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Fun Days | Happy Days Collection | Kellie Moore

Hi Everyone, welcome back to the Cocoa Vanilla blog, it’s Kel here today to share a page using the Happy Days collection with you. I LOVE the bright colours of this collection, they make me so happy.

For todays layout I decided to pull out some watercolours and create my own background..here is my page…

I created a diamond type shape with the watercolour in a magenta colour found in the collection for the base of my photo and added some splatters in yellow.

For my photo I added some paper layers from the a5 paper stack as well as some black cardstock to help my photo pop. Next I created a cluster above my photo creating a tag, a frame from the Ephemera pack and a sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet.

I felt that the cluster needed something else so I cut a sun out from the ‘Feel Good’ paper and added some hand stitched rays..

Before sticking my photo down I added some quaze to add texture to the layout..

I pulled out the Chipboard Titles for my page title and placed them directly under my photo.. and added a rainbow from the Ephemera pack underneath..

My finishing touches was to add some stamping around the page, I love the black contrast with the watercolour..

I hope you have found some inspiration today and are using your Cocoa Vanilla collections up!

Til next time

Kel x

Simple cards with “Heart & Home” collection | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone! We all love pretty layouts and albums as they are a perfect way to preserve important moments and memories. But once in a while we also need a nice card to send or add to the gift and let’s be honest – there is nothing better than a handmade card! It can be curated specifically for the recipient to show them how much we care. That’s why, with every CVS collection, I like to make a bunch of cards too and have them ready whenever I need one. This is exactly what I did with new “Heart & Home” line.

I made three cards, each for s different occassion. My trick for a quick process was to use papers from A5 Paper Stack as a card bases. I simply folded each page in half and card base was ready! It has pattern on the front and back but inside is white, as papers in Papers Stack are single sided! Perfect solution! You can add extra pannel like me, or you can embellish your card directly on the base saving even more time.

Fot the first card I used Floral Ephemera Pack flowers and leaves. I used my scissors to trim the white outlines around flowers but you don’t have to do that! Simply arrange flowers and leaves on the card, add glue under each of the elements and your card is almost ready. My sentiment is made with Gold Foil Titles word “love” and Mini Puffy Alphabet word “you”. Few tiny Puffy Stickers hearts here and there and card was done!

Second card has a Polish inscription “Sto lat” which translates to “Happy birthday”. I made it inside the little wreath of flying moths. I cut them all out from “Fall beauty” 12*12 paper. I also added some machine stitching but it’s totally optional. Once again I finished my design with Puffy Stickers hearts and dots.

My last card is the quickest one as I utilised leaves leftoves I had from one of the previous projects. I die cut bunch of them from variety of papers from “Heart & Home” collection. Part was used for the layout, and the rest I added to my Ephemera Pack. I arranged few leaves in the center of the card, adding some foam squares under them for more dimension and finished everything with sentiment from said Ephemera Pack. It took me 10 minutes to complete. You can of course die cut your own leaves. It will take you a little bit longer to finish the card, but it’s only dozen you need.

And that is all for today! Do you like my quick and easy card ideas? You can use them for any other CVS collection too!

Thank you so much for spending your time with me and see you in two weeks!

Fall garland | Heart & Home Collection | Anna Komenda

Hello, hello! It’s Anna here with another project made with brand new “Heart & Home” collection. I was recently decorating my home for fall and after putting all the pumpkins and other stuff, I felt I needed something in the upper part of the composition, that felt quite empty. That’s how I came up with an idea for a fall garland. I didn’t want to make it from triangles so I used my digital die cutting machine to cut leaves in variety of shapes.

They are a little bit less than 15 cm big and cut out from a variety of pattern papers both from 12*12 sheets and A5 Paper Stack. I used “Bountiful”, “Leaf litter”, “Fall beauty” and “Gather” patterns. I cut out 12 leaves with papers and another 12 with kraft cardstock. I combined leaves in the same shapes together and stapled them instead of adding glue.

Next step was to make little holes in each leaf to add string, that combines all the leaves together into the garland. I made two holes so the leaves doesn’t spin around on the string.

Each leaf is decorated with a little something – either a flowers from Floral Ephemera pack or elements from Die Cut Ephemera. Two of them are embellished with words from Titles With Gold Foiling – “celebrate” and “together”. I din’t want to overdo it as the leaves are colorful already.

My garland is already hanging in the livingroom, over my decorated cabinets. This is how it looks:

That is all for today! Thank you so much for spending this time with me. See you in November!

XO Anna

GOOD TIMES | HEART & HOME COLLECTION | SOPHIE DELORME

Hello friends!

It’s Sophie on the blog with a new layout to share!

 

I used the beautiful Heart & Home collection again!

I started with a white background and placed two patterned papers; a wood grain and a soft pink polka dot (both come from the A5 Paper stack) in the center of the page, stitching them down on the cardstock. I centered a photo on the polka dot paper, added tissue paper and adhesive foam to make it stand out a little bit more.

 

I fussy cut numerous florals from the 12×12 “Bountiful” paper and placed them around the photo.

I wrote down my journaling on a beautiful frame, used the Heart & Home Gold Foil Words for my title and scattered plenty of cute fussy cut butterflies flying around the page.

 

Finally, I tied everything together with a huge bow created from ribbon in my stash.

 

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the result! Just can’t get enough of this wonderful collection!

I hope that you like it too!

Have a great crafty day!

Sophie xx

You Are My Happy | Heart & Home | Kellie Moore

Hello Everyone, it’s Kel here today to share my first layout for the month of October….how this year is flying by!!

For today’s page I’m using Heart and Home and I decided to focus on the cooler tones…here is a look…

 

To start my page, I made some origami hearts (found a simple tutorial on Youtube) and to add more detail I added some hand stitching …they turned out really cute ! I used them as a feature across the bottom of my page.

I am documenting two pics of my youngest boy from many years ago…he was such a sweet baby. I placed my two photos to the top left of my page and placed paper strips under my photos to ground them to my page. To the top of my photos I added a tab and word phrase sticker from the Accessory Sticker Sheet.

I used the paper ‘Fall Beauty’ to fussy cut a bunch of the butterflies and placed them diagonally from the bottom and right side of the page so they flow up to my photos and draw attention to them. I also stitched some trails behind the butterflies.

Next I added some florals on both sides of my photos and these also have stitching added to them.

Lastly I added my title using a mix of the Puffy Mini Alpha Stickers and a Title with Gold Foil.

I hope you have been inspired today and are having lots of fun with the new Heart and Home collection.

Happy Scrapping!

Kel x

Family | Heart & Home Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all, Laura Alberts back again with a fun spin on a grid layout. For these four 3×4 inch photos from a camping trip, I puzzled the pictures together with ephemera and cut apart pieces to create a collage in the center of my page. The border around the outside gives the collage a little bit of structure and helps it feel cohesive.

In blank spots that were a little too narrow for additional embellishments, I added a row of chain-stitching with ombre embroidery floss that coordinated with the Heart & Home collection. These sweet puffy heart stickers were the perfect accent for this banner piece!

The floral ephemera pack is always one of my favorite parts of a new collection and these darling flowers had to make an appearance on my layout too! The hand-stitched elements work beautifully with the cross-stitch designs on the cut aparts that I used for titles.

I hope this layout inspires you to try a new design with multiple photos! If you’d like to see how “Family” came together, check out the process video below.

Walking into fall | Heart & Home Layout| Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with my newest layout, made with brand new “Heart & Home” collection. I am a big fan of fall projects and this line is just perfect for making one (or two :) ). Autumn is just starting to appear this year and leaves are still green but I had a perfect picture from my last year walk in the forest. Sun was low and it was shining through the leaves and tree trunks creating beautiful halo and rays. It looked so magical, like straight from the fairy tale. I snapped few photos enjoying this little wonder of nature.

I knew I wanted to use many pattern papers in this project making die cut leaves. I chose nine different patterns in brown, red-ish, orange, yello and green colors. Some of them are 12*12 papers like “Bountiful”, “Leaf litter”, “Fall beauty” and “Gather” and some are from A5 Paper Stack.

After cutting leaves  I added some Distress Oxide inks on the white backgroud creating strips of color, that blend together. It’s a sort of fall halfrainbow. With the background done, I could add leaves using color on color technique. I only applied glue in the middle, and run through the rows with sewing machine and white thread. This way I was sure my leaves will stay in place.

My title is a mix of Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers and letters from word “family”, you can find in Ephemera Pack. I used original F, A and L letters and created second L using first one as a stencil.

At this point my layout was already colorful and full of texture so I only added few embellishments. I searched through Ephemera Pack to fing all the fall related elements and placed them color on color, highlighting the stripes. I found mugs, some leaves and few inscriptions. I also reached for 6*12 Accesory Stickers to embellish area around the photo.

Final step was adding tiny, cute Puffy Stickers, also using color on color technique. Creating this page was so much fun and a perfect combination of mixed media products and paper embellishments. My favourite kind of layout.

That is all for today! Thank you so much for spending your precious time with me. See you in October!

XO Anna

Good Life | Heart & Home Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a sweet shelf design to scrap these photos of a curious little squirrel that I saw fairly often while wandering the campus in college last year. It was a mascot of sorts for one of the English buildings and I looked for him every time I walked past. For this layout, I used the stunning new Heart & Home collection and went wild with fussy cutting!

Using the diagonal stripe from the cut apart sheet as a base and adding a branding strip on top, I created two shelves for my photos and title to sit on. Starting from this base, I built up clusters of fussy cut florals from both the patterned paper and vellum, as well as sticker sheet and ephemera icons. I even fussy cut the tiny little flowers to use as scattering bits around my clusters.

On the right side, I added a label for journaling and an adorable little house. On the bottom, I used the line for a large title from the gold foiled titles pack. The falling florals and leaves seemed fitting for photos from autumn here in the United States. I adore these sweet little moments with nature!

 

I hope this layout inspires you to take photos of unexpected moments or animals that you encounter and record those too! You never know what these memories will mean to you in the future. To see how “Good Life” came together, check out the process video below:

Press Pause On This Moment | Heart and Home | Kellie Moore

Hello Everyone!

Kel here today to share my second page using the brand new ‘Heart and Home’ collection. For this layout I am documenting the moment my twin boys got to meet their brand new baby brother…

To start my page I decided to use this cutfile from Peartree Cutfiles… I thought it was a perfect title to go with these photos. I used 4 different papers to back it….  Framed, Bountiful, Leaf Litter and Harvest.

Next, I decided I wanted to make the title pop more on my page so I used the gorgeous yellow paper called ‘Gather’.. I love how this brightened up my title.

I  had 2 pictures I wanted to use on my page so I placed them along the top of my title and one down on the right hand side.

I had a big space in the top right corner so I used some of the houses found in the collection….one from the ephemera pack and 2 cut from the ‘Gather’ paper. I also used a frame and tab also from the ephemera pack.

I backed my photos with papers from the A5 paper stack and used some pieces from the ephemera pack and Accessory Sticker Sheet..

To finish my page, I added a bunch of florals which I cut from the ‘Bountiful’ paper and added some of the word phrases from the Accessory Sticker Sheet..

That’s my page for today, I hope you are inspired with this beautiful new collection, I can’t wait to see what everyone makes with it!

Happy Creating!

Kel x

 

 

 

The good times | Happy days Mini album | Anna Komenda

Hello, hello! It’s Anna here and today I don’t have a layout for you! While I was waiting for the brand new “Heart & home” collection to arrive, I once again decided to make “use as much as you can” type of project with the older line. Those cabins won’t stretch any more further so I need to make some room. Truth to be told – I would probably need to make 100 of albums like this to notice some empty space… However, the result of my internal challenge is cute, colorful mini album made with wonderful “Happy days” collection. I need to warn you that I have many photos to share with you.

I made this mini album from scratch, using three pieces of cardboard for the cover and some colorful cardstock for the page bases. I arranged them in rainbow order inspired by all the rainbows in “Happy days” collection. I also went through all the pattern papers and chose few in matching colors to continue the rainbow trend. I used both 12*12 papers like “Lush blooms”, “Flutterby”, Juicy friut”, “Feel good”, “Little blossoms” , “Sunshine lollipops”  along with A5 Paper Stack.

Album is quite small, measuring only 10*15 cm, but each page has some folded flaps or pockets so it can hold many photos. You can easily expand the album even further by adding even more flaps on the back of each page.

This is how it looks from the side, with cascade of pages, each 1cm smaller than a previous one. There is plenty of room to add more volume with photos and embellishments.

To decorate the pages, I reached for almost all of the embellishments from this collection. I used Accesory stickers, Die cuts ephemera, Floral ephemera, Chipboard titles, Puffy stickers and Puffy hearts. I only added the glue on the edges of the embellishments so you can still tuck the photo behind it!

I also added some embellishments on the back of each page, the way you can look at it without turning the album upside down. As I mentioned each page has some flap or pocket for more room for photos. It was hard to photograph them so you need to believe me they are there.

Here are all the album pages I created:

And that is all! I know it was a lot of photos but it was hard to choose only few pages to showcase. I hope you like this mini album.

That is all for today! We will see each other in September and I will for sure have a project made with brand new CVS baby! Can’t wait to dive in. Thank you so much for spending your precious time with me.

XO Anna

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