the great escape

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

Masculine cards | The Great Escape Collection | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with another project made with brand new “The great escape” collection. This time I don’t have layout for you. Instead I wanted to share three simple, masculine cards. I don’t know how about you, but I always have problems making cards for men and I never have enough in my stash to give them away with gifts. I have plenty of pink and floral ones though… You all know I am not a master in making masculine projects at all so I like to keep thing as simple as possible. Simplicity is a key to success when you struggle!

Let’s start with the basics. To avoid looking for a matching card base, I like to make them with single sheets from A5 Paper Stack. I just fold them in half and it’s done! The best part is that pages are single sided so inside of the card is white and ready for your message. It’s not the first time that I am using this trick.

First card was inspired by one of the papers in A5 Paper Stack with a sort of a simple landscape. I trimmed it to the card size and added stitching around it. Next, I reached for my stash of old CVS Alpha Stickers from variety of collections and created a title “Sky is the limit”, which works great with the landscape. The last step was adding trees from Die Cut Ephemera pack on the bottom and clous fussy cut from one of the papers. Super cute and tine Puffy Stickers and the perfect finishing touch.

Second card was inspired by the navy paper with night sky. I trimmed it to the proper size, added stitching around it and created a card title using Puffy Alpha Stickers from a bit older “Heart & Home” collection. “Reach fo the stars” needed to be surrounded by stars of course. So I cut them out from one of the papers from A5 Paper Stack. I also picked few from Die Cut Ephemera pack. I finished my composition with tiny stars from Puffy Stickers sheet.

Inspiration for my third card came from this pocket card with numbers, cut out from “Wild life” paper. It looks like a bucket list, so I added incouraging words from 6*12 Accessory Stickers. I backed the card with a piece of “Happy camper” paper and embellished everything with bits and pieces from Die Cut Ephemera and Chipboard Stickers. Can you guess the final step? Yep. Super cute Puffy Stickers.

That is all for today my Friends. Do you also struggle with masculine projects or it’s a piece of cake for you?

Thank you so much for staying with me and see you in two weeks.

XO Anna

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

Tasmania | Great Escape collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new travel layout featuring the new Great Escape collection. I decided to document our recent trip to Tasmania, printing a total of 6 favourite photos all in a small format to create a vertical filmstrip look.

 

I chose 3 patterned papers to use for the background of my layout. I turned the Direction patterned paper over to show the green side, the Happy Camper patterned paper was left with the flags showing and I also turned the Horizon patterned paper to reveal the yellow suns. Once the papers were arranged and adhered, I placed the photo strip over to the right side of the layout.

For my title, I decided to spell the word Tasmania using the ‘Fun Times Ahead’ chipboard title. As I was spelling the word Tasmania in my head, I thought all of the letters were there in the 1 packet of chipboard except Tasmania has 3 A’s so I did have to open a new packet of the chipboard elements and steal one of the A’s from that pack! I placed the title along the top line of the Horizons paper and I also added one of the puffy titles under the chipboard title too.

Just above the Tasmania title, I placed one of the round die-cuts and also placed one of the banner stickers from the Accessory stickers through the centre of the photo strip. On the right of the photos at the top, I added the Let’s Go flag die-cut and bent up the edges slightly to add some texture. To the direct right of the photos at the bottom, I added the tree chipboard and layered one of the phrase stickers from the Accessory sticker sheet over the top. I also added more of the phrase stickers above the Tasmania title.

Once the larger elements were added to my page, I added some of the smaller elements including one of the banner chipboard pieces below the Let’s Go title and I created a cluster of embellishments at the very top of the page using stickers from the Accessory sticker sheet and a puffy sticker too. I added a couple more puffy stickers and finished by freehand drawing a border around the outside using my journal pen, stamping the date stamp and sprinkling some black mist to finish.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you are inspired by my layout and got some ideas for your next project!

Make sure to keep checking back here on the blog for all the other gorgeous creative projects from our design team!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Fun Times Ahead | Scraplift Challenge | Kel Moore

Hi Cocoa Vanilla friends and welcome back to the blog.

It’s Kel here today and I am sharing my take on the Scrap Lift challenge that is running this month. Have you had a chance to enter the comp? There are 3 different pages to choose from…or you could lift all 3! I decided to scrap lift this layout from design team member Michelle Stokes….

For my page, I am using the brand new The Great Escape collection..here is my page..

 

I changed the design by not using squares, instead using elongated hexagons. I mounted a smaller hexagon on top and added hand stitching to give them texture.

I have used 2 photos like Michelle, applying them slightly offset, and mounted them onto black cardstock to help them pop off the page, then embellished on a diagonal through the photos.

To the top left of the page I have used a piece from the die cut ephemera with a hand cut star and a black star that I cut from cardstock, to add a pop of black to the top of the page..

Next I used a sticker above my photo from the Accessory Sticker Sheet and a chipboard banner from the Chipboard Stickers which I added onto my photo. Under the photo I used a label from the A5 paper stack to add my place and date.

To the bottom right of my photos is where I added my title. I used the Chipboard Stickers for “Fun Times Ahead’.. I love how they pop off the page… and of course I had to add some of the signature Cocoa Vanilla stars that Zoe adds to her more masculine collections..

Under the title I used some of the phrases from the Accessory Sticker Sheet. I always find these easy to use..

I hope you have enjoyed seeing how I scrap lifted Michelles gorgeous page today and I look forward to seeing your pages in the Cocoa Vanilla Facebook group.

Keep Scrappy!

Kel x

 

 

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