Category Archives: Daisy Designers
Sep 16, 2014 | Challenges, Daisy Designers
Hi everyone, Sharmaine here with this month’s challenge. Are you ready?! The challenge is… 1. To include a scribble (could be a stamp, a file cut, hand drawn or something completely out of the box!). 2. Include a star, in any form, on your page. 3. Use 2...
Sep 2, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Sketch
I love a sketch that gives me a finished layout in less than an hour. So much love. That would be the case for this month’s sketch, based on Anna’s layout from the modern+vintage collection. It was so easy to pull elements from her design and make this...
Aug 29, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Product Focus
Good morning!! Yesterday Ashley shared a peek into this month’s product focus on all the wonderful tags in the kits! Today, I am here with the same product focus and hopefully inspire you to crack your September kit open and use up all those tags! I used various...
Aug 22, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Project Art
Helloooo! It’s Project Art-time again and this month the kit contained the following fun supplies to play with: three Grumbacher watercolour brushes, a set of 12 water-soluble Lyra crayons, a bottle of maya mist, Heidi Swapp paper tags, 1 sheet vintage Western...
Aug 14, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Scrap Space, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized
Hi all! Suz back with you today to share my August edition of “When Your Kit Comes.” First, I begin by taking my monthly #mycocoadaisykitishere photo for Instagram (–a favorite “must do” for me) 😉 I am @SuzMannecke if you want to...
Aug 13, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Die Cut Files, Tips and Tricks
Hello Daisies. I want to show you how to customize/alter the free cut files we receive with your subscription. You can click here to see the video of how I was able to just get the crane from the card cut file and then design my background. This is the end result...
Aug 7, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Stamping Sensation
Hello there everyone! Suz back with you today to highlight some of the ways my fellow Daisy Designers and myself have used the stamps in this month’s kit; Modern + Vintage. First up is Lisa who used the fern stamp in a mixed media fashion here in her art journal...
Aug 5, 2014 | Challenges, Daisy Designers, Giveaway, Sketch
Good morning Daisies!!! I am excited to be here to share this month’s sketch challenge along with some of my talented Design Team members! This month’s sketch is clean and simple with lots of possibilities was inspired by this lovely page by Piradee using...
Jul 29, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Product Spotlight
Hello Daisies!!! Did you check out the reveal last night of the August kit – Modern + Vintage?? I hope you love it as much as I do. This month’s product focus is all about the various alphabets in the kits this month. Piradee shared her page the other day...
Jul 18, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Project Art
It’s time for a new Project Art post! The July Project Art kit contained eight Letraset Promarkers, in the colours Mango, Lipstick Red, Carmine, Lime Green, Bright Green, Turquoise, Marine and Aegean. The kit also contained beautiful Maya Road mists in Turquoise...
Jul 16, 2014 | A Day in the Life, Challenges, Daisy Designers, Everyday, Inspiration
Hello, it’s Lisa here today with something new and fun. I was thinking recently how I don’t really have many photos of the everyday places that we go to. Not that I’ve scrapbooked anyway. Then it got me to thinking as a couple of Daisies had said...
Jul 8, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks
Hello there everyone! Suz here today to share with you some ways in which I was inspired by this month’s kits! This post actually may be more of a hybrid post; combining inspiration and how it resulted in “Dissecting Design.” First up, I knew when I...
Jul 3, 2014 | Challenges, Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Everyday, Gallery Spotting, Giveaway
Congratulations Jeanette aka Jeany – you are the winner of this month’s Designer Challenge! I love how Jeany trimmed her strips of paper on the diagnol and layered them behind her photos! Brilliant! Please send an email to Lisa at lisa at funkyfairies dot...
Jun 20, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Project Art
The June Project Art kit contains 5 tubes of Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paints, one tube of Dina Wakley black gesso and some paper doilies. Plus the super cute fabric bag! I was so very excited to try out Dina’s paints and I was not disappointed! The colours...
Jun 17, 2014 | Challenges, Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Everyday, Inspiration
Hello Daisies!! I am excited to be sharing the Designer Challenge for June. Lately I have been in a sort of creative funk. You may know the feeling – feel like you are repeating yourself and every page looks the same. Whenever I get this feeling, I try a new...
Jun 4, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Project Life, Stamping Sensation
Hi everyone, Sharmaine here with a look at this month’s stamps. This month was the first for our wonderful new designer Arleigh. I just loved the different designs and the endless ideas these stamps provide. I received the gorgeous Day In The Life kit stamps I...
May 29, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Product Focus
The June Boho Garden kits abound with bold, fun patterns. I’m here to show you how the design team used the Cocoa Daisy exclusive floral paper this month. Denise and Martha fussy cut the flowers. Martha layered hers with a piece of flair & and some other...
May 23, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Feature Friday, Product Focus
Hello there everyone! I hope you are enjoying warmer temps and the onset of late spring/early summer. I am back here today to feature a few things from this month’s “Here I Am” kit. And this month, I am featuring how I used May’s exclusive...
May 20, 2014 | Challenges, Daisy Designers, Everyday
When I first started scrapping, I did a lot of pages about me. Then I kind of stopped. I found this fun list of questions for journaling on Pinterest one day and thought how easily it would translate into a scrapbook page. Since the kit was called Here I Am, I thought...
May 16, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Project Art
Hello! Since we’re having a little break with the Project Art kits this month, I thougth I’d create a journaling page using some of the bits and pieces from the May kits. I actually made a video, showing the process of my page. I didn’t plan the page...
