Hello Hello Scrappy friends! I'm back here today with a bright new layout share featuring the oh so wonderful HAPPINESS collection for Cocoa
Vanilla Studio. I've also snuck in a few photos of some special peeps you may already know, plus a couple of super sus 'men' haha. We all had the very best of times at this years CVS Creative Escape retreat. I cherish each and every moment spent with all these amazing ladies, we had so many laughs!
The idea for this layout started when I felt the sudden urge to fussy cut ALL of the frames from the FRAME OF MINDpaper. Every single one, including cutting the centres out of them all. I chose 6 of my favourites and arranged them with photos, vellum and 2 of the more fitting centre texts. Then I went back to fussy cutting more pretty paper, this time pieces of the beautiful floral wreath paper SO FRESHto use for layering later on.
To begin building the layout I started with some white cardstock, a big chunk of woodgrain design from the BRIGHT & BEAUTIFULand some paper strips of the hearts design paper - back side of SO FRESH. I then layered the frames in different directions using foam tape for adhesive to add dimension to the layout.
I added some alpha stickers from a very very old collection to add to the top left cluster of words and bits. Theres also a fussy cut butterfly from the 6x8 paper padand some glitter enamel dots that have made a comeback to my layouts from some of my older stash. Can you believe that amongst all of this prettiness, I didn't even open a bag of ephemera? Its all stickers and fussy cut pieces!
I layered in some of the fussy cut floral pieces to the top right and bottom left of the frames to create a slight diagonal flow to the layout. Theres also some tiny florals fussy cut from the super pretty MEADOWpaper sprinkled in there too.
I tucked in a couple of accessory stickers under photos in the frames too. Those 'men' were real sketchy at dinner one night HAHA Love a good snapchat filter... So does Zoe ;)
Lastly I added in some clear stickers to create a little mixed media effect, without getting messy, then splattered the entire layout with gold colour shine to finish it all off..
Well thats all from me today. I hope you've enjoyed seeing a different way to use all those frames.
Thanks so much for stopping by.
Until next time, happy scrapping!Michelle xx
Hello Scrappy friends I'm back here today with a new layout to share with you all for Cocoa Vanilla Studio. For this layout I was given the task of creating a birthday themed project, and what better collection to use to document a birthday celebration than the newest collection full of bright happy colours - Happiness. I went back a couple of years and chose a photo from Leilas 7th birthday featuring her sweet cousin and a delicious cake
I started the layout by cutting down a piece of cardstock to 11.5inch square and laying it over a piece of SPRINKLESpaper to give subtle pops of extra colour and machine stitched around the border for added detail. Next I cut a couple of banners from a set designed by fellow DT member Gwen from her cut file shop - Cut to You. I associate banners with all kinds of celebrations, and the cake has a sweet little happy birthday banner for decoration, so I felt that using the banner cut files tied it all together nicely.
I backed 2 of the triangle banners with the MEADOWpaper - my most favourite within this bright happy collection. The hearts banner I backed using the B side of EXPRESSIVE, the scallop banner using the B side of GOOD VIBESand the 3rd triangle banner is backed using green patterns from the B sides of FRAME of MINDand LITTLE THINGSplus the 'green' sections of GOOD VIBES.
After sewing the tops of all the banners with my machine, I layered them randomly down the layout and adhered them using glue dots for dimension. Next I added my photo which I've layered with multiple pops of colour using an ephemeraframe, cut apart cards from theLITTLE THINGSpaper and a little more of the B side of GOOD VIBES.
Then it was on to the embellishing part of creating fun layouts. I created a couple of similar clusters at the ends of the banners (within a visual triangle) using floral EPHEMERApieces, CLEARstickers, ACCESSORYstickers, some fussy cut florals and butterflies from the BRIGHT & BEAUTIFULpaper. I realised a few weeks back that the tiny florals within the ephemera packs are almost always the first items I use up before the packs even open HAHA so I've resorted to fussy cutting the tiny florals from the MEADOWpaper and gosh they are cute!
I dipped back in to some older stash for these white alphas from the Colour Me Happy collection, sadly they're not currently available in the shop. The perfect accompaniment for this mixed title - CARDSTOCK TITLE piece, WHITE ALPHAS and a word sticker from the ACCESSORY sheet
Heres a closer look at one of the lower clusters. I just LOVE tiny flowers.. fussy cutting them out, not so much !
Lastly I added a splattering of gold colour shine and called it done
Thats all from me today. I hope you've enjoyed taking a closer look at my fun birthday themed creation. Be sure to pop into the Cocoa Vanilla Studio group on Facebook to share all your birthday themed creations with us
Until next time, Happy scrapping!
Michelle x
