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BAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT | JOYFUL COLLECTION | SOPHIE DELORME

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends!

It’s Sophie with you today ! It’s almost Christmas !! Who’s ready ??! Who’s been baking like crazy ??!

I have and like every year around Christmas, we prepare tons of different deserts and cookies and pastries ! I had to highlight that on a layout !

 

I used the beautiful Joyful collection for this page.

I started by creating a soft mixed media background on thick white cardstock on the upper side of the page, where I planned to put my big title.

I bought this title cut file from the Silhouette Store. It’s designed by SAS Creative. I cut the three words on different patterned papers from the A5 Paper Stack. I also did an offset cut on white cardstock to back each letter, and mounted them on adhesive foam before adhering them to the layout.

 

I teared a big chunk of the “Very Merry” patterned paper that I placed at the bottom of the page to ground my photo.

I embellished around it with beautiful elements from the Joyful Die Cut Ephemera Pack and fussy cut flowers and wreaths from the “’Tis The Season” and “Very Merry” patterned papers.

 

I fussy cut numerous stars out of the “Making Spirits Bright” paper that I placed around the title, and added a few Wood Buttons as the finishing touch.

 

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I hope this inspires you ! I wish you a wonderful Holiday Season, with lots of good times with your loved ones !

Sophie xx

Explore | Hello Sunshine | Laura Alberts

Hi y’all! Laura Alberts here with a patterned paper background for Throwback Thursday! I dug deep into my stash for the oldest Cocoa Vanilla Studio collection I own. Using the last scraps of Hello Sunshine for this one including my last full 12×12 piece of paper. My favourite parts of this collection are the denim patterns and florals, so I used them on nearly every layout. It’s such a cool mix of designs! I used a set of cut files from Liz Longest Designs and filled them with the scraps.

I fussy cut these florals from one of the patterned papers and layered them in large clusters behind either side of my photos to keep the focus in the center. Adding Nuvo drops in the centers gives them a more 3-D appearance and a little sparkle! I tucked in some of the Endless Summer enamel shapes amidst the florals for more texture and then two layered butterflies from the Endless Summer ephemera pack at the corners of my photo. Mixing these collections together has helped me finish both off this year!

The details on these alphas are brilliant and I have stretched these so far with this collection! Loving the denim-like texture and stitching, so I popped them up with foam strips to give them added depth. Instead of journaling, I used the word strips that I fussy cut from a patterned paper to create a staggered list of the phrases that fit this moment. It reads like a stream of consciousness perspective and I love that!

I hope this layout inspires you to use up some scraps too! If you’d like to see how Explore came together, check out the process video below.

Hey Santa | Joyful Collection | Danni Visser

Hi Cocoa Vanilla Studio fans! Danni here with another layout using the incredible new Joyful collection to document a treasured holiday memory. I love how the soft colours in this collection highlight the bright reds in my photo without competing with it as the main focus of the layout.

I started by using some of the smaller patterned papers in the A5 paper stack to back the candy cane cutfile by COAPA Cutfiles. I chose pink and white for the candy cane, red and green for the holly and that gorgeous mustard for the bow.  I cut the cutfile in black cardstock to help it pop against the soft pastel colours. I also went ahead and matted my photo using the A5 paper stack papers.

I chose the gorgeous soft pink plaid pattern of the Advent 12×12 patterned paper as my background. I love how the subtle pattern adds interest while the soft colour prevents the background from being too busy. I added some additional details to the background with delicate green, pink and mustard ink splatters.

Once I had my photo and cutfile positioned on the page, I could go ahead and incorporate all the smaller elements. I couldn’t resist using the ‘Hey Santa’ title from the puffy gold title stickers for this photo – it was simply perfect! I added a couple of the small phrases from the accessory stickers below my title in place of journaling.

I created three small embellishment clusters around my layout to draw the eye around the page. I started with pieces from the chipboard stickers to begin building my clusters because I wanted to include a chipboard candy cane in two of the clusters to mirror my cutfile. I built up my clusters using a combination of presents, leaves and little animals from the die cut ephemera as well as the puffy stickers. To finish my clusters I added a wood button and some coiled gold thread to each one.

To tie in the black of the cutfile to the rest of the layout, I used a black pen to outline some of the die cut ephemera pieces and to add a sketchy border around the outside of the layout. As a finishing touch I added a sprinkling of shiny gold stars from the puffy gold title stickers randomly around each of my embellishment clusters.

I hope you enjoyed joining me today! I absolutely adore how this layout turned out. There is a process video on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio YouTube channel linked below if you would like to watch the layout come together. Thank you so much for reading and happy scrapping!

Danni x

 

Holly Jolly | Joyful Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello, hello. Do you feel the christmas spirit already? My christmas tree and decorations are already up and we had snowfall few days ago so world outside the window is all white and clean. Let’s hope it will stay that way for next two weeks. I still need to wrap the presents and bake gingerbreads with kids. Before new batch of christmas photos will arrive, I am reaching out to the last year pictures to scrapbook them with the brand new “Joyful” collection. I only made one page so far with it, so it’s still quite new to me.

I printed myself two photos of my girls posing next to the christmas tree. I was staring at them, thinking how can I build my page when revelation striked! I will make a christmas tree to match the photos! I started with cutting it from “Making spirits bright” paper into triangular shapes and adding fringe to them. I didn’t measured anything and free cut everything with pair of scissors. My tree has 6 layers, one slightly smaller than another.

“Desk the halls” paper turned out to be a perfect background for my composition. It’s not only decorated with tiny trees but also is not busy and doesn’t draw attention from the main composition. While I as putting my tree together, I added a layer of foam tape under each triangle to make it more dimensional. I decorated everything with tiny stars that I found in ephemera pack and on chipboard stickers sheet. I also hanged some candy canes to make it even more festive and cute.

Bottom part of the tree is decorated with a gifts because this is where they usually magically appear brought by Santa. They are a mix of paper ones from ephemera pack and thicker, chipboard presents from chipboard sticker sheet. Did I mentioned this is my favorite product from this collection? They are just too perfect and too cute with their golden foiling. There is also little fox watching over the presents.

My photos are overlapping the tree a bit so it’s a natural continuation with the tree from the pictures. I added few smaller inscriptions here and there as a decorations. You can also find two more critters on the page – squirell and little bird. They create visual triangle on the layout. My title is also made with bits and pieces from ephemera pack but you can choose from many more words and phrases from golden puffy title stickers. I added a lot of dimension to my page and most of the elements are raised above the level of base paper.

I finished my project by adding three woodies (they also create a visual triangle) and some gold and red splatters. The page was done and I already cleared my desk but I felt like it was still missing something. I came back to finish it later with red stitching around the layout, that created sort of the frame. this stronger accent making it more expressive.

I love how this page turned out and I love this christmas tree idea. I will for sure recreate it in a smaller scale on cards. Yep… I still haven’t made them and didn’t mailed them. Fingers crossed Polish Post will act quickly and deliver them all on time.

That is all for today. Thank you so much for stopping by and see you again at the end of December. I will come back after Christmas so I wanted to wish you all wonderful time with your family and friends however you celebrate it.

Hugs, Anna

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

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

These Sweet Memories | Josefine vd Hoeven | These Days collection

Hello paperlovers,
Welcome to the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! So great to share a new layout with you. I was inspired by the March 2021 Moodboard. I thought the little yellow clouds were a fun idea to slide them between the paper layers.I love how that turned out.

 

I started with a white piece of cardstock. I cut the beautiful designer paper from the “These Days” collection to size by 6×6 inches. I stitched the square with gold sewing thread in the center of the layout with my sewing machine. I picked out several pocket page cards and folded them in half. I created layers and put them on top of each other with adhesive tape.

I placed the photo on top of these design paper layers. I start by making a cluster on the left side. I use different flower die-cuts, leaves from white cardstock and wooden buttons. I cut photo frames from the design paper and sew the edges with gold thread. I slide the photo frames between all these layers.

I am decorating my layout with more beautiful embellishments from this amazing collection by Cocoa Vanilla studio. I used word strips, stickers and butterflies. I cut the clouds from white cardstock and colored them with Distress Oxide. The color I used is “spiced marmalade” I stitch the clouds with gold thread and I placed them between these paper layers.

I combined the title “These Sweet Memories” with the beautiful black elegant foam words and the small colored puffy alphas. At the top of this layout I placed a black metal clip. This way it looks just like a clipboard. I placed the white cardstock on top of a woodgrain design paper and splattered with white acrylic paint. I am surprised how this layout turned out and am happy with the result.

I hope I was able to inspire you with this layout and hope to see you next time on the blog. For now, I wish you a happy and creative day! Enjoy your creativity friends.

XoXo, Jo

 

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.

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