It’s Anna here with you today. Welcome back to the blog! This Saturday is Valentine’s Day and the ladies of the design team will be creating projects full of love during the weekend. Today I want to share with you this lovely page featuring the beautiful Daydream Collection. I decided to document a photo of my oldest daughter with his father when she was almost two years old. I love this funny picture.
I started with the Daisy Days Paper as my background. It matches the greens of the photo and gives to the page the country look that I was looking for. And the wreath perfectly frames the title and the photo.
For my title, I cut the word “love” with my cutting machine. It’s not a cut file, I just used a font that I have on my computer. I cut it from the All Aflutter Paper and the outline from the Sun Shower Paper. Y stacked them together with foam dots to add more dimension and place it a little croocked on the page. On top of the “V” and “E”, I placed one of the die cuts to complete the title.
Below it, I placed my photo, matted by a piece of the Daisy Days Paper from the 6×8 paper pack. I embellished it with some die cuts, which I raised up with foam. I also put a puffy fabric heart and a flair button.
Around the wreath, I added more flowers because I wanted it to have more volume and integrate the title. Finally, some more die cuts and a phrase from the accessory stickers.
I love how it turned out. And remember that you can create your own cut files taking advantage of the fonts on your computer.
Thank you so much for stopping by today. I wish you a wonderful weekend and a Happy Valentine’s Day!
It’s Sophie on the blog today with a school themed project to share !
All I used on this page comes from the beautiful “Wild at Heart” collection.
I chose the last photo of Sabrina doing home school before the Christmas Holidays. Home schooling during this pandemic has been very hard on her but overall she managed it quite well, and I wanted to highlight that on my page.
That’s why I used this beautiful cut file “You Got This” from Paige Evans as my starting point.
I used thick white cardstock for my background and applied watercolor where I planned to put my big title. I went for blue and purple tones of watercolor to match the collection and to make sure that my title stands out.
I cut the cut file on white cardstock and carefully stitched it to my background once completely dry.
I cut a piece of the “Mariposa” patterned paper for the inner part of the “O” in the word “Got” and backed it with adhesive foam to add my subtitle “Just Be You”, cut out of the “Fussy Cuts” patterned paper.
I backed my photo with tissue paper, adhesive foam, the “Grow Wild” paper and a teared piece of the “Patchwork” paper, and placed it at an angle next to the title.
I grounded my page with two large teared strips of patterned papers: “Double Dot” and “Artisan” papers.
I embellished my page with beautiful fussy cut flowers out of the “Luscious” patterned papers and created floral clusters on the top and bottom of the page. I also added a few butterflies and wrote down my journaling on one of the paper strip.
Here are a few more close-ups:
I love the visual impact of this big title on the page. Isn’t the color scheme of the Wild at Heart collection seriously amazing ??!
I hope that you felt inspired today, thank you so much for stopping by !
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a fun boy layout! This is an update for my son’s album of his new style, glasses and very long hair. I used the gorgeous Legendary collection, especially the All Star patterned paper and the die cut ephemera. Starting with the larger stars, I created a border on either side of my photos that frame the images in the center. I added gradually smaller and smaller stars, many punched from scraps leftover from previous projects! To add a bit of detail, I added dots of Nuvo for a splattered effect.
I used the die cut titles that accompanied this collection for my “Cool Dude” as well as a phrase sticker from the 6×12 sticker sheet. In the gap between the photo and the title, I squeezed in a quick note about his updated appearance, which has changed quite a lot in the last year! Enamel dots were perfect to add a bit of dimension to some of the stars as well.
On a few of the larger stars, I added small word phrase stickers with angles cut into the edges or arrows from the die cut pack. I love the way this mix of colors worked so well with my photos and was glad to find some of the scraps I had punched were red, which is a common color for my boys to wear! Once I added a neutral border to contain all the flying stars, it felt complete!
I hope this star-filled layout inspires you to look at your scraps a little differently! You can use punches and fussy cutting to use up even the smallest bits and pieces in a collection! To see how the “Cool Dude” layout came together, check out the process video below!
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a super silly 9×12 layout featuring non-holiday themed photos using the delightfully holiday themed Merry & Bright collection! I particularly adore the florals in this collection and really wanted to make them the shine on this page. With two black and white photos on a wood grain background, using the Season’s Greetings patterned paper, these photos automatically ‘pop’ on this background regardless of how much color I add on.
I clustered together a number of fussy cut florals to create a border along the bottom of the photos, adding in a couple of the puffy stars for a bit of non-paper texture. I loved the gold tones these added to the page and reached into my stash for some large gold sequins to add as well.
For the strands of hearts along the bottom, I drew lines with my white gel pen, then added an assortment of hearts and the outlines of hearts (that I cut from the punch-out packaging!). These outlines are then backed with pocket page cards and paper scraps. The hearts that didn’t have an outline were drawn one with my white gel pen. By alternating between sequins and hearts, with a little bit of Nuvo drops in between, this gives a lovely detail to the bottom of the page as well as tying in the gold from the stars.
I have included a sketch based on this layout to inspire you to give this design a try! I hope the sketch for this layout inspires you and this embellishment style encourages you to look at your collections a little differently! It’s fun to see how you can change things up. If you’d like to see the Sweet Memories layout come together, I have the entire process in the video below!
Hello everyone!! It’s Melissa here and I’m so happy to be here for Throwback Thursday. The first thing I always do for Throwback Thursday is pull out all of my Cocoa Vanilla collections and decide which one I’m going to use. I decided that for this layout, I’d let the members of our Facebook Group decide, so I made a poll with the following collection options: Happiness, More Than Words, Bohemian Dream and Midnight. Happiness won by a landslide, but a couple of people asked for a mashup, and several other others likes this suggestion. So I decided to make Happiness my main collection, and incorporate something from each of the other three collections!! Such a fun challenge to set myself!!
I chose a photo of oldest and youngest daughters, and my main reason for choosing it was for the pink and purple colours in it! It goes perfectly with Happiness.
I created a mixed media background focussing on pink, purple, blue and gold. I also added subtle white splatters to tie it all in together. I mostly used the packaging technique, and also splattering. I used a manual die cut machine to cut two different sizes of triangles from the paper scraps I had leftover from Happiness. After I had adhered all of my triangles I machine stitched through them in bright pink thread for texture and interest.
I heat embossed the large floral stamp from More Than Words with gold metallic embossing powder. I love how elegant it turned out!
The large chipboard “beautiful” is from Bohemian Dream, and I kept it white so it would pop against all of the other colours on my page. The “together” die cut title is from Midnight.
I also used Accessory Stickers and from Happiness and Midnight over the top of the triangles and stitching, and I love the whimsy that it adds!! I wrote my journalling on a cut apart piece that I fussy cut.
I made a process video, which you can watch below.
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I hope I inspired you to pull out your older Cocoa Vanilla Studio collections, and to even mix them up a little!
Hello friends. Have you seen brand new “Sunkissed” line reveal? I am so excited about this collection. It’s like combination of all my favorite things in one: summer, rainbows, seaside and vivid colors. I still have to wait for few weeks to dive into it but it gives me more time to play with another gorgeous collection – “Daydream“. I still have plenty of papers and embellishments in my stash so I decided to make another page. This time I reached for quite old photos of tiny Maja ans scrapbooked them in sweet and cute way.
I mixed together two papers to make my background – solid “Happy place” pattern and “All flutter” cut into film strips. I made them using my edge punch, that I own for ages. I challenged myself to use more of my tools this year. I glued the strips only in the middle are so i was able to bend the edges and tuck some elements behind them.
Next step was to add photos and flower clusters around them. You can find plenty of pretty florals in ephemera pack. I focused in ones in pink, coral and yellow colors trying to keep my page quite monochromatic. I also fussy cut cute, little rainbows from “Up in the clouds” paper. They are just a perfect little embellishment!
I finished my composition adding few fabric, puffy hearts. They are so cute and give such a nice texture to the page. I also added little flair button. I am running low on them and tend to hoard them :) but I managed to overcome my parsimony. Last step was adding title using my stash of alpha stickers. Maja just learned how to send kisses with her hand and my hubby took photo in the right time, when she was doing that. Hence “Sending kisses” title. I so miss those days, when she was so tiny and cute.
I really like how this page turned out and I am glad I used my punch to make those strips. They create little anchors for all the embellishments so they do not float on the empty background.
Thank you so much for stopping by and see you soon in my other post <3
Hello Hello! It’s Michelle here with you today to share a new layout. I’ve used a couple of different collections for this layout as part of our current ‘Green and Gold’ theme. A mixture of Legendary and Boys Rule with a hint of Daydream and Unforgettable.
When I think of ‘Green & Gold’ I picture bright Aussie style colours – Green & Yellow. So thats exactly where this colour palette took me on this creative journey this week. There are so many wonderful green patterns within the extended Cocoa Vanilla Studio range, but the shade of green I’ve used for this layout is by far my most favourite of them all.
To begin I created a grid style layout featuring a couple of cute photos of Lelia and her beloved bunny from a few years back that I printed out in Black & White. I cut out 3.5″ frames from papers in the Legendary Collection for both the photos and title areas ( Wild One & Explorer ) and added a strip of dotted paper along the bottom (Straight & Narrow) from the Boys Rule Collection.
This kid is an absolute HOOT! Her imagination has been wild from the beginning. This day in particular was so fun, creating a ‘Box Coaster’ for them to ride around the galaxy haha
I kept the embellishing of each frame to a minimum by using word stickers ( Accessory Stickers sheet – Legendary ), sticker heart ( Accessory Stickers sheet – Daydream ), tiny fussy cut stars ( All Star – Legendary ) and an arrow ( Ephemera pack – Legendary ). Both frames adhered to the layout using a piece of foam sheet to give a slight hint of dimension.
The title area of the layout also acts as a tidy spot for some hidden journalling. The ‘Wild and Free’ card can be found on the Epic Tales cut apart paper in the Legendary Collection and the hidden journalling card and ‘Be Rad’ piece can be found on the ‘Boy Stuff’ cut apart paper in the Boys Rule Collection.
Heres a peek at the journalling ..
I cut the card down slightly, rounded the edges on the right and made a tag top including punched hole at the opposite end to add string and tie a bow.
In the top right frame I added a couple extra words that can be used as part of an extended title. The white alphas are by far my most used Cocoa Vanilla Studio embellishment by far, and those foam words from the Unforgettable Collection work so well with pretty much every collection there is.
I sewed the white alphas down so that they stay in place for years to come, but also to add a little extra design element to the layout. I added machine stitching around both of the yellow frames to keep the white X paper in place (Star Fall – Boys Rule). The ‘You are my Sunshine’ can be found on the Daydream Collection Accessory Sticker Sheet and the green tab is a sticker from the Legendary Collection Accessory Sticker Sheet.
Lastly I added a bunch of fussy cut starts in green and yellow to the bottom left and top right of the layout, scattered to give the grid style layout a slight ‘diagonal’ design feel. I also added my usual splattering of gold ink to finish it all off.
Well friends thats all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my take on our current ‘Green & Gold’ theme, be sure to share yours with us in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community Facebook Group.
Until Next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle x
PS.. A little side note regarding the fabulous Boys Rule Collection…. Because all us crazy crafters LOVED it so so much when it was originally released, back in the day, sadly its no longer available.
It’s Sophie on the blog today with another layout created with the beautiful Merry & Bright collection.
I highlighted a beautiful everyday moment of Sabrina playing with a new app on her Ipad.
I decided to use my label punch to create a design.
I punched several labels out of different patterned papers from the collection and aligned them in two vertical rows on the left side of the page. I machine stitched on them with white thread for more interest.
I emphasised my photo, the focal point of my page, by putting a big rectangle of the wood grain “Season’s Greetings” patterned paper behind it. I also added framed from the Ephemera pack behind the photo, as well as tissue paper and adhesive foam.
I put my title, created with alphabet dies, on top of the photo, and created a big floral cluster on the right lower corner of the page.
Finally, I embellished with scattered flowers and stickers some of the labels, and wrote down my journaling on one of the Pocket Cards from the same collection.
Here are some close-ups:
I hope you like this page ! It’s another example of a layout not Christmas related created with a gorgeous Christmas collection. And using a punch with a repetitive image is a great way to use many different patterned papers on a page without making it too busy..!
Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with two bright, cheerful pocket pages featuring the stunning Happiness collection. I thought this collection worked beautifully with January’s Mood Board because it had many of the colors as well as a really stunning painted look. To join in on the mood board inspiration, be sure to join us in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Facebook Group!
One of the many reasons that I adore Cocoa Vanilla Studio’s collections is that they are always super versatile and can be used on a variety of projects. These pocket pages use a lot of the cut aparts from the Little Things patterned paper, ephemera pieces, and scraps! This top left card is layers of scraps with a sticker tag and ephemera journaling spot.
For the title card, I fussy cut the wreath from the ephemera pack and layered the flower pot and some hearts and florals together. My favorite part of this card is the clear sticker paint swatch, it adds a little idea of depth because it’s layered behind the flower pot. A little bit of Nuvo drops finishes it off with the detailing that really makes it feel finished. On the card below the title, I added tiny, fussy cut florals to the heart cut apart pieces and a word phrase to personalize it!
On this bottom card, I created a 4×6 card from paper scraps and then layered the green paper as a mat under my photo. Two hearts tucked in together below a word phrase sticker with tiny, fussy cut florals for added detail. The butterfly is fussy cut from the Bright & Beautiful patterned paper in the 6×8 paper pad.
For the title card on the second page, I used clear stickers for the paint stripes and title with a few fussy cut florals and butterflies for a whimsical touch. I added little dots of Nuvo drops to create butterfly trails.
I kept the embellishing fairly simple on my photos so as not to draw attention away from them. This pocket page had a common theme of how snuggly my twins had become and featured so many sweet photos of them cuddled up with me and their siblings.
This bottom card is my favorite from the whole page! I used clear stickers, backed with white cardstock, to cluster behind the photo of my oldest and youngest girls. Layering a couple of cut aparts on the right side to add some journaling. I really enjoy how beautifully the patterned papers work for creating 3×4 and 4×6 cards for pocket pages!
I hope these pocket pages inspire you to look at your pattern papers a little differently! It’s fun to see how you can change things up and use scrapbooking collections for pocket pages or a variety of other projects.
Hi Creative friends, Gwen back on the blog today with a new share for Cocoa Vanilla Studio using the brand new ‘DayDream‘ collection. For today’s share, I’m working with this picture of me. Yes, I’m still on a bit of a mission to scrapbook more layouts featuring photos of myself. I tend to do a lot of my daughter so it’s been fun to create a couple recently of me.
The idea for the page definitely started with the photo for this one, and with it being black and white, I thought it might be fun to pop it onto a coloured background. I’ve gone with the grey and white spot pattern in the ‘Garden Variety‘ pattern paper. I’ve used both sides of this paper for my background, adding a frame around the edge of my layout using the floral side. I’ve added stitching in a pretty pink thread for an added detail.
Next up, I’ve backed my cut file. This one is from CUT to YOU and I’ve used more of the ‘Garden Variety‘ pattern paper to do this. I’ve also used ‘Sweet Serenity‘ and ‘All Aflutter‘ pattern papers as well.
I’ve used these same papers to mat my photo, opting for a double mat for this page.
For the embellishments, I’ve fussy cut elements from the ‘Happy Place‘ pattern paper including the sweet rainbows and cute tab elements. I’ve also used some fussy cut florals from the ‘Garden Variety‘ pattern paper. I’ve teamed these with pieces from the ‘Ephemera Pack‘ as well as a ‘Puffy Hearts‘ and ‘Flair Button‘.
To finish the page, I’ve fussy cut out three moths from the ‘All Aflutter‘ pattern paper and added to my page with foam tape.
I’ve also made a process video for this layout which you can watch here:
I hope you enjoyed seeing me make this page and that it inspires you to get creating with your Cocoa Vanilla Studio goodies.
