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Choose Happy | Happy Days | Kellie Moore

Hello Cocoa fans, welcome back to the blog.

Today I have a page to share that features ‘watercolour’…this was my DT assignment, and I wont lie by saying I felt confident with this task. If you know my work, you know I’m not a huge user of mixed media. I love the look of it, but Im not confident but I gave it my best shot. Here is my page..

What I decided to do was use watercolour in a controlled way. I started with watering down some distress oxides in co-ordinating colours to the ‘Happy Days‘ collection, then I pulled out some alpha stamps from my stash. I used a paintbrush to paint on the colour onto my ink pads then stamped out some words onto white cardstock. Here is what it looks like close up..

 

I love the look of the words, they add a really unique look to my page. I used the paper ‘Flutterby’ as my main paper and layed it on top of a full 12×12 of the ‘Rainbow Bright’ paper. Next, i ripped down from the middle of the ‘Flutterby’ paper and added some of the ‘Little Blossom paper to the inside of the paper to add contrast.

Next, I started on my photo. I added a white border to my photo, then added a layer of the ‘Little Blossom’ paper and a layer of the ‘Feel Good’ paper. I then used one of the frame die-cuts (from the ephemera pack) cut in half to add to each side of my photo, and a label tab above my photo. I added some dimensional foam behind my photo to add dimension.

Now that I had my photo in place I decided to get my title in place. I used a label sticker from the ‘Accessory Sticker Sheet’ and some of the ‘Mini Puffy Alphabet’ stickers for the word ‘Choose’ then the word ‘Happy’ from the Die-Cut Ephemera. I added some yellow distress oxide under my title to make it pop and used some of the ‘Puffy Sticker’ hearts around it. At the bottom of the page I added some rainbows from the ‘Feel Good’ paper.

To finish off my page I added some more heart ‘Puffy Stickers’ above my photo and added some white ink splatters.

I hope you are inspired to create, and that you might try this watercolour technique or something similar …even if it is outside your comfort zone!

Thanks for stopping by today

Till next time

Kel

 

Happy Days | Happy Days collection | Mandy Melville

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

Sweet happy memory | Storyteller | Josefine Van der Hoeven

 

Hello Paperlovers,

Today, I share with you a scrapbook layout I recently created using the beautiful “Storyteller” collection, designed by Cocoa Vanilla Studio. In this blog post, I will walk you through the process of creating a unique background using distress oxide in color of “faded jeans.” Additionally, I’ll show you three different ways to use a single patterned paper, along with a few embellishments, to complete this layout.

 

To set the foundation for my scrapbook layout, I decided to create a mixed media background using distress oxide ink. The color I use for this layout was “faded jeans.” With its subtle blue tones, it perfectly complemented the overall theme of my layout. The distressed effect added depth and texture to the background, setting the stage for the focal points of my design.

 

One of the highlights of the “Storyteller” collection is the stunning array of patterned papers it offers. The challenge for today is “one paper, three ways”

  1. Die-Cut Hearts with Blue Patterned Paper: To begin, I adorned the die-cut hearts with a beautiful blue patterned paper from the collection. The heart designs and soft hues added a touch of elegance to the layout. Placing the hearts strategically in the center of the layout.
  2. Next, I carefully hand-cut some flowers from the reverse side of the same patterned paper. The vibrant blooms provided a striking contrast against the blue mixed media background. I made two clusters of flowers on both side of the picture that I cut into a circle.
  3.  The third way I employed involved transforming the patterned paper into origami butterflies. This technique showcased the versatility of the paper and added an interactive element to the layout. By skillfully folding the paper, I created charming butterflies that seemed to flutter above the flowers, adding a whimsical touch to the overall design. 

    In addition to the patterned paper, I enhanced the layout further by incorporating a few embellishments. Wooden buttons, foam title stickers, and die-cut labels. These small details helped to tie everything together.

I would thank you for visiting the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog today and I hope that I have inspired you in some way through this exploration of the “Storyteller” collection and its limitless creative possibilities. Remember, each scrapbook layout is an opportunity to preserve and share your cherished memories. Embrace your own creativity and enjoy your journey in the world of paper crafting. Have a wonderfully creative day!

XoXo, Jo

Happy Days with You | Happy Days collection | Tarrah McLean

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

Happy Days Together | Happy Days Collection | Rachel Lowe

I love all the different colours and patterns in the Happy Days collection! I just had to create a layout using the gorgeous Juicy Fruit paper and coordinating embellishments, these colours remind me of summer! I have scrapped two photos of me and my youngest which are some of my fav photos of us.

I used the two gingham papers from the A5 paper stack, and so I only had to use one of the 12×12 papers I cut the large circle in the middle so I could use the rest as a border against the white cardstock. My circles measure 7×7 inches, 4×4 inches and 3×3 inches.

I created my title and sub titles using the puffy alphas, using varying colours of the blues on the sheet. I next added the journal block ‘just peachy’ from the A5 paper stack with foam tape to the top circle.

 

I used this sticker from the Accessory Sticker Sheet so later I could go back and add my own hand writing and date. I don’t usually add a lot of journal spaces or add large titles but this circle design allowed for it to be easily added and look good at the same time.

I next added my photos which I matted using a yellow and aqua colour papers and adhered with foam tape. I created a small floral cluster to the left of the first photo using the Floral Ephemera. I next created another, larger embellishment cluster  the right of my second photo, adding the lemon and peach die cuts from the Die Cut Ephemera and more floral blooms. I layered them and some I used foam tape to add dimension.

To finish off my layout I add a phrase sentiment die cut to my photos, a yellow puffy heart and added a butterfly with phrase sticker, who can resist adding a butterfly somewhere on a layout right!!

This is a ‘busy’ page for me but I loved how this came together! Colour choices can make or break a busy layout, so keeping it to three colours allows you to add lots to your layout without it looking too overwhelming or busy.

 

As always thank you for stopping by and I hope this has inspired you in some way today!

Rachel X

So Sweet | Happy Days collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello friends!

It’s Sophie on the blog today with a new layout to share! I used the lovely new collection Happy Days again!

 

I created a mixed media background with inks and white acrylic paint. Then I fussy cut beautiful golden frames from the Specialty Gold Foil Paper and filled in the frames with several patterned papers from the A5 paper pack. I placed the frames around my black and white photo, and mounted them on foam adhesive.

 

I used the Alpha chipboards for my title and added watercolor paint to each letter.

 

Finally, I decorated the page with beautiful florals and die cuts from the Floral and Ephemera packs.

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the color scheme of this page. Hope you like it too !

Thank you for stopping by !

Sophie xx

You Bring The Sunshine | Happy Days | Kellie Moore

Welcome back to the CVS blog everyone..I hope you are all well.

It’s Kellie here today sharing another page with the brand new ‘Happy Days’ collection.

For today’s page I decided to stick to the cooler tones of the collection… this is a favourite colour combo for me…blues and yellows make my creative heart happy. Here is a look at the completed page..

 

I had two photos I wanted to scrap so I decided I would place one on the top right and the other on the bottom left and make two large embellished areas on my page. These pics are photos of my youngest boy when we were in Fiji…they are super sweet!

To start, I decided to create some frames using a frame die and picked out some of the papers from the 6×8 paper pad.. using frames really help to make your photos pop on the page..you could get the same effect by making large matts around your photos.

Next I wanted to ground the photos so they weren’t floating on the page… so I cut some large strips to pop under my photos. On the top photo I used the paper ‘Feel Good’ and the strip under my bottom photos is called ‘Sunshine Lollipops’.

Next I moved on to embellishing around my photos. Firstly I picked out some of the black and white frames from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I cut these in half and had them sticking out around my photos…this is a great way to stretch your supplies…two pieces for the price of one!!

On my top photo, I cut two word phrases from the 12 x12 cut apart paper called ‘ Feel Good’ and cut some of the hearts from the same paper to add to the bottom of my photo.. then above my photo I used a tab sticker and word phrase from the ‘Accessory Sticker Sheet.’

 

On my bottom photo, I picked out the ‘Hello’ banner and the ‘Best of Times’ from the  Die Cut Ephemera pack. Next to my left photo I used another tab sticker and word phrase from the Accessory Sticker sheet. I finished off my photo clusters with some florals I cut from the ‘Lush Blooms’ paper.

Next I worked on my title. I wanted to fill in the white space on the bottom right so this was the perfect spot. I used a mix of the Chipboard Title Stickers and the Mini Puffy Alphabets. Under the title I used a sun from the Die Cut Ephemera.

 

 

I wanted to balance my title so to the top right of my page I stencilled some clouds and used two clouds and a sun from the Die Cut Ephemera. To finish my page I added some of the heart Puffy Stickers.

 

Thanks for stopping by today, hopefully you found some inspiration from my page and you have been having fun with this gorgeous collection!

Stay scrappy!

Kel x

So Fun | Happy Days Collection | Laura Alberts

 

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

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

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

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