August 2022

Sunshine | Sunkissed Collection | Danni Visser

Hi Cocoa Vanilla Studio fans! Danni here with a combination Throwback Thursday and Sketch layout. I was challenged to use a sketch and an older Cocoa Vanilla collection, so I settled on the stunning Sunkissed Collection and this adorable sketch from Lottie Loves Paper.

I love how a sketch can help guide you in a direction that you may not have thought of spontaneously. The rainbow in the sketch reminded me of the Sunny Days 12×12 patterned paper so I used that to make a border around my page. I also added a layer of the pink Growing Wild 12×12 patterned paper behind a piece of white watercolour cardstock, ready for some paint!

Continuing with my inspiration from Sunny Days 12×12 patterned paper, I matched the colours from the rainbows in the pattern by mixing up some acrylic paint, then painted a rainbow on the watercolour paper following the placement in the sketch. Next, I added some pink and gold ink splatters around where my photos would go.

The sketch called for three square photos, so I chose these pics from a day trip and picnic with my family last summer. I decided to trim my smaller photos a little, so they were more rectangular than square, just because they fit a little better on the page that way. I matted my photos using the A5 paper stack and backed them with 3D foam before adhering them down.

I chose a beautiful glittery title from the Foam title stickers and placed it following the sketch, curving it along the top of my hand painted rainbow. It fit just perfectly between my two photo clusters.

Next, I chose a collection of clear stickers, puffy stickers, accessory stickers, floral ephemera, die cut ephemera and wood buttons to create small embellishment clusters around my photos. I placed them roughly in the areas shown in the sketch, but I was pretty flexible in the placement of these.

Finally, I printed my journalling using a typewriter font and cut it into strips, before adhering it down at the base of my rainbow. I had a bit more journalling than the sketch had, so I just brought it up a little higher on the page. There was plenty of extra room, so I was happy with the final placement. And that’s the layout finished! I hope you enjoyed joining me today and happy scrapping!

Danni x

Loved This! | Storyteller Collection | Laura Alberts

Hi y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a sweet layout of my daughter and I snuggling on the sofa. My daughter loves to watch me speak and I am so grateful I caught this moment on camera. I started with this layout with the Oh My Heart patterned paper with my background and added a strip of Little Love along the bottom. Using the branding strips behind my photos was a fun way to create a horizontal design.

I layered floral ephemera behind my smaller 2×2 inch photos to add a whimsical feel. I particularly love these little stems of florals and had to tuck in several of those! The tiny butterflies are fussy cut from the A5 paper stack and the hearts are fussy cut from the Story Time cut apart patterned paper. Love all of the tiny details added around these clusters for a more polished look.

For my journaling, I included this small spot from the icon ephemera. Loved these word phrases and had to add several around the base of my photos. To finish off my layout, I added some tiny fussy cut florals, Nuvo drops, and gold ink splatter.

I hope this layout inspires you to mix and match the patterns from this collection into a variety of backgrounds. To see how “Loved This!” came together, check out the process video below.

Mirror, mirror on the wall | Storyteller Layout | Anna Komenda

Welcome Friends. It’s Anna here with another page made with stunning “Storyteller” collection. This line is so versatile and is just perfect for documenting everyday life in all of it’s shades and themes. Colors of this line will match boys, girls, pets, old and young, house and outdoor – you got it all covered. I wanted to document a fun photo of my furry stalker, who needs to put his noisy nose into everything I do. It’s a quality control on four paws. He is always there checking what I am doing and he wants to be up close to the events, even it it’s just my beauty routine. I was recently working on my eyebrows and the best light for this is in my scraproom. Filut was intrigued by all the new stuff that appeard on my desk, that isn’t usually there, especially the mirror. He jumped on my laps to make a good sniff and look on everything and I managed to snap few photos that look like he is admiring his reflection.

As he is a boy, I decided to use red and navy color combo with a bit of yellow. I started with white cardstock and used a dotty stencil and red ink to add soft, mixed media layer under the photo section. Next step was to arrange few paper strips from “Brighter days”, “Ditsy daisy” and “Little love” papers. I added some decorative edge with puncher first for more texture.

When it was all glued down, I added my photo with few layers of paper under it. I mied both 12*12 papers and A5 paper stack. This is such a great product as the patterns are a bit different than in big papers, which adds a whole variety of possibilities is you are a paper lover like me.

To be honest – in this stage my page was almost done. it really is that simple. All I had left is to add some embellishments here and there and a title. I reached for super cute tiny puffy alpha stickers from an older “These days” collection. They match “Storyteller” really well. This photo of my dog reminded me a short rhyme from a “Snowwhite” fairy tale: “Mirror, mirror on my wall, who’s the fairest of them all” and I wanted it to be my title. However, it’s quite a long phrase so I decided to add only a first part knowing that most of the people will know the ending of this sentence. Plus I was running out of letter in my alpha sheet…

Last step was adding embellishments to my page. I started by digging into an ephemera pack and choosing few that surrounded my photo. I also picked some hearts to add them here and there. I used up some hearts from cardboard stickers sheet too. Little wooden button was a cherry on top. For more yellow accents I splashed the finished project with mustard mist.

And that’s all folks! It really is simple page with a lot of white – the way I like my pages the most! Once again my journaling is on the back as I do not like to share my private thoughts with everyone. They are meant to remind ME the story, not everyone else browsing through my albums. And also I hate my handwritting.

Thank you so much for stopping by and see you in September. Summer is almost gone so it’s safe to start making fall pages :D

XO Anna

Beautiful | Storyteller Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, It’s Melissa here and I’m back sharing another layout that I created with the beautiful Storyteller collection!  I just love that this collection is so versatile for documenting all the stories I want to tell.  For this layout I was inspired by the beautiful cameras in the collection, and I decided to scrapbook a photo of my daughters from Mother’s Day last year. I used Cross It Off for my background, and I just love the gorgeous woodgrain pattern.

The camera cut file I used is from Just Nick Studio, and was perfect to recreate the camera with florals. I love the navy blue in this collection and used Ditsy Daisy, Brighter Days, and Little Love to back the cut file.

I used lots of flowers and leaves from the Floral Ephemera pack to embellish the camera.  I bent up the petals and used lots of dimensional adhesive to keep them from laying flat. I also used one phrase from the Accessory Stickers.

I added my journaling on a piece from the Die Cut Ephemera pack and I tucked it into the floral cluster.  I love that my journaling is contained!

I selected the phrase “So Beautiful” from the Foam Title Stickers.  They sat so perfectly across the camera. My final touch was to splatter with gold shimmer which is so lovely on the woodgrain background.

I hope I’ve inspired you to take inspiration from the icons in the collection.

Have a lovely weekend

Melissa xx

Happy Campers | Storyteller Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hello Hello! It’s Michelle here today with another instalment of our current story telling feature. I’ve used our beautiful Storyteller Collection for this layout that documents a big step in Leila’s school life – School Camp. Even though she might have been super anxious in the lead up to going away, Leila and her mates certainly enjoyed themselves while there.

I started off by cutting out some large clip boards from CUT to YOU to use as a place to ‘clip’ my photos. I used both sides of the DITSY DAISY paper to cut both the outline and the background of the boards and adhered the pieces together, leaving the ‘clip’ piece free to tuck in all the pieces they’re holding.

I added all 3 clipboards to a piece of the CROSS IT OFF paper, using pieces of foam sheets to give them a little pop off the page before adding all the other elements that I’ll share below.

I used 2 photos from the campers send off, both featuring friends that Leila’s had since Prep and even Kinder.

On the left side clip board I’ve layered the photo with a pocket page card, pieces cut from the cut apart sheet STORY TIME plus some fussy cut florals from the SPRING FLING paper in both 12×12 and A5 size

Over on the right I’ve added the 2nd photo layered on top of a folded card that’s hiding the written journalling. It’s not hidden for any other reason other than I wrote more than I expected and I couldn’t make it work tucked into the other clipboard. I added more of the same elements over this side as I did on the left clip board to keep things cohesive across the entire layout.

I used a simple piece of notepaper ripped from a book to write the journalling, adhered it between 2 pocket page cards then machine stitched top and bottom for a little extra detail.

On the middle clipboard I’ve added the title using another CUT to YOU cutfile cut out of the green A5 version of LITTLE LOVE, layered over the journalling spot from the cut apart paper STORY TIME with the addition of an accessory sticker from an older collection.

Along the tops of the clip boards I added some WOODEN BUTTONS to act as thought the boards are ‘pinned’ to the woodgrain background (CROSS IT OFF)

I added the twine along the tops and glued it into place using some tacky glue that dries clear. Theres also a sprinkling of both gold and white inks around the layout to finish it all off.

Here’s another look at the entire layout..

Well friends, thats all from me today. Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my version of our story telling theme, it’s certainly been a fun one to create. Please be sure to share your own versions within our facebook community group HERE

Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x

All Smiles | Storyteller Collection | Kylie Kingham.

Hello Cocoa Vanilla fans. It’s Kylie again, back to share another project for the month of August. I’m really not sure where this year has gone…We are only a very short time till we hit Spring and the warmer weather again. My inspiration for todays layout was Spring/Summer and everything that goes along with it- Warmer days, lots of blooms and sweet fruits in season! I love the new Storyteller collection with its sweet florals and thought it would be the perfect choice for documenting a favourite memory.

I have several ‘go-to’ layout designs I tend to use time again. One is what I have used today- A great way to use any left over strips you have. I really love lots of layers in my pages and by layering various sized strips such as I have done in different directions builds a nice dimension. I also like to distress the edges for definition.

I really don’t tend to stick to exact measurements for each paper strip. I just work for a nice balance and keep variety. With each strip in place, I cut a photo mat to measure 6.25″x 4.25″ and adhered a 6″x 4″ photo centred over the top. This was then added to my page, just off centre.

I added a lace doily from my craft stash behind my photo and began to layer some of the awesome floral ephemera. I like to curl the petals up a little and use foam squares to add them into place. Again, this gives a lovely sense of dimension. For balance I added a secondary cluster to the opposite corner as the first and tucked in some of the typed phrase stickers from the sticker sheet.

To finish my page I added some Butterflies with foam squares. This made them look as though they were ‘floating’. I also created a title from the FOAM TITLE STICKERS. Overall this is a simple design to bring together but one I always love.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope my layout inspires you a little with your own creating.

Take care,

Kylie.

Storyteller | Happy | Rachel Lowe

Hello CVS friends! I wish I would journal more on my layouts, using my own handwriting but I struggle and therefore using other means to journal. Today I am sharing a rainbow fun layout when I have used Storyteller collection and the accessory stickers to add my journalling.

This double rainbow cut file is from the Silhouette Design store.

I have used the curve of the rainbow cut file to add my accessory stickers/journalling. I chose my phrases and then cut them as I needed to fit the curve. I know this is cheating but it does look good!!! I used Oh My Heart paper, using both sides to create my rainbow. You will see that I have used foam tape on some of the rainbow pieces so it didn’t look ‘flat’. Once I had done this I added accessory stickers on thee top curve to create my journalling. I chose a patterned background paper using Little Love paper.

Here I added the Storyteller puffy sticker hearts adding them to the hearts on the paper pieces of the rainbow. On the top rainbow I added a butterfly Wood Epoxy Button. Adding these embellishments prevents your layout looking ‘flat’ and adds texture.

I used Ditsy Daisy paper for my title HAPPY. I also added some of the letters with foam tape. I used the smaller pattern of this paper from the A5 paper pad which is perfect when you are creating smaller elements.

I created a small floral embellishment cluster using the floral die cut ephemera pack, just because I like flowers really but keeping in mind this layout is ‘busy’ in patterns and colours so not wanting to over do it.

I matted my 4×4 inch photo and added to the lower right of my page with foam tape, tucking under a banner tab to the top and then a phrase sentiment from the die cut ephemera under my photo. A black and white photo against these colours/patterns really pops.

This is a simple but fun layout to create. I love the font of the accessory sticker words/phrases and they really do work well on this layout as my storytelling of my photo.

As always thank you for stopping by today and look forward to sharing my next layout with you in September.

Rachel X

 

The Wait | Sophie Delorme | Storyteller collection

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends!

Sophie here and a cute layout to share with you!

 

I used the Storyteller collection to document this lovely photo of my dog Fiona waiting for her very best friend to arrive!

This month’s theme is “Tell a story”, and that was my focus on this page as I highlighted my cute little story by printing it on a Pocket Card and framing it with one of the frames included in the Storyteller Ephemera pack. Have you notice that it seems like Fiona is looking at the frame? That’s why I placed the journaling frame on the upper left side of the page.

I used my favourite paper of the collection “Brighter Days”, cut it into a big scalloped border and placed it on the right side of the page, adding a zig zag stitch in matching thread between each stripe.

 

I stamped the letters for my title with an alphabet stamp from my stash for the words “The Wait” and added the “Story” Chipboard sticker to complete my title.

Then, I embellished the page with beautiful floral die cuts and butterflies. I added two Wood Epoxy Buttons and a few Nuvo Drop dots as the finishing touch.

 

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you see, focussing on a story doesn’t necessarily have to occupy a lot of space on a layout. Presenting it as a focus point, or even like an embellishment, will guide the eye easily towards it and make it stand out beautifully!

I hope this was inspiring for you, thank you for passing by.

Il will see you again soon!

Sophie xx

Love this Story | Storyteller | Lina Monaco

Hello my CVS family!
Lina, on the blog today sharing a layout I created using the latest collection, Storyteller. Can we just take a minute to appreciate the colour palette and versatility of this collection? Whether you’re documenting feminine or masculine photos, outdoor or indoor photos, this paper collection is perfect for any project!


Storyteller, is just full of opportunities to tell a story and I took full advantage of this. I began with the A5 Paper Stack cutting various strips of paper in varying lengths and widths. I arranged them on a white piece of cardstock and once I had them where I wanted them, I secured them down using glue. I decided to use a black and white photo so that it would not get lost in the sea of colour and patterns I was planning on using. I matted my photo with a simple navy blue patterned cardstock to ensure it stood out a bit.


For my title I knew with all certainty I wanted to use the Love this Story chipboard from the Chipboard Stickers. I popped it up with dimensional foam and nestled it next to my photo and began working from there. I really am fond of the height and dimension the foam gives. It just makes the title pop off the page.


Next, my favourite part… the embellishing. I used pieces from both the Die Cut Ephemera and the Floral Ephemera to add florals and add the “pretties”. I also used a few pieces from the Accessory Stickers to add some tabs and layering pieces to my photo. I used some gold thread, created a nest, and adhered a circle embellishment that reads “telling our story” on top.


To begin my “storytelling” I used the phrases from the Accessory Stickers to convey my message. I took inspiration from the phrases and typed out my journaling which is a piece written by Kierstin White that I just adore and feel to my core, printed it out on regular computer paper, cut it out and adhered it down.
Lastly, I rounded out my layout with a very good sprinkling of Puffy Stickers in a variety of colours. It just added the perfect final touch.

I hope you enjoyed my layout today as much as I loved creating it!
Enjoy your day!

xoLina

Sunshine on my Mind | Sunkissed | Kellie Moore

Hello CVS fans, Kellie back here today with a layout for Throwback Thursday.

When I was thinking about which older collection I wanted to pull out I went with ‘Sunkissed’…..the bright colours in this collection really are my jam.

To start my page, I decided I wanted to create a sunburst design on the left side of my page.  I chose the paper ‘Fun in the Sun’ from the collection and a paper called ‘Home Grown’ from the ‘These Days’ collection. I then hand stitched these down on my page to create more texture. I decided I didnt want to leave between the rays white so I used some distress oxides to colour my page.

To create the illusion of clouds I made a fake stencil with a piece of cardstock and again used distress oxides in pink and blues down the right side of my page.

I decided to use a cutfile for my title and instead of using it as a straight word as it was designed I decided to cut it up so I could curl it around my photo which I cut into a circle and backed using some of the papers from the A5 paper stack. Again I used the ‘Fun in the Sun’ paper to back the word ‘Sunshine’. To add more interest to it I used some of the floral ephemera and puffy stickers between the letters.

To embellish the right side of my page I made a large embellishment cluster with a bunch of elements from the ephemera pack and some of the puffy stickers….. puffy stickers always have my heart! I also added some of the word phrases from the Accessory Sticker Sheet to the bottom of my page to finish it off.

I love how bright and summery this page turned out….yellows, blues and pink… YUM!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have been  inspired!

Till next time

Kel.

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