Nov 6, 2019 | Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone, Jil here. Odessa and I had fun making interactive flip out pages with the Memphis Season kit. Here is Odessa’s page before it’s opened up: And here it is with the fold-out: So cool! This is what Odessa has to say about it: “A fold out...
Nov 1, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hi everyone, Jil here with some ideas and examples about how to document gratitude in November. Let’s start with a great idea from Kristine: Here’s what Kristine says about her approach: “I’ve decided to up my daily gratitude game for November!...
Oct 9, 2019 | Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone, Jil here! Ria and I have been experimenting with new techniques and textures for our traveler’s notebook pages. Halloween is this month, and Ria wanted to document her son’s love for scary masks. Ria gathered orange elements from the Autumn...
Aug 28, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone, Jil here today to share a page in my Cocoa Daisy Travelers Notebook. I’m using the Book Club kit, and featuring both the fall floral washi tape and that amazing big book washi. A grid design is my go-to, and it works great for multiple photo...
Aug 21, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, A Day in the Life, Cocoa Daisy, Everyday, Inspiration, Pocket Pages, Product Focus, Project Life
Hello everyone! Jil and Odessa here with some inspiration for using the wonderful puffy alphabet stickers in the kits on 3×4 cards. The Book Club pocket-page kit comes with a script alpha, and on a card on her spread, Odessa has beautifully linked the letters to...
Jul 23, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hey, everyone, Jil and Robin here to share our food stories and prompt yours. Robin’s is hilarious because she’s sharing just how wretched food can be at charity balls. This page is part of a cool mini book she’s putting together about food...
Jun 28, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone! Jil here, along with Ria and Evy, to celebrate all the great stamps in recent Cocoa Daisy kits. To jump right in, here’s an art journal page by Ria that draws on the Paper and Ink stamps as well as last month’s Lemon Grove sets. . Ria...
Jun 14, 2019 | Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Sketch, Travelers Notebook
Jil here with two variations on this month’s sketch. It’s a wonderful across-the-page design: And here is a beautiful page by Odessa that follows the sketch pretty closely. She started with a grid page in the TN and worked with her favorite papers from the...
May 28, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Jil here challenging you to try circles and stamps on your pages. Kylie and I both worked in our travelers notebooks and addressed the challenge differently. Here is Kylie’s pretty design: As you can see, Kylie chose the word “summer” for her title,...
May 15, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Sketch, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone! Jil here with a couple of Travelers Notebook pages made following the awesome Lemon Grove sketch, which features an edge lined with labels or tags. I tried it both ways. But first, here’s the sketch. And here is my page following the sketch and...
May 3, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone, Jil here to share with you the pages we’ve been making with just one color. The first two, by Celine and Moon, are green and mine is blue. The recent kits are perfect for pulling a favorite color to create a monochromatic scrapbook layout....
Apr 9, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Simple Stories and Cocoa Daisy, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone, Jil here with a quick post about all the lovely stickers in the Picket Fence kits and the Classified: Memory Keeping Kit. This is how I used those stickers on a post about a treat made by a local bakery every spring. Polenta cake! It’s so good....
Apr 2, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone, Jil here with a post about the memory keeping edition of the Classified add-on kit that accompanied Cherish Blossoms. These Classified kits are always amazing, and they coordinate so well with the monthly kit. Here is a 12X12 page by Moon that draws...
Mar 29, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone! Jil here with more inspiration for Travelers Notebook pages from 12X12 layouts. In our first example, Moon takes a gorgeous 12×12 page by Celine for her inspiration. And here is her version in the Simple Dori: Moon is using the Fresh Cut kit here...
Mar 8, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hi everyone! I love watercolor, and since Fresh Cut is watercolor-inspired, I am both scrapbooking about my art and using watercolor right in my Cocoa Daisy travelers notebook. The paper in this kit includes a design patterned with watercolor swatches, and I recreated...
Feb 6, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone! Are you ready for a fresh take on the Simple Dori traveler’s notebook? Ariana and I both flipped our notebooks sideways to scrapbook photos with a landscape orientation. Here you can see how perfect this choice was for Ariana’s lovely beach...
Feb 1, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cards, Inspiration, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks
Hello everyone–and happy February! Jil here with valentine cards Robin and I made with the Simon and Betty kits. Robin uses the speech bubble stamp from the pocket page kit so creatively here! And a variety of stamps from the kits fit perfectly inside the speech...
Jan 22, 2019 | #cocoadaisycommunity, A Day in the Life, Cocoa Daisy, Everyday, Project Life
Hello everyone, Jil here with some energetic, colorful pocket-page spreads to inspire your 2019 documenting. This first one is by Traci Reed, and it conveys a great sense of adventure. This detail shot shows how that red tag contributes to the excitement of the page,...
Dec 14, 2018 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Stamping Sensation
Hello everyone! It’s Jil here to ask: Are you loving the stamps in the Paper & Ink kits? I am. I got mine inky in my little stamp inventory notebook, and I’m loving the cool, art journal vibe of the damask, birds in flight, postage, and vintage...
Dec 14, 2018 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Cocoa Daisy, Stamping Sensation
Part II of today’s blog posts on stamping is for those of you creating in December albums. Celine offers some gorgeous inspiration in what she has made with the stamps in the Snow Globe kits. Besides the stamping clustered at the bottom of her lovely page, she...
