Apr 22, 2020 | Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Sticker Fun, Travelers Notebook
Greetings! On the blog today we are sharing designs that feature flowers and colors in rainbow order. We are featuring DT members Kristine and Casie who enjoy memory keeping in happy planners and the Simple Dori/Traveler’s Notebook sized inserts. Let’s see...
Apr 21, 2020 | Everyday, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, TN Tuesday, Travelers Notebook
Hello Cocoa Daisy Fans, Our design team is sharing TN layouts that include step-by-step instructions for the design or a specific element. There are several lovely ideas that you can easily recreate in your memory keeping and we are delighted to share them with you....
Apr 17, 2020 | Everyday, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Tags, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, Our challenge for the design team today was to create a layout using the tags and other components of our kits. Jill starts us off with a beautiful and creative way to use tags in your layouts. “This is the first spread I’ve made in my Heidi...
Apr 15, 2020 | Everyday, Hand Stitched, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Kit Papers, Printables, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Greetings Cocoa Daisy friends! We are sharing designs with a cloud theme using the Up & Away kits today. The cloud theme is quite popular in memory keeping and can be used to set a scene for you story. Clouds add texture and dimension as well as a bit of whimsy to...
Apr 14, 2020 | Challenges, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Giveaway, Printables, Sticker Fun
Hello Daisies, Today we are celebrating our love of stickers here at Cocoa Daisy and we have some awesome designs to share with you as well as a giveaway. We challenged our design team to use up all the stickers on multiple sticker sheets or an entire sticker kit....
Apr 10, 2020 | Design Team Tips, Everyday, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Travelers Notebook
Hello Daisies, We are exploring stamping techniques with the design team today. Stamping is a great way to compliment your memory keeping and planning. You can keep it very simple with just one color of ink and a simple phrase stamp or go wild and crazy with layering,...
Apr 8, 2020 | Everyday, Inspiration, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Sticker Fun
Hello! Today our design team is focusing on memory keeping in pocket pages with our Up and Away kits. Odessa is will start us off with her project life layout. “So much colour!!! I just love all the bold colours in the Up & Away kits and used a mix of them...
Apr 7, 2020 | Printables, Simple Dori, TN Tuesday, Travelers Notebook
Greetings Daisies! I wanted to start with a quick announcement. We have added a new “printables” category which you can use to search the blog for examples of designs using our printables. To search simply click on the term “printables” from...
Apr 3, 2020 | Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Pocket Pages, Product Spotlight, Project Art, Sticker Fun
Hello! Our design team has been working with the Amy Tangerine items in the April Cocoa Daisy kits and wanted to share their layouts with all of you. Let’s begin with a look at what Korrie-ann has created using the Up and Away pocket and classified memory...
Apr 1, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Design Team Tips, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Greetings Cocoa Daisy friends, Today on the blog Jil and Audrey are sharing tips and techniques for creating titles in your memory keeping. Designing titles for your layouts is a lot of fun and they are a great way to draw the viewer into your page. Titles can be...
Mar 31, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Hand Stitched, Pocket Pages, Product Spotlight, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello everyone! On this last day of March, we are looking forward to warmer weather and signs of spring here in the northern hemisphere. It’s a strange time in history and I think regardless of where we are living, each of us is craving a bit of normalcy. When I...
Mar 27, 2020 | Everyday, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Journal, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hi there, It’s a blue kind of Friday and by that I mean we have layouts that are focused on the color blue. Did you know that blue is often associated with depth and stability and symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and...
Mar 25, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Spring Greetings! I think we can all use a little dose of happy and bright right now. And that is exactly what we have in mind for our blog post today. We challenged our Memory Keeping design team to “think spring” and we think you’ll agree they...
Mar 24, 2020 | Cut Files, Everyday, Inspiration, Project Art, Simple Dori, TN Tuesday, Travelers Notebook
Hello Cocoa Daisy friends, Our theme today is traveler’s notebook designs with cut files. Let’s jump right in with Evy’s amazing butterfly design. She is using a free Paige Evans cut file. Evy explains, “The cut file I chose was created for the...
Mar 20, 2020 | Everyday, Feature Friday, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration
Hello friends! Documenting your favorite moments in your planner is a great way to scrapbook when you don’t have a lot of time for recording everyday life. It’s fun, easy and the notes you jot down become your stories. There are a wide variety of options for memory...
Mar 18, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, We are glad you can join us today to see our design team’s ideas for layering with the March and April kits. We have three AMAZING layouts to share so let’s jump right in with Odessa’s TN spread in her Orchard Path Simple Dori. “Is there such a thing as...
Mar 17, 2020 | Cut Files, Everyday, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Greetings Cocoa Daisy Fans, Today on the blog we wanted to spend some time reminding each other of the good things in our lives. On this St. Patrick’s day our theme, “Lucky Us,” is a serendipitous countermeasure to current world events. And so we invite you to come...
Mar 13, 2020 | Design Team Tips, Everyday, Feature Friday, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Travelers Notebook
Happy Friday friends! Today on the blog we are highlighting Cocoa Daisy stamps and their amazing versatility! We have three designs to share and they are all using stamps from the Orchard Path kits. Let’s begin with Kristine’s stamping ideas for the Big Happy Planner....
Mar 11, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Pick-a-Size, Tags, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello and Happy Wednesday, Do you see designs you’d like to scrap-lift and use in your memory keeping but you hesitate because you don’t document your stories in the size of the layout you’ve fallen in love with? Well today we are going to show you how to convert a...
Mar 10, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Everyday, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Traditional Designs
Hello, Here we are, already in the second week of March! Today we want to share ideas for using basic elements from our kits in your layouts. Let’s begin with DT member Kristine’s Happy Planner layout. “The basic elements in the monthly kits are always my go-to...
