Sunkissed

Love you More | Sunkissed Collection | Raquel Bowman

Hey everyone – it’s Raquel here today I am sharing a layout with you that features ‘My Signature Style’. We have been invited to create a layout that encompasses our ‘signature style’.

Here is the layout that I created to share with you today:

My signature style and the elements I love to include on my layout are the following:

  • white card stock background
  • cut files
  • layered embellishment clusters
  • doilies
  • machine stitched border
  • typewritten journaling
  • a black and white photo.

These would certainly be my go to things that I include on my layout and I was able to incorporate most of these on my share with you today.

The subject of my layout was my handsome hubby and kids.  This photo was taken this past summer on our yearly vacation and I just adore the love that eludes from this pic. I knew that I wanted to turn this photo black and white as the colours within the photo would not have worked on this layout or coordinated with the gorgeous Sunkissed collection.

Printing a photo black and white allows you to mix up the layout colours without fear that the colours included may clash. I print my photos at home on a portable photo printer and add a white border. This allows me to add detailed patterned papers as layers if I choose.

The cut file I used on today’s layout is one from the Cut to You store that reads ‘Love you more’- the perfect sentiment for sure. I used a variety of the paper pad papers to back the cut file hearts. The small print allow for you to see the detail in the pattern.

I embellished the page with the cut hearts and tags in the ephemera pack. I also used the cute puffy sticker hearts as that final finishing touch when embellishing.

I fell in love with the design of this cut file straight away. As with any use of cut files, the process of backing the cut files is one that most time takes a length of times. I always love the end result.

In terms of embellishments on this page I used a combination of ephemera, wooden buttons and puffy stickers.

I hope that you have been inspired by my layout today.
Thank you for stopping my the cvs blog and seeing my signature style layout.

Take care

Raquel

Chill Out | Sunkissed Collection | Danni Visser

Hi scrappy friends! Danni here sharing a fun rainbow layout featuring lots of hand stitching texture and summery goodness. I am really just starting to dip my toes into the new Sunkissed collection and I am having so much fun with it! Like several of my fellow design team members and many of you amazing Cocoa Vanilla Studio community members, I was instantly inspired by the gorgeous rainbow on Bright Side 12×12 patterned paper.

My first step was carefully fussy cutting all the rainbow stripes from the paper. I knew I wanted to do a bunch of hand stitching, and in hindsight the stitching would have been much easier if I had stitched first THEN fussy cut, but hindsight is 20-20 and at least you can learn from my mistakes!

Next I chose embroidery floss in colours to match each of the stripes and pierced stitching holes in my paper with an awl to prepare for stitching. I began by doing a chain stitch in the red colour, loved how it looked but I wanted more variety and texture so I decided to switch it up and add a different stitch to each colour. I really love this result! For reference the stitches from top to bottom are chain-link, cross, diagonal, zig zag, blanket and chevron. This did take some time over several days, but I get comfy in front of the television and stitch away while I watch shows with my family and the time flies by.

I decided to use Just Chillin’ 12×12 patterned paper for my background because I have been dying to use that gorgeous woodgrain. I knew the colours would pop on the neutral base and I love the more masculine, natural element it brings in, especially as my photo is of my two boys. I jazzed up my background by splattering white and gold ink, then glued down my rainbow stripes.

I used the blue daisy pattern from A5 paper stack to create a simple photo mat and added my photo to the left of the layout; as the rainbow is slightly offset to the right, bringing weight to the left helps to balance the layout. I added some of the stunning glittery foam title stickers under the rainbow, slightly overlapping my photo.

I wanted to cover as little of the stitching as possible, so when embellishing I chose the floral ephemera and cut several of them in half before tucking them underneath the edges of the rainbow stripes. The smaller florals I popped up on foam before adding to the clusters. I also added one of the smallest wood epoxy buttons to each of the clusters; they are just too sweet!

The finishing touch was to add a scattering of hearts from the foam title stickers and die cut ephemera, as well as some of the adorable cross hatch patterns from the clear stickers randomly scattered about.

I hope you enjoyed this layout! There is a process video linked below if you would like to watch it come together. Thank you for joining me and happy scrapping!

Danni x

 

Get away in paradise | Sunkissed Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello Cocoa Vanilla fans! It’s Anna here with my first ever page made with new “Sunkissed” collection. I got it few days ago and I am so in love with all those colors and funny motiffs. You all know I love rainbows and this line looks like it was made specially for me. However, with all new collections on my desk I feel intimidated to cut into those untouched papers and my mind is floaded with many ideas, so I can’t decide where to begin. And we all know this feeling about using up your precious stash – I won’t use it because I won’t have it anymore :). So I like to start lightly with a simple page made with small amount of papers, or none papers at all like I did here.

“Sunkissed” collection contains of 12*12 papers, 6*8 paper stack and set of pocket cards and this is the product I decided to start with. All the fun patterns and colors shrunk to 3*4 size, ready to be put on the page. I picked 6 of them with solid backgrounds and arranged them on my white cardstock. They are my anchors for 6 square photos.

I live in Poland, Europe, and we don’t have tropical summers here nor palm trees. So whenever I get a chance to spend some time in more warm climate I feel like I travelled to paradise. I get so excited seeing all the tropical plants as they are so different to what I see every day outside my window. And what can be better than spending weekn in paradise? Spending this week with a bunch of fantastic ladies during CVS Creative Escape cropp. I had this wonderful opportunity in 2019 and I cherish all those memories so much. Venue is such a beautiful place with amazing beach. I consider this week as one of the best weeks of my live and I love going back to those memories and scrapbook them.

I decorated each pocket card with photo and bits and pieces from ephemera pack. This collection is special because it has two different packs: with regular elements and with flowers. So many amazing elements to choose from! I also added few stickers as they are always a perfect match with every project. And puffy stickers??? They are to die for! Such a great quality and fantastic motiffs.

My title is a combination of golden foam title stickers and some letters from my stash. In my opinion glitter can be combined with every line and you can never have too much of it. My yellow splatters in the background are also shiny thanks to the pearl mist but it’s hard to showcase this on photos. I am so happy Zoe decided to make those foam titles!

I honestly can’t decide which product from “Sunkissed” collection is my favorite. They are all so fresh, colorful and fun!

I hope this page will help me break this “too pretty to use” blockade and I will have another fun page with this line to share with you next time we meet here. Thank you so much for stopping by and see you soon <3

Summer Days | Sunkissed | Kylie Kingham

Hello Cocoa Vanilla fans! It’s Kylie back with you today and I’m so excited because I am sharing my first layout created with the all new ‘Sunkissed’  collection. This range has a fun ‘Summer’ vibe to it with lots of bright coloured elements.

I had some fun holiday snaps to scrapbook from a Tropical holiday we had a few years ago. I laugh at my sons face in this photo as coming from a cold climate his face says it all when you are trying to adjust to heat and humidity! The palm tree and fruit die cuts were going to be the perfect accents for this memory. I decided to work with a white background which had half a centimetre trimmed off each side and was adhered over the SUNNY DAYS paper to act as a border for my layout. Using a simple hexagon craft punch from my craft stash, I punch several shapes from various paper to be able to create a fun background.Each hexagon was adhered in place using foam squares and were positioned cascading across my background.

The theme for my layout today was ‘Sparkle and Shine’ which I was able to add to my page thanks to the gold and very glittery foam title stickers. As soon as I saw these it was love at first sight! I was able to construct a fitting title for my page and add it below my photo.

Floral elements were layered on opposite corners of my photo as well as several other icon die cuts as well. How cute are those palm trees?? I made sure to use more foam adhesive squares on some to raise them up a little to produce a nice dimension for my page.

Once completed I loved the colour in this page. The simple hexagon shapes really pop in the background against the white.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope my layout inspires you a little to scrapbook some of your favourite Summer memories.

Until next time,

Kylie.

Together | Sunkissed collection | Tarrah McLean

  Hi crafty friends!

           It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am very excited to be sharing my first scrapbook layout featuring the AMAZING, brand              new Sunkissed collection! Wow this collection has everything you could imagine when you think of Summer. It is stunning                  and is perfect for not only Summer projects but everyday projects too!

I decided to cut the gorgeous Good Vibrations paper using a Sunburst design cut file by CUT to YOU. I love how this turned out! I adhered the entire cut file lightly to a plain white cardstock background, I then pulled up the positive piece so that it left the large pieces of the sunburst design. I can use the skinny positive piece of the cut file on another project another time. I added some craft foam underneath the bursts also to give the layout some dimension. I also curled the edges of the paper using my fingertips to add some extra texture.

The photo I am documenting is one of myself and some scrappy friends dressed up for the Hawaiian themed dress up night at the 2018 Cocoa Vanilla retreat held in Coffs Harbour. It was so much fun and we looked the part with our grass skirts and headbands! It also helped that we picked the cute bridge to pose on! Under my photo I layered one of the 3′ x 4′ cards, an accessory sticker and a frame from the die-cut ephemera pack. I used lots of goodies from the die-cut ephemera pack on this layout! It was one of those cases where I did not know when to stop!

I am so excited to have puffy stickers and the wood epoxy beads back in this collection! I added 3 of the wood beads amongst some of the die-cuts and near to my photo to help draw the eye towards the photo. Below my photo I added one of the glitter foam titles, this was the perfect title for my page. I also added 2 small glitter foam hearts in strategic spots to create a triangle design on my page. This is an important design element when creating a layout and I like to try and accomplish this each time I create a layout. The phrase/word stickers from the Accessory sticker sheet are the perfect last minute addition. I added a few of these to help tell the story and enhance my design. Lastly I stamped the date stamp to document the date the photo was taken.

 

I hope you enjoyed my first layout created with the amazing Sunkissed collection! Make sure you check out your local store or your favourite online store for this collection! You absolutely NEED this in your life! Its stunning! Also keep an eye out for BEAUTIFUL projects coming up by my fellow design team members!  

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Welcome to Paradise | Sunkissed Collection | Raquel Bowman

Hey everyone – it’s Raquel here today sharing my first layout featuring the new and beautiful ‘Sunkissed’ collection. I know I say it every time that a new collection is released – but “wow”, Zoe really knocked this one out of the park. The bright patterns, the variety of embellishments and the cute icons and phrases has got me completely in love!

Here is the layout that I created:


The subject of this layout is a photo I took on our summer holidays that we spent together as a family in a coastal town a few hours from our house. Both the kids, hubby and I look forward to this special trip together each and every year. Our favourite time is when we get to visit the beach – a walking distance from where we stay. The kids have an absolute ball – the Mr and I get so much joy from seeing their happy faces.

 

Along with the photo of course, one of the main features of the layout is the sun in the background. The sun was created using a maths compass to draw the circular semi circle design and fussy cut out. I then free hand cut out the triangles to be placed around it as the suns rays. I love how it turned out! The yellow patterned paper was an exciting find in the small paper pad. I love that the paper pad has differing designs than the 12×12 papers.

To embellish the page I have used a small selection of the floral ephemera to go in either side of the photo. I used a variety of dimensional adhesives to add depth and dimension to those floral clusters. Are you as happy as I am that CVS has released a floral ephemera pack?!? Sooo exciting!

I loved the ‘welcome to paradise’ ephemera piece and I just knew it was the perfect title for this photo of our favourite place – ‘our paradise’. To add some more detail to that piece I added a yellow fishtail banner to below the label from the remaining yellow paper in the paper pad. I also added with foam adhesive the phrase sticker ‘nothing but sunshine and blue skies’ as a sub-title.

as always – this layout features journaling. I love documenting my thoughts in simple form when journaling on my pages. As I am not a lover of my handwriting – I prefer the method of typewritten journaling to get our stories onto paper.

I hope this layout has inspired you today. If you have not yet gotten your hands on this stunning collection I assure you should do You won’t regret it!

Take care,

Raquel

 

Summer Days | Sunkissed Collection | Danni Visser

Hi Cocoa Vanilla Studio fans! I hope you are all ready for some tropical, summer-inspired projects coming your way because the new Sunkissed collection hit my doorstep just a few days ago! I live in the subtropics, so this collection is absolutely perfect to scrap my family memories most of the year round. Today is extra special because myself and the amazingly talented Anita Bownds are doing a scraplift swap and I get to go first (you will see her scraplift a layout of mine soon!).

 

It was pretty tough choosing a layout to lift because I love so many of Anita’s projects. I decided on a cutfile layout because this is an element that we both tend to use quite often, and it also makes a page come together very easily. There were several I loved but, in the end, I decided on this lovely bicycle page because I knew I had pics of my son’s first ever public bike ride that I had yet to document.

 

The beauty of scraplifting another artist is that the decision-making and design is already taken care of for you. I chose a similar cutfile by COAPA Cutfiles and cut it on white cardstock, then went ahead and backed it with patterned papers from the A5 Paper Stack and Summer Lights 12×12 patterned paper.

I chose the Just Chillin’ 12×12 patterned paper for the background, as I liked the cloud pattern and the pale blue colour. I matted the photo with some of the A5 paper stack papers I had already used to back the cutfile, to create a nice separation between the photo and the background paper.

For my title I continued with the ‘Summer’ theme of the original layout with the Foam Title Stickers¸ however I changed the second half of the title from ‘Fun’ to ‘Days’ so that I could use one of the Clear Stickers that fit just perfectly in the space.

I went ahead and used the Floral Ephemera to build floral clusters in the top left and bottom right of the layout as in the original layout. I tried to get a good balance of the colours and include some bits of foliage to finish out the clusters. I also added some tiny floral sprigs to the basket of the bike from the floral ephemera – so sweet!

Anita’s layout featured lots of sweet tiny flowers scattered around the page, and this is where I deviated slightly – I couldn’t resist the sweet tiny hearts in the Clear Stickers so I added a sprinkling of those where the tiny flowers were placed. I also completely adore the Puffy Stickers though, so quite a few of the tiny puffy flowers made it onto the page as well!

Some more personal touches I included were adding a bunting die cut from the die cut ephemera to the bike, plus a scattering of tiny word phrases from the accessory stickers in three places around the layout (I can never resist these!).

I really hope I did this scraplift justice. I am super happy with how it turned out and I had so much fun creating with the amazing new Sunkissed collection. I hope you enjoyed joining me today, there is a process video linked below if you would like to watch too. Happy scrapping!

Danni x

 

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