patterned paper

Love | Happy Days Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a lovely shelf design featuring the new Happy Days collection. I absolutely adore the bold rainbow patterned paper in this collection and decided to use it with some white cardstock to create these lovely, detailed shelves for my photos to rest on.

Next to each of my photos, I’ve paired it with a cut-apart piece from the A5 paper stack. Love these smaller cut-aparts! This gave me an opportunity to add a journaling spot to the layout. Layering embellishments into large horizontal clusters was a great way to keep the attention on the photos by limiting the attention drawn to each of the individual ephemera pieces.

I used a chipboard title “Love” on one of the smaller shelves. I purposely left plenty of white space and limited my embellishing to my shelves to give my eye a place to rest on the layout.  Each set of these shelves is balanced by using similar sized clusters.

  

I hope this layout inspires you to use your punches in a slightly different way! If you’d like to see how “Love” came together, check out the process video below.

 

Sweet happy memory | Storyteller | Josefine Van der Hoeven

 

Hello Paperlovers,

Today, I share with you a scrapbook layout I recently created using the beautiful “Storyteller” collection, designed by Cocoa Vanilla Studio. In this blog post, I will walk you through the process of creating a unique background using distress oxide in color of “faded jeans.” Additionally, I’ll show you three different ways to use a single patterned paper, along with a few embellishments, to complete this layout.

 

To set the foundation for my scrapbook layout, I decided to create a mixed media background using distress oxide ink. The color I use for this layout was “faded jeans.” With its subtle blue tones, it perfectly complemented the overall theme of my layout. The distressed effect added depth and texture to the background, setting the stage for the focal points of my design.

 

One of the highlights of the “Storyteller” collection is the stunning array of patterned papers it offers. The challenge for today is “one paper, three ways”

  1. Die-Cut Hearts with Blue Patterned Paper: To begin, I adorned the die-cut hearts with a beautiful blue patterned paper from the collection. The heart designs and soft hues added a touch of elegance to the layout. Placing the hearts strategically in the center of the layout.
  2. Next, I carefully hand-cut some flowers from the reverse side of the same patterned paper. The vibrant blooms provided a striking contrast against the blue mixed media background. I made two clusters of flowers on both side of the picture that I cut into a circle.
  3.  The third way I employed involved transforming the patterned paper into origami butterflies. This technique showcased the versatility of the paper and added an interactive element to the layout. By skillfully folding the paper, I created charming butterflies that seemed to flutter above the flowers, adding a whimsical touch to the overall design. 

    In addition to the patterned paper, I enhanced the layout further by incorporating a few embellishments. Wooden buttons, foam title stickers, and die-cut labels. These small details helped to tie everything together.

I would thank you for visiting the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog today and I hope that I have inspired you in some way through this exploration of the “Storyteller” collection and its limitless creative possibilities. Remember, each scrapbook layout is an opportunity to preserve and share your cherished memories. Embrace your own creativity and enjoy your journey in the world of paper crafting. Have a wonderfully creative day!

XoXo, Jo

So Sweet | Happy Days collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello friends!

It’s Sophie on the blog today with a new layout to share! I used the lovely new collection Happy Days again!

 

I created a mixed media background with inks and white acrylic paint. Then I fussy cut beautiful golden frames from the Specialty Gold Foil Paper and filled in the frames with several patterned papers from the A5 paper pack. I placed the frames around my black and white photo, and mounted them on foam adhesive.

 

I used the Alpha chipboards for my title and added watercolor paint to each letter.

 

Finally, I decorated the page with beautiful florals and die cuts from the Floral and Ephemera packs.

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the color scheme of this page. Hope you like it too !

Thank you for stopping by !

Sophie xx

You Bring The Sunshine | Happy Days | Kellie Moore

Welcome back to the CVS blog everyone..I hope you are all well.

It’s Kellie here today sharing another page with the brand new ‘Happy Days’ collection.

For today’s page I decided to stick to the cooler tones of the collection… this is a favourite colour combo for me…blues and yellows make my creative heart happy. Here is a look at the completed page..

 

I had two photos I wanted to scrap so I decided I would place one on the top right and the other on the bottom left and make two large embellished areas on my page. These pics are photos of my youngest boy when we were in Fiji…they are super sweet!

To start, I decided to create some frames using a frame die and picked out some of the papers from the 6×8 paper pad.. using frames really help to make your photos pop on the page..you could get the same effect by making large matts around your photos.

Next I wanted to ground the photos so they weren’t floating on the page… so I cut some large strips to pop under my photos. On the top photo I used the paper ‘Feel Good’ and the strip under my bottom photos is called ‘Sunshine Lollipops’.

Next I moved on to embellishing around my photos. Firstly I picked out some of the black and white frames from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I cut these in half and had them sticking out around my photos…this is a great way to stretch your supplies…two pieces for the price of one!!

On my top photo, I cut two word phrases from the 12 x12 cut apart paper called ‘ Feel Good’ and cut some of the hearts from the same paper to add to the bottom of my photo.. then above my photo I used a tab sticker and word phrase from the ‘Accessory Sticker Sheet.’

 

On my bottom photo, I picked out the ‘Hello’ banner and the ‘Best of Times’ from the  Die Cut Ephemera pack. Next to my left photo I used another tab sticker and word phrase from the Accessory Sticker sheet. I finished off my photo clusters with some florals I cut from the ‘Lush Blooms’ paper.

Next I worked on my title. I wanted to fill in the white space on the bottom right so this was the perfect spot. I used a mix of the Chipboard Title Stickers and the Mini Puffy Alphabets. Under the title I used a sun from the Die Cut Ephemera.

 

 

I wanted to balance my title so to the top right of my page I stencilled some clouds and used two clouds and a sun from the Die Cut Ephemera. To finish my page I added some of the heart Puffy Stickers.

 

Thanks for stopping by today, hopefully you found some inspiration from my page and you have been having fun with this gorgeous collection!

Stay scrappy!

Kel x

So Fun | Happy Days Collection | Laura Alberts

 

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts here with a rainbow grid layout using the new Happy Days collection! I used four 3×4 photos of my child getting their hair bleached and dyed, which is a summer tradition of ours. I love the bold, vivid colors in this collection that were perfect for these photos!

Behind two of the photos I tucked frames from the specialty paper and I love the gold shimmer this gives to the layout! I added a banner on top of one and a cluster of hearts and flowers on the other. My title is from the chipboard and is added into the center of another frame.

For my journaling, I used a cut apart piece and incorporated it into the grid. For the embellishing, I stuck to small clusters around the page using fussy cut icons and ephemera. My favorite parts were the little butterfly trails and the puffy hearts!

I hope this layout inspires you to try the grid style! If you’d like to see “So Fun” come together, check out the process video below!

 

So happy to meet you | Happy Days Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone! Welcome in another month! My assignment for today was to create project with “Motherhood” theme in mind as a part of celebrating Mother’s Day. I am both a child and a mom so I could approach this topic in two ways. However, I barely have any photos with my own mom (she is live and kicking, just hates taking photos) so I decided to scrapbook my own story. When our kids are born, we usually focus on taking photos of them, all the cute feet and smiles and everything but we often forget to include us into the picture. Who can blame us? We usually look tired and exhausted when a new baby is born, with no time for any makeup or doing hair. I am one of those mothers too and with my first daughter born I honestly do not have any photo of me and her that I would scrapbook and share in the public. I remembered this lesson with kid no 2! When we came back from the hospital, I washed my hair, put some maskara and asked my hubby to take us few photos on our own couch. They are not perfect, they are not posed properly, but they are filled with all the love and tenderness a new mom feels toward her baby.

One of those imprefect photos made it to this page. Maja was only one week old here and I was still recovering but I remember this moment so vividly – the pure happiness flooding me with tears in the corners of my eyes. The prefect human I just made was finally there to be touched, held and kissed. So tiny yet so perfect.

I reached for brand new CVS collection called HAPPY DAYS. The perfect name of line to scrapbook such a precious memory. My photo has a lot of contrast and unusual color combination but I managed to find just a perfect papers in this collection. I started with white, textured cardstock quickly drawing few wonky hearts on it using very soft watercolor crayons in four colors. Some are bigger and some are smaller. My custom made background was done withing few minutes.

Next step was to cut two tags and a rectangle from A5 PAPER STACK papers to create a composition. After glueing them down to the background, I took my fussy cutting scissors and LUSH BLOOMS and FLUTTERBY papers and I cut out bunch of flowers and butterflies in matching colors.

I glued them down and went through EPHEMERA PACK to find other elements that would fit my composition. I also created a title using CHIPBOARD TITLES. Some of the words are used as they were supposed to and some of them are a random letters pulled out from other words. This way “sweet” turned into “meet”. I just skipped S and rotated W into M. Just another way to spread your possibilities of using up scrappy stuff.

I finished the design by adding few puffy hearts for more texture. I really like the color combo on this page – I would probably not think of it if not the colors in the picture. It proves how versatile HAPPY DAYS collection it! With all the colors of the rainbow, you can easily pick only few to play with.

That is all for today! thank you so much for stopping by and see you again in two weeks.

XO Anna

You’re Beautiful | Happy Days collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends,

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

Have you seen the gorgeous new gold foiled specialty paper in this collection? It is soooo beautiful! I knew I had to use it for a layout! I decided to document some dress up photos of my niece, adding a total of 3 photos on this layout!

Make sure you get the specialty paper in your Happy Days collection order, you won’t be disappointed!

I took the gold foiled specialty paper and carefully cut out the centres of the ‘frames’ with my craft knife, leaving just the outline of each ‘frame’. I put the centres aside in case I want to use these on a project in the future. I then took the A5 paper stack and chose 1 of each of the papers from the pack and backed all the spaces in the papers where there were no photos. My title is made up of the gorgeous chipboard alphabet stickers. I placed the title split up so that it helps draw your eye around the layout.

Once all of the spaces were backed, I trimmed down the specialty paper and adhered this piece to the ‘B’ side of the ‘Definitive’ paper to frame the entire layout. I chose a variety of the beautiful embellishments in the collection to embellish each of the ‘frames’ including die-cuts from the ephemera pack, enamel hearts and dots, fabric puffy hearts and accessory stickers. Many of the embellishments have been adhered using craft foam underneath to add dimension to the page, I love how the craft foam creates shadows and dimension.

On some of the spaces, I chose to leave the embellishments off as I felt that the paper was enough for that space. You can in the below image, I left them off the rainbow paper and the round butterfly space. I also left the orange and lemon space free of embellishments and the horizontal rectangle at the bottom as well. Some of the spaces only have subtle embellishments such as the round space with the rainbow paper, I have only added 2 enamel hearts to this space.

I love how colourful and bright this collection is and how easy it is to create pretty projects! The collection made this page come together so easily and I love how it turned out! I can’t wait to see what you all create using this beautiful collection! Make sure you get your hands on it soon!

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!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Happy Days ! | Happy Days collection | SOPHIE DELORME

Hey Cocoa Vanilla friends!

It’s Sophie with you today and I am SO excited to share my very first layout with the AMAZING Happy Days collection!

I had an assignment to focus on florals for this page…My favorite assignment EVER!!

 

I decided to go with a rainbow themed layout with this beautiful “Sunshine Lollipops” that caught my eye instantly!

I cut along each colored strip at different lengths and rolled up the edges. I placed the rolled piece of paper on thick white cardstock and added a zigzag stitch with matching thread in the center of each colored strip.

I also placed a smaller piece of that rainbow paper on the left side of the layout and linked both piece of paper together with a very soft watercolor paint.

 

Then, I embellished the page with numerous flowers and leaves from the Floral Ephemera pack. I scattered them around the page in a tone-on-tone manner.

I fussy cut the title “Happy Days” from a packaging and mounted the words on foam adhesive before placing them on the top left corner of my photo.

 

Finally, I handwrote my journaling on a fussy cut label and added a few puffy stickers as the finishing touch.

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

This colorful page came together in no time, with only one sheet of patterned paper!

Hope this was inspiring for you! This whole Happy Days collection is a must have!!

Happy crafting!

Sophie xx

Together | Happy Days | Kellie Moore

Welcome back CVS fans, I hope you are all well.

Today I am back sharing my second layout with the new ‘Happy Days’ collection. For my page today I was tasked with the assignment of focusing on the floral ephemera…so easy when the florals are always so gorgeous in all Cocoa Vanilla collections right?! Here is a look at my page..

To start, I chose a cutfile from my stash (sorry it’s an older one so Im not sure where I got it.) I backed the large section of the heart in the yellow plaid which is called ‘Feel Good’..then I backed the flower with two papers from the A5 paper stack. To give the page more interest, I hand stitched around the flower and the heart.

For the design of my page I decided to go with a diagonal…this always looks good, and I used this opportunity to use the florals from the floral ephemera pack to flow down my page, placing them above my photos, under my title then down to the bottom right of my page.

When adhering my florals i like to give them dimension in several ways… adding foam adhesive, pinching the petals together and not sticking the flowers straight down onto the background. This allows them to ‘pop’ up off the page ..

Next to my photos on the right side, I used one of the cut cards from the A5 paper stack.. it suits my pics perfectly!

For my title I used the word ‘Together’ from the Chipboard Title Stickers, I love the the playful font on these.

Under my photos I used some of the word phrases from the cut apart sheet called ‘Feel Good’ as well as from the A5 paper stack..

To finish my page I added some yellow oxide ink around my heart to create depth and dimension… super easy way to add mixed media followed by a sprinkle of the puffy stickers.

Thats it for today, I hope you enjoyed my page and you are starting to get to play with this fun new collection.

Til next time!

Kel

Awesome | Happy Days Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura back again with a new layout featuring the stunning new collection Happy Days! These sweet photos from our trip to Michigan over Thanksgiving were perfect for this color scheme and I just had to give them a big bold purple mat to let them pop off the page!

One of my favorite pieces in this collection are these puffy fabric hearts! They are so soft and add a sweet, whimsical feel to the page. I used them to embellish the cut-apart labels that I wrote out my journaling on.

 

To give my design a little extra flair, I layered some floral and icon ephemera with this “Awesome” cut-apart piece to create a dramatic title that helps focus the attention on my photos as well as accent the shape of this simple, linear design.

I hope this layout inspires you to pull out your puffy embellishments from Happy Days or any of the past collections and give them some love! To see how “Awesome” came together, check out the process video below.

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