October 2022

Love From the Heart | Storyteller Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with baseball photos! Today’s prompt was spring or fall and I chose spring! Here in the United States spring is devoted to baseball, particularly spring training. I decided to up the ante with some floral hexagons to push that ‘spring’ feel even further. I have included some backed hexagon cut files from Liz Longest Designs and added some punched hexagons using the A5 paper stack. By puzzling them together, I created hexagon florals that trailed up my layout.

Each of my photos is show-cased inside of the these florals, which gives them an opportunity to shine! My photos are 3×2 inches and fit perfectly inside of these shapes. I love every chance to break out my punches and I find them to be the most versatile tool in my scraproom! Added to these hexagons are small embellishments like fussy cut cameras, wood buttons, and ephemera icons.

 

For my title, I tucked in a phrase from the foam titles set and added some of the little black foam hearts to the end of my title, as well as to each of the photos. This helps spread that darker color around the page, so that the title doesn’t stand out quite as much. I always prefer to have most of the focus on my photos. To finish this layout off, I added butterfly trails with gold Nuvo drops and then splattered around my cluster with gold ink spray.

 

I hope this layout inspires you to break out your punches and experiment with puzzling together the shapes into something new! If you’d like to see how ‘Love From the Heart’ came together, check out the process video below!

Best Ever | Storyteller collection | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here today to share another layout featuring the gorgeous Storyteller collection! For this layout, I decided to scrapbook a couple of photos from a day that Isaac and I spent at the zoo a couple of years ago. It was such a great day, and I wanted to document how much I enjoyed spending the day with him. The Storyteller collection was perfect for this page, and I love the way that I was able to focus on more of the blues & greens in the collection for this layout. And I don’t mind using a floral cluster or two on a boy layout either!

To start the layout off, I trimmed a sheet of white cardstock down to 11 inches square and matted it on the blue Ditsy Daisy paper.

Next I chose a selection of papers from the A5 Paper Stack and cut them down to 1 inch x 4 inches and arranged them across the bottom of the white cardstock. As I mentioned, I tried to stick mostly to the blues, greens and woodgrain as I thought these would complement the photos nicely. I then added a piece of the yellow Little Love paper along the top edge of the strips, along with a border that I punched from white cardstock. This added some nice detail and also provided a ‘ledge’ for the photos to sit on.

I printed two 3 x 4″ photos and matted them on the woodgrain paper from the A5 Paper Stack. I also chose a 3 x 4″ card and positioned it between the two photos. This also became the title for my layout. I adhered the photos and card with craft foam to give them all some extra dimension.

Once my background was done and my photos were in place I was ready to embellish! Of course I couldn’t resist fussy cutting one of the gorgeous floral clusters out of the Spring Fling paper! I adhered this below the photos on the left hand side of the page. I also added one of the Wood Epoxy Buttons to the floral cluster to give some more texture to the page.

To balance out this floral cluster, I added another embellishment cluster in the top right hand corner of the layout. This gives the page a diagonal flow, drawing the viewers eye from the larger cluster, up through the photos, to the one at the top of the page. In this cluster I included some items from the Die Cut Ephemera pack, including a banner, a floral cluster and a butterfly. I also added another Wood Epoxy Button as I like to repeat similar elements in each of my clusters.

I finished the layout off with some typed journaling and a sprinkling of Puffy Stickers.

Thank you so much for joining me here on the blog today. I hope that you’ve found some inspiration!

Mandy x

Beautiful You | Storyteller Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hey there Scrappy Friends! It’s Michelle back here with you today to share my newest creation using the Storyteller Collection. For this layout I wanted to document a couple of photos of Leila (being Leila) hanging out being the superstar that she is at her birthday celebrations last year. Hard to believe that in just 2 more months she will be 12!

I wanted to keep this layout pretty simple, with just a couple of photos, a ‘tidy’ background and my trademark floral clusters. I used the green circular pattern design from the back of the FLY AWAY paper and fussy cut 3 lines out using both scissors and my craft knife for all the inner pieces. Once ready I adhered in the top half of the white cardstock, roughly just above the centre line of the paper. I used double sided foam tape to lift it off the page just slightly.

I can’t take credit for these 2 magical photos, Leila’s aunty managed to capture them while the kids were happy playing in the massive play room while we had dinner. I kept them black and white so not to clash with the colours of the beautiful Storyteller Collection. I used 3×4 cards to back the photos before adhering to the middle of the green circles with foam for an extra pop of dimension.

Clusters created on either side of the photos using both fussy cut florals from the SPRING FLING paper (A5 paper stack size), flag banners from the ephemera pack, word flags from the STORY TIME cut apart paper, wood buttons and black foam hearts from the foam title stickers pack.

Totally obsessed with floral clusters, so much so that I ended up creating clusters similar to ones I’ve made previously. I just cant help it when florals are so so pretty and work so well in certain combinations.

These foam title stickers are the best for creating a good quick title that has impact on the page, they’re a beautiful product to work with too.

I added one last little cluster at the bottom of the layout layered together with another strip of green circles from the FLY AWAY paper, then splattered the entire layout with gold ink to finish it all off.

Here’s one more look at the entire layout, such a quick layout to recreate when you’ve got a couple of photos to document.

Well friends, thats all from me for today. Thanks so much for stopping by.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping
Michelle xx

Tower Bridge selfie | Mix of masculine collections | Anna Komenda

Hello, hello! It’s Anna here again and today I have fun, travel themed inspiration for you. Good news – it has zero dogs involved :) This time I wanted to scrapbook a selfie photo of my family we took visiting London few years back (I can’t belive it was so long ago as it seems like yesterday). Photo was already printed and wandering around my desk for a while so I though it’s time to scrapbook it finally. As CVS doesn’t have any specific travel themed collection, I reached for the lines that have colors that would match the picture. It’s quite muted with a lot of earth tones so I focused on masculine lines. No pink this time!

I started with the newest one called “No limits” picking pattern papers for the background – wooden “Big bang” and grey “Universal“. With the second one I cut out the map background using digita die cutting machine. It reminded me of a busy city London is. Sfter all three basic layers were combined, it was time to add photo. It has white frame so I needed some contrastic colors under it to make the picture pop.

That’s why I added yellow and blue using A5 Paper stack. This is such a great product – it hold some extra patterns for even more fun with collection and you can use them for mini albums and cards too. You get 30 sheets in total – 2 of each designs and they are loose so there is no glue attaches to the one side, which is sometimes hard to remove. After the photo was glued down, I started building composition around it. It’s the moment I reached for some older CVS collections and my leftovers stash. You can find ephemera pieces and stickers from “Legendary”, “You rock” and “Boys rule”. This is the beauty of Cocoa Vanilla lines – you can easily mix and match them!

My title was also created with an old set of alpha stickers. they are not being added to the collections anymore but I still have my own stash and I love reaching out to it. Alpha stickers came in two different sizes – with bigger letters and some with smaller letters. I mixed two of them here. I also dug up my stash of wooden elements, that were a part of older collections. I loved them so much and I was saving them for the future (as many of us does with favorite items). It’s finally time to let them go. But worry not – I still have a little basket of them :) They will last me till the end of time.

This kind of layout is my favorite – where I can combine new and old, giving older stash a new life. If also helps me spread the collection even if I am running out of embellishemnts. Last step in making this page was adding some flair buttons (also from my dearly saved stash) and splashing everything with yellow and orange mists.

That is all for today my Friends! Thank you so much for stopping by and see you in two weeks.

XO Anna

Happy Beautiful Days | Daydream Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, it’s Melissa here and in my part of the world its Spring!! This month the Design Team is creating projects that are either Spring or Autumn themed.  I was really keen to scrapbook spring photos from last year, and I decided to use beautiful Daydream.  This time last year we were renting a house on a farm and the spring blooms and growth were stunning.

I used a floral cut file from Just Nick Studio.  I coloured it with watercolours and backed it with papers from the collection.  I’m not normally a scrapbooker who matches photos with embellishments, but because only one of my photos is a close up of blossoms it works.

I used Sweet Serenity for my background paper, and then applied ink with the packaging technique.  Its a very subtle effect behind my photos. I used a torn piece of Daisy Days for my photo matt, and then layered the cut file flowers and Die Cut Ephemera in several places around the photos.

I used three of the Die Cut Title words for my title, and I love how it looks above and below my photos. I also used one of the gorgeous Puffy Hearts and a Flair Button.

Thanks so much for looking.

Melissa xx

 

We look beautiful together on vacation | Josefine vd Hoeven | Sunkissed collection

Hey creative Paperlovers,

Welcome and so happy to see you again on the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! It’s Josefine here and I’m sharing a new layout with you. For this girls pink layout I choose to work with the beautiful collection “Sunkissed. I really love the pink vibe on this happy page from me and my daughter.

I took a 12×12 watercolor paper and choose three pink colors of distress oxide to work with. The colors I used are, picked raspberry, kitch flamingo and spun sugar. I placed an ink pad on my white background and make a horizontal line. I do this with all the three different ink pads. Then I take a medium watercolor brush and blend the colors with each other by using a little bit of water. I splash some more with the colors by using my watercolor brush and then let the background dry by air. By splashing with water on your distress oxide and dabbing it dry with a piece of kitchen paper you create a super cool watercolor effect.

I used a cutfile by Paige Evans called “Beautiful” as part of my title. The title I choose for this layout calls “We look beautiful together on vacation” I really love the moments that I spend with my teenage daughter. These moments are very special and precious to me. I cut the cutfile with my Cricut Maker and backed it with yellow colored design paper. I color the alphas with the distress oxide “mustard seed” and then I stitch the alpha’s with light yellow sewing thread on my cutfile. The stitching details give my alpha’s more detail and dimensions.
I cut different  pattern papers to size and placed it behind the photo from me and my daughter. I made a cluster on the right side of the photo with the gorgeous Die-cuts elements, stickers and figures from the Sunkissed collection. I select some more embellishments for extra decoration between the alpha’s.

I punched out a few butterflies from the lovely Sunkissed design papers and placed them in different places on my layout. Also I give my layout some white splatter with white gesso for a festive look.
I hope I was able to inspire you with this happy pink girls layout with the fresh and colorful Sunkissed collection and give you a creative idea for an easy mixed media background. Of course, I hope to see you next time on the blog with a new project! Can’t wait to see your beautiful projects on the Cocoa Vanilla FB groep! I wish you a very happy and crafty day friends!
XoXo, Jo

Together | Storyteller collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah McLean back here on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout featuring the stunning Storyteller collection.

I think this is now my 8th layout created using this gorgeous collection! Do you have this collection yet?

I am documenting 2x photos of myself with some of my fun girlfriends, choosing to create a grid style design.

I first pulled out all the horizontal pocket cards that would suit the way I wanted my photos placed, I mixed them up and layered some underneath others and also layered some of them under my photos too, Once I was happy with how they looked, I took a piece of plain white cardstock and adhered them all down staying with that grid style. I was so happy that the pocket card that reads ‘It’s A Good Day to Have a Good Day’ was a horizontal style one as I wanted to use the ‘Together’ word from the foam title stickers, it was perfect to place on that pocket card!

I could not leave the pocket cards blank so I added some embellishments to them all. On the title card, I added a chipboard heart from the Chipboard stickers, a puffy heart sticker from the puffy stickers and a journal sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet, I stamped the date on the small journal sticker. The pocket card to the right of the title one I added a chipboard piece, 2x banner die-cuts and a puffy heart sticker to the banner piece, I also stapled the banner die-cuts using my tiny attacher.

On the pocket card below the title I added an accessory sticker and adhered a camera ephemera piece over the top using craft foam. I also tucked in a floral die-cut here from the floral ephemera pack. On top of the camera, I adhered one of the super cute wood epoxy buttons. The pocket card above the title I added a chipboard banner piece and a chipboard heart and created a small cluster of flowers and leaves from the floral ephemera pack, I popped up some of the flowers using craft foam and left some without, I like the different heights and dimension this gives my page.

It’s fun to treat each pocket card almost like its only little scrapbook layout! On the top photo one, I stapled a banner sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet in the top right corner, using my tiny attacher. Doing this is a great way to disguise something you make not like in your photo, treat it as an embellishment opportunity and cover it up as I have in the corner of my photo! In the bottom photo, I added a phrase sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet to the top of the photo and created another cluster of flowers using florals from the floral ephemera pack, this helps to balance with the cluster I created in top left corner.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I love how my layout turned out and I hope you enjoyed reading how I created it!

Make sure to keep an eye on the Cocoa Vanilla online store as the Storyteller collection should be in store really soon!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Spring is Here | Storyteller Collection | Rachel Lowe

Hello crafty friends today I am celebrating all things Spring (well if you live in the Southern Hemisphere anyway!), flowers, sun, bare feet and yellow!!! Storyteller is a perfect collection for spring themed layouts.

I firstly created a water colour background effect on my white card stock, using yellow as it reminds me of spring, I then found a cute vase cut file from the silhouette design store. I used Oh My Heart paper to create my vase.

Now for the fun part, I created flowers for my vase using the Floral die cut ephemera pack. I added them with foam tape to add dimension and then tucked in extra leaves and sprigs.

I add a phrase sentiment banner from the die cut ephemera pack on the vase. I chose a wood grain paper from the A5 paper pad to mat my photo.

Next I created my title using a cut file which I cut using Ditsy Daisy paper. I added a camera die cut and added a wood epoxy button to the lens of the camera.

To finish my layout off I went back and added some die cut butterflies and puffy stickers in amongst the flowers and under the butterfly wings.

A simple layout technique wise but visually beautiful with the colour choices and lots of flowers!

Thank you for stopping by today and I will be back later in the month with some more inspiration.

Rachel X

Oh Lovely Times | Daydream collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends !
It’s Sophie with you on the blog today with this cute layout to share !
For this Throwback Thursday page, I used  the beautiful Daydream collection
I selected 4 of my favorite patterned papers: Sun Shower, Daisy Days,Happy Place and Garden Variety. I applied Distress Oxide inks directly on my white background watercolor cardstock in four vertical lines. I added water and colored splatters as well, and let everything dry.
I cut four strips of my selected papers that are of different lenghts and about 2 inches wide.  I curled the top and bottom of each paper and aligned them in a horizontal line. I inserted a grey ribbon inside the curled top of each strip and tied a bow on the right and left side of the four aligned papers.
I printed my photo in black and white. It adds a little retro feel to the page…!
I used the Daydream Die Cut Title words for my title, and added beautiful fussy cut and die cut flowers to embellish around my photo.
I cut a rectangle out of white cardstock to write down my journalign and placed it on the Sun Shower strip, on the left side of the photo.
Finally, I added a few Accessory Stickers, two die cut butterflies and a few scattered sequins as the finishing touch.
Here are some close-ups:
I will never get tired of using this gorgeous collection ! My design is very easy to scraplift, and it is a simple way to use many different patterned papers on a page.
Will you give it a try ?
Thank you for stopping by,
Happy crafting !
Sophie xx

Fun Adventure | No Limits | Kellie Moore

Hi Cocoa Vanilla fans and welcome back to the blog!

Today I have put my Storyteller collection away and have pulled out the No Limits collection to play with.

I am documenting some fun pictures of my husband and youngest son on a recent holiday to Bali when we went quad bike riding.

To start my page I used the woodgrain paper called “Big Bang”  and tore it about three quarters of the way down to create some texture and added a strip of the “Eclipse” paper underneath it.

I decided I wanted to add some mixed media to my background so I pulled out a circular stencil with some silver texture paste and added some white ink splatters.

I placed my photos in the middle of the page and used some vellum to add another layer. Next, to add more colour and papers to my page, I used a cut file from Paper Issues to add more circular elements to my page… I love these!!!

For my title, I used the word ‘Adventure’ from the Die Cut Titles and the word ‘Fun’ from one of the ‘Pocket Cards‘.

 

Once this was done I felt like the bottom of my page was too white so I pulled out some circular stamps and added these with co-ordinating colours … love the effect!

To finish my page, I used different pieces from the ‘Die cut elements’ pack’ and some of the Chipboard pieces including the stars to scatter around the page.

I hope you enjoyed my page today and you found some inspiration to get your memories documented.

Thanks for stopping by today

Kel

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