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Sweet Memories | Sunkissed | Rachel Lowe

Hi everyone, today I have my second layout to share using the fab Sunkissed collection. I just adore this rainbow paper Sunny Days and this was the inspiration for my layout.

My photo is of my daughter at one of our gorgeous beaches in Western Australia. I used a swimsuit cut file from the Silhouette Design Store. I placed this on a slight angle of my page but only putting double sided tape in the middle of the swimsuit so I could tuck some flowers from the floral ephemera pack and so I could add machine stitching to the swimsuit (sewing machine needles do not like double sided tape).

I next added my photo with foam tape so I could add elements under it. My photo size is 4×5 inches. I am such a fan of puffy stickers and wood epoxy buttons which I have used to layer a single die cut.

I created an embellishment cluster under my photo my photo and using phrase sentiments from the die cut ephemera pack and so they didn’t get ‘lost’ on the busy rainbow paper I chose strong contrasting colours and added with foam tape to add height. I finished this cluster off adding puffy stickers and all Australian Jandals or thongs (flip flops for everyone else!!!)

I love adding embellishments to my photos, the sun puffy sticker perfect on my photo. I also added some gold hearts randomly over my rainbow paper from the glitter foam title stickers to add more texture to my layout.

I added some sky to my layout by tearing the top right corner of the rainbow paper and using the Just Chillin paper, which is the same paper I used for the swimsuit and adding a rainbow puffy sticker so they looked connected. If you are not sure about machine stitching on your layout here are some tips to make it easier: firstly make sure your speed is at the slowest in can be, this gives you more control and allows you to sew on the curves with greater accuracy, also I always add stitching at the beginning of my layout so if I mess it up I am not ruining a whole layout.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you all have a wonderful week with some time to scrap!

Rachel X

 

Hello Sunshine | Sunkissed Collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends !

It’s Sophie on the blog today and I am excited to share my very first layout with the gorgeous Sunkissed collection !

 

I used this jaw dropping “Good Vibrations” ombre paper for my background. I am not used to bold colored background but this paper really jumped out at me !

I added plenty of multicolored watercolor splatters on it.

I cut a wreath cut file from Pinkfresh Studio on white cardstock and hand stitched with yellow, green and blue embroidery floss on the three circles of the wreath. I backed the leaves of the cut file with the same Good Vibration paper but from the A5 Paper Stack.

I used a black and white photo of my sweet girl and I. I added tissue paper, adhesive foam and a teared strip of a beautiful A5 paper floral on the right side of it and adhered it to the page.

 

My title comes from a Sunkissed Pocket Card.

 

I embellished the wreath with many beautiful Sunkissed Floral Ephemeras. I also placed two die cut clouds from the Die Cut Ephemera pack, a few stickers and a wood button.

 

Here are more close-ups.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cutting into those gorgeous colorful papers was not easy…I just wanted to hoard the whole collection !

I hope that I could inspire you today.

Thank you for passing by !

Until next time,

Sophie xx

SO SWEET | HAPPINESS | GWEN WRUCK

Hi Creative friends, Gwen back today with a new share for Cocoa Vanilla Studio. I’m stash busting again for this one and using the ‘Happiness‘ collection.  I’m scrapbooking these two sweet photos of my husband and daughter taken a few years back, they were taken as part of a mini photo-shoot we had for my birthday and I just adore this very sweet little moment between the two of them.

To begin my page, I’ve used the ‘Expressive‘ pattern paper to create a frame for the edge of my layout, I’ve added plain pink cardstock to the center from my stash. I’ve then cut out two cut file designs by CUT to YOU. I’ve used sections of the ‘Expressive‘ pattern paper to back just floral parts of the design, keeping the notecard part open.

I’ve then layered these two elements down the center of my page. I wanted to create the look of two frames with the design, rather than the look of the notepaper.

For my photos, I’ve backed them with the ‘Frame of mind’ pattern paper, making sure to pull from the blue area on that paper. I’ve added stitching around the edge of my photo and raised it up on foam for dimension. I’ve also pulled a paper doily from my stash and added that behind as a soft layer. You can also see here that I’ve taken a piece of the ‘So Fresh‘ pattern paper and created a banner piece to layer behind my photo as well.

Next, it was time for some fussy cutting. I’ve cut several of the navy butterflies from the ‘Bright and Beautiful‘ pattern paper to position around my page. I’m using the navy butterflies here because I want to use a title from the ‘Die Cut Titles’ pack. These titles are all in a deep navy tone so the butterflies help to balance out the colour in the title around the page.

I’ve also included elements from the ‘Die Cut Ephemera’ pack and a ‘Flair Button’, as well as a couple of the typed sentiments from the ‘Accessory Sticker Sheet’. The final touches for the page include a sweet bow cut from the ‘Expressive‘ pattern paper using a die from my stash and some sequins also from my stash of supplies.

Thanks for popping by today, I hope you enjoyed my share and it inspires you to use up your stash of the ‘Happiness’ collection. You can still shop some elements from this one in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio shop here.

I’ve also created a YouTube video of my process for this one, you can watch it here:

Until next time,

Gwen

xo

 

Epic | Legendary Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a bold and beautiful boy layout featuring the stickers in the Legendary collection. On the right side of the layout, I’ve created a trail of clear arrow stickers to add a border along that side and anchor the layered block to the side of the page. Then, alongside the right side of the bottom photo, I added a column of phrase stickers from the cardstock sticker sheet. The enamel dots give a little pop of dimension next to each phrase.

To the left of the photos, I layered clear star stickers around the die cuts to give a “stamped” effect. Love how clear stickers look on a white background! Then, I layered punched scraps and fussy cut stars all around the large die cut star (which I backed like a cut file with patterned paper). Enamel dots, Nuvo Drops, and ink splatter added the perfect detail finishers to this large star explosion!

The title may be my favorite part of this layout, it’s fussy cut from the Epic Tales cut apart and fit perfectly in that spot at the bottom! I popped each letter up on foam to give it a bit of dimension and put them on a jaunty angle for a bit of fun. Love the way the colors of the letters tie the layout together. I added my journaling around the perimeter of the layout for an extra border.

 

I hope this layout inspires you to have some fun with the bold colors and patterns in the Legendary collection! To see how the “Epic” layout came together, check out the process video below!

 

Life is Good | Sunkissed Collection | Danni Visser

Hi Cocoa Vanilla Studio fans! Danni here with another page in my family summer holiday album using the fabulous new Sunkissed collection. This week I was challenged to make a project featuring stickers, so I decided to use as many as possible!

My first step was to take a sheet of A4 white cardstock and prep it for some hand stitching. I love a sunburst pattern, so I pierced stitching holes in lines radiating out from the point where I planned to position my photo. I used a white embroidery thread to stitch a simple backstitch along each line, subtly separating my page into wedge-shapes sections.

I went straight to the clear stickers because they look amazingly vibrant on plain white cardstock. I took the Life is Good title from the clear stickers and placed that in one of the wedges. Next, I filled up two of the wedge sections with the floral and icon clear stickers, making sure to space them as evenly as possible.

The next two wedge sections I filled up with Summer Lights and Good Vibrations 12×12 patterned papers, cutting them to size and distressing the edges for texture. I did the same thing for the next wedge, this time using the rainbow spotty design paper from the A5 paper stack.

I love the bright colours and patterns in the 3×4 pocket cards, so the next wedge I filled with one of these cut down to size. I think this was meant to be a journaling spot, but I just loved the bright sun and the rich blues so I just had to use it as a patterned paper.

The final wedge I filled up with tiny phrase stickers from the accessory stickers, lining them up and stacking them in repeating rows. I love these little phrases and the summery sentiments were perfect to use on this holiday page. I matted my photo using the pretty blue daisy print from the A5 paper stack and positioned it at the centre of the sunburst pattern.

I added some extra puffy stickers around my title and a banner sticker from the accessory stickers on top of my photo. To finish off the layout I used a bright aqua hybrid ink to colour the outer edge of the page and add an extra pop of colour.

I just love this bright layout! It was a great way to use lots of stickers and the sunburst pattern made it very easy to put together once the initial design was laid out. I hope you enjoyed joining me today.

Happy scrapping!

Danni x

Costa Brava | Sunkissed Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with another batch of jummy colors and fun images. All of that thanks to the amazig “Sunkissed” collection – tha brand new, summer line from Cocoa Vanilla Studio. You all know I can’t get enough of rainbows so I made another page with this theme. I always have some summer photos to scrapbook and this time I picked two taken during our vacation at Costa Brava in Spain.

I started with cloudy paper called “Just chillin” as my background. Next step was to cut out rainbow strips from “Bright side” sheet and glue them over the clouds using strips of foam tape. It’s quite clean and simple page with not so many elaborate layers and so easy to recreate.

I placed my two horizontal photos on the bottom of the rainbow with no extra layers of papers under them. I didn’t want to cover the rainbow and the page was already colorful enough. I only added some smaller tabs from Stickers Sheets. One of the new products, that appeared in “Sunkissed” collection is pack of flowers and leaves. You have so many colors and sizes to choose from and I added some of them over my rainbow, color on color.

Sun and clouds from Ephemera Pack matches my sky scenes perfectly. I glued them down using pieces of foam tape to add more dimension. I finished the layout by adding few enamel dots from some older collections, that I had in my stash. I love making mixed media pages but I am also a big fan of simle and clean layouts, that comes really quickly together and do not require any special skills and supplies. It’s so refreshing to just play with paper.

I decorated area around the photos with two woodies (my fav embellishment!!!) and a puffy sticker. I love combining different textures and materials of one page. And you? Are you a team “just paper” or “mixed media”? Or maybe you are like me, like to jump between those two. I noticed I tend to make plain paper pages when the collection is new to me and then move to mixed media ones when I am already running out of papers or embellishments and I need to be more creative to stretch my stash.

Thank you so much for stopping by and see you in two weeks.

XO Anna

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

Cheers to the Weekend | Sunkissed collection | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone, it’s Sue Plumb here to share a fun mixed media layout I created using the new ‘Sunkissed’ collection. For this page, I decided to document a photo of myself and my sister that was taken when we snuck off for a last minute weekend away late last year. Just us, peace and quiet, cocktails, snacks and lots of scrapping with ocean views. It was sorely needed after the forced cancellation of our annual retreat due to COVID, and pure bliss!

I started my page with the Just Chillin’ patterned paper, which features the sweet cloud print. Before I did anything else, I wanted to tone down the pattern in the centre of the page, where the focal area of my layout was going to be. I used white and yellow acrylic paint, which I applied lightly with a brayer, which softened the pattern enough, but not so much that you could still see through it. Once that as done, I turned my attention to creating some papery layers.

I started with a couple of papers from the A5 Paper Stack first – a yellow chevron, and a blue animal print. (These two papers are exclusive to the A5 Paper Stack, so cannot be found in the 12×12″ Collection Kit.) I chose the yellow and blue because the combination of these colours just screams “beach” to me. I tore both the papers and layered them, adding a strip of the pretty yellow floral from the Fun in the Sun paper on top. I then added a piece of the striped Good Vibrations paper, a small yellow doily, and some frayed gauze, before finishing the stack with my photo on top.

The next item I reached for was the Pocket Card pack. Pocket cards may not be something you would usually reach for when creating a traditional 12×12″ layout, but I love how versatile they are! I used one cut in half to add an extra layer in behind my papers; a card for my typed journalling; and a third card that I fussy cut my title from. My title was also popped up on some foam tape to give it some dimension.

To embellish my page I used several pieces from the Die Cut Ephemera pack including the small feeling fine banner; the tab and flag on the corner of my photo; a couple of clouds and the cute sun. I also used the gorgeous rainbow arrow from the Accessory Sticker sheet; a small Wood Button; some Clear Stickers; and a few cute Puffy Stickers.

I finished my page with some black ink splatters (and yes, some got on my photo! haha); and some stamped phrases using a roller stamp.
If you would like to watch how this page came together, you can watch my process video here:
Until next time, happy scrapping!

Sweet Love | More than Words collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends !

It’s Sophie on the blog today sharing an Easter theme layout created with the gorgeous “More than Words” Collection.

 

This Snapchat selfie of Sabrina and I was perfect for the theme !

I started with a white thick cardstock and added plenty of watercolor splatters in multiple pastel colors.

I cut a cute cut file from Just Nick Studio with my cutting machine in white cardstock and placed my photo centered between the two bunny ears of the cut file.I backed the cut file with different patterned papers from the collection and added adhesive foam before adhering it to my background.

 

 

My black and white photo is also backed with tissue paper, adhesive foam and patterned papers.

I cut out a few tiny florals from the “Darling Buds” paper and placed them on the cut file and around my title.

 

The title is a word (sweet) cut out of the “Treasure” patterned paper and a More than Words Chipboard Title (Love).

 

I also added a beautiful Banner from the Chipboard Stickers sheet of the same collection.

Finally, I fussy cut 3 butterflies out of the pretty “Gossamer” patterned paper, sticked them around my photo and handwrote my journaling.

Here are more close-ups;

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the vertical centered design of this page. Very simple and soft. Spring colors are my favorites !!

I hope that this layout was inspiring for you, thank you for passing by, and happy creating !

Sophie xx

Cairns Getaway | Sunkissed Collection | Danni Visser

Hello Cocoa Vanilla fans! Today I want to talk about layouts with zero photos; these could be pages about a memory where you had no photos available, a page where you wanted to add extra journaling that wouldn’t fit on your photo layout, or like a I have here – a title page.

It can sometimes be difficult to fill up a page when you don’t have a photo taking up a large portion of the real estate. In this case I made it easier for myself by utilizing a smaller format page; this is A4 size, roughly in between 8.5×11” and 9×12”. If you find yourself struggling with a large 12×12” layout you could easily scrap a smaller size within a larger piece of cardstock. Another tip is to use large elements. I used two large cut files as a title and embellishment, which definitely helped fill up all that space.

This layout will be the introductory title page for a holiday album. We visited tropical North Queensland so I wanted it to be super bright and summery. The new Sunkissed collection fit the bill perfectly! I started with Good Vibrations 12×12 patterned paper as my background as I just could not resist those rainbow stripes!

I took the large floral cut file by COAPA Cutfiles and backed it with Summer Lights, Feelin’ Fine and Good Vibrations 12×12 patterned papers. The ‘CAIRNS’ cut file is one I made myself using a bold font in my design software. I wanted some different colours in this one, so I turned to the double sided 3×4 cards to back it with. These are so versatile!

Once I had those cut files backed and positioned, the rest of the layout came together easily. I added ‘Get Away’ from the glitter foam titles to finish out my title. I also took a few of the tiny word phrases from the accessory stickers and staggered them in the space below my title. I chose phrases that applied to our holiday so they double as brief journaling!

I wanted to enhance that large floral cut file so I took several of the die cuts from the floral ephemera and tucked them around the cut file. I also built a small floral cluster at the top of the page to help balance the layout, as well as adding some of the small florals popped up on dimensional foam. I love the extra shadow and dimension this gives.

For finishing touches I used a white gel pen to scribble a sketchy border around the edge of my layout, then added a splattering of white and metallic gold inks all around the page. I hope you enjoyed this bright summery title page! There is a process video on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio YouTube channel linked below as well.

Happy scrapping!

Danni x

 

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