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Spring Days and Icecream | Daydream | Kellie Moore

Kellie Moore 18/10/2022

Welcome back to the CVS blog friends…hope you are doing well!

It’s Kellie here, and today I’m sharing a page with this months prompt of ‘Spring.’ For my page, I have used a lot of the ‘Daydream’ collection with a bit of ‘Storyteller’ thrown in…. here it is!

To start my page, I used the paper from ‘Daydream’ that is a white with a black dot….this is a great paper to use as a background as it’s not too busy. Next I decided to look through my cutfiles to see what I had that would help represent spring…and this one from Confessions of a Paper Addict with the suns, rainbows and clouds was perfect! To back the cutfile I used a bunch of the papers from both Daydream and Storyteller and added in some plain vellum for the clouds as they give a nice, soft effect. For the centre of the suns, I made some shaker pockets with some yellow/gold sequins.

To add some more colour to my page I used some distress oxides behind different spots of my cutfile to enhance the design.

For my title I used some yellow alphas from my stash and the word ‘Days’ is from the Daydream ephemera. I love using different fonts in my titles!

I love the florals in the Daydream collection so I used these next to my title and on the right hand side of my picture. I also added some butterflies around my page….

I hope you enjoyed my ‘Spring’ inspired page today and you are having fun with your Cocoa Vanilla products.

See you next time!

Kellie

So Funny | No Limits collection | Guest designer – Kellie Moore

Zoe Pearn 18/03/2022

Hi everyone, please welcome guest designer Kellie Moore to our blog today…

Hello CVS fans!

My name is Kellie Moore and I am very excited and honoured to be a guest designer for Cocoa Vanilla Studio. I have been scrapbooking for around 15 years and it is my therapy and relaxation from the crazy times we are living in! I live on the gorgeous Tweed Coast with my husband and 3 boys, so when I was given the ‘No Limits’ collection to play with I was beyond excited and I have had so much fun with it. I will be sharing 4 projects with you over the coming month. I’m not sure how I would describe my style, I love layers and texture and every now and then having a small play with mixed media … I could live without paint but COULD NOT live without patterned paper! I hope you enjoy my creations and I inspire you to get crafty.

When I started on my first layout I loved the the subtle grey paper called ‘Universal’ so I decided to use that for my background. I cut this paper down to a 11.5 inch square and then created a mat around it with the ‘Latitude’ paper to bring a nice pop to the page… I really love how bright and fun those stripes are.

I decided for this page I wanted to scrap these 2 photos of my son being a goofball… my photos are slightly smaller than 6×4. I added a small white border around each photo then used red cardstock around one photo to help pull out the red in my sons shirt then used a piece of the yellow ‘Latitude’ paper to mat my other photo, Both pictures are popped up on some foam adhesive.

When I first opened the ephemera pack I immediately fell in love with the large stars and decided to make some sequin shakers with them. I pulled out some co-ordinating colours of sequins and added the stars diagonally … one to the top left and one to the bottom right of my photos to help create balance on the page, then added a smaller star to the bottom left to create a visual triangle.

Underneath my photos I wanted to add more pattern so I cut some strips of different papers and layered them to help fill the space.

For my title I pulled out the die cut titles and decided ‘So Funny’ was perfect for these photos . Again I popped the title up on foam to help it stand out on the page.

Now that the base of the page was done I added a few more pieces from the ephemera pack, chipboard pieces, puffy stickers and wood epoxy stickers to help finish off the page.

Lastly I added some phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet that summed up my crazy boy.

I hope you enjoyed my first page for CVS and I will be back soon with my next creation.

Stay scrappy!

Kel

3D Christmas Crackers and Gift Tags | Joyful Collection| Rachel Lowe

Rachel Lowe 21/12/2021

Hello CVS friends, well the Christmas countdown is almost done and today I have some quick and easy gift tags and Christmas crackers created using the new Joyful collection!

I love Christmas wrapping and making my gifts extra special. I use brown paper and then decorate with my tags and ribbon. I used the 6×8 Joyful paper pad to create these, I love the smaller prints of these papers which are perfect for smaller items. My tags are 3×4 inches which gives you enough space to decorate.

On two of my tags I created a 3d heart so you can add a note inside, this cut file is from the Silhouette design store. I chose my colour hues so they coordinated but also provided a contrast against my brown paper wrapping. I used a mix of Joyful die cut ephemera, chipboard and puffy stickers to decorate. The puffy stickers are perfect when you are creating smaller paper crafts.

I created a sequin shaker on the third tag. I used the Christmas tree shaped sequin shaker dome by Sizzix, they are cheap and so easy to use! I filled mine with a sequin mix I made by combining numerous sequins from my stash.

See how perfect the puffy stickers are for decorating the Christmas tree finished off with a glitter star and wooden flair.

I used a cut file from SVG cuts to create my crackers, I love the heart opening/closing ends. These are big enough to add sweet treats or small gifts.

These tags and gift crackers are so cute and Joyful is a wonderful modern Christmas collection that can be used for more then just scrapbook layouts.

I wish you all a wonderful and safe Christmas with family and friends. I can’t wait to share more inspiration with you in 2022!

Rachel X

sequin shaker

Spring Days and Icecream | Daydream | Kellie Moore

So Funny | No Limits collection | Guest designer – Kellie Moore

3D Christmas Crackers and Gift Tags | Joyful Collection| Rachel Lowe

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