Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a fun column design using the new Happy Days collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio! Using the manufacturing strips to create these fun, super slim columns allowed me to add four 3×4 inch photos on this page.
On each of the columns, I added a ton of cut-apart pieces from both the 12×12 and A5 paper stack versions. Plus, a couple of cute gold foiled accents from the specialty paper. Finishing it off with hearts, florals, and butterflies that are fussy cut from the patterned papers in Happy Days for whimsy and fun!
The little dots of Nuvo and puffy stickers that I added on at the end really help this layout pop! I love how much the tiny details can make such a bit difference. These butterfly trails give the columns a softer look overall.
I hope this layout inspires you to dive into your cut-apart sheets and have a play with the column design! If you’d like to see how this layout came together, check out the process video below:
Hello again everyone! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) and I’m so excited to be back sharing my third layout as a Guest Designer today using Happy Days!
For this layout I wanted to feature the Specialty paper which consists of beautiful foiled gold frames on white card. Inside all the frames are also gold foiled icons – all TOTALLY perfect for fussy cutting! I cut out a few of the frames and cut the middles out too. I then added two of the tiny journaling cards from the A5 Paper Stack inside the frames. They were the perfect size. They needed mounting onto a piece of scrap card first so that the frame had something to stick to (as they were exactly perfect for the apertures). I raised he frames on foam pads. The two cards I chose were the two rainbow ones – these look gorgeous inside the gold foiled frames.
I chose to use the yellow check side of the Feel Good paper for my background. I trimmed this down a bit, distressed the edges and added it to a sheet of white card. I then arranged my frames and my photo onto the yellow background.
I embellished the frames with Floral Ephemera and with the gold foiled icons fussy cut from within the frames – these are amazing as extra embellishments! I added some other little bits of Die Cut Ephemera to my clusters and added some small Puffy Heart Stickers too.
I added a title using ‘my sunshine’ from the Chipboard Title Stickers – I love this font! And the white letters stood out beautifully against my yellow background.
I finished off by handwriting my journaling and splattering my embellishment clusters with white paint! Here is the link to the process video I made for this layout: https://youtu.be/sb-V5KniUa8
I hope you have enjoyed seeing this layout, I loved making it!
It’s Sophie on the blog today with a brand new page created with the Happy Days collection!
I wanted to use the HAPPY DAYS RAINBOW BRIGHT paper for a long time…! I cut the rainbow to remove the yellow, orange and pink rays. I placed the rainbow on a thick white cardstock and added a little bit of watercolour paint on its bottom, extending the same color for each ray. I also hand stitched and machine stitched on each ray of the rainbow with matching thread.
I framed my black and white photo in a die cut from the Ephemera pack, and used another frame for my journaling.
I used the HAPPY DAYS CHIPBOARD TITLE STICKERS for my title, on which I added a subtile touch of color on each letter.
I decorated around the framed photo with beautiful flowers from the HAPPY DAYS FLORAL EPHEMERA pack, in a color block manner. I placed a few other die cuts, 3 clouds, some stickers from the HAPPY DAYS STICKER SHEET and stamped the date.
Here are more close-ups:
I ADORE that color scheme !! This Happy Days collection is so versatile !
I hope you found some inspiration with my page and this lovely collection today!
Welcome to the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog. It’s Josefine here with a new scrapbook layout created with the amazing ‘Happy Days’ collection. In this blog post, I wanted to highlight the die-cuts ephemera. I chose a white cardstock background so that my heart die-cut frame gets all the attention it deserves.
First, I used my Cricut electric cutting machine to cut out a large heart in the center of the layout. I enlarged a black and white photo of my husband and me in Paris and adhered it behind the heart using double-sided adhesive tape. Now, let the decorating begin…
I love all the ephemera die-cuts and matching them by color, pattern, and theme. First, I select which die-cuts I want to use, and then I arrange them in a heart shape around the photo. Once everything is in place, I use 3D foam to secure the ephemera die-cuts. I’m super happy with the result, and the colored die-cut ephemera stand out beautifully against the black and white photo. It creates a explosion of color around the photo.
The small puffy hearts are so adorable that I give them a special place around the frame. For the title, I use the gorgeous colored mini alphabet and choose the title ‘Good Times,’ which is fitting because I thoroughly enjoyed our trip together. I also select a few word strips, add a thin black line to the edge using my fineliner, and place them on top of the die-cuts.
I hope I’ve inspired you with this layout and look forward to seeing you again on the blog for new inspiration! Have a wonderful and creative day!
Hi everyone! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) and I’m delighted to be back Guest Designing with my second layout and process video using Happy Days. I am obsessed with those gorgeous words on the Definitive paper and have spent some time fussy cutting a lot of them out. I wanted to make a feature out of them on this layout.
I chose the purple side of Flutterby paper as my background, which I paired with the pink strawberry side of Lush Blooms paper. I trimmed these both down and distressed the edges, then stuck them together offset slightly. I then positioned these onto a sheet of white card.
I mounted my photo onto a darker patterned paper and added that to my layout together with a gold fussy cut frame from the Specialty Foiled paper. I then arranged all the fussy cut words around the photo, cascading down from top to bottom. I raised them all on foam pads to give them some dimension.
I then added some of the Floral Ephemera to the bottom corner of my photo, and another cluster in the top right corner. I chose mostly pinks and purple flowers but also added a few yellow ones. Purple and yellow are opposite each other on the colour wheel, so are therefore ‘contrasting colours’. Contrasting colours work best when there is a lot of one colour with a small amount of the contrasting colours and this is exactly what I did with the yellow – just a couple of small pops of it in amongst all the beautiful purple.
I added another tiny cluster in the bottom right corner of the layout using some of the Die Cut Ephemera. I added some butterflies and handwrote my journaling under all the words. I also embellished the words with lots of Puffy Heart Stickers.
I finished off with a few splatters of white paint over the top of the embellishment clusters! I absolutely love how this turned out, I adore purple as a colour so love how this looks as a background! Here is the link to my process video for this layout if you would like to watch along: https://youtu.be/2ygAZcQKt0c
Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping!
It’s Sophie with you today and a beautiful and simple layout to share, created with the Happy Days collection!
I went for a grid design and selected a few patterned papers from the A5 paper stack, and used a scalloped circle die from my stash to cut 6 scalloped circles.
I aligned them in two horizontal lines on a white background cardstock.
I cut three photos of my dog Fiona in a circular shape and placed them on three of the circles.
I mounted everything on adhesive foam.
My title is a mix of the Accessory Stickers, Mini Puffy Alphabet stickers and an ephemera.
I embellished the page in a color block manner with floral die cuts, fussy cut flowers and butterflies, a few accessory stickers and a paper bow.
Here are more close-ups:
Honestly, this page was very simple and easy to make! I love the result and hope you do too!
We are thrilled to be able to welcome a special guest designer today – the very talented Niki Rowland! Niki will be joining us with some projects featuring our ‘Happy Days’ collection and we know you are going to LOVE them!
I’m Niki, I live in the UK with my creatively challenged husband and my three children. I’m a pretty paper addict who makes the occasional cupcake and likes coffee and shortbread biscuits. I love turning bright colours and floral ephemera, into scrapbook layouts, with a few mini albums along the way too. I currently create for Simple Stories, and GoGo Getaway which is my own scrapbooking retreat business. That keeps me pretty busy but because I wouldn’t want to get bored, I also am a governor at my children’s school and somehow, I also ended up leading the PTA as well…so now I can add ‘fundraising’ to my list of skills too! Creating feeds my soul and I try to do something creative every day. I hope you enjoy my creations x
Hi everyone! This is Niki Rowland (@nikiclairecreates) and I’m delighted to be guest designing for Cocoa Vanilla Studio today!
I will be sharing four projects during June and July, and today I have my first layout and process video to share with you, using the Happy Days collection. I cannot tell you how much I love this collection, it is so bright, happy and fun! I absolutely fell in love with the colourful stripes on the Sunshine Lollipops paper and decided to focus on that for this layout.
I decided to cut the stripes into their colour groups and make rosettes in a variety of colours. I really enjoy making rosettes and love how they look and really went for it on this layout! I cut out two wide pieces (four stripes wide), several smaller stripes (two stripes wide) and one teeny stripe (one stripe wide). I scored them every quarter-inch and concertina folded them. To make the rosettes themselves I glue the two ends together to make a cylinder, then press the cylinders down in the middle and glue a punched paper circle on top to hold them in place. I did this for all the smaller rosettes, but for the two wide ones the strips needed to be longer to make full circles, so instead I just made semi-circles. These were perfect for the edges of my layout!
I then arranged the rosettes across a white cardstock background, but felt they needed something more, so I added some ink in coordinating colours under each rosette. I also added splatters in the same colours. This creates a ‘glow’ behind each rosette and make them pop off the page even more! I then glued the rosettes in place onto the background, using hot glue.
I cut out the subjects of my photos and added them to each of the large rosettes. I also fussy cut several words from the Definitive paper and added these to all the smaller rosettes – I love these words so much, the font is awesome and the words are perfect for my photos!
I then added Floral Ephemera colour-on-colour, tucked in around the photos and rosettes. I raised some on foam pads for added dimension. I also added a few bits from the Die Cut Ephemera pack including two very cute pinwheels, several hearts and a couple of phrase banners.
I handwrote my journaling in black ink and underlined it to make it stand out more. I loved the look of the black against the colourful rosettes so decided to add splatters of black paint…a bit of a risky move but I LOVE how it turned out! I finished off by adding a few of the mini heart Puffy Stickers in the coordinating coloured areas.
Thank you SO much for joining me today, I really hope that you have enjoyed reading about my layout. I have also created a process video so that you can watch it all come together, it can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/ooh3f_t6Mo4.
Once again thank you so much for joining me, and thank you so much to Cocoa Vanilla Studio for inviting me to guest design!
It’s Sophie on the blog today with a new layout to share! I used the lovely new collection Happy Days again!
I cut three rectangles from the A5 Paper pack and stitched them down on white cardstock. I added a little scalloped border on their upper edge, and a zigzag stitch between them.
I printed a colorful photo of Sabrina and mounted it on tissue paper and foam adhesive. My title comes from a JustNickStudio alphabet cut file. I placed a smaller velum rectangle on the yellow one to soften it up so that my title stands out a bit more.
I added a beautiful bicycle die cut from the Ephemera pack and created a ground with watercolors from my stash. I fussy cut tiny little flowers that I scattered on the ground around the bicycle and wrote down my journaling on a sticker from the sticker sheet.
Here are more close-ups:
It’s a very Springy page and I LOVE the bright color scheme!
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a lovely shelf design featuring the new Happy Days collection. I absolutely adore the bold rainbow patterned paper in this collection and decided to use it with some white cardstock to create these lovely, detailed shelves for my photos to rest on.
Next to each of my photos, I’ve paired it with a cut-apart piece from the A5 paper stack. Love these smaller cut-aparts! This gave me an opportunity to add a journaling spot to the layout. Layering embellishments into large horizontal clusters was a great way to keep the attention on the photos by limiting the attention drawn to each of the individual ephemera pieces.
I used a chipboard title “Love” on one of the smaller shelves. I purposely left plenty of white space and limited my embellishing to my shelves to give my eye a place to rest on the layout. Each set of these shelves is balanced by using similar sized clusters.
I hope this layout inspires you to use your punches in a slightly different way! If you’d like to see how “Love” came together, check out the process video below.
Hello everyone! It’s Anna here with my second page in May. As you can suspect, I am ears deep into brand new “Happy days” collection. It’s so colorful and fun and ideas keep flooding my head. This time I want to share with you layout inspired by all the fruits from “Juicy fruit” paper. I love this pattern so much. We do not have exotic fruits in Poland growing on trees but I remembered about few older photos of Maja eating fruits straigh from the bushes in my mom’s garden. I decided to scrapbooking this memory with all the fruits I could find within “Happy days” collection making a TUTTI FRUTTI page!
To make page even more “fruity” I started my creative process by adding some pineapples into the white background using the only fruity stencil I own. I went crazy with all the fruits on this layout. I used yellow and green Distress Oxide inks and green and yellow mist to add some splatters.
Each of my four photos is backed with a different pattern paper from A5 Paper Stack. It’s a very colorful page so I went with yellow, pink, blue and navy. I also took some time to fussy cut some fruits from “Juicy fruit” paper.
With the photos glued down I could add my lemons, oranges and peaches around them. Some of them went under the photos and some of them on top creating multiply layers. I also found two strawberries in Ephemera Pack and added them too!
This page didn’t need much of embellishing, so I only added few flags, tickets and camera from the Ephemera Pack. It may seem a little bit different as I cut off the white outline to make them blend better into the composition. My title TUTTI FRUTTI is made with pattern papers and some alpha dies. This way I could be sure I will not run out of T letters as they appear in a large quantity in those two words. I tried to add some white inline into each letter but my white pen wasn’t cooperating well.
I finish the composition by adding few tiny, puffy hearts here and there. They are so, so cute!
And that’s all folks! For today :) I will be back in two weeks with a brand new project made with wonderful “Happy days” collection. Sending you all lots of hugs.
