Boys Rule

You Are Awesome | Boys Rule collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new layout inspired by the new April challenge to include a big rainbow as the main element on your layout. I decided to go with a non-traditional rainbow and created my own using various papers from the Boys Rule collection.

The new monthly challenge for April is to include a BIG rainbow as the main design element on your layout.

To help create the arches of the rainbow, I used various sized dinner plates and traced around the tops of them on the different patterned papers I chose from the Boys Rule collection.  I chose these following papers from the Boys Rule collection: ‘Fun and Games’, ‘Straight and Narrow’, ‘Entitled’, ‘Expressionist’ and ‘Star Fall’. I then arranged them on a plain white cardstock background and adhered them down. I trimmed the white cardstock down to measure roughly 11′ x 11′ and adhered it to the ‘Boys Stuff’ patterned paper. I then machine-stitched each individual colour in the rainbow with matching thread.

At the base of the rainbow, I adhered a strip of the ‘Straight and Narrow’ paper horizontally to add another layer to my layout. I added craft foam underneath my photo and placed it over on the right side of my page, I layered the frame and journal spot from the ephemera pack tucked in on the left hand side of the photo, on top of the photo I added one of the banner stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet. My title is from the chipboard pack, I love these words! I added the ‘You’ and  ‘Are’ words at the top of the rainbow and the ‘Awesome’ word under the photo. Either side of the ‘Awesome’ word, I added the scalloped border sticker from the Clear Sticker sheet. Above the photo, I added one of the banner stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet. I punched out some stars from the ‘Happy Go Lucky’ paper and then layered some of the star stickers over the top. I placed a few of these around my page.

Once I was happy with how the larger elements were placed on my layout, I started adding some smaller embellishments including more clear stickers, more accessory stickers and some more ephemera also. One of my signature features on my layouts is to stamp the date of when the photo was taken and this layout is no exception, I stamped the date stamp using some black ink.

I don’t often journal on my pages so I love the phrase and word stickers from the accessory sticker sheet. I add them to all of my Cocoa Vanilla layouts, where I can, to help tell the story. Boy layouts are one of my favourite projects to create and this one was so much fun to create! I really love how it turned out too. Make sure you create a layout and add a big rainbow element as your main design feature and share it with us by uploading it to the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community Facebook page.

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!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Go Fly! | Boys Rule Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts here again with a fun boy layout using a Throwback Thursday collection…Boys Rule! I adore this collection and the mix of colors and patterns that make it so versatile to use! Scrapping these photos of my oldest getting his driver’s license was so much fun! I paired a Paige Evans’ cut file called ‘Travel Words’ with the bright bold colors in the A5 paper pad.

To give the cut file a bit of pop, I layered it on top of the gorgeous gray background in this collection. I added a word phrase in front of each of the O’s in the long title. My photos on the other hand are the star of the show! I made sure to layer a few frames around the perimeter of my layout. Love this look!

I kept my embellishing fairly simple on this one because the large title doesn’t need it! A few small clusters around my photos that utilize ephemera pieces.

I hope this layout inspires you to give cut files a go, if you haven’t already, and then break out your paper frames! Be sure to check out the video below to see how Go Fly came together!

Tower Bridge selfie | Mix of masculine collections | Anna Komenda

Hello, hello! It’s Anna here again and today I have fun, travel themed inspiration for you. Good news – it has zero dogs involved 🙂 This time I wanted to scrapbook a selfie photo of my family we took visiting London few years back (I can’t belive it was so long ago as it seems like yesterday). Photo was already printed and wandering around my desk for a while so I though it’s time to scrapbook it finally. As CVS doesn’t have any specific travel themed collection, I reached for the lines that have colors that would match the picture. It’s quite muted with a lot of earth tones so I focused on masculine lines. No pink this time!

I started with the newest one called “No limits” picking pattern papers for the background – wooden “Big bang” and grey “Universal“. With the second one I cut out the map background using digita die cutting machine. It reminded me of a busy city London is. Sfter all three basic layers were combined, it was time to add photo. It has white frame so I needed some contrastic colors under it to make the picture pop.

That’s why I added yellow and blue using A5 Paper stack. This is such a great product – it hold some extra patterns for even more fun with collection and you can use them for mini albums and cards too. You get 30 sheets in total – 2 of each designs and they are loose so there is no glue attaches to the one side, which is sometimes hard to remove. After the photo was glued down, I started building composition around it. It’s the moment I reached for some older CVS collections and my leftovers stash. You can find ephemera pieces and stickers from “Legendary”, “You rock” and “Boys rule”. This is the beauty of Cocoa Vanilla lines – you can easily mix and match them!

My title was also created with an old set of alpha stickers. they are not being added to the collections anymore but I still have my own stash and I love reaching out to it. Alpha stickers came in two different sizes – with bigger letters and some with smaller letters. I mixed two of them here. I also dug up my stash of wooden elements, that were a part of older collections. I loved them so much and I was saving them for the future (as many of us does with favorite items). It’s finally time to let them go. But worry not – I still have a little basket of them 🙂 They will last me till the end of time.

This kind of layout is my favorite – where I can combine new and old, giving older stash a new life. If also helps me spread the collection even if I am running out of embellishemnts. Last step in making this page was adding some flair buttons (also from my dearly saved stash) and splashing everything with yellow and orange mists.

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

XO Anna

Boo To You | Legendary/Boys Rule Collections | Kylie Kingham.

Hi friends! It’s Kylie back with you again with a super fun layout to share. For my family here in Oz we don’t usually recognise Halloween when it swings around, however I have lots of cute photos from when my kids were in Primary School that fit a Halloween theme. Sometimes they had a Halloween disco or dress up and I love documenting these photos. Recently I fell down a rabbit hole (**another), with layered 3D cut files. I really do love trying new things and today I wanted to share a layout I created featuring a Halloween themed wreath which has been designed by Layered Craft on Etsy. I knew I wanted to use mostly an Orange, Black and a hint of Green palette for my page so decided to combine both the ‘Legendary’ and ‘Boys Rule’ collections…..and I love how it turned out!

So let’s chat about these layered cut files. Each layer of the design is different and builds upon the next to create a 3D layered result when completed. The pro’s- You get to create a really unique layout! The downside….(And this didn’t really bother me), You use a fair amount of your paper supply. That being said I included a layer of white cardstock to save my creative papers. Once each layer was cut out it was time for assembly. I have adhered each layer with thin foam adhesive squares. You don’t necessarily have to, but I really wanted a dimensional 3D effect for my page. This style would be perfect for framing! I had five layers for this wreath and I really love seeing each individual colour peeping through.

With my wreath together I needed to prepare the background page. I used some black cardstock as the very base and trimmed the grey ‘ALL STAR’ paper from the LEGENDARY collection down to 11.5″x 11.5″. This was adhered centred over the black cardstock so a nice even border was revealed. I used a black journal pen to draw a freehand border around the edges. Next using double sided tape, I added my wreath centred on the page.

My photo was printed to a 3″x 4″ size twice. A black cardstock photo mat which I trimmed to 3.25″x 4.25″, was added to both before I layered them together over my wreath. I added a few simple embellishments to support my photos as well as some phrase stickers. I felt as though the background was a little bare so using a star punch from my stash, I punched several from the same papers in my wreath and scattered them diagonally across the page. I also added in some of the ‘LEGENDARY’ enamel dots.

Of course I needed a main title and you all know I love them BIG! I used some sparkly gold alpha stickers again from my stash for a little glitter!

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you enjoyed reading and seeing how my page came together. Happy scrapping!

Kylie

Unique Kid or Legend | Mixed Boy Collections | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a fun boy layout! This month we were challenged to scraplift ourselves and I immediately knew which layout I wanted to lift! This super fun Sunkissed layout featuring my youngest daughter has such a fun vertical design that I definitely wanted to convert to a more masculine style! Using the You Rock collection mixed with a little bit of Legendary, I scrapped these fun photos of my oldest son and his Lego city. He adored Legos for ages and I love finding these gems in my albums!

Like the original layout, I started with strips of paper down the left and right side of this layout. The original was a 9×12, so I’d just used two fairly small strips, but to match the scale of a 12×12, I added a third strip on both sides. The stars are a mix of fussy cut stars from the Starshine patterned paper and punched scraps left over from previous layouts. Since this layout only had two photos, instead of three, I added a decorative cut apart piece in the middle, adding washi strip phrases and the last robot ephemera piece from the Totally Rad collection.

For my title, I used a mix of wood veneer pieces from the You Rock Collection and die-cut titles from Legendary. I’ve tied in these wood veneer pieces with two plus signs that I added to each of my small clusters on the page. These small clusters add a little bit of whimsy to the page, breaking up the heavy linear design with a bit of fun.

A fun detail on this page are the rows of tiny rectangles along each set of borders. These are actually the punched out leftover pieces from an ephemera piece in the You Rock collection that looked like a viewfinder reel! They made a great vertical embellishment on this page. The stars that border the left side of my photos vary in sizes and colors, mimicking the floral clusters along the original layout.

I hope you enjoyed this look at how I scraplifted myself, changing not only the color scheme and theme, but also the size! Such a fun challenge! To see how this layout came together, check out the process video below! 

You Rock | Legendary Collection | Raquel Bowman

Hey everyone, it’s Raquel here with you today sharing my latest layout that I have created for Cocoa Vanilla. This layout features mainly the Legendary collection with a small touch of Boys Rule. The layout is featuring my boy who is now seven and looking more and more grown up each day.

Here is the layout that I created;

As I mentioned about. This layout features our little man and a gift that hubby and I recently brought him. He has expressed a love of music and singing for a while now and more recently shared that he would like to learn guitar. We were able to find one online and boy, his year has been made. The smiles and excitement was just infectious.

I used a Triangle cut file from the Cut to You store and backed it with patterned papers in the Legendary collection. I love that I can find a cut file to for every layout topic/purpose. When documenting layouts of my son I tend to choose shape style cut files like stars!

I adhered both the cut file and my two wallet size black and white photos to the layout with a thin foam adhesive tape. This gives a subtle pop of dimension.

To embellish the page I have used mainly stars from the ephemera pack. I also added a few accessory stickers and enamel dots. Such a perfect finishing touch.

The ‘you rock’ title is created from the clear sticker sheet. I simply adhered the stickers to white card stock and then fussy cut around them. This gave me my own ephemera piece that I could use on the layout. The sentiment was perfect for these photos.

The final step before I finished the layout was machine stitching around the edge. I love the finished look this gives to a layout.

I hope this layout has inspired you today. Thanks so much for stopping by the cvs blog.

Raquel

Boy album | Mix of collections| Anna Komenda

Hello Friends. it’s Anna here and it’s time for another Throwback Thursday. I recently dug up some older masculine collections from CVS and I decided I need to use them up finally. You know I usually am a bigger fun of flowers and pink so I still had plenty of papers and embellishments to play with. I went bold with this project, cutting into dozen of papers, using up to the last bit 5!!! sheets of 6*12 stickers and 3 sheets of transparent stickers! I am so proud of myself for putting those old goodies in good use. Ladies and gentlemen – I present you a big boy album with a mix of many CVS collections:

Can you name all of the lines I used here? I think I managed to squeeze in every single masculine collection that was ever released at Cocoa Vanilla. You can finds bits and pieces from: “Flying high”, “You rock”, “Boys rule”, Totally rad”, “Legendary” and “Made of awesome”. Most of them are no longer available in the store but “Flying hight”, “Made of awesome” and “Totally rad” were released as digital versions too! So you can print yourself as many papers and elements as you wish.

My album is sized 21*21 cm and it holds 5 pages inside. Each page has some flaps or pockets to hold many photos at 10*15 and 13*18 cm size. There is also plenty of room for a journaling and other keepsakes. I made everything from scratch starting from the cover. I used false leather with a wooden print to make album more durable. I mixed it with kraft cardstock that seemed to work better with all those patterns and colors.

Colorful papers are so joyful and fun – perfect for a little boy album. Even though they are from different collections, they still look good and cohesive together. I am not going to lie – I used so many 12*12 sheets here but I also managed to squeeze in many smaller paper scraps. However I was holding those papers for years and they totally deserved to shine and bring joy to someone.

I embellished my pages with a lot of various embellishments like ephemera pieces, 6*12 stickers, transparent stickers, chipboard stickers, washi strips, flair buttons, wooden elements and resin stars. All of them comes from the collections I listed previously. To be honest, many of them were stored in one bag together as a “boy stuff” that I can no longer tell which collection they belong to. It doesn’t matter though. I am just happy I managed to use up as many of them. It always feels so good to throw away used up sheet of stickers. Does it feel this way for you too?

Some of the pages are more “fancy” with shakers filled with sequins or transparent foil piece. They serve mostly decorative purposed but I can imagine it will be more fun for kids to browse through this kind of album. Hidden spots, pockets, magnets make the album more interactive.

Making this album took me few days for sure (much more hours than I planned) but it was such a great experience. It’s not filled with photos as it will be a gift for my friend and her little boy. I even added his name on the back of the cover.

I hope it will bring her joy and adding photos will be a great dive into memory lane. This is the essence of scrapbooking for me! Now it’s time for a girl version, don’t you think? I still have some of the boy collection left so I will be able to make few mini albums too. There is a chance you will see them here 🙂

Photos will not give justice to this album so I recorded a flip through video for you. You will be able to see all the flaps and pockets this way.

Thank you so much for stopping by and see you in November.

XO Anna

Sweet Daisy | These Days | Michelle Stokes

Hello Hello! It’s Michelle back here today with a new layout to share, and a slightly different subject to scrapbook than the usual continuous layout shares of Leila. The past few days my fellow DT Members have been sharing some really awesome ways to add journalling to their layouts in a creative way, and today its my turn to share. I’ve used a mix of our more recent collections These Days and Sunkissed, plus one paper from the Boys Rule collection.

As you can see, a new addition to our family is on its way. This one is of the furry kind and she’s oh so cute! We’ve named her Daisy and cant wait to welcome her into our home. I wanted to document the first time we met this sweet little pup, and I think this layout was a perfect way to do so.

To begin the layout I found an awesome 3D cut file design on Etsy and cut it out using the Happy Go Lucky paper from the Boys Rule collection. The perfect shade of textured black to use for a 3D style cut file. Each individual piece is adhered together using foam tape to give it the dimensional 3D look. I added a couple of fussy cut flowers in place of a collar from the Home Grown paper (These Days Collection)

Now we can’t have a cute puppy on a page without a sweet little dog house can we?

Using the woodgrain pattern side of the Pretty Posies paper I’ve constructed a dog house using a concertina fold for the main structure. This gives it a more dimensional look, similar to what a real dog house might look like. I added a rainbow pattern dog bed (Family Ties paper), some flowers (Home Grown Paper) out the front and a name plate using a label tag from the Good Life paper along with some puffy alphabet stickers.

Heres some close ups of that sweet puppy face. She’s grown and changed a lot since these photos were taken, and I cant wait to document the next visit.

I printed the photos at around 2x3inch size and adhered them to the layout using some foam. Underneath these I’ve added the sweet heart paper from the back of the Good Life paper and sewn around the edges for a little extra detail. Tucked into this cluster are more mini flowers growing out of the “grass” (Family Ties paper) a cute puffy gold glitter heart, accessory sticker and cut apart ticket from the Good Life paper. Theres also a mini Butterly (Take Flight A5 paper) to match the 2 above the dog house and a strip of hearts which is another cut apart piece from the Good Life Paper.

In regards to journalling, I’ve kept it pretty simple. It’s not often that I add journalling to my layouts these days and when I do its not very substantial. So I thought I would share a way to get creative, when you don’t have a lot to write.

I’ve used one of the frames from the Wall of Fame paper to create a thought bubble, hovering over the dog in amongst the clouds to add a couple sentences about our time with her the other week. These are all adhered using foam tape to give them all a little dimension in the top corner. The clouds and sun can be found in the Sunkissed Collection Ephemera pack.

Lastly I added a sprinkling of gold ink around the layout and a couple of hand drawn bubble dots to connect the thought bubble to the sweet little dog.

Well thats all from me today. I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my take on creative journalling. Be sure to check back in tomorrow to see what the next DT member has in store for you.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There’s new king in da castle | Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello, hello crafty people. It’s Anna here with a little surprising (at least I think so) page in masculine style made with a big mix of many masculine CVS collections! You know it’s a rarity for me to make boy pages as I have two daughters and I am faithful to all things pink and glitter. You may also remember that I was a mom to the pretty beagle boy named Pirat. He was the hero of some of my layouts and albums. We lost him last year and we promised ourselves it will be our last dog as the loss was so heavy. However, after almost a year, we started missing fur on our clothes, couch and in the cup of tea. One thing led to another and now there is new king in our little castle!!!

Ladies and gentlemen – meet Filut (Jester in English). He is 4,5 months old beagle boy and he is with us since July. It’s like having little baby in the house again. He makes me laugh, sometime he makes my cry (after eating piece of wall…) but out house and our hearts are full again. Be prepared for more masculine layouts coming!!! He is so cute and I can’t resist taking pictures of him. For his first layout I had a very specific idea in mind with a child like page with wonky scene.

I started with picking background from the very first Cocoa Vanilla collection called “Flying high”. It’s not available anymore but you can purchase it’s digital version. You can also fing digi version of “Totally rad” line for even more fun! I then went through many other papers picking few to make a house. Some of them were only scraps. I didn’t measure anything, didn’t skecth any shapes. Just took the scissors and made few cuts. From all of the lines I used only “Legenday” is still available to purchase. So you may consider this page as using up older stash.

After my house was done, I added photo and embellishments around it. Again – I reached for the mix of stickers, cardboard stickers, chipboards and ephemera pieces. I keep them all in one bag – leftovers from old masculine collections – so I can’t even tell which line they belong to. In an empty area in upper left corner I added a title. I ased old alpha stickers from CVS too. Longer phrase perfectly fits here. I like adding my letters tilted and moved – I don’t need to worry they do not line up perfectly then! Make them cricket on purpose!

Whole page came together pretty fast and it was so fun to make. I just love using up my older stuff and plaing with basic supplies. You can make more girly version of this page too, with wonky house and random elements from various collections!

That is all for today. Thank you so so much for stopping by and see you again in October. Fall officially started on northern hemisphere which means much less daily light, gloomy weather, rainy days and cold. Not a fan here! However I am happy scrapbooking and Filut will be my companions during long evenings.

XO Anna

100 Awesome Days | Boys Rule Collection | Danni Visser

Hi Cocoa Vanilla fans! Danni here with a Throwback Thursday layout featuring some messy mixed media and the Boys Rule collection, plus a little You Rock and Totally Rad mixed in. These boyish collections all work so well together that I keep them together in the same plastic sleeve and use them as one big kit – so versatile!

I knew I wanted to do some mixed media today so I chose a lightly patterned background paper from Boys Rule called Good Times 12×12 patterned paper. Once I had decided where my photo would go I used a waffle stencil with white modeling paste to create texture in the space surrounding my photo. I added some colour with a distress oxide ink pad in navy blue and used a paintbrush and some water to soften and blend it. I also used a midtone blue ink spray to add variation in tone and lots of ink splatters.

I layered up my photo with a variety of patterned paper scraps in varying shades of grey, blue and yellow. In my photo my son is wearing a bright yellow bow tie, so I really wanted to add pops of that bright colour around the entire layout. With this in mind, I chose some wood veneer stars from the You Rock collection and coloured them with yellow ink. I also decided to use the “Awesome” wood veneer piece as part of my title, so I inked that in a bright teal.

I build two large embellishment clusters around my photo and a smaller one around my title. I mainly used the accessory stickers from all three collections to do this, plus the inked wood veneer stars. I chose a variety of shapes including arrows, tabs, flags and stars, mostly using blues but also making sure to add some pops of bright yellow and orange to brighten up the layout.

As a final touch I added three tiny word stickers from the Boys Rule accessory stickers, some aqua dimensional drops and some bold ink splatters in black for an extra dramatic touch. This is definitely a ‘messy’ layout, and I feel that the black splatters really help to bring it all together.

I adore how this fun layout turned out! I hope you enjoyed joining me today. You can watch the process video below on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio YouTube channel to see how I struggled with the mixed media initially, and how I managed to make it work for me in the end. Happy scrapping!

Danni x

 

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