Category Archives: Design Team Tips
May 7, 2021 | Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Off the Page, Rub Ons, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! Creating titles for your layouts can be its own form of creative expression. A simple spread can have a major impact with a well-designed title. In today’s post, we are focusing on some tips and tricks to make your titles pop. Evy always creates...
May 4, 2021 | Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Mixed Media, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Project Life, Repeated Shapes, Rub Ons, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Tutorial
Hello, Friends! We hope you are having as much fun with the Tranquility Collection as we are. The mix of zen-like greens and pops of black, mixed media elements make this collection so fun and versatile. We wanted to take time to focus on two products that are pretty...
Apr 30, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Repeated Shapes, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Tutorial
Hello, friends! For today’s post, we asked our Memory Keeping Team to design a layout with a diagonal orientation. We frequently see center, right and left aligned spreads, but today, we are mixing it up! We think you are going to love what our team came up with....
Apr 27, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! For the Northern Hemisphere, spring is (hopefully) in the air! While some areas of the United States are still experiencing snow, by and large spring has sprung and we couldn’t be happier about it! Today, we have three spring spreads in three different...
Apr 26, 2021 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Sticker Fun
Hi, Daisies! Please join me on YouTube as I plan out Week #4 of April. I will be using elements from the following Poppy Field kits: Planner Kit Sticker Kit Daisy Add On Sticker Kit Bible Journaling Sticker Kit Ready to plan? Let’s go! Here is the link to the...
Apr 21, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Design Team Tips, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Repeated Shapes, Scrap Happens!, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! It’s that time of the month where you have dug into your kits from the Tranquility Collection while also wrapping up your creative time with your kits from the Poppy Fields Collection. At this point, you likely have several paper scraps in...
Apr 20, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Design Team Tips, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Washi Tape
Hello, Friends! Tell me if this sounds familiar – you receive your kit, squeal with delight with all the wonderful items to papercraft with, and then…the dreaded “analysis paralysis”! Each month, we are presented with a variety of items to...
Apr 17, 2021 | Cards, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Pocket Cards, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Stamping Sensation, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hi everyone. Tanti is here. As you might know, I love using stamps in my planner or on my journal pages. So today, I‘m sharing how I used the April Cocoa Daisy stamp sets from both the modern memory keeping kit and from the planner add on kit. I love the cloud stamp...
Apr 16, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Repeated Shapes, Sticker Fun, Washi Tape
Hello, Friends! There is something so delightful about designs with something extra to flip, pull, slide and open. These interactive elements provide space for hidden journaling, extras photos, or additional embellishments. What is great is that these little extras...
Apr 14, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Basic Elements, Chipboard Elements, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Pocket Cards, Product Spotlight, Project Life, Repeated Shapes, Simple Dori, Stamping Sensation, Sticker Fun, Travelers Notebook, Video
Hello, friends! Clouds can symbolize many things and are a wonderful embellishment to the stories you want to tell. For some, clouds represent change and transition, For others, clouds represent hope and gratitude (looking for the silver linings). While others may...
Apr 9, 2021 | Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Off the Page, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Tutorial, Video
Hello, Friends! In the last few years, memory planning has become a fun and easy way to document your weeks. Thanks to its popularity, there are now several types of memory planner styles out there (including the Cocoa Daisy Planner!) Like most planners, memory...
Apr 8, 2021 | Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Washi Tape
Hi friends! Welcome back to Cocoa Daisy Blog! I’m so excited to share my first week in my B6 planner. March was crazy for me personally, I switched my planner 3 different times and felt out of sorts in the planning department. I found that the b6 size is my...
Apr 7, 2021 | Basic Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Pocket Cards, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks
Hello, Friends! We have already sprung into April, but that doesn’t mean we can’t look back at March, right? I know for me, I’m usually still in the midst of documenting the previous month (or two!) as I enter the present month. And you know what?...
Mar 26, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Inspiration, Pocket Cards, Tips and Tricks, Traditional Designs
Hello, friends! Sometimes, we need a little help to get started with a memory-keeping spread. Lucky for us, the Cocoa Daisy Memory Keeping Kits has a variety of little prompts to kick start your creativity. Today, our memory-keeping team shares how elements in the...
Mar 20, 2021 | Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Product Focus, Product Spotlight, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Tutorial
Hi everyone. I love it when Cocoa Daisy included the puffy stickers in one of their kits. I use them not only to decorate my planner and journal pages but also to make some extra planner accessories. Today I‘m going to show you how I make them and how I use them in my...
Mar 19, 2021 | Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Pocket Cards, Repeated Shapes, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks
Hello, friends! Memory planning is a wonderful way to document the little things. There are so many things that happen in our daily life that we want to remember but aren’t necessarily appropriate for a traditional scrapbook layout or project life spread....
Mar 13, 2021 | Basic Elements, Chipboard Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Daisy Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Sticker Fun, Tips and Tricks, Video
Hi daisy friends! I’m happy to dig into my March Treetop Canopy planner today and walk you through how I set up my weekly spreads. I’ve picked week 11 to set up, which includes St. Patrick’s Day so I started off by choosing a (mostly) green spread...
Mar 11, 2021 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Basic Elements, Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Everyday, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Planner Setup, Sticker Fun, Tutorial
Hello Daisies ! I hope you are all OK. This month I wanted to talk to you about my Memory keeping system for 2021. I stole the idea from Kristine who was in the Design Team last year. She posted a flip through on the Facebook group in December and I knew I wanted to...
Mar 10, 2021 | Basic Elements, Design Team Tips, Kit Papers, Off the Page, Repeated Shapes, Rub Ons, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook, Tutorial, Video
Hello, friends! Today, we are sharing some fun with the contrast of big and small elements on a page. When including an element like an enlarged photo, it helps to pair the big element with smaller details. The Treetop Canopy Collection plays well with this idea as...
Mar 3, 2021 | 12x12 Layouts, Cocoa Daisy, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Hand Stitched, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Stencils, Tips and Tricks, TNMK Instruction Sheet, Travelers Notebook
Hello, Friends! A few weeks back we challenged our Memory Keeping Team to create layouts that were center-aligned. For today’s post, our challenge is the focus on the corners and borders of a spread. Taking your design all the way to the corners and borders...
