Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with the brand new Great Escape collection! Love the camping/nature theme with this one! I have so many beautiful photos of my family on camp-outs and hikes to scrap, so this collection came at the perfect time. I started with the stunning Horizon patterned paper for my background.
I layered some simple cloud cut files with the rainbow strip paper from the A5 paper stack, then added fussy cut clouds and stars from the Starry Night patterned paper. A few lovely stickers from the 6×12 sticker sheet made the perfect cluster under the title and added a little extra detail to my photos.
I created a journaling spot in one of the clouds and used manufacturing strips to create an interesting asymmetrical base for my photos to sit on. Love how trimming these strips in half allowed me to tuck them behind my photos and stretch them to the full width of the page!
I hope this layout inspires you to try a busy background for yourself! If you’d like to see how “Campers Life” came together, be sure to check out the process video below:
Hello crafty Friends. It’s been a while since I shared some of my projects with you so I am back with another layout. While I am waiting for the brand new collection to come to my doorstep, I reached for older but still amazing “No limits” line. As you know I do not have human son so I usually use masculine collections to scrapbook my furry son or hubby. Hubby doesn’t like photos so I mostly focus on dog :)
He is very noisy and need to be at the center of every event, including all the house works. This time I caught him “helping” my hubby puting Ikea cabinets together. He was very interested in the process, trying to steal some parts to play with them.
I printed two square photos from that moment and decided to use a combination of wooden pattern and kraft cardstock for the background. I am running low on full 12*12 sheets from “No limits” collection so I needed to be creative.
I backed my photos with pieces of pattern papers I got left and added some frames from Chipboard Stickers sheet. Title of my page was created with Die Cut Titles. however, I didn’t used the whole words. I cut out single letters from some of them and arranged them into new words. This was I got a font that perfectly matches the collection.
I finished my design using bits and pieces from Epherema Pack and two leftover Wood Epoxy Buttons. It’s quite a simple page but who said they all need to be complicated, full of layers and techniques. It’s the story that matters the most. And scrapbooking by furry boy gives me a lot of joy!
That is all for today. Thank you so much for spending your time with me and see you in February!
Hello Friends. We are only three days until New Year so it’s a perfect time for all the summaries of year 2023. That’s why I want to invite you for a short journey through my favourite layouts from 2023 that I made with wonderful CVS collections. I picked four of them – pages I had the most pleasure making. Let’s dive into them!
This page was made with “Daydream” collection mostly. I focused on pattern paper, filled with flowers and went crazy with fussy cutting. Next step was to arrange a big bouquet using all those florals and butterflies. It’s a perfect recipe for using up the leftovers of any CVS collection.
You know I like adding some mixed media to my projects and here I played with vividly colored watercolor brushes. Scrapbooking memory from our trip to Barcelona using bits and pieces from “Sunkissed” collection was a pure joy.
After the summer, there comes fall and another mixed media layout. This time I reached for newest “Heart & Home” collection and wonderful, warm color palette. Die cutting bunch of leaves from pattern papers is always a good idea! It’s a perfect way to use up scraps or smaller paper pads.
Last layout I wanted to share with you is also made with “Heart & Home” collection and it documents one of our family trips. I reached for one of my all time favourites – wooden pattern as a background of the page. Little doodled frames were a perfect match with my photos.
I can’t wait to see what Zoe prepared for upcoming year 2024. Whatever it will be, I am sure it will look amazing as always. I know you are waiting for new line as impatiently as I am!
Thank you so much for spending your time with me and see in 2024! Sending you lots of grean New Year’s wishes!
It’s Sophie on the blog today with a new page to share!
I went for another Holiday layout as we seriously approach Christmas Day!!
I used the Merry & Bright collection and a white cardstock as my background.
I backed the photo with a beautiful diagonal stiped paper and placed a Pocket Card right next to it that serves both as my title and journaling.
I created a cluster of die cut Christmas trees all around it, with fussy cut flowers, a few ephemeras and a beautiful Flair Button from the collection.
I also added three Christmas ornaments and a label to stamp the date.
Here are more close-ups:
I love the result, and hope you do too!
Enjoy your Christmas holiday, I will see you again with a new layout in 2024 !!
It’s Sophie on the blog today with a new page to share!
I am all in the Christmas fever this time of year and used the beautiful Joyful collection for my Christmassy layout!
I teared two big pieces of patterned papers from the collection and placed them on the top of a thick white cardstock.
I layered tissue paper, adhesive foam and another patterned paper behind my photo and placed it a little bit off centered to the right.
I built a beautiful cluster of embellishments from the Ephemera pack and some fussy cut florals, as well as a few sticker phrases on the bottom right of the photo.
My title is made out of the Puffy Title Sticker sheet.
Finally, I fussy cut stars out of patterned papers and scattered them around my title and photo.
Here are more close-ups:
I hope that you like this page and that it can give you new ideas to try ! Most of all, I hope that you are having a wonderful holiday season!
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts here with a fun and funky grid layout using the cut-apart sheet from the No Limits collection to scrap FIVE photos on one page! Absolutely love this mix of patterns, it was perfect for these pictures from out trip to the hands-on museum. This is a busy layout, but one of the ways I made this layout a little more cohesive was to mirror the top left corner with the bottom right.
Another fun idea was to use cut-apart cards from the second cut-apart sheet in the collection to layer on top of the first! The “You Rock My World” and Always Be Your Awesome Self” came from that second patterned paper and helped me to limit the color scheme of this page. The clusters on the open rectangles are a mix of chipboard, ephemera, and puffy stickers with fussy cut stars on the edges. The trio of tickets in the middle was a fun detail for a museum trip!
This bottom left side of the grid holds the title because the two photos that I loved the most ended up on the bottom row. Added to the die-cut title “Awesome” are borders of fussy cut stars from the Nebula patterned paper. Love all the elements that made it onto this page, especially the chipboard planets!
I especially liked this part of the grid with a rocket ship bursting from the “Out of this world” chipboard piece. It was a fun way to incorporate a science themed icon in this museum layout. The photos I’ve spread out throughout the grid are all so energetic and bold that I just had to use this equally bold collection.
I hope this layout inspires you to give your cut-aparts a second look and find new ways to use them! If you’d like to see how “Awesome” came together, check out the process video below:
Hello crafty Friends. December is almost here with it’s festivities and I am for sure going to join this merry madness. But before I will dive into christmas, I have one final fall project to share with you. It was created with beautiful “Heart & Home” collection – the newest addition to CVS family. It already landed in CVS shop and what’s even better – it’s on sale! So run quickly to grab it, along with many discounted goodies from older collections.
I created another layout, this time with brand new photos of my girls. I always take them to the nearby forest, when the autumn takes it’s most glorious colors to snap some photos. Thanks to that, I have a bunch of pretty pictures to scrapbook with all the pretty seasonal collections.
I love all wooden patterns and I like using them as a backgrounds. It’s already a second page I made with “Heart & Home” with “Framed” paper. It has such a lovely, warm color. I cut my photo into a circle and placed it in the middle of my page.
Using “Floral ephemera pack” I made a frame around my photo using both flowers and leaves. I also added some butterflies (or probably moths) to this composition. They are cut out from one of the 12*12 papers called “Fall beauty”. I just love papers with elements you can fussy cut and extend your ephemeras, as they usually run out quickly. So keep an eye on papers with elements, that are big enough to be cut out and are not clustered together overlaping eachother. Buy extra sheet of this paper and you will thank me later!
My title is made with super pretty and shiny “Die cut titles with gold foil”. They always look amazing but are so hard to photograph. They either look black or white in the photos because of the light reflecting off them. I used two words “happy” and “hearts” to make my title and spread them on both sides of the photo. I also added bits and pieces from “Ephemera pack”, like house and some sentiments.
My final touch, as always, was to add some tiny accents like puffy hearts from “Puffy heart stickers”. And that’s it! Layout was finished.
This page is a closure for my fall projects. Now it’s time to dive fully into christmas! I will be back in two weeks with something festive! Thank you so much for staying with me and wee you soon!
It’s Sophie on the blog today with a mood board inspired layout!
Have you seen the November challenge? Niki Rowland designed a gorgeous mood board named “Grateful” this month. Here it is:
I used the These Days collection for my page, and was inspired by the warm orange and yellow tones of the board, the beautiful flowers on the left lower image, the sewing on the top right image and the heartfelt love on the top left image.
The photo of my two fur babies on a crisp sunny morning is so precious and was the perfect photo to illustrate the theme of the board.
I centered it on a 12×12 white cardstock, added two strips of patterned paper on the top and bottom parts of the layout and handstitched two horizontal lines with green thread.
I selected two pocket cards, added stitches to them and placed them on each side of the photo for my subtitle and journaling.
My title comes from the Foam Title Stickers from the collection.
I added embellishments from the Ephemera pack, the floral die cuts pack, a few phrase stickers and two fussy cut butterflies.
Here are more close-ups:
A mood board is such a great source of inspiration! Check out the blog on November 1st to see all the details of the challenge and how to enter for you to get a chance to win a $25 store voucher to the Cocoa Vanilla Studio online store.
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a bold and beautiful layout that’s a bit of a stash dive into the stunning No Limits collection. I absolutely love this one and had to dig it out for this fun page featuring our visit to a hands-on museum on our last trip to Michigan. I started with a large block of this playful orange patterned paper with a little border strip on each side, then layered my photos over ephemera stars and a cut-apart journaling spot.
These large star frames are some of my favorite pieces from this collection! On the empty right and left edges of the layout, I added a scattered star border using fussy cut shapes from the Nebula patterned paper. Each of the stars is outlined with black gel pen to make them stand-out and I added a few tiny, sketchy stars for a bit of fun.
The bottom of the layout has a simple cluster with border strips underneath of a frame from the ephemera pack. I backed the frame with a cut-apart piece and filled it with the leftover bits of stars from the border layered under a cut-apart subtitle. This element was so much fun to put together!
I hope this layout inspires you to give this scattered border style a try. If you’d like to see how “Adventure” came together, check out the process video below:
It’s Sophie on the blog today with this new layout!
I used the beautiful Heart & Home collection again!
I wanted to focus on the beautiful frames from the “Framed” patterned paper. I fussy cut a few of them and centered them under a beautiful and sweet photo of my two doggies cuddling and sleeping together!
I machine stitched around the frames and used them to add subtitles and a little bit of handwritten journaling.
I placed a strip of the “Fall Beauty” patterned paper at the bottom of the layout and tucked a few framed under it. I also added many fussy cut leaves and flowers to embellish around the frames, with two bigger floral clusters around my photo.
The GORGEOUS heart & Home Gold Foil words made the perfect title for my page.
Here are more close-ups:
I love the result and hope you like it too! It’s another way to use frames on a page without framing a photo!
Thank you for stopping by, I will see you again soon!
