glitter foam titles

Colour Fun | Sunkissed collection | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone, happy new year! If you are anything like me (4 weeks deep into school holidays), you are having trouble remembering what day it is and are tired of hearing “muuuuuum” for the five hundred and twentieth time today. (Hang in there, we’re past the half way mark!) Fortunately, I do know today is Thursday, because it is actually “Throwback Thursday” and my turn to bring you some fresh inspiration using an older collection. I didn’t go too far back though, because today I am sharing a layout featuring the beautiful ‘Sunkissed’ collection which is still available in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio online store.

For this layout, I wanted to create a mixed media page and decided to use some of my stash of acrylic paint. I love using paint because it is quick, easy, economical, and available in a great range of colours. And even those of you who are not “mixed media people” will usually have access to paint if you want try a technique like this yourself. (I didn’t use any fancy paints – cheap student grade acrylics will do the job!)

The photos I documented on this page are of my two boys taken on the day of their colour run at school. This was not long after they had crossed the finish line and they were both so proud of how wet and coloured they were. (And no, I didn’t bother trying to wash the clothes, they were destined for the bin anyway.) It was the colours of the paint on their clothes that inspired my colour choices for this layout.

As I mentioned above, I used acrylic paint for my mixed media background on this page. I used three different colours which I applied with a small brayer. (This method is great if you are short on time as the thin application means it dries super fast!) I then mounted my painted cardstock on top of the beautiful Good Vibrations striped paper, which created a fun page border.

Next, I added my rainbow arches, which had been fussy cut from a piece of the Bright Side paper left over from a previous project. I cut only the pink, orange and yellow arches (or what I had of them anyway) and stuck them onto my background.

I then created a layered mat for my photos to sit on using a piece of the heart print Feelin’ Fine paper, topped with a piece of the smaller scale cloud print paper from the A5 Paper Stack and finally a scrap of the Summer Lights paper. I also added a small yellow paper doily and some frayed gauze for texture before adding my photos on top.

The next step was to add my title, which I ran along the horizontal strip in my paper stack. To the left of my photos I used some alphabet stickers I had left over from the Love Always collection for the word colour and then to the right, I used the word fun from the Glitter Foam Title Stickers. Look at that gorgeous golden sparkle!

With all the main components in place, it was time to add a few fun embellishments. I chose a number of pieces from the Die Cut Ephemera pack including a flag, umbrella, and a watermelon slice. These were chosen purely based on their colour, but I love that they add a touch of whimsy to the page. I also added several stickers from the Puffy Stickers pack.

I finished off with some phrases from the Accessory Sticker sheet and some tiny black ink splatters. I love how fun and colourful this layout turned out!

If you would like to see exactly how it came together, you can watch my process video here:

Thanks for stopping by so I could share this with you, I hope you are feeling inspired to bust out some of your older Cocoa Vanilla stash now too! Until next time, happy scrapping!

Look on the Bright Side | Sunkissed Collection | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here and today I’m sharing a new layout featuring the gorgeous Sunkissed collection! My assignment for this project was to feature cut apart papers. I love that the Cocoa Vanilla Studio collections always include papers that can be cut apart to use for pocket page scrapbooking and/or as embellishments on a layout. It’s a great way to get more bang for your buck when you purchase a collection!

I decided on documenting a beautiful, happy photo of my youngest daughter Ella, and I knew that the bright and vibrant colours in the Sunkissed collection would be perfect for this photo! It was fun to incorporate lots of pieces from the Sunkissed cut apart papers onto my layout!

I started this layout off by using a template to create a beautiful sunburst design on the background. I used the following patterned papers from the collection to create the sunburst… Sunny Days (reverse side), Just Chillin (reverse side), Summer Lights, Fun in the Sun (reverse side), Feelin Fine (reverse side), and Bright Side (reverse side). I LOVE how bright and colourful it looks with all those gorgeous patterned papers! Once I’d finished adhering all of the pieces into place, I added machine stitching along the edge of each one to give it some more texture.

I wanted to add a mat underneath my photo to help it to stand out from the busy background and to provide a clean area to add some embellishing. I used one of the papers from the A5 Paper Stack for this, which I cut down to a 5 3/4 inch square. I adhered the square mat using craft foam to again help the photo area to really pop. Next I matted my photo with the Just Chillin woodgrain paper, and adhered it to the middle of the square.

I started my embellishing by creating a cluster on the bottom left hand corner of the photo. I fussy cut a rainbow out of the A5 cut apart paper, as well as some flowers from the Growing Wild patterned paper. I finished the cluster off with a die cut banner from the Ephemera pack, as well as a cute Wood Epoxy Button.

Next I added my title and another embellishment cluster on the top right hand corner of the photo. Again I used lots of fussy cut embellishments. For my title I used the ‘Look on the Bright Side’ piece from the A5 Cut Apart paper. I also fussy cut another flower from the Growing Wild patterned paper, as well as a little banner piece from the Fun in the Sun cut apart paper. Like with the first cluster, I finished this one off with another Wood Epoxy Button.

I created a third and final cluster in the top right hand corner of the page. You’ll notice that all of my embellishments are positioned along the diagonal line from the bottom left hand corner of the page to the top right. This helps to draw the viewers eye to the photo and then through the other elements on the layout. This last cluster includes two more pieces that I cut out of the Fun in the Sun cut apart paper, and another fussy cut flower. I also tucked a Die Cut sun into the cluster to finish it off.

As the final finishing touches on the layout, I added a few gold glitter hearts from the Glitter Foam Title Stickers pack, as well as a couple of die cut clouds.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today. I hope that you enjoyed taking a look at how I incorporated cut apart papers as embellishments on my layout!

Mandy x

Getaway | Sunkissed collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you today to share a new scrapbook layout featuring the gorgeous Sunkissed collection.

I chose a cute boat cut file from CUT to YOU and cut it out from plain white cardstock. I then took papers from the A5 paper stack and backed some of the spaces in the cut file. I chose the multicoloured stripe paper for the bottom section of the boat and chose 4 different papers for the banner. I added one of the pink papers behind the top flag and the smaller scale floral paper behind the florals in the cut file.

Before I adhered down the cut file on to another sheet of plain white cardstock, I added a small amount of mixed media using the Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide with water and smooshing it to replicate water. Once it was dry I adhered the cut file down. I also trimmed down the white cardstock and backed the Sunny Days paper behind and then machine stitched around the edge. The photo I am documenting is of my Mum and I kayaking, it is the perfect photo to use with this collection and cut file.

Underneath my photo I layered some of the 3′ x 4′ pocket cards, I love how these make my photo pop. I added the Our Summer flag at the top near the cut file flag and also the extra banner die-cut all from the ephemera pack. My title ‘Getaway’ is made up of the gorgeous gold glitter foam title stickers and I love how the title looks placed on the edge of the mast of the boat. I added a few Accessory stickers in the phrases to help tell the story, puffy stickers and clear stickers under the boat to replicate water. I also added a wooden epoxy buttons and some of the floral die-cuts from the Floral ephemera pack too.

I LOVE how my layout turned out and hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed creating it. Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! Make sure to get your hands on some of the AMAZING Sunkissed collection.

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Happy Holiday Memories | Sunkissed Collection | Mandy Melville

Hello CVS friends!

It’s Mandy here on the blog today to share a new layout using the gorgeous Sunkissed collection. I was in the mood to create something bright, colourful and happy, so what better collection to use than Sunkissed! I chose to document a couple of photos of my youngest daughter enjoying the waterslide on a holiday that we took earlier this year. I love the way that the colours in these beautiful papers and embellishments complement those in the photos!

I started my layout off by trimming down a sheet of white cardstock to 8 inches wide, and adhering it to the Good Vibrations patterned paper. To add some further detail and interest, I used a border punch on two strips of the the blue Bright Side paper, and tucked the strips under each side of the white cardstock. I also added some machine stitching along the two sides of the white cardstock, as I love the texture that stitching gives to a page.

Next I matted my photos using the reverse side of the Summer Lights paper and adhered them towards the bottom half of the page. I used craft foam to adhere the photo on the right to give it some added dimension.

If you know me, you know that I love to include lots of florals on my layouts, so of course I couldn’t resist fussy cutting some of the beautiful floral clusters from the Growing Wild patterned paper to use on my layout. I added one at the bottom of the page, to fill in the corner where the two photos meet. I also added one of the cute Wood Epoxy Buttons to the centre of one of the flowers.

I created another little embellishment cluster above the photo on the right using a cloud die cut and another fussy cut floral cluster.

For my title I couldn’t go past using one of the gorgeous Glitter Foam Title Stickers! I combined the word ‘happy’ with the little word sticker that says ‘holiday memories’ to complete my title.

I wanted to create one more embellishment cluster on the layout in order to complete the visual triangle. I added this one at the top of the page above the title. You’ll notice that I’ve positioned the clusters in such a way that the photos are within the visual triangle, and this helps to direct the viewer’s eye to the photos. I’ve also positioned them so that when your eye follows them down the page, they mimic the curve of the waterslide in the photos. In this cluster at the top of the page, I’ve again included some fussy cut florals, along with a few Die Cuts and another Wood Epoxy Button.

To finish off the layout, I sprinkled around some of the tiny little hearts from the Puffy Sticker pack, as well as the gold glitter foam hearts, and a couple more little word Stickers.

I hope that my layout brought you a little sunshine today, and maybe you’ve been inspired to create a bright summery layout with the Sunkissed collection as well! I’ll be back later in the month to share some more inspiration with you, so until then, happy scrapping!

Mandy x

Chill Out | Sunkissed collection | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone, it’s Sue here to share my latest design team project with you. I had some cute photos of my boys swimming that I wanted to document, so couldn’t help but pull out the ‘Sunkissed’ collection to go with them. I decided to focus on the blues and greens from the range in keeping with the watery vibe of my page.

I began my layout with a sheet of white cardstock which I had cut down to measure 11×11″, and I used some blue and green inks to create a watercolour style background. I then added some stencilled detail over the top using a small scattered hearts stencil and a darker blue ink. My cardstock was then mounted onto a sheet of the Bright Side paper, which left me with the beautiful blue border I was wanting.

For the focal area of my page I used layered pieces of patterned papers which included some from the A5 Paper Stack, as well as some of the Sunny Days and Good Vibrations papers. I also added a paper doily and some frayed gauze for texture under my main photo, then cut one of the Pocket Cards in half to add some extra layering under my smaller photos.

Now it was time to add some extra fun to my page with some embellishments! There are such a great range of embellishments that come with this collection. I started with the Die Cut Ephemera pack, choosing pieces that fit with the colour scheme and theme of my page. To the left of my photos I created a cluster using two of the palm trees from the pack, which I popped up with some foam and bent the leaves up to give them some dimension. Other pieces I tucked in around my photos included a cute cloud, a pair of flips flops, a pair of sunglasses, and the beach towel that read sunshine state of mind on it.

As I often like to do, I added a couple of stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet directly onto my main photo. The be happy tab in the top left hand corner, and the just chillin’ banner along the bottom edge. I also added the phrase sticker make a splash to the right of my photos where my title was. My title was created using the gold Glitter Foam Title Stickers and I just love the bright pop of sparkle they give the page. I also used two of the little glitter hearts from the same pack to add one to each of my smaller photos.

I finished off my page by adding several stickers from the Puffy Stickers set, handwritten journalling, a stamped date, and splatters of black ink to tie it all together.

If you would like to watch how this layout came together, you can watch my process video here:

Thanks so much for stopping by today so I could share this with you. I hope I have inspired you to pull out some supplies and get creative today. Until next time, happy scrapping!

Memories | Sunkissed Collection | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here with you today to share a new layout using the gorgeous Sunkissed collection! This week on the blog our design team are creating projects featuring either circles or squares. I have to admit that usually I would be more comfortable creating with squares, so that’s what I initially planned to use for my project. But I decided to challenge myself to use circles instead, and I’m so glad I did because it was a lot of fun!

I documented a cute photo of my youngest daughter Eleanor at the pool when we were on holidays in January.

I started my layout off by trimming my white cardstock background down to  10 inches, and matting it on the Just Chillin patterned paper. I also added some machine stitching around the edge of the white cardstock to give the page some additional texture. I then went ahead cutting various size circles out of the Sunny Days, Feelin Fine, and Bright Side patterned papers. There are so many gorgeous colours in this collection, but for this layout I decided to keep my colour palette to the teal, pink and blue. For this reason, I chose to use the more subtle b-sides of the papers to allow me to feature those three particular colours. Once I’d cut out my circles, I arranged them on the page so that they flowed from the top to the bottom, with some overlapping.

To continue with the circle theme I decided to cut my photo into a circle as well (I don’t remember the last time I did this!). I matted it with the Feelin Fine patterned paper and added some craft foam underneath it to help it to really pop off the page! I embellished around the photo with some flowers from the Floral Ephemera pack, and then added my title around the top of the photo using one of the gorgeous Glitter Foam Title Stickers.

I adhered my typed journaling to the pink circle at the top of the page. I also added another Floral Ephemera piece to this cluster, as well as one of the fun Wood Epoxy Buttons. I love that the wood buttons add another circular element to the layout!

I created another point of interest on my layout to the right of my photo. I embellished these circles with a beautiful die cut rainbow, a label from the  Accessory Sticker sheet, and another Wood Epoxy Button.

The final little cluster of embellishments is at the bottom of the page on the teal circle. Here I chose to add a blue flower from the Floral Ephemera pack, as well as a little die cut banner. You’ll notice that I kept my embellishing to the same colour combination that I chose for my patterned papers, focusing on the pinks, blues and teals in the collection.

Around my photo, I added three little flowers that I fussy cut out of the Growing Wild patterned paper. The visual triangle that this creates helps to direct the viewers eye towards the photo. To finish the layout off, I added a few little phrase stickers from the Accessory Stickers, and lastly I sprinkled around some Unforgettable enamel dots.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today! Make sure you pop by each day this week to check out what our other design team members are creating for the circles and squares theme!

Mandy x

Fun | Sunkissed collection | Guest designer – Josefine van der Hoeven

Hello  creative Paperlovers,
Welcome to the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog for a new share! So glad to see you! It’s Josefine here to show you a new scrapbook layout that I created as a guest designer for Cocoa Vanilla Studio with the beautiful summer collection “SunKissed”. I can’t get enough of these beautiful designs. This collection from Cocoa Vanilla screams for the summer! Everything you create it gets a great summer look.
I started with a white piece of cardstock and cut out a tropical leave with my “Cricut Maker” using some beautiful design papers from the “Sunkissed” collection.
After that I started with the mixed media background. I used two colors of distress ink and a bubble designed stencil. With a blending tool I blend the two colors together. The colors I used are, “mowed lawn” and “twisted citron”.
When I’m done I splashed some more with the distress oxides using my brush.
I placed my tropical leave in the center of my layout. From a piece of yellow design paper I cut a circle to size. I used my sewing machine to decorate the edges with different golden stitches. For the clouds I used the same golden sewing thread and stitch through the center.
I grab the different summer die-cuts and make a selection of which ones I wanted to use on my layout. I carefully slide the die-cuts between the tropical leave and the photo. I like to use 3D elements on my layout. And I decide to fold an origami Sea shell.
Wondering how I made this sea shell? Hop over to the Cocoa Vanilla Facebook Group for the short process video of this cute little sea shell.
I’m almost done. Now It’s time to splatter some more with white acrylic paint and different colors of distress oxides. I stitch the edges of my layout with golden thread using my sewing machine. I am so happy how my layout turned out, looks so Tropical!
I hope I was able to give you some great ideas and wish you a lot of fun creating gorgeous projects with this beautiful summer collection! I want to thank you for stopping by on the blog today!
Wish you a lovely and creative day!
XoXo, Jo

Fun | Sunkissed collection | Guest designer – Josefine van der Hoeven

Hello  creative Paperlovers,
Welcome to the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog for a new share! So glad to see you! It’s Josefine here to show you a new scrapbook layout that I created as a guest designer for Cocoa Vanilla Studio with the beautiful summer collection “SunKissed”. I can’t get enough of these beautiful designs. This collection from Cocoa Vanilla screams for the summer! Everything you create it gets a great summer look.
I started with a white piece of cardstock and cut out a tropical leave with my “Cricut Maker” using some beautiful design papers from the “Sunkissed” collection.
After that I started with the mixed media background. I used two colors of distress ink and a bubble designed stencil. With a blending tool I blend the two colors together. The colors I used are, “mowed lawn” and “twisted citron”.
When I’m done I splashed some more with the distress oxides using my brush.
I placed my tropical leave in the center of my layout. From a piece of yellow design paper I cut a circle to size. I used my sewing machine to decorate the edges with different golden stitches. For the clouds I used the same golden sewing thread and stitch through the center.
I grab the different summer die-cuts and make a selection of which ones I wanted to use on my layout. I carefully slide the die-cuts between the tropical leave and the photo. I like to use 3D elements on my layout. And I decide to fold an origami Sea shell.
Wondering how I made this sea shell? Hop over to the Cocoa Vanilla Facebook Group for the short process video of this cute little sea shell.
I’m almost done. Now It’s time to splatter some more with white acrylic paint and different colors of distress oxides. I stitch the edges of my layout with golden thread using my sewing machine. I am so happy how my layout turned out, looks so Tropical!
I hope I was able to give you some great ideas and wish you a lot of fun creating gorgeous projects with this beautiful summer collection! I want to thank you for stopping by on the blog today!
Wish you a lovely and creative day!
XoXo, Jo

Love You | Sunkissed collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi crafty friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a layout inspired by the awesome Grab 5 challenge from interNational Scrapbook Day set by fellow designer Michelle Stokes. I created my layout with the gorgeous new Sunkissed collection and documented a beautiful photo of my eldest niece.

The Grab 5 challenge needed to include:

Patterned Papers
Stitching
Something Gold
Stickers
Ink splatters/sprinkle

Patterned papers – I used a patterned paper as the background at the back of my page, the wreath is cut out from patterned paper and there is also patterned paper behind my photo. Stitching – I have stitched the wreath down with machine stitching. Something Gold is the foam gold glitter hearts. Stickers – I have added accessory stickers, puffy stickers and clear stickers and Ink Splatters I have added in gold.

I took the Feeling Fine patterned paper and cut out the gorgeous wreath from the Happiness set of free cut files. I love how the pink side of the Feeling Fine paper pops against the white of the cardstock. I then machine stitched the wreath and took a pack of the stunning floral ephemera and arranged lots of these around the wreath, I bent up some of the leaves and florals for some dimension. I trimmed down the cardstock to measure roughly 11′ x 11′ and matted the cardstock to another piece of the Feeling Fine patterned paper.

Happiness free cut file set in the Cocoa Vanilla store

The Love You title is a cut file from the free Unforgettable set, I cut this one out from white cardstock and then hand painted the just the bottom section with some watercolour paints. I placed my photo and the layers over to the right of the wreath and added the title to the bottom left corner of the photo. I popped the title up using foam dots, I love the dimension the title gives on my page. Some of the embellishments I added to this layout include some stickers, some heart die-cuts and some gold foam hearts.

Unforgettable free cut file set

I added some journalling to one of the cards from the Fun in the Sun paper I then tucked it into the left side of the photo. Lastly I added some sprinkles of gold Heidi shine and stamped the date stamp of the date the photo was taken.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed my layout today and that you were inspired to create some projects with the stunning Sunkissed collection! If you don’t already have the gorgeous Sunkissed collection, make sure to check it out in the Cocoa Vanilla online store.

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Love You | Sunkissed collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi crafty friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a layout inspired by the awesome Grab 5 challenge from interNational Scrapbook Day set by fellow designer Michelle Stokes. I created my layout with the gorgeous new Sunkissed collection and documented a beautiful photo of my eldest niece.

The Grab 5 challenge needed to include:

Patterned Papers
Stitching
Something Gold
Stickers
Ink splatters/sprinkle

Patterned papers – I used a patterned paper as the background at the back of my page, the wreath is cut out from patterned paper and there is also patterned paper behind my photo. Stitching – I have stitched the wreath down with machine stitching. Something Gold is the foam gold glitter hearts. Stickers – I have added accessory stickers, puffy stickers and clear stickers and Ink Splatters I have added in gold.

I took the Feeling Fine patterned paper and cut out the gorgeous wreath from the Happiness set of free cut files. I love how the pink side of the Feeling Fine paper pops against the white of the cardstock. I then machine stitched the wreath and took a pack of the stunning floral ephemera and arranged lots of these around the wreath, I bent up some of the leaves and florals for some dimension. I trimmed down the cardstock to measure roughly 11′ x 11′ and matted the cardstock to another piece of the Feeling Fine patterned paper.

Happiness free cut file set in the Cocoa Vanilla store

The Love You title is a cut file from the free Unforgettable set, I cut this one out from white cardstock and then hand painted the just the bottom section with some watercolour paints. I placed my photo and the layers over to the right of the wreath and added the title to the bottom left corner of the photo. I popped the title up using foam dots, I love the dimension the title gives on my page. Some of the embellishments I added to this layout include some stickers, some heart die-cuts and some gold foam hearts.

Unforgettable free cut file set

I added some journalling to one of the cards from the Fun in the Sun paper I then tucked it into the left side of the photo. Lastly I added some sprinkles of gold Heidi shine and stamped the date stamp of the date the photo was taken.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed my layout today and that you were inspired to create some projects with the stunning Sunkissed collection! If you don’t already have the gorgeous Sunkissed collection, make sure to check it out in the Cocoa Vanilla online store.

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

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