Joyful

My December Daily Traveller’s Notebook | Joyful Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, it’s Melissa here and I’m so excited to be sharing my first project with the beautiful new Joyful Collection!  We’ve recently moved house again and life has been crazy busy.  For my December Daily this year I’ve decided to keep it super simple (well attempt to!) and work with a handmade homemade Traveller’s Notebook.  Joyful is so perfect to document my December and I have everything I need to make a cute TN!

I went through the beautiful papers and just had to make my cover with Tis The Season, the florals are just so gorgeous!! I added a Pocket Card for my title, and hand stitched around the edge of the frame for added texture and interest.  I used some number stickers from my stash for the “25”.

I embellished with a Puffy Star, Accessory Sticker and one of the Die Cut Ephemera.

My first inside pages of my December Daily are always the same, I have our names and ages and oh boy time seems to be flying by!  I’ve been doing this project for 10 years now!!  I used another Pocket Card for my journaling.  I embellished with a tab from the Die Cut Ephemera and some fussy cut flowers from Tis The Season.

My first page is always journaling the reason why I create my album, which is very much inspired by Ali Edwards (the creator of December Daily).  I Used a piece of paper from the A5 Paper Stack which I tied a bow with twine from my stash.  I wrote my journalling on some white card stock and created my title with a phrase from the Puffy Title Stickers.  They are gold and so pretty!

I finished with a tiny Puffy Sticker Christmas tree.  I outlined around all of my pages with black pen, and no its not perfect but thats ok!  I hope you enjoyed seeing the first couple of pages of my December Daily!  I’ll be back later in the month with some more pages that include photos of the days.

Enjoy the season of joy!

Melissa xx

 

 

 

Christmas | Josefine vd Hoeven | Joyful collection

Hello paperlovers,
Welcome to the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog today! It’s Josefine here sharing a new scrapbook layout. The festive December month has begun and I couldn’t wait to create a Christmas layout by using this amazing Christmas collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio. There are so many beautiful embellishments in this collection that I actually want to use everything on my page.

I love the magical atmosphere during the month of December! Everything feels so much nicer and always look forward to spending the Christmas days with my loved ones. I made a mixed media background with the Distress Oxide color “flamingo kitch” by using a background stamp. I make various prints on the white cardstock and when the mixed media background is large enough I made some splashes with the pink Distress Oxide color.

I stitched a pattern on my layout and used two colors of embroidery thread and some glass beads. I love how festive it looks. I cut out a picture of my daughter into a circle and also cut two circles from the beautiful design papers of this wonderful collection. I stitch the edges of the circles with gold sewing thread. I place the circles in the center of my layout and now it’s time to decorate.

I fussy cut the super cute stars from the design paper and fold them in 3D. I placed the stars in different places on the layout. I also fussy cut some flowers and twigs from the design paper and made a cluster on both sides of the photo with the flowers, twigs and die-cuts. The beautiful gold title “Christmas” I place on top.

I decorate my page with the beautiful and cute little puffy stickers, golden stars and 3D stars. I placed these randomly on my page. It’s an explosion of awesome embellishments around the festive Christmas photo. I splash with white acrylic paint for a snow effect.

 

I had so much fun making this festive Christmas layout! All those beautiful colors, cute die-cuts, gold stars and cardstock stickers. I can’t get enough of it. I hope I was able to inspire you and wish everyone a very happy December month. Let’s celebrate this month together! Until next time!
XoXo, Jo

Fa La La | Joyful Collection | Kylie Kingham

December is here and the festive season is in full swing! It’s Kylie with you today and I have another layout to share featuring the new ‘Joyful’ collection, to hopefully give a little holiday scrapbooking inspiration. I absolutely love every single paper design so I wanted to challenge myself to try and use nearly every single one in a layout. Thanks to the Tree Border cut file designed by Paige Evans, I think I was able to come pretty close!

Once I had cut out the 3 tree borders with my Cameo, I was able to back them with papers from the A5 paper pack. I like using this paper pack for cut files as it saves my 12 x 12 papers. I used brown cardstock from my craft stash for the tree trunks and adhered them to my background paper with foam adhesive squares.

With so much colour happening in my background I didn’t feel the need to ‘over-embellish’ my layout. My photo was trimmed to measure 5″x 3.75″ and adhered to a photo mat measuring 5.25″ x 4″.Once it was adhered into place I added a few cute die cuts and a title from the die cut pack.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed seeing my latest page design.

Take care,

Kylie

Falalalala | Joyful collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends!

It’s Sophie on the blog today and I am so excited to share my very first page with the gorgeous Joyful collection!

 

I was inspired by the lovely December mood board. Here it is:

 

 

 

The color scheme caught my attention with the confettis and many circular elements like the wreath on the top left image and the Christmas ornaments on the bottom left.

I started with a thick white cardstock for my background and cut two large strips of the “Feeling Festive” patterned paper for the top and bottom of my layout and created a zigzag stitch with white thread.

I punched many 1 ¼ inches circles out of two patterned papers from the A5 Paper Stack, cut them in half and created a scalloped border along the upper strip of the “Feeling Festive” paper.

 

I used a tiny photo of my son playing guitar in his room, that I discreetly took from the stairs…! I framed it with a gorgeous scalloped frame from the Chipboard Sticker sheet and built my embellishments in a diagonal line around it.

I fussy cut numerous cute critters out of a A5 patterned paper that I placed around the photo, just as if the critters were listening to his music!

 

I fussy cut a big floral cluster out of the “Tis The Season” patterned paper and added die cuts from the Joyful Die Cut Ephemera pack and Chipboard stickers.

I printed my journaling and cut it into strips before adhering it to the page.

I splattered gold ink from my stash and finally placed a few beautiful gold Puffy Stars around my page as the finishing touch !

 

I am so happy with how it turned out !

That mood board is so inspiring !

Here are a few more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you will have to chance to document beautiful Christmas memories with this gorgeous collection!

Thank you for stopping by!

Sophie xx

Christmas Cards | Joyful Collection | Raquel Bowman

Hey everyone, today I am sharing a set if three cards for Christmas using the Joyful collection. This is a new kind of share for me as I normally create layouts to share with you but I was inspired by the cute animals within the collection and wanted to create with them right away.

Here are the cards that I created –

To create these 3 cards I used mainly the A5 paper pad and embellishments from the ephemera, chipboard sheet, accessory stickers and puffy stickers.

The reindeer in the first card was so adorable that I wanted to feature it. I used a frame from a 3×4 card to make it really stand out .

How cute is this bear?! 

The final card I am sharing features this cute rabbit from the collection. I tried to create the cards as individuals but for them to have consistent elements within the set of three.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope these cards may have inspired you to pull out your CVS stash and get creating. 

Raquel xxx

Joyful Day | Joyful Collection | Danni Visser

Hi Cocoa Vanilla Studio fans! Danni here with my first layout using the gorgeous new Joyful collection. I have a sweet collage photo of my daughter playing in the rain to document today. It is not necessarily a Christmas themed photo, but it was early in December and she has a bright red dress on so I thought it was a perfect lead in to my Christmas layouts for that year’s album.

I started by taking the Very Merry 12×12 patterned paper as my background paper because the subtle spotted pattern reminded me of falling snow or rain, which was perfect for my rainy day theme. To highlight my photo I matted it using the mustard script paper from the A5 paper stack and lightly distressing the edges for texture. I added further softness and texture by including a couple of layers of pink tissue paper as a second photo border.

For my title I couldn’t go past the incredible puffy gold title stickers – they are the perfect shade of bright Christmassy gold and the metallic shine on them is just amazing. I spelt out ‘Joyful Day’, which describes this moment perfectly, and layered it across the bottom of my photo.

Next I took a pile of stars that I fussy cut from the Making Spirits Bright 12×12 patterned paper, as well as stars from the corresponding paper in the A5 paper stack to create a variety of sizes. I created layered stars with some of these by adding a larger star underneath with patterned paper and adding dimensional foam in between the layers. Other stars I added foam behind or just left as is for a variety of heights and added dimension.

I wanted to create the feel of hanging Christmas ornaments so I glued a variety of different threads and twine in between my star layers and positioned my stars at various heights across the page, with the twine hanging from the top of the layout. I love this effect!

To fill in any gaps left between the larger stars, I added some of the smaller fussy-cut stars and three of the puffy gold glitter stars in the empty spaces. Those gold puffy glitter stars are just so incredibly gorgeous, I had to use them immediately!

To finish off the layout I added a sprinkling of the stars from the puffy gold title stickers in amongst the star clusters, then layered the ‘Fa la la la la’ chipboard banner piece from the chipboard stickers across the top of my photo. I hope you like this layout! There is a process video on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio YouTube channel linked below if you would like to watch the full process. Happy scrapping!

Danni x

Our Memories | Joyful Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura back again with a super sweet baby layout featuring the new holiday themed Joyful collection. I love to challenge myself to scrap outside the theme as much as possible to stretch my creativity and get the most of my favourite collections. One of the inspirations for this layout was the adorable animal icons on the Magical Moments patterned paper. I just had to fussy cut them out and create a mobile with them above these sweet photos of my daughter cuddled up with me. To create the hanging lines, I simply free-handed some loops and then hand-stitched them with floss.

I added several fabric stars and wood buttons amid the hanging animals to fill in the gaps and give the impression of a sky. Both the mobile and the night sky are imagery that fits these sleeping baby photos perfectly and really help to set the mood for the overall page. On the top left of the photo, I pulled in a few stickers from 6×12 sticker sheet as well as a scattering of these puffy stars from the puffy titles. Love the pop of gold in this collection, it’s just the perfect addition to the soft color tones.

Along the right and left side of my photos, I added a cluster of florals that I fussy cut from the A5 paper stack, including these teeny tiny ones that I use to add details around the outside edge. To add a bit of definition to this page, I outlined the main photo mat with a pen. The finishing touches to this lovely layout was a puffy gold title, journaling, and splatters. Overall, I think I captured the soft, sleepy mood perfectly with the Joyful collection and I can’t wait to see what other photos I can scrap with it!

I hope this layout inspires you to scrap outside the theme too! If you’d like to see how Our Memories came together, check out the process video below.

Baby joy | Joyful Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello crafty Friends. It’s Anna here and today I want to share with you super cute baby page made with not so baby themed “Joyful” collection. This brand new line was designed for christmas and it’s filled with with patterns and elements that correspond with winter and December celebrations. Howver, when I say all those cute critters like deer, fox and bunny, I knew I have to make a baby page. Let’s be honest – I am a bit of Grinch when it comes to christmas projects. I love the season but I prefer scrapbooking summer and travels. Most of christmas collections has very traditional color palette and the same motiffs. It kind of gets boring after a while. That’s why I was so exctited to see “Joyful” collection. This line has such a beautiful colors and many versatile patterns so I knew I will be able to use it whole year round.

As a mom of two lovely girls I always find a photo to scrapbook with any cute collection. I picked pictures of Maja, when she was less than a year old and paired them with all the pink and beige I could find in “Joyful” collection. I not only went through 12*12 papers, but also checked the 6*8 paper stack and pocket cards. I finally settled with very neutral background called “Very merry” and “Advent for one of the clouds. Did you noticed that 6*8 paper stack contains of a little bit different patterns or the same patterns but in different colors? It makes it a must have product! I managed to find two red – pink papers there and I cute a biggest cloud and backed my photos with them. Pink stars pattern is the back of one of the pocket cards!

This page is quite simple so I wanted to add some extra texture to the clouds by stitching the clouds with pale pink thread. Photos are surrounded with cute critters and generic words and other elements. I just love the drop of metallic gold added to this line. I also love new chipboard stickers!!!! They are so fun to use and look just beautiful. Deer and fox doesn’t look christmassy and can be used for any kind of project. That’s why I decided to use them here.

I embellished my composition with a lot of stars. They are often combined with baby themed collections so I thought they will match to my page as well. I fussy cut some bigger ones from “Making spirits bright” paper, added few smaller ones from ephemera pack and few with gold foiling from cardboard stickers sheet. Few wooden buttons and puffy stickers and my page was almost ready.

My title is a combination of word “joy” from cardboard stickers sheet and some pink foam alpha from my stash. Making this page gave so much fun and I just loved looking for elements that I might use. I also can’t wait to make some christmas themed project with it!

That is all for today. Thank you so much for stopping by and see you in December! I can’t believe it’s almost here. It feels like I just cleaned up the last year christmas tree and decorations. What a crazy year it has been.

XO Anna

Magical Moments | Joyful Collection | Kylie Kingham.

Hi friends! It’s   back today with another layout to share featuring the new ‘JOYFUL’ collection. I’m really loving the colour palette of this range which features traditional Christmas tones yet muted for a modern appeal. I centred this page around a lovely cut file of Christmas Lights which has been designed by Paige Evans.

Once my cut file had been cut out, I used the A5 paper stack to back each individual bulb. This didn’t take too long and I loved the colourful effect once it was completed. The ‘DECK THE HALLS’ paper was used as my background and I adhered the light bulbs with foam adhesive squares so that it sat up a little adding dimension.

A 6″x 4″ sized photo was used on my layout and I neatly tucked it under some of the light bulbs. It was a great nesting point where I could then anchor some cute embellishments and chipboard stickers. The ‘Magical Moments’ title was created from the gold alpha stickers and positioned above my photo which seemed to be the best place for balance.

To finish my layout I added some of both the chipboard and cardstock sticker phrases below my photo. I also added some of the gold chipboard stars throughout my page.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today. I hope it gives you a little inspiration for your own Christmas scrapbooking.

Until next time,

Kylie.

Oh what fun! | Joyful Collection | Raquel Bowman

Hi everyone, it’s Raquel here sharing a layout with you that I created using the new Joyful collection. This was the first time I have played with this collection and boy, it did not disappoint. I decided to look back at some of my favourite memories from our 2020 Christmas and chose to document a series of three photos of my kiddies all dressed up and ready to get their Santa photo.

Here is the layout I created:

As I mentioned above, the subject of my layout was my kiddies. These photos were my chance to snap a nice photo of the kids together and dressed up. As you can see from the pics, with these two, it can be tricky to get a photo of them both together when they’re both looking at the camera. I printed these slightly smaller than 3×4″ and in black and white. This helps with coordinating my photos to the new collection.

I added a patterned border to the photos using the paper pad. I love that the paper pads patterns are slightly smaller and also that you get some similar prints to the 12×12 but in different colours. The photo is adhered to the page with foam tape that has been doubled over. I wanted the photo to stand out a bit more than the cut file.

The ‘jingle bells’ cut file is from Cut to You and is a main focal element to this layout. I used a combination of patterned papers to back the file including some gold glitter paper that I had in my stash. I love the finished effect of the bells on this layout. It brings such a Christmas element of fun to the layout. A challenge with using feature cut files is to ensure that the file doesn’t take away from the main focus of the page: the photos. To do this I try and make sure to embellish the page in a visual triangle so your eyes move around the page from the top left, to top right, down to the journaling in the bottom right and back up again.

I created clusters of embellishments on either side of the photo. These were fussy cut from the ‘Tis the Season’ paper and layered to create interest. I finished the clusters with small puffy stickers like stars and leaves and also stars from the ephemera and chipboard packs. I just adore the colourings of this Christmas collection.

The cluster to the left of the photo, again contains more fussy cut flowers, stars and leaves from the stickers, ephemera and chipboard. I finished that little cluster with a cute little Reindeer puffy sticker and an ‘oh what fun!’ banner. The Reindeer matched my photos perfectly as the kids were wearing Reindeer hats that Santa gave them.

I journaled using my fave technique of strip journaling and adhered this to the bottom corner to balance out the top heaviness of the layout.

I finish the page I framed the entire layout in the ‘Making spirits bright’ paper, this also tied into the colour of the bow on the bell.

Thanks so much for stopping by the CVS page today, I hope that this layout has inspired you.

Raquel x

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