happy days collection

This is 12 | Happy Days Collection | Michelle Stokes

Hey Hey! It’s Michelle back here today with a new layout share for you all using the Happy Days Collection. I was inspired by this months Floral Frenzy Challenge to create something with one of my most loved embellishments – Flowers, which reminded me of a layout I made a few years back. Lets take a peek shall we…

A layout full of colour and florals to celebrate this sweet kids 12th birthday back in 2022, when things were all sunshine and rainbows and we could get a smile out of her for a photo of 2 lol I used a bunch of florals from the Floral ephemera pack, some fussy cut mini florals from the A5 paper stack version of Lush Blooms and a handful of other fun ephemera embellishments to bring it all together.

I added the photos printed in black & white 3inch square size to some of the fun aqua Little Blossom paper layered with some of the brilliant blue floral Definitive paper

Here’s a look back at the original layout, full of florals in all shapes sizes and colours.

I replicated the same floral framing in both the top left and bottom right corners of the layout using a mix of flowers. These can be found in the Floral Ephemera pack and the A5 paper version of Lush Blooms. I mixed in some ephemera pieces, enamel dots, butterflies and accessory stickers using a mix of different adhesives for layering heights of dimension.

I added chipboard stars from the Title stickers pack from the collection and some mini puffy alphas to the journal spot on the bottom cluster to create 1 of 2 titles on the layout. Yep you read that right, 2 titles. Is that even a thing?

The larger title on the layout consists of words from the Chipboard Title Stickers pack, a banner cut from an ephemera piece and some accessory word stickers. The perfect combination for a mixed font title.

Once I had all the pieces adhered in place I splattered the entire floral clusters with gold ink, added some extra gold glitter paint dots to fill in some gaps and called it done.

Here’s a final look at the entire layout..

Well friends thats all from me today. I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this little scraplift of mine. Be sure to check out the other floral frenzy pages shared in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community group on Facebook. There’s plenty of inspiration to be found

Thanks so much for stopping by
Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x

Happy Days | Throwback Thursday | Michelle Stokes

Hey Scrappy Friends, It’s Michelle back with you today to share a little Throwback Thursday creation. If you’re not familiar with this theme its where we dip into the archives of our Cocoa Vanilla Studio stash and create something magical with an older collection. Today I chose the Happy Days Collection to brighten up our scrolling time, plus a little walk down memory lane in the photo choice too.

I chose a sweet photo of Leila and I from many many moons ago. We were sharing a sweet moment in my craft room when she requested a selfie.

The layout itself started off quite different to this as I originally didn’t plan on using any white cardstock. I knew I wanted to create a wreath type layout as I haven’t made one in quite some time and they always look so beautiful. As I was moving the floral ephemera pieces around on the beautiful spotted aqua paper (Little Blossom B Side) I thought why not try a heart shape. I drew a rough shape between all the flower clusters, making mental notes for where I wanted them all placed, and then sewed all around the shape multiple times for a little hint of stitched texture.

Next up I worked on sticking all the florals down into the clusters using a mix of pieces from both the Floral and Ephemera packs within the collection. I even added some fussy cut florals and butterflies from the Lush Blooms and Flutterby papers. I mainly used foam double sided tape and tacky glue to piece the clusters together in a layered group

I added the photo in between the clusters using a frame from the Ephemera pack and backed with foam to pop it up off heart.

I used the words Happy Days from the Ephemera pack as my title, with the addition of a word sticker from the Accessory Stickers sheet. The perfect addition of colour to mix with all the bright flowers within this layout

Next I decided that the heart wasn’t standing out as much as I had hoped so I chopped into the background paper. I cut close to the machine stitching, under all the florals that were already adhered to the paper and thankfully was able to keep everything in tact. Once I had this main piece free I adhered it to some white cardstock in the centre of the page, then added all the smaller fussy cut florals around the larger clusters, added some puffy stickers then sprinkled with gold ink and some gold glitter paint in spots.

Here’s a final look at the entire layout, so bright and Happy…

Well friends, thats all from me today. Thanks so much for stopping by.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x

Happy B’Day | Happy Days collection | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone, it’s Sue Plumb here to share another design team project with you. Today I am sharing a layout that has been inspired by our April “Chasing Rainbows” challenge. This month the criteria is to use a BIG rainbow as the main design element of your layout. Now if you know anything about me, you already know I am not great at following rules, which is why anytime I try to follow a sketch I end up somewhere completely different. So it should be no surprise to you that my interpretation of this challenge is a little loose. Here’s what I came up with…

 

I was determined to create a boy page for this challenge, so how do you create a boy rainbow? Simple! You just cut the pink and purple off! I really loved this striped Sunshine Lollipops paper from the ‘Happy Days’ collection so decided to use it as my big feature. I really wanted the colours to pop, so I first added some dark grey acrylic paint to my cardstock for my background. I wanted to keep the paper intact for my main feature, but add some extra interest, so I snipped a little along the line between each colour and used a narrow wooden skewer to help roll the ends up (some I curled a little more than others).

The photo of my boys was taken whilst we were out celebrating their 11th birthday, so using bright colours was perfect for the occasion. As the rainbow was to be the main feature of my page, I didn’t want to mess it up by muddling the colours at all, so I decided to use the tone-on-tone technique for my embellishments.

I used a mix of pieces from the Die Cut Ephemera and Floral Ephemera packs (yes, you CAN have flowers on a boy page!) as well as Accessory Stickers. I placed the embellishments on top of (or as close to) the corresponding colours on the paper and used foam tape to add dimension to some of them.

I really love the effect that using this technique gives, and it makes it super simple to decide where to place things, so putting this page together was a breeze! I finished off the page by adding the Chipboard Title across the top (I ADORE these chipboard titles – the font is so awesome!)

Thanks so much for stopping by today so I could share this with you. I hope I have inspired you to tackle this month’s challenge (who doesn’t love rainbows?!) You can load your entry over in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community group to be in with a chance to win. I can’t wait to see all those rainbows!

Until next time, happy scrapping!

 

Happy Times ! | Happy Days collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends!

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

 

I focused on the aqua, blue and purple tones of the collection and selected my three favorite patterned papers from the A5 paper pack. I drew and cut three scalloped borders, uneven, out of those papers, and aligned them horizontal on a 12×12 white cardstock.

I placed my photo on the right side of the layout, and used two beautiful frames from the ephemera pack, the rectangular one for my journaling and the oval one for a beautiful piece of rainbow that matched my color scheme.

I used the Chipboard Titles for my title and added a little touch of blue on each letter with watercolor paint.

 

I created a floral cluster on the right lower part of my photo and fussy cut a few butterflies that I scattered on the page.

I attached some twine on the first scalloped border as the finishing touch!

 

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

How I love that page, and the Happy Days collection!!

I hope this was inspiring for you,

Thank you for passing by!

Sophie xx

Happy Days | Happy Days Collection | Kel Moore

Hi Everyone, it’s Kel back today to share my next creation with you. I hope you all had a nice relaxing Easter break!

For today’s page, I pulled out one of my favourite collections, Happy Days….I just love the colour palette and icons in this collection. Im documenting a picture of my youngest boy in the swimming pool…here is my page..

I started by using a sunburst stencil with yellow distress oxide, creating a feature on the left side of my page, placing my photo towards the right so the sunburst comes out from behind my photo.

I cut my white cardstock down to 11 inches square and used some black cardstock to create a scalloped border around the edges, then mounted it onto the gorgeous rainbow stripe paper called Sunshine Lollipops.

I mounted my photo multiple times with papers from the A5 paper stack and popped it up on foam tape.

For the embellishments I used a range of different products from the Accessory Sticker Sheet, the Die Cut Ephemera, the cut apart sheets, layering them from the top of the page to the bottom.

For  my title I used the word ‘Happy’ from the Die Cut pack and the word ‘Days’ from the Chipboard Title Stickers, then I added some of the chipboard stars also from the Chipboard Title Stickers.

I hope you found some inspiration today, and I will be back soon for another share.

Take Care

Kel x

Favourites of 2023 | Michelle Stokes

Hey Crafty friends, its Michelle here today with a look back at my favourite layouts created for Cocoa Vanilla Studio this past year. I think in total I’ve made 30+ creations using the wonderful collections of CVS this year, so it was a little tricky to narrow it down to just a few favourites, but here we go..

Lets begin with this magical village creation from March using These Days Collection
I loved creating the rows of houses to build a village. All fussy cut from the Neighbourhood paper. SO much fun!

Next up was this beauty, created back in February  using the Sunkissed Collection and inspired by that months Mood Board Challenge. The bright colours of this collection are still by far my most favourite of all time.

Another rainbow assortment of patterns and colour created in June using the Happy Days Collection. Love me some colour blocking (if thats what you call it) on a layout. Love how this all came together in one magical colour explosion

Lastly one of my more recent layouts in November using the Heart & Home Collection and our sweet fur babies. Another rainbow assortment of patterns and colour, but a little less in your face. The perfect mix of pattern and florals with a mixed font title to finish it off.

Well friends thats all from me today. I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my favourites from the past year, let me know in the comments which one was your fave from the many I’ve shared with you all.

Until next time, Have a safe and fun end to the festive season, and Best Wishes to you for an even happier New Year. Thanks for all the love throughout the years, can’t wait to see what collections we get to play with next year!

Happy Scrapping
Michelle x

2023 Favourite layout | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you for the last time this year sharing my favourite layout created in 2023!

Like some of the other design team members, my favourite layout of this year was created using the gorgeous Happy Days collection! Don’t you think there is something about the rainbow colours in the Happy Days collection that really catches the eye!? I sure do!

So besides the gorgeous colours in the Happy Days collection and placing vertical strips in rainbow order, I wanted to make the strips a little different so I decided to score lines in the strips and then fold them in a concertina fashion to create a zig-zag effect. I love how effective this looks against the white cardstock!

 

Another of my favourite things to do is to embellish my layouts in a tone on tone fashion. I chose co-ordinating embellishments for each colour and added them on top of the strips of paper and also tucked into the top and bottom of the strips as well.  I used lots of various embellishments like puffy shapes, ephemera, puffy fabric hearts and accessory stickers.

I placed my title in the middle along with the gorgeous photo of my niece! Another thing that I love is that photo of my niece! Her outfit was perfect for this collection! I love how the rainbow colours in the collection bring out the colours in her jacket.

Have you got the gorgeous Happy Days collection? If you have, I hope you are inspired to use it up and create some cute projects with it?!

Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog! I hope you have enjoyed the inspiration from myself and my fellow design team members throughout the year? Looking forward to sharing more Cocoa Vanilla projects with you again in the new year!

Merry Christmas and a safe and happy new year to you all!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Year in Review 2023 | Favourite Layouts | Rachel Lowe

Firstly I wish you all a Happy Christmas and a New Year. This year went in a blink of an eye!

I went back through the layouts I have made and have chosen four of my favs I created using all things Cocoa Vanilla Studio!

Heart and Home collection to me was all about Autumn days and family. This layout features my fav photos of my youngest boy and I. As you know I love adding cut files to my layouts and here I used two so add texture and layers.

These Days collection is such a pretty collection and can be used for so many themes. It’s not often that I do mixed media but as here I used several patterned papers I needed to add white and so it wasn’t so stark I add a blue paint wish to it.

Happy Days collection is bright and beautiful. I loved the many colours of the collection. This is a very ‘busy’ layout for me but I love how it came together and everything about this layout says ‘HAPPY’.

This was a throw back Thursday layout I created this year and having three sons I just can’t go by a fab boy collection and No Limits is that. How awesome is this pie graph cut file! I cut two at different sizes and then layered, love the effect of the light against the dark paper.

Thank you for all your love on social media and also sharing your wonderful layouts!

See you in 2024!

Rachel X

Gift Bag and Gift Card Holder | Happy Days | Rachel Lowe

Hello CVS friends, Rachel here! So before we start on Christmas creating I have. my mothers birthday in December so I created this gift bag and gift card holder using the beautiful Happy Days collection.

These cut files can be found in the Silhouette Design store. They are easy to put together and are perfect for female gift wrapping.

Starting with the gift bag after cutting the hearts I added machine stitching to add definition and texture. I added each heart layer with foam tape to add more dimension which would also allow me to add embellishments in each layer.

I have used Rainbow Bright, Definitive and Flutterby papers for the bag.

You can see that I added lots of die cuts from the die cut ephemera and floral ephemera pack. I used a wet glue so there was no risk of them falling off. I added HAPPY with foam tape to add more dimension. I added centres to the flowers using the puffy stickers and added some hearts also.

I used the chipboard titles to add ‘Happy Days’ on the handle of the bag and again I used wet glue to ensure they were secure. How cute does it look!

This purse gift card holder goes perfectly with the gift bag and is so easy to put together.

I used Lush Blooms paper and the trim Flutterby paper. I then simply added some florals, enamel dots, a butterfly die cut and chipboard words.

On the inside I used the accessory sticker sheet to add a writing space and word sentiment.

Happy Days collection is perfect to make off the page projects! I love how these turned out.

Thank you for stopping by and see you again soon.

Rachel x

Cutie Pie | Happy Days Collection | Rachel Lowe

It’s been a while since I have created with Happy Days collection and as I revisited the collection I knew I had to create a layout inspired by the strawberry paper Lush Blooms ,strawberry side!

This fabulous Cutie Pie cut file is from the Silhouette Design store. I didn’t want a stark white background so used the mixed media effect paper Juicy Fruit. To add another layer I cut some hearts and added randomly my page using Definitive paper, I think the dark blue makes a wonderful contrast against the more subtle colours of the layout.

I added my title letters with foam tape so I would be able to tuck elements under and over, it also creates dimension which when using a larger word title is important so your layout does not appear ‘flat’. I added a floral cluster which I tucked under the ‘C’ letter using the floral die cut ephemera. I added die cut ephemera strawberries over the letters.

To the opposite side I created another floral cluster, I added centres to the flowers using the round pieces of the puffy stickers. I added a die cut cloud to the top of my page, adding with foam tape so I could tuck a turquoise puffy heart behind it.

I chose a 3.5×3.5 inch photo which I matted on a paper from the A5 paper pad. I added this with foam tape, and finished of with a tab from the accessory sticker sheet which I added two puffy stickers and a phrase sentiment banner from the die cut pack.

I just love the dark pink/red strawberries and butterfly added on top of the title cut file, it just makes it ‘pop’. I added some finishing touches such as more puffy hearts, a word sentiment and layering the ‘I’ with paper cut hearts.

This layout definitely has a summer feel and this colour combo is a big yes for me. Also perfect colours to make a black and white photo stand out!

As always, thank you for stopping by and see you again in December, just over a month to Christmas!!!!

Rachel X

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