heart and home

You are beautiful | Heart & Home Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello, hello! It’s Anna here with my first ever project made with brand new “Heart & Home” collection. Fall is slowly coming to the northern hemisphere and this line will be just perfect for all of my pictures taken in September and October. However, before trees will hange their colors and I will decorate my home with pumpkins, I decided to scrapbook photo of my beautiful daughter, taken during our summer travels. This collection is versatile enough to be able to scrapbook with it almost any theme.

I just love the new floral Specialty Printed Vellum and I knew I need to use it right away! As it’s a semi transparent material, it looks best on light or white background. Pattern papers may alter colors of the print, creating new and unwanted shades on your project. I grabbed my small scissors and spend some time fussy cutting flowers and leaves out of it.

I chose white 12*12 paper sheet and applied a little bit of color using brick stencil and Spun Sugar Distress Oxide ink. I wanted to create very subtle background in the area where my composition will be. After it was done, I was ready to start adding flowers.

I combined them with another amazing product – Titles With Gold Foil! They are so pretty so I turned them into the part of my composition, picking the ones that match the photo. They all describe my daughter. Each one is glued with a layer of foam adhesive to add more dimension to my project. In between the words, I added my vellum flowers. You need to remember to use a proper adhesive to mount them as wet glue will make vellum curl and it will not look good. I used a glue dots.

I didn’t use any pattern paper while making this page. Titles and vellum florals are the main decoration here. I also reached for some Die Cut Ephemeras to add more defined splashes of colors. Everything is finished with cute and tiny Puffy Stickers.

First layout of new collection is always a “test project” for me and I need to discover my favorite patterns and elements. I already have few more ideas  for “Heart & Home” collection and I can’t wait to share them with you! It’s all for today. Thank you so much for spending your precious time with me and see you in two weeks!

XO

Anna

Beautiful place | Heart and Home | Josefine Van der Hoeven

 

Hello Paperlovers, Welcome to today’s Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog for some fresh Scrapbook inspiration! I’ve chosen the latest collection called “Heart and Home.” What a delightful collection, perfect for cozy autumn moments and family nature adventures. I wanted to document this photo of my daughter and me high up in the mountains in Austria, and the “Heart and Home” collection is a perfect fit. When we’re in the mountains, it truly feels like coming home. Every year, we climb to the eternal snow. We had so much fun. It’s essential to me to capture these unique moments like this one.

 

 

I’m starting with a white cardstock paper as the base of my layout. I’m using a dark blue distress oxide called “faded jeans.” I apply the ink with a damp sponge, dabbing it onto the white cardstock paper until I’m happy with the mixed media background. I also splatter some extra blue ink with a brush for a playful effect. I choose two sheets of design paper, cut them to size, and place them behind the photo. I try to match the colors of the design paper with the photo, opting for a blue and brown shade and I position the photo in the center of the layout.

 

 

Now it’s time to create clusters, and I carefully select various flower die-cuts for the clusters. I use 3D foam for the clusters to make the flowers stand out beautifully on the blue mixed media background. For the title, “Beautiful Place,” I use gold foil word die-cuts. These match perfectly with the stunning colors in the collection. I place the title partially over the photo and between the two flower clusters. I complement the title with a lovely word die-cut, “with you I am home,” and playfully position two fallen leaves. I embellish my layout with adorable blue puffy hearts. I fussy cut a few butterflies from the patterned paper and give them a place between the flowers. From the vellum, I cut out some additional flowers and place them between the flower clusters. I’m already a fan of these beautiful vellum flowers!

 

 

I splatter a bit of white gesso, and my layout is ready. I hope I’ve been able to inspire you with this mixed media layout and look forward to seeing you next time on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog. Wishing you a creative and wonderful day!

XoXo, Jo

 

 

 

Gather Together Layout | Heart & Home | Niki Rowland

Hi everyone, this is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) and on this scrapbook layout I have used the new beautiful Heart & Home collection to create a design with circles, stencilling and a cute little sequin shaker pocket out of a piece of ephemera. There is a process video for this layout which can be found lower down.

I started with the beautiful Flurry paper which is dark blue with multicoloured leaves on one side, and has a multicoloured check on the other side. Of course I loved both sides! I cut some circles and positioned these onto a white background together with some patterned paper stripes too.

I made a sequin shaker pocket out of the wreath from the Die Cut Ephemera. I cut a piece of white card to back the wreath with, and cut a piece of acetate the same size. I then machine stitched the two pieces together trapping some sequins inside. I then added the wreath ephemera on top of the sequin pocket – it looks so cute!

I embellished the layout with Floral Ephemera and also added a small amount of stencilling around my circles and photos using a sun beam style stencil.

For my title I used one of the gorgeous Gold Titles ‘gather’ and then added the word ‘together’ using the Mini Puffy Alphabet Stickers.

I finished off with puffy heart stickers and splatters of white paint!

Thank you so much for joining me today and happy scrapping

Niki xx

@nikiclairecreates

Happy | Heart & Home collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you to share a new scrapbook layout featuring the gorgeous new Heart & Home collection! This collection is so gorgeous and perfect for documenting outdoor themed projects as well as thankful, home and Autumn/Fall themed projects! Heck its suitable for any type of project really!

I am documenting a recent photo taken on an adventure with my love. I take photos of us every chance I get!

I started by choosing an Autumn Leaf cut file from CUT to YOU and cut this out from plain white cardstock. I did resize it down slightly and then cut it out. I then adhered the cut file to the yellow/mustard coloured paper from the A5 paper stack. I fussy cut around the edges and then placed it to the side while I created the rest of the layout. I took a plain sheet of white cardstock, as I mostly start with, I took the ‘Flurry paper’ ( I love this paper!!) and tore it in half horizontally. I then adhered this to the top half of the white cardstock, I did leave the adhesive off the bottom  in case I decided to tuck anything at the bottom, which I did decide to do. I cut the bottom strip of rainbow diagonal stripes off the bottom of the ‘Gather paper’ and adhered this piece down.

Once the strip was adhered, you can see in the close up photo above that I rolled the edges of the tear part of the ‘Flurry paper’ to add some texture to my page and to reveal the paper on the other side, I love how this paper blends in with the diagonal stripes perfectly. I took the cut file that I finished earlier and using craft foam underneath for dimension, I adhered it overlapping the papers on the page and slightly over to the right hand side to leave some room on the left side for a title and some embellishments. I then placed my photo right on top of the cut file, I love how this adds an extra layer between the background and the photo. On top of the photo I adhered a phrase die-cut piece from the Ephemera pack and tucked in at the top the heart speech bubble die-cut. I cut some of the banner pieces from the ‘Gather paper’ and adhered one on the right hand side, tucked in behind the cut file and the other on the left hand side, underneath the sticker that says, ‘Another Perfect Moment Captured’ from the Accessory Sticker Sheet.

I also adhered the Simple Joys circle die-cut from the Ephemera Pack using craft foam on the right hand side and took a small phrase sticker and placed this above the circle die-cut. My title is one of the gorgeous gold foiled cardstock titles, I chose the word ‘Happy’ and adhered this to the left of my photo using craft foam to add some more dimension. I also added a few more of the small black and white word and phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker Sheet around my page. I love to add these to my layouts as I do not journal all that much on my pages, adding these helps to tell the story of the photo and capture the moment a bit more. Next I took some of the leaves from the Floral Ephemera pack and tucked in a few of these around the cut file to extend on the cut file and bring the Autumn leaves from the paper above down to the bottom of the layout. I love how these look tucked in all around the cut file.

The Puffy Stickers are just SOOO beautiful so they definitely had to be added to my layout too! I placed most of these down amongst the Autumn Leaf die-cuts, placing some of the circle ones tucked under leaves and the heart ones out for all to see! Lastly stamped the date stamp as I always do and then I added some sprinkles of Gold Heidi Swapp Colour Shine.

I love the detail, the design, the dimension and the collection! It is SO easy to work with and you too can create pretty projects!

Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! Make sure to get your hands on the gorgeous Heart & Home collection!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Press Pause On This Moment | Heart and Home | Kellie Moore

Hello Everyone!

Kel here today to share my second page using the brand new ‘Heart and Home’ collection. For this layout I am documenting the moment my twin boys got to meet their brand new baby brother…

To start my page I decided to use this cutfile from Peartree Cutfiles… I thought it was a perfect title to go with these photos. I used 4 different papers to back it….  Framed, Bountiful, Leaf Litter and Harvest.

Next, I decided I wanted to make the title pop more on my page so I used the gorgeous yellow paper called ‘Gather’.. I love how this brightened up my title.

I  had 2 pictures I wanted to use on my page so I placed them along the top of my title and one down on the right hand side.

I had a big space in the top right corner so I used some of the houses found in the collection….one from the ephemera pack and 2 cut from the ‘Gather’ paper. I also used a frame and tab also from the ephemera pack.

I backed my photos with papers from the A5 paper stack and used some pieces from the ephemera pack and Accessory Sticker Sheet..

To finish my page, I added a bunch of florals which I cut from the ‘Bountiful’ paper and added some of the word phrases from the Accessory Sticker Sheet..

That’s my page for today, I hope you are inspired with this beautiful new collection, I can’t wait to see what everyone makes with it!

Happy Creating!

Kel x

 

 

 

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