12 x 12 scrapbooking layout

Fall day | These Days Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello, hello! Welcome Cocoa Vanilla friends. It’s Anna here with my newest page made with “These days” collection. I am still waiting for a brand new christmas line to come to my other side of Earth so I have more time to scrapbook fall photos. Although this collection isn’t exactly fall themed, warm colors make it very easy to combine them with red, yellow and dark green of Polish autumn. Versatility is always the great feature of all CVS lines! Zoe knows hot to design them the way they match many themes and many photos.

This time I had a picture of my older daughter Gabrysia feeding the squirell. In one of the parks we like to visit those cute little creatures are tame enough to take nuts directly from the palm of the hand. My girls love it so much and mamarazzi also like it :) I created very simple and easy to make page.

I picked papers in warm colors like this “Home grown” pattern with flowers on one side and whimsy squares on the other. I love both sides so I decided to fold the corner of the paper to showcase two of them. Lacking triangle was filled with piece of “Daybreak” paper. Next step was to add chosen photo with a layer of cardboard for more dimension.

I gathered few flowers from Floral ephemera pack and some small elements from Ephemera pack and added them around the photo. I would say it’s my signature style thing – I don’t like empty space around photos so I always try to tuck some tabs or flowers behind them. I also found few trees and added them to the mix too.

Bottom part of the page felt empty and needed little something to be added to maintain the balance of the layout. It was a good spot for title, that I made combining Alpha stickers and Foam phrases. I removed the letter “s” from word DAYS to better fit my needs. Don’t be shy with altering stickers or other premade elements. Even though they seem “ready” they are only a starting point and you can change the colors, cut them into smaller pieces – whatever suits you. I like to fussy cut smaller elements from bigger ephemeras or stickers!

My last step was to add super cute wooden buttons and splash everything with yellow and orange mist. Little mess always adds this unique touch to the page.

Do you like making simple pages? I am more of “sweat and blood” scrapbooker but sometimes I just need to sit down and relax with quick layout like this one. That is all for today my fellow scrapbookers. Thank you for stopping by and see you in two weeks.

XO Anna

Picture Perfect Moments | These Days Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, It’s Melissa here and I’m so excited to be back sharing a new layout that I created with the gorgeous ‘These Days’ collection!  Lately I’ve seen a trend of layouts created with a central cascading of elements.   I decided to create my take on this trend with a photo of my oldest and youngest kids during our latest lockdown in August 2021.

I absolutely love the patterned paper “Neighbourhood”, the side that is white with black drawn flowers.  I knew that I had to use it as my background.

For my paper layers I used a border strip from “The Good Life”, and torn strips of “Home Grown” and “Wall of Fame”.  I machine stitched them to add extra texture.  Next I adhered my photo on some craft foam for dimension.

I added lots of “Clear Stickers” to build mixed media type layers. I love how they are translucent.

I also added “Die Cut Ephemera” for extra embellishment on either sides of the photo, and I used the beautiful banner for my title. Of course I had to add a gold glitter “Puffy Heart”.

I hope you enjoyed my layout created with this gorgeous collection.

Take care

Melissa xx

Little Moments of Joy | These days collection | Josefine vd Hoeven

Hello Paperllovers,
Welcome to the Cocoa Vanilla studio blog! It’s Josefine here and I’m sharing a new layout with you today. I really wanted to use this spring photo of my kids and with the beautiful “These days” collection you can definitely use this to scrap your spring photos as well. I used a lot of embellishments from the These Days collection. Like the photo frames, wooden buttons, butterflies, flowers and stickers.

I start by cutting the photo frames and with gold sewing thread I stitched the edges. I cut the photo into a circle and also cut two circles from the design paper as well. I placed these circles behind the photo and with gold sewing thread I stitched the edges.

I die-cut twigs and leaves with various metal dies. Of course, you can also cut twigs and leaves with your electronic cutting machine. I colored the twigs and leaves with different colors of Distress Oxide. The colors I used are, worn lipstick, peeled paint, mowed lawn and spiced marmalade. I placed the photo in the center of my layout and slide the photo frames underneath on both sides of the photo. The third photo frame I place on top and using 3d foam so I can easily slide the colored branches around the photo.

I cut some butterflies and flowers from the gorgeous design papers and used the beautiful flower die-cuts, stickers and the wooden buttons from this awesome collection. I placed them I around the photo. I love creating layers with these amazing embellishments. For the title, I use a pocket page card titled ” Little Moments of Joy” I cut out the text and use it as a die-cut on my layout.

Now it’s time to make some splatters. First I started with white acrylic paint and mix it with water and used my brush to splatter with. I do this with the green Distress Oxide “mowed lawn” as well. I absolutely love the effect of ink splatters on my layout. I cut a label sticker in half and placed it under the clusters I made. I am very surprised and happy how my layout turned out when I mix these cheerful and bright colors of the distress oxide with this amazing collection. This way you can create a whole different atmosphere and I love it! This beautiful collection is so easy to use for different themes and seasons. Definitely a must have for any scrapbooker.

I hope I was able to inspire you today with this scrapbook layout and show you how easy it is to
use this collection for different seasons as well. I want to thank you all for visiting the Cocoa Vanilla blog today and of course hope to see you again next time with new inspiration. Wish you all a beautiful and crafty day friends! XoXo, Jo

 

 

 

 

Ho Ho Ho | Joyful Collection | Kylie Kingham.

Hello everyone. It’s Kylie back with you today to share a brand new layout I have created. I am a little bit excited as it is the first layout I have made with the new ‘Joyful’ collection. My children and I have always loved watching Christmas movies with ‘Elf’ being one of our favourites. So today’s layout features a cute pair of Elf legs in tribute to our favourite tradition and movie.

Creating my Elf legs was easy and you can give it a try too! I cut two pieces of ‘HOLLY DAYS’ paper to measure 5″x 2″. For the feet I cut two pieces of ‘MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT’ paper to measure 3.5″x 2″. Finally, I cut some little cuffs from the ‘TIS THE SEASON’ paper to measure 2″ wide, and I fussy cut along one of the zig zag lines. All that was left to do then was shape the feet. I used a corner punch to round them out and trimmed out a piece from the top to make the look more authentically ‘Elf’.To finish I added one of the gold stars to the toes.

Both the ‘Advent’ and ‘Feeling Festive’ papers were used for the background paper, with a border strip added from ‘Tis The Season’ and ‘Deck The Halls’ papers. My Elf was adhered to the top of the page and I used some foam adhesive squares to add the cuffs to give it more dimension.

My photos were trimmed to a smaller 3″x 4″ size to be adhered across the lower side of my layout. I used some of the cute die cuts and chipboard stickers  to add balance to their position and add more colour.

I so love the inclusion of the puffy gold title stickers in the ‘Joyful’ collection. I used them to create a large title to suit my page and adhered them next to my Elf legs in the upper portion of my layout.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you give my little ‘Elf’ theme a try for yourself.

Until next time,

Kylie.

 

 

Cherish These Days | These Days collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends!

It’s Sophie on the blog with you and I am sharing a very colorful layout today created with the “These Days” collection !

 

The “Daybreak” patterned paper from the collection was my starting point and it couldn’t more perfect for this Fall photo of Sabrina in the woods!

I teared a chunk of it and placed it on the base of a thick white cardstock to ground my layout.

I used 3 beautiful Pocket Cards that I arranged in a horizontal line on each side of my photo. I added stitching and adhesive foam on some of them for a little extra dimension and interest. On the rainbow pocket card, I added a few inspiring words taken from the Accessory Stickers sheet that I mounted on adhesive foam.

 

 

 

I added beautiful flowers and leaves from the Floral Ephemera pack and the Die Cut Ephemera pack on the bottom left of the photo and teared the “Daybreak” paper to tuck some flowers under there too.

 

I fussy cut numerous butterflies out of the “Take Flight” patterned paper and scattered them as if the were flying away from the woods in the photo. I also created a few clouds with white cardstock and the “Home Grown” patterned paper.

 

Finally, I created strips of typed journaling and added a beautiful Wood Button to my floral cluster.

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the bright colors yet the autumnal feel to the page !

3 Pocket cards, a teared patterned paper, fussy cutting and a few Die cuts is all it takes to create a beautiful page !

I hope this was inspiring for you today.

Thank you so much for stopping by,

Sophie xx

So Sweet | These Days Collection | Danni Visser

Hello lovely Cocoa Vanilla Studio fans! Danni here with an embroidery-inspired layout using a fun cutfile. I have not been doing much hand stitching recently and I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it. I have chosen to document an adorable photo of my daughter ready for kindy one morning.

I started with a cutfile by COAPA Cutfiles featuring a cute embroidery hoop and stitching holes for these overlapping hearts. I chose some embroidery threads in colours to complement the These Days collection and stitched them in a chain-link stitch. I cut the outside hoop of the cutfile in the woodgrain from Pretty Posies 12×12 patterned paper and adhered the two pieces together.

I popped the whole hoop up on dimensional foam and positioned it in the centre of Home Grown 12×12 patterned paper as my background. I punched a hole through the top of the hoop and threaded a pink ribbon through, to create the illusion that the hoop is hanging from the top of the page.

I matted my photo with the pink spotted paper from the A5 paper stack and positioned it to overlap the embroidery hoop. I love this photo of my daughter and the colours she was wearing matched the layout nicely, but the background was very cluttered and had lots of different colours. By removing the saturation from the background of the photo I was able to make sure the background didn’t clash with the layout without having to turn the whole photo black and white.

For embellishment I created a classic three clusters of florals around my photo and the outside of the cutfile. I used a combination of floral ephemera and the little flowers from the clear stickers to create these. I also tucked in some of the tiny black foam leaves from the foam title stickers. I also used to foam title stickers to create my title “So Sweet” curving around the edge of the cutfile. I positioned it diagonally across the page from my photo to create balance on the layout.

To continue with the hearts theme, I added three of the puffy gold glitter hearts that added a lovely touch of sparkle. I also included a sprinkling of the teeny tiny hearts from the puffy stickers around each of my embellishment clusters. As a final touch I added some splatters of white and yellow ink to finish off the layout.

I love how soft and pretty this ended up looking. I hope you enjoyed joining me. There is a process video on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio YouTube channel if you would like to watch the layout come together, linked below. Happy scrapping!

Danni x

 

Little Moments of Joy | These Days Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura back again with a really sweet layout using what I call a ‘picture in picture’ design using the new These Days collection. This design features a smaller layout inside of a larger one and gives the impression of a frame or shadow box. The inside layout is 8 1/2 x 10 inches with a paper pieced wood grain border to frame it, then attached to the gorgeous heart background of The Good Life patterned paper. I also added one of the super cute wood buttons from this collection at the top to give the impression that it’s push-pinned on a wall.

I switched things up for myself with this one, moving the photos to the bottom of the page and the journaling to the top, which is quite opposite of my normal style. Along the beautiful green polka dot border, I added fussy cut houses from the cut apart side of The Good Life paper. Some of these little houses are raised on pop dots and others flat, for an impression of dimension. On the top right of my photos is a corner cluster that wraps around with a large and medium floral, plus a tab.

Each of my photos has a white border and a vellum photo mat to soften the layers.The title is actually fussy cut from one of the journaling cards included in the These Days collection and it fits perfectly between my two photos. By layering two of the ephemera floral clusters underneath of it, the title appears to burst out from the page. I’ve also fussy cut several of the tiny flowers from the pattern papers to use as scattering bits around my clusters.

  

I really love the way this rainbow stripe peeks out from the side of my photos and adds a bit more color to the overall layout. This bottom left photo features a horizontal cluster with more fussy cut florals from the stunning Home Grown patterned paper. As a finishing touch, I added gold Nuvo drops in the centers of some of my flowers and dotted around the outside of my clusters.

I hope this inspires you to look at your patterned papers and journaling cards a little differently and incorporate them in a big way on your projects too! To see how “Little Moments of Joy” came together, check out the process video below!

Our House | These Days collection | Josefine vd Hoeven

Hello creative Paper lovers,
It’s Josefine here at the Cocoa Vanilla blog today with a new layout for you. For this layout I used the beautiful collection “These Days” The challenge for this layout is “creative journaling” therefore I created an interactive element for journaling on this layout.

One of my favorite songs is “Our House” by Madness. I also think the song fits very well with the great style of this collection and it makes me think of my own family. I draw two circles in the center of the page and with the mini alpha set I make my title on the first circle. On the second circle I write part of the lyrics.I used my sewing machine and stitch with gold sewing thread through my title.

 

From the design paper “Neighborhood” I fussy cut all the houses and placed them in the center. I cut a 19 cm x 7 cm strip of design paper and fold it in half. I placed the photo on top of it and so I create a place to write my creative journaling in it.

Now that I have finished my journaling I am making a cluster of die-cuts flowers, butterflies, wooden buttons and word strips on the left side of the photo. I think it gives a fun and playful effect to my layout. I use 3D foam to create different layers in my cluster.

Finally I splatter with white acrylic paint that I mix with water and splatter on my layout I used my watercolor brush for this. For some extra color I also splatter with the color ” worn lipstick” from the Distress Oxides.

 

 

I want to thank everyone for stopping by the blog today and I hope I was able to inspire you. Of course I hope to see you again next time on the Cocoa Vanilla blog and for today I wish you a very happy and creative day. XoXo, Jo

 

Family | Midnight Collection | Kylie Kingham

Hello Cocoa Vanilla fans! It’s Kylie with you today with a brand new layout to share. The theme on the blog today was ‘Creative Journaling’ so I am going to share a fun way I have incorporated a journal card to a layout.For my 12 x 12 page I have used one of my very favourite past collections, ‘MIDNIGHT’.

Some torn strips of paper were added to my background page with double sided tape to give some nice texture.I’m documenting some cutesy first birthday photos and thought it would be fun to have an envelope on my page. This was created using my We R Memory Keepers, All In One tool and I used measurements to fit a 6 x 4 card. However if you don’t have this tool you could easily make your own envelope by carefully opening out a paper envelope, tracing it before cutting it out. So using it as a template. Once I had made my envelope I then made a lining for it in co-ordinating paper and adhered it to my background page.

From the ‘MIXED BLESSING’ paper I trimmed a 3 x 4 card and I like to use my typewriter to add my journaling. It just seems to have an aesthetic I love plus I really don’t like my handwriting! Once completed I then added it over a piece of ‘INKY DEPTHS’ paper so it had a nice contrasting border. I used this same paper to mat both of my 3 x 4 photos too. My journal card was added to the envelope with repositionable tape, that way it can be removed to read and put back in place easily.

To finish my page, all that was left to do was to add some flowers…….LOTS of flowers, as well as a large title from the die cut pack.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing how I have included some creative journaling in my layout today and that it gives you a little inspiration for your own creating! Until next time,

Kylie.

Always Lovely | These days Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello crafty Friends. It’s Anna here and I have another page to share with you with beautiful “These days” collection. To be honest, I am in the process of making masculine album as an inspiration for you, but I underestimated the time needed to finish it. So layout it is this week and I will finish the album and share it as my next inspiration. This full of flowers page needed a serious date with my scissors :)

It started as a white sheet of paper, blue ink and a stencil. I applied really soft layer in the area I knew my flowers will end up. Next step was to add yellow splatters and wait until they are dry. In the meantime I was fussy cutting like crazy. All the flowers come from “Home grown” paper sheet. You may wonder why I didn’t use Flower pack instead. First, I wanted my flowers without the white outline. Second – I was being cheap here :) I would have to use at least one pack of them and it seemed like too much for one page. And they are in the category “too pretty to use”.

I also cut out some butterflies from “Take flight” paper to add to my composition. After all the flowers were ready, it all went pretty fast. I used foam squares to glue down the elements of my composition because you know I love dimension. I made my photo a party of the square frame and embellished it here and there with Ephemera pieces and Puffy stickers.

I wasn’t feeling creative for some unique title so I chose words from Title foam stickers. The font is so lovely and the quality is excellent. Black letters really pop from the background. As you can see, this page didn’t need much more than some flowers and butterflies and my embellishing was quite fast and easy here after all the flowers took their place.

My last step was to splash everything with blush mist and the page was done. I love squeezing out as much as I can from a simple paper sheet and this page is a perfect example. With a little bit of patience set of pattern papers can help you create fantastic projects. That’s why I always buy doubles for papers that can be fussy cut, like a flower or butterfly sheet. This way I use one as a simple pattern and second for cutting out pieces and I am not stuck with the dilemma – which side to use :)

That is all for today. Thank you so much for stopping by and fingers crossed I will finish my boy album in next two weeks :)

XO Anna

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