Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with baseball photos! Today’s prompt was spring or fall and I chose spring! Here in the United States spring is devoted to baseball, particularly spring training. I decided to up the ante with some floral hexagons to push that ‘spring’ feel even further. I have included some backed hexagon cut files from Liz Longest Designs and added some punched hexagons using the A5 paper stack. By puzzling them together, I created hexagon florals that trailed up my layout.
Each of my photos is show-cased inside of the these florals, which gives them an opportunity to shine! My photos are 3×2 inches and fit perfectly inside of these shapes. I love every chance to break out my punches and I find them to be the most versatile tool in my scraproom! Added to these hexagons are small embellishments like fussy cut cameras, wood buttons, and ephemera icons.
For my title, I tucked in a phrase from the foam titles set and added some of the little black foam hearts to the end of my title, as well as to each of the photos. This helps spread that darker color around the page, so that the title doesn’t stand out quite as much. I always prefer to have most of the focus on my photos. To finish this layout off, I added butterfly trails with gold Nuvo drops and then splattered around my cluster with gold ink spray.
I hope this layout inspires you to break out your punches and experiment with puzzling together the shapes into something new! If you’d like to see how ‘Love From the Heart’ came together, check out the process video below!
Mandy here today to share another layout featuring the gorgeous Storyteller collection! For this layout, I decided to scrapbook a couple of photos from a day that Isaac and I spent at the zoo a couple of years ago. It was such a great day, and I wanted to document how much I enjoyed spending the day with him. The Storyteller collection was perfect for this page, and I love the way that I was able to focus on more of the blues & greens in the collection for this layout. And I don’t mind using a floral cluster or two on a boy layout either!
To start the layout off, I trimmed a sheet of white cardstock down to 11 inches square and matted it on the blue Ditsy Daisy paper.
Next I chose a selection of papers from the A5 Paper Stack and cut them down to 1 inch x 4 inches and arranged them across the bottom of the white cardstock. As I mentioned, I tried to stick mostly to the blues, greens and woodgrain as I thought these would complement the photos nicely. I then added a piece of the yellow Little Love paper along the top edge of the strips, along with a border that I punched from white cardstock. This added some nice detail and also provided a ‘ledge’ for the photos to sit on.
I printed two 3 x 4″ photos and matted them on the woodgrain paper from the A5 Paper Stack. I also chose a 3 x 4″ card and positioned it between the two photos. This also became the title for my layout. I adhered the photos and card with craft foam to give them all some extra dimension.
Once my background was done and my photos were in place I was ready to embellish! Of course I couldn’t resist fussy cutting one of the gorgeous floral clusters out of the Spring Fling paper! I adhered this below the photos on the left hand side of the page. I also added one of the Wood Epoxy Buttons to the floral cluster to give some more texture to the page.
To balance out this floral cluster, I added another embellishment cluster in the top right hand corner of the layout. This gives the page a diagonal flow, drawing the viewers eye from the larger cluster, up through the photos, to the one at the top of the page. In this cluster I included some items from the Die Cut Ephemera pack, including a banner, a floral cluster and a butterfly. I also added another Wood Epoxy Button as I like to repeat similar elements in each of my clusters.
I finished the layout off with some typed journaling and a sprinkling of Puffy Stickers.
Thank you so much for joining me here on the blog today. I hope that you’ve found some inspiration!
Hey there Scrappy Friends! It’s Michelle back here with you today to share my newest creation using the StorytellerCollection. For this layout I wanted to document a couple of photos of Leila (being Leila) hanging out being the superstar that she is at her birthday celebrations last year. Hard to believe that in just 2 more months she will be 12!
I wanted to keep this layout pretty simple, with just a couple of photos, a ‘tidy’ background and my trademark floral clusters. I used the green circular pattern design from the back of the FLY AWAY paper and fussy cut 3 lines out using both scissors and my craft knife for all the inner pieces. Once ready I adhered in the top half of the white cardstock, roughly just above the centre line of the paper. I used double sided foam tape to lift it off the page just slightly.
I can’t take credit for these 2 magical photos, Leila’s aunty managed to capture them while the kids were happy playing in the massive play room while we had dinner. I kept them black and white so not to clash with the colours of the beautiful Storyteller Collection. I used 3×4 cards to back the photos before adhering to the middle of the green circles with foam for an extra pop of dimension.
Clusters created on either side of the photos using both fussy cut florals from the SPRING FLING paper (A5 paper stack size), flag banners from the ephemera pack, word flags from the STORY TIME cut apart paper, woodbuttons and black foam hearts from the foam title stickers pack.
Totally obsessed with floral clusters, so much so that I ended up creating clusters similar to ones I’ve made previously. I just cant help it when florals are so so pretty and work so well in certain combinations.
These foam title stickers are the best for creating a good quick title that has impact on the page, they’re a beautiful product to work with too.
I added one last little cluster at the bottom of the layout layered together with another strip of green circles from the FLYAWAY paper, then splattered the entire layout with gold ink to finish it all off.
Here’s one more look at the entire layout, such a quick layout to recreate when you’ve got a couple of photos to document.
Well friends, thats all from me for today. Thanks so much for stopping by.
It’s Tarrah McLean back here on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout featuring the stunning Storyteller collection.
I think this is now my 8th layout created using this gorgeous collection! Do you have this collection yet?
I am documenting 2x photos of myself with some of my fun girlfriends, choosing to create a grid style design.
I first pulled out all the horizontal pocket cards that would suit the way I wanted my photos placed, I mixed them up and layered some underneath others and also layered some of them under my photos too, Once I was happy with how they looked, I took a piece of plain white cardstock and adhered them all down staying with that grid style. I was so happy that the pocket card that reads ‘It’s A Good Day to Have a Good Day’ was a horizontal style one as I wanted to use the ‘Together’ word from the foam title stickers, it was perfect to place on that pocket card!
I could not leave the pocket cards blank so I added some embellishments to them all. On the title card, I added a chipboard heart from the Chipboard stickers, a puffy heart sticker from the puffy stickers and a journal sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet, I stamped the date on the small journal sticker. The pocket card to the right of the title one I added a chipboard piece, 2x banner die-cuts and a puffy heart sticker to the banner piece, I also stapled the banner die-cuts using my tiny attacher.
On the pocket card below the title I added an accessory sticker and adhered a camera ephemera piece over the top using craft foam. I also tucked in a floral die-cut here from the floral ephemera pack. On top of the camera, I adhered one of the super cute wood epoxy buttons. The pocket card above the title I added a chipboard banner piece and a chipboard heart and created a small cluster of flowers and leaves from the floral ephemera pack, I popped up some of the flowers using craft foam and left some without, I like the different heights and dimension this gives my page.
It’s fun to treat each pocket card almost like its only little scrapbook layout! On the top photo one, I stapled a banner sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet in the top right corner, using my tiny attacher. Doing this is a great way to disguise something you make not like in your photo, treat it as an embellishment opportunity and cover it up as I have in the corner of my photo! In the bottom photo, I added a phrase sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet to the top of the photo and created another cluster of flowers using florals from the floral ephemera pack, this helps to balance with the cluster I created in top left corner.
Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I love how my layout turned out and I hope you enjoyed reading how I created it!
Make sure to keep an eye on the Cocoa Vanilla online store as the Storyteller collection should be in store really soon!
Hello crafty friends today I am celebrating all things Spring (well if you live in the Southern Hemisphere anyway!), flowers, sun, bare feet and yellow!!! Storyteller is a perfect collection for spring themed layouts.
I firstly created a water colour background effect on my white card stock, using yellow as it reminds me of spring, I then found a cute vase cut file from the silhouette design store. I used Oh My Heart paper to create my vase.
Now for the fun part, I created flowers for my vase using the Floral die cut ephemera pack. I added them with foam tape to add dimension and then tucked in extra leaves and sprigs.
I add a phrase sentiment banner from the die cut ephemera pack on the vase. I chose a wood grain paper from the A5 paper pad to mat my photo.
Next I created my title using a cut file which I cut using Ditsy Daisy paper. I added a camera die cut and added a wood epoxy button to the lens of the camera.
To finish my layout off I went back and added some die cut butterflies and puffy stickers in amongst the flowers and under the butterfly wings.
A simple layout technique wise but visually beautiful with the colour choices and lots of flowers!
Thank you for stopping by today and I will be back later in the month with some more inspiration.
I selected 4 of my favorite patterned papers: Sun Shower, Daisy Days,Happy Place and Garden Variety. I applied Distress Oxide inks directly on my white background watercolor cardstock in four vertical lines. I added water and colored splatters as well, and let everything dry.
I cut four strips of my selected papers that are of different lenghts and about 2 inches wide. I curled the top and bottom of each paper and aligned them in a horizontal line. I inserted a grey ribbon inside the curled top of each strip and tied a bow on the right and left side of the four aligned papers.
I printed my photo in black and white. It adds a little retro feel to the page…!
I used the Daydream Die Cut Title words for my title, and added beautiful fussy cut and die cut flowers to embellish around my photo.
I cut a rectangle out of white cardstock to write down my journalign and placed it on the Sun Shower strip, on the left side of the photo.
Finally, I added a few Accessory Stickers, two die cut butterflies and a few scattered sequins as the finishing touch.
Here are some close-ups:
I will never get tired of using this gorgeous collection ! My design is very easy to scraplift, and it is a simple way to use many different patterned papers on a page.
Hi Cocoa Vanilla fans and welcome back to the blog!
Today I have put my Storyteller collection away and have pulled out the No Limitscollection to play with.
I am documenting some fun pictures of my husband and youngest son on a recent holiday to Bali when we went quad bike riding.
To start my page I used the woodgrain paper called “Big Bang” and tore it about three quarters of the way down to create some texture and added a strip of the “Eclipse” paper underneath it.
I decided I wanted to add some mixed media to my background so I pulled out a circular stencil with some silver texture paste and added some white ink splatters.
I placed my photos in the middle of the page and used some vellum to add another layer. Next, to add more colour and papers to my page, I used a cut file from Paper Issues to add more circular elements to my page… I love these!!!
For my title, I used the word ‘Adventure’ from the Die Cut Titles and the word ‘Fun’ from one of the ‘Pocket Cards‘.
Once this was done I felt like the bottom of my page was too white so I pulled out some circular stamps and added these with co-ordinating colours … love the effect!
To finish my page, I used different pieces from the ‘Die cut elements’ pack’ and some of the Chipboard pieces including the stars to scatter around the page.
I hope you enjoyed my page today and you found some inspiration to get your memories documented.
Mandy here with you today to share a new layout featuring the stunning Storyteller collection. This month the design team will be sharing ‘seasonal’ projects inspired by either Spring or Fall. Here in Australia we’re starting to see hints of spring in the air, and the weather is beginning to warm up a little, which is so nice after the cooler winter months. The weather was so lovely last weekend so I decided to take my youngest two on a picnic to enjoy the sunshine. We took some selfies on the day, which were the perfect photos to scrapbook the start of Spring!
To start this layout off, I cut a wreath out of white cardstock using a cut file from the Silhouette Design Store. I decided on using the beautiful woodgrain Cross it Off paper for my background. I had already cut a circle out of the middle of that paper for a previous layout, and by no pre-planning on my part, the wreath cut file happened to fit perfectly around that circle. I love it when things work out like that! I backed the circle with white cardstock as I thought this would allow my photos, title and embellishments to pop.
Once I had adhered the wreath, I added my two photos, one in the top left and the other in the bottom right. I matted the top photo with the yellow Little Love paper and the bottom photo with the pink Oh My Heart paper. I also tucked a few embellishments around the photos using die cuts from the Ephemera pack.
I wanted to build on the wreath cut file with some gorgeous florals to accentuate the ‘Spring’ theme and to add lots of colour to the page. I did this by fussy cutting a couple of floral clusters out of the beautiful Spring Fling paper. I added one in the bottom left and the other in the top right. When I adhered them to the page I only added adhesive to the middle of the floral clusters so that the leaves and sprigs would lift off the page and create some nice dimension.
I added a button to the centre of the larger flower in each floral cluster, the yellow one from the Die Cut Ephemera pack and the red one from the Chipboard Stickers. I fussy cut a few extra little flowers to scatter around the floral clusters and I also added a couple of Puffy Sticker dots around each cluster. These little details help to add some extra interest and make a layout feel complete.
I decided on the phrase ‘Hello Spring’ as the title for this layout. I used the gorgeous Foam Title Stickers for the word ‘Hello’ and then cut the word ‘Spring’ from the green Fly Away paper using another cut file from the Silhouette Design Store. I love the way this title makes a statement without detracting from the photo.
I finished my layout off by adding a couple of butterflies that I fussy cut out of the Fly Away paper as well as some little hearts from the Foam Title Sticker pack.
I hope that you’ve been inspired by my Spring themed layout using the fabulous Storyteller collection, and that you’re enjoying the change of season in whatever part of the world you live in!
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a fun art sculpture inspired layout! Back in April, my son and I visited a beautiful sculpture garden in Twin Lakes, Minnesota, USA. It was such a fun, quirky place to explore art and experience sculpture in a new way. I decided to channel the quirky feel of the garden with this layout using the Storyteller collection! Using the Cross It Off patterned paper for my background, I built a diagonal layout with a really fun collage look. Loved squeezing four 3×4 inch photos on this one!
For my title, I used the Love This from the Chipboard stickers and then layered a journaling spot and hearts from the icon ephemera underneath. For the photos themselves, I kept the embellishing very simple, so that it didn’t become too busy! I set two photos in each of the cross-filled corners and layered them up with word phrases, a banner, and a label.
I really enjoyed playing with white space on this layout, leaving large areas to allow the eye to rest on the opposite corners and keeping a fairly tight cluster of embellishments in between my pairs of photos. This adds a lot of balance to the page and made for a clever place to add splatters as well!
I hope this layout inspires you to find ideas in the least likely of places! It’s such a fun design and captures the mood and feel of the garden really well! To see how ‘Love This’ came together, check out the process video below!
Hello Hello! It’s Michelle here today to share another layout for our month of sketch inspiration using the wonderful StorytellerCollection. I had so much fun creating my last layout that I thought, why not create another using a fun sketch from Page Maps. This one was based on a grid design and brings together multiple photos to tell a story, perfect for sharing one about a new blossoming doggy friendship.
We recently welcomed another sweet pup into our home, his name is Sonny and boy is he a handful. He’s the most hilarious little ball of fluff we’ve ever encountered, and is a great new addition to our little family. Our first doggo Daisy only took a few days to get use to having him around, and so far they seem like they’re going to be the very best of friends.
As you could imagine theres been a lot of photo taking in the last few days, so it was hard to narrow the selection down to just 4 for this project. I edited them all using an iPhone app and printed them out in black and white as per the size on the sketch below.
The sketch I was inspired by from the Page Maps website has a grid of pattern papers with 4 photos across the middle, machine stitching around the edges and clusters of flowers. I love creating with sketches as it takes the guess work out of how to start a layout when you’re stuck in a creative ‘rut’.
Seeing this little friendship begin has been so magical..
I used 4 different pattern papers from the A5paperstack cut down to roughly 4inch squares, distressed the edges slightly and adhered to the white cardstock using pieces of foam sheet to raise them up off the page. I sewed around the edges next using my machine and some off white coloured thread.
I added the photos across the middle of the layout using the same foam sheets to add a little more dimension to the layout.
Next I worked on creating the clusters, bottom right was first using the ‘Love this’ tag from the STORYTIME cut apart sheet, a bunch of florals fussy cut from the A5 version of SPRINGFLING, journaling tag from the EPHEMERA pack, black heart from the FOAMTITLES pack and sticker from the ACCESSORYSTICKER sheet.
In the top left corner I added another cluster of fussy cut florals, black heart and ephemera pieces. Using coordinating elements within all the clusters on a page really helps to give it a cohesive look
I added the title to the top left of the grid cluster also, using a mix of both a word from the FOAM TITLE STICKERs and a piece from the EPHEMERA pack
In the top right corner I created a smaller cluster, again using the same floral elements as the other 2 clusters. I used different types of adhesives in all 3 clusters to create different heights of dimension giving the clusters a more 3D feel. My go to adhesives for this are double sided foam tape, sticky thumb ‘sticky dots’ and tacky glue.
I added the usual splattering of gold ink to the layout after adding some hand written text to the journalling card
Here’s one last look at the entire layout..
Well thats all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing another sketch inspired post from me, and the rest of the team this month. It sure was a fun theme for us to be inspired by. Be sure to share your sketch inspired layouts with us in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community Group on Facebook, we love seeing what you all create using the CVS Collections!
