Hello CVS friends! Today I am sharing a grid type layout using hexagons. I am using the beautiful Storyteller collection.
I have used a hexagon cut file from the Silhouette design store which I cut in white. I used the A5 paper pad to paper piece the hexagons, I love how you have smaller print designs in the paper pad and it saves your 12×12 paper for larger projects. I also fussy cut some elements from the project life cards.
I created embellishment clusters on the hexagons using them as a grid. I used foam tape to add many of the embellishments as it adds dimension. Using different embellishment types such as floral ephemera, wood epoxy buttons and accessory stickers adds texture.
I love using the word and phrase sentiments from the accessory stickers as my journaling. I fussy cut some butterflies and added over my page. I decided to cut my photo as a hexagon also and matted it so it would contrast against the smaller hexagons. I then created a floral cluster over and under my photo.
This photo shows the visual impact using foam tape and different textures on your layout can make, it really does stop it look ‘flat’. Also layering is a key, layering under and over.
Lastly I used the foam title stickers to create my title, the black foam is a wonderful contrast against a white background. A simple layout that was fun to put together!
Thank you for stopping by and see you again later in the month.
Happy New Year CVS friends! I am starting off the creative year with a layout welcoming 2023. I have used the beautiful Storyteller collection.
The camera and 2023 are cut files available from the Silhouette Design store. I have used the A5 paper pad for all the paper piecing of the cut files and Ditsy Daisy 12×12 paper for the side border strips.
I added some gold glitter cardstock to my camera and finished off by adding a wood epoxy button which creates the first word of my title.
I then created a floral cluster to the left of the camera, tucking some under the camera and foamed taped some over the top to create dimension. These blooms are from the Floral die cut ephemera.
To balance the top part of my page I added some die cuts and fussy cut butterflies to the right of the camera, again I added some with foam tape to add dimension.
So the 2023 stood out I used a dark outer and light floral for numbers, I added these with foam tape so they didn’t appear flat. I add a small cute butterfly wood epoxy button to finish the 2023 title off.
once I added my photo I used an Accessory Sticker phrase sentiment ‘turn the page’, perfect for the theme of my layout. I added some hearts from the foam title stickers which add a contrast.
A fun layout to kick off 2023 and an opportunity to scrap a photo of you!
Thank you for stopping by today and see you again later in the month.
Hello scrappy friends! Today I have a 8.5×11 inch layout using the beautiful Storyteller collection with a focus on the floral die cut ephemera.
I found this lovely hanging basket cut file by Paige Evans (Silhouette design store) and knew it would be perfect to fill with the floral die cuts. I firstly cut it as a whole using the Cross it off paper (wood grain side). I then cut it whole again in white cardstock. I then cut off the hanging leaves in the wood grain and added the white cardstock ones. I paper backed the basket with a blue paper piece from the A5 paper pad.
I used Spring Fling paper to add a border to my white cardstock (floral side). I next used wet glue to adhere the hanging basket cut file. I decided on a 3×3 inch photo and as a guide placed where I wanted it and started adding floral die cuts over the cut file florals. I arranged them until I was happy and ensuring they also gave the effect of hanging over the basket.
I added some centres to flowers using the Puffy stickers to add dimension. Lastly I added some green leaves in amongst the white leaves for contrast.
I added my photo with foam tape and then set about to embellish using the die cut ephemera, accessory stickers and chipboard embellishments. And lastly I added a butterfly wood epoxy button.
This turned out so pretty and would suite a variety of scrapbooking themes.
Thank you for stopping by today and have a fab week!
Hello CVS crafty friends! I have another spring themed layout to share this month. This time it is all about Paris in Spring featuring a photo of my daughter strolling in Paris. I have use the beautiful Storyteller collection.
I found a pretty floral frame cut file from the Silhouette Design store. I cut the floral piece using Little Love paper and paper backed them using Ditsy Daisy paper. I next added a bright blue water colour wash to my white card stock base. I then added the floral frame. I added some floral sprigs and leaves from the Floral diecut ephemera pack.
I next added my title. I used a mix of the Foam Title stickers and Accessory Sticker sheet. I then added a die cut camera and die cut butterflies, which I added with foam tape.
I added my 6×4 inch landscape photo which I matted on a blue paper piece from the A5 paper pad. I love the quote ‘the story behind the photo’ and the size perfect to fit under my photo with foam tape. I added one of the phrase sentiment die cuts to the top of my photo ‘love this’.
I went back and added centres to the floral die cut, some I cut from paper and others I added Wood EpoxyButtons which adds dimension.
I love the mix of blue and yellow and with small pops of other colours and use of a small floral print finished of with a black title, so eye catching. Definitely Spring vibes here!
Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you all have a wonderful week with lots of time to create!
It’s Sophie here and I have a new layout to share! I used the Storyteller collection for this autumnal page of my children and doggies going to the pumpkin patch!
I used a thick white cardstock for my background and teared a few different patterned papers to ground my photo. I printed the photo in black and white, mounted it on tissue paper and foam adhesive, and centered it on my page.
My title is from the beautiful Foam Title Stickers.
I created a little pumpkin with a few papers from the A5 paper stack and machine stitched on it for more texture.
I handwrote my journaling, embellished around the photo with fussy cut flowers and die cuts from the Floral Ephemera pack, placed a few stickers from the Accessory Stickers and added white Nuvo Drops as the finishing touch.
It’s Tarrah McLean back here on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout featuring the stunning Storyteller collection.
I think this is now my 8th layout created using this gorgeous collection! Do you have this collection yet?
I am documenting 2x photos of myself with some of my fun girlfriends, choosing to create a grid style design.
I first pulled out all the horizontal pocket cards that would suit the way I wanted my photos placed, I mixed them up and layered some underneath others and also layered some of them under my photos too, Once I was happy with how they looked, I took a piece of plain white cardstock and adhered them all down staying with that grid style. I was so happy that the pocket card that reads ‘It’s A Good Day to Have a Good Day’ was a horizontal style one as I wanted to use the ‘Together’ word from the foam title stickers, it was perfect to place on that pocket card!
I could not leave the pocket cards blank so I added some embellishments to them all. On the title card, I added a chipboard heart from the Chipboard stickers, a puffy heart sticker from the puffy stickers and a journal sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet, I stamped the date on the small journal sticker. The pocket card to the right of the title one I added a chipboard piece, 2x banner die-cuts and a puffy heart sticker to the banner piece, I also stapled the banner die-cuts using my tiny attacher.
On the pocket card below the title I added an accessory sticker and adhered a camera ephemera piece over the top using craft foam. I also tucked in a floral die-cut here from the floral ephemera pack. On top of the camera, I adhered one of the super cute wood epoxy buttons. The pocket card above the title I added a chipboard banner piece and a chipboard heart and created a small cluster of flowers and leaves from the floral ephemera pack, I popped up some of the flowers using craft foam and left some without, I like the different heights and dimension this gives my page.
It’s fun to treat each pocket card almost like its only little scrapbook layout! On the top photo one, I stapled a banner sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet in the top right corner, using my tiny attacher. Doing this is a great way to disguise something you make not like in your photo, treat it as an embellishment opportunity and cover it up as I have in the corner of my photo! In the bottom photo, I added a phrase sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet to the top of the photo and created another cluster of flowers using florals from the floral ephemera pack, this helps to balance with the cluster I created in top left corner.
Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I love how my layout turned out and I hope you enjoyed reading how I created it!
Make sure to keep an eye on the Cocoa Vanilla online store as the Storyteller collection should be in store really soon!
It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout featuring the STUNNING Storyteller collection. For this project, I had free choice to create whatever I wanted with no theme or anything. I chose to scrap lift one of my friend and fellow design team member Mandy Melville’s gorgeous layouts.
This is the layout I created using the gorgeous Storyteller collection, documenting a pretty photo of a beautiful rose from my Mum’s garden.
This is Mandy’s stunning layout below that she created using the beautiful More Than Words collection.
I decided on the Ditsy Daisy 12′ x 12′ patterned paper as my background paper and took a piece of plain white cardstock and trimmed this piece down to around 8′ x 10′, I then chose the ‘B’ side of the Spring Fling paper to mat under the white cardstock. Like Mandy did on her layout, I decided to machine stitch the white cardstock and the Spring Fling paper together and then I adhered it to the Ditsy Daisy paper. I love the look that machine stitching adds to a layout, I love the texture it gives the page and the extra detail it adds as well.
For the main element where my photo was placed, I created some paper layers underneath the photo using various papers from the A5 paper stack and also tucked in a pocket card for some extra colour and another layer. I did distress some of the papers here to add some texture and I adhered some down using craft foam for some dimension also. Here in the bottom right corner of the photo cluster I tucked in some of the beautiful flowers from the floral ephemera pack, added a banner sticker to the photo from the accessory sticker sheet and also placed a phrase die-cut from the ephemera pack.
On the left of the photo, I created a small floral cluster using some of the florals from the floral ephemera pack and I added a wood epoxy button here to the centre of one of the flowers. In the top right corner of the page. I added the cute banner die-cut piece from the ephemera pack using pop dot adhesive. I love the shadows and dimension this adds to my page. I also took the small frame with hearts die-cut from the ephemera pack and tucked this piece into the top of the photo layers. I like how this peeks out from the top.
I decided to place my title in a similar position to where Mandy had placed hers and also created another small embellishment cluster in the bottom left corner. My title is one of the gorgeous foam title sticker words and I also took a phrase sticker from the accessory sticker sheet and placed it the bottom of the title. You can see in my floral cluster in the bottom left corner that I have adhered some of the florals flat to the page and then I have adhered the red one with some dimensional adhesive, again I love the shadow this creates and the extra interest it brings to my page. I also like to bend the edges of the flowers and leaves to make them look a little more realistic. Some of the smaller details and final things I added to my page were the gorgeous heart puffy stickers and another cute wood epoxy button. The last thing was to stamp my date stamp which is something I always add to my layouts.
Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I love how my scrap lift layout of Mandy’s page turned out and I hope you enjoyed reading how I created it!
Make sure to keep an eye on the Cocoa Vanilla online store as the Storyteller collection should be in store really soon!
Hello crafty friends, today I have another layout based on a sketch. I have used a Page Maps sketch and agin I have gone with a 8.5×11 inch layout. I have gone bright and bold using the new gorgeous Storyteller collection.
I chose a strong background for this layout and I must admit usually I avoid stripes but the Brighter Days paper is wonderful with its large brushstroke strips broken with a little white. I need to use a white based paper next to provide a contrast, I have used the Oh My Heart paper. Before adhering this I added the smaller paper strips at the top and bottom. To be honest I just used some left over paper strips from the A5 paper pad.
Instead of creating a large title as the sketch shows, I chose one of the Pocket Cards, which still is my title but it adds another pretty paper layer. I added some of the heart puffy stickers over the printed hearts to add some definition and dimension to the pocket card.
I used two of the floral pocket cards to mat my photos, one larger floral print and one smaller. I added my photos with foam tape for dimension. I have used the same photo of my daughter and I, the colour one I cropped so our faces were more the focus and the other I converted to black and white.
Next was to add some embellishment clusters. Where the sketch has banners I added a floral bunch using the Floral Die Cut Ephemera, adding the circle puffy stickers to the centres of the flowers.
To the lower right of the layout I created a pretty embellishment cluster using the Die Cut Ephemera pack. Lastly I went back and added some tabs above and under my photos and a Wood Epoxy Button.
And there you have it, I love this sketch and next time I will try a 12×12 layout.
When your mojo is just not working always go to a sketch to kick things off, Often when I am having one of those days I often scrap lift my own layouts or use a sketch.
Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful and crafty week.
It’s Tarrah McLean back with you today to share my next design team project with you. This week on the Cocoa Vanilla blog we are focusing on sketches. I have of course used the gorgeous Storyteller collection and I also chose a fun sketch from Lottie Loves Paper to work with for inspiration. I am documenting a cute picture of my niece dressed up as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.
I chose a piece of plain white cardstock for the main background for my layout and trimmed this piece down and adhered it to the ‘B’ side of the Ditsy Daisy paper. I then machined stitched a border around the outside using white cotton. I trimmed a piece of the ‘B’ side of the Brighter Days paper and adhered my photo to this piece. I ripped the bottom edge off and bent the edges up to give texture. I stuck to the design of the sketch mostly by adhering the photo in the centre of the page using craft foam just like in the sketch. I layered a journal spot from the ephemera pack on the right of the photo and also created a small cluster of embellishments in the bottom right corner. Here I included a floral die-cut, a button die-cutand 2 heart puffy stickers.
Below the photo I added my title also like in the sketch – my title is from the foam title stickers and I also added a phrase piece from the ephemera pack. You can see in the sketch design that the title and journaling are together, as I don’t do a lot of journaling on my pages, I just added the date stamp as an extra feature here. There are no rules when creating, and you do not have to completely stick to a sketch if you are using one for inspiration, as long as you have used the sketch as a starting point you can’t go wrong.
I cut up some patterned paper strips from the A5 paper stack and layered these on the left side of the photo, you can see in the sketch design that there are strips added. I also layered one of the frames from the ephemera pack under the top left corner of the photo to add some interest here. Next I chose some of the gorgeous florals from the floral ephemera packand layered them by adhering some using dimensional tape and adhering some flat to the page also. I love the shadows and dimension this creates on my page. On top of one of the flowers I also added a camera die-cut.
Because I added the black title at the bottom, I wanted to create a visual triangle on my page so I did this by adding 2 of the black foam hearts from the foam title stickers. I added one to the left of the large floral cluster and also added one at the top embellishment cluster. The top embellishment cluster also mimics elements in the sketch. I added a die-cut here, a chipboard word, a floral die-cut, the black foam heart mentioned before and also a puffy sticker heart.
Do you ever struggle to get started with creating a layout or project? Sketches are a great way to get you started and there are so many awesome sketches to include one photo or multiple photos. Why not try a sketch for your next project?
Thanks so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today, I hope you enjoyed reading how my layout was created as much as I enjoyed creating it?!
Hello CVS friends! I love a good sketch and this month my layouts will be based on sketches. I love this sketch my Ashley Horton who Kindly allowed me to use. I decided to create a 8.5 x 11 inch size to mix things up!
Of course I have used the gorgeous Storyteller collection. I chose a white background knowing I was going to add a yellow watercolour effect on the background. I firstly cut a circle (approx 5×5 inches) using the FlyAway paper. I draw a circle with a pencil so I would know where to add the watercolour paint. Once I had done this I added some splatters and inked the edge of my page also in yellow (which doesn’t show well in my photo but it defines the edges).
I next cut varying sizes of hearts using the A5 paper pad. In using the A5 papers means you get to have smaller prints of elements, like the florals which are perfect for smaller embellishments and pages. I layered my hearts using the sketch as my guide. Some I used foam tape to add dimension. I then added word/phrase sentiments from the Accessory sticker sheet. I also added some tiny hearts from the Die CutEphemera pack.
Instead of using two smaller photos I used a larger landscape photo, matting it on Oh My Heart paper. I added a sentiment banner under but slightly over my photo.
On a 8.5 x 11 inch layout you need to be mindful not to over do it with embellishments as your page can end up looking too ‘busy’. I created one larger embellishment cluster at the top pf my page but incorporating the larger heart. I added the camera die cut with foam tape and then tucked under some flowers from the FloralDie Cut Ephemera pack and finishing off with a Wood Epoxy Button.
You can see on the photo below the yellow ink I used around the edge of my white base paper. Lastly I added some die cut butterflies with foam tape to add more dimension.
A sketch just makes putting a layout together fun and easy, and of course you always creative licence if you want to change things a little.
Thank you for stopping by and if you like this layout/sketch you could create your own take and make it a 12×12 if that suites, just post it on the CVS Community FB page and tag me!
