The Good Life | Sunkissed + Unforgettable collections | Mandy Melville

Hello everyone!

Mandy here today and I’m sharing a layout featuring a couple of older Cocoa Vanilla collections. Our theme this week on the blog is ‘Mixed Collections’ and so I’ve chosen to use both the Sunkissed and Unforgettable collections. With the weather warming up, I was in the mood to create a bright and fun summery layout, and these two collections worked perfectly for this! The photos that I’ve scrapbooked on this page are of my youngest daughter and I when we had a little girls weekend away together recently.

I started my layout off by trimming 1 12 inches off one side of a sheet of white cardstock, and then matting it on the aqua stripe Splightly patterned paper from the Unforgettable collection. I added some machine stitching down the sides of the white cardstock to give the layout some subtle texture. I then adhered a piece of the gorgeous pink Unscripted paper, also from the Unforgettable collection, on the right hand side of the page.

I printed my photos at 3×4 inches and first matted them side-by-side on white cardstock. I then added some layers of patterned paper behind the photos using the beautiful Natural Beauty paper from the Unforgettable collection and the blue Bright Side paper from the Sunkissed collection. I then adhered the photos towards the bottom of the pink patterned paper, sitting slightly off to the left hand side.

Next I pulled out the gorgeous Growing Wild paper from the Sunkissed collection and fussy cut a couple of floral clusters. I tucked one under the top left hand corner of the photo mat. I also added a couple of extra flowers from the Sunkissed Floral Ephemera pack. To finish the cluster off I added a beautiful butterfly die cut from the Unforgettable Ephemera pack and a little banner die cut that says ‘Sweet Memories’ from the Sunkissed Ephemera.

I adhered another smaller fussy cut floral cluster on the bottom right hand corner of the photo mat. You can also see here that I added an Enamel Dot from the Unforgettable collection to the centre of some of the flowers. I like the way that this just adds a little bit more interest to them.

I created one final embellishment cluster to the right of the title, which completes the visual triangle. This cluster includes a Die Cut camera from the Unforgettable collection, a few more flowers and leaves from the Sunkissed Floral Ephemera pack, as well as a die cut banner from the Sunkissed collection. I adhered the banner with craft foam which gives it some nice dimension, and once again I used an enamel dot to add some extra detail to one of the flowers and the camera.

For my title I chose to use one of the phrases from the Unforgettable Foam Title Stickers. ‘The Good Life’ seemed to fit these photos perfectly! I love the way the title contrasts against the bright colours in the papers and embellishments and adds a nice pop to the page!

I finished the layout off by sprinkling around some die cut, foam and puffy hearts.

Thanks so much for joining me here on the blog today! I hope that you enjoyed taking a look at my layout, and maybe you’ve been inspired to pull out some of your older CVS stash as well!

Mandy x