Category Archives: Design Team Tips
Sep 13, 2016 | Design Team Tips, Everyday, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Hi. It’s Lisa here!! Today I am sharing with you how I tell a story with photos. I love to journal and tell stories, but sometimes it’s fun to find new ways to do this other than using the usual journal cards or adding typed wording to the page and just...
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Sep 9, 2016 | Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Tutorial
Good morning, everyone! I cannot believe that we’re already into the second week of September. Fall is right around the corner and although I’m sad that summer is over, I’m really excited for the everything Fall to come! So today, I’ll be...
Aug 24, 2016 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Tips and Tricks
Today I am sharing some tips with you on how I add extra colour to my scrapbooking pages. I am using my August Kit. I often like to add a bright colour border to my LO’s.I trim down a couple of 2cm off the sides off my white card stock and stick on to a coloured...
Jul 28, 2016 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Today I have this LO to share with you. It’s a new one created with the very new August Kit. I am focusing on the paper addon and also the 12×12 Simple Stories Sticker Sheet that also comes as an addon. I’m always a big fan of the Simple Stories...
Jul 27, 2016 | Design Team Tips, Everyday, Tips and Tricks
Hello! I made this banner for the Firefly gallery. The chipboard alphabet from Fancy Pants Designs won my heart and I knew I had to make some wall art with all the letters. For the Tips & Tricks feature on the blog, I decided to to share how I created it. I was...
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Jul 25, 2016 | Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Good morning Cocoa Daisies! In the past, I found that I didn’t really use monthly planning in any of my planners. I didn’t quite see that I could really get a use out of it because my weekly planning is so specific already. But once I discovered cocoa...
Jul 16, 2016 | Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Hello lovely Daisies!! I hope you´re having a wonderful summer!! Today I want to share with you a  technique you can use to give your planner a different look: WATERCOLORS. This is all about playing with your brush to see what comes out, you don´t need to be an...
Jul 11, 2016 | Cards, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Project Life, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks
This month’s Stamping Sensation post is filled with a flutter of all things Firefly! Suzanna and Lisa have joined me today with some of their designs created with this month’s stamp sets. First up is Suzanna who created this awesome backdrop to her title...
Jul 6, 2016 | Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Hello awesome daisies!! Today I want to share with you a project I’ve been thinking about for a while but didn’t have either time or inspiration to make, but here it is! A planner bouffet (or organizer) to store all (or almost) your planner and...
Jun 30, 2016 | A Day in the Life, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Mini Book Madness
Hey All! Good morning and happy Thursday! Alissa here today with closer look at my summer day mini book, which is really like a medium size book, for all of you. I was really hoping I would have some of the pages completed with photos by now, but my life got crazy. I...
Jun 28, 2016 | Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Product Focus, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
Hi, it’s Lisa with you today, along with my lovely new July Kit!!! I really like working with large alphas, but sometimes you may like the size or the shape but the colours or patterns may not quite match your scrapbooking page. That’s what happened...
Jun 21, 2016 | Challenges, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips
Hi ladies! Welcome to this month’s Designers Challenge! Suzanna here this month to challenge you to stitch it up! One of the things that has stood the test of time for me when it comes to scrapbooking and preserving my families memories is stitching, sewing on...
Jun 20, 2016 | Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Mini Book Madness, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
This mini book may be familiar to you. I blogged a ‘step by step’ making this book earlier this year. You can see the original blog post here. It’s very easy and is a great way to use up scraps left over from your kits. I made the mini book in...
Jun 13, 2016 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration
I don’t know about you, but I’ve gone through many phases since I started scrapbooking. The amount of photos I use on one page has been one of them. When I first started out I would use lots on the one page, but back then the design side of things...
Jun 10, 2016 | A Day in the Life, Cards, Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks
Hi all! Suz back here with a few of my fellow Daisy Designers to showcase several cards creating with the June kits. First up is Ashli — I love how she cut up the “happy, happy, happy day” DITL card to create this fun cascading sentiment down her...
Jun 1, 2016 | Design Team Tips, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Tips and Tricks
Good Morning, All, and happy Wednesday! I hope you all had an amazing weekend! Happy belated Memorial Day weekend to all of my US friends! 🙂 It was a great weekend here with the June reveal at Cocoa Daisy! The kit this month is just amazing! Such awesome colors and...
May 27, 2016 | A Day in the Life, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Feature Friday, Mini Book Madness
I decided to use up my May DITL Kit and make a friend this mini book as a birthday gift. She’s reasonably new to scrapbooking and is off to Barcelona very soon for a few days, so I thought it would make a thoughtful gift. I have videoed the whole process of me...
May 23, 2016 | Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration
Hello friends! I just love the exclusive papers in the May kit! One of them even features a favorite design element of mine… GRIDS! Take a look at how I took inspiration from this paper and deconstructed the grid a bit… [iframe...
May 17, 2016 | Challenges, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Tips and Tricks, Tutorial
What is it that inspires you when you create? Is it your photos, a story, an image???? Today I have this month’s designers challenge for you. It’s a recipe challenge. I do love a recipe challenge. I like to make a little list and look around my stash to...
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May 14, 2016 | Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Tutorial
Hello Cocoa Daisies! It’s Annie again and today I want to share with you all how my monthly planning went for the month of May. For this month, I chose to use my vintage pink Finchley Filofax because the color matches the May planner kit perfectly. This...
