Category Archives: Design Team Tips
Planning NOT to Plan?
Planning NOT to Plan? What? Let me explain… Ashli here and I plan (aka anxiously await and obsessively stalk the postman)Â on the gorgeousness of the planner kits hitting my doorstep each month! But, I don’t plan with them! I scrapbook with them....
Adventurous Sketches and Little Kit Tips
I have this month’s sketch challenge for you today. Here is your sketch!! It’s a fun one. Steph designed it based on Niru’s wonderfully sweet LO here for inspiration. And here is my take. I replaced the larger photo for a piece of patterned paper...
Combining my Planner Pages with my Scrapbooking
Hi, it’s Lisa here. This week we have some fun planner posts coming up on the blog for you as we are celebrating a year of our Cocoa Daisy Planner Kits. Now, although I am a planner, I am also a scrapbooker and I love to be able to combine the two sometimes....
Off The Page~Sweets And Scraps!
Well hello there, Sarah Bargo here! Â Do you find yourself hoarding the gorgeous leftover scraps from your kits?! Of course you don’t want to get rid of them, they’re too cute right?! Well I have a super fun and simple project for you to put those scraps to...
My everyday in colour
I love creating colourful Project Life Pocket Pages. I thought I would go through my process today of how they usually come together using the September DITL kit with a little of the September Main kit too.
I don’t make them each week. Just when I fancy. When I started PL a couple of years ago I promised myself that it would be stressfree and I wouldn’t get hung up on the weekly stress of it. I knew I wouldn’t keep up with it and would end up giving up.
Paper Cuts and Matisse?
What do paper cuts and Matisse have in common? Well… quite a bit, actually! Matisse is a fascinating artist to study and to gain inspiration from! In fact, I have tried my hand at a bit of “matisse style” fussy cutting for this layout…. Please...
September Stamping Sensation
Hello everyone! Suz back here again today to share September’s Stamping Sensation ideas and inspiration with you! Joining me this month with shares are Anna, Ashli, Sarah and Denise. First up is Anna who used the September stamps and took her layout to...
September DITL | Daydream
Well hello and happy FriYAY everyone! Suz back today with my fellow Daisy Designers, Ashli and Alissa, sharing our September DITL designs with you! First up is Ashli, who created this soft and lovely layout (in true Ashli style!) by layering up several DITL cards and...
Hands Up if you love bunting too!!
I just can not tire of cute bunting. It never gets dull or boring to me. Infact I just hung some cute strawberry bunting up over my window in my studio last week. Anyway…When I saw these cute acetate triangles that come in the Main September Kit I knew instantly...
Tips and Tricks
Hi everyone, Miriam here this morning sharing some tips and tricks that I love to use to get the most out of my stamps each month. Â It’s really not tricky at all, actually pretty simple, all you need is some vellum paper, your stamps and of course some ink....
Planning with Cocoa Daisy!
Hello Friends! I wanted to share with you how my planning pages are looking these days in my Marion Smith Heart of Gold Planner. This month of August is extremely busy for me but I wanted to show you how simple it is to just decorate your week on two pages with your...
August 2015 DITL Inspiration
Good Morning, Daises! Let’s get right into this! You’re not going to believe all the inspiration created with the DITL kit this month! And, the great news is if you’ve been on the fence, it’s still available! 🙂 Check it out! Such an awesome...
Put A Bird on It!
How’s that little song go? If you liked it, then you shoulda put a bird on it? Or was it ring? HA! Well, I’m going with bird, because this month’s kits have the most fabulous little birdie stamps! Aren’t they just the cutest?!?! One of the sets...
I’m spinning loops over the hoops
I have totally fallen in love with the Crate Paper Wooden Hoops that I bought as an addon this month. I am partial to the odd wooden hoop or two I have to confess. I have a few dotted around the walls at home. Long gone are the days when these were used for embroidery...
Dissecting Design | A quick guide to using ephemera and doodling to make your projects stand out
I never met a new trend I didn’t like. Â Or at least want to try out. Â Doodling was definitely right up there with new trends I want to try. I used to fancy myself something of an artist once upon a time but a serious lack of classes and practice has left...
Cupcake Canvas Tutorial
What do you make for a super sweet girl who has a special birthday??? A super sweet gift of course. A special friend of our’s turned 18 recently. I wanted to give her something special, but just couldn’t think what. So then I had the idea of making her a...
Hello Bistro!
Hello lovely daisy people! And, let’s say hello to the fabulous July Bistro Kits! If you watched my unboxing video, you will know what some of my favorite things were from the kits… and I like to dive right into those when creating my first page! So, lets...
Sweet Stamping Sensation…
The Bistro Stamp Sets are so sweetly fantastic! In fact, you might have seen Christine’s fabulous little Flipagram during our Instagram Hop? Take a look: https://archive.cocoadaisy.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1870.m4v And if that wasn’t enough to convince...