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Joyful | Joyful collection | Tarrah McLean

Tarrah McLean 13/12/2023

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new Christmas layout featuring the gorgeous Joyful collection!

I have documented another gorgeous photo of my niece from a Christmas photo shoot when she was younger, I just love this photo so much! The Joyful collection was perfect for this photo with the super cute animal icons, I was able to add the adorable reindeer, bird, squirrel and rabbit.

I chose the ‘B’ side of the Deck the Halls patterned paper for my background, I love the teal and stars on this paper! I trimmed it down and adhered it to a plain sheet of white cardstock and then added machine stitched border around the edges. At the top of the page, I placed one of the blank rectangle stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet and layered some puffy stickers over the top. I wanted to make a large cluster in the centre of my page and decided to first choose a Cambridge doily to lay down first, I love the softness and texture that this brings to the layout. I then layered some of the 3′ x 4′ journal cards under the photo and adhered these down on top of the doily using craft foam to add dimension. At the top of the journal cards, I added my Joyful title from the gold puffy titles. These are sooo gorgeous! I love the different word choices and that you can mix it up if you want to! I placed one of the glitter gold stars and one of the banner puffy stickers!

From the Very Merry patterned paper, I cut out the Magical Moments phrase and adhered it below the photo and I placed one of the word stickers from the Accessory Sticker Sheet above the photo. On the right of the photo, I added some embellishments including the round journal spot from the Accessory Sticker Sheet, a stocking from the chipboard set, some candy canes in die-cuts and puffy stickers, the super cute bunny puffy sticker and one of the lovely epoxy wood buttons.

On the left of the photo, I placed the gorgeous reindeer chipboard piece and layered both a star and a bird puffy sticker. I love to layer embellishments on top of other embellishments! I also tucked in behind the reindeer, another candy cane die-cut and placed one of the glitter gold fabric stars too. Did you spot the pretty sprinkles of gold and white over the page? That was done using gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine and some white mist is by Dylusions. I just unscrewed the cap off the top and lightly shook the nozzle to add the sprinkles.

Under the photo, I tucked in one of the tags from the Accessory sticker sheet and tied a bow with some twine through the hole. I also placed more phrase and word stickers from the Accessory sticker sheet and also the cute squirrel sticker too. I also placed some of the small puffy stickers here as well. Such small details can really make a big impact on a page, although sometimes small embellishments are subtle, they really can make a difference to a page.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you are inspired to get crafting with your Cocoa Vanilla Christmas collections!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Joyful Moments | Joyful Collection | Michelle Stokes

Michelle Stokes 10/02/2022

Hello Hello! It’s Michelle here today with a new layout share for part of out current ‘Scrap lift’ theme. All of the CVS Design Team have been tasked with recreating something we’ve made and shared in a past blog post, and for mine I’ve taken a little walk down memory lane to recreate a layout from September 2020.

The ‘Joyful Moment’ I’ve chosen to document of Leila is her awesome reaction to receiving a present at Christmas just gone. It’s something she had been asking for almost all of last year and was the last present she opened from us on Christmas Day. The Joyful collection has been the best Christmas themed collection for scrapping memories of late, and I’m absolutely loving creating with it each time I do.

Here’s a look at the layout I was inspired to recreate…

The original layout has a mixed media pattern paper background, cut file from CUT to YOU, title over the right side of the hanging pieces of cut file and multiple clusters of sweet sweet Cocoa Vanilla goodness.

For the new layout I chose a similar design in the CUT to YOU store, this one has a bunch of stars hanging from strings rather than the hearts. I backed each star piece with pattern papers from both the A5 paper stack and a couple of the 12×12 papers.

I used a background that I made a few weeks back that matched in with the colours really well. This was made using inks, water and the plastic packaging technique. I added the cutfile directly over the top using foam tape for slight dimension, then gave the entire layout a border using the pretty pink ‘Feeling Festive’ paper. The red pattern paper the each photo is adhered to can be found in the A5 paper stack.

I started my clusters with a bunch of fussy cut florals from both the 12×12 and A5 versions of the ‘Tis the Season‘ paper, layering in with some offcuts of the cut file I used on a layout I created a couple weeks back, some accessory word stickers and gold puffy stars from the ‘glitter puffy stars‘ pack and gold puffy sticker title pack.

In the top right hand side, to the left of the photo, I added another cluster using similar elements to the first. All clusters use a mix of adhesive to form different layers. This helps give the layout dimension rather than keeping it flat

I added the title to the bottom right group of stars on the cut file. I used the awesome Gold Puffy titles, which are part of the Joyful Collection Bundle available in the CVS Store. The banner below is from the ephemera pack.

You can also see I’ve added stitching around the edges of the layout which also helped to secure the cardstock stars from the cut file remnants

Top left of the layout was the last piece of the layout to some together. Again using elements similar to those in the other 2 clusters plus a chipboard piece.

I really enjoyed bringing this layout together, even the many fussy cut pieces I needed to make those clusters pop. I hope you’ve enjoyed what I created, and look forward to see what the rest of the team creates over the next week or so.

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

Michelle x

My Joy | Joyful Collection | Rachel Lowe

Rachel Lowe 21/01/2022

Hello CVS friends! I set myself the challenge of using Joyful for a non Christmas layout. And here is what I created a baby themed layout.

I firstly used a cut file to create my background of pop up flowers (Silhouette Design store). I cut my white card stock down to 11x 11 inches and then backed the pop up flowers and created a border by using the Feeling Festive paper.

Once I had my background created I set about choosing embellishments from the collection that could be used for my baby theme. I also fussy cut flowers from the Tis the Season paper

My photo is 6×4 inches portrait and I used papers from the 6×8 inch paper pad which keeps those 12×12 inch papers for larger projects. I chose very typical baby colours of a gingham pink and baby green. My photo was added with foam tape to add height. I created a flower cluster embellishment to the left of my photo, adding some die cut leaves finishing off with the adorable bunny die cut.

I used one of the die cut frames to create another embellishment cluster on the opposite side. I fussy cut the two deers from one of the Pocket Cards and added with foam tape on top of the due cut frame. I also added a heart wood epoxy button

I created my title My Joy using the Puffy Gold Title Stickers and adding a subtitle using one of the phrase sentiments from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I added a glitter heart and die cut bird to finish off.

I added some finishing touches to my layout, tucking another fussy cut flowers under the deer embellishment cluster and some stars from the Chipboard Stickers

And there you have it a non Christmas layout using a Christmas collection!

Thank you for stopping by today and see you agin soon!

Rachel X

3D Christmas Crackers and Gift Tags | Joyful Collection| Rachel Lowe

Rachel Lowe 21/12/2021

Hello CVS friends, well the Christmas countdown is almost done and today I have some quick and easy gift tags and Christmas crackers created using the new Joyful collection!

I love Christmas wrapping and making my gifts extra special. I use brown paper and then decorate with my tags and ribbon. I used the 6×8 Joyful paper pad to create these, I love the smaller prints of these papers which are perfect for smaller items. My tags are 3×4 inches which gives you enough space to decorate.

On two of my tags I created a 3d heart so you can add a note inside, this cut file is from the Silhouette design store. I chose my colour hues so they coordinated but also provided a contrast against my brown paper wrapping. I used a mix of Joyful die cut ephemera, chipboard and puffy stickers to decorate. The puffy stickers are perfect when you are creating smaller paper crafts.

I created a sequin shaker on the third tag. I used the Christmas tree shaped sequin shaker dome by Sizzix, they are cheap and so easy to use! I filled mine with a sequin mix I made by combining numerous sequins from my stash.

See how perfect the puffy stickers are for decorating the Christmas tree finished off with a glitter star and wooden flair.

I used a cut file from SVG cuts to create my crackers, I love the heart opening/closing ends. These are big enough to add sweet treats or small gifts.

These tags and gift crackers are so cute and Joyful is a wonderful modern Christmas collection that can be used for more then just scrapbook layouts.

I wish you all a wonderful and safe Christmas with family and friends. I can’t wait to share more inspiration with you in 2022!

Rachel X

Merry & Bright Layout | Joyful Collection | Rachel Lowe

Rachel Lowe 07/12/2021

Hello CVS friends today I have a sweet layout to share with you! This is my second share using the gorgeous Joyful collection, its such an easy collection to use as everything coordinates so beautifully!

I have only used 1 12×12 paper for this layout, all my other papers are from the 6×8 inch paper pad. I wanted to use the striped paper as my base paper so it would include all the colours from this collection. So it was not too dominant I added this scallop border cut file from the Silhouette shop which comes in the 8.5×11 inch size. This worked perfectly to tone down the strip whilst letting the colours still come through.

I next set about creating my Christmas tree. I wanted layers and texture, so I added borders and tiny felt pom poms. I used foam tape in-between some of the layers to create dimension. I chose several paper designs from the 6×8 inch pad which add visual interest to my tree. I used the chipboard Hohoho as my title and some holly on the dark green piece of the tree. I finished off this element by adding some of the stars from the puffy title stickers close around the tree to help draw your eye.

I added my super adorable photo matted on two different paper designs, of centre on an angel. I tucked these and my photo slightly under my tree to connect these two elements. Once I had added my photo I could see what space I had to add some fussy cut Christmas flowers to my tree.

I just had to create an embellishment cluster that included one of the adorable creatures, so I used the chipboard squirrel added with foam tape so I could tuck under a phrase sentiment from the die cut ephemera and puffy stickers adding more presents. could resist adding the beautiful bird sitting on holly at the top of my page. Lastly I added two wooden flairs, a small one to the top of my tree and a larger one slightly on my photo, I just had a add a deer somewhere!!!!!!

It was good to challenge myself NOT to use a white base paper and although there is a lot of colour going on in this layout the tree and embellishment clusters stop it looking to busy and overwhelming in colour.

Thank you for stopping by today and my last project for 2021 will be some cute Christmas crackers and gift tags!

Rachel X

Joyful | Mini Album | Rachel Lowe

Rachel Lowe 21/11/2021

Hello CVS crafty friends! I was super excited when Joyful arrived at my door and I totally love it. I don’t know about you but by the time Christmas is over I am a little over it. Also my Christmas photos always seem to be taken in a rush and therefore are usually quite average and one’s I probably wouldn’t put on a layout.

So making a Christmas mini album in November makes sense, its already to go and it doesn’t matter if photos are not perfect!

I used a Christmas tree cut file from the Silhouette deign store. I cut extra pages in paper and vellum, all in all I can add about 12 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch photos.

I used a coloured O ring to secure my pages and added some die cut banners finished off with some machine stitching. The top part of the tree is too small for photos so I added a scalloped border, a vellum cut and fussy cut some flowers to create a feature.

Under the vellum I used a chipboard piece. You will see that I have added machine stitching to my borders to add texture. I have also used foam tape to add dimension. I like my albums to look a little chunky.

So I can add numerous photos I always create an accordion paper piece, which I use a bone scorer, here I scored at 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. Here I added the chipboard bird with foam tape but in a way I can use it to also lift the accordion in and out.

I love to use vellum to soften and break up the pages. I added a border and attached with machine stitching, this not only looks pretty but will stop the vellum for curling up.

The embellishments of Joyful are beautiful and plentiful, chipboard, die cuts, puffy alphas, puffy stickers, glitter stars and wooden flairs. I have used all of them on my mini album!

The larger back two pages I cut from 12×12 papers but every other paper is from the 6×8 inch paper pad. I always purchase a 6×8 inch paper pad exclusively to create mini albums and cards, saving my 12×12 papers for layouts exclusively.

There are many Christmas mini album options and that can be put together quickly, especially when you have such fab embellishments like Joyful does. I can now tick this off my Christmas to do list!

Thank you for stopping by and if you have any questions on my mini just leave a comment.

Rachel X

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Joyful | Joyful collection | Tarrah McLean

Joyful Moments | Joyful Collection | Michelle Stokes

My Joy | Joyful Collection | Rachel Lowe

3D Christmas Crackers and Gift Tags | Joyful Collection| Rachel Lowe

Merry & Bright Layout | Joyful Collection | Rachel Lowe

Joyful | Mini Album | Rachel Lowe

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