It’s Sophie on the blog today with a new layout to share! I used the lovely new collection Happy Days again!
I cut three rectangles from the A5 Paper pack and stitched them down on white cardstock. I added a little scalloped border on their upper edge, and a zigzag stitch between them.
I printed a colorful photo of Sabrina and mounted it on tissue paper and foam adhesive. My title comes from a JustNickStudio alphabet cut file. I placed a smaller velum rectangle on the yellow one to soften it up so that my title stands out a bit more.
I added a beautiful bicycle die cut from the Ephemera pack and created a ground with watercolors from my stash. I fussy cut tiny little flowers that I scattered on the ground around the bicycle and wrote down my journaling on a sticker from the sticker sheet.
Here are more close-ups:
It’s a very Springy page and I LOVE the bright color scheme!
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a lovely shelf design featuring the new Happy Days collection. I absolutely adore the bold rainbow patterned paper in this collection and decided to use it with some white cardstock to create these lovely, detailed shelves for my photos to rest on.
Next to each of my photos, I’ve paired it with a cut-apart piece from the A5 paper stack. Love these smaller cut-aparts! This gave me an opportunity to add a journaling spot to the layout. Layering embellishments into large horizontal clusters was a great way to keep the attention on the photos by limiting the attention drawn to each of the individual ephemera pieces.
I used a chipboard title “Love” on one of the smaller shelves. I purposely left plenty of white space and limited my embellishing to my shelves to give my eye a place to rest on the layout. Each set of these shelves is balanced by using similar sized clusters.
I hope this layout inspires you to use your punches in a slightly different way! If you’d like to see how “Love” came together, check out the process video below.
Hey Hey! IT’s Michelle here today with a new layout share featuring our AMAZING new collection – Happy Days. I am absolutely LOVING this collection and all its assortment of rainbow goodness, which helps when todays theme is to share my take on using 1 paper – 3 different ways. The paper in question – Sunshine Lollipops. SO much fun to create, lets take a look…
This layout was so much fun to create using this bright happy paper Sunshine Lollipops. I used both sides of the paper to create the rainbow burst edges of the heart, fussy cut rainbows for the embellishments and hand cut letters for Leila’s name using off cuts from the starburst ends.
Here’s a closer look at the gorgeous paper, its oh so pretty!
Theres a lot of colour on this page, so I made sure to balance it out with a lot of white space, and not additional pattern papers
To create the rainbow heart burst I first cut a large heart design on a piece of white cardstock to the right of centre so it would overlap the right edge of the layout. I then added machine stitching around the edge and adhered it in place using foam in only the very centre of the heart. I needed to be able to tuck the strips under this before adhering it completely.
Next I took an entire piece of the Sunshine Lollipops paper and scored lines in the middle of each coloured strip using the scoring blade of my trimmer, then I went along and cut each strip of colour out, then cut each strip in half (6 inches pieces) so that they were easier to manage. I folded each coloured strip along the score line for a little dimension and slightly distressed some of the edges before adhering under the giant white heart in rainbow order.
Once I had all the pieces spaced out evenly I adhered them 1 by 1 using roller adhesive tape, layering in different directions as I went. I trimmed each piece down, and flagged some of the ends for a little added detail.
Next up I sorted out the photos, adhered straight to the white heart without a layered paper stack to distract from the rest of the layout. A cute little moment of ‘Leila the Magical’ riding her trike and making her pinwheel spin
I colour co-ordinated all the embellishments around the layout using a perfect mix of fussy cut flowers from the Lush Blooms paper, some ephemera pieces, stickers and cute little rainbows, mini hearts and stars from the SunshineLollipops paper.
Love a good assortment of rainbow florals
I added the LOVE it piece from the FeelGood cut apart paper, along with the date tag
To create the magical title I fussy cut letters of Leila’s name from the left over SunshineLollipops coloured strips, added the word Magical cut from the Definitive paper, added some handwriting and cute little PuffyAlphaStickers. So cute!
Here’s a final look at the entire layout.. What do you think ? I quite enjoy the fun heart burst effect those rainbow strips created.
Well friends thats all from me today, thank you so much for stopping by. Be sure to share with us in the Facebook Communitygroup if you play along with this same theme, and create something magical with 1 paper – 3 ways.
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!
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 !
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 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.
Hey Hey! It’s Michelle back here with you today and I’ve got a fun creative share for you all. It’s Throwback Thursday today, the day where we throw it back to an old collection from our stash and make something magical. I chose to deep dive back into the These Days collection and came up with 2 layouts using the same design, inspired by quilt blocks.
I’ve been a little obsessed with watching quilting videos of late, and I knew that I should be able to incorporate a quilt block design into a layout, but I never thought they would come together this easy. With a few creative cuts of the 12×12 and A5 papers, I had the backgrounds together in no time at all and ready to document a few recent family photos.
First up is the white star background using white cardstock for the star pieces, and the DAYBREAK paper pieced around the edges of the star for a mixed media effect. I machine stitched around all pieces for added detail.
I layered scraps of A5 papers behind the photo and adhered 0n to the background using foam pieces for dimension. This helps when tucking florals in underneath to give a deeper layered effect.
I used fussy cut florals from the HOME GROWN paper in both 12×12 and A5 paper sizes for the clusters on both layouts with the addition of butterflies from the TAKE FLIGHT papers and a Gold Glitter heart
I used a mix of ephemera pieces, stickers and Foam title stickers to create the title of this layout, mixing in more fussy cut florals to the sides to balance the layout with colours and pretty elements
I really like how this layout came together, so much so that I ended up creating the 2nd layout, this time switching the pattern papers up to be a complimentary mix for the star design and the white cardstock as the edges.
Most of the patterns used for this came from the A5 paper stack, including the piece under the photo and the mini journal sentiment card to the right.
I used all the same elements on this layout as I did the previous, just mixed it up in a different way
The title for this is made up of ephemera pieces “Sweet Picture Perfect Moments” that Ive adhered to the page using foam tape to give it a little pop of dimension. Yes I use this word alot haha its the only way I know to explain what foam tape does lol
Well friends thats all from me today. Thanks so much for stopping by to see my creations. I cant wait to come back in a couple weeks and share my next layout using the amazing NEW Happy Days Collection.
Hi everyone, it’s Sue Plumb here and I am SO excited to be sharing my first design team project using the brand new ‘Happy Days’ collection. I am sure by now you have seen the collection in full (either here on the blog or in person), so I know you will agree with me when I say how gorgeous it is! All those bright, vibrant colours really do make me happy.
For my first layout I decided to document some recent happy photos I took – my daughter on her 15th birthday. She was ecstatic to receive her first pair of “Docs” (Dr Marten boots) as a gift – definitely a happy day for her.
I chose to start with the yellow plaid pattern on the B side of the “Feel Good” paper, which is the cut apart sheet for this collection. I didn’t really want to sacrifice the cut apart first up, but I could not resist that gorgeous happy yellow for my background. To add a little extra colour I added some teal acrylic paint using 2″ wide brush and the dry brush technique. Initially I had planned for the brush strokes to be horizontal on the page, but after spinning the page, I decided I like them better vertical.
Next, I started building my paper layers. I matted each of my three photos using the sweet strawberry print on the B side of the “Lush Blooms” paper. I also used an extra piece of this paper to place horizontally across the page as an anchor point for my photos. I tore along one edge to add a textural element. I topped the strawberry paper with a thin stripe of plum purple, which was cut from the top edge of the striped pattern on the “Sunshine Lollipops” paper. I then added some frayed gauze and an aqua paper doily before adding my photos on top.
Now it was time to start embellishing my page. I couldn’t resist reaching for the gorgeous florals from the collection; so I used a mix of flowers fussy cut from the “Lush Blooms” paper and pieces from the Floral Ephemera pack. The first cluster I created was around the top left corner of my photos. I also used a small banner piece from the Die Cut Ephemera pack across the top edge of my photo.
The second cluster I created was below the centre photo and here I used a larger fussy cut floral piece with foam tape behind it to add a little height. (I had already planned at this point that my title was going to go alongside it, even though I hadn’t added it yet.) With two clusters in place, it was time to add my third cluster to balance my page.
The position of the last floral cluster was alongside the photos on the right edge. The positioning of this final cluster completed my visual triangle around the focal point of my page. Again, I used some foam tape to create dimension.
With all the flowers in place, I then set about adding some text to the page. I chose the die cut hello flag from the ephemera pack to place along the bottom edge of my main photo. This formed the first part of my subtitle, which was Hello 1st Docs, with the letters for the second part coming from the Mini Puffy Alphabet Stickers pack. The main part of my title, So Awesome, was using words from the Chipboard Titles pack.
At this point it was simply a matter of a few finishing touches. I created a small cluster along the bottom edge of the page using a scrap of paper, a flower, a phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet and a sweet little heart shaped Puffy Sticker. I added a couple of extra phrase stickers and heart puffy stickers to the page as well. I also added a die cut butterfly (I am sure you already know how much I love them) and the final finishing touch was one of the gorgeous Puffy Hearts stuck directly onto my centre photo. Oh, and a little black ink splatter.
And that was it!! I hope you love my layout and it inspires you to get creative too. Even if you don’t have the ‘Happy Days’ collection yet, grab out some other Cocoa Vanilla goodies and get busy! ‘Happy Days’ is already shipping to retailers so keep an eye out at your favourite store.
Hey y’all! Laura back again with a new layout featuring the stunning new collection Happy Days! These sweet photos from our trip to Michigan over Thanksgiving were perfect for this color scheme and I just had to give them a big bold purple mat to let them pop off the page!
One of my favorite pieces in this collection are these puffy fabric hearts! They are so soft and add a sweet, whimsical feel to the page. I used them to embellish the cut-apart labels that I wrote out my journaling on.
To give my design a little extra flair, I layered some floral and icon ephemera with this “Awesome” cut-apart piece to create a dramatic title that helps focus the attention on my photos as well as accent the shape of this simple, linear design.
I hope this layout inspires you to pull out your puffy embellishments from Happy Days or any of the past collections and give them some love! To see how “Awesome” came together, check out the process video below.
