Announcements

WINNERS! Bloom & Grow and Deck the Halls Give Away

Hello everyone, and happy Sunday!

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!

xx Zoe

NEW Deck The Halls Collection | Reveal & Give Away!

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!

♥ Zoe

WINNERS | March Great Escape Challenge

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!

xx Zoe

March Monthly Challenge & WINNERS | Great Escape Challenge

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:
  • 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!

xx Zoe

NEW Great Escape Collection | Reveal & Give Away!

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!

♥ Zoe

NEW Heart & Home Collection | Reveal & Give Away!

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!

♥ Zoe

Winner Announcement – ‘Happy Days’ Giveaway

Hi everyone,

Just taking a quick break from packing orders of our new ‘Happy Days’ collection to announce the winners of our recent giveaway. As you already know, this collection is dedicated to my dear sister Kellie, who passed away shortly after Christmas. Thank you to everyone for your messages of condolence that you included in your comments about the collection. Please know that I read every single one of them and I could certainly feel the love from you all – thank you!

Now let’s announce some winners!

Our first lucky winner who will receive the ENTIRE ‘Happy Days’ collection is…

Congratulations Jenny Dutton!

 

And our runner-up, who will receive a collection kit is…

Congratulations Shelby Teeter!

Congratulations to both ladies, we hope you enjoy your ‘Happy Days’ goodies! (Keep an eye on your email Inbox – Sue will be in touch to organise your prizes shortly.)

To everyone who entered – thank you so much for your support for this collection. ‘Happy Days’ is already shipping to our amazing retailers all over the world, so please keep a look out for it at your favourite scrappy store.

Zoe XX

NEW Happy Days Collection | Reveal & Giveaway!

Hello everyone, and happy Friday… Long time no see! It’s been a whirlwind few months, and I’m glad to be back to reveal our first collection of 2023!

After the dark times I’ve been through since Christmas, I felt like a bit of sunshine and happiness was what the doctor ordered to put a smile on my dial and forget my worries for a little while… So, here is our new Happy Days collection, full of sunshine and rainbows and bright happy colours that make my heart sing :)

This collection was originally meant to be released earlier in the year to tie in with our Summer here in Australia, but life had different plans and I had to put production on hold for a while. But, it’s always Summer somewhere in the world, right??

I would like to dedicate this collection to my sister, Kellie, who passed away just after Christmas last year.  For a long time she brought a lot of sunshine and smiles to my life, and I wouldn’t be the person I am today without her.  I wish that I could have brought enough sunshine and rainbows to her life to bring her more happy days, and be able to keep the darkness away. Now I know she is smiling again, surrounded by sunshine and rainbows, back with the people she loved more than life.

This collection will start shipping to our wonderful retailers early April 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 also some fun new items in this collection! First of all, you’ll notice that we don’t have the Pocket Cards for this collection.  Instead, we have a gorgeous gold foiled specialty sheet which will be so much more versatile – use it as it’s own background, or fussy cut the frames and elements within them. This boosts the embellishment options of this collection with just one sheet of cardstock!

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! And some new chipboard titles, in a cute font hand-drawn by me! These will also be so versatile, as all the letters are separate, so you can mix and match to make your own titles, not just the ones provided.

For a chance to WIN this gorgeous collection, just leave a comment below telling us what you think of our new Happy Days collection!

**This giveaway 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 weekend!

♥ Zoe

Farewell Danni Visser

Hi everyone,

Today we say goodbye to another beloved member from our design team – Danni Visser. Danni has been an integral part of our team for a numbers of years now; ever since she first agreed to be a guest designer back in October 2019 and we convinced her stay on permanently. Today truly is a bittersweet goodbye though, because although we are sad to see Danni leave us, we are equally excited and proud of her as she begins her journey through medical school.

So today we thought we would look back at some of our favourite projects Danni has created for us, starting off with one of her guest designer projects from 2019 featuring our ‘Unforgettable’ collection and a beautiful wedding photo…

Danni loves using cut files and has created many projects for us using them, but one of our faves has to be this layout, featuring Danni’s darling daughter, muddy puddles, and our ‘Storyteller’ collection…

Another signature element of Danni’s work over the years has been her amazing hand stitching ability. She has showcased this numerous times, but no layout quite showed it off as spectacularly as this one using our ‘Sunkissed’ collection…

To finish things off, we couldn’t resist sharing a layout Danni created using one of our boy collections, ‘Legendary’. This page featured a nod to the Australian bush and some mixed media work – another element that Danni has often included in her projects over the years…

Danni – thank you for everything! It’s definitely not easy to say goodbye to you and your creations, but we are absolutely thrilled for your new opportunity and what the future holds for you. Lots of love and the best of luck – we can’t wait to be able to call you Doctor Danni!

Farewell Lina Monaco

Hi everyone,

A little bit of sad news to share today as we say farewell (again) to one of our beloved team – Lina Monaco. Lina has been a treasured member of our Cocoa Vanilla Studio family for many years, having been a team member twice now after we wooed her back to do another tour with us. Unfortunately for us however, life is just way too busy now for Lina to keep up with everything, so we have to wave goodbye.

So let’s take another look at some of Lina’s recent projects that she created for us. First up, a beautiful layout featuring a photo of the lady of the hour herself along with her husband, and using our ‘Storyteller’ collection…

Lina loves working with bright colours, so next up we are sharing a gorgeous mixed media layout featuring our ‘Sunkissed’ collection…

One of the things we love about Lina is her versatility – she can rock a boy layout just as well as she can rock a girl one. Here’s a gorgeous one she created using ‘No Limits’…

And to round things out, we couldn’t resist sharing this layout that Lina created for our Throwback Thursday featuring one of her all-time favourite collections, ‘Bohemian Dream’. (I think this collection can be found on a lot of people’s favourite list!)

Lina – thank you SO much for all the amazing inspiration you have shared with us over the years and for being such a great ambassador for Cocoa Vanilla Studio. You’ll always be part of the family. We love you and wish you all the best!

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