It’s Sophie on the blog today with a new layout to share! I used the lovely new collection Happy Days again!
I created a mixed media background with inks and white acrylic paint. Then I fussy cut beautiful golden frames from the Specialty Gold Foil Paper and filled in the frames with several patterned papers from the A5 paper pack. I placed the frames around my black and white photo, and mounted them on foam adhesive.
I used the Alpha chipboards for my title and added watercolor paint to each letter.
Finally, I decorated the page with beautiful florals and die cuts from the Floral and Ephemera packs.
Here are more close-ups:
I love the color scheme of this page. Hope you like it too !
Welcome back to the CVS blog everyone..I hope you are all well.
It’s Kellie here today sharing another page with the brand new ‘Happy Days’collection.
For today’s page I decided to stick to the cooler tones of the collection… this is a favourite colour combo for me…blues and yellows make my creative heart happy. Here is a look at the completed page..
I had two photos I wanted to scrap so I decided I would place one on the top right and the other on the bottom left and make two large embellished areas on my page. These pics are photos of my youngest boy when we were in Fiji…they are super sweet!
To start, I decided to create some frames using a frame die and picked out some of the papers from the 6×8 paper pad.. using frames really help to make your photos pop on the page..you could get the same effect by making large matts around your photos.
Next I wanted to ground the photos so they weren’t floating on the page… so I cut some large strips to pop under my photos. On the top photo I used the paper ‘Feel Good’and the strip under my bottom photos is called ‘Sunshine Lollipops’.
Next I moved on to embellishing around my photos. Firstly I picked out some of the black and white frames from the Die CutEphemera pack. I cut these in half and had them sticking out around my photos…this is a great way to stretch your supplies…two pieces for the price of one!!
On my top photo, I cut two word phrases from the 12 x12 cut apart paper called ‘ Feel Good’ and cut some of the hearts from the same paper to add to the bottom of my photo.. then above my photo I used a tab sticker and word phrase from the ‘Accessory Sticker Sheet.’
On my bottom photo, I picked out the ‘Hello’ banner and the ‘Best of Times’ from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. Next to my left photo I used another tab sticker and word phrase from the Accessory Sticker sheet. I finished off my photo clusters with some florals I cut from the ‘Lush Blooms’ paper.
Next I worked on my title. I wanted to fill in the white space on the bottom right so this was the perfect spot. I used a mix of the Chipboard Title Stickers and the Mini Puffy Alphabets. Under the title I used a sun from the Die CutEphemera.
I wanted to balance my title so to the top right of my page I stencilled some clouds and used two clouds and a sun from the Die Cut Ephemera. To finish my page I added some of the heart Puffy Stickers.
Thanks for stopping by today, hopefully you found some inspiration from my page and you have been having fun with this gorgeous collection!
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts here with a rainbow grid layout using the new Happy Days collection! I used four 3×4 photos of my child getting their hair bleached and dyed, which is a summer tradition of ours. I love the bold, vivid colors in this collection that were perfect for these photos!
Behind two of the photos I tucked frames from the specialty paper and I love the gold shimmer this gives to the layout! I added a banner on top of one and a cluster of hearts and flowers on the other. My title is from the chipboard and is added into the center of another frame.
For my journaling, I used a cut apart piece and incorporated it into the grid. For the embellishing, I stuck to small clusters around the page using fussy cut icons and ephemera. My favorite parts were the little butterfly trails and the puffy hearts!
I hope this layout inspires you to try the grid style! If you’d like to see “So Fun” come together, check out the process video below!
Mandy here today to share a new layout featuring the gorgeous new Happy Days collection. For my project today, my task was to create a layout using a grid design. I love that there are so many ways that you can incorporate a grid into your layouts and it’s a design that I often fall back on when I’m feeling uninspired. Grid designs are all about using squares and/or rectangles, and the great thing is that you can include as few or as many photos as you want into your design. Here’s the page that I created, documenting a recent photo of my girls and I when we visited a sunflower farm.
My inspiration for the colour palette for this layout came from the Juicy Fruit paper. I love the yellows and oranges of the fruits, combined with the aqua/teal, and I decided to focus on those colours for this page as they complemented my photo perfectly. I started by cutting 2 inch squares out of papers from the A5 Paper Stack. The A5 papers are perfect for this sort of project as the patterns are smaller and it saves you from cutting into your larger 12 inch papers. Once I’d cut my squares out, I arranged them down the right hand side of a sheet of white cardstcock.
I also printed my photo as a square and positioned it amongst the smaller squares on the page. I pieced it all together a little like a puzzle until I was happy with the placement of everything. The photo was adhered with craft foam in order to give it some extra dimension on the page.
The fun part about creating a grid design layout is embellishing each of the sections in the grid. I added various die cuts and stickers to each of the squares in the grid, using foam tape to pop some up off the page. I tried to make sure that it looked well balanced by making sure that I didn’t have too much of one colour in any particular area.
For my title I used the lovely Chipboard Titles. I decided on using the ‘Hello Sunshine’ phrase as it was the perfect title for this sunshiney photo! I finished the layout off with some typed journaling strips, a doodled border, and a sprinkling of the sweet Puffy Heart Stickers.
Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today and I hope that you’ve been inspired by my grid design layout using the beautiful new Happy Days collection!
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.
Hi everyone, it’s Melissa here and I’m back with another layout I created with gorgeous Happy Days. My assignment was Mother’s Day, and I just knew I needed to create a layout with a heart.
I created a layout recently with a heart where I used the cut-out shape. For this layout I took the negative heart and punched lots of small hearts from the A5 Paper Stack and glued them on randomly to cover the heart. I trimmed around the edge, and then machine stitched around the edge.
I chose a sweet photo of my girls at our photo booth from church at our Mother’s Day photobooth in 2021. I backed it yellow patterned paper from the A5 Paper Stack.
I embellished with lots of Die Cut Ephemera. I used the Chipboard Words for my title, so easy and fun!
Welcome to the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! So happy to see you…Scrapbooking is an amazing hobby that allows us to preserve our memories in a creative and beautiful way. With the right supplies, it’s possible to create stunning layouts that capture the essence of a special moment. such collection that can help you achieve this is the amazing “Happy Days” collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio. In this blog post, we’ll explore a scrapbook layout that uses this collection and features a mixed media background and a beautiful half rosette that looks like an umbrella.
To begin with, I used a sheet of white cardstock as the base for my layout. I then applied some distress oxide ink in the color fossilized amber to create a mixed media background. The oxide ink blends effortlessly, giving a lovely vintage feel to the layout.
Next, I created a half rosette that I wanted to look like an umbrella. For this, I used a piece of patterned paper from the Happy Days collection. The paper had a beautiful blue flower pattern that looked perfect for the umbrella. I cut the paper into a long strip and then scored it at regular intervals. I then folded the paper along the score lines to create the rosette. Once it was complete, I created a handle from a yellow colored pattern paper, making sure it looked like an umbrella.
To decorate the umbrella, I used some beautiful flower die-cuts, butterflies, lemons, and peaches that I had cut out from the Happy Days collection papers. I arranged the die-cuts in a way that looked like they were hanging off the umbrella. The flowers were a mix of bright pinks, yellows, and oranges, while the butterflies were a mix of gold and pink. The lemons and peaches added a lovely pop of color to the layout and complemented the other elements perfectly.
The Happy Days collection from Cocoa Vanilla is a fantastic collection to use for your scrapbooking memories. It has beautiful bright colors and the papers and die-cuts are perfect for creating beautiful layouts. By incorporating a mixed media background and a half rosette that looks like an umbrella, I was able to create a lovely spring layout that captured the essence of a special moment. Â I want to thank you for visiting the blog today and hope to see you next time with a new project. I wish you a happy and creative day! Â XoXo, Jo
Hey Hey! It’s Michelle back here with you today and I’ve got a fun creative share for you all. It’s Throwback Thursday today, the day where we throw it back to an old collection from our stash and make something magical. I chose to deep dive back into the These Days collection and came up with 2 layouts using the same design, inspired by quilt blocks.
I’ve been a little obsessed with watching quilting videos of late, and I knew that I should be able to incorporate a quilt block design into a layout, but I never thought they would come together this easy. With a few creative cuts of the 12×12 and A5 papers, I had the backgrounds together in no time at all and ready to document a few recent family photos.
First up is the white star background using white cardstock for the star pieces, and the DAYBREAK paper pieced around the edges of the star for a mixed media effect. I machine stitched around all pieces for added detail.
I layered scraps of A5 papers behind the photo and adhered 0n to the background using foam pieces for dimension. This helps when tucking florals in underneath to give a deeper layered effect.
I used fussy cut florals from the HOME GROWN paper in both 12×12 and A5 paper sizes for the clusters on both layouts with the addition of butterflies from the TAKE FLIGHT papers and a Gold Glitter heart
I used a mix of ephemera pieces, stickers and Foam title stickers to create the title of this layout, mixing in more fussy cut florals to the sides to balance the layout with colours and pretty elements
I really like how this layout came together, so much so that I ended up creating the 2nd layout, this time switching the pattern papers up to be a complimentary mix for the star design and the white cardstock as the edges.
Most of the patterns used for this came from the A5 paper stack, including the piece under the photo and the mini journal sentiment card to the right.
I used all the same elements on this layout as I did the previous, just mixed it up in a different way
The title for this is made up of ephemera pieces “Sweet Picture Perfect Moments” that Ive adhered to the page using foam tape to give it a little pop of dimension. Yes I use this word alot haha its the only way I know to explain what foam tape does lol
Well friends thats all from me today. Thanks so much for stopping by to see my creations. I cant wait to come back in a couple weeks and share my next layout using the amazing NEW Happy Days Collection.
It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new layout featuring the gorgeous new Happy Days collection!
Have you seen the gorgeous new gold foiled specialty paper in this collection? It is soooo beautiful! I knew I had to use it for a layout! I decided to document some dress up photos of my niece, adding a total of 3 photos on this layout!
Make sure you get the specialty paper in your Happy Days collection order, you won’t be disappointed!
I took the gold foiled specialty paper and carefully cut out the centres of the ‘frames’ with my craft knife, leaving just the outline of each ‘frame’. I put the centres aside in case I want to use these on a project in the future. I then took the A5 paper stack and chose 1 of each of the papers from the pack and backed all the spaces in the papers where there were no photos. My title is made up of the gorgeous chipboard alphabet stickers. I placed the title split up so that it helps draw your eye around the layout.
Once all of the spaces were backed, I trimmed down the specialty paper and adhered this piece to the ‘B’ side of the ‘Definitive’ paper to frame the entire layout. I chose a variety of the beautiful embellishments in the collection to embellish each of the ‘frames’ including die-cuts from the ephemera pack, enamel hearts and dots, fabric puffy hearts and accessory stickers. Many of the embellishments have been adhered using craft foam underneath to add dimension to the page, I love how the craft foam creates shadows and dimension.
On some of the spaces, I chose to leave the embellishments off as I felt that the paper was enough for that space. You can in the below image, I left them off the rainbow paper and the round butterfly space. I also left the orange and lemon space free of embellishments and the horizontal rectangle at the bottom as well. Some of the spaces only have subtle embellishments such as the round space with the rainbow paper, I have only added 2 enamel hearts to this space.
I love how colourful and bright this collection is and how easy it is to create pretty projects! The collection made this page come together so easily and I love how it turned out! I can’t wait to see what you all create using this beautiful collection! Make sure you get your hands on it soon!
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!
Hi everyone, it’s Sue Plumb here and I am SO excited to be sharing my first design team project using the brand new ‘Happy Days’ collection. I am sure by now you have seen the collection in full (either here on the blog or in person), so I know you will agree with me when I say how gorgeous it is! All those bright, vibrant colours really do make me happy.
For my first layout I decided to document some recent happy photos I took – my daughter on her 15th birthday. She was ecstatic to receive her first pair of “Docs” (Dr Marten boots) as a gift – definitely a happy day for her.
I chose to start with the yellow plaid pattern on the B side of the “Feel Good” paper, which is the cut apart sheet for this collection. I didn’t really want to sacrifice the cut apart first up, but I could not resist that gorgeous happy yellow for my background. To add a little extra colour I added some teal acrylic paint using 2″ wide brush and the dry brush technique. Initially I had planned for the brush strokes to be horizontal on the page, but after spinning the page, I decided I like them better vertical.
Next, I started building my paper layers. I matted each of my three photos using the sweet strawberry print on the B side of the “Lush Blooms” paper. I also used an extra piece of this paper to place horizontally across the page as an anchor point for my photos. I tore along one edge to add a textural element. I topped the strawberry paper with a thin stripe of plum purple, which was cut from the top edge of the striped pattern on the “Sunshine Lollipops” paper. I then added some frayed gauze and an aqua paper doily before adding my photos on top.
Now it was time to start embellishing my page. I couldn’t resist reaching for the gorgeous florals from the collection; so I used a mix of flowers fussy cut from the “Lush Blooms” paper and pieces from the Floral Ephemera pack. The first cluster I created was around the top left corner of my photos. I also used a small banner piece from the Die Cut Ephemera pack across the top edge of my photo.
The second cluster I created was below the centre photo and here I used a larger fussy cut floral piece with foam tape behind it to add a little height. (I had already planned at this point that my title was going to go alongside it, even though I hadn’t added it yet.) With two clusters in place, it was time to add my third cluster to balance my page.
The position of the last floral cluster was alongside the photos on the right edge. The positioning of this final cluster completed my visual triangle around the focal point of my page. Again, I used some foam tape to create dimension.
With all the flowers in place, I then set about adding some text to the page. I chose the die cut hello flag from the ephemera pack to place along the bottom edge of my main photo. This formed the first part of my subtitle, which was Hello 1st Docs, with the letters for the second part coming from the Mini Puffy Alphabet Stickers pack. The main part of my title, So Awesome, was using words from the Chipboard Titles pack.
At this point it was simply a matter of a few finishing touches. I created a small cluster along the bottom edge of the page using a scrap of paper, a flower, a phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet and a sweet little heart shaped Puffy Sticker. I added a couple of extra phrase stickers and heart puffy stickers to the page as well. I also added a die cut butterfly (I am sure you already know how much I love them) and the final finishing touch was one of the gorgeous Puffy Hearts stuck directly onto my centre photo. Oh, and a little black ink splatter.
And that was it!! I hope you love my layout and it inspires you to get creative too. Even if you don’t have the ‘Happy Days’ collection yet, grab out some other Cocoa Vanilla goodies and get busy! ‘Happy Days’ is already shipping to retailers so keep an eye out at your favourite store.
I also printed my photo as a square and positioned it amongst the smaller squares on the page. I pieced it all together a little like a puzzle until I was happy with the placement of everything. The photo was adhered with craft foam in order to give it some extra dimension on the page.
The fun part about creating a grid design layout is embellishing each of the sections in the grid. I added various die cuts and stickers to each of the squares in the grid, using foam tape to pop some up off the page. I tried to make sure that it looked well balanced by making sure that I didn’t have too much of one colour in any particular area.
