Home Sweet Home Chippie Album | Doggone Cute collection | Doodlebug Design Inc

Hi creative friends!

The Home Sweet Home chipboard album by Doodlebug Design Inc is the perfect album to create a keepsake showcasing pictures and memories of your much loved pets! The Doodlebug Designers have all been asked to decorate the house shaped album these last 2 weeks, I decided to use the adorable Doggone Cute collection to decorate my album and I just love how it turned out! 

I covered the front of the album with the 12' x 12' Man's Best Friend paper and cut out the window spaces with my craft knife. For the roof section, I covered this with the Playful Plaid paper and added the red scalloped sticker from the This and That sticker sheet. I knew I wanted to create little scenes in each of the windows on the front cover, I chose the Go Fetch blue spot paper for the windows and added some Sprinkles from the Throw, Fetch, Repeat set, some Hearts from the Happy Home Doodle Pop set, and some bone Puffy Shapes to create the pile of bones - how cute is that right?! I added the tree from the Odds and Ends die-cut pack. 

I covered each of the pages with a 12' x 12' paper and worked on both sides of the pages. For the top pages, I mostly added a sticker from the This and That sticker sheet but also dressed these up a little with a puffy shape or some Sprinkles. For this page, I created a pocket to hold some journaling cards from the See Spot Run paper. I added another border sticker from the This and That sticker sheet here, a die-cut from the Chit Chat set and some of the mini heart puffy shapes in a line. I love how the dog sits at the bottom and you can see him when you close the album!

For this page, I added some tags and heart from the Bits and Pieces die-cut pack, some of the cute paw print washi tape, and a tab and a title from the Chit Chat die-cut pack. I wanted the option to add small photos here or journaling or both. For contrast under the title, I took one of the blue bone papers from the 6'x 6' paper pad and placed it under the title. 

For this page, I made some photo matts using the brown spotted paper from the 6' x 6' paper pad and adhered white cardstock on top. I added a dog face puffy shape to the larger photo mat and a paw print to the smaller one. I grabbed another title from the Chit Chat die-cut pack and adhered it in the middle of the 2 photo mats.

To finish the album, I put all the pages through the rings that came with the album and I added the gorgeous I Love My Dog charm to the left ring and tied some bows to each ring with some red and white chevron ribbon from my stash. I love that I can add photos of our much loved dog - Baxter! I actually made this album for my youngest son who will pull it out and look through the photos all the time, reminding him of how much we loved Baxter.  

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! I hope you are inspired to decorate your Home Sweet Home chipboard album! I hope you are enjoying all the different takes on the album from the designers this week! Aren't they all so gorgeous?!

Happy creating!

 

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December | Joyful collection | Cocoa Vanilla Studio

 Hi creative friends!

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout created for Cocoa Vanilla Studio featuring the gorgeous Joyful collection.

I know, I know its still November but who said we couldn't document Christmas all year round right? I know some people would not agree lol! I don't know about you, but Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year to document memories, this photo is of our big Christmas tree from last year. I love this photo as it reminds me of beautiful times spent with my family.

I started by choosing the 'B' side of the Feeling Festive patterned paper to use for my background, I trimmed this piece down and adhered it to a plain white sheet of white cardstock and machine stitched a border around the outside to add some texture. I then cut out a cut file from CUT to YOU also using plain white cardstock. The A5 paper stack was then used, choosing several of the papers from it to back each letter in the cut file. Once the cut file was all backed, I adhered it slightly to the left on the 'B' side of the Feeling Festive paper. I cut strips out of the Holly Days paper and the Very Merry paper and adhered these vertically to the left of the cut file. I like how this helps to ground the cut file. Usually I adhere my cut files using craft foam however this time I knew I wanted to use craft foam on lots of the elements on top of the cut file.

I adhered my photo on the right of the cut file using craft foam and layered some of the Journaling Cards underneath,  I then added some die-cut pieces from the Ephemera pack and some Accessory Stickers and Puffy Stickers here too. I like to add embellishments near my photo to help draw the eye to the photo. You can see in the image above the shadows that using the craft foam creates under the photo, I love how this looks! It also allows for lots of tucking of embellishments as well. Above my photo, I placed some of the word and phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet, I love how these help with journaling and telling the story.

To balance out the heavy right side where my photo is placed, I decided to add the gorgeous die-cut Christmas Tree from the ephemera pack to the left hand side using craft foam, I added one of the gold puffy stars to the top of the tree and also layered more of the word and phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet, on top of the tree. I added some more gifts under the tree using puffy shapes and die-cuts. In the centre, I placed the FaLaLaLa die-cut, a banner sticker and another phrase sticker. I also pulled out some of the chipboard and added some of the pretty gold stars and I also added the Santa Hat to the top of 'D' in the December cut file.

In the centre of the 'D' in the December cut file, I took one of the circle stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet and added one of the gorgeous wood epoxy buttons to the centre of the circle. Once all the bigger elements were added to my page and I was happy with all of the placement, I took a look at my layout to see if I was happy with it and if I thought it was finished. I can very easily overdo it sometimes and never know when to stop but I added just a few smaller embellishments like more gold chipboard stars and some Accessory stickers to finish. I also stamped the date stamp which is what I do on all of my layouts, its one of my signatures that I always like to do!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today! I hope I have inspired you to pull out your Cocoa Vanilla Christmas collections and start creating some of your past Christmas memories!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Advent Calendar | Gingerbread Kisses collection | Doodlebug Design Inc

Hi creative friends!

Are you getting excited for Christmas?! I know I am! What better way to start getting excited than to count down the days with one of the gorgeous Advent Calendars from Doodlebug Designs!

With 24 little drawers in the calendar, there are plenty of options to add cute little trinket gifts for each day counting down! I decided to cut into the attic of the house using my craft knife and metal ruler to create some little scenes in the attic. I just love all the gorgeous embellishments in the Gingerbread Kisses collection and used quite a few just in the attic space! I lined the back wall of the attic with the 'Merry and Bright' patterned paper and then added lots of embellishments. I added 3 of the adorable Doodle-Pops including the Candy Cottage one, the Deck the Halls one, the Holiday Treats one and also the Gingerbread Kisses one too! I also added a few die-cut pieces from the Odds and Ends pack. To add some more dimension, I added some of the sprinkles to the tops of the cupcakes etc.

For the chimney, I added some of the 'Gift Wrap' patterned paper around the outside and then added the Hello Santa Doodle-Pop inside the chimney! I also added some of the die-cuts to toothpicks and stuck those in too. On the outside of the chimney, I added a die-cut heart and a puffy Gingerbread man. I covered the outside edges of the house/calendar with the 'Holiday Sprinkles' patterned paper and then added some of the puffy shapes to the joins in the calendar. Around the outside edges I took the pink cardstock and punched some scallops to create a decorative edge. I then added the gorgeous puffy heart shapes to the centres of the scallops. I added the die-cut wreath at the top for some more interest.

For the front of each drawer, I took cardstocks in dark pink, lime, aqua and yellow and had my Silhouette Cameo cut out 6 squares of each colour, I then punched a half circle at the top of each square and adhered these on. Next I took the Cookies for Santa paper and punched out 24 scalloped hearts and added craft foam behind them all. I then took the Alphabet Soup Alphabet stickers and added numbers 1 - 24 on each drawer. I did have to improvise for these as I ran out of number 1 and 2! These were all glued on and then I added a small embellishment to each drawer. For the very edge of the house, I glued a paper straw to each side from my stash and glued in candy cane die-cuts at the top of each straw.

I absolutely LOVE how my house/advent calendar turned out and hope I have inspired you with an idea of what to do with your Advent Calendar!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy creating!

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Advent Calendar 

Gingerbread Kisses collection

Gingerbread Kisses Cardstock Assortment pack

Alphabet Soup stickers in Bon Bon

Puffy Hearts in variety of colours 

OTHER

Scallop border punch

Scallop heart punch

1" circle punch

Paper straws

Toothpicks 

Love This | Heart & Home collection | Cocoa Vanilla Studio

 Hi creative friends!

It's Tarrah back with you today to share a new layout featuring the gorgeous Heart & Home collection by Cocoa Vanilla Studio.

The Heart & Home collection is perfect for documenting photos of family. I took this photo of my parents recently at the airport before my Mum was leaving for England. I just love this photo of the 2 of them.

I started with a plain white cardstock background and chose a free quilt design cut file by Paige Evans as one of the features for my layout. I cut the cut file out from the 'B' side of the Framed paper and love how the wood grain looks against the white. With the bigger frame piece, I adhered the white cardstock on top of this piece and then machine stitched a border around the outside to add some texture. I then took the A5 paper stack and backed some of the open spaces. I adhered my photo on the right hand side of the page using craft foam and added one of the cardstock frames from the ephemera pack over the photo. I also tucked in one of the florals underneath, I love how you can see the different dimension I created here.

My title is made up of the gorgeous gold foil cardstock titles and I placed the title on the left of the photo using craft foam for dimension too. I layered one of the small phrase pieces from the Gather paper over the top of the title. On the right of the photo, I added more die-cut pieces from the ephemera pack and also added a puffy heart here as well.  At the top of the frame I added one of the phrase stickers from Accessory sticker sheet and also placed one of the banner stickers also from the Accessory sticker sheet at the bottom of the photo and layered a puffy heart over top of the heart on the sticker.

Next up it was time to add some more embellishments. I decided to add some of the stickers from the Accessory sticker sheet, adding 2 of the square ones to the square shapes in the cut file. I also added some more of the smaller die-cut pieces from the ephemera pack to some of the open spaces in the cut file as well. Some of them I added craft foam to underneath and some I placed flat on the page. I love the different levels of dimension not to mention the shadows this creates on a project. Lastly I added some more of the super cute puffy hearts and stamped the date stamp of when the photo was taken to finish off the layout.

I love how Cocoa Vanilla collections co-ordinate! It is so easy to create pretty projects with their gorgeous collections, I highly recommend you get the Heart & Home collection for your family memory keeping, it has perfect elements to help capture those all important memories and to tell your stories.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! I hope I have inspired you to pull out your Heart & Home goodies and create something pretty! You could even create a similar project using another gorgeous collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Boo Crew | Sweet & Spooky collection | Doodlebug Design Inc

Halloween is my favourite holiday to document! There is just something about the super cute costumes and trick-or-treating that is super fun! The Sweet & Spooky collection by Doodlebug Design Inc is perfect for documenting those perfect Halloween moments! 

I started with the Moonlight Magic 12' x 12' patterned paper choosing this as my bottom layer background, I then took the Halloween Night 12' x 12' patterned paper and trimmed it down and adhered it to the Moonlight Magic paper. Next was the Sweet and Spooky 12' x 12' patterned paper, I trimmed this piece down and added a little bit of water to it and scrunched it up, once it was dry, I adhered it to the Halloween Night paper. I cut up the black and white scalloped border strip sticker from the This and That Cardstock stickers and added it around the edge of the page.  

I added my photo and lots of embellishments in the bottom right of the layout and then added a cluster of embellishments in the top left corner to balance out the layout. I took 2 of the tags from the Bits and Pieces pack and layered them under the photo and I added some Gray Doodle Twine through the holes in the tops of the tags. My title is made up of the super cute 'Boo Crew' title from the Chit Chat pack, I adhered the title at the bottom of the photo using craft foam.

I absolutely love the pink haunted house in the Odds and Ends pack, I placed this piece on the right of the photo. I also added some of the gorgeous pumpkins on the left hand side of the photo too. I tucked in one the acetate trees here as well. To add some more of the acetate elements, I added the spider web on the right and added a puffy spider to the centre of the web. I also added a puffy face to the middle of the 'O' in the 'Boo' word.

The Bits and Pieces pack is full of awesome words and elements, I layered the Spooky Fun circle on top of the green scalloped circle and adhered it in the top left corner of the layout. I added some more of the smaller puffy stickers here too including stars and sparkles. I also added one of the super cute owl puffy stickers to the top of the circle.

The bat stickers from the Halloween Icons pack are gorgeous too so I just had to add 2 of them to help with the flow of the layout. I adhered the heads down and then bent up the wings to add some dimension. Lastly I stamped the date stamp and sprinkled some white mist around the layout. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope I have inspired you to pull out your Sweet & Spooky collection and create some super cute projects with it!

Happy creating!

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Sweet & Spooky collection

Doodle Twine - Gray

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Water Spray

White Mist

Date stamp

Black Ink

Door Hanging | Heart & Home | Cocoa Vanilla Studio

Hi creative friends!

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a slightly different project to my normal layouts! I created a heart-shaped door hanging that doubles as a place to add notes and letters using the gorgeous Heart & Home collection. Great idea right?!

I started by having my Silhouette Cameo cut out a heart shape for me from plain white cardstock. I then traced out the shape of various sections of the heart with a variety of the 12' x 12' papers including the 'B' side of the Framed paper, the 'B' side of the Flurry paper and the 'B' side of the Harvest paper. Once I had them out all cut out, I machine stitched a border around the outside edge of the entire heart. I did stitch across the 2 pouches horizontally, adding strips of the 'B' side of the Gather paper and a strip of vellum. I did only place adhesive on the bottom and the very edges of the pouches to create the openings.

Once the heart and the pouches were constructed, I added a ribbon to the back of the heart and also included a bow at the top. To embellish the door hanging, starting from the top, I added the banner sticker from the Accessory Sticker sheet to the top left corner, adhering it with a staple. I then cut part of the heart strip from the Gather paper and adhered it horizontally, tucking in a tag, I added some twine to the top of the tag, and adhered a phrase banner die-cut with some craft foam. I also placed a heart puffy sticker on the tag.

For the middle section, I added lots of ephemera pieces, including the house which I adhered using craft foam and added a puffy sticker to the house to act as a door handle and a phrase die-cut across the centre of the house. I also added a round die-cut and added a mini paper clip and I placed another die-cut on the left. I also placed another banner sticker and stapled it to adhere it. On the bottom I placed another house die-cut and the title here which is made up the gold cardstock words. I also did the same to this house as I did to the one above, adding a puffy sticker and phrase die-cut. I adhered all of these using craft foam also.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Not all projects have to be layouts! Sometimes it's good to think outside the box! I hope I have inspired you to pull out your Heart & Home collection and get creative with it!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x 

Halloween | Sweet & Spooky collection | Doodlebug Design Inc

Spooky Season is creeeeeping closer! Like what I did there?! I just love documenting Halloween! I think its the dress ups and the costumes that really get me in the mood for the  spooky season! 

I am absolutely LOVING working with the Sweet & Spooky collection for past Halloween memories! Lucky I still have a young kid who will dress up and get his photo taken! Don't you think he looks cool?! I started with a white cardstock base and then took the Taffy Stripe 12' x 12' patterned paper and cut each of the colors into strips. I adhered the black, purple, teal and orange strips onto the white cardstock leaving a gap between each. Once adhered I bent up the edges of the paper strips with my fingers to create some texture. 

When I was creating this layout I knew that I wanted to embellish the page using a tone on tone effect. I placed the border strip stickers down first from the This and That Cardstock Sticker sheet and then adhered my photo to the right hand side of the page, I layered the 'B' side of the Bitty Boos paper under my photo and used craft foam underneath my photo for some dimension. I started at the top with my embellishing, pulling out some black embellishments including the bats from the October Sky Doodle Pop and the 'Boo' word from the Boo Crew Doodle Pop. 

Next was purple, then teal and then orange. I love the acetate pieces included in the Odds and Ends die-cut pack! I just had to add the teal spider webs! What about those super cute  mini cake pop and candy puffy stickers!? I love how the clusters of embellishments all look together cascading down the page! I did overlap some of the colors on to others to give the feel that they all fell out of a packet and landed on the page that way!

I used different levels of adhesive on my layout too, I love doing this also to create interest and to have some things standing out and emphasised more than others. I absolutely ADORE the gorgeous little faces on all the pumpkins! I love that some have just 1 tooth and some have their eyes closed with a cute smile too! I added some white mist once I was happy with all of the placement of my embellishments.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope I have inspired you to create some cute projects using your Sweet & Spooky collection!

Happy creating! 

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White Cardstock

White Mist

Date stamp

Black Ink

So Thankful | Heart & Home collection | Cocoa Vanilla Studio

Hi creative friends!

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new scrapbook layout created using the gorgeous Cocoa Vanilla Studio Heart & Home collection. For this project, I have taken inspiration from the beautiful October mood board. I have documented an Autumn photo of myself amongst some fallen leaves, I love how my photo goes perfectly with this collection.

October Mood Board

The inspiration I took from the mood board was mostly from the centre image, I decided to replicate the woodgrain circle but added a few other layers of papers underneath to add some interest and to include some more colours. Naturally the colours from the mood board match perfectly with the Heart & Home collection.  I placed most of the elements to the right of the circle also like in the centre image of the mood board.

I created the circles from 3 different papers including the Harvest paper, the Gather paper and the Framed paper. I used the 'B' sides of each of each of these papers. I traced 3 different sized dinner plates and free hand cut them out. Once they were cut out, I adhered them layered on top of each other onto some white cardstock and then bent up the edges to add some texture. I trimmed the white cardstock down to measure approximately 11' x 11'. I then adhered it to the 'B' side of the Bountiful patterned paper. Once adhered, I machine-stitched a border around the edges to add some texture.

I layered a paper from the A5 paper stack underneath my photo and adhered it to the right side of the layout using craft foam to add dimension. I layered a frame from the ephemera pack on the left side of the photo and also some small flowers from the floral ephemera pack. On the right of the photo, I added lots of the gorgeous florals also from the floral ephemera pack. If you look closely at the florals, I have added some of the puffy stickers to the centres of the florals also. My title is made up of the gorgeous gold foil cardstock words, I chose the words 'So Thankful' and adhered it to the bottom of the photo using craft foam.

To balance out the heaviness of the right side of the layout, I created a cluster of embellishments that mostly included some more of the gorgeous florals. I adhered some flat and adhered some with craft foam to create different heights and dimension. I did add a die-cut that said 'Everyday Beauty' here also. Some more phrases were added too including the Happiness Is Homemade banner that I added under the title and the Moment Captured banner die-cut that I adhered on top of the photo. I also added the Joyful Days sticker from the Accessory sticker sheet just above the title. Lastly I added some of the puffy hearts around the page, stamped the date stamp and sprinkled some white mist around.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today. I hope I have inspired you to pull out your Heart & Home collection and create with it. Make sure to join in our October mood board challenge and submit your project on our Facebook Page!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

Halloween | Sweet & Spooky collection | Doodlebug Design Inc

Hi creative friends!

 Could the Sweet and Spooky collection by Doodlebug Design be an cuter?! I absolutely LOVE documenting Halloween and all the cute costume photos! The Sweet and Spooky collection is perfect for not just Halloween projects but any projects!

I chose the Halloween Wreath 2 cut file as my starting point for this layout, cutting it out from white cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo machine. I then took the Sweet and Spooky 6' x 6' paper pad and backed some of the stars and the moon with a variety of papers in the pad. I took the 12' x 12' acetate sheet and used this sheet to back the remainder of the stars. Once the cut file was all backed I adhered it to another sheet of white cardstock using craft foam to add dimension, trimming the white cardstock down to measure 11' x 11. I then backed this onto the 'B' side of the Bitty Boos paper.

I added the photo of my witchy niece to the bottom, adding a super cute girly ghost from the Odds and Ends pack to the left of the photo to hide a blemish in the photo. I also tucked in some of the tags from the Bits and Pieces pack above the photo, adding some of the Bumblebee twine through the holes in the tags. 

My title is the Halloween title from the Bits and Pieces pack, I placed this at the top, and I love the added touch of purple up here to balance out the purple from the bottom cloud. I kept the embellishing to a minimum, mainly choosing some of the acetate spider webs from the Odds and Ends pack, placing them tone on tone. Some of the other smaller embellishments I added were the Shape Sprinkles and a few small die-cuts also from the Odds and Ends pack.

I love how my layout turned out and I hope I have inspired you in some way. Be sure you get your Sweet and Spooky collection so create some super cute projects! 

Thanks for stopping by today! See you next time!

Happy creating!

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Sweet & Spooky collection

Mini Twine - Bumblebee

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White Cardstock

Silhouette Cameo

Halloween Wreath 2 cut file