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Crazy Little Adventurer | Great Escape | Michelle Stokes

Happy Weekend Crafty friends, it’s Michelle back with you today. I’ve used the Great Escape Collection for this layout to document our crazy little adventurer from a couple years back. Lets get into it..

As you can see I’ve gone fussy cutting mad again, this time with the Flags paper Happy Camper. I spent many nights in front of the TV cutting up that entire page of flags without any idea of how I was going to use them all. Then it hit me, let’s create another wreath / sunburst style type of layout.

I started with a blank piece of white cardstock with a roughly drawn large circle centred in the page and all the flags set out in colour groups ready to go. The easiest way I found to get a good mix of the colours around the circle was to work with each colour individually. Thankfully each flag design/colour had 3 of each so it was easy to place evenly in thirds around the whole thing. I used foam tape to adhere each flag to the background which gives it that little pop of dimension. I added more texture to the layout by sewing all the pieces down using my machine and a straight stitch.

Our Happy yet Crazy Little Adventurer – LOVED this little trike and its a little sad that she no longer fits to ride it around. The speeds she would get up to on this little thing, flying round and round my parents little court.

I ended up cutting the entire circular flag piece off the white background and then adhering it to the bright Horizon paper. I felt this made the wreath pop so much more. Next up I added the photo layered with a piece of A5 paper, then adhered to the left of the wreath using some foam to lift it up.

I created the title using the puffy mini alphabet from the Heart & Home Collection along with the chipboard sticker word from the Chipboard stickers sheet. I layered in some stars and ephemera pieces to create a cluster of sorts to add even more fun to this already chaotic layout.

I added more of the larger stars around the layout to create more embellishment clusters, with a mix of tiny stars, puffy stickers and accessory word stickers scattered around to finish it all off.

I also added the usual splatters of gold ink to tie it all together and called it done.

Here’s one final look at the entire layout..

Well friends, thats all from me for today. Thanks so much for stopping by

Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x

Fun Times | Great Escape Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with another Great Escape layout, but this time it’s a birthday page. Four photos and a shower of stars is the recipe for creating a layout bursting with celebratory vibes! The colors were too perfect not to step outside the theme of this collection for a fun spin a column design.

I started with a strip of the stunning plaid on the Star Gazing patterned paper, layered it with thin strips of the navy, then attached it to the beautiful gray woodgrain of the Starry Night to build my background. I lined up my three smaller photos and a few cut aparts from the Wild Life paper to fill in my column.

On the right side, I scattered fussy cut stars from the Star Gazing patterned paper to create a second column, then added my 3×4 focal image and a journaling spot on top! The chipboard stickers were perfect to embellish both columns  and add a title with a 3D pop!

 

I hope this layout inspires you to try stepping outside the theme! If you’d like to see how this layout came together, check out the process video below:

https://youtu.be/dGnk3_6kuDs

Favourite layout for 2023 | Happy Days | Kellie Moore

Welcome back today friends, it’s Kel back today to share my final post for 2023…and to share my favourite creation from this year.

Going back through all of my pages, my top 3 pages were all from the Happy Days collection…the colours are just so beautiful ad vibrant but I had to choose just one…. and I think it is this one..

I think it’s the colour palette…yellow always makes a page bright and happy, and mixed with aqua and magenta, it’s a chefs kiss.

I love circles in my designs and the pops of black help highlight the colours…

I hope you have all enjoyed the inspiration the design team and I have provided in 2023 and are looking forward to seeing what 2024 brings!

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas… stay safe and enjoy the festivities!

Kel x

Oh What Fun | Joyful Collection | Kellie Moore

Hi CVS fans, welcome back to the blog.

It’s Kel back with you today, sharing a Christmas page with the Joyful collection.

A few weeks ago we celebrated an early Christmas with some of our family and I captured these super cute pictures of my youngest son…. so fun! Here is my page..

I started my page with creating 2 large circles…one smaller than the other and stuck them down to the page. I added some stitching to the smaller circle before sticking it down.

I decided to go with a diagonal design, using one of the cut apart papers for my title which says ‘Oh what Fun’..

The animals in this collection are so cute! From the chipboard pieces I used a deer and a squirrel and a fox from the ephemera pack.

To my top photo I used a diecut from the ephemera pack and a sticker from the Accessory Sticker Sheet.

To the bottom photo I added a diecut to the top of my photo, a frame from the ephemera pack, then to the left I added two presents…one chipboard and one from the ephemera pack.

To finish my page I added some stars cut from a patterned paper and some tiny stars cut from gold glitter paper down to the diagonal of the page….love this finishing touch!

 

I hope you enjoyed my page and you are starting to get in the Xmas spirit!

Happy Creating!

Kel x

December | Joyful collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout featuring the gorgeous Joyful collection.

I know, I know its still November but who said we couldn’t document Christmas all year round right? I know some people would not agree lol! I don’t know about you, but Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year to document memories, this photo is of our big Christmas tree from last year. I love this photo as it reminds me of beautiful times spent with my family.

I started by choosing the ‘B’ side of the Feeling Festive patterned paper to use for my background, I trimmed this piece down and adhered it to a plain white sheet of white cardstock and machine stitched a border around the outside to add some texture. I then cut out a cut file from CUT to YOU also using plain white cardstock. The A5 paper stack was then used, choosing several of the papers from it to back each letter in the cut file. Once the cut file was all backed, I adhered it slightly to the left on the ‘B’ side of the Feeling Festive paper. I cut strips out of the Holly Days paper and the Very Merry paper and adhered these vertically to the left of the cut file. I like how this helps to ground the cut file. Usually I adhere my cut files using craft foam however this time I knew I wanted to use craft foam on lots of the elements on top of the cut file.

I adhered my photo on the right of the cut file using craft foam and layered some of the Journaling Cards underneath,  I then added some die-cut pieces from the Ephemera pack and some Accessory Stickers and Puffy Stickers here too. I like to add embellishments near my photo to help draw the eye to the photo. You can see in the image above the shadows that using the craft foam creates under the photo, I love how this looks! It also allows for lots of tucking of embellishments as well. Above my photo, I placed some of the word and phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet, I love how these help with journaling and telling the story.

To balance out the heavy right side where my photo is placed, I decided to add the gorgeous die-cut Christmas Tree from the ephemera pack to the left hand side using craft foam, I added one of the gold puffy stars to the top of the tree and also layered more of the word and phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet, on top of the tree. I added some more gifts under the tree using puffy shapes and die-cuts. In the centre, I placed the FaLaLaLa die-cut, a banner sticker and another phrase sticker. I also pulled out some of the chipboard and added some of the pretty gold stars and I also added the Santa Hat to the top of ‘D’ in the December cut file.

In the centre of the ‘D’ in the December cut file, I took one of the circle stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet and added one of the gorgeous wood epoxy buttons to the centre of the circle. Once all the bigger elements were added to my page and I was happy with all of the placement, I took a look at my layout to see if I was happy with it and if I thought it was finished. I can very easily overdo it sometimes and never know when to stop but I added just a few smaller embellishments like more gold chipboard stars and some Accessory stickers to finish. I also stamped the date stamp which is what I do on all of my layouts, its one of my signatures that I always like to do!

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope I have inspired you to pull out your Cocoa Vanilla Christmas collections and start creating some of your past Christmas memories!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Family Day Out | Happy Days Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hey Scrappy friends! It’s Michelle here today with a new layout share for you all. I think this might be the last I share with the amazing Happy Days Collection for a little while as I just received a fresh box of the NEW collection Heart & Home and oh my is it stunning. But first, lets take a walk through this fun creation.

We recently had a family celebration of 50 years marriage for my partners parents, and what better way to celebrate than a family day out on a steam train ride. The kids (both young and old) all had the best fun hanging their heads out the windows as we rolled along the seaside

I had a couple of photos that I wanted to use to document this special occasion, so I thought a “rough” grid design would work for the base with lots of layers and different sized squares of pattern papers. I used a mix of both 12×12 and A5 pattern papers from the collection and cut them into 4×4, 3×3 & 2×2 inch size pieces to layer together. I added machine stitching around the edges for extra detail and left the strings loose for extra texture on the page.

I grouped photos together and layered one over the top of the other to continue the layered effect I was going for with the pattern paper

I added pieces of ephemera, accessory word stickers, chipboard pieces and puffy stickers/heart to the photo stacks to create interest in these areas

I created my usual floral clusters diagonally across from each other by fussy cutting florals from both 12×12 & A5 sizes of the LUSH BLOOMS paper then grouping them together with cut apart pieces from the FEEL GOOD paper

To create the title I’ve mixed letters from the CHIPBOARD TITLES pack to create my own words, and added a words strip from the FEEL GOOD paper above.

Lastly I added a few splatters of gold ink and some tiny puffy stickers in both hearts and dots to finish off the layout

I’m really happy with how quickly it all came together, with the fussy cutting being the most time consuming process of it all.

Well thats all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by! Can’t wait to see the new collection start appearing online within the next couple of weeks, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for inspiration from the team in the coming days.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping!

Michelle x

Cool Kid | No Limits collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new boy-themed layout using the awesome No Limits collection! The No Limits collection is a bit of a throwback to one of the older Cocoa Vanilla collections but I love revisiting older collections! I don’t know about you but if I have heaps of a collection left, I like to challenge myself to use it up!

I started out with a white cardstock background as I mostly always do, trimming it down to measure 11′ x 11′ and adhering it to a sheet of black cardstock. I took the Nebula paper and tore rough edges down each side. I then took some of the Latitude paper and tore a piece vertically, I adhered the Nebula paper down and the yellow side of the Latitude paper on the right side. I trimmed the colourful border strip from the Universal paper and adhered this piece to left of the Nebula paper. I bent the edges of the papers using my fingers to add some texture and to add to the grunge/boy theme feel of the page.  On the right of the papers, I added some black twine also for some added texture.

The photo is of my youngest son just after a haircut, he was loving his haircut and I just loved the look on his face so I snapped a few photos of him! I placed the photo in the centre of the papers, I layered one of the 3′ x 4′ pocket cards under the photo for an extra layer. I added some phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker Sheet here to help tell the story of my layout. Although Certified Wild and Beast Mode may not be quite true lol! The One of a Kind chipboard certainly is true though and I placed this piece at the very top of the page.

To the right of my photo, I placed my title which is made up of the Die-cut Titles, I used craft foam underneath these to pop them off the page. I don’t know about you but I love the font of these titles! I added some phrases below the title here and then began to add some of the smaller embellishments. I added lots of star embellishments, including die-cuts, chipboard stars and puffy stars. I also added wood epoxy buttons and some tab stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet.

I love the dimension, detail and texture that all the different papers and embellishments add to a page. The last thing I did was I stamped the date of when my photo was taken, I sprinkled some black mist and freehand drew a black border around the edge using my journal pen. I love how my boy themed layout turned out and hope you enjoyed reading about how I created it.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Our Happy Life | Midnight Collection | Kellie Moore

Hello CVS fans and welcome back to the blog.

Today I am sharing a page for Throwback Thursday and I pulled out the Midnight collection which I still have a nice stash of…not surprising as I have hoarded a lot of Cocoa Vanilla products!

Here is a look at my page..

To start my page I used a stitching cutfile from Paige Evans of a branch which I stitched using a chain stitch in a soft pink which creates some nice dimension. This serves as the landing space for my photo..

Next, I pulled out lots of florals, hearts and butterflies from the ephemera pack and accessory sticker sheet to fill out the stitched branch and add lots of interest and dimension.

I also added some stickers to the top of my photo to add more interest..

For my title I used the word ‘Happy’ from the Chipboard pieces to complete my title, then I used one of the clear stickers under the word Happy to ground it to my page..

Under my title I used a banner from the chipboard pieces..

To finish my page I popped a few more of the clear stickers around my page to fill in some of the open spots…I love how this this turned out and finished off my page.

Thanks for popping by today, I hope you found some inspiration to maybe pull out some of your older CVS stash to get crafty!

See you next time

Kel x

Together | Happy Days | Kellie Moore

Welcome back CVS fans, I hope you are all well.

Today I am back sharing my second layout with the new ‘Happy Days’ collection. For my page today I was tasked with the assignment of focusing on the floral ephemera…so easy when the florals are always so gorgeous in all Cocoa Vanilla collections right?! Here is a look at my page..

To start, I chose a cutfile from my stash (sorry it’s an older one so Im not sure where I got it.) I backed the large section of the heart in the yellow plaid which is called ‘Feel Good’..then I backed the flower with two papers from the A5 paper stack. To give the page more interest, I hand stitched around the flower and the heart.

For the design of my page I decided to go with a diagonal…this always looks good, and I used this opportunity to use the florals from the floral ephemera pack to flow down my page, placing them above my photos, under my title then down to the bottom right of my page.

When adhering my florals i like to give them dimension in several ways… adding foam adhesive, pinching the petals together and not sticking the flowers straight down onto the background. This allows them to ‘pop’ up off the page ..

Next to my photos on the right side, I used one of the cut cards from the A5 paper stack.. it suits my pics perfectly!

For my title I used the word ‘Together’ from the Chipboard Title Stickers, I love the the playful font on these.

Under my photos I used some of the word phrases from the cut apart sheet called ‘Feel Good’ as well as from the A5 paper stack..

To finish my page I added some yellow oxide ink around my heart to create depth and dimension… super easy way to add mixed media followed by a sprinkle of the puffy stickers.

Thats it for today, I hope you enjoyed my page and you are starting to get to play with this fun new collection.

Til next time!

Kel

You’re Epic | No Limits Collection | Laura Alberts

Hi y’all! Diving into one of my favorite collections today! I absolutely love the bold red and navy in the No Limits collection, so it is one I automatically reach for to scrap photos of my sons. For this photo of my son in his new snarky t-shirt, it was perfect!

I focused primarily on using up a ton of paper scraps on this one! The small stripes of color on the branding strips and 1/4 to 1/3 inch strips leftover from previous layouts were layered together to create a fun, colorful background on the Spark patterned paper.

To extend my photo cluster, I tucked in two cut apart pieces from the A5 paper stack to the right side of the photo. To give the photo more presence on the page, I added a frame from the ephemera pack that I cut in half and wedged in on either side of the photo cluster. Then, I finished it with a light embellishing of stars, cut apart phrases, and a chipboard title for a finishing touch!

I hope this layout inspires you to try and use up those tiny paper scraps and branding strips floating around your stash! If you’d like to see how “You’re Epic” came together, check out the process video below!

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