Category Archives: Inspiration
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 13, 2014 | Cocoa Daisy, Everyday, Inspiration, Off the Page, Tips and Tricks
I was attempting to clean up my scrappy desk and I got distracted by the clothes pins from the Scenic Route add on. I love the clothes pins that are produced for paper crafting, some are already embellished and they are usually smaller in size...
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...
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 11, 2014 | Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Tips and Tricks
Hello. Lisa here today to share some little tips & tricks with you. Today I’m talking alphas. Sometimes in a kit you may love the alphas included but they don’t quite go with the LO that you are creating. I am using this months June kit as an example...
May 3, 2014 | Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Panda Eight Printables, Tips and Tricks
Are you celebrating today too? There is lots going on today in the scrapbooking world. Be sure to ‘like’ us on facebook here and also follow us on Instagram here. You won’t want to miss out on anything today. We have been busy on the team this month...
May 2, 2014 | Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Stamping Sensation
Ready for some stamping??? We have some fun stamps in Mays Kit this month. Seeing as this months kit is called ‘Here I Am’ I shall share with you my LO first using the ‘Here I Am’ stamp that comes as part of a set in the main kit this month....
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: ...
Mar 11, 2014 | Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Teaming up with
Hello. This month Patricia and myself teamed up together with our March Kits. Patricia came up with the idea of us both scrapping a LO about ourselves and using circles too. I’m a big hit with circles, so I loved the idea. Patricia then totally outdid herself...
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 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 25, 2014 | Inspiration, Product Spotlight, Tutorial
Hello Everyone! So happy to join you for my first post here at Cocoa Daisy. Hope you have seen the sneaks so far for “Grey Street.” I have had so much fun with these kits. The main kit has 3 of the new Studio Calico 4×6 Wanderlust transparency...
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...
Jan 7, 2014 | A Day in the Life, Challenges, Cocoa Daisy, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Dissecting Design, Giveaway, Inspiration, Sketch
Hi there everyone! Suz here today with January’s sketch challenge and several fun takes on it from my fellow Daisy Designers Lisa (Funky Fairy), Mandie Pierce, Ashley Caulder, Martha Bonneau, and Mandy Kay . {Can I just say it never ceases to amaze me how...
Jan 3, 2014 | Feature Friday, Gallery Lift, Inspiration
Hey Daisies!!! It’s Mandy Kay here, and I wanted to share with you something that inspired me this week. I was going through the Design Team gallery for the Blueprint kit and this layout by Emily Pitts caught my eye right away. I just LOVE how she used those big...
