Unforgettable

Love You | Unforgettable collection | Tarrah McLean

Tarrah McLean 08/05/2021

Hi crafty friends and Happy Mother’s Day to all the beautiful Mum’s out there!

It’s Tarrah back with you today to share a new layout for our Mother’s Day special today. I chose to document a photo of myself and my beautiful Mum using the stunning Unforgettable collection.

I chose a beautiful title cut file design from CUT to YOU and backed the open spaces of the design with different patterned papers from the Unforgettable 6′ x 8′ inch paper stack. Once the cut file was all backed, I added craft foam underneath and then adhered it to the centre of the pretty Garland paper. I trimmed down the Garland paper slightly and then adhered this sheet to the ‘B’ side of the Forget Me Not paper.

Underneath the flower in the ‘Love’ word of the cut file, I placed one of the round die-cuts. I also layered a butterfly die-cut on top of this flower. On the other flower, I adhered a flair button that says ‘Love This’. I placed my photo with some layers underneath to the left of my page underneath the ‘Love’ word. I placed an arrow sticker on top of my photo and also a phrase sticker too. On the right of the ‘Love’ word, I added the ‘Everyday’ accessory sticker and some accessory stickers. I love the paper tassels in this collection – they are so cute! I added a pink one poking out from the bottom of the ‘You’ word, I tucked in some die-cuts in this area too.

In the top left area of the cut file, I tucked in some more florals and added a black heart foam heart and a clear sticker heart too. I love the pop of black the foam hearts give the layout. When I create my layouts, I always add the largest things to my page first like my photo, some papers and a title, I then add medium sized embellishments like die-cuts and flair buttons and I finish with the smaller embellishments like stickers and enamel dots.

Thank you so much for stopping by the Cocoa Vanilla blog today! I hope you enjoyed my Mother’s Day themed layout. There is not a great deal of the Unforgettable collection in the Cocoa Vanilla store so make sure to get yourself some before it all goes for good!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Love You | Unforgettable collection | Tarrah McLean

Tarrah McLean 08/05/2021

Hi crafty friends and Happy Mother’s Day to all the beautiful Mum’s out there!

It’s Tarrah back with you today to share a new layout for our Mother’s Day special today. I chose to document a photo of myself and my beautiful Mum using the stunning Unforgettable collection.

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Like you | Unforgettable Collection | Anna Blades

Anna Blades 11/03/2021

Hi CVS friends!

It’s Anna here with you again sharing a new layout. This week, the theme of our projects is “sparkle and shine”. I’m not very fond of sequins and glitter, but I do love foil. For today’s page, I’ve used the Unforgettable collection.

I started with white cardstock for my background. Then, I cut a diagonal strip of the Sprightly paper. On both sides of the patterned paper, I put two pieces of washi tape with gold foil.

For my title, I cut a phrase with a metal die from black toner ink cardstock. Then, I ran it through a laminator to cover it with pink foil. I also cut the outline from vellum and placed it on the right side of the page with foam squares to add more dimension.

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To fill the spot below the picture and to the left side of the title, I placed some flowers and leaves from the die cut ephemera and a little phrase from the Accessory stickers.

I fussy cut some butterflies, two bigger ones from the Pretty Bits paper, and the rest are from the Lacewing paper. I added a sparkling touch on the wingtips with gold embossing powder. I also added some enamel dots and a couple of hearts from the clear stickers.

The brightness of this layout is very subtle, and it’s quite difficult to photograph the foil, but I hope you can appreciate it a bit.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I wish you a happy weekend and remember to save some scrappy time!

See you soon!

Anna xx

Living the Dream | Unforgettable Collection | Sophie Delorme

Sophie Delorme 19/02/2021

Hello all !

It’s Sophie here with a grid design layout to share, this time with the lovely “Unforgettable” collection !

The beautiful “Story Teller” patterned paper was my starting point, as I was inspired by the black pocket card on it for my title. That’s what gave me the idea to create a grid.

I separated my layout in four quadrants and stitched a vertical and a horizontal line that crossed in the center of the page with aqua thread to divide my grid. I then applied watercolors in tones that matched my color scheme on each of the four quadrants.

I placed my photo, printed in black and white, on the upper left quadrant. I added many layers behind it; tissue paper, adhesive foam, “Forgive me not” and “Pretty bits” patterned papers. I used a Die Cut Ephemera “Living the Dream” next to my photo and added a beautiful Flair Button.

On the upper right, I added adhesive foam behind the Pocket Card and aqua cardstock. I decorated this section with two beautiful Ephemera labels and butterflies.

On the left lower quadrant, I selected two pieces of patterned papers: “Sprightly” and “Pretty Bits” and attached them with pink baker’s twine together. I added Ephemeras, Enamel Dots and a sticker from the Accessory Stickers.

On the last section of the grid, I used the “Sprightly” and the “Forgive Me Not” papers as my base. I cut out a part of the “Storyteller” paper to write down my journaling and embellished it with flowers, Stickers and Emanel Dots.

Lastly, I created a little floral cluster on the base of the grid, tying everything together. Some of the leaves in the cluster were created with watercolor and fussy cut out of whatercolor paper.

Here are a few other close-ups:

I love the result. Working to decorate one section at a time in a grid design is so fun ! It’s also a great way to use many different patterned papers and embellishments without making it look too busy.

I hope you felt inspired by this page today !

Thank you for passing by !

Sophie xx

Be Rad, Wild & Free | Mixed collections | Michelle Stokes

Michelle Stokes 24/01/2021

Hello Hello! It’s Michelle here with you today to share a new layout. I’ve used a couple of different collections for this layout as part of our current ‘Green and Gold’ theme. A mixture of Legendary and Boys Rule with a hint of Daydream and Unforgettable.

When I think of ‘Green & Gold’ I picture bright Aussie style colours – Green & Yellow. So thats exactly where this colour palette took me on this creative journey this week. There are so many wonderful green patterns within the extended Cocoa Vanilla Studio range, but the shade of green I’ve used for this layout is by far my most favourite of them all.

To begin I created a grid style layout featuring a couple of cute photos of Lelia and her beloved bunny from a few years back that I printed out in Black & White. I cut out 3.5″ frames from papers in the Legendary Collection for both the photos and title areas ( Wild One & Explorer ) and added a strip of dotted paper along the bottom (Straight & Narrow) from the Boys Rule Collection.

This kid is an absolute HOOT! Her imagination has been wild from the beginning. This day in particular was so fun, creating a ‘Box Coaster’ for them to ride around the galaxy haha

I kept the embellishing of each frame to a minimum by using word stickers ( Accessory Stickers sheet – Legendary ), sticker heart ( Accessory Stickers sheet – Daydream ), tiny fussy cut stars ( All Star – Legendary ) and an arrow ( Ephemera pack – Legendary ). Both frames adhered to the layout using a piece of foam sheet to give a slight hint of dimension.

The title area of the layout also acts as a tidy spot for some hidden journalling. The ‘Wild and Free’ card can be found on the Epic Tales cut apart paper in the Legendary Collection and the hidden journalling card and ‘Be Rad’ piece can be found on the ‘Boy Stuff’ cut apart paper in the Boys Rule Collection.

Heres a peek at the journalling ..

I cut the card down slightly, rounded the edges on the right and made a tag top including punched hole at the opposite end to add string and tie a bow.

In the top right frame I added a couple extra words that can be used as part of an extended title. The white alphas are by far my most used Cocoa Vanilla Studio embellishment by far, and those foam words from the Unforgettable Collection work so well with pretty much every collection there is.

I sewed the white alphas down so that they stay in place for years to come, but also to add a little extra design element to the layout. I added machine stitching around both of the yellow frames to keep the white X paper in place (Star Fall – Boys Rule). The ‘You are my Sunshine’ can be found on the Daydream Collection Accessory Sticker Sheet and the green tab is a sticker from the Legendary Collection Accessory Sticker Sheet.

Lastly I added a bunch of fussy cut starts in green and yellow to the bottom left and top right of the layout, scattered to give the grid style layout a slight ‘diagonal’ design feel. I also added my usual splattering of gold ink to finish it all off.

Well friends thats all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my take on our current ‘Green & Gold’ theme, be sure to share yours with us in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community Facebook Group.

Until Next time, Happy Scrapping!

Michelle x

PS.. A little side note regarding the fabulous Boys Rule Collection…. Because all us crazy crafters LOVED it so so much when it was originally released, back in the day, sadly its no longer available.

Hello you | Daydream, Unforgettable and More than words collections | Anna Blades

Anna Blades 25/11/2020

Hi CVS friends! Anna here with you sharing a new layout. This week we are focusing on using black because of Black Friday. And I really love black. For today’s project, I have combined black with much softer tones. I think it turned out very beautiful.

For my background, I used a watercolor sheet to do the plastic technique with black dye ink. I created a diagonal design and then, I did a lot of black splatters with pink ones too. I covered most part of it, but you can still see part of the background peeking out behind the circles.

I used the 6×8 Paper pack from More than words and Daydream collections to cut out a bunch of circles in different sizes. I placed them across the page, raising some circles with foam dots to give more dimension.

Between the circles, I also glued some flowers from the Daydream Die Cut Ephemera pack. They match really well with the More than words collection. As the theme of the page was circles, flair buttons were perfect and also add dimension and texture to the layout. I cut my picture with a circle die as well.

I used some phrases from the More than words Accessory Sticker and I arranged three of them all over the page. For my title, I chose the Unforgettable foam title stickers. I love its script font and the deep black and how it stands out. Black hearts are from these stickers too.

To finish off, I cut half an inch from each side of the paper, framed it with black cardstock, and I did a machine stitching all around the page.

And that’s it! I hope you like it and gives you some inspiration to use black in your projects. Thank you so much for stopping by today! See you soon!

Bloom and Grow | Unforgettable Collection | Raquel Bowman

Raquel Bowman 04/09/2020

Hey everyone, it’s Raquel here today with you sharing another layout using one of my fave past collections ‘Unforgettable’. For this layout today I am documenting some photos taken of my girl when she turned 7.

Here is the layout that I created:

Almost a year ago now was my girls 7th birthday. We have a wall in our house that I call the photo wall, which we always take some birthday photos in front of. The last few years the photos have been with a large number balloon. It is just crazy how quick time goes when you have kids and how they grow up in what feels like an instant. The two photos which I have used are printed in black and white and approx. 3×4″ in size.

The main design of this page is built around the circular designed wreath in the patterned paper. I fussy cut around the wreath first. Once I had done that and was going to adhere it to my page I realised that I wanted something to ground that left side. So I used the Unscripted paper (both sides) to create a 3″ or so wide edge to lean the wreath into. The wreath patterned paper had a cluster of flowers to one side. So I decided to continue to build on that design and added more floral elements, including some leaves and butterflies from the ephemera pack or fussy cut from the Lacewing paper.

I thought the title in the foam stickers ‘Bloom and Grow’ was the perfect sentiment for this birthday theme. I love the bold statement these black stickers make against the white card stock background.

To help one photo stand out I used the Pink side in the Unscripted paper as a mat, this really helps distinguish it as the feature photo and draw your attention to it. I added some extra embellishments to the left of the photo also, including larger floral ephemera – a circular sticker saying ‘a moment in time’ from the Accessory sheet and one of the gorgeous tassels in the collection. I finished embellishing that area with a few enamel dots and the ‘you are amazing’ tiny word stickers.

I must say, I do love the cut apart papers that come in the Cocoa Vanilla collections. I always find the smaller designed elements perfect for cutting out and using to layer on my pages. I could not go past the larger butterflies in the Pretty Bits paper , which you can see was placed to the top right of my page in the photo below.

To help the layered elements in my layout stand out I always try and use a variety of adhesives, including liquid adhesive, foam tapes in varying depths, etc. This helps chosen elements to stand out off the page more that others.

I hope that you have been inspired by my layout today. It has been a crazy time here in Regional Victoria with the stage three lockdown we are currently in. This means school is now remote for the most part, and as a teacher and a Mumma of school aged children our days have been long, somewhat emotional (to say the least) and tiring. The Bowman household are all a little precious right now, but so thankful for our overall health and wellbeing compared to what many people in our state are going through right now.

Sending hugs and prayers to anyone who may be going through a tough time right now,

Raquel xxx

Captured | Unforgettable Collection | Raquel Bowman

Raquel Bowman 04/08/2020

Hey everyone, it’s Raquel here with you today sharing a layout featuring the Unforgettable collection. This collection is one of my absolute faves from CVS; the colour palette is just so stunning.

Here is the layout I have to share with you today –

This layout is documenting a very special moment for my two kiddies and our family. This photo was taken at my brothers wedding and these two kiddies had a special role in that wedding, my son was the ring bearer and daughter a flower girl. They just looked so adorable and this collection is just perfect for documenting it.

The title of this layout was created using the foam title stickers. I love the contrast of black against the white of the layout and the colours in the collection.

This 4×6” colour photo was printed with a white border the white border allows me to use a busy pattern to mat the photo with – I used the beautiful Unscripted paper to do this.

I am the biggest fan of the CVS woodgrain designs and the Natural Beauty paper in this collection possibly tops the list. I love creating layouts with a vertical strip of patterned paper and embellishing around that.

The floral embellishments I have used on this layout have formed a somewhat ‘laurel wreath’ behind the 4×6” photo of my kiddies. For this floral design I have mainly used the ephemera pack.

To the top left of the photo and layout I have added a small cluster that is made up of a butterfly, a small flower and some hearts from the clear stickers and also the ephemera pack.

As well as clusters to the left and right of the photo – I created one to the bottom right of the page. This gave my layout the balance that it needed. To create this I have used a variety of ephemera, accessory stickers, clear stickers and one of the bows too. The tiny word stickers in the accessory sticker sheets are perfect for acting as journaling on a layout to supply more detail to the title.

I hope you have been inspired by my layout today. Thanks so much for stopping by the CVS blog.

Stay safe, Raquel x

Our family | Unforgettable Collection | Anna Blades

Anna Blades 25/07/2020

Hi everyone!

Anna here with you today sharing a new CVS layout with you, featuring the gorgeous Unforgettable collection. In this layout, I’m documenting a recent family photo. Our girls are growing so fast, so it’s important for me to remember how we are right now.

The assignment for this week was to use a patterned paper for the background, not white cardstock. So hard, I know!! After the little first shock, I went ahead and decided to use the Glorious paper as my background. Bold, right? I folded the top left corner of the paper to the center, so this way we can also see the B side of the Glorious paper. Behind it, I placed the Storyteller paper.

Peeking out from behind the fold I placed some flowers from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I could never have enough of these flowers. To give more dimension to the page I raised them with foam dots. I also fussy cut a butterfly from the Pretty Bits paper, and stacked it behind the flowers. To finish the cluster I put a sticker phrase from the Accessory Stickers.

I put a thin coat of gesso to fade out the flowers in the center of the paper, to highlight the photo and the title a little more. I used two papers from the 6×8 paper stack to mat the picture. For my title, I used the Foam Title Stickers with this beautiful font. All the words are perfect for any kind of project.

Finally, I embellished the layout with some die cuts, stickers, clear stickers, enamel dots, and a flair button.

And that’s it! I hope it gives you some inspiration and encourages you to try layouts without a white background.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Have a great week!

Anna xx

Bloom | Unforgettable collection | Sophie Delorme

Sophie Delorme 19/07/2020

Hello Cocoa Vanilla friends !

It’s Sophie back with you to share a new layout featuring the gorgeous Unforgettable collection !

My assignment today was to use a Foam Title. Quite easy with the enormous and beautiful choices that we have with the Unforgettable Foam Title Stickers !

I was inspired to use this collection to highlight a beautiful photo of my sweet little girl Sabrina.

I started my layout by applying a bit of watercolor paint on white thick cardstock so that we can see it pop in a subtle way behind my photo. I also added a few splatters of the colors with a brush.

I cut out two large strips of the Natural Beauty Paper and two thinner strips of the diagonal striped Sprightly Paper and put them on both sides of the layout.

I embellished the base of my photo with a huge cluster of flowers from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I also added a few leaves that I created with watercolor to mimic the ephemera leaves.