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Grow Beautiful | Bohemian Dream | Anita Bownds

Hi there crafty friends, Anita here with you today sharing a layout using the bohemian dream collection our theme this week is stars or stripes I have decided on stripes, I added it behind my photo and add them to the border.
I started off by trimming and Matting dreamer pattern paper behind my purple cardstock as I wanted to change it up from my normal white..I then splattered some white paint and some lavender mist across the cardstock to ass more colour and texture then I layered some texture Using a stencil and modeling paste.
Next I added a 6 inch doily in the centre to add softness to my background
I matted my photo on dreamer and beautiful mess to add the stripes  and colours to blend
I embellished with ephemera and accessory stickers around the photo

 

I also wanted to add a bit more colour to the top and bottom of my layout by clusters of embellishments layered By using more accessory stickers and ephemera

 

For my title I pulled out those beautiful foam titles from unforgettable and painted it purple and add some pearl drops for texture

 

(Tip)
Tucking ephemera and stickers can add that extra texture and layer to help it not be so Plain

 

(Tip)
Also cutting out the negatives of your stickers can add a different texture And texture element.
I hope you have enjoyed my mixed media layout today
Happy crafting

Memories Captured | Unforgettable Collection | Danni Visser

Hi everyone! Danni here with a simple modified grid layout using the incredible Unforgettable collection. I still can’t get enough of the beautiful colours and florals in this stunning collection.

In keeping with our ‘Stars and Stripes’ theme for this week, I decided to showcase the grey stripe pattern in Glorious 12×12 paper by using it for my background. I cut a large square from Lacewing 12×12 paper and added a white border to use as the base for my modified grid. I oriented my photo in the upper right of the square, then added a journal spot from Storyteller 12×12 paper which I backed with the woodgrain of Natural Beauty paper. I went ahead distressed the edges and added some machine stitching to the large square and my journal spot layers for some extra texture.

 

For my title I decided to switch it up and fussy cut some words from Unscripted 12×12 paper and I’m so glad I did! They were easier to do than I thought, and they are the perfect medium sized titles. I placed my title in my journaling spot and added a few lines of journaling along with the date to fill up the rest of the card.

For the rest of the grid I cut rectangles from the 6×8 paper stack in different sizes to fill in the remaining spaces. I love using the 6×8 paper stack for things like this because the smaller pattern makes it more visible in the small pieces. I used a combination of accessory stickers, die cut ephemera and clear stickers to decorate the remaining rectangles. I also added some twine to the sticker tag and outlined some of the pieces with black pen to add definition.

I made some star embellishments by tracing some star shapes on the reverse side of 6×8 paper stack papers and fussy cutting them out. I used these to fill in some of the empty spots and to cover some of the unwanted background details in my photo – an easy way to save a photo if you forget to edit it before printing like I did! I also went ahead and added a few enamel dots to each cluster of stars. The finishing touches were some black paint splatters to the background and a sketchy hand drawn border in black pen.

There is a process video linked below if you would like to watch this all come together. Thank you for joining me today and happy scrapping!

Danni x

Super Awesome | Legendary Collection | Melissa Vining

Hello its Melissa here and I’m so happy to be back sharing a sports layout with you that I created with the amazingly versatile Legendary collection.  The photo is of my son at our New Zealand National Jiu-Jitsu Tournament in 2018.  I always think a sports layout is the perfect way to feature stars, especially when its a boy layout too!!

 

For this layout I really wanted to feature some of the gorgeous star die cuts from the Die Cut Ephemera pack, and I knew that I wanted to have them hanging like a key chain.  My photo was taken in 2018 and Sam was aged 11 at the time, so I really wanted to make sure the key chain feature looked masculine, and not girly or like a baby mobile. In order to this I used a really old banner paper clip from my stash, which also enabled me to attach the stars to my photo. The papers that you can see backing my photo are Offbeat, One Way, and All Star.

I created a shaker pocket from the largest star with plastic packaging, which I hand stitched to close the pocket.  I used some sequins to fill my pocket, and then attached all of the stars with some blue and white stripped twine.  I backed the second largest star with Outdoors Type and then punched holes in all of the stars to thread the twine through.  I arranged all of the stars with different lengths of twine, and then tied them in a knot around the paper clip.  It was a little fiddly, but so worth it!

I created my background with gesso first, then texture paste through a stencil followed by water activated powders that I applied with the packaging technique, and then splatters.  I always think its worth taking the time to dry in between layers of powders to get defined spatters.

Most of my embellishing was done with one of my favourite Cocoa Vanilla Studio supplies, the Clear Stickers.  I also used a phrase from the clear stickers for my title.   I finished my embellishing with a couple of the Accessory Stickers on my photo, and a subtle piece of ephemera which I cut in half and used as a layer under the paper layers.  In order to ground my photo I used a torn strip of Off Beat on the left side of my page.

I made a process video which you can watch below or on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio YouTube Channel.  In fact make sure you subscribe so that you don’t miss any of the videos the DT posts!

Thanks for looking!

Melissa xx

Live in the Moment | Bohemian Dream collection | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone!

It’s Sue Plumb here to share my take on the current scraplift theme that the entire team have been working on. For this theme we were all challenged to choose a layout that inspired us from the International Scrapbook Day challenge entries and create our own version. There were so many amazing layouts I found it really hard to choose, but I kept coming back to this super cool page by Rachel Dutko…

There were so many elements I just loved about this page – the textures of the torn, layered papers; the eclectic mix of embellishments; the use of white space; and the touch of mixed media – it just drew me in. For my scraplift, I really wanted to capture some of Rachel’s main design features, whilst still creating a layout that was my own style. I even decided to re-visit one of my all-time favourite collections, ‘Bohemian Dream’.

Here is my layout (I hope you think I did yours justice Rachel!)…

I decided to create my page with a similar theme to Rachel’s, by documenting a selfie and focusing on the message of being yourself and unique. (This pic probably accurately represents me…haha) I then grabbed some white cardstock and added a splash of colour, just as Rachel had on hers. I used blue and purple inks, which I mixed with a little water and then applied to my cardstock to achieve an abstract watercolour background.

Next, I chose three patterned papers, which I tore and layered across my page. The papers I used were Dreamer; Gypsy Heart; and Abstract. I also added a few torn pieces of a washi tape sticker from the ‘You Rock’ collection and an extra paper strip cut from the reverse of the Dreamer paper.

Just as Rachel did, I used two layers of paper to mat my photo (these were from the ‘Bohemian Dream’ 6×6″ paper pad); along with a small yellow paper doily and some frayed gauze for texture. I then began working on the embellishments to cluster around my photo.

I had a sheet of the gorgeous floral print Abundant paper that I had already cut into previously, so I fussy cut three floral pieces to tuck into the layers around my photo, adding a couple of extra little leafy branches from the Die Cut Ephemera pack.

Then it was time for a little stash-busting treasure hunt as I looked through my stash of Cocoa Vanilla embellishments for some extra bits and pieces. I found a couple of gorgeous blue paper flowers I had left over from the ‘Hello Sunshine’ collection that matched with my blue ink perfectly, so I added those to my clusters, tucking the edges under my photo. I also found some cute little blue puffy stickers from the same collection, so onto the page they went too.

The one of a kind Flair Button that I added to the corner of my photo was from the ‘Bohemian Dream’ pack, and was perfect for my page theme! The small mint acrylic heart was left-over from the ‘Free Spirit’ collection; and I also used some blue enamel dots from ‘Life is Beautiful’.

Rachel had some pretty little butterflies on her page, so I had to include some on mine too. (I know, since when do I need an excuse for butterflies, right?!) I added a blue one from the ‘Bohemian Dream’ chipboard near the top of the page; then a smaller pink one from the Die Cut Ephemera pack near to the bottom.

To finish off, I added the live in the moment sticker for my page title (popped up on a little foam tape), and a few small phrases from the Accessory Sticker sheet. A little splatter of some navy mist and I was done.

A big thanks to Rachel for inspiring me with her fabulous layout, I am really happy with how mine came out. (Even though I am clearly incapable of showing the same level of restraint that I so admired about Rachel’s page…haha)

Until next time, happy scrapping!

EPIC | Legendary Collection | Raquel Bowman

Hey everyone, it’s Raquel here today sharing a layout inspired by one of our Cocoa Vanilla Facebook community members and from our recent cyber crop Keighley Brennan. I absolutely adored the vertical design of this layout, the circle elements and also the scattering of stars that featured on the page.

Here is Keighley’s layout:

I also used the Legendary collection for my layout too. Here it is.

The subject of my layout is the subject of most of my layouts when I am using a masculine collection, my little man  this particular photo was one taken a few years ago that I found in my photo stash – it was such a nice surprise to find it as it had always been a picture that I had wanted to document but just had not done so yet. When I look back at old photos I find it hard to recall when the kids were so little, I’m so thankful for my craft and scrapbooking for documenting all these little moments in our lives.


I used my Sizzix Big Shot and circle dies to create the circular elements for the page. I do of course love my electronic die cutter but the big shot makes it easy to cut elements like shapes so quick and easy if I have a suitable die set to use.  Originally I was going to use the same style colour palette with the blues however once I started creating I was drawn to the green diagonal stripe and the  rest of the layout progressed from there.

The title is made up of the fussy cut letters spelling EPIC from the cut apart sheet of paper. I loved the font design and thought they made a nice statement title. The colours in the font actually inspired the rest of the colours that I used on the page. I added tiny word stickers as a sub heading to help support the EPIC title. 
The flag ephemera piece was a nice way to add detail to the top of the layout. I finished this cluster area with some fussy cut stars from patterned papers, enamel dots and another tiny word sticker. 
I did not have the right die size to create a perfect circle mat around my photo using the orange paper so I did my best to keep the circle even using my scissors. The entire layout was backed in the green diagonal stripe paper. I love how this looks. 
I hope you have enjoyed stopping my the blog today and found inspiration.

Take care xxx

HELLO | UNFORGETTABLE | GWEN WRUCK

Hey Creatives! I hope you are all well. Gwen on the blog today sharing for Cocoa Vanilla Studio. This week we are having a bunch of fun sharing Scraplifts from challenge entries in the recent International Scrapbooking Day celebrations. There were so so many wonderful entries, so it was super hard for me to choose one to Scraplift; so so much inspiration. In the end, I decided on this one by Kim Arnold.

What drew me to her page was the landscape design with room for multiple photos (which I sometimes struggle with) and her sweet floral clusters. I also loved how she added that frame and I have a stack of these in my stash so thought this was a nice opportunity to use one up. I also love that pop of black in her title, the butterfly and in her photo mats so I’ve drawn inspiration from that as well. Here is my page….

Even though I had her ‘scrap-lift’ to work with, I wanted to make the page my own, so to start, I pulled out a delicate cut file from my stash. This one is from CUT to YOU. I will admit, I totally cheated here and used it as the base for my page design, instead of adding the mixed media that Kim used. Whist I love it on her page, I’m not super confident with getting messy so I stuck to what I know and love.

I went with the ‘Garland‘ pattern paper for my background for my page as I wanted something that my white cut file could be layered over and still stand out. Next up, I went about backing my photos, for this, I’ve used the ‘Unscripted‘ pattern paper, I’ve also used this to back just the centre flowers of my cut file.

Working with her design, I’ve pulled out a frame from the ‘Bohemian Dream’ collection. I’ve positioned my cut file base, photos and the chipboard frame in keeping with her layout composition.


It was now time to work on the embellishment clusters. For this, I’ve simply pulled out a stack of elements from the collection including this round element from the ‘Ephemera Pack‘ as well as fussy cutting some butterflies from the ‘Lacewing‘ paper.

I’ve also included florals from the ‘Ephemera Pack‘, stickers from the ‘Accessory Sticker Sheet‘, a bow, AND a flair button from the ‘Flair Pack‘. For my title, I’ve gone with the ‘Hello’ sentiment from the ‘Foam Title Stickers Pack‘. This part of the page was the easiest and most fun. I simply kept her main design elements in mind and positioned similar things in similar positions.

To finish the page, I felt like it needed a hint more of that pop of black, so I’ve gone with the ‘Natural Beauty‘ pattern paper to frame my page. To finish everything off, I pulled some of the gold ‘Sparkle Enamel dots‘ from the ‘Wild At Heart‘ collection. I just love these ones, so pretty and sparkly!

Thanks for popping by today and a special thank you to Kim Arnold for the inspiration for this page and everyone who played along with the challenges over the INSD weekend. It really was so fun to see everyone’s creations!

Until next time,

Gwen

xo

 

Beautiful | Midnight | Anita Bownds

Hi there crafty friends, Anita here sharing a layout for this months scraplift challenge where we pick a layout from the international cocoa vanilla studio scrapbook day challenges for my layout I chose Debra Beers layout from challenge 6 …
And my layout…
I started off with white cardstock and adding 4 strips from inspired and sophisticated down the right side I layered then just over lapping so I could machine stitch each strip. Then I matted my photo on papers from the 6×8 paper pad and tucked a doily into the layers.

 

Using the flowers from the ephemera, accessory stickers I layered them in 2 of the corners
And added my chipboard title that I painted pink and flicked white paint over it. I add it to the bottom of my photo.

 

Then using the clear stickers I added hearts ,leaves and flowers tucked and around the main floral pieces and finished it off with a few pearl drops.
check out my process video here

 

 

 

I hope you have been inspired to scraplift a layout and put a spin on it and make it your own.
Happy crafting..xx

Bright Eyes | Mixed Collections | Danni Visser

Hi there! Danni here with a scraplift of Michelle Robertson’s gorgeous black and white layout for the International Scrapbooking Day monochromatic challenge. As soon as I saw this stunning layout, I knew I had to have a go at creating my own version!

I first went through all my Cocoa Vanilla collections and pulled out all the black and white elements I thought could work for this. I decided to flip Michelle’s layout horizontally to work better with my photo, and I reversed the order of the light/dark elements on the page by choosing a lighter background (Sophisticated floral 12×12 paper from Midnight collection)  and a darker main photo mat (Happy Go Lucky paper from Boys Rule collection). I added some soft layers with various monochrome papers from More Than Words collection as well.

I watered down some black acrylic paint and made lots of black paint splatters on my background paper before adding down my main photo mat. To echo the tissue paper strip on Michelle’s layout, I cut a strip of vellum, ruffled it up, added a strip of lace trim and ran it through my sewing machine with white thread.  I kept the thread tails long for added texture.

Next I took some fussy cut butterflies from More Than Words and added a layer of darker paper beneath with some foam squares to create layered butterfly embellishments. I also included some leaf die cuts, fussy cut elements, vellum ephemera and stickers from More Than Words and Unforgettable to create a cluster either side of my photo and at the top left of the page. I included a doily and some messy thread for more soft textural elements.

To help some of the elements stand out I used a white gel pen and a grey felt tip pen to outline and ink the edges of the paper layers. For a title I used the die cut titles from Midnight and some dark grey alpha stickers from my stash. To finish off I added a sprinkling of enamel dots from More Than Words and Unforgettable, choosing the grey and white tones.

Although this is a scraplift, I think they ended up looking quite different! I’m really pleased with the result and so happy I gave this a try. Have you had a go at scraplifting someone recently? It’s a great way to get outside your comfort zone. There is a process video for this layout linked below if you would like to see how I added all the little details.

Happy scrapping!

Danni x

Living The Dream | Unforgettable Collection | Melissa Vining

Hello everyone, it’s Melissa here and I’m so happy to be back to share another layout!!  Our creative theme at the moment is to scrap lift one of the layouts that our community made during International Scrapbooking Day.  I decided to scrap lift a gorgeous layout by the very talented Rosslyn Coutts, which she created for our moodboard challenge.  I chose Rossyln’s layout because I love that she used multiple photos, featured large pieces of beautiful patterned paper (my favourite supply), used a cut apart and she played with watercolours. All of the things I love to do! Rosslyn used the beautiful Happiness collection.

In order to start I had to find three photos that told a story, and the very recent photos I’d taken of Brielle (age 6) with mermaid hair (from French Plaits) were perfect.  I made my layout with the stunning Unforgettable collection, which was perfect with its butterflies and florals. I decided to be bold and instead of using a white card stock background, I used the most beautiful script patterned paper called Unscripted.  I think I could have 50 sheets of this and still find uses for it!! One of my favourite things to do is add a hint of mixed media to this type of paper, and I used water colours with the packaging technique followed by ink splatters – all in complimentary colours to the papers I used, and lifting Rosslyn.

The patterned papers that I used in featured blocks are Unscripted, Forget Me Not and Garland.  I love how beautiful they look layered and distressed!  The cut apart that I chose to use is from Story Teller, and I love the pop of woodgrain that it adds!  My journalling is also on a cut apart label from Story Teller.

I knew that this lift would be the perfect excuse to use the cut files that Anita Bonds designed for iNSD, especially as Rosslyn had used butterflies and florals.  I backed the cut files with papers from the 6 x 8 Paper Stack.

Other embellishments that I added are hearts from the Foam Title Stickers, Enamel Dots, and stickers from the Accessory Stickers which I stapled on to add texture.

Rossyln added a chipboard banner piece to the top right hand corner of her patterned paper, and I just had to add this sweet touch to my layout too!  I stapled on a small banner piece from the Die Cut Ephemera pack.  I love the whimsy that it adds!

I loved lifting Rosslyn’s layout, and you can watch my creative process in my video on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio YouTube channel here.

Thanks so much joining me today!

Melissa xx

 

You are the best | Happiness Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hello Hello! It’s Michelle here today with a new layout share as part of our current ‘Scrap-lift the followers’ theme. This was such a fun theme to play along with, but narrowing down the choices on who to lift was a tough one! All our followers had such amazing layouts created for the interNational Scrapbooking Day/Weekend, but I finally narrowed it down to one. Here’s what I created using the Happiness collection

The layout I chose was one of a few that had caught my eye from the time it was loaded into the ISD Challenge group. The triangular elements were something that I really wanted to try on a layout and what better time than a scrap-lift!

This super sweet creation was made by Belinda Griffin for Gwen’s Grab 5 challenge using some of her favourite CVS papers.

I drew inspiration from multiple elements on Belinda’s layout including using 2 cute kids in a photo. I wanted to step back in time and scrap a photo of Leila and my cute little nephew from a couple years ago along with a fun title based on a catchphrase their Grandad tells them every time he sees them – ‘You’re the best’

I used recreated the triangle shapes top and bottom of the layout using most of my favourite colours and patterns from the Happiness collection and sewed them all down randomly and roughed up other edges. The papers used are SPRINKLES, GOOD VIBES, FRAME OF MIND and MEADOW.

I adhered the photo to a piece of BRIGHT & BEAUTIFUL and adhered it left of centre to leave space for the title that I’ve made using DIE CUT TITLES and some handwriting.

I fussy cut some of the floral clusters from the SO FRESH wreath paper, one of my most used papers recently, and adhered them diagonally across from each other using foam tape for a little pop of dimension.

I also added a couple of butterflies, mini hearts and phrases from the ACCESSORY STICKER SHEET to finish it all off.

Lastly I added a sprinkling of gold ink and called it done. I really enjoyed this Scrap-lift theme, and hope you like what I’ve made based on Belinda’s layout. Be sure to check in each day to see what the rest of the team has created based on our wonderful followers inspiration.

That’s all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x

 

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