Anna Komenda

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Tutti frutti | Happy days Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone! It’s Anna here with my second page in May. As you can suspect, I am ears deep into brand new “Happy days” collection. It’s so colorful and fun and ideas keep flooding my head. This time I want to share with you layout inspired by all the fruits from “Juicy fruit” paper. I love this pattern so much. We do not have exotic fruits in Poland growing on trees but I remembered about few older photos of Maja eating fruits straigh from the bushes in my mom’s garden. I decided to scrapbooking this memory with all the fruits I could find within “Happy days” collection making a TUTTI FRUTTI page!

To make page even more “fruity” I started my creative process by adding some pineapples into the white background using the only fruity stencil I own. I went crazy with all the fruits on this layout. I used yellow and green Distress Oxide inks and green and yellow mist to add some splatters.

Each of my four photos is backed with a different pattern paper from A5 Paper Stack. It’s a very colorful page so I went with yellow, pink, blue and navy. I also took some time to fussy cut some fruits from “Juicy fruit” paper.

With the photos glued down I could add my lemons, oranges and peaches around them. Some of them went under the photos and some of them on top creating multiply layers. I also found two strawberries in Ephemera Pack and added them too!

This page didn’t need much of embellishing, so I only added few flags, tickets and camera from the Ephemera Pack. It may seem a little bit different as I cut off the white outline to make them blend better into the composition. My title TUTTI FRUTTI is made with pattern papers and some alpha dies. This way I could be sure I will not run out of T letters as they appear in a large quantity in those two words. I tried to add some white inline into each letter but my white pen wasn’t cooperating well.

I finish the composition by adding few tiny, puffy hearts here and there. They are so, so cute!

And that’s all folks! For today :) I will be back in two weeks with a brand new project made with wonderful “Happy days” collection. Sending you all lots of hugs.

Anna

So happy to meet you | Happy Days Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone! Welcome in another month! My assignment for today was to create project with “Motherhood” theme in mind as a part of celebrating Mother’s Day. I am both a child and a mom so I could approach this topic in two ways. However, I barely have any photos with my own mom (she is live and kicking, just hates taking photos) so I decided to scrapbook my own story. When our kids are born, we usually focus on taking photos of them, all the cute feet and smiles and everything but we often forget to include us into the picture. Who can blame us? We usually look tired and exhausted when a new baby is born, with no time for any makeup or doing hair. I am one of those mothers too and with my first daughter born I honestly do not have any photo of me and her that I would scrapbook and share in the public. I remembered this lesson with kid no 2! When we came back from the hospital, I washed my hair, put some maskara and asked my hubby to take us few photos on our own couch. They are not perfect, they are not posed properly, but they are filled with all the love and tenderness a new mom feels toward her baby.

One of those imprefect photos made it to this page. Maja was only one week old here and I was still recovering but I remember this moment so vividly – the pure happiness flooding me with tears in the corners of my eyes. The prefect human I just made was finally there to be touched, held and kissed. So tiny yet so perfect.

I reached for brand new CVS collection called HAPPY DAYS. The perfect name of line to scrapbook such a precious memory. My photo has a lot of contrast and unusual color combination but I managed to find just a perfect papers in this collection. I started with white, textured cardstock quickly drawing few wonky hearts on it using very soft watercolor crayons in four colors. Some are bigger and some are smaller. My custom made background was done withing few minutes.

Next step was to cut two tags and a rectangle from A5 PAPER STACK papers to create a composition. After glueing them down to the background, I took my fussy cutting scissors and LUSH BLOOMS and FLUTTERBY papers and I cut out bunch of flowers and butterflies in matching colors.

I glued them down and went through EPHEMERA PACK to find other elements that would fit my composition. I also created a title using CHIPBOARD TITLES. Some of the words are used as they were supposed to and some of them are a random letters pulled out from other words. This way “sweet” turned into “meet”. I just skipped S and rotated W into M. Just another way to spread your possibilities of using up scrappy stuff.

I finished the design by adding few puffy hearts for more texture. I really like the color combo on this page – I would probably not think of it if not the colors in the picture. It proves how versatile HAPPY DAYS collection it! With all the colors of the rainbow, you can easily pick only few to play with.

That is all for today! thank you so much for stopping by and see you again in two weeks.

XO Anna

Happy times | Happy Days Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello, hello! It’s Anna here and I have a brand new layout to share with you. I just got brand new “Happy days” collection and I couldn’t wait to start creating with it. As always, first project is somehow hard as there are so many options and decission making process is complicated. So many patterns and colors to choose from! I like to focus on limited color combo at first or even make a monochromatic page to help me narrow the choices. This time I decided to use pink – yellow – plum colors with a bit of green added.

I started with white cardstock and green ink applied with a soft brush. Next I added some texture using white chalk paste and floral stencil and left it to dry. In the meantime, waiting for the background to dry, I started fussy cutting flowers from LUSH BLOOMS PAPER. I like having a lot of florals on hand even though I have three full packs of FLORAL EPHEMERA. You can never have too many of them!

After my background was dry, it was time to add some pretty papers and embellishments. My idea for this page was to create banners on the string using different patter papers. The biggest one is made with yellow FEEL GOOD PAPER. Second one is cut out from LUSH BLOOMS PAPER (the same one I cut out flowers too!). Smallest banner in plum color is cut out with cute FLUTTERBY PAPER. I added some holes for the string to each one and glued them down to my base.

With all my main elements in place, I was ready to add my photo on the biggest banner. I decorated it with previously fussy cut flowers, some EPHEMERA pieces and butterflies cut out from FLUTTERBY PAPER. I also reached for pretty PUFFY HEARTS pack to add them here and there.

My title is a combination of word “happy” taken from EPHEMERA PACK with word “times” taken from CHIPBOARD TITLES. They look fantastic together. I love this font so much! Here I also added some flowers.

The smallest banner is decorated similar way as the other ones – with flowers and butterflies. You can also spot some cute, puffy stickers in heart shapes as a finishing touch. After finishing my composition I decided I needed to add something on the top and in the bottom of the layout as it seemed too white so I cut off strips of the papers I used for banner and glued them down! Now my page was done!

That is all for today! I hope you like my page! I already have an idea for few other projects with this line. Sending you a lot of hugs.

XO Anna

Handmade diary | Storyteller Collection | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone! It’s Anna here with something a little bit different than usual! I know you love all the layouts (and I love them too), but sometimes you are not in the mood for memory scrapbooking. Sometimes you just want to have some fun, use up some embellishments and make something useful. This was exactly my motivation to make this notebook, that can be used as a diary. I am impatiently waiting for the brand new “Happy days” collection to arrive to my doorstep. In the meantime, I still have plenty of other gorgeous lines to play with so I chose “Storyteller” to make my notebook. You can still find plenty of elements from this line in CVS Shop!

As I mentioned, I made this notebook from scratch. If you would like to make something similar, you would need a binding machine like Cinch. I own this tool for years and it still serves me well. I use it to make not only notebooks but also mini albums.

If you would like to make something similar and you have a proper tool, you need to start with choosing your size. I was using A5 sized inserts so my cover needed to be a little big wider and taller. Depending if you wish to add some dividers or tabs, the cover can be a bit wider or shorter – it’s the big advantage of making your own notebook from scratch. I chose “Dits daisy” pattern papers for my front and back covers. I simply cut out pieces of cardboard to the needed size and wrapped them with paper.

I also cut smaller rectangles for the insides of both covers using pretty paper with florals. Now you are ready to punch holes in the covers. You can adjust how many you want, how long the wire should be – it’s all up to you.

From A5 Paper Stack Pack I chose few sheets to add them between the pages of the notebook. They can be used as a dividers or just some decorative pages, to add something extra to your notebook. I gathered them along the regular sheets and made holes too. With covers and inserts prepared I was ready to bind everything together with 1 inch wire.

After everything was connected, i could start embellishing pages and covers. I started with the dividers, adding some stickers from 6*12 Stickers Sheet and Ephemera Pieces. I challenged myself to use up the whole sheet of stickers and I managed to do so! Mission of making room for new collection completed! :)

I tried to keep the decorations as flat as possible so the notebook wouldn’t turn out too bulky. It will not close nicely if you add to many dimensional elements inside. However, I added Foam Title Sticker on the first divider and on the notebook cover.

I also added a big pocket on the back cover to hide some extra journaling cards to add to the pages later. You can also keep there some memorabilia! Pocket is decorated with Floral Ephemera. I also added a wreath of flowers on the front cover.

How do you like my idea of handmade notebook? You can use it by yourself or give away as a gift! And you can easily make one with collection leftovers so use up all the bits and pieces!

That is all for today. I will be back in two weeks with another inspiration. Maybe even made with brand new line! Fingers crossed for the fast shipping. “Happy days” is totally my jam and I can’t wait to dive into those yummy colors.

XO Anna

Family memories | These days Album | Anna Komenda

Hello Cocoa Vanilla fans. It’s Anna here with another (and probably my last ever) inspiration made with wonderful “These days” collection. Using whatever I have left from this line I created a mini album. This is my favorite way of “killing” the collection as it uses up the most of papers and random embellishements. I am left with wonderful album, ready to add the photos or be given as a handmade gift.

Album itself measures about 12*17 cm and can acommodate 10*15 cm vertical photos and some smaller ones. I made my album base from scratch adding five main pages inside. Cover is a combination of pattern papers and a piece of a false leather with wooden pattern to strengthen up this area, as paper may crack in time from opening and closing the album. I also added a row of paper flowers from Flower ephemera Pack as a decoration of the cover. This collection has a strong “family bonding” theme so I decided to dedicate it for all the moments spend together, hence the FAMILY TIME MEMORIES title. It’s a combination of black Foam Title Sticker and Accessory Sticker.

Inner part of front cover is decorated with two 3*4 cards from Pocket Cards set. I used up a lot of them while making this album. They are great for journaling but also for fussy cutting some extra elements for decorating pages. Doodly frames from Ephemera pack from the first page are mounted with a piece of foam tape and you can slip photo under each of them.

I like adding extra flaps, pockets and inserts to my album and each page has some interactive elements. They are hard to be shown on photos, but believe me – they are there. Thanks to that, album can hold many, many photos. Most of the decorative elements are placed in the cornes with glue added only near the corner so you can tuck the photos behind them too!

Each page is also a pocket with even more space for extra photos or hidden journaling. I also added a waterfall page, that will be perfect for adding multiply smaller, horizontal pictures. You can fit even 14 of them on a single page! I decorated the flaps using all sort of embellishments: Accessory stickers, Ephemera pieces, Flower ephemera, Clear stickers and Puffy stickers.

For decorating my pages I not only used 12*12 papers but also almost the whole 6*8 paper stack that I had left. I also turned some of the paper scraps into smaller tags and pocket fillers so nothing was going to be wasted!

As a page bases I used regular kraft cardstock that corresponds really well with “These days” collection. Whenever I can, I always prefer kraft cardstock over white one while making albums. It seems so decorative by itself and it makes embellishments pop more.

I turned my last page into a big pocket for extra keepsakes and photos so whoever will be using this album in the future will have even more possibilities to customize it.

After finishing this project I could throw away few empty sheets of stickers and other empty packs. I don’t know why but it’s such a pleasure for me to use up something to the very last bit. Do you feel similar finishing an embellishment pack or it’s only me?

There are still many elements from THESE DAYS collection waiting for you in CVS Store in a crazy low prices! Grab them quickly because when they are gone, they are gone forever!

Thank you so much for sticking out with me and see you in April!

XO Anna

Party time | These days Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with my newest layout. As I am waiting impatiently to dive into brand new and recently released new line called “Happy days”, I pulled out some older but still pretty collection from my stash called “These days”. If you do not have it yet, there are still plenty of elements available in CVS store and they have some crazy awesome prizes! So go quickly and grab it while you still can.

I scrapbooked picture I took the same day (totally fresh from the oven!) of my two girls getting ready for a birthday party. They are recently in the phase they both like dark (preferably black) colors so this mama is missing all the pink and pastel photos so much. That’s why using “These days” with it’s muted colors was a great choice.

I started with cutting out big letters from a word PARTY with my digital die cutting machine using “Family ties” paper. This colorful pattern has all the colors present in this collection. I arranged my letters on the white cardstock and used my pencil to gently sketch an outlines of them.

Next step was chosing five different colors of Distress Inks and blending them under each letter stepping out ot the lines a little bit, to create sort of colorful shadow. The final result is very subtle, exaclty how I intended it to be. I still have plenty of flowers in my Floral Ephemera pack, so I picked a few adding them color on color (matching the inky shadow witht the flowers). Before I started glueing them down, I added a layer of foam tape under each letter for more dimension.

I love all the papers with elements that can be fussy cut from them, like flowers or butterflies. I always buy more than one paper and I can make myself plenty of extra ephemera pieces. It can strech your collection so much more. This was the case with beautiful “Take flight” paper filled with butterflies. I cut out few of them and added them on top of the letters. I also reached for Ephemera Pack and found more matching elements to tuck under the letters.

With my title almost done, it was time to finally add my photo. I had a perfect spot in the bottom left corner. Before glueing it down, I backed the picture with cute pattern paper with hearts called “Good life”. All I had to do was to add some smalled puffy stickers, clear stickers and 6*12 stickers here and there. I also finished my title adding word “time” using super cute puffy alpha stickers.

And voila! The page is done. Another memory scrapbooked! That is all for today. Don’t forget about the great discount on “These days” collection, that is waiting for you in CVS Shop! I am sure it’s not the last time I am reaching for this amazing line.

See you in two weeks!

XO Anna

Splash zone | Sunkissed Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello crafty Friends! Welcome on the last day of February. For some of you it means summer is coming to an end and for some more lucky (like me :) ) it means spring is getting closer and closer ending up our winter misery. I so miss the warmth, the sun and the colors and can’t wait for all of this to come. In the meantime I am taking some energy bites by reliving our last year summer adventures. I found this fun series of photos of my younger daughter Maja sliding the slide in waterpark and decided to scrapbook them using my all time favorite “Sunkissed” collection.

I started with a white background papers and splashed it with two shaded of blue mists. When I was waiting for it to dry, I took one of the pattern papers called “Good vibrations” and cut out my title using digital die cutting machine. When it was done, I added a layer of foam adhesive to make it pop from the background.

Each of five photos is backed with a different patter paper from A5 Paper Stack. I just love this product as I do not need to cut into whole 12*12 paper to get only a piece of it. What is even better – patterns in A5 Paper Stack are slightly different than in 12*12 Paper Pack! So you have even more colors and patterns to choose from.

After adding title and photos, I started embellishing everything using my leftover Ephemera Pieces (I am running really low on them). I found matching bathing suit, umbrella, rainbow and few word strips. As you can see, I didn’t spend much time on embellishing this page. Big title and multiply photos make it quite busy already.

When I was done with adding embellishments, I noticed that page isn’t balanced well with busy bottom part and empty space on the top. I was wondering what to do, and then idea strucked me. As this page is abour water splashing on the slide, I can add a dripping water! I took “Sunny days” paper and hand cut a row of “water” with tiny little droplets.

I was crossing my fingers it doesn’t look scarry, more like a slime on halloween page, but it turned out OK. I took white gel pen and added a bit of shine to the title and strip of water. The page was done! I am happy how it turned out and that another memory has beed scrapbooked!

That is all for today. Thank you so much for spending your precious time with me and see in in March!

XO Anna

Love cards | Midnight Collection | Anna Komenda

Hello crafty Friends! Almost each year I have a pleasure to inspire you on Valentine’s Day and this year is no different! I thought that instead of another layout, I will share with you three simple cards I made for my Valentines at home – hubby and two daughters. Each year I keep making cards for them adding few love words inside to show them my appreciation for each of them. I also add something sweet as a little bonus :) This year I decided to dive into older stash and found some papers and embellishments from “Midnight” collection. This line was an amazing combination of soft pink and coral with very dark and deep navy and purple. And those florals… They were so pretty and unique.

Each card has a similar composition with a little shaker in the middle, filled with sequins and some wood veneers from very ancient CVS collections (I still have a box full af them and I keep adding them here and there to many projects).

One of the cards is for my hubby and I made it darker than two others. It also doesn’t have any florals. I added little jars filled with hearts instead. One of them is from Ephemera Pack and one is taken from the 6*12 Stickers Sheet (yes, I still have those too :) – I am a hoarder). “Midnight” collection came with a set of Words Die Cuts but I already used up most of the love related words so I reached out to similar set from “Happiness” collection. It has similar font and similar color so it was a perfect match!

Second card is for my younger daughter and it also has shaker in the middle. If you look closely, you will notice that for my card bases I used a pattern paper. I am using my A5 Paper Pads for this purpose. Each card is sized 10*14 cm and it helps me use up some of the older papers! The good thing about those Paper Pads from CVS is that they are white on the back! Perfect for adding personal message inside the card. This time I added some flowers from Ephemera Pack trimming the whote outline first. This made them a little bit smaller and a better fit for the card. My card title is the only one made with “Midnight” Words Die Cuts. It was the only full phrase in love theme that I was able to create with it.

Last card is for my older daughter. I tried to keep it a little bit less “sweet” as she is teenager now, who prefers black over pink :). I couldn’t help myself and added few flowers, but they are a bit smaller than in the previous card. I made my shakers using a frame die with a cute scallop border. After die cutting the frame, I backed it with a piece of acetate and used foam strips to build volume. All I needed to do is to add some sequins inside and job was done!

Do you make your own Valentine’s Day cards? Or you do not like giving them? I know we need to show our love and appreciation each day, but it never hurts to highlight it even more on the Love Day!

Thank you so much for stopping by and see you in two weeks! Sending you all tons of love!

XO Anna

New glasses | No limits Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with another layout. This time it won’t be anything christmas related (I already put “Joyful” collection away). I reached for “No limits” collection to scrapbook fresh photo of my hubby, who recently got glasses. It’s a semi new look for him as he didn’t wear ones for years. And as a good family paparazzi, I snapped photo of him. Now it’s time to scrapbook it!

As I mentioned, I reached for a masculine “No limits” collection. This line is full of pretty patterns in many saturated colors and fun textures. I started with choosing quite solid, teal blue background paper. Next step was to cut the big glasses and part of the title – word “trending” – using my digital die cutting machine. Glasses are made with black cardstock and big word is cut with orange pattern paper called “Spark”.

After adding photo, I embellished the area around it with some ephemera pieces from Ephemera Pack and some stickers from 12*6 Sticker Sheet.

This line doesn’t come with seperate alpha stickers, but I reached for the Word Phrases Pack and hand cut separate letters. This is a fun trick to use up as many elements from the pack as possible. I was never able to finish the whole pack with so many phrases to choose from.

Last step was to add some smaller elements here and there, including small “planets” from Chipboard Stickers pack and some Wood Epoxy Buttons. I also splashed everything with black ink almost ruining the finished page. My bottle of ink is almost empty so I tilted it to the side to reach the bottom easier. I overdid it, spilling a big blob of ink onto my orange title. After a moment of panic, I figured out that I can cut only letter R from the same orange paper and glue it down on top of the blob. You can still see some ink under the letter but it doesn’t catch the eye so much. Layout saved!

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

XO Anna

Christmas album | Joyful Collection | Anna Komenda

Hello, hello! Welcome in New Year everyone! We are already half way through January but I am still playing with super cute “Joyful” line. It’s a christmas collection from 2021 but it stole my heart completely and when I pulled it out to make few projects for December, it seems I can’t say “goodbye” to it. But I promise, my today’s project is the last one I am going to share with you made with this collection (for few months at least :) ). I had so many pretty photos from the last Christmas Eve (this is the most celebrated day in Polish tradition), that making a single layout wasn’t enough for me. That’s why I decided to make a whole album for this event only and I made it from scratch.

I used a false golden leather for the cover, mixed with pattern paper called “Feeling festive“. I also stitched in few colorful buttons imitating ornaments. Everything is wrapped with a piece of red string, that keeps the cover from opening by itself. The front is decorated with few paper stars fussy cut from one of the papers from A5 Paper Stack, few elements from Ephemera Pack and a super cute deer from Chipboard Stickers set.

Inside the album there are five pages, made with kraft cardstock. I think this natural paper fits the “Joyful” collection really well adding a bit rustic feel to the project. My first page has a flat that closes with magnets. The front of it is decorated with shaker and pictures are hidden inside.

I chose the size of the album to acommodate vertical 4*6 photo so it’s about 13*18 cm big and 5 cm thick. This is why I love making my own album bases – they fit your needs perfectly! After adding photos to the page, I decorated them with ephemera pieces, chipboard stickers, puffy stickers and Accessory Stickers. This is my favorite part of making an album process!

Some pages of my album are just a simple layout with photos and embellishments and some have extra flaps to acommodate more photos. My usual way of making album is picking the photos I want to add to particular page and then thinking how I should do it. Knowing I need to find space for 4 photos, I add flaps or pockets taylored for the exact number and size of pictures. I find it the fastest and most convinient way of creating album pages.

I do not mind when my photos overlap. I just have to be sure there nothing important hidden in this process (like face of a person or detail that matters). It helps you squeeze in bigger photos on the smaller space!

You can also be creative not only in adding flaps and pockets but also with the way they open or with the shape they have! Last page in my album has a flap that immitates the side of the christmas tree! To make sure it won’t open by itself while browsing through the album I use strong magnets hidden under the paper.

That is all for today! Thank you so much for spending this time with me and scrolling all the way down through all those pictures. I hope you like my album and it inspires you to make your own handmade albums! YouTube is full of great tutorials on how to do it!

See you in two weeks!

XO

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