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Happy Days | Happy Days collection | Mandy Melville

Mandy Melville 02/06/2023

Hello everyone!

Mandy here today to share a new layout using the beautiful new Happy Days collection! I absolutely love all of the gorgeous bright colours in this collection and for this layout I wanted to create a fun and happy layout featuring all of the colours! What better paper to use for this than the Rainbow Bright paper! I knew that this would be perfect for documenting a photo of my youngest daughter with her besties on her 5th birthday.

The Rainbow Bright paper made such a gorgeous background for this photo and really brought the layout to life! Once I had decided on this paper, I then matted my photo with one of the papers from the A5 Paper Stack. I adhered it to the page using craft foam in order to give it some nice dimension and to help it stand out against all of the bright colours in the background.

For my embellishing I decided to keep it mostly tone-on-tone. So on the pink section of the rainbow I added pink embellishments, on the yellow I added yellow embellishments, and so on. I started with a fun little cluster on the bottom right hand corner of the photo. As this was on the blue and purple section, those were the colours that I chose for this cluster. I included some florals from the Floral Ephemera pack, as well as some that I fussy cut out of the Lush Blooms paper. I also added a couple of Die Cuts to the cluster.

Moving over to the left hand side of photo, I added another embellishment cluster using similar items that I used in the first. I tucked some of the flowers under the edge of the photo and some on top to give the cluster some dimension. How gorgeous are the Puffy Hearts?! I couldn’t resist adding one to each of my floral clusters!

I added a third cluster above the photo, creating a visual triangle to draw the viewer’s eye around the page. To keep the clusters looking balanced I again included similar items to the first two. You can also see that I fussy cut a few butterflies out of the Flutterby paper and I scattered these around the page, again keeping them tone-on-tone.

For my title I decided on using the ‘Happy Days’ words from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I positioned the words so that they curved around the arc of the rainbow. It was the perfect title for this happy photo!

I finished the page off with some typed journalling strips and a few little hearts from the Chipboard Titles pack.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today! I hope that you’re able to create some bright and fun layouts with this collection too!

Mandy x

Love | Happy Days Collection | Laura Alberts

Laura Alberts 29/05/2023

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.

Tutti frutti | Happy days Layout | Anna Komenda

Anna Komenda 28/05/2023

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.

Anna

Happy Days with You | Happy Days collection | Tarrah McLean

Tarrah McLean 24/05/2023

Hi creative friends!

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

For this week’s project, I was given the fun task of including the Sunshine and Lollipops paper on my project. There are a total of 3 designers including this paper in their projects this week, so be sure to check out their gorgeous work too!

I have had this lovely photo of my niece printed for ages, don’t you think it goes perfectly with the Sunshine and Lollipops paper?!

I love it when my photos go with my craft supplies!

I chose a plain white cardstock background (as I mostly do) so that those gorgeous colours in the collection can really pop!

I then decided to cut up the Sunshine and Lollipops paper into strips, you can see I cut them so there was a lighter and darker version of each colour together.

I then pulled out my scoreboard and bone scoring tool and scored at every inch. Once this was done, I then just folded the creases in a concertina fashion to create the zig zag/chevron effect on the paper strips. I had to think about how I was going to get the strips to adhere to the plain white cardstock background. I ended up choosing double sided tape, running a piece down the centres of each one and adhering them on the cardstock. I did pull some of the folds out so that some were longer and shorter than others, I love how this turned out.

I adhered my photo at the bottom of the layout, overlapping onto the yellow and green paper strips. I added the ‘Good Times’ die-cut tab from the ephemera pack to the right side of the photo and also adhered my title above the photo. I chose the gorgeous Happy Days cardstock titles also from the ephemera pack for my title and also added a few phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet to add to the title.

To embellish my layout I chose a tone on tone look. What this means is that you place same or similar colour elements against each other. For instance on the yellow paper strip, I have placed a yellow puffy heart and a yellow flower top and bottom of the paper strip. I repeated the same tone on tone look for each of the paper strips, choosing lots of fun embellishments from the ephemera pack, the puffy hearts pack, the puffy shape stickers and accessory stickers.

I love how the folded paper strips create lots of dimension and shadows on my layout! Some other ways you might recreate this layout is by adhering the paper strips horizontally instead of vertically. Or you could even try weaving them for a really effective look as well! The possibilities are endless! The Sunshine and Lollipops paper would have to be one of my favourite papers in the Happy Days collection! What is your favourite? Lastly I added the heart paper strip to the very bottom of the layout and I stamped the date stamp of when the photo was taken.

Thank you for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you are inspired by my layout and enjoyed reading about how I created it. You are always welcome to recreate this layout if you wish using your Happy Days collection! I would love to see what you come up with!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

So Fun | Happy Days Collection | Laura Alberts

Laura Alberts 17/05/2023

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts here with a rainbow grid layout using the new Happy Days collection! I used four 3×4 photos of my child getting their hair bleached and dyed, which is a summer tradition of ours. I love the bold, vivid colors in this collection that were perfect for these photos!

Behind two of the photos I tucked frames from the specialty paper and I love the gold shimmer this gives to the layout! I added a banner on top of one and a cluster of hearts and flowers on the other. My title is from the chipboard and is added into the center of another frame.

For my journaling, I used a cut apart piece and incorporated it into the grid. For the embellishing, I stuck to small clusters around the page using fussy cut icons and ephemera. My favorite parts were the little butterfly trails and the puffy hearts!

I hope this layout inspires you to try the grid style! If you’d like to see “So Fun” come together, check out the process video below!

Hello Sunshine | Happy Days collection | Mandy Melville

Mandy Melville 16/05/2023

Hello everyone!

Mandy here today to share a new layout featuring the gorgeous new Happy Days collection. For my project today, my task was to create a layout using a grid design. I love that there are so many ways that you can incorporate a grid into your layouts and it’s a design that I often fall back on when I’m feeling uninspired. Grid designs are all about using squares and/or rectangles, and the great thing is that you can include as few or as many photos as you want into your design. Here’s the page that I created, documenting a recent photo of my girls and I when we visited a sunflower farm.

My inspiration for the colour palette for this layout came from the Juicy Fruit paper. I love the yellows and oranges of the fruits, combined with the aqua/teal, and I decided to focus on those colours for this page as they complemented my photo perfectly. I started by cutting 2 inch squares out of papers from the A5 Paper Stack. The A5 papers are perfect for this sort of project as the patterns are smaller and it saves you from cutting into your larger 12 inch papers. Once I’d cut my squares out, I arranged them down the right hand side of a sheet of white cardstcock.

I also printed my photo as a square and positioned it amongst the smaller squares on the page. I pieced it all together a little like a puzzle until I was happy with the placement of everything. The photo was adhered with craft foam in order to give it some extra dimension on the page.

The fun part about creating a grid design layout is embellishing each of the sections in the grid. I added various die cuts and stickers to each of the squares in the grid, using foam tape to pop some up off the page. I tried to make sure that it looked well balanced by making sure that I didn’t have too much of one colour in any particular area.

For my title I used the lovely Chipboard Titles. I decided on using the ‘Hello Sunshine’ phrase as it was the perfect title for this sunshiney photo! I finished the layout off with some typed journaling strips, a doodled border, and a sprinkling of the sweet Puffy Heart Stickers.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today and I hope that you’ve been inspired by my grid design layout using the beautiful new Happy Days collection!

Mandy x

So happy to meet you | Happy Days Layout | Anna Komenda

Anna Komenda 14/05/2023

Hello everyone! Welcome in another month! My assignment for today was to create project with “Motherhood” theme in mind as a part of celebrating Mother’s Day. I am both a child and a mom so I could approach this topic in two ways. However, I barely have any photos with my own mom (she is live and kicking, just hates taking photos) so I decided to scrapbook my own story. When our kids are born, we usually focus on taking photos of them, all the cute feet and smiles and everything but we often forget to include us into the picture. Who can blame us? We usually look tired and exhausted when a new baby is born, with no time for any makeup or doing hair. I am one of those mothers too and with my first daughter born I honestly do not have any photo of me and her that I would scrapbook and share in the public. I remembered this lesson with kid no 2! When we came back from the hospital, I washed my hair, put some maskara and asked my hubby to take us few photos on our own couch. They are not perfect, they are not posed properly, but they are filled with all the love and tenderness a new mom feels toward her baby.

One of those imprefect photos made it to this page. Maja was only one week old here and I was still recovering but I remember this moment so vividly – the pure happiness flooding me with tears in the corners of my eyes. The prefect human I just made was finally there to be touched, held and kissed. So tiny yet so perfect.

I reached for brand new CVS collection called HAPPY DAYS. The perfect name of line to scrapbook such a precious memory. My photo has a lot of contrast and unusual color combination but I managed to find just a perfect papers in this collection. I started with white, textured cardstock quickly drawing few wonky hearts on it using very soft watercolor crayons in four colors. Some are bigger and some are smaller. My custom made background was done withing few minutes.

Next step was to cut two tags and a rectangle from A5 PAPER STACK papers to create a composition. After glueing them down to the background, I took my fussy cutting scissors and LUSH BLOOMS and FLUTTERBY papers and I cut out bunch of flowers and butterflies in matching colors.

I glued them down and went through EPHEMERA PACK to find other elements that would fit my composition. I also created a title using CHIPBOARD TITLES. Some of the words are used as they were supposed to and some of them are a random letters pulled out from other words. This way “sweet” turned into “meet”. I just skipped S and rotated W into M. Just another way to spread your possibilities of using up scrappy stuff.

I finished the design by adding few puffy hearts for more texture. I really like the color combo on this page – I would probably not think of it if not the colors in the picture. It proves how versatile HAPPY DAYS collection it! With all the colors of the rainbow, you can easily pick only few to play with.

That is all for today! thank you so much for stopping by and see you again in two weeks.

XO Anna

Liquid Sunshine | Happy Days | Josefine Van der Hoeven

Josefine van der Hoeven 12/05/2023

Hello Paperlovers,

Welcome to the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! So happy to see you…Scrapbooking is an amazing hobby that allows us to preserve our memories in a creative and beautiful way. With the right supplies, it’s possible to create stunning layouts that capture the essence of a special moment. such collection that can help you achieve this is the amazing “Happy Days” collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio. In this blog post, we’ll explore a scrapbook layout that uses this collection and features a mixed media background and a beautiful half rosette that looks like an umbrella.

To begin with, I used a sheet of white cardstock as the base for my layout. I then applied some distress oxide ink in the color fossilized amber to create a mixed media background. The oxide ink blends effortlessly, giving a lovely vintage feel to the layout.

Next, I created a half rosette that I wanted to look like an umbrella. For this, I used a piece of patterned paper from the Happy Days collection. The paper had a beautiful blue flower pattern that looked perfect for the umbrella. I cut the paper into a long strip and then scored it at regular intervals. I then folded the paper along the score lines to create the rosette. Once it was complete, I created a handle from a yellow colored pattern paper, making sure it looked like an umbrella.

To decorate the umbrella, I used some beautiful flower die-cuts, butterflies, lemons, and peaches that I had cut out from the Happy Days collection papers. I arranged the die-cuts in a way that looked like they were hanging off the umbrella. The flowers were a mix of bright pinks, yellows, and oranges, while the butterflies were a mix of gold and pink. The lemons and peaches added a lovely pop of color to the layout and complemented the other elements perfectly.

The Happy Days collection from Cocoa Vanilla is a fantastic collection to use for your scrapbooking memories. It has beautiful bright colors and the papers and die-cuts are perfect for creating beautiful layouts. By incorporating a mixed media background and a half rosette that looks like an umbrella, I was able to create a lovely spring layout that captured the essence of a special moment. I want to thank you for visiting the blog today and hope to see you next time with a new project. I wish you a happy and creative day! XoXo, Jo

You’re Beautiful | Happy Days collection | Tarrah McLean

Tarrah McLean 09/05/2023

Hi creative friends,

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

Have you seen the gorgeous new gold foiled specialty paper in this collection? It is soooo beautiful! I knew I had to use it for a layout! I decided to document some dress up photos of my niece, adding a total of 3 photos on this layout!

Make sure you get the specialty paper in your Happy Days collection order, you won’t be disappointed!

I took the gold foiled specialty paper and carefully cut out the centres of the ‘frames’ with my craft knife, leaving just the outline of each ‘frame’. I put the centres aside in case I want to use these on a project in the future. I then took the A5 paper stack and chose 1 of each of the papers from the pack and backed all the spaces in the papers where there were no photos. My title is made up of the gorgeous chipboard alphabet stickers. I placed the title split up so that it helps draw your eye around the layout.

Once all of the spaces were backed, I trimmed down the specialty paper and adhered this piece to the ‘B’ side of the ‘Definitive’ paper to frame the entire layout. I chose a variety of the beautiful embellishments in the collection to embellish each of the ‘frames’ including die-cuts from the ephemera pack, enamel hearts and dots, fabric puffy hearts and accessory stickers. Many of the embellishments have been adhered using craft foam underneath to add dimension to the page, I love how the craft foam creates shadows and dimension.

On some of the spaces, I chose to leave the embellishments off as I felt that the paper was enough for that space. You can in the below image, I left them off the rainbow paper and the round butterfly space. I also left the orange and lemon space free of embellishments and the horizontal rectangle at the bottom as well. Some of the spaces only have subtle embellishments such as the round space with the rainbow paper, I have only added 2 enamel hearts to this space.

I love how colourful and bright this collection is and how easy it is to create pretty projects! The collection made this page come together so easily and I love how it turned out! I can’t wait to see what you all create using this beautiful collection! Make sure you get your hands on it soon!

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!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Happy Days ! | Happy Days collection | SOPHIE DELORME

Sophie Delorme 06/05/2023

Hey Cocoa Vanilla friends!

It’s Sophie with you today and I am SO excited to share my very first layout with the AMAZING Happy Days collection!

I had an assignment to focus on florals for this page…My favorite assignment EVER!!

I decided to go with a rainbow themed layout with this beautiful “Sunshine Lollipops” that caught my eye instantly!

I cut along each colored strip at different lengths and rolled up the edges. I placed the rolled piece of paper on thick white cardstock and added a zigzag stitch with matching thread in the center of each colored strip.

I also placed a smaller piece of that rainbow paper on the left side of the layout and linked both piece of paper together with a very soft watercolor paint.

Then, I embellished the page with numerous flowers and leaves from the Floral Ephemera pack. I scattered them around the page in a tone-on-tone manner.

I fussy cut the title “Happy Days” from a packaging and mounted the words on foam adhesive before placing them on the top left corner of my photo.