Together | These Days Collection | Danni Visser

Hi Cocoa Vanilla Studio fans! Danni here with a sweet baby layout featuring the adorable These Days collection. My inspiration for this one came from the stripes on Family Ties 12×12 patterned paper. I wanted to play with some textured paper layers, and I had a large cardstock heart left over from a cutfile, so that decided the direction of my page today.

I started by cutting Family Ties 12×12 patterned paper into strips, then distressing the bottom edge of each strip with a paper distressing tool and rolling the edge up a little more with my fingers. I then took my cardstock heart and glued the layers on top, starting from the bottom and working my way up to the top, overlapping each strip. I used the cutfile out of pure convenience, but you can easily do this just by hand-cutting a large heart shape.

Once I had all the strips glued, I trimmed off the excess with scissors by flipping the heart over and using the back of the cardstock heart as a guide. I chose a white cardstock background because I really wanted the gorgeous colours on the heart to stand out. I added some ink splatters to the background in shades of soft blue, pink and yellow to match the beautiful These Days collection colours.

I added two black and white photos of myself and my son when he was a baby. I love the way he is looking up at me in these photos! I backed the one where you can see his face more with paper from the A5 paper stack and popped it up on dimensional foam.

Next, I created three clusters using the floral ephemera around the heart and my photos. I added two of the tiny wood epoxy buttons to the centre of a flower in two of the clusters, then a large wood epoxy button to the middle floral cluster. Right in the middle of the heart I added a framed sentiment piece from the die cut ephemera. This phrase perfectly summed up how I felt about my sweet baby boy in this moment.

For a title I added ‘Together’ from the foam title stickers across the bottom of the heart, overlapping my photo and the bottom floral cluster. Finally, I added some adorable floral puffy stickers to the clusters and some teeny tiny puffy sticker hearts at the top and bottom of the page. A few sentiment stickers from the accessory stickers finished off the layout perfectly.

I love how sweet and light this layout turned out. I hope you enjoyed joining me for this project today. See you next time and happy scrapping!

Danni x