Beautiful Together | Throwback Thursday – Happiness Collection & Others | Melissa Vining

Hello everyone!! It’s Melissa here and I’m so happy to be here for Throwback Thursday.  The first thing I always do for Throwback Thursday is pull out all of my Cocoa Vanilla collections and decide which one I’m going to use.  I decided that for this layout, I’d let the members of our Facebook Group decide, so I made a poll with the following collection options: Happiness, More Than Words, Bohemian Dream and Midnight.  Happiness won by a landslide, but a couple of people asked for a mashup, and several other others likes this suggestion.  So I decided to make Happiness my main collection, and incorporate something from each of the other three collections!! Such a fun challenge to set myself!!

I chose a photo of oldest and youngest daughters, and my main reason for choosing it was for the pink and purple colours in it!  It goes perfectly with Happiness.

I created a mixed media background focussing on pink, purple, blue and gold.  I also added subtle white splatters to tie it all in together.  I mostly used the packaging technique, and also splattering.  I used a manual die cut machine to cut two different sizes of triangles from the paper scraps I had leftover from Happiness. After I had adhered all of my triangles I machine stitched through them in bright pink thread for texture and interest.

I heat embossed the large floral stamp from More Than Words with gold metallic embossing powder.  I love how elegant it turned out!

The large chipboard “beautiful” is from Bohemian Dream, and I kept it white so it would pop against all of the other colours on my page.  The “together” die cut title is from Midnight.

I also used Accessory Stickers and  from Happiness and Midnight over the top of the triangles and stitching, and I love the whimsy that it adds!! I wrote my journalling on a cut apart piece that I fussy cut.

I made a process video, which you can watch below.

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I hope I inspired you to pull out your older Cocoa Vanilla Studio collections, and to even mix them up a little!

Thanks so much

Melissa xx