Design Team

Love This | Day Dream | Anita Bownds

 Hey lovely’s ! Anita here with you today sharing a sweet floral layout using the daydream collection and this months Mood board with all the sweet dreamy colours to choose from so I pulled out the Kraft cardstock to match the coffee and the rest of the colours from around the mood board and of cause I added a photo of my cute fluffy boy sleeping ..
So I started with  Kraft cardstock and a paw print stencil and used white ink and just used a blender to add the ink. Then I added some light pink paint by just quickly brushing across the cardstock trying not to put it on too thickly then I used a light blue to flick around the cardstock along with some white and rose gold..

 

Then I matted my photo on sweet serenity to layer behind then I tucked a few bits of ephemera , doily and a few accessory stickers around my photo and my chipboard title from (bohemian dream ) I think …..
I wanted to add the title before I started adding my title so everything would fit in place.

 

Then using happy place I add a strip down the left hand side then tucked a doily and little strip from sweet serenity that I punched a little decorative punch and a little piece from the ephemera.
Then I pulled out a few dies and used happy place, daisy days, sun shower , all a flutter to make a bunch of flowers big and small and a few leaves.

 

And to add more white in the background I die cut sprigs and tucked them in underneath and around the flowers and leaves ,
For the center’s I use enamel dots and buttons all in white to add that shabby look and just placed them diagonally across the page in 3 clusters to draw the eye across the page …

 

I finished the page off with some glitter gel painted on the flowers just to add some shimmer..

 

 

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my mood board inspiration today
Happy crafting..

Valentine’s Day Gifts | Daydream Line | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. Happy LOVE DAY!!! I lie Valentine’s Day so much because what can be better to celebrate than LOVE? It doesn’t have to be the romantic one between partners. Love has so many shades and forms and this day is just another occassion to show our appreciation to the people we care the most. Each year I prepare little gifts for my daughters with handmade cards filled with love words. I usually make some decorative boxes too for a little treat. This year is no different. This time I reached for pretty “Daydream” collection and created two sets containing of paper bag and card.

Each bag is made with single sheet of paper: “Daisy days” and “Serenity“. I closed them with a ribbon bows so you can easily open them and close again. I also added a decoration on each bag with a little shaker. They are the part of the gift itself because they are mounted to the bag with magnets! You can remove them and put on the fridge or some other place.

Each shaker is made with a frame from ephemera pack and decorated with flowers and butterflies. You can fill them with sequins and beads like me, or use ready mixture from Sequins and flowers Pack. I also added words “love you” from stickers sheet.

Each bag has a matching card – very easy and fast to make. I chose the same pattern papers than I used for the bags, but this time I reached for smaller size. Paper stack comes very handy here. All the patterns and smaller, which works great with smaller projects, like cards.

Each card is made of trimmed paper and some ephemera pieces. I also used die cut titles to add a message on the top of embellishments. They are small enough to fit the card size, but still big enough to become a main focus element.

All I need to do now is to place some treats inside the bags and write personal messages to each of my daughters. Do not worry – hubby will also get his own gift :)

Thank you so much for stopping by and I wish you all to spend this day surrounded by people you love <3

XO Anna

Love the good life | Daydream Collection | Anna Blades

Hello CVS friends!

It’s Anna here with you today. Welcome back to the blog! This Saturday is Valentine’s Day and the ladies of the design team will be creating projects full of love during the weekend. Today I want to share with you this lovely page featuring the beautiful Daydream Collection. I decided to document a photo of my oldest daughter with his father when she was almost two years old. I love this funny picture.

I started with the Daisy Days Paper as my background. It matches the greens of the photo and gives to the page the country look that I was looking for. And the wreath perfectly frames the title and the photo.

For my title, I cut the word “love” with my cutting machine. It’s not a cut file, I just used a font that I have on my computer. I cut it from the All Aflutter Paper and the outline from the Sun Shower Paper. Y stacked them together with foam dots to add more dimension and place it a little croocked on the page. On top of the “V” and “E”, I placed one of the die cuts to complete the title.

Below it, I placed my photo, matted by a piece of the Daisy Days Paper from the 6×8 paper pack. I embellished it with some die cuts, which I raised up with foam. I also put a puffy fabric heart and a flair button.

Around the wreath, I added more flowers because I wanted it to have more volume and integrate the title. Finally, some more die cuts and a phrase from the accessory stickers.

I love how it turned out. And remember that you can create your own cut files taking advantage of the fonts on your computer.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I wish you a wonderful weekend and a Happy Valentine’s Day!

Anna xx

Back to School | Daydream Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hello Hello! It’s Michelle back here today with a new layout share featuring the wonderful Daydream Collection. I’ve chosen to document Leila’s first day back at school photo for 2021 and created a grid using squares of pattern paper from the A5 paper stack.

Its getting harder each year to capture the first day back photo, this years happen to be taken at the end of the day so Leila’s looking a little rough around the edges haha.

I chose a grid design for this layout as I find they are the easiest and quickest way to get a layout done when your lacking mojo or even just strapped for time. I used a mix of patterns from the A5 paper stack that complimented each other as a base for the layout. All were cut into 4x4inch squares and the pieces layered under and on top were slightly smaller by about 1/8 of an inch.  Each square has some sort of machine stitching added apart from the top left which has stitching through the photo.

I’ve used the Stepping Stones and Sun Shower pattern papers for the top left of the grid, raising the photo up with some foam then adding a banner from the Happy Place 12×12 sheet, heart accessory sticker and date tag from the A5 size Happy Place paper.

I created 1 large cluster of embellishments on the bottom right square using a quote from the A5 Happy Place paper, fussy cut florals from the Garden Variety paper, circle frame from the ephemera pack, word sticker and green puffy heart. The papers used on this area of the grid are Up in the Clouds and  Sun Shower.

The title square came next using my favourite white alpha stickers, label tag from 12×12 Happy Place paper and some fussy cut florals from Garden Variety. Like always I’ve sewn through all the alpha stickers to keep them adhered for years to come. The pattern papers I used for this part of the grid are Daisy Days and Sweet Serenity.

I added a chunk of handwritten journaling using notepaper that I sewed onto the top right grid section. I also added more fussy cut florals to the edge, overlapping the notepaper and pattern papers. Patterns used are Happy Place and All A Flutter

Along the top of the layout I added an uneven strip of wood grain, Over the Rainbow, and sewed it in place with a tiny strip of Daisy Days

There’s another strip of wood grain along the bottom edge of the layout to bring it all together along with one last accessory word sticker.

I also gave the layout a good splattering of gold ink and a sprinkling of tiny fussy cut flowers on the edges of the clusters.

Heres one final look at the entire layout..

Well that’s all from me today, Thanks so much for stopping by. Be sure to share in the comments below your go to process on how you get layouts done when you’re lacking time and mojo.

Until next time Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x

You Are My Sun, My Moon | Legendary collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi crafty friends, 

It’s Tarrah back with you today to share a new boy themed scrapbook layout featuring my youngest son and the awesome Legendary collection. The inspiration for this layout definitely came from the awesome circle die cuts in the ephemera pack and the journal card from the Epic Tales paper that says My Sun, My Moon and All of My Stars. I knew that I had the perfect photo to go on this layout. It is of my youngest son sitting in front of a moon and star background at Luna Park.

I chose to pull similar colours from the journal card and use these throughout my layout, the orange, blue and grey colours really spoke to me for this page. I added some subtle grey mixed media to a sheet of plain white cardstock and then began to arrange the elements how I felt they looked best. The ephemera pack is amazing value with so many awesome pieces to help tell your story and enhance your design at the same time!

I fussy cut the journal card into a round shape to fit in with all the other elements on the layout. I also cut my photo into a circle and adhered one of the circle frames on top. Of course there had to be stars on this layout too so I pulled out a few large and small ones from the ephemera pack and arranged them amongst the circles.

Once I had most of the larger elements adhered to my page it was time to add some smaller embellishments like some accessory stickers, clear stickers and enamel dots! All of these smaller details were added in and around some of the larger elements on my layout to help draw your eye in.

Lastly I added some sprinkles of black mist and stamped the date. I then trimmed down the white cardstock and framed it using one of the grey patterned papers from the Legendary collection.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed my layout and that you were inspired in some way? Make sure to check out the amazing Cocoa Vanilla Studio online store for the Legendary collection and so many more amazing collections.

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Awesome Kid | Boys Rule collection | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone, it’s Sue here to share my latest design team project with you. Today I am sharing my take on the “school” theme that we have been focusing on for the past few days. For my layout, I decided to document a photo of one of my boys with the academic award he received at the end of last year. This was the first time he had ever received an award like this, and it was a very big deal for him (and only came after a big attitude adjustment and a lot of hard work). I knew the ‘Boys Rule’ collection would be perfect to coordinate with the colours of my photo.

I began this layout with the printed backing sheet from the Large Die Cut and Backing Kit. I had already used the die cut top piece in a separate project, so I had this left over in my stash. I was drawn to use it because of the blackboard style print, with the doodled chalk border around the edge. As I only wanted to use the border part for my background, I cut the centre from the page and kept it aside for some fussy cutting later. I then got to work on some white cardstock that I had cut down to measure 10.5×10.5″.

I added colour to my background by swiping an ink pad to create vertical stripes on the page, then used a wide brush dipped in water to blend the ink out. I then used a stencil with a random spot pattern and grey ink to layer detail over the top.

For my paper layers, I used a combination that included the star print Happy Go Lucky; Expressionist; and a fabulous pop of green from the Straight & Narrow. I used torn edges and frayed gauze to add texture to the page.

When it came to embellishments, I used pieces (tag, label, frame) from the Die Cut Ephemera and Miscellany packs; as well as some stars that I fussy cut from the backing sheet I had begun my layout with.

I used an arrow from the Chipboard Pieces pack to help draw attention to my photo; and added a metallic touch by using some staples around the page. My title was a combination of the die cut word kid from the ephemera pack combined with awesome cut from the cut apart paper.

I used the Clear Stickers to scatter some phrases around the page, and three black crosses from the sheet too. I stamped a little extra detail on the background using a stamp with a random circles and dots pattern (similar to the stencil pattern) and finished off by stamping the date.

I am really happy with how this layout came together, and I hope I have given you some inspiration to create your own page to document some of those school photos, or even just a boy layout.

If you would like to watch me put this one together, I have a process video available:

Until next time, happy scrapping!

Super Star | Legendary collection | Rachel Lowe

Hey crafty friends, here is WA my boy was meant to start school on Monday, but on Sunday we were forced into a five day hard lockdown. I was frustrated but he was elated! I am not a fan of back to school layouts so I tried to think outside of the square and come up with a back to school layout with a twist.

I have used the fab Legendary collection with its perfect colours and embellishments!

I have used a fab cut file from Cut to You, this is the second time I have used this back pack cut file, previously I created a girl version. The star confetti background cut file is by Paige Evans/Silhouette design store.

I used the off beat paper as my background paper. I cut my white cardstock paper down to 10×10 inches and then used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the stars. I back this piece with total legend paper to add contrast. I centred this on the off beat paper and added some blue messy machine stitching.

I cut the back pack cut file in black and then used one way and all star papers. I added it to my layout using foam tape. I next added my photo (which I added a text graphic from Pic Monkey), I used explorer paper to mat my photo which I finished off with a flair button

I used the accessory sticker sheet phrase stickers to create my journalling. I used a paint brush stroke clear sticker and finished off adding some enamel dots.

I added another sticker from the accessory sticker sheet so I could add a date space which if you have several odd children (like I do having four!!!!) is a must.

To finish off my page I added die cut stars from the die cut ephemera pack.

Well that’s it from me, thank you for stopping by today and I hope I have inspired you to create a school layout with a difference!

Rachel X

You Got This | Wild at Heart collection | Sophie Delorme

 

Hello Crafty friends !

It’s Sophie on the blog today with a school themed project to share !

 

All I used on this page comes from the beautiful “Wild at Heart” collection.

I chose the last photo of Sabrina doing home school before the Christmas Holidays. Home schooling during this pandemic has been very hard on her but overall she managed it quite well, and I wanted to highlight that on my page.

That’s why I used this beautiful cut file “You Got This” from Paige Evans as my starting point.

I used thick white cardstock for my background and applied watercolor where I planned to put my big title. I went for blue and purple tones of watercolor to match the collection and to make sure that my title stands out.

I cut the cut file on white cardstock and carefully stitched it to my background once completely dry.

 

I cut a piece of the “Mariposa” patterned paper for the inner part of the “O” in the word “Got” and backed it with adhesive foam to add my subtitle “Just Be You”, cut out of the “Fussy Cuts” patterned paper.

 

I backed my photo with tissue paper, adhesive foam, the “Grow Wild” paper and a teared piece of the “Patchwork” paper, and placed it at an angle next to the title.

I grounded my page with two large teared strips of patterned papers: “Double Dot” and “Artisan” papers.

 

I embellished my page with beautiful fussy cut flowers out of the “Luscious” patterned papers and created floral clusters on the top and bottom of the page. I also added a few butterflies and wrote down my journaling on one of the paper strip.

 

Here are a few more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the visual impact of this big title on the page. Isn’t the color scheme of the Wild at Heart collection seriously amazing ??!

I hope that you felt inspired today, thank you so much for stopping by !

I’ll see you again soon !

Sophie xx

Time to Shine | Happiness Collection | Back to School

Hey everyone, it’s Raquel here today sharing with you a ‘Back to School’ themed layout. I decided to delve into one of my favourite CVS collections ‘Happiness’.

Here is the layout that I created: Time to Shine


I knew that I wanted to use this bright and fun collection to document the beginning of what we hope will be a great 2021 school year – for the kids at school and also for myself as a teacher. The school year of 2020 was a challenge for everyone – particularly us in Victoria who had restrictions for long durations and remote learning. It is certainly a year we hope we do not need to repeat.

The subjects of this layout are my two kiddies – posing beautifully with their ‘first day’ sign prior to heading into school  . Full of smiles which I can honestly say have been present all week. It’s such a relief to know they are comfortable and happy in their new little space for the year. I chose to print the photos in a photo strip form in a smaller size  I love the definition the white border gives.

The cut file on this layout is a school themed file from the Cut to You store. I was able to use a variety of patterns from the paper pad to back the sections within the file. I love how it turned out!
I created three main clusters of embellishments on this layout. The image below shared the largest cluster in the bottom left of the page and to the left of the photo. I used mainly ephemera for this cluster but made sure to include a variety of foam adhesives to play around with the dimension I create on the page.


Behind the cut file and photos – I used a couple of strips of patterned paper. I added extra detail by machine stitching the edges of the paper pieces and the layout too. I just love how it turned out.

The title, although small was the perfect sentiment for these two ‘Time to Shine’


My last step in the creation of this layout was to add typed journaling to the page. As always I have used my typewriter and adhered it in strip form.

I hope you have been inspired by this layout today. Raquel xxx

 

HELLO BEAUTIFUL | WILD AT HEART | GWEN WRUCK

Hi Creative friends, Gwen back on the blog, I hope you are all doing well.  It’s Throwback Thursday today, so I’m diving into my stash and using the ‘Wild At Heart‘ collection.  This collection is from 2017 and I still absolutely adore it.  I love the mix of colours in the line and especially the blues and purples, and the sentiments are all so sweet.  I’ve used it to document some fun photos of my daughter just before a school disco from a few years back and especially love the theme to ‘Be your own kind of Beautiful’.

I had quite a bit of stash left in this collection embellishment wise however, I was a little short on the ‘Patchwork’ pattern paper which I really wanted to use.  To work around this, I’ve planned out my page first.  I knew I wanted to work with this cut file from CUT to YOU so first up needed to decide the position of my photos.  From there, I could save time and paper by only backing the parts of the cut file that would be showing.  No one would ever know that behind my photos, the cut file is not backed at all.

To back the cut file, I’ve used the ‘Patchwork’, ‘Luscious’ and ‘Artisan’ papers.  For my background, I’ve used a plain pink cardstock from my stash and framed it with the ‘Bohemian‘ pattern paper which is still available in the shop.  I’ve then added some stitching for extra detail.

Working with the supplies I had left, I’ve gone through them and pulled out anything I thought would match, looking at the sentiment in the pieces and their colour.  I decided on three focal points to create a visual triangle, two towards the top right-hand side of my page and one bottom left-hand side of the page.

I then fussy cut out three of the butterflies from the ‘Mariposa’ pattern paper and positioned them; one in each spot in my visual triangle.  From there I built my embellishment cluster, starting with larger pieces first, working towards the smaller elements.

I’ve used the title ‘Hello Beautiful’ from the Chipboard Sticker Sheet, I love how big and bold it is.  I’ve also used several of the sentiments from that sheet, (including the pink arrow below that says ‘wonderful’) the dimension chipboard creates on the page is really lovely.

I’ve also pulled some sentiments from the ‘Accessory Sticker Sheet’ – I especially love the typed sentiments at the bottom.  I’ve added these to my page using 3D foam tape and to finish up the layout, I’ve added in a flair button and the ‘Enamel Dot Sparklers’.

I’ve also made a YouTube video of my process which you can watch here:

I hope you enjoyed seeing how I’ve put this page together.  Do you have any Wild at Heart still in your stash?  Why not pull it out and get creating.

Until next time,

Gwen

xo

 

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