Category Archives: Daisy Designers
Apr 25, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Product Focus, Product Spotlight
Hi Everyone, Piradee here with my first post (so excited) and to share with you this month’s product focus. It’s all things GOLD. I’ve been going crazy for anything gold lately and love love love that the kits have a great selection of gold products;...
Apr 15, 2014 | Daisy Designers
We asked if she was available to join us permanently and she said yes. We couldn’t be happier to have her on our team. Please help us welcome the very talented Nicole Nowosad to the Cocoa Daisy family. This is going to be a great thing!
Apr 15, 2014 | Challenges, Daisy Designers
Hi, Daisies! Mandie here with your Designer’s Challenge for April! The challenge this month is pretty simple. Create your title in an unexpected way… whether is it a witty title or a a unique title. I “hid” my title in the design of my...
Apr 11, 2014 | A Day in the Life, Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Everyday, Off the Page, Tutorial
Hello Daisies! I hope you have gotten or will be getting the April “Hint of Sunshine” kits soon. I got all of them and used pieces from all kits on this altered chipboard. Here’s how it came together and my dilemma. I have done clipboards before, but I already have...
Apr 3, 2014 | A Day in the Life, Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration
Hi everyone! Happy April to all! Suz here today to share some April DITL pages created by the lovely and talented Alissa, Mandie, Lisa, and Piradee as well as my own design. The APRIL DITL kit includes the scrap lovelies pictured below: ...
Apr 2, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Stamping Sensation
Every month, Cocoa Daisy offers you great stamps, but sometimes you don’t know quite how to use them. I’ve got a quick tutorial for you today showing a fun way to stamp with our April offerings, well actually, any of our stamps! We have sold out of the...
Mar 25, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Guest Designers, Sneak Peek
We have the most awesome Design Team and guest designers here at Cocoa Daisy. If you’re not already following them on Instagram, I’ve got links for you today. You can see sneaks for the upcoming April Hint of Sunshine kits on the individual team...
Mar 19, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Scrap Space
Hi everyone! Suz with you today to share a bit of my newly renovated scrap space. It is still a work in progress, but it has come a long way in a short amount of time. Just before our Spring Break here we moved all of the furniture out, had the carpet removed, and had...
Mar 5, 2014 | A Day in the Life, Daisy Designers, Everyday, Inspiration, Stamping Sensation, Teaming up with
Hello, Daisies! This is Patricia to share with you lots of stamping ideas from what the team has made with the March “Grey Street” kits. First, we have Suz Mannecke and what she has to say about her projects: “You Are Brilliant!” This card uses...
Mar 4, 2014 | Challenges, Daisy Designers, Sketch
Hi, Daisies! Mandie here with your sketch challenge for March! Here is our sketch: it is based on this fab layout from MandyKay’s gallery in February: Here is my take on the sketch. I tend to stay pretty true to the sketch. I used larger photos & circles...
Mar 3, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Off the Page
I finally finished my gallery wall last week. It has taken months of planning and preparation to get it just right. I didn’t want to rush it, I wanted to be really pleased with the final result and I’m pleased that I’ve done it this way. It’s...
Feb 21, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Project Art
The February Project Art kit contains a set of Luminarte’s Twinkling H2Os, a bottle of Glossy Accents (a 3D clear gloss medium), 2 white doilies, 3 vintage cards and 2 sheets of German fairy tale book paper. The Twinklings are a set of sparkling and shimmering...
Feb 18, 2014 | Challenges, Daisy Designers
Welcome to this month’s designer’s challenge! The challenge this month is in 2 parts – a theme and a product. The theme is clothes – your clothes, someone else’s clothes, an outfit that you love or an outfit that you hate… anything...
Feb 17, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Teaming up with, Tips and Tricks
This month I have teamed up with Mandie, Mandy Kay, Anna, Alissa, Denise, Jody and MandyK. The topic this month is black and white photos. We all scrapped a LO using black and white photos using our February ‘Color Swatch’ Kit. Here’s what we all...
Feb 5, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Giveaway, Inspiration
Christine has been working on a surprise for our Cocoa Daisy community. She asked Ashley and Martha, two of our awesome DT members, to whip up some special additions for the February kit. And amazing things happened! Ashley made cut files and made multiple backgrounds...
Feb 4, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Everyday, Sketch
Hello, Emily here today with the sketch challenge for the month. We used a sketch based on Alissa’s awesome page from her Blueprint gallery (you can still order the Blueprint kit). We had lots of Design Team members play along this month, using the February kit,...
Feb 3, 2014 | A Day in the Life, Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Everyday
Hi there everyone! Suz here back with Alissa and Lisa and February’s DITL kit designs! First up is Alissa showcasing her love for this month’s kit and her love of Uggs, weight loss goals achieved, and her beloved Seahawks! I really like how she mixed up...
Feb 2, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips
This is a little bonus post for you this month. Let’s call it a ‘Super bowl widow’ post. Afterall, that’s what I am tonight. Am I the only one tonight???? I plan to spend my evening scrapping instead. I asked the other Daisy Designers if they...
Feb 1, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Product Spotlight
Have you been loving all the pieces of wood veneers in your kits recently? I just love how you can adapt them to fit with any project. There are so many possibilities. As you are all now enjoying your Janaury ‘Blueprint’ Kits, I thought it would be fun...
Jan 30, 2014 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Hi everyone! Suz here along with Anna, Ashley, Denise, and Sharmaine for this month’s edition of Stamping Sensation. Today we are sharing several different ways each of us have used the kit stamps in our designs and some different techniques we have used with...