I’m so sorry for the delay in announcing the winners of our giveaway! I have been a busy little bee with production of the new collections and there haven’t been enough hours in the day… I was so excited to see the response to both of these collections, and I am so thankful to have so many wonderful followers!
So without further ado, here are the winners of both giveaways!
Bloom & Grow Collection Winners:
Blog Give Away: Rosslyn Coutts
Instagram Give Away: @shimmerlife
Deck The Halls Collection Winners:
Blog Give Away: LeahA
Instagram Give Away: @joannepanagopoulos
Congratulations ladies, I will be in touch shortly to get your address so I can send out your prize packs… Thank you to everyone who joined in – I truly appreciate it!
Thanks so much for joining me tonight… These new collections start shipping to our retailers tomorrow, and I can’t wait to see all of the beautiful pages everyone makes with them!
Hello again! I’m so excited to reveal our second new collection tonight, and it has been a while coming! I’m sure you’ve guessed from the sneak peeks that it’s a Christmas collection… I don’t do them every year, but when I do I pack as much of the Christmas joy into it as I can! It has been many years since I’ve released two collections at once, but I’m throwing caution to the wind to make sure you can get onto your Christmas projects ASAP!
Christmas is my absolute favourite time of the year – I love decorating my home for the festive season, and I love designing Christmas collections… so much so that once I start I don’t want to stop! This one is full of sweet, whimsical elements, in a vintage kitsch colour palette which is sure to get you in your festive feels. Featuring beautiful vintage style baubles, sweet houses, gifts galore, festive flowers, and so many jolly icons, this collection will be perfect for documenting your holiday memories. I think the best part of my job is getting to illustrate these fun collections, and I could have kept going forever with this one!
This collection will start shipping to our wonderful retailers September 2024
There’s not one but TWO chances for you to WIN the full collection, so read on to find out how!
You will notice that there are less papers in this collection than usual… with the current economic climate we know that it’s getting harder to treat yourself to non-essentials – believe me, we are feeling the pinch too! So in an effort to make our Collection Kits more affordable, as well as temporarily reduce our production costs, we have gone back to a six paper format. The A5 Paper Stacks still have the same number of papers, so there are more pattern options included in there if you need more variety!
Our gold foil specialty paper is perfect for fussy cutting!
Our A5 Paper Stacks have increased from 30 pages to 32 pages, so now we have 2 each of 16 designs. As always, the A5’s include different colours in some of the papers to further extend your scrappy choices
For a chance to WIN this fabulously festive collection, just leave a comment below telling us what is your favourite part of our new Deck the Halls collection and how you’ll use it for your holiday projects!!
We are also giving a collection prize pack away on our Instagram, so make sure you head on over there for more chances to win!
**Entries Close Midnight AEST Sunday 11th August 2024**
Winners will be announced shortly thereafter on our blog & social media channels
Thanks so much for joining me over the last two days for our big reveals, and I hope you enjoyed seeing our new collections… I hope you all have a wonderful week!
Hello everyone, and happy Sunday! I know it’s been very quiet around here, but I’ve been a busy bee behind the scenes preparing for not one but TWO new collections! Tonight I’m super excited to reveal our next new collection, and I’ll be back tomorrow for our second reveal!
I just love how this one came out! The mix of bright and fresh citrus tones, along with more floral goodness than you can poke a stick at, makes this one of my all time favourite collections. There are flowers, butterflies, birds and all the pretty things perfect for spring and summer and everything in between. It’s blooming lovely and perfect for scrapping all occasions. I had so much fun illustrating this one, and I hope you love it as much as I do!
This collection will start shipping to our wonderful retailers September 2024
There’s not one but TWO chances for you to WIN the full collection, so read on to find out how!
You will notice that there are less papers in this collection than usual… with the current economic climate we know that it’s getting harder to treat yourself to non-essentials – believe me, we are feeling the pinch too! So in an effort to make our Collection Kits more affordable, as well as temporarily reduce our production costs, we have gone back to a six paper format. The A5 Paper Stacks still have the same number of papers, so there are more pattern options included in there if you need more variety!
Our gold foil specialty paper is back, and this one is a fussy-cutter’s dream!
Our A5 Paper Stacks have increased from 30 pages to 32 pages, so now we have 2 each of 16 designs. As always, the A5’s include different colours in some of the papers to further extend your scrappy choices
For a chance to WIN this beautiful collection, just leave a comment below telling us what is your favourite part of our new Bloom & Grow collection and what you will use it for!
We are also giving a collection prize pack away on our Instagram, so make sure you head on over there for more chances to win!
**Entries Close Midnight AEST Sunday 11th August 2024**
Winners will be announced shortly thereafter on our blog & social media channels
Thanks so much for joining me today, and I hope you enjoyed seeing our new collection… Don’t forget to join me for reveal number two tomorrow, and I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead!
Hello everyone, and happy Wednesday! I’m here to announce the winners of our “Great Escape” themed Monthly Challenge for March!
There were so many wonderful entries for this challenge, and it was awesome to see so many lovely pages documenting your adventures!
It was hard to pick just one out of all of the great entries, so we have not one, but TWO winners this month:
Fleur Milli went all out and scrapped six layouts for this challenge, but we couldn’t go past this grid design with all of those beautiful photos that matched the theme so perfectly!
Debbie Lollie Henningsen scrapped this super fun double page layout and made a gorgeous chevron pattern with the patterned papers for a really striking and unique page! We love that she fit so much in to this spread, and that cute little caravan and car was the perfect finishing touch!
Congratulations ladies, I will be in touch soon with your coupon! Thank you so much to everyone who played along in our challenge – I just love seeing everyone’s take on the inspiration!
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If you want a chance to win a $25 coupon to our store, make sure you join the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community Group on Facebook to join in on our monthly challenges!
Thanks for joining me today, and until next time… happy scrapping!
Hello everyone, and welcome to our new challenge for the month of April!
If you’re not already a member of our Facebook Community, make sure you join us to be in the running to win a $25 store coupon each month!
If you’re a fan of our collections, it’s no secret that I love rainbows! This month we are challenging you to use a BIG rainbow as the main design element of the page… easy peasy!
As you can see from these awesome pages from our fabulous Design Team, we have lots of collections that feature big rainbows… or you can make your own! I’m excited to see your pages with this prompt!
To Enter:
Entries must be loaded into the April Challenge Album in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Facebook Community prior to midnight (AEST) 30th April 2024 to be eligible for the prize
Cocoa Vanilla Studio products must be used. Yes, you can use other supplies as well, but the majority of products used should be CVS.
Entries must be created solely for this challenge and not combined with other challenges or design team projects
You may enter as many times as you wish and entry is open to participants worldwide
One winner will be randomly drawn from the entries to receive a $25 voucher to spend in the CVS online store
By entering the challenge you automatically give permission for your work to be shared via the Cocoa Vanilla Studio social media channels
The promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook
**Winners from the March 2024 challenge will be announced on the 17th April here on the blog!**
Thanks so much for joining me today, and I hope you have a wonderful week!
Hello everyone, and welcome to our new challenge for the month of March!
If you’re not already a member of our Facebook Community, make sure you join us to be in the running to win a $25 store coupon each month!
This month, in keeping with our new Great Escape collection, we want to see your biggest adventures on a page! Scrap about your adventures, big or small, near or far… even if its your dream escape!
And as you can see from these awesome pages from our fabulous Design Team, you can definitely use ANY CVS collection with this theme – not just Great Escape! I’m excited to see your pages with this prompt!
To Enter:
Entries must be loaded into the March Challenge Album in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Facebook Community prior to midnight (AEST) 31st March 2024 to be eligible for the prize
Cocoa Vanilla Studio products must be used. Yes, you can use other supplies as well, but the majority of products used should be CVS.
Entries must be created solely for this challenge and not combined with other challenges or design team projects
You may enter as many times as you wish and entry is open to participants worldwide
One winner will be randomly drawn from the entries to receive a $25 voucher to spend in the CVS online store
By entering the challenge you automatically give permission for your work to be shared via the Cocoa Vanilla Studio social media channels
The promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook
Now on to the…
And I have a few to catch up on here because with the new collection going out, I completely forgot to post winners from the Great Escape Give-Away and the December/January challenge… oops!! I’m so sorry to keep you waiting, but here are the lucky winners!!
GREAT ESCAPE GIVE AWAY
All of your comments mean so much to me, so a HUGE thank you to everyone who left a comment on the reveal post! Usually we randomly choose the collection reveal winners, but this time I just couldn’t resist this clever & creative poem from Penny White. Congratulations Penny, you’ve won yourself a full collection!
And our runner up, who wins a collection kit, is Danielle Berry with this lovely comment… Congratulations Danielle, I hope you get lots of use out of this collection – it sure sounds like you will!
December/January Monthly Challenge
All of the challenge entries for this moodboard were gorgeous – thank you so much to everyone who joined in!! I have picked two winners for this challenge. First up, we have Debra Beer with this super cute page!
And this gorgeous page from Chantal Bruce-Bays – that Christmas tree is so full of texture and looks like it was a real labour of love!
February Scraplift Challenge
All of the entries for this month were just stunning, and I’m so happy that so many played along!
For this month’s challenge, I have chosen this gorgeous layout from Amee Jay! How beautiful is that photo – the combination of our Daydream + Heart & Home collections is the perfect match!
I will be in touch with all of the winners ASAP, so keep an eye on your messages/email!
Thanks so much for joining me today, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Hello everyone, and welcome to our first challenge of 2024!
If you’re not already a member of our Facebook Community, make sure you join us to be in the running to win a $25 store coupon each month!
We’re starting off with an easy one this month, and your challenge is to scrap-lift one (or all) of these three layouts from our fabulous Design Team! Can’t wait to see your versions of these beautiful layouts
To Enter:
Entries must be loaded into the February Challenge Album in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Facebook Community prior to midnight (AEST) 29 February 2024 to be eligible for the prize
Cocoa Vanilla Studio products must be used. Yes, you can use other supplies as well, but the majority of products used should be CVS.
Entries must be created solely for this challenge and not combined with other challenges or design team projects
You may enter as many times as you wish and entry is open to participants worldwide
One winner will be randomly drawn from the entries to receive a $25 voucher to spend in the CVS online store
By entering the challenge you automatically give permission for your work to be shared via the Cocoa Vanilla Studio social media channels
The promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook
We can’t wait to see your versions of these gorgeous layouts!
Hello everyone, and happy Sunday! I’m so excited to reveal our first collection of 2024, and I think it’s what a lot of you have been waiting for!
This one is not just for the boys, although I’m sure it will keep all of our boy fans happy!! Whether you’re a seasoned camper, have vacation memories to scrap or just dreaming of a big adventure, this one is for you! The bold masculine palette make it perfect for the boys, and the nature and outdoors elements make it perfect for so many travel and adventure pages. While the outdoors theme runs through the collection, there are plenty of non-themed pieces that make it super versatile. So many fun projects are going to come out of this one! I have collaborated once again with Traci Reed for this awesome collection and I just love how it came together… I hope you love it too!
This collection will start shipping to our wonderful retailers mid February 2024
There’s a chance for you to WIN the full collection, so read on to find out how!
You will also notice that our A5 Paper Stacks have increased from 30 pages to 32 pages, so now we have 2 each of 16 designs. As always, the A5’s include different colours in some of the papers to further extend your scrappy choices
For a chance to WIN this gorgeous collection, just leave a comment below telling us what you think of our new Great Escape collection! What will you be using it for??
**GIVE-AWAY IS NOW CLOSED**
Thanks so much for joining me today, and I hope you enjoyed seeing our new collection… I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead!
Hey everyone! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) and I’m excited to be back with another project and process video Guest Designing for Cocoa Vanilla Studio! This time I have made a mini album. It is a box in the shape of a rainbow, with an arch shaped mini album inside!
To make the box, I started with the front and back covers. I hand drew a rainbow onto a piece of scrap cardstock and cut it out and then used this as a template. I traced around it onto lots of different papers from the A5 paper stack and cut them all out, then distressed the edges and layered them all together. I then mounted this onto a piece of white card and cut out leaving a white border. I added pink hand stitching around the edge using embroidery thread I did all this twice so I had identical rainbows, one for the front of the box and one for the back.
To make the clouds I did the same: hand-drew a cloud onto a piece of scrap cardstock and cut it out to use as a template. I drew around it onto that super-cute ditsy heart print which I cut out and mounted onto white card. I added pick stitching around all of the clouds, then added them to my rainbows.
To make the inside part of the box, I used yellow cardstock to make an insert. I make these really simple, just two pieces of cardstock cut and folded – you can see more details on the process video.
With the box assembled, I moved on to making the mini album itself. I again created a template from white cardstock for the pages and cut that out. I then used this as a template for all pages. I drew them onto more papers from the A5 Paper Stack and cut them out. I then stuck them all together, back to back, to make a super-easy album, which I secured around the outside with ribbon.
I embellished the front of the box with a Chipboard Title, a few pieces of Floral Ephemera, a fussy cut butterfly and some phrase stickers. I also added the title ‘Rainbow Run’ using those adorable Mini Puffy Alphabet Stickers, to one of the clouds.
To embellish the album itself, I wanted to include the wooden medal from the Rainbow Run (this mini album is all about a sponsored run I took part in) and the actual ribbons from the medals at the event. I managed to incorporate those onto the front page and the ribbons are what tie the album together I think it’s really great to include momentums like that within albums if possible and these were perfect!
The album itself is quite interactive – I have 40 photos to include, so it had to be! Some pages have photos that flip up or flip out, there is a ball-chain containing 11 photos, there is also a pocket page. On one of the pages, I made a shaker pocket: I cut a piece of acetate to the same size as the page, pierced holes all the way around the edge and chain stitched with the same pink thread used for the album covers, trapping the sequins inside. I love how this looks!
I used more papers from the A5 paper stack throughout the album to decorate the pages and mount my photos. I’ve also used lots of Floral Ephemera,Phrase Stickers and several of the puffy heart stitchers throughout the album. I also used some of the other Chipboard Titles to make feature pages.
I absolutely love how this turned out, it is just adorable and so pretty to look at and I had the perfect photos for a rainbow album! I really hope you have enjoyed it too. I have made a process video of this mini album, which includes a flip through too, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/jvOZK-Qy43o . Thank you so much Cocoa Vanilla Studio for having me as a Guest Designer, I have loved it!
Hello everyone, and happy Friday! I’m so excited to reveal our second collection of 2023, and it’s a beauty!
I have teamed up once again with Traci Reed for another stunning collection… our Storyteller collection was such a hit that I’m sure you will love this one just as much! The colours in this collection are absolutely gorgeous… Filled with soft warm neutral tones, Heart & Home is full of all things that we love about the changing seasons. Fallen leaves, fresh breeze, cozy days at home with the family, and gratitude for all the wonderful things in our lives is what this collection is all about!
This collection was originally meant to be released earlier in the year to tie in with our Autumn here in Australia, but with the delays to our production at the start of the year, I thought I would push it out for the Fall season in the Northern parts of the world. That said, family, home and thankfulness are things we enjoy year round!
This collection will start shipping to our wonderful retailers mid August 2023
There’s a chance for you to WIN the full collection, so read on to find out how!
Of course, there are our staple items, but we also have a gorgeous printed vellum specialty sheet which will be so versatile – use it as it’s own background, or fussy cut the gorgeous flowers and butterflies for some softly translucent embellishments!
You will also notice that our A5 Paper Stacks have increased from 30 pages to 32 pages, so now we have 2 each of 16 designs. As always, the A5’s include different colours in some of the papers to further extend your scrappy choices
We have mini multi-coloured puffy alphabet stickers which are just adorable and will give you literally thousands of title options, and will co-ordinate with pretty much everything in your stash too! Our die cut title packs are always popular, with so many versatile words for you to mix and match to make your own titles!
For a chance to WIN this gorgeous collection, just leave a comment below telling us what you think of our new Happy Days collection!
**Entries Close Midnight AEST Friday 28th July 2023**
Thanks so much for joining me today, and I hope you enjoyed seeing our new collection… I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Our A5 Paper Stacks have increased from 30 pages to 32 pages, so now we have 2 each of 16 designs. As always, the A5’s include different colours in some of the papers to further extend your scrappy choices 
