Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a fun boy layout! This is an update for my son’s album of his new style, glasses and very long hair. I used the gorgeous Legendary collection, especially the All Star patterned paper and the die cut ephemera. Starting with the larger stars, I created a border on either side of my photos that frame the images in the center. I added gradually smaller and smaller stars, many punched from scraps leftover from previous projects! To add a bit of detail, I added dots of Nuvo for a splattered effect.
I used the die cut titles that accompanied this collection for my “Cool Dude” as well as a phrase sticker from the 6×12 sticker sheet. In the gap between the photo and the title, I squeezed in a quick note about his updated appearance, which has changed quite a lot in the last year! Enamel dots were perfect to add a bit of dimension to some of the stars as well.
On a few of the larger stars, I added small word phrase stickers with angles cut into the edges or arrows from the die cut pack. I love the way this mix of colors worked so well with my photos and was glad to find some of the scraps I had punched were red, which is a common color for my boys to wear! Once I added a neutral border to contain all the flying stars, it felt complete!
I hope this star-filled layout inspires you to look at your scraps a little differently! You can use punches and fussy cutting to use up even the smallest bits and pieces in a collection! To see how the “Cool Dude” layout came together, check out the process video below!
Hi lovely’s , Anita back with you today sharing a another floral layout using day dream collection .
full of fussy cut flowers and pretty paper layers ….seriously who doesn’t love some flowers all layered up.
I started off with white cardstock and then I cut 4 strips of sweet serenity about 1 x 12 and punched a border on 2 of the strips then I layered the punched strips over the other and added them to the top and bottom of the layout
Then I tucked a fussy cut flowers from the garden variety patterns paper and added some phrase stickers from the accessory stickers
Then I cut a big 4 1/2 inch strip and punched 2 sides and then cut 2 more inch strips to tuck underneath to make the border punched edges pop
Next I matted my photo on papers from the paper pad and tucking a doily and tab from the accessory stickers then I add a few other stickers around the photo then next I added more fussy cut flowers around the photo and tucking them at the top of the photo
Then to finish off the layout I added a cardstock title popping it up on double sided foam tape to add that cute dimension
I hope you have enjoyed my floral inspiration today
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a super silly 9×12 layout featuring non-holiday themed photos using the delightfully holiday themed Merry & Bright collection! I particularly adore the florals in this collection and really wanted to make them the shine on this page. With two black and white photos on a wood grain background, using the Season’s Greetings patterned paper, these photos automatically ‘pop’ on this background regardless of how much color I add on.
I clustered together a number of fussy cut florals to create a border along the bottom of the photos, adding in a couple of the puffy stars for a bit of non-paper texture. I loved the gold tones these added to the page and reached into my stash for some large gold sequins to add as well.
For the strands of hearts along the bottom, I drew lines with my white gel pen, then added an assortment of hearts and the outlines of hearts (that I cut from the punch-out packaging!). These outlines are then backed with pocket page cards and paper scraps. The hearts that didn’t have an outline were drawn one with my white gel pen. By alternating between sequins and hearts, with a little bit of Nuvo drops in between, this gives a lovely detail to the bottom of the page as well as tying in the gold from the stars.
I have included a sketch based on this layout to inspire you to give this design a try! I hope the sketch for this layout inspires you and this embellishment style encourages you to look at your collections a little differently! It’s fun to see how you can change things up. If you’d like to see the Sweet Memories layout come together, I have the entire process in the video below!
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!
Hello friends. Have you seen brand new “Sunkissed” line reveal? I am so excited about this collection. It’s like combination of all my favorite things in one: summer, rainbows, seaside and vivid colors. I still have to wait for few weeks to dive into it but it gives me more time to play with another gorgeous collection – “Daydream“. I still have plenty of papers and embellishments in my stash so I decided to make another page. This time I reached for quite old photos of tiny Maja ans scrapbooked them in sweet and cute way.
I mixed together two papers to make my background – solid “Happy place” pattern and “All flutter” cut into film strips. I made them using my edge punch, that I own for ages. I challenged myself to use more of my tools this year. I glued the strips only in the middle are so i was able to bend the edges and tuck some elements behind them.
Next step was to add photos and flower clusters around them. You can find plenty of pretty florals in ephemera pack. I focused in ones in pink, coral and yellow colors trying to keep my page quite monochromatic. I also fussy cut cute, little rainbows from “Up in the clouds” paper. They are just a perfect little embellishment!
I finished my composition adding few fabric, puffy hearts. They are so cute and give such a nice texture to the page. I also added little flair button. I am running low on them and tend to hoard them :) but I managed to overcome my parsimony. Last step was adding title using my stash of alpha stickers. Maja just learned how to send kisses with her hand and my hubby took photo in the right time, when she was doing that. Hence “Sending kisses” title. I so miss those days, when she was so tiny and cute.
I really like how this page turned out and I am glad I used my punch to make those strips. They create little anchors for all the embellishments so they do not float on the empty background.
Thank you so much for stopping by and see you soon in my other post <3
Happy Australia Day! For today’s layout, my focus is the national colors: green and gold. I use gold very often in my projects, but green is not on my most used list. So, leaves and flowers came to the rescue. And I created this page with a picture of my sister and her son, mixing Daydream and Merry & Bright collections.
I used the Merry & Bright Star Bright Paper for my background and glued a white cardstock crooked on top of it, so you can see part of the Star Bright Paper on the left side. Then, I machine stitched two sides of the white cardstock.
Once I had the base, I made some brush strokes with gold metallic paint in the middle of the white cardstock. You can see it peeking through the elements.
With two of the Merry & Bright Pocket Cards, I framed my photo. I chose two with green tones to match my page. I put some foam behind the photo to rise it a little bit and add more dimension.
For my title, I used one of the black foam titles from the Unforgettable collection. I love who it stands out. I put it on top of the picture, so it seems to be floating. Behind it, I placed one of the words from the Daydream Accessory Stickers that say “sweetheart”. So, the title is “Hello sweetheart”.
In the upper right corner, I glued a green Puffy fabric heart with gold metallic thread underneath it. And finally, I scattered some hearts and sequins to add a shiny touch to the page.
I hope you like this layout, and it gives you some inspiration. I could never get tired of using Cocoa Vanilla flowers!
Thank you so much for stopping by today, and I wish you a wonderful Australia Day!!
Hello Hello! It’s Michelle here with you today to share a new layout. I’ve used a couple of different collections for this layout as part of our current ‘Green and Gold’ theme. A mixture of Legendary and Boys Rule with a hint of Daydream and Unforgettable.
When I think of ‘Green & Gold’ I picture bright Aussie style colours – Green & Yellow. So thats exactly where this colour palette took me on this creative journey this week. There are so many wonderful green patterns within the extended Cocoa Vanilla Studio range, but the shade of green I’ve used for this layout is by far my most favourite of them all.
To begin I created a grid style layout featuring a couple of cute photos of Lelia and her beloved bunny from a few years back that I printed out in Black & White. I cut out 3.5″ frames from papers in the Legendary Collection for both the photos and title areas ( Wild One & Explorer ) and added a strip of dotted paper along the bottom (Straight & Narrow) from the Boys Rule Collection.
This kid is an absolute HOOT! Her imagination has been wild from the beginning. This day in particular was so fun, creating a ‘Box Coaster’ for them to ride around the galaxy haha
I kept the embellishing of each frame to a minimum by using word stickers ( Accessory Stickers sheet – Legendary ), sticker heart ( Accessory Stickers sheet – Daydream ), tiny fussy cut stars ( All Star – Legendary ) and an arrow ( Ephemera pack – Legendary ). Both frames adhered to the layout using a piece of foam sheet to give a slight hint of dimension.
The title area of the layout also acts as a tidy spot for some hidden journalling. The ‘Wild and Free’ card can be found on the Epic Tales cut apart paper in the Legendary Collection and the hidden journalling card and ‘Be Rad’ piece can be found on the ‘Boy Stuff’ cut apart paper in the Boys Rule Collection.
Heres a peek at the journalling ..
I cut the card down slightly, rounded the edges on the right and made a tag top including punched hole at the opposite end to add string and tie a bow.
In the top right frame I added a couple extra words that can be used as part of an extended title. The white alphas are by far my most used Cocoa Vanilla Studio embellishment by far, and those foam words from the Unforgettable Collection work so well with pretty much every collection there is.
I sewed the white alphas down so that they stay in place for years to come, but also to add a little extra design element to the layout. I added machine stitching around both of the yellow frames to keep the white X paper in place (Star Fall – Boys Rule). The ‘You are my Sunshine’ can be found on the Daydream Collection Accessory Sticker Sheet and the green tab is a sticker from the Legendary Collection Accessory Sticker Sheet.
Lastly I added a bunch of fussy cut starts in green and yellow to the bottom left and top right of the layout, scattered to give the grid style layout a slight ‘diagonal’ design feel. I also added my usual splattering of gold ink to finish it all off.
Well friends thats all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my take on our current ‘Green & Gold’ theme, be sure to share yours with us in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community Facebook Group.
Until Next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x
PS.. A little side note regarding the fabulous Boys Rule Collection…. Because all us crazy crafters LOVED it so so much when it was originally released, back in the day, sadly its no longer available.
Its Tarrah back with you on the Cocoa Vanilla blog today sharing a new layout created for our Australia Day ‘Green and Gold’ feature for this week!
I chose to document a photo of my youngest son from an Australia Day a few years back when our flag was almost as big as him lol! I decided to stick with mainly green from the awesome Boys Rule collection. I cut out the CUT to YOU Australia Day title cut file design from white cardstock and backed the open spaces of the ‘Australia’ word with the green ombre spot paper from the 6′ x 8′ paper pad in Boys Rule, I made sure to have the lighter spots starting at the top and then cascading to the darker spots at the bottom.
Once it was all backed, I added craft foam underneath and adhered the whole thing to my chosen background paper. I did make sure to leave the right side without too much adhesive so that my photo and layers could be tucked in here. I backed my photo with the star paper in the 6′ x 8′ paper pad and also tucked in a frame and a tab. At the top, I tucked in a tag and added some star die-cuts.
I love the look of embellishments on top of cut files, I made sure to include a few star die-cuts and some accessory stickers on the cut file to draw interest here. I just had to add the chipboard piece that says ‘Fun and Games’ as our Australia Days are exactly that! Fun and Games! Lastly I added some phrase stickers and a few more die-cuts to further tell the story of my photo. I also stamped the date stamp of the date the photo was taken.
Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed seeing my layout and that you were inspired in some way?
Hey CVS friends, I just had to create one more Christmas layout with the Merry and Bright collection before I finish up with Christmas projects!
I firstly cut a Christmas tree, cut file from the Silhouette design store, I used the off set function to create two different sizes and then layered them. I used the Christmas Tree paper to create my tree. I used Oh What Fun paper as my base paper and splattered gold paint over it.
I found another cute cut file I had to use, reindeer frame which I cut in Seasons Greetings paper and added to my tree with foam tape to add height. I added some holly die cuts and tucked them under the reindeer frames. I added gold thread so the appear to be hanging off the tree like baubles.
I next set about decorating my tree. I tucked some flower die cuts under my tree which I also added with foam tape. I added a flair instead of a Christmas star but added a puffy gold star on the actual tree. I chose two sentiment die cuts and added to the bottom of my tree.
I lastly added another light splatter of gold paint over my whole layout to give it that Christmas sparkle feel! This collection is so beautiful to work with and the colour combinations just gorgeous, it is refreshing to work with a Christmas collection with a twist.
Thank you for stopping by today and see you again soon!
It’s Sophie on the blog today with another layout created with the beautiful Merry & Bright collection.
I highlighted a beautiful everyday moment of Sabrina playing with a new app on her Ipad.
I decided to use my label punch to create a design.
I punched several labels out of different patterned papers from the collection and aligned them in two vertical rows on the left side of the page. I machine stitched on them with white thread for more interest.
I emphasised my photo, the focal point of my page, by putting a big rectangle of the wood grain “Season’s Greetings” patterned paper behind it. I also added framed from the Ephemera pack behind the photo, as well as tissue paper and adhesive foam.
I put my title, created with alphabet dies, on top of the photo, and created a big floral cluster on the right lower corner of the page.
Finally, I embellished with scattered flowers and stickers some of the labels, and wrote down my journaling on one of the Pocket Cards from the same collection.
Here are some close-ups:
I hope you like this page ! It’s another example of a layout not Christmas related created with a gorgeous Christmas collection. And using a punch with a repetitive image is a great way to use many different patterned papers on a page without making it too busy..!
