Scrapbooking layout

Shine | Love Always Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again and I’m dipping into an OLD collection from 2016! After organizing my craft space, I found this collection and just had to dive in! It’s such a stunning mix of pastels and gray tones that were perfect for these first snow pictures. The title ephemera is from Midnight, but the rest is all from Love Always.

I started with this beautiful mixed media-style background paper, a strip of teal, then used ephemera pieces to create a border in between. The Nuvo drops and ephemera hearts along the right side gave this layout a fun pop of interest that it needed.

I cut out two tags from the patterned paper and layered them behind my photos, then built up two clusters that run diagonally through the photos. The cluster on the top leans to the right and the one on the bottom leans to the left. This guides the eye through the layout, and added to the butterflies, creates a sense of movement on the page.

If you’d like to see how “Shine” came together, be sure to check out the process video below!

https://youtu.be/huuE0ZR8kwU

Life is Good | Sunkissed collection | Sophie Delorme

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends!

 

It’s Sophie with you today and I am thrilled to share my layout inspired by the May challenge!

 

 

The challenge this month is called “Flower Frenzy”: Using flowers as the main design element of a layout… The more the better…!

 

I used the Sunkissed collection for this colorful page and went with big floral clusters all around my black and white photo.

 

I drew a few flowers on three A5 patterned papers, cut them out and hand stitched on each petal. They served as a background for the flowers and leaves that are from the Sunkissed floral ephemera pack.  It adds texture and depth to the clusters, and even though it’s very bold and colorful, it doesn’t compete with the black and white photo, that still stays the star of the page.

 

 

I teared a big chunk of the “Feelin’ Fine” paper and placed it on the upper part of the layout. I fussy cut a few clouds out of the “Just Chillin’” paper and used some Clear Stickers for my title.

 

 

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s a very simple page with only beautiful florals as embellishments, and I love it!!

 

I hope you do too!!

 

You have the whole month of May to participate in this floral challenge. You can use any Cocoa Vanilla Studio collection, as they all have a huge amount of gorgeous flowers that can be used.

 

Happy crafting !!

 

Sophie xx

Fun times | The great escape Layout | Anna Komenda

Welcome everyone. It’s Anna here with another page made with newest Cocoa Vanilla collection called “The great escape”. To be honest, I am more beach girl and trails, tents and campfires are not my first choice when it comes to spending free time. I do not have many photos from the wild to scrapbook with this line but it doesn’t stop me! Having fun has many shades. This time I picked two photos taken during one of the rides in theme park. Colors on them match “The great escape” perfectly.

For this page I created a little scene with a guidepost. I was inspired by one of the ephemera pieces to make one. I started with splashing white cardstock with light blue mist. Next step was to create a ground for my sighpost using two papers with green patterns: “Journey” and “Direction“.

Wooden pattern on the sighpost is from the older “No limits” collection. Yellow one is a piece of “Horizon” paper and orange one is “Happy camper” paper. Words on the sigh are made with alpha die and “Starry night” pattern. White “sky” felt very empty so I added few whimsical clouds hand cut from “Adventurer” paper.

It was time to add photos. I backed each of them with a piece of blue pattern paper from A5 Paper Stack. As usual, I embelished the area around the photos using bits and pieces from Ephemera Pack, elements cut out from “Wild life” paper and stickers from Accessory Stickers sheet.

As always I finished my pages adding tiny Puffy Stickers. They are my favourite final accent.

How do you like my idea for a simple, handmade scene? You can change things up by adding more words to the pole, changing theme from landscape to beach or a city. It’s a really versatile type of design.

That is all for today. Thank you so much for spending your time with mee and see you in May!

XO

Anna

Our Family | Heart & Home Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts here with a diagonal design using the stunning Heart & Home collection. I adored these frames and was excited to use them for my Thanksgiving photos with extended family. I started with a Bazzill navy cardstock and cut this lovely text patterned paper from corner to corner to layer on top.

Along the seam of the two papers, I stair-stepped my framed photos with the title ephemera in between to connect them. To fill the open corners, I added a combination of vellum and card stock ephemera flowers. Tiny, fussy cut flowers are sprinkled around the edges, along with Nuvo drops.

I added in a few bits from the cut-apart sheet and finished the layout off with these adorable puffy heart stickers and a sketchy border all the way around.

To see how “Our Family” came together, be sure to check out the process video below:

https://youtu.be/yvJUp_Gqyvw

 

 

Explore | Great Escape collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new layout featuring the awesome Great Escape collection.

Last year I was lucky enough to go to Ayers Rock for work, this collection is absolutely perfect for my photo, the colours match so well!

Lately I have been creating layouts that mainly just use embellishments, with very little patterned paper added to my layout, this layout is one of these where I chose just 3 different papers however 2 of them were just small strips, 1 strip from the Adventurer paper and 1 from the Wild Life paper. My background paper is the Happy Camper paper. I created my layout on plain white cardstock and trimmed the plain cardstock down to measure 11′ x 11′, once trimmed, I adhered it to the Happy Camper paper. Next, I machine-stitched a border around the outside.

Next, I added my photo with a frame die-cut layered underneath, adhering it with some craft foam to add some dimension. On the left-hand side of the photo, I tucked in the tag from the Accessory sticker sheet and also another piece of paper from the Wild Life paper. I then added both of the strips of patterned papers to the bottom, placing them horizontally. At the top, I added some chipboard and another die-cut. I layered the banner sticker in the top right-hand corner of the photo too. On the right of the photo, I placed another of the stickers from the Accessory sticker sheet.

My title is one of the puffy title stickers, I placed this at the bottom of my photo. I placed some more chipboard pieces including the arrow on the left hand side and the road sign on the bottom left corner of the photo and the Let’s Go banner also from the chipboard pack. I also placed some of the puffy stars from the title pack around the layout. Lastly I added some of the phrase stickers from the Accessory sticker sheet to help tell the story, stamped the date stamp and sprinkled some black mist.

Thanks 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

With Love | Heart & Home Collection | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts back again with a lovely layout using the Heart & Home collection to scrap these photos documenting my newest obsession, crochet! The colors in this collection worked beautifully with the yarn that I used in the very first project I made. This blanket is a bit of a mess, but I learned so much!

I used a simple shelf design for this layout with two 6 inch strips of wood grain patterned paper for each base. This was a great design for using up scraps and hiding the rough edges behind my photos. All of the layers made this simple background interesting and fun! In addition, I used the vellum flowers that I fussy cut from the Heart & Home specialty paper to create clusters behind my photos.

The details of these clusters really help my layout shine! I especially love the tiny florals that I scattered around my clusters and titles. These are all fussy cut from the stunning patterned papers in this collection. I also outlined each of the paper layers with a black gel pen to give them a hint of shadow for a 3D look!

To see how “With Love” came together, check out the process video below:

The Outdoors is Calling | Great Escape | Sophie Delorme

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends!

It’s Sophie here today with a new layout using the Great Escape collection!

 

When I saw this 3×4 card “The outdoors is calling” on the “Wild Life” paper, I knew exactly what photo to use and it was my starting point for the whole page!

I framed the photo and card on the wood grain “Starry Night” paper, framed everything on white cardstock and placed it on the “Star Gazing” paper.

I teared a big chunk of the “Adventurer” paper and placed it beneath the white rectangle, adding a fussy cut scalloped border from the “Wild Life” paper.

 

I hand stitched around the white rectangle and added a few cross stitches on the wood grain frame as well.

I used a label from the “Wild Life” paper to handwrite my date and placed Chipboard Stickers around my pocket card and photo to embellish the page.

 

Here are more close-ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a simple and more masculine page, and it makes the photo stand out so well!!

I hope that it can give you new ideas to try!

Thank you for stopping by!

Sophie xx

Wild Adventure | Great Escape | Laura Alberts

Hey y’all! Laura Alberts here again with a fun camp-out layout using the stunning new Great Escape collection. It’s such a fun mix of nature and camping themes! I love the navy and gray tones mixed with brighter tones.

For this outdoorsy photo, I thought this fantastic background was perfect! I added some lovely curly cloud cut files from the Silhouette shop to the Horizon patterned paper. Using a piece of A5 wood grain paper as a base, I built up a window frame for the photo.

The journaling spot is from the cut-apart sheet in this collection, as are the word phrases that are layered over the fussy cut clouds. A chipboard title along with die cut icons brings all of the colors together and draws the eye directly into the 4×6 photo of my son. I love how this layout captures the excitement as well as the setting of this picture.

To see how “Wild Adventure” came together, check out the process video below:

Let’s go | The Great Escape Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with another page made with brand new “The great escape” collection. it just landed on CVS shelves and you can purchase a whole bundle to get every element from this line! Once again I reached for the photos from our family travels. Since my girls are not little anymore, they do not pose to the photos as much as they used to so I need to stick to our summer memories. Rest of the year is almost non existant in my phone camera :) Beside the dog. He fills up the void.

This time I reached for photos from our visit in one of the Netherland’s beautiful towns called Giethoorn, where instead of roads for cars, are water canals for boats. It looks so picturesque and we had an amazing time on the rental boat. I printed five small photos and placed them in a row, so they look like from a  photo booth.

 I started with white cardstock as a layout base adding few strips of several pattern papers under the photo. I used: “Happy camper“, “Horizon“, “Direction” and “Journey” patterns. Photos glued in a row on a strip of “Adventurer” paper were the next layer.

I spend some time fussy cutting banners from “Happy camper” paper to add them onto the page in few spots. After they were glued down, I used a string in natural color to make them look connected. Embellishing was quite easy and fast. I used few wood slices from Ephemera Pack and some stars from Chipboard Stickers.

My title was created with words from Puffy Title Stickers, that I places in the bottom of the page. I also added smaller word, with the name f the town, using Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers from older “Heart & Home” collection. Their color matches “The great escape” collection perfectly. I finished my project with super cute Puffy Stickers.

And that it all for today! Thank you so much for spending your precious time with me and see you in April!

XO

Anna

Lovely view Costa Rica | Daydream | Josefine vd Hoeven

 

Hello creative Paperlovers,

Welcome and how lovely to see you on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog. This time, I’ve created a scrapbook layout using the oh-so-beautiful “Day Dream” collection. I had some scraps left over and couldn’t resist capturing the gorgeous view of Costa Rica with Day Dream. The view is truly dreamy.

 

 

As almost always, my base is a lovely white sheet of cardstock. I use an extra white cardstock sheet to cut out a square of 8×8 inches. I stitch the edges of the square with a white stitched border using white sewing thread and placing the 8×8 square on my desk.

 

I start decorating the edges with the fussy-cut Day Dream flowers. I create lovely clusters of flowers both in the top left and bottom right corners. I die-cut four butterflies from the 5×8 patterned paper  pack and stitch them in the center with white sewing thread. I frame the photo with a wood-colored photo frame and position it in the center of the custom-cut 8×8 square.

 

For the title, I use various alphabet sets and a black and white word title. The colored puffy stickers are from the “These Days” collection. The title of this layout is “Lovely View, Costa Rica.” I scatter the butterflies playfully across the layout. I also cut out a few more butterflies from the Day Dream patterned paper and place them on top of the clusters.

I fold the edges of the 8×8 square slightly and then adhere the square on top of the white 12×12 cardstock sheet using 3D foam tape. This makes it protrude slightly from the whole, giving a very nice and playful effect. Finally, I mix white gesso with some water and splatter it onto my layout. I hope I’ve inspired you with this layout and shown you how you can create fun layouts with leftovers. Wishing you all a very happy and creative day!

XoXo, Jo

 

 

 

 

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