Cross It Off 12×12 patterned paper as a background. I love a woodgrain paper at the best of times, and this light toned wood texture is perfect for a hiking layout. I added the cutfile on top of the patterned paper, deciding not to back it with papers because I like the clean look of the white on the woodgrain. I used small dots of glue at the trunk of each tree to ensure the tops and edges lifted up from the page to add dimension.
Next I matted my two 3x4inch photos with the double sided 3×4 cards. I love the patterns on these so much, and they are the perfect size to mat photos with. I also cut the ‘Love this life’ heart shape from one of the journal cards before using it as a mat, saving waste. I then added a strip of yellow to the photo mat using the A5 paper stack patterned papers. Once my photo mat was done I started to think about a title. I have been so excited to use the stunning foam title stickers so I chose ‘together’ and added it just below my photos. The script font of these is absolutely beautiful! I also took the heart shaped piece I cut from the double sided 3×4 cards earlier, and tucked it behind my photos at the top.
Next came the embellishments! I took two of the hearts from the chipboard stickers and added them around the larger heart, followed by a chipboard banner at the bottom of the photos. I like how this bridges the gap between my photos and main title. I stamped the date on a label from the accessory stickers and tucked it into the side of my photo mat. I also took an accessory sticker tiny word phrase and added it to the opposite side for balance.
I reached for the die cut ephemera next and was absolutely spoiled for choice! I chose two of the large flower clusters and added them to either side of my photo mat. I also chose two of the sweet little pink butterflies and added them to the flowers, bending the wings up for dimension. I wanted to bring in a couple more pops of the beautiful red colour, so I added a few puffy sticker hearts around the florals as well.
Finally, I added lots of splatters around my layout using a white acrylic ink and a gold shimmer mist. I love how white and gold look against woodgrain; very neutral colours but they added such a pretty detail. I hope you enjoyed joining me for this layout, I had so much fun making it. Happy scrapping!
Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with my first ever project made with BRAND NEW “Storyteller” collection. I know you have already seen few amazing projects from other DT girls, as I am the last one to put my hands on new stuff due to the distance between me and Australia, so the bar is lifted high. First project with new line always stresses me with so many choices I can make and so many ideas bubbling in my head. That’s why I usually like to keep is simple, to get to know the papers and embellishments better. I had one not so pretty photo in mind to scrapbook a story behind it.
When I was shopping recently I found a bag of bear shaped treats that I haven’t seen for ages in shops. It was like a time travel, thirty years back, to my childhood. It was the time when shelves in Polish shops were empty and there was not much choice when it comes to candies and other treats. However, my dad, after every paycheck, was bringing home those waffle bears with meringue filling. I remember loving the super sweet taste and creemy texture (cakes were not a thing back then too). Years passed by and more and more candies started appearing in shops, including all the chocolate bars, cookies, fancy chocolates and bears dissapeared as they were no longer manufactured. They became blurred memories of an early childhood years. Can you imagine my surprise when I found them in my local shop after all those years? I sure bough them and brought them home with me. However my kids, spoiled with all the candies in the world, didn’t appreciate this simple treat (neither did I :) ). It wonders me how one little candy can trigger all those wonderful memories and flood the heart with warm and fuzzy feelings.
Now, when you know all the story behing the photo, it’s time to tell you a different kind of story – how this page came together. It all started with paper called “Cross if off”. I love this kind of simple backgrounds, that are a perfect base for any layout. Combination of white and colorful crosses will match any photo and any theme. Inspired by those tiny crosses, I wanted to add more of them to my page. I cut a paper called “Brighter days” into colorful strips and turned them into the crosses of different sizes. The process is very simple – just glue together two strips of paper of the same lenght.
Colorful cosses are very eyecatching so I didn’t want to distract the eye with a lot of embellishments. I chose few, little hearts from the ephemera pack, yellow camera placed next to the photo and few wooden buttons here and there. I also added tab sticker with word “documented” over the title. Super cute round puffy stickers were the perfect finshing touch.
I usually do not add journaling to my pages but this time I wanted to mention how important those treats were to me so I wrote my thoughts directly on the background. I didn’t like how it looked, so I wrote it again on the piece of 3*4 pocket card from pocket cards pack and glue it on top of the failed journaling. Honestly, I didn’t like this solution either (I wish I just added journaling on the back of the layout as usual) but there was nothing I could do with it anymore. I also noticed that all of my date stamps finish in 2021… It reminded me I have been scrapbooking for so long already :)
That’s it. My first page is with beautiful “Storyteller” collection is finished and I am already working on a mini album. I hope I will be able to share it with you in two weeks. Thank you so much for staying with me.
Hi everyone, It’s Melissa here and I’m so happy to be back with you today focusing on Foam Titles. I just had to create a layout with the beautiful new Storyteller Collection which just happens to have Foam Title Stickers. Foam Titles Stickers are perfect if you struggle with coming up with titles for your layout. You can use them as words on their own, or combine them to make phrases.
I started this layout knowing that I wanted to use Ditsy Daisy because I love the navy blue plaid! I wanted to feature it and placed it on the right side. I matched it with a smaller piece of the other side of the paper which has small flowers. I distressed the edges of both papers and machine stitched for texture and interest. I did some mixed media on the white background paper and onto both papers with ink via the packaging technique and I also splattered pink ink.
I backed my photo with a pink paper from the A5 Paper Stack. I embellished my photo with a banner sticker from the Accessory Stickers.
I really wanted to use some of the Die Cut Ephemera for my embellishment, and featured the gorgeous banner by popping it up on foam dimension. I selected two of the Foam Title Stickers and a heart for my title and I love how the black pops on my page!
Other embellishments I used were Puffy Sticker hearts, Wood Buttons, Chipboard Stickers. I used a Die Cut Ephemera piece to lead into my journalling.
I created a video of my process which you can watch below:
Hello friends! It’s Kylie back with you and I am SO excited to share my very first layout created with the new ‘Storyteller’ collection. I’m SO in love with all the prints and florals…So very yummy! Lately I have been trying to incorporate more than one photo to a page so that was the main inspiration for my design today. I decided to use a good old fashioned grid format, showcasing three photos as well as an embellishment square.
I layered several papers together to create the background. First I trimmed 2cm from the top and one side of the CROSS IT OFF paper and adhered it over the DITSY DAISY paper. Next I trimmed 2.5cm off the top and one side of the STORY TIME paper before adhering it as my main background. (**To conserve paper you could remover the centre from the first two layers.)
Using some of the papers from the A5 paper stack I cut a double photo mat. The first sized square was 4.25″x 4.25″ and the second was 4″x 4″. My photos were trimmed down to 3.75″x 3.75″ and adhered centred over the mats in place. These measurements ensured I had a lovely even and neat sized border frame to surround each photo.
The FLORAL EPHEMERA pack is one of my most favourite items and I loved creating a little ‘title’ square to embellish with them. I did turn up the petals a little on each bloom as well as any foliage, before layering them into the square. I used foam squares to stick some in place to create varying height and added dimension. To complete the page I created a title from the FOAM TITLES STICKERS and I couldn’t resist adding some smaller ephemera layered to the photo squares to bring a feeling of balance to the overall page.
Thanks for stopping by the blog today! I hope you enjoyed seeing what I have been creating with the new ‘Storyteller’ collection.
It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing another layout featuring the stunning new Storyteller collection! This collection is absolutely gorgeous and so versatile for any themed projects and layouts you want to document your memories.
For my layout today, I am documenting a photo of my Mum and myself from a recent lunch out together.
I started by cutting out a free cut file design from Paper Issues from white cardstock and then got busy backing the hearts in the cut file with the beautiful heart and navy papers from the A5 paper stack. Once the cut file was all backed, I added craft foam underneath the cut file and adhered it to the centre of the gorgeous 12′ x 12′ wood grain patterned paper. I love the shadows and dimension this adds to my layout. I did trim down the wood grain paper a little bit and matted it with the 12′ x 12′ small floral paper. I machine stitched a border around the edge using my sewing machine with white thread.
I decided to place my photo over towards the right of the page so as not to cover up too much of the hearts in the cut file design. I chose 2 more of the papers from the A5 paper stack and trimmed them to layer under my photo. I also slightly distressed the edges of the papers, I like how this adds a little more interest and texture to my layout. I also added one of the small banner stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet to the top left corner of my photo. I also tucked in one of the tab stickers above the photo too. I created a cluster of embellishments in the bottom right corner of the photo and could not go past the ‘Special To Me’ banner piece from the ephemera pack. I added foam tape under this piece and placed it under my photo. I also added a chipboard button, heart and floral die-cuts and a couple of stickers here as well.
To the left of my photo, I added the cute camera die-cut from the ephemera pack and placed one of the gorgeous wood epoxy buttons on top. Above the camera I also added some of the phrase and word stickers from the Accessory Sticker Sheet. Below the camera die-cut I added my title which is made up of the foam title stickers. Below the title I added a die-cut butterfly and another chipboard button. You will notice in between the hearts in the cut file that I added some of the super cute enamel hearts randomly. This was mainly to enhance the heart design of the page. I love how this looks.
In the top left corner I added another cluster of embellishments here also, this cluster consists of one of the gorgeous floral die-cuts, a chipboard button and a butterfly die-cut. I added this cluster to help balance out the cluster I added in the bottom right area of the page. This helps with the flow of the page and draws the viewers eye in. With almost all of my pages, I start out adding all of the largest elements like my photo, the title and any larger embellishments. I then move to adding some smaller embellishments and then the smaller things to finish off the page. Once I had finished embellishing my page, I added some sprinkles of white mist and stamped the date stamp as well.
Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blogtoday! I had so much fun creating this layout, I hope you enjoyed reading how I created it. Make sure to ask your retail store for the gorgeous Storyteller collection…you absolutely NEED this in your life!
Hello CVS friends, I am excited to share my first layout using the stunning new collection Storyteller.
I have used a photo of my daughter and framed it with a butterfly cut file frame which I cut from the yellow plaid paper in the A5 paper pad. I decided to not go with a white background paper and use the woodgrain paper (Cross it Off). I found this gorgeous cut file (JustNick Studio) which enabled me to use two patterns/colours papers. I chose the beautiful smaller floral print paper, Ditsy Daisy, the blue plaid is on the reverse. I added the hearts with foam tape to add dimension to my layout.
I next added my photo in the butterfly frame, off centre and left of my layout. I did not adhere the edges of my frame so I could do back and add embellishments under and around.
I added yellow puffy heart stickers to the centre of the butterflies. I used the banner phrase sentiment from the die cut ephemera and added with foam tape. I next created a floral bunch using the floral ephemera, layering under and over, some adhered with foam tape and finished off with die cut leaves.
I created another embellishment cluster using the camera die cut as the focus point, using the accessorystickers to create my sub journalling. I added the small heart wood epoxy button to the lens of the camera and lastly a butterfly die cut.
To finish off my layout I randomly added butterfly die cuts over my page and one of the super cute buntings banner die cut which I layered up with a die cut button and another butterfly.
I just adore the colours of this collection, so versatile for all types of scrapbooking and paper crafts! Thank you for stopping by today and have a fab week!
It’s been such a whirlwind of activity here at Cocoa Vanilla Studio recently that we haven’t had a chance to announce the winner of our new ‘Storyteller’ collection giveaway… until now! I would like to start by saying how appreciative I am for all the beautiful messages and positive feedback I have received about this collection. As you know, I collaborated with my long time friend Traci Reed on this one, and I am thrilled with how it turned out. It really does warm my heart to hear that you love it and I am sure Traci is delighted to hear it too.
Now let’s get to those winners!
Our first lucky winner who will receive the ENTIRE ‘Storyteller’ collection is…
Congratulations Belinda Ryken!
And our runner-up, who will receive a collection kit is…
Congratulations Anne Farrar!
Congratulations to both ladies, we hope you enjoy! (Keep an eye on your email Inbox – Sue will be in touch to organise your prizes shortly.)
To all who entered – thank you so much for your support for this collection. ‘Storyteller’ is currently shipping to our valued retailers around the world, so please look out for it at your favourite scrappy store.
It’s Sophie here and I am so excited to share my very first page created with the brand-new Storyteller collection!!
Where to start?? I am sure you know the feeling of wanting to hoard every little thing of a new collection and having a hard time choosing and actually using some of the beautiful goodies from it… Well, it definitely was a struggle for me here!!
I used the striped paper from the A5 Paper Stack and used a piece of it on the upper and lower part of the page. I cut between the colored stripes and curled some in different lengths on the top part of the page, and applied watercolor paint on thick white cardstock in different colors matching the stripes just underneath them.
I created a zigzag stitch in matching colors for the lower strip of striped paper.
I centered two photos on my page, a little bit crocked, and mounted on tissue paper and foam adhesive.
I used a Die Cut Ephemera for my title and a cute little banner above the photos.
I created clusters of flowers, most of which were fussy cut out of the A5 floral patterned paper.
Finally, I used beautiful Die Cut Ephemera butterflies and made them fly around my page, and placed a few Wood Epoxy Buttons as the finishing touch.
Here are more close-ups:
I am sure that you fell in love with this gorgeous collection just like I did!
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