Unforgettable

SNAP SHOTS | UNFORGETTABLE | GWEN WRUCK

Hey Creative friends,

Gwen back on the Cocoa Vanilla blog today with a new project to share.  For this one, I’m using this months mood-board as my inspiration to scrapbook a sweet picture of our pet cat.  I was really draw to the circular elements in the mood board for this layout especially as my photo has a large circular element in it.  For more details on how you can play along be sure to visit the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Facebook group.

Here is the mood-board, as I mentioned above, I was inspired by the circular elements in the top left hand corner photo.  I was also inspired by the top middle photo with the water colour paint in it, such pretty colour. I do hope you can see how the mood-board inspired me and how it helped me pull my page together.

To begin the layout, I pulled out this large circular cut file from CUT to YOU and backed just the centre pieces.  I’ve used a combination of papers from the collection for this, it was super quick to do and is a great option if you are new to working with cut file designs.  I’ve then created a frame for my layout background using the ‘Sprightly’ pattern paper, I’ve made sure to also use this pattern within my cut file to help pull the page together.  I love this particular pattern paper for this mood board because of it’s water-colour feel.  It also includes all of the colours I plan to use on my page so it will help to give the page a cohesive look.

I’ve then backed my photo in a pretty mint green pattern paper and stitched around the edge for added detail.  I don’t often work with circles, but I felt the circular elements in my photo were the perfect fit for the mood board and when I teamed them with the cut file and other circular pieces of the ephemera pack, they all work together to help tell the story of my photo.

There are a bunch of elements in the ‘Ephemera Packs’ in this collection, I’ve mixed and matched elements in size and shape, paying particular attention to include some of the circular elements.  I even had a couple of the wreath style elements (from several left over packs) so added them as background layers.

Here you can see the ‘Flair Button’ from the collection and my main embellishment cluster.  I’ve also included some fussy cut out butterflies from the ‘Pretty Bits’ pattern paper.  These butterflies are a little larger than some of the other butterflies in the collection so they are perfect to mix and match.

To finish the layout, I’ve included some of the sentiment stickers from the ‘Accessory Sticker Sheet’ as well as some of the ‘Enamel Dots’.

I’ve also made a You Tube video for this share which you can watch here, I hope it inspires you.

Until next time,

Gwen

xo

 

 

Living the Dream | Unforgettable Collection | Mandy Melville

Hi everyone!

Mandy here with you today for this week’s Throwback Thursday project. I decided to pull out the gorgeous Unforgettable collection to use for the layout that I’m sharing today. This is still one of my favourite CVS collections! I love the combination of the pink, aqua and woodgrain, with touches of peach and purple mixed in as well! The pretty florals and the scripty fonts just top it off beautifully. It was the perfect collection to document a couple of recent photos of a day we spent exploring a local national park. My youngest daughter brought along one of her soft toys (as she usually does), and while we there my son built a little tee pee house for her toy. I thought this was such a sweet thing to do, and I wanted to scrapbook these photos to record the memory.

To start this layout off, I cut some of the papers from the 6×8 inch Paper Stack into 2 inch squares and then adhered them around the outside edge of a sheet of cardstock to create a patchwork style border. Next I trimmed a sheet of white cardstock down to 9 inches square and matted it on the reverse side of the Lacewing patterned paper before adhering it to the centre of the layout. I also added some machine stitching around the edge of the white cardstock to add some extra texture and detail to the page.

I matted one of my photos with the pink side of the Unscripted patterned paper and the other with the beautiful Natural Beauty woodgrain paper. I adhered the photos roughly in the middle of the layout with them slightly overlapping and angled. I used craft foam to adhere the photo on the left to give it some nice shadow and dimension. I also added a couple of stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet on the bottom right hand corner of that photo.

I created two floral clusters on the layout, one to the bottom left of the photos and the other to the top right. I used a combination of florals that were fussy cut from the Glorious patterned paper, along with a couple of leaf sprigs and feathers from the Die Cut Ephemera pack.

For my title I used the ‘Living the Dream’ die cut from Ephemera pack and I added this above the photo on the right. You’ll notice that I’ve created a diagonal flow to the layout with the viewer’s eye being drawn from the large floral cluster in the bottom left, up through the photos to the title and smaller floral cluster in the top right.

I adhered my typed journaling strips below the photos, and to finish the layout off I added some of the cute open hearts from the Clear Sticker pack around the floral clusters and title.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today! I hope that you found some inspiration from my layout.

Mandy x

Bloom | Unforgettable Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, it’s Melissa here and I am so happy to be back with you today sharing a layout that I created with the beautiful Unforgettable collection.  I recently used this collection for Throwback Thursday and as I was going through it I realised that I hadn’t yet used the partial wreath paper.  I was recently packing up my craft room (we are moving) and I found this really old photo of myself pregnant with my first baby, who is now 14. My photo is slightly damaged, but it didn’t stop me from scrapbooking it!

I started by fussy cutting out the centre of the wreath, and I adhered the wreath to the blue and white stripped paper.  I backed my photo with some of the papers from the 6 x 8 paper stack, and lightly distressed the edges.  I used dimensional adhesive to lift up the edges of the wreath.

I rotated the wreath so that it was located on the left side of the page, and then I tucked my photo under it.I added more dimensional adhesive under the flowers that overlapped my photo.

I embellished with ‘Die Cut Ephemera’, ‘Accessory Stickers’, ‘Clear Stickers’ and ‘Enamel Dots’.

The Bloom title is from the ‘Foam Title Stickers’ and was so perfect for my photo.

I hope I have inspired you to use the wreath paper from this beautiful collection in a different orientation.

Have a great week

Melissa xx

 

Everyday Stories | Unforgettable collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends,

It’s Tarrah back with you today to share a new layout focusing on an ‘Everyday’ theme and featuring the gorgeous Unforgettable collection!

When I think of ‘Everyday’ I think of myself with my immediate family – my husband and our 2 sons. It’s not often we get photos together so I take the opportunity when I can! I took a piece of the teal and white stripe paper and trimmed it to measure 8′ x 12′ I then cut it to measure 4′ x 12′ and then cut this into 3 pieces to measure 3′ x 4′ rectangles.

I bent the edges of each piece and adhered them in the centre of the small text patterned paper. I trimmed the small text paper down so that I could mat a pink piece of 12′ x 12′ paper behind the entire layout. I adhered my photo slightly to the left of the layout and in the centre.

On the right of the photo, I added the Everyday sticker from the accessory sticker sheet popping it up using foam dots for dimension. The sticker formed the first part of my page title, the second part of my title is the word ‘Stories’ from the Foam Title Stickers that I placed under my photo. Also on the right I tucked in some floral ephemera, a foam black heart and a die-cut heart and an enamel dot.

On the left I tucked in more ephemera including the camera, some tickets and some more enamel dots. I also added one of the gorgeous flair buttons here too. Lastly I added a few small things including some phrase stickers, dropped a few sprinkles of mist and stamped the date stamp.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog today! I hope you enjoyed my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it?! The design of this layout is easy to recreate yourself using any of the amazing Cocoa Vanilla collections!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Shine Bright | Unforgettable collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi Cocoa Vanilla friends,

It’s Tarrah back with you today and I am excited to share a new layout featuring the amazing Unforgettable collection. This week I had the fun assignment to scrap lift one of, Rachel Lowe, my fellow design team members beautiful layouts. The layout below is my interpretation of Rachel’s gorgeous page…..

Below is Rachel’s gorgeous layout that I chose to take inspiration from. I love how Rachel has created a flowing diagonal design on her page and I still have quite a bit of the Unforgettable collection in my stash so this was a great way to use some of it up.

I replicated the flowing diagonal design and the plain white cardstock background of Rachel’s layout. I placed my foam title sticker title in a slightly different position to Rachel however you can see that I have mostly stuck to Rachel’s beautifully designed layout. I chose to document a sweet photo of my niece, the Unforgettable collection is a gorgeous collection for cute little girls.

Under my photo, I layered one of the wood grain die-cut frames and also tucked in lots of the stunning floral die-cuts. I love how this draws your eye to the subject in the photo. On top of the frame I added some words from the Accessory sticker sheet and a die-cut. I also layered one of the cute flair buttons on top of the camera die-cut and placed this to the left of my photo.

I absolutely LOVE the bows and tassels pack from this collection, I just had to add one of the bows to my page since it’s a little girl page! To balance out the top left of the page, I continued the flow of my page by placing my title and a cluster of florals in the bottom right corner. The butterflies in this collection are stunning also, I added a few of these on my layout as Rachel did. Lastly I added a few of the cute enamel dots, sprinkled some black mist and stamped the date stamp.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it? How do you think I went with the scraplift of Rachel’s gorgeous layout? I hope you think I did it some justice?!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Love This | Unforgettable Collection | Melissa Vining

Hello everyone! It’s Melissa here and I’m thrilled to be back with a layout I created for Throwback Thursday!  I always love when its my turn to use an older collection, and today I decided to go back to 2019 when life was what we considered normal! I created my layout with the beautiful Unforgettable collection, and I specifically wanted to challenge myself to use a cut apart patterned paper as a full sheet.  The paper I chose to use is ‘Pretty Bits’ and ordinarily I would cut this paper up to use as layers, or use it to back a cut file.  The photos are of my youngest daughter Ava with a friend who my little girls consider to be their older sister!

I used black embroidery thread to stitch between the lines of the different papers and I love how it created a pocket page look, but without the pockets.

I decided to place my two photos on two patterns that were small and repeating.  I used papers from the ‘6×8 Inch Paper Stack’ and distressed the edges.  I also cut out some of the smaller cut aparts from the paper stack because the smaller size was perfect to use as embellishments for my page.

The top left hand part of the paper had a very subtle black floral on white which was perfect for my title.  I used several of the ‘Clear Stickers’ and even layered them to create a mixed media look.  I created my title from two of the ‘Foam Title Stickers’ and placed them directly on top of the clear stickers.  I love how this turned out, and I added a fussy cut butterfly.

For my journalling I used a circular frame from the ‘Die Cut Ephemera’ pack and I glued it onto the striped side of ‘Sprightly’ so that I could use the lines for my hand writing.  I embellished with a ticket from the Die Cut Ephemera, a ‘Flair Button’ and another fussy cut butterfly.

The bottom left had side part of the paper had 4 larger butterflies printed on it.  I fussy cut the same butterflies from another piece of the same paper, and then adhered them by glueing the centres and lifting up the wings and adding dimension.  I also added lots of subtle shimmer to the butteries, and several other features on the layout.

I made a video of my process which you can watch below.

I hope I’ve inspired you to use a cut apart as a whole entire sheet.

Have a lovely rest of your week!

Melissa xx

 

 

 

 

 

Love This | Unforgettable Collection | Melissa Vining

Hello everyone! It’s Melissa here and I’m thrilled to be back with a layout I created for Throwback Thursday!  I always love when its my turn to use an older collection, and today I decided to go back to 2019 when life was what we considered normal! I created my layout with the beautiful Unforgettable collection, and I specifically wanted to challenge myself to use a cut apart patterned paper as a full sheet.  The paper I chose to use is ‘Pretty Bits’ and ordinarily I would cut this paper up to use as layers, or use it to back a cut file.  The photos are of my youngest daughter Ava with a friend who my little girls consider to be their older sister!

I used black embroidery thread to stitch between the lines of the different papers and I love how it created a pocket page look, but without the pockets.

I decided to place my two photos on two patterns that were small and repeating.  I used papers from the ‘6×8 Inch Paper Stack’ and distressed the edges.  I also cut out some of the smaller cut aparts from the paper stack because the smaller size was perfect to use as embellishments for my page.

The top left hand part of the paper had a very subtle black floral on white which was perfect for my title.  I used several of the ‘Clear Stickers’ and even layered them to create a mixed media look.  I created my title from two of the ‘Foam Title Stickers’ and placed them directly on top of the clear stickers.  I love how this turned out, and I added a fussy cut butterfly.

For my journalling I used a circular frame from the ‘Die Cut Ephemera’ pack and I glued it onto the striped side of ‘Sprightly’ so that I could use the lines for my hand writing.  I embellished with a ticket from the Die Cut Ephemera, a ‘Flair Button’ and another fussy cut butterfly.

The bottom left had side part of the paper had 4 larger butterflies printed on it.  I fussy cut the same butterflies from another piece of the same paper, and then adhered them by glueing the centres and lifting up the wings and adding dimension.  I also added lots of subtle shimmer to the butteries, and several other features on the layout.

I made a video of my process which you can watch below.

I hope I’ve inspired you to use a cut apart as a whole entire sheet.

Have a lovely rest of your week!

Melissa xx

 

 

 

 

 

Unforgettable You | Unforgettable Collection | Kylie Kingham

Hello lovely crafty friends! It’s Kylie back with you today with a fun new layout to share. It’s a new month which means there is a new mood board available in the Cocoa Vanilla Community FB group. Designed by DT member Gwen, it has a beautiful bright colour palette and fun Summery vibe. I decided to work with the ‘Unforgettable’ collection as I felt the colour theme suited the mood board perfectly. In case you haven’t seen the mood board as yet, here is a peep-

As a soft focal point of my layout I also used a custom cut file that was designed for the INSD festivities recently, (also found in the Cocoa Vanilla Communtiy Facebook group). There are many ways in which you can use cut files and the method I am sharing today shows how it can be used in the background of a page for texture. I have cut mine out on white cardstock and adhered it over a white background. Once in place I love how it almost looks like lace.

Usually I am not a fan of using coloured stitching as an accent on my white background layouts. I can’t even tell you all why….Just not my thing. But there are times where I feel it belongs, as I did with this layout. It framed the end result nicely and broke up the white background and cut file nicely.Once my cut file had been cut out I adhered it to the background using a spray on tacky glue. I find this a super easy method when adhering large pieces such as the background design. It is best to do this outside however so you don’t get glue overspray on everything including your floor! Some sections didn’t stick down flat and I was ok with that. I felt it was more effective to have some leaves and flowers sitting off the background.

One of the many things I love about Cocoa Vanilla is the die cut packs. Especially all the florals! My photo was printed to 3″x 4″ and added over the background with foam adhesive squares. From there I began adding lots of florals and leaves to form a neat cluster that balanced the photo.

For extra colour, I also added another floral cluster to the opposite corner to my photo. Some die cuts were adhered with foam adhesive squares to give dimension, this also gave a nice even balance to the completed page.

So you can see exactly how my layout came together I have also filmed a short process video:

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you have enjoyed seeing my latest page layout.

Kylie.

Unforgettable You | Unforgettable Collection | Kylie Kingham

Hello lovely crafty friends! It’s Kylie back with you today with a fun new layout to share. It’s a new month which means there is a new mood board available in the Cocoa Vanilla Community FB group. Designed by DT member Gwen, it has a beautiful bright colour palette and fun Summery vibe. I decided to work with the ‘Unforgettable’ collection as I felt the colour theme suited the mood board perfectly. In case you haven’t seen the mood board as yet, here is a peep-

As a soft focal point of my layout I also used a custom cut file that was designed for the INSD festivities recently, (also found in the Cocoa Vanilla Communtiy Facebook group). There are many ways in which you can use cut files and the method I am sharing today shows how it can be used in the background of a page for texture. I have cut mine out on white cardstock and adhered it over a white background. Once in place I love how it almost looks like lace.

Usually I am not a fan of using coloured stitching as an accent on my white background layouts. I can’t even tell you all why….Just not my thing. But there are times where I feel it belongs, as I did with this layout. It framed the end result nicely and broke up the white background and cut file nicely.Once my cut file had been cut out I adhered it to the background using a spray on tacky glue. I find this a super easy method when adhering large pieces such as the background design. It is best to do this outside however so you don’t get glue overspray on everything including your floor! Some sections didn’t stick down flat and I was ok with that. I felt it was more effective to have some leaves and flowers sitting off the background.

One of the many things I love about Cocoa Vanilla is the die cut packs. Especially all the florals! My photo was printed to 3″x 4″ and added over the background with foam adhesive squares. From there I began adding lots of florals and leaves to form a neat cluster that balanced the photo.

For extra colour, I also added another floral cluster to the opposite corner to my photo. Some die cuts were adhered with foam adhesive squares to give dimension, this also gave a nice even balance to the completed page.

So you can see exactly how my layout came together I have also filmed a short process video:

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you have enjoyed seeing my latest page layout.

Kylie.

Love You | Unforgettable collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi crafty friends and Happy Mother’s Day to all the beautiful Mum’s out there!

It’s Tarrah back with you today to share a new layout for our Mother’s Day special today. I chose to document a photo of myself and my beautiful Mum using the stunning Unforgettable collection.

I chose a beautiful title cut file design from CUT to YOU and backed the open spaces of the design with different patterned papers from the Unforgettable 6′ x 8′ inch paper stack. Once the cut file was all backed, I added craft foam underneath and then adhered it to the centre of the pretty Garland paper. I trimmed down the Garland paper slightly and then adhered this sheet to the ‘B’ side of the Forget Me Not paper.

 

Underneath the flower in the ‘Love’ word of the cut file, I placed one of the round die-cuts. I also layered a butterfly die-cut on top of this flower. On the other flower, I adhered a flair button that says ‘Love This’. I placed my photo with some layers underneath to the left of my page underneath the ‘Love’ word. I placed an arrow sticker on top of my photo and also a phrase sticker too. On the right of the ‘Love’ word, I added the ‘Everyday’ accessory sticker and some accessory stickers. I love the paper tassels in this collection – they are so cute! I added a pink one poking out from the bottom of the ‘You’ word, I tucked in some die-cuts in this area too.

In the top left area of the cut file, I tucked in some more florals and added a black heart foam heart and a clear sticker heart too. I love the pop of black the foam hearts give the layout. When I create my layouts, I always add the largest things to my page first like my photo, some papers and a title, I then add medium sized embellishments like die-cuts and flair buttons and I finish with the smaller embellishments like stickers and enamel dots.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed my Mother’s Day themed layout. There is not a great deal of the Unforgettable collection in the Cocoa Vanilla store so make sure to get yourself some before it all goes for good!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

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