Hey y’all! Laura here with a fun graduation layout! When I finished my degree last month, it was a proud accomplishment and I couldn’t wait to scrap it! With a dark and mostly neutral color scheme, this photo needed the bright, celebratory colors of Happy Days to make this it pop. I started by fussy cutting out the frames from the specialty paper and backing them with patterned paper from the A5 paper stack.
I then matted my photo on the gorgeous Sunshine Lollipops patterned paper to help it stand out and tie together the main colors I chose from Happy Days to incorporate into my layout. Then, the fun part! I added clusters of fussy cut icons and ephemera pieces to create clusters in and around my frames. Puffy stickers and Nuvo drops added the detailing to finish them off.
For my journaling, I used a journaling stencil to create this lovely scroll design to hold a large block of journaling that imitates the feel of a diploma with it’s elaborate design. Such a fun addition and a great way to include a large block of journaling in a way that doesn’t detract from the photo!
I hope this layout inspires you to have a play with your frames from the Happy Days collection as well as to try some creative journaling techniques! To see how “Happy Moments Together” was created, check out the process video below:
Hello crafty Friends. It’s Anna here with my second June post. This one is related to the first post, where I shared with you four cards for the teachers of my daughter. I also made matching notebook to go with one of the cards, using the same colorful and pretty “Happy days” collection.
As always I made it from scratch, starting with the covers, through all the pages and connected everything with a transparent, plastic spring. My covers are cut from the white cardboard and wrapped with blue cardstock. You can use pattern papers for this purpose too but it would require using up two the same ones from my precious pile and I wasn’t ready to say good bye to them. That’s why I chose blue cardstock.
Covers are decorated with beautiful rainbow pattern called “Lollipops”, both on the front and on the back. I added this fun texture of stitches using jagger. You can but it very cheap in sewing stores or departments. As this notebook will be used frequently, I couldn’t add too many embellishments to the cover. They would fall out easily and it would be hard to write on the left sides of paper. I picked few pieces from Ephemera Pack and few flowers from Floral Ephemera Pack and glued them down.
Inner covers are decorated with filled with words “Definituve” paper. Back cover also got a useful pocket for any loose pieces of paper or keepsakes. Notebook carry 120 sheets of checkered paper and few decorative dividers. Those dividers are made with A5 Paper Stack as they are just a perfect size!
Each one is also decorated with ephemera pieces and stickers from 6*12 Sticker Sheet. I even added stickers to some of the pages to make them prettier. First divider could be a little bit bulkier so I also added “My days” wording with Chipboard Titles.
With all the elements ready, I could use my old but still good Cinch machine to bind everything together. I could use metal wire but I chose plastic spring instead. They are both equally good. I just liked the transparent look better.
I hope my little gift will bring joy to my kid’s favorite teacher. Now it’s time for two months long vacation! Summer is in full swing and we can’t wait to soak up the sun.
Thank you so much for spending your precious time with me. Sending you lot’s of hugs.
Hi everyone! This is Niki (@nikiclairecreates) and I’m delighted to be back Guest Designing with my second layout and process video using Happy Days. I am obsessed with those gorgeous words on the Definitive paper and have spent some time fussy cutting a lot of them out. I wanted to make a feature out of them on this layout.
I chose the purple side of Flutterby paper as my background, which I paired with the pink strawberry side of Lush Blooms paper. I trimmed these both down and distressed the edges, then stuck them together offset slightly. I then positioned these onto a sheet of white card.
I mounted my photo onto a darker patterned paper and added that to my layout together with a gold fussy cut frame from the Specialty Foiled paper. I then arranged all the fussy cut words around the photo, cascading down from top to bottom. I raised them all on foam pads to give them some dimension.
I then added some of the Floral Ephemera to the bottom corner of my photo, and another cluster in the top right corner. I chose mostly pinks and purple flowers but also added a few yellow ones. Purple and yellow are opposite each other on the colour wheel, so are therefore ‘contrasting colours’. Contrasting colours work best when there is a lot of one colour with a small amount of the contrasting colours and this is exactly what I did with the yellow – just a couple of small pops of it in amongst all the beautiful purple.
I added another tiny cluster in the bottom right corner of the layout using some of the Die Cut Ephemera. I added some butterflies and handwrote my journaling under all the words. I also embellished the words with lots of Puffy Heart Stickers.
I finished off with a few splatters of white paint over the top of the embellishment clusters! I absolutely love how this turned out, I adore purple as a colour so love how this looks as a background! Here is the link to my process video for this layout if you would like to watch along: https://youtu.be/2ygAZcQKt0c
Thanks so much for joining me today and happy scrapping!
It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new layout featuring the gorgeous Happy Days collection!
For this project I was given the assignment of using patterned paper for my background and chose the ‘B’ side of the ‘Feel Good patterned paper’ to document a photo of my Mum and I taken a few years ago.
I chose a title cut file from CUT to YOU to add to my layout, cutting it from white cardstock. I then backed the open letters in the word ‘Happy’ with various papers from the A5 paper stack. I added craft foam to the underneath of the cut file and then adhered it to the background. I love how the white cardstock is a big contrast to the yellow background, this really helps the elements pop off the yellow patterned paper. I made sure to only use a small amount of adhesive so that things could be tucked underneath the cut file.
Above the cut file I tucked in my photo, I first layered one of the papers from the A5 paper stack under the photo, I also tucked in two of the stickers from the Accessory Sticker Sheet and tucked them in either side of the photo. I cut out some phrases from another sheet of the ‘Feel Good patterned paper’ and adhered one on top of the photo and the other on top of the cut file. I love to layer embellishments on top of cut files to add some more interest.
At the bottom of the cut file, I adhered the long paper strip with the tabs on it to also from the Feel Good patterned paper, I love how that looks like the cut file is sitting on a shelf of sorts. This was a great opportunity to add some of the small phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker Sheet to the strip. I cut out the Choose Happy journal card also from the Feel Good paper and adhered it to the right of the photo, I then added some quotes about being happy to it.
Some of the smaller embellishments I added to my page are the Chipboard hearts, the gold foil butterflies cut out of the specialty paper, puffy hearts, ephemera, enamel hearts and some more accessory stickers. I love the dimension that my layout has and I love how it turned out too. Lastly I stamped the date stamp as I always do on my layouts. Don’t be afraid to use a busy patterned paper as your starting point for your page, you can still keep the focus on the photo by using clever techniques to draw your eye to the photo.
Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed reading about how I created my layout as much as I enjoyed creating it!
It’s Sophie with you today and a beautiful and simple layout to share, created with the Happy Days collection!
I went for a grid design and selected a few patterned papers from the A5 paper stack, and used a scalloped circle die from my stash to cut 6 scalloped circles.
I aligned them in two horizontal lines on a white background cardstock.
I cut three photos of my dog Fiona in a circular shape and placed them on three of the circles.
I mounted everything on adhesive foam.
My title is a mix of the Accessory Stickers, Mini Puffy Alphabet stickers and an ephemera.
I embellished the page in a color block manner with floral die cuts, fussy cut flowers and butterflies, a few accessory stickers and a paper bow.
Here are more close-ups:
Honestly, this page was very simple and easy to make! I love the result and hope you do too!
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with some bright and colorful handmade cards featuring the Happy Days collection. I absolutely adore the puffy alphas in this collection and find it super easy to pair them with ephemera pieces for fun mix-and-match designs and sentiments. For the first two cards, I used papers from the A5 paper stack and frames from the ephemera pack as the base for the design, then built up from there.
For this first card, I started with a purple background and added a frame backed with striped patterned paper. The butterflies were fussy cut from the Happy Days specialty paper and one of the patterned papers in the A5 paper stack. My sentiment is simple and makes this card a versatile option for a number of events. The tiny Nuvo drops behind the butterflies creates a whimsical trail.
On the second card, I layered the frame from the ephemera pack directly onto the background and created a wreath of florals around the edge. The ephemera ribbon banner that says “the best” was a great option for my focal image on this card. I used the puffy alphas to add to the sentiment so it says “You are the best.” A clever option for a card that could be used for multiple occasions!
For the last card, I fussy cut out the banner of ribbons from the ephemera pack and layered tiny florals on top. Above the banner, I added an ephemera sentiment “happy” as well as a puffy alphas to create a simple, but effective birthday card! I especially liked dotting tiny fussy cut florals all around the sentiment on this one.
I hope these sweet cards inspire you to have a go with the puffy alphas in the Happy Days collection!
Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with another project made with new “Happy days” collection. June is a busy period in our family’s life as it’s the last month of school year. Final exams are already over and now it’s time for a lot of good bye’s as my older daughter is finishing the elementary school and is moving to the highschool and my younger daughter is finishing the first step of elementary school and will be changing teachers. I will need a big bunch of cards to thank all of the teachers for taking such a great care of my kids. That’s why I decided to combine my DT duties and my mom duties and make a THANK YOU cards for teachers.
This week we are also focusing on PUFFY ALPHAS so I decided to show you how easily you can customize your cards with them! All four cards I made are the same size, but each looks a little bit different. I used variety of pattern papers from A5 PAPER STACK for my backgrounds. This way I didn’t have to cut into whole 12*12 sheets to only get a small piece.
Two of my cards have little shakers made with frames from EPHEMERA PACK. This is the fastest way to make a shaker! Just add a piece of acetate behind the frame, then pieces of foam adhesive to create a shaker, fill it with sequins and glue to the background.
Those two cards are more personal, with the names of teachers added. It was so easy to do with those tiny PUFFY ALPHA STICKERS! I decorated the frames with some flowers from FLORAL EPHEMERA PACK and some cut out from LUSH BLOOMS 12*12 PAPER. I also added colorful butterflies fussy cut from FLUTTERBY 12*12 PAPER. They create such a lovely, colorful mix. As you can see I didn’t add any school related items to my cards. Who said teacher’s appreciation cards need to have them? Mine are simply cheerful and colorful.
This card utilise another elements from EPHEMERA PACK – little oval frame, that became a focal point of my composition. I added a title on top of it, this time it’s simple THANK YOU, and surrounded it with some florals and butteflies. My final step was to add few cute PUFFY HEARTS.
Last card features fruits instead of flowers. Once again I reached for my scissors and fussy cut some lemons, peaches and oranges from one of the A5 PAPER STACK patterns. I arranged them in a frame around the background and added title in the middle. Another cute card was ready in just few minutes!
Here are few close-ups for the titles, showcasing PUFFY ALPHAS.
Four cards are done. I just need like ten more. But it’s good to have a good start. That is all for today. I hope you like my ideas for colorful and easy to make cards showcasing all the colors of beautiful “Happy days” collection!
Thank you so much for spending your time with me and see you at the end of June!
We are thrilled to be able to welcome a special guest designer today – the very talented Niki Rowland! Niki will be joining us with some projects featuring our ‘Happy Days’ collection and we know you are going to LOVE them!
I’m Niki, I live in the UK with my creatively challenged husband and my three children. I’m a pretty paper addict who makes the occasional cupcake and likes coffee and shortbread biscuits. I love turning bright colours and floral ephemera, into scrapbook layouts, with a few mini albums along the way too. I currently create for Simple Stories, and GoGo Getaway which is my own scrapbooking retreat business. That keeps me pretty busy but because I wouldn’t want to get bored, I also am a governor at my children’s school and somehow, I also ended up leading the PTA as well…so now I can add ‘fundraising’ to my list of skills too! Creating feeds my soul and I try to do something creative every day. I hope you enjoy my creations x
Hi everyone! This is Niki Rowland (@nikiclairecreates) and I’m delighted to be guest designing for Cocoa Vanilla Studio today!
I will be sharing four projects during June and July, and today I have my first layout and process video to share with you, using the Happy Days collection. I cannot tell you how much I love this collection, it is so bright, happy and fun! I absolutely fell in love with the colourful stripes on the Sunshine Lollipops paper and decided to focus on that for this layout.
I decided to cut the stripes into their colour groups and make rosettes in a variety of colours. I really enjoy making rosettes and love how they look and really went for it on this layout! I cut out two wide pieces (four stripes wide), several smaller stripes (two stripes wide) and one teeny stripe (one stripe wide). I scored them every quarter-inch and concertina folded them. To make the rosettes themselves I glue the two ends together to make a cylinder, then press the cylinders down in the middle and glue a punched paper circle on top to hold them in place. I did this for all the smaller rosettes, but for the two wide ones the strips needed to be longer to make full circles, so instead I just made semi-circles. These were perfect for the edges of my layout!
I then arranged the rosettes across a white cardstock background, but felt they needed something more, so I added some ink in coordinating colours under each rosette. I also added splatters in the same colours. This creates a ‘glow’ behind each rosette and make them pop off the page even more! I then glued the rosettes in place onto the background, using hot glue.
I cut out the subjects of my photos and added them to each of the large rosettes. I also fussy cut several words from the Definitive paper and added these to all the smaller rosettes – I love these words so much, the font is awesome and the words are perfect for my photos!
I then added Floral Ephemera colour-on-colour, tucked in around the photos and rosettes. I raised some on foam pads for added dimension. I also added a few bits from the Die Cut Ephemera pack including two very cute pinwheels, several hearts and a couple of phrase banners.
I handwrote my journaling in black ink and underlined it to make it stand out more. I loved the look of the black against the colourful rosettes so decided to add splatters of black paint…a bit of a risky move but I LOVE how it turned out! I finished off by adding a few of the mini heart Puffy Stickers in the coordinating coloured areas.
Thank you SO much for joining me today, I really hope that you have enjoyed reading about my layout. I have also created a process video so that you can watch it all come together, it can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/ooh3f_t6Mo4.
Once again thank you so much for joining me, and thank you so much to Cocoa Vanilla Studio for inviting me to guest design!
It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout with you featuring the GORGEOUS Happy Days collection!
For this layout, I am documenting a recent photo of myself and my 2 sons. It is not very often that we get a photo together so when we were together recently, I took the opportunity to snap a photo! I did print the photo in colour however as we are all mostly wearing black it goes with the Happy Days collection perfectly!
I started with a plain white cardstock background, as I often do and trimmed it down to 11′ x 11′ inches, adhering it to the ‘B’ side of the Flutterby paper. I then machine stitched a border around the outside of the layout to add some texture. Next I traced a dinner plate onto some cheap cardstock and free hand cut around the circle. I did not bother too much with how the circle was cut out as I knew that I would be covering it with lots of different patterned papers.
I took out the A5 paper stack and chose all of the different papers to include on the circle. I cut them into strips of different sizes and layered them over and under each other to create a shadows and dimensions on the circle. I adhered them all horizontally but changed the angles on many to create the eye catching look to the circle. I used craft foam and regular adhesive to create different heights and looks to the circle. Once I had completed the circle I added craft foam underneath the circle and adhered it to the centre of the white cardstock background. I love creating lots of dimension on my layouts!
I adhered my photo to the right hand side of the circle and also adhered the black and white doodled frame from the Ephemera pack to the outside of my photo. I love how the black in the frame helps to draw your eye to the photo amongst the busyness of the patterned papers. Next I decided to further enhance the photo by adding some of the gorgeous florals from the Floral Ephemera Pack. I added these tucked in and around the photo, using both foam tapes and regular tapes to adhere them. I also added one of the super cute Puffy Hearts to the bottom right corner and placed a tab sticker from the Accessory Sticker Sheet to the right side of the photo also. On the left hand side of the photo, I adhered the Hello banner flag from the Ephemera pack.
Whenever I create a circular design, I like to be able to add embellishments and my title around the outside so I did this again using the Chipboard Alphabet Stickers to add my title. I spaced out the words so that you have to read around the circle which helps to draw the eye around the layout. In between the spaces I added Die-cuts, Puffy Hearts, Puffy Stickers, more Florals, and Accessory Stickers. On the actual circle, in between the paper layers, I placed some of the phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker Sheet, these help to tell the story about the photo I am documenting on my layout, more Puffy Stickers and some Die-cuts here also.
I absolutely LOVE how my layout turned out and hope you like it too?! I hope you can find some inspiration from my layout and create a similar page to mine using your Happy Days collection!
It’s Sophie on the blog today with a new layout to share! I used the lovely new collection Happy Days again!
I cut three rectangles from the A5 Paper pack and stitched them down on white cardstock. I added a little scalloped border on their upper edge, and a zigzag stitch between them.
I printed a colorful photo of Sabrina and mounted it on tissue paper and foam adhesive. My title comes from a JustNickStudio alphabet cut file. I placed a smaller velum rectangle on the yellow one to soften it up so that my title stands out a bit more.
I added a beautiful bicycle die cut from the Ephemera pack and created a ground with watercolors from my stash. I fussy cut tiny little flowers that I scattered on the ground around the bicycle and wrote down my journaling on a sticker from the sticker sheet.
Here are more close-ups:
It’s a very Springy page and I LOVE the bright color scheme!
I hope this layout inspires you to have a play with your frames from the Happy Days collection as well as to try some creative journaling techniques! To see how “Happy Moments Together” was created, check out the process video below:
