Leila’s EPIC Adventure | Throwback Thursday – Legendary Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hello Hello and Happy Christmas Eve to you all! It’s Michelle here today with a new layout share for “Throwback Thursday, our regular fortnightly throwback to beloved Cocoa Vanilla Studio collections from the past. This week I’m sharing a super fun layout using the awesome Legendary Collection which is perfect for documenting all kinds of funny moments, especially funny photo’s of my sweet Leila who just recently turned 10!

The layout was based on a fun title idea to use with a funny photo of Leila on a toddle ride at a local shopping centre. She’s way too big to fit in the actual seat so she was perched on top for her Epic Adventure to ‘Toy Land’.

I started the layout by making the title then worked around that to create the whole layout. I’ve used the woodgrain paper ‘Outdoors Type‘ as the backing and layered in a couple of other pattern papers ‘Offbeat‘, ‘Epic Tales‘ and ‘Wild one‘ to make the photo stack pop.

There’s some hidden journalling tucked into the top of the photo too, using a tag from the Ephemera Pack and shared up close further down this post.

I like creating titles with mixed fonts and this collection has plenty. I’ve fussy cut the EPIC letters found on the cut apart paper ‘Epic Tales‘ to give them a more 3D look when adhered to the layout with foam tape. Under this I’ve added a Die Cut Title word plus another strip piece from the cut apart paper. The alphabet stickers I used for Leila’s name are an older CVS product thats currently not available. To the right of the title I added the hot air balloon from the Ephemera Pack.

I added the giant stars from the Ephemera Pack to the top and bottom of the layout on a diagonal across from each other, then layered more Ephemera pieces and Accessory Stickers to create open clusters. I certainly love a cluster of stars, almost as much as I love a cluster of florals!

I used a range of adhesives to keep some pieces flat and give some slight dimension. More often than not I use my tiny attacher, foam tape and tiny glue dots. Oh and sometimes I sneak in a little machine stitching

To finish the layout I’ve splattered gold ink everywhere, added a sprinkling of Enamel Dots within the clusters and added the journalling to the hidden tag. It certainly was hilarious watching her try to squeeze into the seat that day!

Well crafty friends thats all from me today, here’s one last peek at the layout I’ve shared with you today..

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing what I created for this weeks Throwback Thursday post. If you don’t already have the Legendary Collection in your stash you really should add it. There’s plenty of ways you can use it, even if you don’t have boys to scrap!

Thank you all so much for stopping by today. I hope you all have a safe and wonderful Christmas with your friends and family. Stay safe and be Merry! I’ll be back in a couple of days to share the remainder of my Christmas Album using the Merry & Bright collection.

Until then, Happy Scrapping.. if you get the time to that is.

Michelle x