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Love You | Unforgettable collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi crafty friends and Happy Mother’s Day to all the beautiful Mum’s out there!

It’s Tarrah back with you today to share a new layout for our Mother’s Day special today. I chose to document a photo of myself and my beautiful Mum using the stunning Unforgettable collection.

I chose a beautiful title cut file design from CUT to YOU and backed the open spaces of the design with different patterned papers from the Unforgettable 6′ x 8′ inch paper stack. Once the cut file was all backed, I added craft foam underneath and then adhered it to the centre of the pretty Garland paper. I trimmed down the Garland paper slightly and then adhered this sheet to the ‘B’ side of the Forget Me Not paper.

 

Underneath the flower in the ‘Love’ word of the cut file, I placed one of the round die-cuts. I also layered a butterfly die-cut on top of this flower. On the other flower, I adhered a flair button that says ‘Love This’. I placed my photo with some layers underneath to the left of my page underneath the ‘Love’ word. I placed an arrow sticker on top of my photo and also a phrase sticker too. On the right of the ‘Love’ word, I added the ‘Everyday’ accessory sticker and some accessory stickers. I love the paper tassels in this collection – they are so cute! I added a pink one poking out from the bottom of the ‘You’ word, I tucked in some die-cuts in this area too.

In the top left area of the cut file, I tucked in some more florals and added a black heart foam heart and a clear sticker heart too. I love the pop of black the foam hearts give the layout. When I create my layouts, I always add the largest things to my page first like my photo, some papers and a title, I then add medium sized embellishments like die-cuts and flair buttons and I finish with the smaller embellishments like stickers and enamel dots.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed my Mother’s Day themed layout. There is not a great deal of the Unforgettable collection in the Cocoa Vanilla store so make sure to get yourself some before it all goes for good!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Love You | Unforgettable collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi crafty friends and Happy Mother’s Day to all the beautiful Mum’s out there!

It’s Tarrah back with you today to share a new layout for our Mother’s Day special today. I chose to document a photo of myself and my beautiful Mum using the stunning Unforgettable collection.

I chose a beautiful title cut file design from CUT to YOU and backed the open spaces of the design with different patterned papers from the Unforgettable 6′ x 8′ inch paper stack. Once the cut file was all backed, I added craft foam underneath and then adhered it to the centre of the pretty Garland paper. I trimmed down the Garland paper slightly and then adhered this sheet to the ‘B’ side of the Forget Me Not paper.

 

Underneath the flower in the ‘Love’ word of the cut file, I placed one of the round die-cuts. I also layered a butterfly die-cut on top of this flower. On the other flower, I adhered a flair button that says ‘Love This’. I placed my photo with some layers underneath to the left of my page underneath the ‘Love’ word. I placed an arrow sticker on top of my photo and also a phrase sticker too. On the right of the ‘Love’ word, I added the ‘Everyday’ accessory sticker and some accessory stickers. I love the paper tassels in this collection – they are so cute! I added a pink one poking out from the bottom of the ‘You’ word, I tucked in some die-cuts in this area too.

In the top left area of the cut file, I tucked in some more florals and added a black heart foam heart and a clear sticker heart too. I love the pop of black the foam hearts give the layout. When I create my layouts, I always add the largest things to my page first like my photo, some papers and a title, I then add medium sized embellishments like die-cuts and flair buttons and I finish with the smaller embellishments like stickers and enamel dots.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed my Mother’s Day themed layout. There is not a great deal of the Unforgettable collection in the Cocoa Vanilla store so make sure to get yourself some before it all goes for good!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Love this! | Sunkissed Collection | Rachel Lowe

Hello CVS friends! Well I couldn’t resist ‘that’ amazing rainbow paper from the Sunkissed collection any longer and have a tropical themed layout featuring some gorgeous summer cocktails.

I fussy cut out the rainbow from the Bright Side paper, leaving out the red outer strip as I wanted the pinks to feature. I added to white cardstock and machine stitching the outer pink strip of the rainbow to add definition.

I next made three tropical flowers slightly varying in sizes. I used a cut file from the Silhouette design store. I used Fun in the Sun and Feelin Fine papers to make my flowers. Once I made my tropical flowers I added to my rainbow but only wet gluing the centres so I could tuck elements under. From the  Floral die cut pack I then added sprigs and leaves under my flowers.

I added my 5×4 inch landscape photo with foam tape, tucking under the sun die cut and adding a Wooden epoxy button over my photo. To connect my photo I added the Love This die cut words.

I created an embellishment cluster focusing on the drinks and fruits from the die cut pack and Puffy Stickers finishing off with some phrase sentiment die cuts. To avoid my layout looking ‘flat’ I added these elements with foam tape.

Due to the colour overload I ensured there was enough negative space between embellishment clusters. I love creating layouts that have ‘no people’ photos and focusing on those little life pleasures which are just as important to document. Thank you for stopping by today!

Rachel X

Love this! | Sunkissed Collection | Rachel Lowe

Hello CVS friends! Well I couldn’t resist ‘that’ amazing rainbow paper from the Sunkissed collection any longer and have a tropical themed layout featuring some gorgeous summer cocktails.

I fussy cut out the rainbow from the Bright Side paper, leaving out the red outer strip as I wanted the pinks to feature. I added to white cardstock and machine stitching the outer pink strip of the rainbow to add definition.

I next made three tropical flowers slightly varying in sizes. I used a cut file from the Silhouette design store. I used Fun in the Sun and Feelin Fine papers to make my flowers. Once I made my tropical flowers I added to my rainbow but only wet gluing the centres so I could tuck elements under. From the  Floral die cut pack I then added sprigs and leaves under my flowers.

I added my 5×4 inch landscape photo with foam tape, tucking under the sun die cut and adding a Wooden epoxy button over my photo. To connect my photo I added the Love This die cut words.

I created an embellishment cluster focusing on the drinks and fruits from the die cut pack and Puffy Stickers finishing off with some phrase sentiment die cuts. To avoid my layout looking ‘flat’ I added these elements with foam tape.

Due to the colour overload I ensured there was enough negative space between embellishment clusters. I love creating layouts that have ‘no people’ photos and focusing on those little life pleasures which are just as important to document. Thank you for stopping by today!

Rachel X

InterNational Scrapbook Day – Challenges 1 & 2!

Happy InterNational Scrapbook Day everyone! We love this special day each year when people from all over the world come together to celebrate their shared love of this craft. Today we are hosting a celebration in our Facebook Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community group and (of course) we have some challenges for you! We have a mix of challenges that include a variety of styles, so there is sure to be something that suits you.

Challenge Rules

  1. Entries must be loaded into the correct challenge album in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Facebook Community group prior to midnight (AEST) Sunday 9th May to be eligible for the prize. (If you aren’t already a member, make sure you click the link to join.)
  2. Some Cocoa Vanilla Studio products must be used. Yes, you can include other supplies as well, but there must be some CVS products clearly used. (If you don’t have any CVS products, you can always download and print some of our digital products HERE.)
  3. Entries must be created solely for each challenge and not combined with other challenges or design team work.
  4. You may enter each challenge as many times as you wish and entry is open to participants worldwide.
  5. One randomly selected winner from each challenge will receive a $25 store voucher to spend in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio online store.
  6. By entering the challenge you automatically give permission for your work to be shared by Cocoa Vanilla Studio via any of our social media channels.

So without further ado, here are our first two challenges…

Challenge 1 – Sketch Challenge with Laura Alberts

For this challenge you are required to use Laura’s sketch as inspiration for your own project.

Laura created a beautiful sample layout and used one of our older collections, ‘Bohemian Dream’. (Unfortunately this collection is now sold out and no longer available.)

Challenge 2 – Cut File Challenge with Tarrah McLean

For this challenge you are required to include at least one cut file from either of the two sets shown above in your project.

Tarrah chose two cut files from our ‘Summer’ set and paired them with our most recent release collection, ‘Sunkissed’ for her layout. This cut file set, along with our ‘Legendary’ cut file set designed by Cut to You, are both available to download via our community group for this challenge.

We hope these challenges have given your mojo a kickstart and you will come over and join us to play along. We’ll be back with more challenges to share later. Time to get scrapping!

InterNational Scrapbook Day – Challenges 1 & 2!

Happy InterNational Scrapbook Day everyone! We love this special day each year when people from all over the world come together to celebrate their shared love of this craft. Today we are hosting a celebration in our Facebook Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community group and (of course) we have some challenges for you! We have a mix of challenges that include a variety of styles, so there is sure to be something that suits you.

Challenge Rules

  1. Entries must be loaded into the correct challenge album in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Facebook Community group prior to midnight (AEST) Sunday 9th May to be eligible for the prize. (If you aren’t already a member, make sure you click the link to join.)
  2. Some Cocoa Vanilla Studio products must be used. Yes, you can include other supplies as well, but there must be some CVS products clearly used. (If you don’t have any CVS products, you can always download and print some of our digital products HERE.)
  3. Entries must be created solely for each challenge and not combined with other challenges or design team work.
  4. You may enter each challenge as many times as you wish and entry is open to participants worldwide.
  5. One randomly selected winner from each challenge will receive a $25 store voucher to spend in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio online store.
  6. By entering the challenge you automatically give permission for your work to be shared by Cocoa Vanilla Studio via any of our social media channels.

So without further ado, here are our first two challenges…

Challenge 1 – Sketch Challenge with Laura Alberts

For this challenge you are required to use Laura’s sketch as inspiration for your own project.

Laura created a beautiful sample layout and used one of our older collections, ‘Bohemian Dream’. (Unfortunately this collection is now sold out and no longer available.)

Challenge 2 – Cut File Challenge with Tarrah McLean

For this challenge you are required to include at least one cut file from either of the two sets shown above in your project.

Tarrah chose two cut files from our ‘Summer’ set and paired them with our most recent release collection, ‘Sunkissed’ for her layout. This cut file set, along with our ‘Legendary’ cut file set designed by Cut to You, are both available to download via our community group for this challenge.

We hope these challenges have given your mojo a kickstart and you will come over and join us to play along. We’ll be back with more challenges to share later. Time to get scrapping!

Super Rad | Legendary collection | Kylie Kingham

Hello Cocoa Vanilla fans. It’s Kylie back with you today with a new layout I have created with the Legendary collection. I have so many photos of my son to scrapbook and knew that the Legendary collection, combined with a fun cut file which has been designed by Cut To You, would be perfect together.

I have always loved the colour palette of the ‘Legendary’ collection and have used the beautiful ‘OFFBEAT’ paper as my background. I tore a 1.5 inch strip off the top of my page and added a piece of ‘ALL STAR’ paper as a contrast. My cut file was backed using both sides of the ‘WILD ONE’ paper.

I love that this particular cut file has a frame for positioning your photo. I cut down my 4″x 6″ photo to fit within the frame before adhering the cut file to the background with some foam adhesive squares. From the die cut pack I added a few extra stars surrounding my photo for balance.

Because I loves me a BIG title, the die cut title pack was perfect for constructing something well suited to the theme of my layout. These were also added, overlapping my photo a little with foam adhesive squares.

To complete my page I used a white marker pen to freehand draw a border around my page. This detail may only seem faint but it frames my completed page perfectly.

I have also filmed a short process video where you can watch exactly how my page came together-

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you have a little inspiration from my layout for your own scrapbooking.

Until next time,

Kylie.

 

Fun in the Sun | Sunkissed Collection | Raquel Bowman

Hey everyone, it’s Raquel here today sharing a new layout with you using the latest and gorgeous Sunkissed collection. Today’s layout is a layout I created for fun featuring some holiday memories using this bright and fun summer themed collection.

Here is the layout that I created to share with you today:

This layout is documenting a moment with our family when we have been away over summer. This layout is a flashback to 2018, I cannot believe how time flies and how quick our kids grow up!

You can see by these pictures that Mumma scrapbooker was trying to get those picture perfect photos – this is a foreign thing to these kiddies. I think they have been accustomed to posing for photos that on this specific day – this Mumma just gets what she gets, even if it wasn’t the perfectly posed photo . I printed three 3×4 photos for this layout and quickly realised that they would be too large for this layout. So I used a circular die I had in my stash to cut the three photos into circles.

The base of this layout was inspired by a Daffodil cut file from Cut  to You. I used various patterned papers in the paper pad to back the cut file.

The title of this layout ‘Fun in the Sun’ was created from the Glitter foam titles pack. To help balance the gold in the title I used some of the hearts amongst the layout also.

To build more detail to the cut files I added extra floral ephemera pieces, in particular I used leaves and the bud stems. To the top right of the page I added some short typewritten journaling that simple documented the when and where of the layout.

I was able to embellish in three main clusters on the page allowing the layout to still have balance. For the smaller details I used the puffy stickers and small ephemera hearts.

The white card stock base of the layout was framed with the blue clouds and machine stitched. I was able to add depth and dimension using foam adhesive to the cut files, florals and photos.

I hope this layout has inspired you today. Thanks for stopping by the blog to check it out.
Raquel

Smiles For Miles | Sunkissed | Kylie Kingham

Hello everybody! It’s Kylie back with you all today and I have another new layout to share featuring the ‘Sunkissed’ collection. The theme for today’s blog post was to share my signature style of scrapbooking. For me it’s about layers and flowers. Always flowers. To create paper flowers brings me so much happiness and I love nothing more than to add them into my scrapbooking layouts as I have for todays design. Whilst they can be time consuming, I actually find it relaxing to sit and bring all of the layers together to form a pretty paper bloom. I created these flowers today using a cut file by Paige Evans.

I like to also build layers into a page design. To have something going on in the background, which in this case is some die cut lattice work. I had this particular die in my craft stash and I ran it through my Sizzix machine using white cardstock.It has created some interest behind my paper flowers and breaks up the background a little. It also adds some texture and dimension to my page.

When it comes to constructing my paper flowers I really don’t do a lot to them. I simply curly each petal slightly before gluing each layer together. These particular flowers have even layers each to them and I have centred each of them with an enamel adhesive dot which were from the ‘Legendary’ collection.

The floral die cut pack from the ‘Sunkissed’ collection is so gorgeous and I have adhered some extra blooms as well as some greenery in the form of the die cut leaves amongst my layered flowers. I created a title for my page from my favourite gold glitter foam stickers as well as add in some smaller phrases from the sticker sheet to complete my page.

My photo for this layout was printed to 3″x 4″ in size and in black and white. There are usually two reasons I have if I print in black and white. One if the colours in the photo don’t match the paper collection I wish to use or as in this case, if I have a lot of colour in my page. I want my eye to still be drawn to the image.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you have enjoyed reading about my layout and what I consider to be my signature style.

Until next time,

Kylie.

Throwback Thursday | Paint your Dreams | Rachel Lowe

Hi CVS friends, today is all about stash busting, yes its throwback Thursday. I recently invested some time in sorting out my older CVS collections, using three pizza boxes, one for 12×12 papers, one for paper scraps and the last one for embellishments. I have done this because I do not have enough left of a collection to create but adding them all together means I can be creative and mix and match collections.

Here is my throwback Thursday layout featuring a photo of my daughter. I went for an uplifting/inspirational layout for her. As you can see I have used a mix of collections here but they still coordinate so well together.  I used two cut files from the Silhouette design store, paint palette and title ‘paint your dreams’.

I used the script writing inspirational  paper as my base. I cut a 10×10 inch white cardstock strip and centred this on my base page. I next cut the paint palette and brush as this was the feature of my page. I found a wood grain paper in my CVS 12×12 paper box, once cut I added machine stitching to the edge. I backed it with a marble paper and to add a little something extra I added glitter to the paint blotches. I then added with foam tape off centre onto the white cardstock.

I then added my paint brush and added some small butterfly die cuts under the palette. I found a gorgeous die cut doily and used this to mat my photo. I used some phrase sentiments under my photo and finished off with a camera die cut.I added my title, I used some silver glitter paper for one word to stop it from looking too flat visually. I also added a light splash of black paint to add some contrast.

To finish off my page I added some beautiful die cut flowers and enamel dots. I added some more light splatters of black paint.

Most of these papers and embellishments are no longer in the store but you can recreate this layout with what you have in your CVS stash and don’t forget CVS have digital bundles of older collections too, just print and use.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a fab week!

Rachel X

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