Happy Friday friends! Boy, am I happy and relieved it’s the weekend! The sun is out and spring is close!
Today, I have a layout to share using the No Limits collection featuring my husband, a.k.a.. the best ever!
There is a video HERE if you’d like to watch my process.
I had the idea floating around in my head, something that I’ve done for past layouts and that was to slightly skew a layered background. I took a white sheet of cardstock and matted it with Big Bang from the collection, a luscious woodgrain, and then layered both pieces on an angle on top of this regal and inky blue background sheet called, Eclipse. I just adore the overall and unexpected look of it.
For the title, I used a combination of the Chipboard Stickers using Best and paired them with Die Cut Titles. I used the word “adventure” and cut it up to create the word “ever”. I love the versatility of the Die Cut Titles as I was able to create a word I really wanted with the already existing title.
Next, I played around and had fun embellishing my page with pieces from the Chipboard Stickers, Accessory Stickers, Pocket Cards, and the Dir Cut Ephemera. To add the final touches I added the yellow stars from the Puffy Stickers and two of the Wood Buttons. To complete my page, I sprinkled some love with gold ink spray and called it complete.
I hope you enjoyed my layout (and process video) today!
Thanks a bunch for stopping by today!
xoLina
Hello Friends. it’s Anna here and it’s time for another Throwback Thursday. I recently dug up some older masculine collections from CVS and I decided I need to use them up finally. You know I usually am a bigger fun of flowers and pink so I still had plenty of papers and embellishments to play with. I went bold with this project, cutting into dozen of papers, using up to the last bit 5!!! sheets of 6*12 stickers and 3 sheets of transparent stickers! I am so proud of myself for putting those old goodies in good use. Ladies and gentlemen – I present you a big boy album with a mix of many CVS collections:
Can you name all of the lines I used here? I think I managed to squeeze in every single masculine collection that was ever released at Cocoa Vanilla. You can finds bits and pieces from: “Flying high”, “You rock”, “Boys rule”, Totally rad”, “Legendary” and “Made of awesome”. Most of them are no longer available in the store but “Flying hight”, “Made of awesome” and “Totally rad” were released as digital versions too! So you can print yourself as many papers and elements as you wish.
My album is sized 21*21 cm and it holds 5 pages inside. Each page has some flaps or pockets to hold many photos at 10*15 and 13*18 cm size. There is also plenty of room for a journaling and other keepsakes. I made everything from scratch starting from the cover. I used false leather with a wooden print to make album more durable. I mixed it with kraft cardstock that seemed to work better with all those patterns and colors.
Colorful papers are so joyful and fun – perfect for a little boy album. Even though they are from different collections, they still look good and cohesive together. I am not going to lie – I used so many 12*12 sheets here but I also managed to squeeze in many smaller paper scraps. However I was holding those papers for years and they totally deserved to shine and bring joy to someone.
I embellished my pages with a lot of various embellishments like ephemera pieces, 6*12 stickers, transparent stickers, chipboard stickers, washi strips, flair buttons, wooden elements and resin stars. All of them comes from the collections I listed previously. To be honest, many of them were stored in one bag together as a “boy stuff” that I can no longer tell which collection they belong to. It doesn’t matter though. I am just happy I managed to use up as many of them. It always feels so good to throw away used up sheet of stickers. Does it feel this way for you too?
Some of the pages are more “fancy” with shakers filled with sequins or transparent foil piece. They serve mostly decorative purposed but I can imagine it will be more fun for kids to browse through this kind of album. Hidden spots, pockets, magnets make the album more interactive.
Making this album took me few days for sure (much more hours than I planned) but it was such a great experience. It’s not filled with photos as it will be a gift for my friend and her little boy. I even added his name on the back of the cover.
I hope it will bring her joy and adding photos will be a great dive into memory lane. This is the essence of scrapbooking for me! Now it’s time for a girl version, don’t you think? I still have some of the boy collection left so I will be able to make few mini albums too. There is a chance you will see them here :)
Photos will not give justice to this album so I recorded a flip through video for you. You will be able to see all the flaps and pockets this way.
Thank you so much for stopping by and see you in November.
