January 2023

Hey Hello awesome 2023 | No Limits | Legendary | Josefine van der Hoeven

Hey creative Paperlovers,

Welcome to the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog and Happy New Year! So glad to see you here.
It’s Jo and today I show you my first scrapbook layout for Cocoa Vanilla Studio of 2023!!

One of my absolutely favorite collections is “No Limits” and I think this collection is perfect for a Happy New Year scrapbook layout.

 

I start with a white piece of cardstock and cut out one big star shape with my “Cricut Maker”I used a standard star shape cutfile from Cricut. I choose a wood colored patterned paper and place it behind the white cardstock with the cut out large star. I stitch the edges of the star with light blue sewing thread.

 

I cut out some more stars from different pattern papers and I stitch the edges with light blue sewing thread. I place the stars in different places on the layout. I cut patterned paper to
size and place it behind the black and white photo. I place the photo on top of the stars and slide some more labels between the layers.
I grab a pair of scissors and fussy cut a few extra stars from the patterned paper. As you can see, I also used some patterned paper from Legendary. So great to see that both collections combine perfectly with each other. For the small circles I used a reinforcer punch. Along with the stars, I decorate the layout.
The title “Hey hello Awsome 2023” on the right side of the photo consists of several die-cuts, word strip and a silver alphabet from Thickers. I find it a fun and playful effect to combine a title with different alphabets, die-cuts or word strips. My layout is done and for a festive look I splashed some more with blue distress ink “faded jeans” and white gesso. This adds just a little extra dimension to my layout and I love it.
I hope I was able to give you some great ideas and wish you lots of fun creating beautiful projects with this beautiful and colorful collection! I want to thank you for stopping by on the blog today!
Happy crafting and have fun!
XoXo,
Jo

 

Christmas Crafts | Merry & Bright Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hey Everyone, It’s Michelle back to share some crafty goodness with you all after a well needed Christmas crafting break. Today I wanted to share a few of the handmade cards and gifts that I made for family using the Merry & Bright Collection. They’re nothing fancy, but definitely something that was well received on the days they were given.

First up is a couple of Christmas Cards that I made using ephemera pieces from the Merry & Bright Collection along with some of the fun pattern papers.

These first few cards came together super quick. I adhered the pattern paper to the tops of the cards then stitched around the edges. I added ephemera pieces to the middle of each with the addition of word stickers from the accessory stickers sheet to finish them off.

The last 2 required a little extra fussy cutting and stitching plus a lot of glitter that ended up falling off within the envelopes. I layered the banner flags (cut apart sheet and ephemera) with different adhesives before machine stitching across the tops.

Next was the creation of 2 gifts for family, 1 a printed gift voucher and the other a fun way to gift school photos to the grandparents.

This would have to be the best way to gift a printed voucher. Print it smaller than A4 size and adhere to a piece of pattern paper. Fold it in 3 and wrap with a complimentary pattern paper, then embellish with ephemera florals, wrap in twine and tie on some tags.

In the larger of the 2 envelopes I created a large card using more pattern papers, floral ephemera, twine and tags to create a large cluster..

on the inside are the 2 school photos from the last 2 years held in place with more pattern paper

The outside of the envelope was decorated in the same way that I created the gift voucher by using layered pattern paper, florals, twine and tags.

I really enjoyed creating these items for family, just as much as they enjoyed receiving them. I hope this has given you some inspiration on how to make something ‘ordinary’ look a lot more ‘pretty’

Well thats all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by.
Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Michelle x

Christmas Morning Joy | Merry & Bright collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends and Happy New Year!

It’s Tarrah back today to share a new scrapbook layout featuring the gorgeous Merry and Bright collection!

I just love creating Christmas layouts, what about you? I still have lots of the Merry and Bright collection and I also love to stash bust so I really enjoyed creating this layout!

I started by choosing my background paper – opting for the Star Bright paper. I then cut out a cut file from white cardstock. The cut file is from CUT to YOU and is called Stars Squared. Once the cut file was cut out, I struggled with the placement and design of my page so I cut up the cut file into separate pieces so I could place pieces of it where I wanted to. Do you ever do this? I do this a lot if I am struggling to like how a cut file looks on my page. There are no rules to say you have to use a cut file the way it was intended!

I backed all the stars of the cut file with papers from the Merry and Bright A5 paper stack, once it was all backed, I then placed foam adhesive to the underside of the cut file and adhered the cut file to the ‘Star Bright’ paper.

The photo I am documenting today was taken just this last Christmas of my 2 sons and my 2 beautiful nieces! My nieces were able to be here from England for this Christmas! It was wonderful to have them and it was the first Christmas we have had together with them! A very special memory to document. I layered one of the pocket cards and a cardstock frame from the ephemera pack under the photo and adhered it overlapping the cut file, in the centre of my layout. I also stapled a banner sticker from the accessory sticker sheet to the top left corner of the photo. My title is made up of a phrase sticker from the accessory sticker sheet overlapping the word ‘Joy’ fussy cut out from the Season’s Greeting paper.  It certainly was Christmas Morning Joy in our household!

To the left of the photo I also placed the Ho Ho Ho die-cut from the ephemera pack, a gorgeous flair button, a phrase sticker and a gold puffy star. In the top left I also placed that super cute Santa face die-cut from the ephemera pack and to balance that with the bottom right corner, I placed the sleigh, also from the ephemera pack.

To finish my layout, I added a few smaller embellishments like small die-cuts, stickers, another gold puffy star and completely finished the page with stamping the date stamp and sprinkling some gold Heidi shine. Once I had finished my layout, I then auditioned some papers to go behind the Star Bright one to act as a ‘frame’. I decided on the ‘B’ side of the ‘Joy to the World’ paper. I trimmed down the ‘Star Bright’ paper and adhered it to the ‘Joy to the World’ paper.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed reading about how I created my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Do you have the Merry & Bright collection? I encourage you to pull it out and create some pretty things with it!

Tarrah x

Hello 2023 | Storyteller Collection | Rachel Lowe

Happy New Year CVS friends! I am starting off the creative year with a layout welcoming 2023. I have used the beautiful Storyteller collection.

The camera and 2023 are cut files available from the Silhouette Design store. I have used the A5 paper pad for all the paper piecing of the cut files and Ditsy Daisy 12×12 paper for the side border strips.

I added some gold glitter cardstock to my camera and finished off by adding a wood epoxy button which creates the first word of my title.

I then created a floral cluster to the left of the camera, tucking some under the camera and foamed taped some over the top to create dimension. These blooms are from the Floral die cut ephemera.

To balance the top part of my page I added some die cuts and fussy cut butterflies to the right of the camera, again I added some with foam tape to add dimension.

So the 2023 stood out I used a dark outer and light floral for numbers, I added these with foam tape so they didn’t appear flat. I add a small cute butterfly wood epoxy button to finish the 2023 title off.

once I added my photo I used an Accessory Sticker phrase sentiment ‘turn the page’, perfect for the theme of my layout. I added some hearts from the foam title stickers  which add a contrast.

A fun layout to kick off 2023 and an opportunity to scrap a photo of you!

Thank you for stopping by today and see you again later in the month.

Rachel X

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