Author Archives: Lisa Saunders
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…..tips & a challenge
I have a lovely mish mash of a blog post for you today. I have the designers challenge, but I also thought I’d share a few simple Christmas scrapping ideas. I have a little bit of a love/hate relationship with Christmas scrapbooking. I love all the Christmas...
Finding a way to tackle Project Life that suits you
I’m so pleased that a couple of years ago I decided to jump on in and start my Project Life album. I knew from day one that I wouldn’t be sticking to ‘week 1’ and so on. I would never be able to commit to that and I knew that once I got a few...
October’s Designer Challenge Winner
Thank you ladies for playing along with my challenge last month. We were all playing with squares and rectangles. It was lovely to see your creations. Thank you for sharing. Our winner this month is the lovely Gilly with this beautiful LO. Mounting the photo onto...
Feeling Sketchy???? We all are!!!
Lots of us have been having fun with this month’s sketch. You are in for a treat. It’s a great way for you to see how wonderful this month’s kit is. Steph designed this sketch based on Anna’s LO here. So this might help with some extra...
Who’s the Foxy Lady???
We had a challenge last month to create a LO with your foxy selfies. It was so much fun seeing your wonderful LO’s. Thank you to everyone who played along and a big congratulations to Iska for her Foxy birthday selfie. What a fab LO!! Such a happy page. Please...
But I love both sides!! And a challenge
Hello and welcome to this month’s Designers Challenge. This challenge came about as I fell in love with both sides of this month’s exclusive Cocoa Daisy papers. Don’t you just hate it when this happens?!! So I decided that there was only one thing...
Feelin’ Foxy???? A fun challenge & some winners too!
A fun challenge has been set this month. We want to see your ‘foxy selfies’!! Those cute foxes in this months kit inspired Doris to think up this challenge. That’s simply it….scrap those selfies. Show us how foxy you are. We’ve been busy...
Adventurous Sketches and Little Kit Tips
I have this month’s sketch challenge for you today. Here is your sketch!! It’s a fun one. Steph designed it based on Niru’s wonderfully sweet LO here for inspiration. And here is my take. I replaced the larger photo for a piece of patterned paper...
Combining my Planner Pages with my Scrapbooking
Hi, it’s Lisa here. This week we have some fun planner posts coming up on the blog for you as we are celebrating a year of our Cocoa Daisy Planner Kits. Now, although I am a planner, I am also a scrapbooker and I love to be able to combine the two sometimes....
My everyday in colour
I love creating colourful Project Life Pocket Pages. I thought I would go through my process today of how they usually come together using the September DITL kit with a little of the September Main kit too.
I don’t make them each week. Just when I fancy. When I started PL a couple of years ago I promised myself that it would be stressfree and I wouldn’t get hung up on the weekly stress of it. I knew I wouldn’t keep up with it and would end up giving up.
How to make someone smile……
I think sending a handmade card is such a kind and thoughtful gesture. Anyone can just pop in to a store and pick one up, but to actually spend the time to sit down and make someone a special card, it sends a much deeper and thoughtful message. It makes that person feel special and worth full.
We’ve made some cards this month. Just think how many people will feel happy when they receive these.
Hands Up if you love bunting too!!
I just can not tire of cute bunting. It never gets dull or boring to me. Infact I just hung some cute strawberry bunting up over my window in my studio last week. Anyway…When I saw these cute acetate triangles that come in the Main September Kit I knew instantly...
Would you like to join me on an adventure???
Adventures are fun to document. It could be that you are in to seriously adventurous sports or it could be that your family love camping, but then again it could also be an adventure to the dentist that you need to document or simply something funny or odd happened at...
I’m spinning loops over the hoops
I have totally fallen in love with the Crate Paper Wooden Hoops that I bought as an addon this month. I am partial to the odd wooden hoop or two I have to confess. I have a few dotted around the walls at home. Long gone are the days when these were used for embroidery...
August Sketch Challenge
I think this is always one of my favourite scrappy times of the month. I do love a sketch challenge. Here is our sketch this month. Steph based the sketch on this previous LO of mine. And my new take with the August kit looks like this. I used one of the...
August – Today I am Focusing on ….
Hello, it’s Lisa with you today. Today I am focusing on the fun Crate Paper Die Cuts that are included in the August Main Kit. They were the first thing that caught my eye when I tucked in. I’m a big fan of ‘bits & pieces’. We are...
Join us for a Beverage???
Hello Daisies!! It’s challenge time. Oh how I love a scrapbooking challenge. The story behind my challenge this month goes like this…. I never realised just how typically English we are as a family until I chat with lots of you from other places all over...
Cupcake Canvas Tutorial
What do you make for a super sweet girl who has a special birthday??? A super sweet gift of course. A special friend of our’s turned 18 recently. I wanted to give her something special, but just couldn’t think what. So then I had the idea of making her a...