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Family | Heart & Home collection | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone,

Mandy here today to share another layout featuring the beautiful Heart & Home collection. For this layout, I documented another family photo from our recent trip to Mudgee. This one is of Mum, my son Isaac, and myself picnicking at a vineyard, and I plan to put this page alongside the layout that I shared last month with photos taken on the same day. I love the way the colours in this collection really bring out the colours in the photo!

I started this page by cutting up 6 inch x 1.5 inch strips of patterned papers from the A5 Paper Stack. I then adhered these down the left hand side of a sheet of Golden Fields paper (b side). To finish off the background I punched a border strip from the woodgrain Framed patterned paper, and adhered it down the middle of the page where the paper strips meet the text background.

I matted my photo with the yellow paper from the A5 Paper Stack, and adhered it towards the top of the page, overlapping both the paper strips and the text background. Next I fussy cut a floral cluster out of the Bountiful paper, and tucked that under the bottom right hand corner of the photo. I added a few die cut elements to the cluster including some leaves, a house, and a banner. I adhered some items with foam tape to give the cluster some extra interest and dimension.

To balance out the larger floral cluster, I added two more smaller clusters to the page. One positioned on the top left hand corner of the photo, and the other in the bottom right hand corner of the layout. The positioning of the clusters gives the layout a diagonal flow, drawing the viewer’s eye from the top left, down through the photo and title, to the bottom right. I used more Die  Cut Ephemera, as well as some flowers from the Floral Ephemera pack, to create the second and third clusters. You can also see here that I created a subtitle to the left of the photo using the Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers.

For my title, I chose the word ‘Family’ from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I outlined the letters with a brown pen and adhered them with craft foam to help them to pop off the page.

Thank you so much for joining me here on the blog today. I hope that you enjoyed taking a look at my layout!

Mandy x

My Happy Place | Heart & Home Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts here with a fun autumn layout using the new Heart & Home collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio. These lovely photos worked beautifully with the color scheme of Heart & Home, especially the vellum florals! I started this one using multiple chipboard circle templates that I created in various sizes using bowls from my house. Cutting out circles in these beautiful patterned papers made for a quick and easy background!

Each of the circles are outlined in black gel pen with a few faux stitching marks. In the top left circle, I positioned two photos with the first part of my title and tucked a journaling spot from the cut apart sheet underneath. I added a mix of ephemera, fussy cut, and vellum florals on the right side for a simple cluster.

In the top right corner, I built a large cluster using a frame from the ephemera pack and backed it with a cut apart. The floral cluster added depth by layering ephemera florals above the frame and vellum florals below. This gives the cluster a dynamic look despite how flat it actually is!

In the bottom right corner, I let one of my photos go off the page and trimmed it. This functions as the second-half of the title, but also gives a third point of interest on the page. These photos didn’t need a lot of embellishing, so I kept this cluster simple.

And just to add a little extra something fun to the last circle, I added a medium sized cluster with both vellum, ephemera, and fussy cut florals. Love how this one turned out! I hope this layout inspires you to find a new way to incorporate household items into your scrapbooking!

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

Door Hanging | Heart & Home | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a slightly different project to my normal layouts! I created a heart-shaped door hanging that doubles as a place to add notes and letters using the gorgeous Heart & Home collection. Great idea right?!

I started by having my Silhouette Cameo cut out a heart shape for me from plain white cardstock. I then traced out the shape of various sections of the heart with a variety of the 12′ x 12′ papers including the ‘B’ side of the Framed paper, the ‘B’ side of the Flurry paper and the ‘B’ side of the Harvest paper. Once I had them out all cut out, I machine stitched a border around the outside edge of the entire heart. I did stitch across the 2 pouches horizontally, adding strips of the ‘B’ side of the Gather paper and a strip of vellum. I did only place adhesive on the bottom and the very edges of the pouches to create the openings.

Once the heart and the pouches were constructed, I added a ribbon to the back of the heart and also included a bow at the top. To embellish the door hanging, starting from the top, I added the banner sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet to the top left corner, adhering it with a staple. I then cut part of the heart strip from the Gather paper and adhered it horizontally, tucking in a tag, I added some twine to the top of the tag, and adhered a phrase banner die-cut with some craft foam. I also placed a heart puffy sticker on the tag.

For the middle section, I added lots of ephemera pieces, including the house which I adhered using craft foam and added a puffy sticker to the house to act as a door handle and a phrase die-cut across the centre of the house. I also added a round die-cut and added a mini paper clip and I placed another die-cut on the left. I also placed another banner sticker and stapled it to adhere it. On the bottom I placed another house die-cut and the title here which is made up the gold cardstock words. I also did the same to this house as I did to the one above, adding a puffy sticker and phrase die-cut. I adhered all of these using craft foam also.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! Not all projects have to be layouts! Sometimes it’s good to think outside the box! I hope I have inspired you to pull out your Heart & Home collection and get creative with it!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

EVERYDAY BEAUTY | HEART & HOME COLLECTION | SOPHIE DELORME

Hello friends!

It’s Sophie here with a new layout to share!

 

I used the beautiful Heart & Home collection again!

I focused on the Leaf Litter patterned paper and fussy cut numerous tiny leaves.

I centered my black and white photo on a thick white cardstock, added a few layers of patterned papers from the A5 paper Stack, tissue paper and foam adhesive.

I created a big floral cluster on the lower right corner of the photo (Floral Ephemera pack), and scattered the beautiful fussy cut leaves on the upper left corner of the photo to create a diagonal design.

 

I placed a die cut on the photo as my title, with the name of my dog (Mini Puffy Alphabet) and a few handwritten words about how cute she looks!

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

I love the result and hope you like it too!

The layout is very easy to scraplift so don’t hesitate to give it a try!!

Happy crafting!

Sophie xx

Thankful | Heart & Home Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! I’m back again with the stunning Heart & Home collection to scrap these two photos of my brick. This is my mark on the university I attended and I am so grateful that I had this opportunity to return to school and finish my degree. To celebrate, I’m scrapping this moment with these rich colors from Heart & Home!

For this layout, I created a fairly simple vertical background and layered my two 3×4″ landscape photos on top of each other with clusters of florals from the icon ephemera packs tucked into the corners. With a lovely gold die cut title and these tiny fussy cut florals, I gave the page a beautifully detailed finish!

Adding in Nuvo drops was how I gave this simple vertical time to shine. Using white Nuvo on top of the woodgrain paper that edges the background gives it a purpose. The outlining of those strips makes them pop even more!


I hope this layout inspires you to find new ways to add details that give your layout a polished finish. To see how the ‘Thankful’ layout came together, check out the process video below:

 

Good Times | Heart & Home collection | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here today to share a new layout featuring the stunningly beautiful Heart & Home collection. On this layout I documented a couple of photos of my hubby and I that were taken when we visited a winery recently in Mudgee. We had such a lovely time wine tasting and then having a picnic on the grounds of the winery. The colours in the Heart & Home collection  complemented my photos beautifully, so it was the perfect choice for scrapbooking these photos.

I started with the Golden Fields and the Fall Beauty patterned papers. I cut them both in half diagonally and then adhered them together to create my background. When creating a background like this, it’s best to make sure that one of the patterned papers has a less busy patterned so that your background doesn’t become too busy and overwhelm your photos. Next I matted my photos with the woodgrain paper from the A5 Paper Stack and adhered them at an angle along the join between the two background papers.

Because the background already added so much interest to the page, I wanted to keep the embellishing fairly simple. I decided on adding two floral clusters which were positioned again along that diagonal to draw the viewer’s eye down the page and through the photos. I used a combination of florals that I fussy cut out of the Bountiful paper, along with Die Cut and Floral Ephemera. I used foam tape to give the clusters some dimension and I avoided adding adhesive to the leaves so that they would lift nicely off the page.

I kept to a warm colour palette on this page, choosing the reds, pinks and oranges, and making sure to repeat these colours in both clusters to keep them looking balanced. By tucking some flowers under the edge of the photo, and adding others on top, it helps to give the cluster some extra dimension and interest. I also finished off both clusters with some Puffy Stickers.

For my title I couldn’t go past using the gorgeous Gold Foil Titles! I chose the phrase ‘Good Times’ and tucked the words in to the right of the photos. There are so many words in the pack, it makes it so easy to add beautiful titles to your pages! And who doesn’t love a touch of gold?!

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today! I’ll be back next month with some more inspiration.

Mandy x

Family time | Heart & Home Layout | Anna Komenda

Welcome everyone! It’s Anna here with another project made with brand new “Heart & Home” collection. With it’s wonderful, warm colors I am always tempted to create fall projects, one after another. However, this time I scrapbooked few spring photos from our trip to amusement park. It was still a little bit cold so our clothes doesn’t incline what season it was. Amusement parks is something we all love – both me and hubby and kids. We love all the rides, atmosphere of joy and crazyness. We always have such a good family time there, filled with lof of amazing memories. But let’s be honest – who doesn’t like fun packed day like this?

And where is fun – there is a mamarazzi! I took a lot of photos from our trip and printed few of them for this page. I only picked the ones with us in the picture. Each photo was then framed with a little frame cut out from “Framed” pattern paper. I also used another sheet for my background, using the B side with wooden pattern.

My ideas on how to arrange those frames changed few times while making this page. Final version required some sort of round frame around them. I was too lazy to pull our my digital die cutting machine so I used calipers to draw a circle. I also sketched some sort of wonky scallop around it, making my own round frame with yellow pattern paper called “Gather”.

My frame also became an anchor for the title. It’s a mix of word “family” taken from Die Cut Ephemera Pack and tiny letters from Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers. I also added a lot of flowers from Floral Ephemera Pack, but I took some time to cut out the white outlines around them. They contrasted too much with the dark wooden background and I didn’t want to draw attention away from the photos.

Inside of the round frame was already filled with photos, so it didn’t need much of embellishing. I only added few flowers and bits and pieces from Die Cut Ephemera, with matching inscriptions. I finished my design my adding few Puffy Stickes in a shape of hearts here and there and white slpatters. Easy – peasy!

That’s is all for today! I hope you find my layout inspiring! Thank you so much for spending your time with me and sticking to the end. See you soon in two weeks. I still do not know what I will create but I am sure I will use this amazing collection!

XO Anna

Thankful | Heart and Home | Josefine Van der Hoeven

Hello Paperlovers,

Welcome to a world of creativity and memories as we explore the wonderful “Heart and Home” collection designed by Cocoa Vanilla Studio. In this scrapbook blog, we’ll take a look of my layout that’s all about gratitude. We’ll talk about how we added a touch of playfulness to our frames using floss and sequins, created a beautiful flower and branch cluster as the center of attention and I used a golden ephemera word for our title, and scattered some charming butterflies around the flower cluster.

 

 

 

Cocoa Vanilla’s “Heart and Home” is a gorgeous collection. It comes in beautiful colors and designs that make you feel warm and cozy, just like home. Whether you’re scrapbooking family moments or everyday joys, this collection is perfect for capturing those precious memories.

 

 

 

My layout has a unique twist when it comes to frames. Instead of regular frames, we decided to get playful by adding floss and sequins to them. It’s a bit unconventional, but it makes our photos stand out and gives them a bit of extra sparkle. These playful touches make my memories even more special.

 

 

I absolutely love the big cluster of flowers and branches. It’s like a little garden right on this page! This eye-catching arrangement is the center of attention, and it represents the beauty and growth that comes from being thankful. We used different sizes, colors, and textures of flowers to make it look really interesting and three-dimensional.

 

 

To add a bit of fun and whimsy, I cut out some butterflies from the patterned paper and scattered them around our flower cluster. Butterflies are a symbol of transformation and freedom, and they remind us of the joy that comes from gratitude. They’re like little sparks of happiness on our page!

Scrapbooking is all about capturing moments and telling stories, and my layout does just that with the help of Cocoa Vanilla’s “Heart and Home” collection. I’ve shown you how I added playful frames, a beautiful flower cluster, a shiny golden title, and some whimsical butterflies to make my memories even more special.

I hope this layout inspires you to get creative and have fun with your scrapbooking projects. Remember, each page is a piece of your heart and a story worth telling.

XoXo, Jo

 

So Thankful | Heart & Home collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout created using the gorgeous Heart & Home collection. For this project, I have taken inspiration from the beautiful October mood board. I have documented an Autumn photo of myself amongst some fallen leaves, I love how my photo goes perfectly with this collection.

October Mood Board

The inspiration I took from the mood board was mostly from the centre image, I decided to replicate the woodgrain circle but added a few other layers of papers underneath to add some interest and to include some more colours. Naturally the colours from the mood board match perfectly with the Heart & Home collection.  I placed most of the elements to the right of the circle also like in the centre image of the mood board.

I created the circles from 3 different papers including the Harvest paper, the Gather paper and the Framed paper. I used the ‘B’ sides of each of each of these papers. I traced 3 different sized dinner plates and free hand cut them out. Once they were cut out, I adhered them layered on top of each other onto some white cardstock and then bent up the edges to add some texture. I trimmed the white cardstock down to measure approximately 11′ x 11′. I then adhered it to the ‘B’ side of the Bountiful patterned paper. Once adhered, I machine-stitched a border around the edges to add some texture.

I layered a paper from the A5 paper stack underneath my photo and adhered it to the right side of the layout using craft foam to add dimension. I layered a frame from the ephemera pack on the left side of the photo and also some small flowers from the floral ephemera pack. On the right of the photo, I added lots of the gorgeous florals also from the floral ephemera pack. If you look closely at the florals, I have added some of the puffy stickers to the centres of the florals also. My title is made up of the gorgeous gold foil cardstock words, I chose the words ‘So Thankful’ and adhered it to the bottom of the photo using craft foam.

To balance out the heaviness of the right side of the layout, I created a cluster of embellishments that mostly included some more of the gorgeous florals. I adhered some flat and adhered some with craft foam to create different heights and dimension. I did add a die-cut that said ‘Everyday Beauty’ here also. Some more phrases were added too including the Happiness Is Homemade banner that I added under the title and the Moment Captured banner die-cut that I adhered on top of the photo. I also added the Joyful Days sticker from the Accessory sticker sheet just above the title. Lastly I added some of the puffy hearts around the page, stamped the date stamp and sprinkled some white mist around.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today. I hope I have inspired you to pull out your Heart & Home collection and create with it. Make sure to join in our October mood board challenge and submit your project on our Facebook Page!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

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