Category Archives: Inspiration
May 21, 2020 | Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Printables, Subscriber Downloads, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hi everyone. Today I’m going to share how I plan while I’m still waiting for my May kit to arrive. You might have known that I live in Germany and the big part of the European CD packages haven’t arrived yet due to the lock down action. But thankfully Cocoa Daisy has...
May 18, 2020 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Christmas, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Journal, Planner Setup, Video
Hi lovely people! It’s Rachel here, and today I’m sharing with you how planning and mental wellbeing go hand in hand for me. I’ve shared on my social media channels at various times that I have had clinical depression in the past. I have also...
May 16, 2020 | Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hi planner friends! I love to plan in my Cocoa Daisy dori booklet, however, I like to change up the layout just a little bit to better fit my needs. I love that Cocoa Daisy products make it easy to do whatever you want to fit your life and I wanted to show you how I...
May 9, 2020 | A Day in the Life, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hey Planner Friends! Rachel here, and I am sharing a full planner setup using just the Cocoa Daisy Printables! Life Happens- the mail gets delayed, or you travel one place, and your “box of happy” is awaiting you back home (my situation!), which means you...
May 8, 2020 | Everyday, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Pocket Cards, Sticker Fun, Travelers Notebook
Friday Greetings! Stickers are a fun and versatile component in our memory keeping toolbox. This is because we can use them as flat accents, pop them up with foam to add depth, or create complex design elements. Cocoa Daisy kits contain a wide variety of stickers with...
May 6, 2020 | Everyday, Freebies, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Printables, Stencils
Hello Cocoa Daisy Fans, Our Tulip Time kits features many different butterfly options and we thought you might like to see how our design team is incorporating them in their layouts and planners. The free planner printable includes lots of beautiful butterflies that...
May 1, 2020 | Cards, Everyday, Inspiration, Kit Papers
Hello, Daisies! I love making cards & writing letters. I thought it would be fun to combine BOTH. The outside looks like a card, but inside, it’s actually a letter. To create this whimsical card + letter, I used the following “Up and Away” Kits:...
Apr 28, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Inspiration, Mini Book Madness, Pocket Cards, Traditional Designs
Hello Scrappy Friends, The challenge for our design team today was to use layering in their creations. Layering gives your memory keeping designs depth and can be used to draw the eye to a photo or other important piece of your layout. This technique also provides a...
Apr 21, 2020 | Everyday, Inspiration, Kit Papers, Simple Dori, Tips and Tricks, TN Tuesday, Travelers Notebook
Hello Cocoa Daisy Fans, Our design team is sharing TN layouts that include step-by-step instructions for the design or a specific element. There are several lovely ideas that you can easily recreate in your memory keeping and we are delighted to share them with you....
Apr 20, 2020 | Everyday, Inspiration, Travelers Notebook
In these Pandemic times, I have found that I still love using my planner. It looks a little bit different from a month ago, but not all that much. I have very few appointments, and the ones I do have don’t involve leaving the house, but I still have things in...
Apr 18, 2020 | Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Planner Setup, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hello Daisies, I put together a dashboard tutorial video using the patterned papers, dashboard cards, pocket cards and a few embellishments from May’s Tulip Time. The designs and colors are stunning! I still have plenty of product that I want to play with but...
Apr 17, 2020 | Everyday, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Tags, Travelers Notebook
Hello friends, Our challenge for the design team today was to create a layout using the tags and other components of our kits. Jill starts us off with a beautiful and creative way to use tags in your layouts. “This is the first spread I’ve made in my Heidi...
Apr 13, 2020 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Basic Elements, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Journal, Planner Setup, Product Focus, Tips and Tricks, Travelers Notebook
Hi everyone. Tanti is here. I’m in love with the April kit because of all the rainbows and the bright colours. One of my favorite items from the kit is the cloud shaped sticky notes and today, I want to share with you how I used them in my TN planner. I love using...
Apr 11, 2020 | A Day in the Life, Basic Elements, Cards, Cocoa Daisy, Cut Files, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Die Cut Files, Everyday, Inspiration, Printables, Tips and Tricks
Hi my planner friends, it’s Julie Deal Mooney here today to talk about what to do with those beautiful leftover papers you have from various kits over the past months or even years. Since we are on stay-at-home orders and I had all the time in the world, I...
Apr 9, 2020 | #cocoadaisycommunity, A Day in the Life, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Giveaway, Inspiration, Make & Take, Pocket Letter, Tags, Tutorial
Hi daisies. I realize that many of us are home these days, with very few activities outside of the home. While there might not be a ton to add to our planners, there is still a lot that we can do to enjoy our kits. There’s memory keeping, scrap booking, card...
Apr 8, 2020 | Everyday, Inspiration, Pocket Pages, Project Life, Sticker Fun
Hello! Today our design team is focusing on memory keeping in pocket pages with our Up and Away kits. Odessa is will start us off with her project life layout. “So much colour!!! I just love all the bold colours in the Up & Away kits and used a mix of them...
Apr 3, 2020 | Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Pocket Pages, Product Spotlight, Project Art, Sticker Fun
Hello! Our design team has been working with the Amy Tangerine items in the April Cocoa Daisy kits and wanted to share their layouts with all of you. Let’s begin with a look at what Korrie-ann has created using the Up and Away pocket and classified memory...
Mar 28, 2020 | #cocoadaisycommunity, Christmas, Cocoa Daisy, Cocoa Daisy Day Planner, Daisy Designers, Design Team Tips, Everyday, Inspiration, Journal, Planner Setup, Video
Hi lovely people! It’s Rachel here, and I’m sharing my April planner set up with you today using Up and Away. Unusually for me, I’m not using personal rings, but a personal Traveler’s Notebook from Foxy Fix. Inside, I have three inserts. The...
Mar 27, 2020 | Everyday, Happy Planner Memory Keeping, Inspiration, Journal, Simple Dori, Travelers Notebook
Hi there, It’s a blue kind of Friday and by that I mean we have layouts that are focused on the color blue. Did you know that blue is often associated with depth and stability and symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and...
Mar 25, 2020 | 12x12 Layouts, Design Team Tips, Inspiration, Simple Dori, Traditional Designs, Travelers Notebook
Spring Greetings! I think we can all use a little dose of happy and bright right now. And that is exactly what we have in mind for our blog post today. We challenged our Memory Keeping design team to “think spring” and we think you’ll agree they...
