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Lovely You | Storyteller Collection | Melissa Vining

Melissa Vining 12/07/2022

Hi everyone, It’s Melissa here and I’m so happy to be back with you today focusing on Foam Titles. I just had to create a layout with the beautiful new Storyteller Collection which just happens to have Foam Title Stickers. Foam Titles Stickers are perfect if you struggle with coming up with titles for your layout. You can use them as words on their own, or combine them to make phrases.

I started this layout knowing that I wanted to use Ditsy Daisy because I love the navy blue plaid! I wanted to feature it and placed it on the right side. I matched it with a smaller piece of the other side of the paper which has small flowers. I distressed the edges of both papers and machine stitched for texture and interest. I did some mixed media on the white background paper and onto both papers with ink via the packaging technique and I also splattered pink ink.

I backed my photo with a pink paper from the A5 Paper Stack. I embellished my photo with a banner sticker from the Accessory Stickers.

I really wanted to use some of the Die Cut Ephemera for my embellishment, and featured the gorgeous banner by popping it up on foam dimension. I selected two of the Foam Title Stickers and a heart for my title and I love how the black pops on my page!

Other embellishments I used were Puffy Sticker hearts, Wood Buttons, Chipboard Stickers. I used a Die Cut Ephemera piece to lead into my journalling.

I created a video of my process which you can watch below:

Have a lovely rest of your week!

Melissa xx

These Lovely Days | These Days Collection | Melissa Vining

Melissa Vining 26/10/2021

Hi everyone, it’s Melissa here and I’m so happy to be back with you to share a layout that includes creative journalling! If you know my style you’ll know that journalling is very important to me, and I include it on pretty much every layout (unless its a title page). So of course I was thrilled to be assigned this designing prompt! I decided to document a photo of my three girls at a local beach here in the South of the South Island of New Zealand. I used the gorgeous ‘Wall of Fame’ paper with all of the darling little fames to contain my journalling.

I started my layout by matting my photo with two papers from the ‘A5 Paper Stack’. Then I placed craft foam behind it to lift it slightly off the page. I then decided on my title (using the ‘Foam Title Stickers’) and stuck the photo and title down so that I could work around these larger elements.

I did a little bit of embellishing on my photo with that gorgeous ‘Die Cut Ephemera’ basket of flowers, and some ‘Wood Buttons’. I think they add to the whimsy of this page!

Next I selected words and phrases from the A5 paper cut apart sheet, ‘Die Cut Ephemera’, ‘Clear Stickers’, and ‘Accessory Sticker’ sheet. I tried to use as many of these as possible incorporated into my journaling contained within each of the little frames. This was a challenge!

Each frame contains separate journalling that can be read in any order. But together this journaling talks about the importance of time together as a family, which is definitely something I want my kids to look back on and treasure when they are adults. I finished my page by embellishing with more ‘Clear Stickers’ and ‘Puffy Stickers’. Less is definitely more with this page because the journalling itself makes this page very busy.

I made a video that you can watch below, and to be honest I was little nervous because I don’t often journal this much as a design feature.

Thanks for reading and watching. I hope I’ve inspired you to journal lots on a page in a different way!

Take care

Melissa xx

Fun in the Sun | Sunkissed Collection | Michelle Stokes

Michelle Stokes 10/04/2021

Hey Hey! It’s Michelle back here on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio blog with a new layout featuring our sweet NEW Sunkissed Collection. I’m still loving the bright fun colours of this collection, and yep those florals make another appearance

I created another mixed media background using some green and teal inks, smooshed together using my go to piece of bubble wrap plus a few extra splatters. I created vertically across the layout within the top 2/3. I used some of the cute heart paper ‘Feelin’ Fine’ as the main pattern paper, with hints of the blue version of ‘Fun in the Sun’ florals from the A5 paper stack. Both sections of pattern paper have machine stitching around the edges for a little extra detail.

The photo I’ve documented from 2019 is a cute moment when we visited the local rock pools. This was a time when Mario and Luigi came everywhere with Leila, but she didn’t have enough hands to carry everything while discovering creatures, so had left them safely sitting on a dry area on the rocks. I layered the photo backed with some papers from the A5 paper stack on top of the larger section of pink heart paper, then created a large floral cluster to the left using fussy cut florals from the ‘Growing Wild’ paper and floral ephemera pieces

Love a good floral cluster, as most of you would guess from almost all of my layouts. OOH and how cute are the new puffy stickers that Zoe has added to this collection!!

And excitement PLUS that the Wood Buttons have made a comeback! I think I shared my excitement for them in a previous post too

I used the awesome new Gold Glitter words for the title, so many cool phrases to use within the pack too.

Over on the right I created a cluster of more florals, made a tag using the cute rainbow spot paper from the A5 paper stack and the matching journal card from the ephemera pack. I added the flip flops from the ephemera pack as we were at the beach and another of the cool puffy stickers. All pieces within both clusters either side of the layout were adhered using foam tape and glue dots for different heights of dimension.

Here’s another look at the final layout. I’m really impressed with myself for creating yet another layout with a mixed media background, even if it was just the simple plastic packaging technique.

Well friends thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you have enjoyed seeing my newest creation as much as I enjoyed creating to share it with you. Be sure to share your latest creations using the sweet Sunkissed Collection with us in the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Community Group on Facebook. We all love seeing what you come up with!

Thanks all from me for now. Until next time, Happy Scrapping!
Michelle xx

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Lovely You | Storyteller Collection | Melissa Vining

These Lovely Days | These Days Collection | Melissa Vining

Fun in the Sun | Sunkissed Collection | Michelle Stokes

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