Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a fun family layout using the new Heart & Home collection. I love this sweet photo collage style and squeezed five 2×3 inch photos on this page. Heart & Home perfectly matched these photos, and they perfectly capture my family and their love of food!
I created three columns in the center puzzling together photos, cut-aparts, and icons from the ephemera pack, fussy cut from patterned papers, and the puffy stickers. Along both of the sides, I spread out vellum florals, fussy cut florals, and dotted Nuvo drops.
I added word phrases from the cut-apart sheet and the 6×12 sticker sheet to add interest on top of and around my photos. Love adding these little messages to my pages! The gold foil titles add a stunning elegance to this layout and ties it all together.
The journaling for this layout focuses on the big milestone of this event, the first in my new home! Love family-focused collections and I had a blast playing with this one!
I hope you enjoyed this fun layout and it inspires you to try collaging your photos together!
Hello crafty Friends! Can you believe it’s December already and we are only 10 days till Christmas? It’s a very last call to make and send christmas cards so I have few ideas to share with you today. I am a great procrastinator and I keep pushing things from my “to do” list to the very last possible day it can be done. Making my cards is no different. That’s why I need to be efficient and fast in making them. Today I have a set of four cards to show you, all made with super cute “Joyful” collection from past years. But worry not – my tips can be used for any other collections too!
Let’s start with card bases. I never have enough of premade card bases as I simply do not make that many cards, so it’s pointless for me to keep bulks of them. Instead, I came up with this quick fix – I am using paper sheets from A5 Paper Stack! This way my card base is colorful and pretty on the outside, and white in the inside. I simply fold the paper in half and card base is done! Just remember to pick patterns that look good both horizontally and vertically so, let’s say your christmas trees, won’t be tilted to the side on the folded base. I picked four different papers for all of my cards.
For each card base I later picked another pattern paper from A5 Paper Stack for the card front. In case of this card, it was papers with cute, little trees. They inspired me to create my own, bigger tree! I simply cut strips of another, darker green pattern. I then trimmed each piece to be slightly shorter then the previous one and glued them to the front of the card. You can create christmas trees in many colors! It doesn’t have to be green. Final step was to add presents under the tree using cute Puffy Stickers and some stars on the tree that look like a ornaments. I mixed Chipboard Stickers and Golden Puffy Stickers from the same collection.
Second card features some christmas greenery cut out from one of the 12*12 patterns. I just arranged them on candy cane pattern paper vertically and finished the card using Golden Puffy Titles stickers as a sentiment. Few golden stars here and there added even more festive look. This technique is perfect if you are running low on embellishments but still have plenty of papers left. Especially the ones that can be used for fussy cutting!
This card has more fresh color palette and I once again reached for fussy cutting to get more embellishments. I found this “falalalala” word in my Ephemera Pieces and I knew I wanted to use it at the center on the card. To fill the empty space around it, I added some stars that I fussy cut from one of the papers from A5 Paper Stack. I finished the composition by adding even more, smaller stars from Chipboard Stickers and Golden Puffy Titles Stickers.
Last card I made features sentiment strips from 6*12 Stikecrs Sheet. I used up most of the sheet but I still gor left those gold foiled words. So I decided to add a lot of them on one card. They look like a speach bubbles coming out from the mouth of a christmas bear. I also added some presents at the bottom of the card. Another quick and easy composition!
How do you like my tips and ideas for christmas cards? I hope they will help you create your own handmade cards. Thank you so much for spending your time with me. See you soon!
It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new Christmas layout featuring the gorgeous Joyful collection!
I have documented another gorgeous photo of my niece from a Christmas photo shoot when she was younger, I just love this photo so much! The Joyful collection was perfect for this photo with the super cute animal icons, I was able to add the adorable reindeer, bird, squirrel and rabbit.
I chose the ‘B’ side of the Deck the Halls patterned paper for my background, I love the teal and stars on this paper! I trimmed it down and adhered it to a plain sheet of white cardstock and then added machine stitched border around the edges. At the top of the page, I placed one of the blank rectangle stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet and layered some puffy stickers over the top. I wanted to make a large cluster in the centre of my page and decided to first choose a Cambridge doily to lay down first, I love the softness and texture that this brings to the layout. I then layered some of the 3′ x 4′ journal cards under the photo and adhered these down on top of the doily using craft foam to add dimension. At the top of the journal cards, I added my Joyful title from the gold puffy titles. These are sooo gorgeous! I love the different word choices and that you can mix it up if you want to! I placed one of the glitter gold stars and one of the banner puffy stickers!
 From the Very Merry patterned paper, I cut out the Magical Moments phrase and adhered it below the photo and I placed one of the word stickers from the Accessory Sticker Sheet above the photo. On the right of the photo, I added some embellishments including the round journal spot from the Accessory Sticker Sheet, a stocking from the chipboard set, some candy canes in die-cuts and puffy stickers, the super cute bunny puffy sticker and one of the lovely epoxy wood buttons.
 On the left of the photo, I placed the gorgeous reindeer chipboard piece and layered both a star and a bird puffy sticker. I love to layer embellishments on top of other embellishments! I also tucked in behind the reindeer, another candy cane die-cut and placed one of the glitter gold fabric stars too. Did you spot the pretty sprinkles of gold and white over the page? That was done using gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine and some white mist is by Dylusions. I just unscrewed the cap off the top and lightly shook the nozzle to add the sprinkles.
Under the photo, I tucked in one of the tags from the Accessory sticker sheet and tied a bow with some twine through the hole. I also placed more phrase and word stickers from the Accessory sticker sheet and also the cute squirrel sticker too. I also placed some of the small puffy stickers here as well. Such small details can really make a big impact on a page, although sometimes small embellishments are subtle, they really can make a difference to a page.
Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you are inspired to get crafting with your Cocoa Vanilla Christmas collections!
It’s Sophie on the blog today with a new page to share!
I am all in the Christmas fever this time of year and used the beautiful Joyful collection for my Christmassy layout!
I teared two big pieces of patterned papers from the collection and placed them on the top of a thick white cardstock.
I layered tissue paper, adhesive foam and another patterned paper behind my photo and placed it a little bit off centered to the right.
I built a beautiful cluster of embellishments from the Ephemera pack and some fussy cut florals, as well as a few sticker phrases on the bottom right of the photo.
My title is made out of the Puffy Title Sticker sheet.
Finally, I fussy cut stars out of patterned papers and scattered them around my title and photo.
Here are more close-ups:
I hope that you like this page and that it can give you new ideas to try ! Most of all, I hope that you are having a wonderful holiday season!
It’s Kel back with you today, sharing a Christmas page with the Joyful collection.
A few weeks ago we celebrated an early Christmas with some of our family and I captured these super cute pictures of my youngest son…. so fun! Here is my page..
I started my page with creating 2 large circles…one smaller than the other and stuck them down to the page. I added some stitching to the smaller circle before sticking it down.
I decided to go with a diagonal design, using one of the cut apart papers for my title which says ‘Oh what Fun’..
The animals in this collection are so cute! From the chipboard pieces I used a deer and a squirrel and a fox from the ephemera pack.
To my top photo I used a diecut from the ephemera pack and a sticker from the Accessory Sticker Sheet.
To the bottom photo I added a diecut to the top of my photo, a frame from the ephemera pack, then to the left I added two presents…one chipboard and one from the ephemera pack.
To finish my page I added some stars cut from a patterned paper and some tiny stars cut from gold glitter paper down to the diagonal of the page….love this finishing touch!
I hope you enjoyed my page and you are starting to get in the Xmas spirit!
Mandy here today to share a new layout using the ever-beautiful Joyfulcollection. This is my all-time-favourite Christmas collection! I absolutely love the colours, and the embellishments are so sweet – especially those cute little woodland creatures! I documented a couple of photos from last Christmas of my youngest daughter and my Mum.
I started my layout off with the Deck the Halls patterned paper as my background. I then cut a 6 inch circle out of the same paper, this time using the reverse side, and adhered the circle to the centre of my page. This provided a focal point on the page for me to build my layers on top of. I printed my photos at 3×4 inches and matted them with a paper from the A5 Paper Stack. I positioned the photos, along with a Pocket Card across the middle of the page, adhering them at an angle to give them a fun and whimsical look.
I created two embellishment clusters on the layout, positioned diagonally from one another in order to keep the layout feeling balanced, and to draw the viewer’s eye through the photos. The first was positioned below the photo on the left, and it includes a fussy cut floral cluster, as well as a cute deer, a present and a banner, all from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I adhered the deer with foam tape to help it to pop off the page, and to give the cluster some extra dimension and interest.
For the second embellishment cluster, I used another fussy cut floral, as well as a Die Cut bird and a Chipboard banner. As in the first cluster, I also added a Wood Epoxy Button to the centre of the flower. Here you can also see the Die Cut phrase – Ho Ho Ho – that I used as the title for my layout.
To finish the layout off, I added a few Gold Puffy Stars around the page.
Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today! I hope that you enjoyed taking a look at my layout featuring the Joyful collection!
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts here with a fun and funky grid layout using the cut-apart sheet from the No Limits collection to scrap FIVE photos on one page! Absolutely love this mix of patterns, it was perfect for these pictures from out trip to the hands-on museum. This is a busy layout, but one of the ways I made this layout a little more cohesive was to mirror the top left corner with the bottom right.
Another fun idea was to use cut-apart cards from the second cut-apart sheet in the collection to layer on top of the first! The “You Rock My World” and Always Be Your Awesome Self” came from that second patterned paper and helped me to limit the color scheme of this page. The clusters on the open rectangles are a mix of chipboard, ephemera, and puffy stickers with fussy cut stars on the edges. The trio of tickets in the middle was a fun detail for a museum trip!
This bottom left side of the grid holds the title because the two photos that I loved the most ended up on the bottom row. Added to the die-cut title “Awesome” are borders of fussy cut stars from the Nebula patterned paper. Love all the elements that made it onto this page, especially the chipboard planets!
I especially liked this part of the grid with a rocket ship bursting from the “Out of this world” chipboard piece. It was a fun way to incorporate a science themed icon in this museum layout. The photos I’ve spread out throughout the grid are all so energetic and bold that I just had to use this equally bold collection.
I hope this layout inspires you to give your cut-aparts a second look and find new ways to use them! If you’d like to see how “Awesome” came together, check out the process video below:
Hello crafty Friends. December is almost here with it’s festivities and I am for sure going to join this merry madness. But before I will dive into christmas, I have one final fall project to share with you. It was created with beautiful “Heart & Home” collection – the newest addition to CVS family. It already landed in CVS shop and what’s even better – it’s on sale! So run quickly to grab it, along with many discounted goodies from older collections.
I created another layout, this time with brand new photos of my girls. I always take them to the nearby forest, when the autumn takes it’s most glorious colors to snap some photos. Thanks to that, I have a bunch of pretty pictures to scrapbook with all the pretty seasonal collections.
I love all wooden patterns and I like using them as a backgrounds. It’s already a second page I made with “Heart & Home” with “Framed” paper. It has such a lovely, warm color. I cut my photo into a circle and placed it in the middle of my page.
Using “Floral ephemera pack” I made a frame around my photo using both flowers and leaves. I also added some butterflies (or probably moths) to this composition. They are cut out from one of the 12*12 papers called “Fall beauty”. I just love papers with elements you can fussy cut and extend your ephemeras, as they usually run out quickly. So keep an eye on papers with elements, that are big enough to be cut out and are not clustered together overlaping eachother. Buy extra sheet of this paper and you will thank me later!
My title is made with super pretty and shiny “Die cut titles with gold foil”. They always look amazing but are so hard to photograph. They either look black or white in the photos because of the light reflecting off them. I used two words “happy” and “hearts” to make my title and spread them on both sides of the photo. I also added bits and pieces from “Ephemera pack”, like house and some sentiments.
My final touch, as always, was to add some tiny accents like puffy hearts from “Puffy heart stickers”. And that’s it! Layout was finished.
This page is a closure for my fall projects. Now it’s time to dive fully into christmas! I will be back in two weeks with something festive! Thank you so much for staying with me and wee you soon!
Welcome to today’s Cocoa Vanilla Blog! Once again, I’ve drawn inspiration from the beautiful Heart and Home collection by Cocoa Vanilla. This collection has delightful and fresh colors that inspired me. Today, I wanted to shine a spotlight on the gorgeous and elegant gold word die-cuts. By arranging the words in a stacked manner with a bit of overlap, I created a playful and eye-catching title.
To begin, I cut three circles from white cardstock and chose a vibrant yellow patterned paper to fill them in. The middle circle may be a bit elusive because I ultimately decided to place the lovely photo of my daughter and me in the center. On the left side, I crafted a cluster of flowers and butterflies. I choose die-cut flowers and some hand-cut blooms from the beautiful patterned paper, I added a touch of whimsy with strategically placed cut-out butterflies.
For the title, I incorporated the playful arrangement of gold word die-cuts, complementing it with a word strip and adorable puffy alphas. Additionally, I placed some puffy hearts throughout the layout. I love incorporating various elements and materials into my layouts to add depth and interest. To finish it off, I added distress splatters in the lovely Speckled Egg color. I find this shade to be a perfect match for the light blue-gray tones present in this collection.
Thank you for stopping by the blog today. I hope this layout has sparked some inspiration for you. Looking forward to seeing you next time with fresh ideas! Have fun, and until next time.
It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout featuring the gorgeous Joyful collection.
I know, I know its still November but who said we couldn’t document Christmas all year round right? I know some people would not agree lol! I don’t know about you, but Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year to document memories, this photo is of our big Christmas tree from last year. I love this photo as it reminds me of beautiful times spent with my family.
I started by choosing the ‘B’ side of the Feeling Festive patterned paper to use for my background, I trimmed this piece down and adhered it to a plain white sheet of white cardstock and machine stitched a border around the outside to add some texture. I then cut out a cut file from CUT to YOU also using plain white cardstock. The A5 paper stack was then used, choosing several of the papers from it to back each letter in the cut file. Once the cut file was all backed, I adhered it slightly to the left on the ‘B’ side of the Feeling Festive paper. I cut strips out of the Holly Days paper and the Very Merry paper and adhered these vertically to the left of the cut file. I like how this helps to ground the cut file. Usually I adhere my cut files using craft foam however this time I knew I wanted to use craft foam on lots of the elements on top of the cut file.
I adhered my photo on the right of the cut file using craft foam and layered some of the Journaling Cards underneath, I then added some die-cut pieces from the Ephemera pack and some Accessory Stickers and Puffy Stickers here too. I like to add embellishments near my photo to help draw the eye to the photo. You can see in the image above the shadows that using the craft foam creates under the photo, I love how this looks! It also allows for lots of tucking of embellishments as well. Above my photo, I placed some of the word and phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet, I love how these help with journaling and telling the story.
To balance out the heavy right side where my photo is placed, I decided to add the gorgeous die-cut Christmas Tree from the ephemera pack to the left hand side using craft foam, I added one of the gold puffy stars to the top of the tree and also layered more of the word and phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet, on top of the tree. I added some more gifts under the tree using puffy shapes and die-cuts. In the centre, I placed the FaLaLaLa die-cut, a banner sticker and another phrase sticker. I also pulled out some of the chipboard and added some of the pretty gold stars and I also added the Santa Hat to the top of ‘D’ in the December cut file.
In the centre of the ‘D’ in the December cut file, I took one of the circle stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheetand added one of the gorgeous wood epoxy buttons to the centre of the circle. Once all the bigger elements were added to my page and I was happy with all of the placement, I took a look at my layout to see if I was happy with it and if I thought it was finished. I can very easily overdo it sometimes and never know when to stop but I added just a few smaller embellishments like more gold chipboardstars and some Accessory stickers to finish. I also stamped the date stamp which is what I do on all of my layouts, its one of my signatures that I always like to do!
Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope I have inspired you to pull out your Cocoa Vanilla Christmas collections and start creating some of your past Christmas memories!
I started my layout off with the Deck the Halls patterned paper as my background. I then cut a 6 inch circle out of the same paper, this time using the reverse side, and adhered the circle to the centre of my page. This provided a focal point on the page for me to build my layers on top of. I printed my photos at 3×4 inches and matted them with a paper from the 
