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Christmas Cheer | Heart & Home Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hello Hello, Michelle here with you today to share a super quick layout featuring the Heart & Home Collection. This Christmas creation came together using elements from the Collection that are just the right shades and patterns to pass as a Christmas Collection.

I’ve documented a photo of our House Elf Twinkle as I am running low on festive photos. I generally live in the moment at Christmas time and forget to pick up the camera.

I kept the background super simple and just layered some pattern paper strips together to create a base for the photo, with the addition of some string wrapped around them to hang a cluster of embellishments from. As there were no pattern/ colour clashes with the photo and collection used I was able to print it in colour at roughly 3.5×4.5 size. I adhered it straight to the paper stack using foam for slight dimension.

I added cut apart pieces to the photo and the large cluster to the left of photo, then created bunches of floral pieces in 3 separate clusters around the top half of the photo/ paper layer stack.

The florals and leaf stems are perfect colours for Christmas Scrapping, without using the traditional style of christmas products. These colours together represent a soft Christmas themed palette compared to the brighter more traditional colours.

Once I added the tag to the twine I tied it up in a bow and added tiny glue spots to keep the strings in formation

I created the title using some of my beloved white alpha stickers from years ago, altering them with some glitter glue for a touch of sparkle, plus some mini alpha stickers and handwriting for a more personal touch

Lastly I splattered the entire layout with gold ink and called it done. Heres a final look at the entire layout…

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

I hope you all have a magical festive season with your loved ones, and that you can squeeze in a little crafty time here and there.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping
Michelle x

Joyful | Joyful collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

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

I have documented another gorgeous photo of my niece from a Christmas photo shoot when she was younger, I just love this photo so much! The Joyful collection was perfect for this photo with the super cute animal icons, I was able to add the adorable reindeer, bird, squirrel and rabbit.

I chose the ‘B’ side of the Deck the Halls patterned paper for my background, I love the teal and stars on this paper! I trimmed it down and adhered it to a plain sheet of white cardstock and then added machine stitched border around the edges.  At the top of the page, I placed one of the blank rectangle stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet and layered some puffy stickers over the top. I wanted to make a large cluster in the centre of my page and decided to first choose a Cambridge doily to lay down first, I love the softness and texture that this brings to the layout. I then layered some of the 3′ x 4′ journal cards under the photo and adhered these down on top of the doily using craft foam to add dimension. At the top of the journal cards, I added my Joyful title from the gold puffy titles. These are sooo gorgeous! I love the different word choices and that you can mix it up if you want to! I placed one of the glitter gold stars and one of the banner puffy stickers!

 From the Very Merry patterned paper, I cut out the Magical Moments phrase and adhered it below the photo and I placed one of the word stickers from the Accessory Sticker Sheet above the photo.  On the right of the photo, I added some embellishments including the round journal spot from the Accessory Sticker Sheet, a stocking from the chipboard set, some candy canes in die-cuts and puffy stickers, the super cute bunny puffy sticker and one of the lovely epoxy wood buttons.

 On the left of the photo, I placed the gorgeous reindeer chipboard piece and layered both a star and a bird puffy sticker. I love to layer embellishments on top of other embellishments! I also tucked in behind the reindeer, another candy cane die-cut and placed one of the glitter gold fabric stars too.  Did you spot the pretty sprinkles of gold and white over the page? That was done using gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine and some white mist is by Dylusions. I just unscrewed the cap off the top and lightly shook the nozzle to add the sprinkles.

Under the photo, I tucked in one of the tags from the Accessory sticker sheet and tied a bow with some twine through the hole. I also placed more phrase and word stickers from the Accessory sticker sheet and also the cute squirrel sticker too. I also placed some of the small puffy stickers here as well. Such small details can really make a big impact on a page, although sometimes small embellishments are subtle, they really can make a difference to a page.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you are inspired to get crafting with your Cocoa Vanilla Christmas collections!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

The Most Wonderful Time! using Happy Days | Niki Rowland

Hey everyone! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) with a new layout and process video.  I was determined to make Christmassy layouts in December but I don’t have any Cocoa Vanilla Studio Christmas Collections anymore – I loved them so much that I used them all up at the time! So I’m using the two latest collections, Happy Days and Heart & Home and getting Christmassy with those! For this layout I’ve mostly used Happy Days but the big green stars are from Heart & Home.

I love 3D stars and stars are perfect for Christmas. I also love modern Christmas colours, so pink & turquoise mixed with greens and golds so it was absolutely no problem for me to make a Christmas layout with these colours!

I settled on a horizontal design across the layout but I also added a little pink ink as a base colour and some splatters of the pink and gold paint too. I used several of the specialty paper Gold Frames from the Happy Days collection.

I picked out my papers and then used metal dies to make lots of stars. I then scored them at all five points, and folded them to make the 3D stars. I added flowers and hearts from Happy Days in the same colours.

For my title I used a mixture: ‘wonderful’ and ‘time’ were the chipboard words from Happy Days, ‘the’ and ‘of’ were the gorgeous gold word Ephemera from Heart & Home. The little letters are the puffy mini alphabet stickers from Happy Days.

I love how it turned out and I think it is very Christmassy! You can see the process video below

Happy scrapping!

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

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

Christmas Morning Joy | Merry & Bright collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends and Happy New Year!

It’s Tarrah back today to share a new scrapbook layout featuring the gorgeous Merry and Bright collection!

I just love creating Christmas layouts, what about you? I still have lots of the Merry and Bright collection and I also love to stash bust so I really enjoyed creating this layout!

I started by choosing my background paper – opting for the Star Bright paper. I then cut out a cut file from white cardstock. The cut file is from CUT to YOU and is called Stars Squared. Once the cut file was cut out, I struggled with the placement and design of my page so I cut up the cut file into separate pieces so I could place pieces of it where I wanted to. Do you ever do this? I do this a lot if I am struggling to like how a cut file looks on my page. There are no rules to say you have to use a cut file the way it was intended!

I backed all the stars of the cut file with papers from the Merry and Bright A5 paper stack, once it was all backed, I then placed foam adhesive to the underside of the cut file and adhered the cut file to the ‘Star Bright’ paper.

The photo I am documenting today was taken just this last Christmas of my 2 sons and my 2 beautiful nieces! My nieces were able to be here from England for this Christmas! It was wonderful to have them and it was the first Christmas we have had together with them! A very special memory to document. I layered one of the pocket cards and a cardstock frame from the ephemera pack under the photo and adhered it overlapping the cut file, in the centre of my layout. I also stapled a banner sticker from the accessory sticker sheet to the top left corner of the photo. My title is made up of a phrase sticker from the accessory sticker sheet overlapping the word ‘Joy’ fussy cut out from the Season’s Greeting paper.  It certainly was Christmas Morning Joy in our household!

To the left of the photo I also placed the Ho Ho Ho die-cut from the ephemera pack, a gorgeous flair button, a phrase sticker and a gold puffy star. In the top left I also placed that super cute Santa face die-cut from the ephemera pack and to balance that with the bottom right corner, I placed the sleigh, also from the ephemera pack.

To finish my layout, I added a few smaller embellishments like small die-cuts, stickers, another gold puffy star and completely finished the page with stamping the date stamp and sprinkling some gold Heidi shine. Once I had finished my layout, I then auditioned some papers to go behind the Star Bright one to act as a ‘frame’. I decided on the ‘B’ side of the ‘Joy to the World’ paper. I trimmed down the ‘Star Bright’ paper and adhered it to the ‘Joy to the World’ paper.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed reading about how I created my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Do you have the Merry & Bright collection? I encourage you to pull it out and create some pretty things with it!

Tarrah x

December 2021 | Joyful Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, it’s Melissa here and I’m so happy to be back with you today with a Christmas themed layout.  I’m using last years gorgeous Joyful collection. The cut file is from Confessions of A Paper Addict.

I knew that I wanted to use a patterned paper for my background, and chose Very Merry because I love the gold sprinkles. I painted the cut file with a sparkly powder activated with water.  The powder is pink but has hidden colour in it, which is why there is a mix of pink tones.  I actually love that it is uneven.  I used a gold powder for the present.

I fussy cut several flowers from Tis’ The Season for embellishment.  I bended up the edges of the petals for extra dimension and I love how they look scattered throughout my page. I used a couple of Accessory Stickers to help tell my story.

I backed the cut file present with papers from the A5 Paper Stack.  They were perfect with their small repeating patterns.

I hope I’ve encouraged you to dig into an older Christmas collection to document your memories.

Thanks for looking

Melissa xx

Merry Christmas | Merry & Bright collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah McLean back with you and today I am sharing a Christmas themed scrapbook layout with you featuring the gorgeous Merry and Bright collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio. Do you like scrapbooking Christmas? I absolutely love it and would scrapbook using Christmas collections all year if I could!

I started my layout with a white cardstock base and decided to document a Snapchat photo of myself taken last Christmas Day, it goes perfectly with the Merry & Bright collection. I pulled out one of the frames from the ephemera pack and adhered it to my photo, I then added craft foam to the underneath of the photo. Before I adhered the photo to the white cardstock, I trimmed a piece of the woodgrain paper from the A5 paper stack and layered and adhered it underneath the photo, adhering the photo down on top.

I built my entire layout around the photo in the centre, choosing to leave lots of white space on this page. I tucked in some florals from the ephemera pack on either side of the photo, bending the edges of the leaves and flowers to create some shadows on my page. On top of the floral cluster on the right, I adhered a gorgeous flair button on top and also added a heart from the ephemera pack also. Above the photo, I adhered the ‘Merry’ tab and from the accessory stickers, I placed the banner with the star in the top right of my photo.

At the bottom of my photo, I placed the ‘Merry Christmas’ sticker from the accessory sticker sheet and this became my title for the page also. I also placed the rectangle journal spot sticker under the title sticker. Once I was happy with the centre cluster that is the main focus of my layout, I started to add some details to the top and bottom of the page. I cut out a strip of the pink, red and white stripe paper for both the top and bottom, I also scalloped the edge of a piece of the green check paper and adhered that piece at the top. I added some ephemera pieces, a banner sticker and one of the gorgeous gold stars also.

On the bottom edge, I added some more ephemera pieces and another gorgeous gold star also. Some of the smaller and last details I added were the small phrase stickers, the date stamp and splattered some gold Heidi Shine around my page also. I love how the gold Heidi shine looks against the white and also how some of it has landed on the holly leaves as well.  Once I was happy with my final layout on the white cardstock, I then trimmed down the white cardstock and adhered it to the coral 12′ x 12′ patterned paper from the collection.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed reading about how I created my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Do you have the Merry & Bright collection? I encourage you to pull it out and create some pretty things with it!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe, happy and healthy new year.

Tarrah x

 

Christmas Morning | Joyful Collection | Danni Visser

Hello Cocoa Vanilla Studio friends! Danni here with my final Christmas layout for the year (until the festive season rolls around again of course!) and naturally I had to use the amazing Joyful collection to round out my festive scrapping.

I still had a bunch of the gorgeous Christmas trees from this collection left, both die cut ephemera and chipboard stickers, so I decided to make a little tree scene using these along with some patterned papers. I started with Deck the Halls 12×12 patterned paper as a base for my layout, because I knew all those tiny trees would be a great backdrop for my embellishment trees. I laid down a layer of white acrylic paint in the centre of the page to soften the pattern and allow my elements to stand out better.

To finish off the background I added a bunch of ink splatters in forest green, a soft red and lots of bright metallic gold. While my paint and ink mediums were drying, I went ahead and hand-cut three tree shapes from the A5 paper stack papers in different shades of green. I did this by folding rectangles of paper in half lengthways, drawing a tree outline on the outside fold in pencil, then cutting out the shape. Super easy!

Next I arranged my trees on the background where I liked them, then sewed a line of machine stitching straight down the middle of each, along the fold line, to anchor them to the page securely and add some texture. I tucked my die cut ephemera and chipboard sticker trees in amongst the paper trees, then arranged my three 3×2’ photos of Christmas morning along the bottom of the cluster with dimensional foam to lift them up.

For my title I took the beautiful gold foiled ‘Christmas’ title piece from the chipboard stickers and added it along the bottom of my photos. I finished it off with some kraft stickers from my stash and a tiny word phrase from the accessory stickers. I also added two more tiny words from the accessory stickers around my photos.

I wanted to decorate my little trees, so I took the puffy stickers and added some tiny gifts beneath the ephemera trees, some candy canes and leaves to the paper trees and added some gold stars from the puffy gold title stickers. Finally, I topped my trees with a gold chipboard sticker star and some tiny wood epoxy buttons.

I hope you like this layout today – I am thrilled to bits with how it turned out. There is a process video on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio YouTube channel linked below if you would like to watch it come together. Happy scrapping!

Danni x

December Daily Days 10-12 | Joyful Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, Its Melissa here and I’m back with you today with three days in my December Daily Traveler’s Notebook.  I’m creating my entire 25 Days of December with the beautiful Joyful collection, and keeping it simple is helping me get through the month.

My first day is Day 10, and for this one I had two photos and associated stories to document.  This part of my homemade notebook has a piece of patterned paper sewn in and plain white paper.  I focused on using one of the “Pocket Cards“.

As always I am distressing all of the edges, and outlining with a journaling pen to provide extra details without dimension.

For this page I embellished with a partial fussy cut floral that I cut from one of the papers in the A5 Paper Stack and I added an Accessory Sticker.

Day 11 only had one photo, so I created a large tag using Feeling Festive and some white cardstock to hold my journaling. I embellished with cute Puffy Stickers.

I love all the cute details on the Advent cut aparts! So perfect for numbering my days.

The big tag was a fun addition to a page that needed to be filled in, and I was inspired by a scrappy friend who recently posted a photo of a TN page with a large tag.  I don’t plan the taking of my photos each day, I just try to capture moments.  Sometimes I forget to take more than one.

Day 12 just happened to be last page of my notebook (I’ll be creating volume 2 next) and had Tis’ the Season as the back cover and white cardstock.  I’ve loved using full page photos, and I size and print them at home. I used an App called Print to Size on my phone, and I print them directly to my printer. I mistakenly purchased matt photo paper and was concerned I wouldn’t like it, but I actually love how it looks.

I loved writing directly onto my photo for this page!  The holly is from the Die Cut Ephemera.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Square shaped photos are another of my favourites, and for this one of Brielle with our Christmas Countdown I just had to use the corresponding sticker!  Since the photo shows how many days until the big day I used the space in the sticker to journal.

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing three of my pages, I also made a video showing me creating them and it includes a walk through of the previous days!

 

Thanks for looking

Melissa xx

All I Want For Christmas | Joyful Collection | Danni Visser

Hi Cocoa Vanilla Studio friends! Danni here with a fun mixed media layout featuring the absolutely beautiful Joyful collection, because I still can’t get enough of it!  I have a couple of sweet photos of my little girl to document, so I decided to keep everything bright and add lots of texture using machine stitching.

I started the layout with a white cardstock base and added a border with the soft pink gingham side of Advent 12×12 patterned paper. I added a line of machine stitching around the edge to add extra security and added detail. This gave me an idea to add a quilt-inspired design to the page – I’ll explain more about that later.

I have been eyeing off the gorgeous double sided 3×4 cards for a while, and this is one of my favourite ways to use a bunch of them on a layout. I overlapped my two 3×4 photos slightly, then chose four of the cards to build a large cluster to go in the centre of the page. I distressed all the edges of the cards then layered them around and behind my photos at different heights and widths to create variety. I adhered all these together then set them aside while I worked on my background.

I wanted to add some mixed media to the plain white background, so I took some distress oxide ink pads and diluted the colour using water and some white acrylic ink. White acrylic ink is great because it mutes bright colours while also making inks more opaque. My colours ended up still being brighter than I wanted, but I’m totally ok with that. I used the packaging technique to add messy splotches of the ink to the white cardstock.

Once the paper was completely dry, I went in with my sewing machine and added lots of cross hatching lines of stitching in a quilted-style pattern. I made sure to add the stitching where it would be visible around my central cluster. Because my photo and card cluster was already adhered together, I could just go ahead and glue it down to the centre of the page in one piece.  I ended loving the quilted stitching effect peeking out from behind everything!

I finished off the ‘All I want for Christmas’ card with some small phrase stickers from the accessory stickers – I just love that shiny gold typeface font. I also took a couple of flag accessory stickers and layered them below the lower 3×4 card, plus a tab accessory sticker at the top. I embellished lightly with some chipboard sticker holly leaves either side of my photo, and some shiny chipboard sticker stars cascading down my layout.

Finally I added some puffy sticker holly leaves layered with the chipboard sticker ones, then some tiny puffy sticker stars. I love how this one turned out, I hope you did too. There is a process video linked below on the Cocoa Vanilla YouTube channel if you would like to watch this layout come together. Happy scrapping!

Danni x

 

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