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Good Times | Heart & Home collection | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here today to share a new layout featuring the stunningly beautiful Heart & Home collection. On this layout I documented a couple of photos of my hubby and I that were taken when we visited a winery recently in Mudgee. We had such a lovely time wine tasting and then having a picnic on the grounds of the winery. The colours in the Heart & Home collection  complemented my photos beautifully, so it was the perfect choice for scrapbooking these photos.

I started with the Golden Fields and the Fall Beauty patterned papers. I cut them both in half diagonally and then adhered them together to create my background. When creating a background like this, it’s best to make sure that one of the patterned papers has a less busy patterned so that your background doesn’t become too busy and overwhelm your photos. Next I matted my photos with the woodgrain paper from the A5 Paper Stack and adhered them at an angle along the join between the two background papers.

Because the background already added so much interest to the page, I wanted to keep the embellishing fairly simple. I decided on adding two floral clusters which were positioned again along that diagonal to draw the viewer’s eye down the page and through the photos. I used a combination of florals that I fussy cut out of the Bountiful paper, along with Die Cut and Floral Ephemera. I used foam tape to give the clusters some dimension and I avoided adding adhesive to the leaves so that they would lift nicely off the page.

I kept to a warm colour palette on this page, choosing the reds, pinks and oranges, and making sure to repeat these colours in both clusters to keep them looking balanced. By tucking some flowers under the edge of the photo, and adding others on top, it helps to give the cluster some extra dimension and interest. I also finished off both clusters with some Puffy Stickers.

For my title I couldn’t go past using the gorgeous Gold Foil Titles! I chose the phrase ‘Good Times’ and tucked the words in to the right of the photos. There are so many words in the pack, it makes it so easy to add beautiful titles to your pages! And who doesn’t love a touch of gold?!

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today! I’ll be back next month with some more inspiration.

Mandy x

Thankful | Heart and Home | Josefine Van der Hoeven

Hello Paperlovers,

Welcome to a world of creativity and memories as we explore the wonderful “Heart and Home” collection designed by Cocoa Vanilla Studio. In this scrapbook blog, we’ll take a look of my layout that’s all about gratitude. We’ll talk about how we added a touch of playfulness to our frames using floss and sequins, created a beautiful flower and branch cluster as the center of attention and I used a golden ephemera word for our title, and scattered some charming butterflies around the flower cluster.

 

 

 

Cocoa Vanilla’s “Heart and Home” is a gorgeous collection. It comes in beautiful colors and designs that make you feel warm and cozy, just like home. Whether you’re scrapbooking family moments or everyday joys, this collection is perfect for capturing those precious memories.

 

 

 

My layout has a unique twist when it comes to frames. Instead of regular frames, we decided to get playful by adding floss and sequins to them. It’s a bit unconventional, but it makes our photos stand out and gives them a bit of extra sparkle. These playful touches make my memories even more special.

 

 

I absolutely love the big cluster of flowers and branches. It’s like a little garden right on this page! This eye-catching arrangement is the center of attention, and it represents the beauty and growth that comes from being thankful. We used different sizes, colors, and textures of flowers to make it look really interesting and three-dimensional.

 

 

To add a bit of fun and whimsy, I cut out some butterflies from the patterned paper and scattered them around our flower cluster. Butterflies are a symbol of transformation and freedom, and they remind us of the joy that comes from gratitude. They’re like little sparks of happiness on our page!

Scrapbooking is all about capturing moments and telling stories, and my layout does just that with the help of Cocoa Vanilla’s “Heart and Home” collection. I’ve shown you how I added playful frames, a beautiful flower cluster, a shiny golden title, and some whimsical butterflies to make my memories even more special.

I hope this layout inspires you to get creative and have fun with your scrapbooking projects. Remember, each page is a piece of your heart and a story worth telling.

XoXo, Jo

 

Love This Autumn Scrapbooking Layout using Heart & Home

Hey everyone! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) and here is my latest creation with the beautiful Heart & Home collection. I have made a process video too, which is below.  I love gingham and check prints so was drawn to the check side of Flurry paper. I cut it into squares by following the lines on the paper and then layered these up in diamond formations onto a white background.

I added in additional squares but with the other side of the paper showing, I love that dark blue. I mounted my photo and placed this on the bottom diamond.

I added floral clusters using Floral Ephemera and the Die Cut Ephemera. I pinch the flowers first to give them some curl and then also raise them on foam pads too so there is lots of dimension.

I added a title using the gorgeous Gold Title Ephemera ‘love this’ but I also wanted to include a sub title ‘ticket to ride’ which I did using the Mini Puffy Alphabet Stickers – these are so cute and great for titles and subtitles.

I added some cut apart words from the Golden Fields paper manufacturing strip, all of which I distressed the edges and raised up on foam pads.

I finished off by adding my journaling, and some Puffy Stickers, as well as some splatters of white paint.

Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates


So Thankful | Heart & Home collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout created using the gorgeous Heart & Home collection. For this project, I have taken inspiration from the beautiful October mood board. I have documented an Autumn photo of myself amongst some fallen leaves, I love how my photo goes perfectly with this collection.

October Mood Board

The inspiration I took from the mood board was mostly from the centre image, I decided to replicate the woodgrain circle but added a few other layers of papers underneath to add some interest and to include some more colours. Naturally the colours from the mood board match perfectly with the Heart & Home collection.  I placed most of the elements to the right of the circle also like in the centre image of the mood board.

I created the circles from 3 different papers including the Harvest paper, the Gather paper and the Framed paper. I used the ‘B’ sides of each of each of these papers. I traced 3 different sized dinner plates and free hand cut them out. Once they were cut out, I adhered them layered on top of each other onto some white cardstock and then bent up the edges to add some texture. I trimmed the white cardstock down to measure approximately 11′ x 11′. I then adhered it to the ‘B’ side of the Bountiful patterned paper. Once adhered, I machine-stitched a border around the edges to add some texture.

I layered a paper from the A5 paper stack underneath my photo and adhered it to the right side of the layout using craft foam to add dimension. I layered a frame from the ephemera pack on the left side of the photo and also some small flowers from the floral ephemera pack. On the right of the photo, I added lots of the gorgeous florals also from the floral ephemera pack. If you look closely at the florals, I have added some of the puffy stickers to the centres of the florals also. My title is made up of the gorgeous gold foil cardstock words, I chose the words ‘So Thankful’ and adhered it to the bottom of the photo using craft foam.

To balance out the heaviness of the right side of the layout, I created a cluster of embellishments that mostly included some more of the gorgeous florals. I adhered some flat and adhered some with craft foam to create different heights and dimension. I did add a die-cut that said ‘Everyday Beauty’ here also. Some more phrases were added too including the Happiness Is Homemade banner that I added under the title and the Moment Captured banner die-cut that I adhered on top of the photo. I also added the Joyful Days sticker from the Accessory sticker sheet just above the title. Lastly I added some of the puffy hearts around the page, stamped the date stamp and sprinkled some white mist around.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today. I hope I have inspired you to pull out your Heart & Home collection and create with it. Make sure to join in our October mood board challenge and submit your project on our Facebook Page!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Love this Kid | Heart & Home Collection | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here today to share another layout featuring the gorgeous new Heart & Home collection. I absolutely love the beautiful colours in this collection and how versatile it is! For my layout today I chose to document some photos of my son from a day that we spent getting out in nature together.

I started my layout with the striped Harvest paper as my background.  On top of that I layered a piece of the woodgrain Framed paper which gave a neutral area for me to add my photos and title. Down the left hand side of the page I created a border by layering the Fall Beauty and the Leaf Litter papers and finishing it off with a punched honeycomb border.

To give some extra interest to the photos, and to help them stand out from the background, I added some patterned paper layers behind them. I also adhered the photos at a slight angle which gives the layout a more whimsical feel rather than being too structured.

When it was time for embellishing, I couldn’t resist fussy cutting some of the beautiful floral clusters out of the Bountiful patterned paper. I added the first cluster in the top left hand corner of the page, layering some smaller florals from the Die Cut Ephemera pack with it, as well as a small banner sticker to finish it off.

Next I added another floral cluster in the bottom right hand corner of the page. This balances out the first cluster and gives the layout a diagonal flow, drawing the viewer’s eye down through the photos. In this cluster I again used more fussy cut florals, as well as a journaling piece from the die cut ephemera pack.

For my title, I took inspiration from the ‘Family’ die cut pieces in the ephemera pack. I love that each letter is a different colour, and decided to create a similar style title using some metal alphabet dies from my stash. I cut each letter out of a patterned papers from the A5 Paper Stack and combined it with Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers. The title ‘Love this Kid’ seemed like the perfect sentiment for these photos!

I finished the layout off with a couple more stickers and the ‘Together is Better’ piece that I fussy cut out of the Gather patterned paper.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today. I hope that you enjoyed taking a look at my layout and found some inspiration!

Mandy x

Walking into fall | Heart & Home Layout| Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with my newest layout, made with brand new “Heart & Home” collection. I am a big fan of fall projects and this line is just perfect for making one (or two :) ). Autumn is just starting to appear this year and leaves are still green but I had a perfect picture from my last year walk in the forest. Sun was low and it was shining through the leaves and tree trunks creating beautiful halo and rays. It looked so magical, like straight from the fairy tale. I snapped few photos enjoying this little wonder of nature.

I knew I wanted to use many pattern papers in this project making die cut leaves. I chose nine different patterns in brown, red-ish, orange, yello and green colors. Some of them are 12*12 papers like “Bountiful”, “Leaf litter”, “Fall beauty” and “Gather” and some are from A5 Paper Stack.

After cutting leaves  I added some Distress Oxide inks on the white backgroud creating strips of color, that blend together. It’s a sort of fall halfrainbow. With the background done, I could add leaves using color on color technique. I only applied glue in the middle, and run through the rows with sewing machine and white thread. This way I was sure my leaves will stay in place.

My title is a mix of Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers and letters from word “family”, you can find in Ephemera Pack. I used original F, A and L letters and created second L using first one as a stencil.

At this point my layout was already colorful and full of texture so I only added few embellishments. I searched through Ephemera Pack to fing all the fall related elements and placed them color on color, highlighting the stripes. I found mugs, some leaves and few inscriptions. I also reached for 6*12 Accesory Stickers to embellish area around the photo.

Final step was adding tiny, cute Puffy Stickers, also using color on color technique. Creating this page was so much fun and a perfect combination of mixed media products and paper embellishments. My favourite kind of layout.

That is all for today! Thank you so much for spending your precious time with me. See you in October!

XO Anna

Celebrate Layout with Layered Hearts | Heart & Home |Niki Rowland

Hi everyone, this is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) here today with a new layout and video. Do you like layers on your scrapbook layouts?  On this layout I have used lots of different patterns from the Heart & Home A5 Paper stack to cut lots of hearts in different sizes. I love doing this as it means I get to use lots of patterns on one page!

I started off by cutting multiple hearts – I did this using metal nesting dies and my Big Shot. I then spent some time layering the hearts together, I also distressed the edges of each one before sticking them together. I arranged the hearts down the right side of my layout, on the edge of a large square of the Fall Beauty patterned paper, pink heart side. Once I was happy with the positioning of the hearts, I stuck them to the pink square and then trimmed around them. I added the pink square and layered hearts to a white piece of card for my background. I then added some machine stitching: through the middle of all the hearts and around the edge of the pink square.

I then added my photo, which I framed using a piece of Die Cut Ephemera and I also added a title using one of the Gold Titles ‘celebrate’ because in the photo we were out for my daughter’s birthday.

I kept the rest of the layout embellishments fairly simple as I didn’t want to overpower the stacked design so I just added a few pieces of Floral Ephemera, a few phrases from the Die Cut Ephemera and a few Puffy Hearts. I finished off with a few splatters of gold paint.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing this layout, have a happy scrappy day! My process video is below if you would like to watch how it came together!

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Beautiful Family | Heart & Home collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout featuring the gorgeous Heart & Home collection! I don’t know about you but I have loads of special family photos that I have to document. The Heart & Home collection is so perfect to use to document family photos. I have added 3 photos to this layout and although they are small, they get the memories documented. These photos are of my 2 sons with their 2 younger girl cousins who they ADORE.

I absolutely love the ‘B’ side of the Golden Fields paper with the typewriter looking phrases and I knew I wanted to use that piece as the background for my layout. I trimmed this piece down to approximately 11′ x 11′ and then adhered it to the ‘B’ side of the Leaf Litter paper. I then cut out the blue 3′ x 4′ card in the top right corner of the Gather paper. I got out my craft knife and cut out the centre of the frame so I could place a photo behind it. I also took the die-cut frame with the 2 spaces from the ephemera pack and placed small photos behind them.

I took several more pieces out of the ephemera pack that I thought would suit my photos including the tag, the ‘Our Story’ journal card, the floral wreath and the Family title. I started to arrange these on the page, deciding on a rounded horizontal look. For elements that I wanted to stand out and make a statement on the page I adhered using craft foam to add shadows and dimension. I will admit I had some ‘help’ in deciding what to add in the centre – I walked away from my page for a little while, when I came back, my man had been adding bits and pieces to it for me! What a gem! He added the small family die-cut and the wreath in the centre for me. I loved it that much so I just went with it! How do you think he did? Once I had the horizontal design arranged and glued down how I liked it, I started to add other smaller embellishments.

For my title I took one of the gorgeous Gold Foiled die-cut titles for the title pack and adhered this at the top using craft foam. I then took the individual letters that spell ‘Family’ from the ephemera pack and adhered these at the bottom of the design also using craft foam. I also layered a phrase sticker from the Accessory Sticker Sheet over the top of these letters. Under the letters I added an arrow die-cut as well. With the tag, I added some twine and tied it in a bow through the hole in the top, I love adding some sort of texture to my layouts, usually it is ribbon or twine or something like that. I absolutely HAD to add some gorgeous florals from the floral ephemera pack, I mostly tucked these into the top corners at each end of the tag and journal card.

Some of the final touches to my layout are the puffy heart stickers (love these!) some more phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker Sheet and a few smaller die-cuts from the ephemera pack. I cut out a small piece from the Gather paper and adhered this piece above the Beautiful title. I love tucking things in here and there – as you can probably see! Lastly I stamped the date stamp of when the photos were taken as I always do.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope I have inspired you to get creating with your Heart & Home collection! If you haven’t already got this gorgeous collection, you REALLY NEED IT! It’s sooo pretty!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Families Are Like Fudge | Heart and Home | Kellie Moore

Hello and welcome back everyone. It’s Kellie here today sharing another page using the new Heart and Home collection.

Today I am documenting some silly family pics …here is my page…

I recently saw a cut file from Kelly Made It on her blog which reminded me of some of the stitched icons found in this collection and I thought it would work perfectly with this range so I chose matching embroidery threads and made them a feature on my page… love how this worked out.

I used the paper called ‘Harvest’ with the stripes to add to the top of my page and another smaller strip to the bottom… I love how this brings in all the colours of this collection. I then bought in a strip of the woodgrain paper called ‘Framed‘ to separate the stripes from the stitching.

I placed my 3 photos vertically down the right side of my page and popped them on the ‘Gather’ paper, distressing the edges to give some dimension. I also added some of the cut aparts also from the ‘Gather’ paper to add to my photos.

Next I worked on my title. I cut out a frame from the ‘Framed’ paper and used the ‘Mini Puffy Alphabet Stickers’ to add my title. I popped the frame up on foam pads to add dimension then added some florals which were cut from the ‘Bountiful’ paper to tuck in behind the frame.

I hope you found some inspiration today and pop back regularly to see what the Design Team has been working on.

Stay Creative!

Kel x

Together | Heart and Home | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here with you today and I’m so excited to be sharing my first layout using the stunning new Heart and Home collection! I absolutely adore the soft muted colours and lovely ‘homely’ feel of this collection. For my first layout, I decided to document a recent photo of my hubby and kids taken on Fathers Day.

As this layout is focused on my hubby on Fathers Day, I decided to give it a bit more of a masculine feel by narrowing the colour palette down to the blues, greens and browns in the collection. I chose four of the patterned papers – Harvest, Golden Fields, Leaf Litter and Fall Beauty – and cut each into a large triangle before piecing them together to create my background. I matted my photo with the woodgrain patterned paper from the A5 Paper Stack and adhered it in the middle of the page using craft foam to help it ‘pop’ off the page.

To embellish the layout I created three floral clusters which create a visual triangle and help to draw the viewer’s eye to the photo. The first cluster underneath the photo includes some flowers and sprigs from the Floral Ephemera pack, as well as a label sticker that I added the date to, and a die cut phrase. I also fussy cut an acorn and leaf from the Leaf Litter paper to add to the cluster. Underneath the photo I added a sub-title using the sweet Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers.

Next I created a cluster to the left of the photo. Again I used Floral and Die Cut Ephemera, and the same colours that I used in the first cluster. To create some dimension in the cluster, I tucked some elements underneath the photo and adhered some overlapping the edge of the photo.

I created a third and final cluster at the top of the page using similar pieces that I’d used in the first two clusters. By repeating colours and elements throughout each of the embellishment clusters it helps to make the layout feel cohesive and balanced. I also finished off each cluster with a Puffy heart Sticker. Above the photo I added my title using one of the stunning words from the Gold Titles pack and underneath the title I added a final finishing touch with a tiny word sticker that says ‘family is everything’.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today. I hope that you enjoyed taking a look at my layout featuring the beautiful new Heart and Home collection!

Mandy x

 

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